Re: Beamer class observation [RESOLVED]

2017-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 24 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Turns out "newframe" is not an LFUN, it's a function I wrote back before Jürgen rewrote Beamer support (but which still works). It's shorthand for a rather lengthy command sequence. On my system, the definition is stored in ~/.lyx/commands/default.def, w

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/24/2017 12:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, we identified the problem: something truly weird is happening. Opened the 20-minute beamer template in a new tab, navigated to the last item in a frame, and entered 'call newframe' in the command buffer. Same catatonic response as using th

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Paul A Rubin wrote: In the old days, I believe custom bindings had to be in the same bind file with the regular bindings (meaning you had to hack emacs.bind and put the hacked version in your local bind directory). Apparently that changed somewhere along the line. Regardless

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-23 Thread Paul A Rubin
On 01/23/2017 07:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: Now I see why it's not working here. When I added that shortcut it was written to ~/.lyx/bind/user.bind. That is correct behavior. I copied it to my.bind (a modified emacs.bind), reconfigured lyx, and restarted it. In the old days, I believe cus

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'm attaching ~/.lyx/bind/user.bind so that you can compare it to your system. If you've done other custom binds, your user.bind file might have more lines in it than mine, but it should contain the one line mine has. Paul, Now I see why it's not wo

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/22/2017 03:30 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I bound a sequence (Ctrl+Alt+Return) to "call newframe", so that I can start a new frame from pretty much anywhere within reason. When I'm writing a slide show, I usually can't spare the brain cells to figure

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I bound a sequence (Ctrl+Alt+Return) to "call newframe", so that I can start a new frame from pretty much anywhere within reason. When I'm writing a slide show, I usually can't spare the brain cells to figure out where the cursor is. ;-) Paul, I mus

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I bound a sequence (Ctrl+Alt+Return) to "call newframe", so that I can start a new frame from pretty much anywhere within reason. When I'm writing a slide show, I usually can't spare the brain cells to figure out where the cursor is. ;-) Paul, Well,

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/21/2017 01:44 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Found it: Alt-P. And now I cannot find it again on the appropriate menu. It only appears when the cursor is in the appropriate location. I bound a sequence (Ctrl+Alt+Return) to "call newframe", so that I c

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Found it: Alt-P. And now I cannot find it again on the appropriate menu. It only appears when the cursor is in the appropriate location. BTW, Paul, I may have missed seeing the Frame section in the environments menu yesterday. Regards, Rich

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm not finding an end frame environment in the pull down list or on a menu, and my web searches do not find results specific to a frame containing only an image. Found it: Alt-P. And now I cannot find it again on the appropriate menu. Rich

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Okay, I misunderstood what was going on. After you failed to find the correct environments, did you double back to the document class and confirm that it was set to Beamer (meaning that your choice was neither ignored nor bumped up or down one to due to

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/20/2017 04:30 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Classes are organized by category, with categories listed alphabetically, and the original-accept-no-substitutes Beamer class is in the Presentations category, rather late in the list. Paul, That's the c

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Classes are organized by category, with categories listed alphabetically, and the original-accept-no-substitutes Beamer class is in the Presentations category, rather late in the list. Paul, That's the class I selected. Didn't look higher in the lis

Re: Beamer class observation

2017-01-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/20/2017 02:50 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: Today, just for giggles, I opened a new document and set the class to Beamer. But, when I look at the environments menu it's for a text class (book or article). I was really surprised by this. So, I followed past practice and copied a known-good .lyx

Beamer class observation

2017-01-20 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm using lyx-2.2.2 on Slackware-14.1 here. When I start a new presentation file I copy an existing one to the new directory with a new name. Have done this for years. Today, just for giggles, I opened a new document and set the class to Beamer. But, when I look at the environments menu it's