Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-20 Thread peter kint
rgheck writes: > Here are the steps to follow. > Richard Halleluia! What a massive piece of help (and an instructive tex-course too)! IT WORKZ! FINALLY! I owe you eternal gratitude :-) Can I post your lecture in an other forum too (ubuntuforums.org), evidently with proper reference? I'

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-20 Thread peter kint
> > Graphical? Type in terminal: > > sudo nautilus > > Go to the /usr/local , Create folder and name it texlive > > Then do right click on the created and > > Properties> Permission and change Owner and Group by your user name. > > > > > I wouldn't recommend this. Stuff in the /usr/local/ hie

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-20 Thread peter kint
Kornel Benko writes: > You have to set your PATH appropriatelly. > > "which tex" gives here: > /usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/x86_64-linux/tex > This path has to be _before_ the path of your standard-installed tex (which is /usr/bin in your case) which tex gives:

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-20 Thread peter kint
Steve Litt writes: > Anything's possible. Why not investigate, starting with this command at the > command prompt: > > locate tex | grep /tex$ Hi, thx for replying. Here are my outputs > Try running each of them, find out which you want, and then strongarm LyX to > specify that one. ==

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-20 Thread peter kint
Sigh, I'm almost desperate. I followed all your instructions. He told me that installation was done. I changed PATHS. And this is what I get: pe...@peter-desktop:~$ tex --version TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea version 3.5.6 Copyright 2007 D.E. Knuth. Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry an

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-20 Thread peter kint
> The directory of the binaries for your platform must be added to > the search path. > Are you a single user? Then you can add the following lines > > PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH; export PATH > MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH > INFO

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-20 Thread peter kint
> Ubuntu 9.10 repository provides texlive-2007 .deb packages. They are old. > Installing the new texlive-2009 (it includes circuitikz) is a good thing. > > Here is a quickinstall > http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html > where you can read > - 'How to acquire the software' > (http://www.

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-19 Thread peter kint
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > > > Apparently, he doesn't find it? > > Correct. Now where did you put it? > > Jürgen > I can see the file for example in: usr/local/share/texmf/circuitikz/tex/latex/circuitikz.sty (also other places) I ran texhash many times. Thx, peter

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-19 Thread peter kint
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > Should not be necessary. Assure the file circuitikz.sty is in a directory > where LaTeX can find it (usually a path ending up in > texmf/tex/latex/circuitikz/circuitikz.sty) and then run "texhash" in a > console. > > If "kpsewhich circuitikz.sty" returns the c

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-19 Thread peter kint
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > Should not be necessary. Assure the file circuitikz.sty is in a directory > where LaTeX can find it (usually a path ending up in > texmf/tex/latex/circuitikz/circuitikz.sty) and then run "texhash" in a > console. > > If "kpsewhich circuitikz.sty" returns the corr

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-19 Thread peter kint
Kornel Benko writes: > > > I am on the same system and using tlmgr. Your desired package is also installed. > > You need a good internet connection > > 1.) Get install-tl-unx.tar.gz ( ~ 1.5MB) > 2.) unpack it > 3.) create a directory /usr/local/texlive > 4.) I for one changed here the user of

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-19 Thread peter kint
Uwe Stöhr writes: > > Am 19.12.2009 00:19, schrieb peter kint: > > > 1. Trying to install circuitikz > > > > I get the error message : ! LaTeX Error: File `circuitikz.sty' not found. > > Then the installation to LaTeX was not successful. When you

Re: Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-19 Thread peter kint
rgheck writes: > > On 12/18/2009 06:19 PM, peter kint wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 1. Trying to install circuitikz > > http://home.dei.polimi.it/mredaelli/circuitikz/index.html > > to make electrical circuits in Lyx. > > > > I get the error message

Where does lyx search for files? Cant get to work ANYTHING with Lyx

2009-12-18 Thread peter kint
Hi, 1. Trying to install circuitikz http://home.dei.polimi.it/mredaelli/circuitikz/index.html to make electrical circuits in Lyx. I get the error message : ! LaTeX Error: File `circuitikz.sty' not found. 2. Trying to compile the example begin{tikzpicture}[circuit ee IEC] \draw (0,1) to [r

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

2009-12-12 Thread peter kint
Paul A. Rubin writes: > (Disclaimer: I have not tried this myself, since I don't use gnuplot.) > > First, you obviously need to have gnuplot installed and working. > > In LyX, go to Tools > Preferences > File Handling > Converters and > /Paul Hi Paul, Your first suggestion did not work. A

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

2009-12-12 Thread peter kint
Jonathan Brandmeyer writes: > > I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction > with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics > as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using > Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that sho

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

2009-12-12 Thread peter kint
Jonathan Brandmeyer writes: > () > Since the latex produced by lyx only uses relative path names, I don't > think that the error is in Lyx - it is in some program distributed with > texlive. > > Thanks for the help. > > -Jonathan Hi, I'm not a Latex/lyx expert but I have the same kind of

GNUPLOT in Lyx? = How to allow Latex to call external programs?

2009-12-12 Thread peter kint
Hi, I'm trying to gete PGF/Tikz compiled in Lyx for my mathematical illustrations. For some functions, Latex must call external functions like GNUPLOT. The solution is described below: % PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions: % tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh %

Re: gnuplot in Lyx not working?

2009-12-10 Thread peter kint
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > peter kint wrote: > > > These are in my preamble: > > \usepackage{pgfplots} > > \usepackage{pgf,tikz} > > \usetikzlibrary{arrows} > > \usetikzlibrary{trees} > > \usepackage{verbatim} > > Putting this in the prea

Re: gnuplot in Lyx not working?

2009-12-10 Thread peter kint
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > Peter Kint wrote: > > > When I include it in a box in my Lyx document (Insert>File>Child Document) > > I get a very incomplete and crippled output. > > > > How can I get this working properly?? > > Did you load th

gnuplot in Lyx not working?

2009-12-10 Thread peter kint
Hi, I'm trying to make mathematical graphs in my Lyx documents. In the pgf/tikz manual on p 224 is the following code/example: \begin{tikzpicture}[domain=0:4] \draw[very thin,color=gray] (-0.1,-1.1) grid (3.9,3.9); \draw[->] (-0.2,0) -- (4.2,0) node[right] {$x$}; \draw[->] (0,

gnuplot in Lyx not working?

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Kint
Hi, I'm trying to make mathematical graphs in my Lyx documents. In the pgf/tikz manual on p 224 is the following code/example: \begin{tikzpicture}[domain=0:4] \draw[very thin,color=gray] (-0.1,-1.1) grid (3.9,3.9); \draw[->] (-0.2,0) -- (4.2,0) node[right] {$x$}; \draw[->] (0,-1.2) -- (0,