okular dvi viewer failed in lyx

2009-04-09 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All I just installed Lyx 1.6.1 and tested out the dvi viewer on intro.lyx. The default dvi viewer, okular, came up and then crashed. A Fatal Error Occurred The application Okular (okular) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). Lyx stayed open. OS: Ubuntu 8.10 default dvi viewer: okular

copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread Russell Davie
Hi How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX quickly? I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this easily. Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a time? cheers Russell

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) is released

2007-05-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 19 May 2007 14:39:58 +1000 Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:27:28 +0100 > José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) > > === > > ---

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) is released

2007-05-18 Thread Russell Davie
On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:27:28 +0100 José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) > === snip It compiled easily in Ubuntu Dapper under checkinstall. It now has even *more* LyX goodness. Thanks to all you devs, I miss th

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:01 +0100 Nick Hopton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a recent message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. > > [...] > >>> Easy: apt-get install lyx > >>> See man page (man apt-get). > > >> The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
fo.vmware.com/content/GLP_VMwareWkstn?urlcode=Google_Products_Workstation&gclid=CPX_w-zpg4wCFQurhgod-D39wQ weekends coming up....have fun! - R > > On 5/10/07, Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 > > "Julio Rojas"

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and > engineering congresses that "ask" the authors to submit their papers > is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. > > I'm doing some eva

Re: pushing bibtex references crashes lyx 1.5.0beta1-1

2007-03-31 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:31:43 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 31. März 2007 06:45 schrieb Russell Davie: > > Hi > > > > Pushing bibtex references to lyx 1.5.0beta1 makes lyx completely crash. > > This has no warning dialog popup and no

pushing bibtex references crashes lyx 1.5.0beta1-1

2007-03-30 Thread Russell Davie
Hi Pushing bibtex references to lyx 1.5.0beta1 makes lyx completely crash. This has no warning dialog popup and no rescue file saved, lyx just dies. This is using Jabref and Pybligrapher. LyX was compiled using this config: $ ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4 --enable-optimization=-O3 -

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1) is released

2007-03-02 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:25:30 +0100 Hellmut Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on an IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with gentoo-Linux + KDE-3.5.6 > + tetex-3.0_p1-r3 > > I'm still using LyX-1.3.7 because of the problems I have with some > special characters like å, ç, accented Letters e

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1) is released

2007-02-24 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:01:11 + José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1) > === > > We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 1). > > Nice. Works well, so far does all the LyX things I need: make ps, pd

Re: Stupid table question

2007-02-21 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:06 +0100 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > André Bonhôte schrieb: > > Blame me, I have found it: Edit > Rows & Columns > Add Row > > > > Although this is wrong in the manual ... maybe someone wants to change > > this one day. > > It is correctly described in the n

ubuntu Dapper checkinstall packages i386

2007-02-18 Thread Russell Davie
Hi I have made checkinstall packages for Ubuntu Dapper. This does not take care of dependencies. This just saves you the time compiling from source. http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/lyx_1.4.4-1_i386.deb How this packages was made is outlined here: http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/inde

Re: putting image on first page of pdf

2007-01-29 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:02:43 +0100 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie schrieb: > > > No special settings, just the default "vanilla" article. > > Why is this called "vanilla"? oh, I meant "plain", as in default, eg wi

Re: putting image on first page of pdf

2007-01-29 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:35:02 +0100 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie schrieb: > > > I find each time I put an image and generate a pdf, a blank page is the > > first page, and the image is on the second. > > This depends on the settings you

Re: putting image on first page of pdf

2007-01-29 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:35:02 +0100 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie schrieb: > > > I find each time I put an image and generate a pdf, a blank page is the > > first page, and the image is on the second. > > This depends on the settings you

Re: Hide parts of the document

2007-01-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:18:39 +0100 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2007 15:30 schrieb Bo Peng: > > > You mean something like the "folding" feature found in some text > editors. > > > This would be very useful indeed, but is not possible yet. Please enter > > > this

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-20 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:20:15 -0500 Richard Kleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > > > > Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to > > something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness >

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:36:14 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:02:07 +1100 > Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have used the binaries made by the LyX Deb team when I ran Debian and > > they are

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-18 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:47:42 -0600 Bill Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm considering switching Linux distributions to Debian or Ubuntu, > and I wanted to know what the community experience was regarding Lyx on > either. In particular, are there any known functional or performance > issue

Re: LyX 1.4.3 and converters

2006-09-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:08:18 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > >> > 3) How can LyX be made to use latex2rtf to convert to rtf? > >> > >> Go to tools-Preferences and add a new format rtf and a converter > >

Re: a "locales" Problem with lyx 1.4.2

2006-09-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:47:28 + nicolas roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody. > > when i lauch lyx, i get the following message in the consoled : > > Locale fr_FR could not be set > > And indeed, there is a problem with french accents in all menus. > > configuration : > Lyx 1.4.

Re: LyX 1.4.3 and converters

2006-09-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:08:18 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't call latex yourself, use the needaux flag in the extra flags field. > Unfortunately there is no real solution for the bibtex problem, but as a > workaround you can run view->update postscript just before exporting.

Re: LyX 1.4.3 and converters

2006-09-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:31:07 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Find out where oolatex or oolatex.sh is installed and tell us the path. > Obviously it is not in /usr/bin. > > > 2) Also "w2l" is missed even though its in my path > > > > checking for an OpenOffice.org -> LaTeX conve

Re: LyX 1.4.3 and converters

2006-09-27 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:31:07 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Find out where oolatex or oolatex.sh is installed and tell us the path. > Obviously it is not in /usr/bin. > > > 2) Also "w2l" is missed even though its in my path > > > > checking for an OpenOffice.org -> LaTeX conve

LyX 1.4.3 and converters

2006-09-26 Thread Russell Davie
Hi Just compiled LyX to suit Ubuntu/Dapper and have found some things that configure.py has missed 1) It can't find oolatex although its installed as per Synaptic. from configure: checking for a LaTeX -> OpenOffice.org converter... +checking for "oolatex"... no +checking for "oolatex.sh"...

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

2006-09-25 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:55:57 -0600 Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is a lot of work. I'm not even sure that I would be able to > figure out how to do all that. > > What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure > that all the standard environments

Re: Importing word documents to Lyx

2006-09-25 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:38:00 + (UTC) Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bhaskaran, Sreekumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Does anyone know how to import word documents into Lyx? > > > > > The Only Way is via LaTeX: you convert your MSWord document to LaTeX (via > rtf2latex,

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

2006-09-25 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:36:22 -0700 TechTonics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Davies wrote: > > Russell Davie wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600 > >> Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sep 22, 2006, at

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

2006-09-24 Thread Russell Davie
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600 Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote: > > > Bob Lounsbury wrote: > >> Hi, > >> What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work > >> for me on 1.4.3 with XP. > >> Thanks, > >> Bob Lounsbury

Re: please complete "Questionnaire for Users" (as part of a usability study)

2006-09-05 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:34:31 -0600 Daryl Hepting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lyx User Questionnaire Great survey! snip-- > What do you like best about Lyx? > > Good, unlikely to point to things to change. As this seems to be about looking at improvements to Lyx, I would be interest

Re: user interface study of lyx

2006-09-05 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:44:20 +0200 Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> In preparation for the class, I plan to post a separate > >> questionnaire to the lyx-users and lyx-devel lists. > >> > >> I welcome any comments about this. Again, my intent is to >

Re: LaTeX commands instead of KB shortcuts

2006-08-15 Thread Russell Davie
uns latex and bibtex > automatically as many times as needed. I like it! I look forward to using it next time when writing LaTeX methinks out loud: modifying it to do the same for LyX. ;-) cheers Russell > > Regards, > Ravi > > > > From: Russell Davie <[EMAIL

Re: LaTeX commands instead of KB shortcuts

2006-08-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:35:18 -0700 Ravi Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This may have been asked before, but I can't think of the right > keywords to search for it. I'm an experienced LaTeX user, and I > would like to use LyX because it gives me an instant preview of what > I "

Re: automatic update of pdf?

2006-08-12 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:05:47 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 12. August 2006 14:58 schrieb Holger Blasum: > > On the command line the ".jpeg" is only a problem with lyx -e pdf2, > > not with lyx -e pdf or with lyx -e pdf3. Correspondingly, in the GUI, > > export dvipdfm

Re: automatic update of pdf?

2006-08-12 Thread Russell Davie
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:51:38 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How is it possible to have a automatic update of pdf file so the pdf can > > viewed as the lyx file is been created? > > > > Are

automatic update of pdf?

2006-08-11 Thread Russell Davie
Hi, How is it possible to have a automatic update of pdf file so the pdf can viewed as the lyx file is been created? Are there command line options that can be set that would enable this? My plan is, if possible, to have a cron job calling a script to generate pdf from lyx which is then displ

Re: Fwd: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-08-01 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:58:11 +0200 "Christopher Winkler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ?? > Russel: Can you send me your compile command? this is a copy from the notes I wrote: for qt front-end ~$ ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 --enable-optimization=-O3 --prefix=/usr/

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:32:38 +0200 Christopher Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: > > Hello, > > my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 > > .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped... > > I thought the best thing was to try to compi

Re: 1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?

2006-07-18 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:43 +0100 Sam Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? > Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? > > Cheers, Sam > I have made some debs for Lyx1.4.1 in Dapper which are here : http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits As for

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-16 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:26:48 -0400 "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Myriam Abramson wrote: > > The Framesubtitle feature of > > beamer.layout does not seem to exist on Windows though. That's odd. > > Should it? (Meaning, does it exist as an environment in Linux?) You > can enter a

uploading lyx Ubuntu Dapper packages

2006-06-11 Thread Russell Davie
Hi As the debs from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/ubuntu didn't work in Dapper, I compiled lyx-1.4.1 debs for Ubuntu Dapper following instructions from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian. It works in my Dapper laptop and does all the right things with existing documents, eg make pdf wi

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 14 May 2006 10:08:09 +1000 Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: after an upgrading tetex from 2.0 to 3.0 (Ubuntu-Dapper), Lyx found latex and the document classes! thanks for your help - R > On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 > "Paul A. Rubin" <

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, > > DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be install

Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line. tetex-bin. tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-htm, tex4ht are installed, so is gs, etc. There were no issues installing

Re: Vector graphics in Lyx

2006-04-30 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:00:33 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > If you are going to make a lot of graphs, and keep doing this over your > > career, I'd strongly suggest you learn to use the free statistical program > > R, which can

Re: Vector graphics in Lyx

2006-04-29 Thread Russell Davie
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > > What is available to include vector graphics in Lyx/Latex? > > Many programs offer a possibility to export drawings as pdf-images. > These can directly be used in LyX when you use pdflatex to produce

Vector graphics in Lyx

2006-04-27 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All, What is available to include vector graphics in Lyx/Latex? Example: generating a graph from data. Currently I use gnumeric to compute the graph which make a svg -> open in sodipodi->edit svg to add more information ->convert to png -> insert into Lyx/Latex. TIA Russell

exam documentclass for Lyx 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Russell Davie
Hi How is it possible to get this working under Lyx? I've read http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg11937.html and also the instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts from which came exam.layout: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this #

Re: poor resolution for svg

2006-04-24 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:00:43 +0200 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie schrieb: > > > When Lyx (1.4.1) makes ps or pdf, the svg graphic is really scratchy. > > Could you please send an example svg file. Ok, its attached its a graph generated from

poor resolution for svg

2006-04-23 Thread Russell Davie
Hi When Lyx (1.4.1) makes ps or pdf, the svg graphic is really scratchy. I've looked for the converter and can't find it in the Tools>Preferences>Converter Were can this be tweaked so the svg can be used reliability? TIA Russell

Re: mouse wheel control

2006-03-21 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:02:45 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Russell" == Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Russell> Hi All The mouse wheel control doesn't seem to control any > Russell> move

mouse wheel control

2006-03-21 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All The mouse wheel control doesn't seem to control any movement in the mouse at all. Tools -> Preferences -> (down bottom of dialogue) Scrolling .enter the speed I've cranked it up to full speed at 250, but the mouse speed is the same as if it was set at 1. How can this be made to work

mouse wheel control

2006-03-21 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All The mouse wheel control doesn't seem to control any movement in the mouse at all. Tools -> Preferences -> (down bottom of dialogue) Scrolling .enter the speed I've cranked it up to full speed at 250, but the mouse speed is the same as if it was set at 1. How can this be made to work

Re: bibtex inserting % in url reference

2006-03-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:39:04 +1100 Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:15:23 +0100 > Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 11. März 2006 15:35 schrieb Russell Davie: > > > now is this a fault with bibtex,

Re: bibtex inserting % in url reference

2006-03-18 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:15:23 +0100 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 11. März 2006 15:35 schrieb Russell Davie: > > now is this a fault with bibtex, or latex? or what? > > bibtex > > > and how can this be automatically done?, so a then a file

Re: bibtex inserting % in url reference

2006-03-11 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:53:21 +0100 Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > when Lyx is compiled to make a pdf, Lyx inserts a  % in the end of a > > hypertext reference! > > > > the source and  output are here: > > h

bibtex inserting % in url reference

2006-03-11 Thread Russell Davie
Hi when Lyx is compiled to make a pdf, Lyx inserts a % in the end of a hypertext reference! the source and output are here: http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/lyx/lyx.html how can this be fixed? thanks in advance! Russell

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

2006-03-11 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:08:56 +0100 Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : > >> "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Abdelrazak> Her... But right-clicking again? Work here. If this > > Abdelrazak> doesn't work for you, ple