Re: first impressions of 1.3.6

2005-07-21 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Will I get the old integral style back for iint and iiint if I delete the wasy fonts and related files ? Can I correct this by editing the file called "symbol" in the share/lyx directory ? It contains a correspondance symbol -> font character I just ask before I trash m

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:25:45 +0200 >>From: sandro massidda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: /dev/null >>can you help me? http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html -- Jean-Pierre

Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Peter Rockett
Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file so... Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX (or

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html For those of you (like me) reading this throught the gmane news interface which annoyingly encrypts stuff that it thinks are email addresses: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg3543

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Peter Rockett writes: > Why isn't LyX (or > something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Or a structured document processor, etc. Short answer: "if you build it, they'll come" -- i.e. someone has to have the time and inclination and skills to do this. In the meantime, it remains wha

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Peter Rockett wrote: > tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file Then post your sample so that tex2lyx can be improved. > Why isn't LyX (or something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ -- Angus

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "sandro" == sandro massidda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sandro> I tried to configure lyx and I got this problem, as in the sandro> README file sandro> here is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you sandro> configure as root and an error occurs during the configure sandro> st

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ Jürgen

1.3.6 win continued

2005-07-21 Thread treefox
hello all version 1.3.6 win is slower at startup, and its window position and size at exit is still not memorized. can this be fixed? - would be great! all in all, the installation took more time, with all the add-ons, than before... thanks for the continuous effort and for the great program, marc

tex2lyx for MAC

2005-07-21 Thread Giorgio Zavarise
Dear Lyx People, I have to import in lyx a latex file that contains a lot of user commands, and it seems that there is no way to do it. I would like to ask a couple of suggestions: 1) how to explain to Relyx that there is a command file to read and to use 2) I read about the new program tex2ly

Re: 1.3.6 win continued

2005-07-21 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:25 AM Subject: 1.3.6 win continued hello all version 1.3.6 win is slower at startup, and its window position and size at exit is still not memorized. can this be fixed? - would be great! all in all, th

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Giorgio Zavarise wrote: Dear Lyx People, I have to import in lyx a latex file that contains a lot of user commands, and it seems that there is no way to do it. I would like to ask a couple of suggestions: 1) how to explain to Relyx that there is a command file to read and to use 2) I read abo

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Angus Leeming wrote: >> Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen> or (if you're on win) Juergen> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know this one. I guess there is al

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ works also with wine under *nix and has an own homepage and is a _real_ wysiwyg TeX http://www.microimp.com

multiple (extra) sub-menus in document's Navigate drop-down menu (1.3.5)

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, [Sending this again as it gathered no responses before -- or wasn't delivered.] I have a minor but annoying problem in LyX 1.3.5 (Linux)... Under the Navigate menu one can see all six chapters of the book. Choosing one opens a sub-menu which lists the chapter title and all the section

Re: multiple (extra) sub-menus in document's Navigate drop-down menu (1.3.5)

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Under the Navigate menu one can see all six chapters of the book. > Choosing one opens a sub-menu which lists the chapter title and all the > sections it contains (which are all "Subsubsections"*). This works > fine... except for two chapters. > * - Why Subsubsection? Becau

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread samar j. singh
On Thursday 21 July 2005 06:59, Herbert Voss wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > Angus Leeming wrote: > >>Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ > > > > or (if you're on win) > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ > > works also with wine under *nix and has

Re: 1.3.6 win continued

2005-07-21 Thread treefox
thanks - as startup takes much longer now on my machine than 1.3.5, im will have to check the firewall* etc. settings. marco * i might have disabled activeperl from acting as a server, though, if this is relevant. >-- Original-Nachricht -- >From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL P

Lyx mac problem please Help

2005-07-21 Thread A Soufi, Biochemistry
Hi, Guys I Installed Lyx 1.3.6 on MacOSX. and teTex. when i launch Lyx the first time after installation, I see all the output option from the view menu, but none of them seem to do anything. then I reconfigure Lyx under Edit menu, restart Lyx and it comes up with the error of. The document cla

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>> >>But the newest tex2lyx produces file format 243, and LyX 1.3.6 can only read >>242. So the instructions on the wiki page should be modified: >> >>"You may have to replace LyX.py and lyx_1_4.py of LyX 1.3.6 with the >>versions from here: >>http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/l

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-21 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Both the Win tex2lyx bundle and the Solaris tex2lyx bundle provide 241 > format, so that copying the binary is enough. But that will change ;-) > Ignoring options 'T1' of package fontenc. > LyX: Unknown TextClass tag `MaxCounter' [around line 15 of file c:\Program >

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

2005-07-21 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 21, 2005, at 6:32 AM, Giorgio Zavarise wrote: 2) I read about the new program tex2lyx is there any pre-cooked (executable) version for MAC? I've placed a version on the wiki. As Angus said, the wiki page on tex2lyx is: , from which you can fi

Re: Lyx mac problem please Help

2005-07-21 Thread Georg Kö
Am 21.07.2005 um 14:30 schrieb A Soufi, Biochemistry: Hi, Guys I Installed Lyx 1.3.6 on MacOSX. and teTex. when i launch Lyx the first time after installation, I see all the output option from the view menu, but none of them seem to do anything. then I reconfigure Lyx under Edit menu, rest

Re: Lyx mac problem please Help

2005-07-21 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 21, 2005, at 8:30 AM, A Soufi, Biochemistry wrote: Hi, Guys I Installed Lyx 1.3.6 on MacOSX. and teTex. when i launch Lyx the first time after installation, I see all the output option from the view menu, but none of them seem to do anything. then I reconfigure Lyx under Edit menu, r

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 21 July 2005 14:12, Georg Baum wrote: > I don't know what happens exactly, but I don't care either because LyX > 1.4 and tex2lyx are not supposed to read old .layout files (at least > until now - maybe we need a lay2layout converter). This can be done easily. I will see what I can do

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Bennett Helm wrote: > I've placed a version on the wiki. As Angus said, the wiki page on > tex2lyx is: , from which you can > find a link to the Mac version. (The direct link to the Mac version is: > .) > > B

Re: multiple (extra) sub-menus in document's Navigate drop-down menu (1.3.5)

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi Angus, You write: > You've answered the question yourself. The code assumes a natural > hierarchy Chapter->Section->SubSection->SubsubSection. You're just > describing the fact that your Section and SubSection menus are empty > because you're subverting WYSIWYM to give yourself instant visual >

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen> or (if you're on win) Juergen> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know thi

Re: multiple (extra) sub-menus in document's Navigate drop-down menu (1.3.5)

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kevin" == Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> But LyX is working inconsistently then, because for four of the Kevin> seven chapters this worked just fine -- or failed, if you wish, Kevin> if you reverse the logic. I.e. four chapters do _not_ reflect Kevin> the true hierarchy (

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>> >>Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> >>> Both the Win tex2lyx bundle and the Solaris tex2lyx bundle provide 241 >>> format, so that copying the binary is enough. >> >>But that will change ;-) >> [..] >>> What's surprising is that the same operation performed on the same file on >>> Solaris works fi

Lyx mac problem solved :-)

2005-07-21 Thread A Soufi, Biochemistry
hi, it's looks that it's working fine now when I set the path as you suggested. many thanks. --On Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:38 pm +0200 Georg Kö <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 21.07.2005 um 14:30 schrieb A Soufi, Biochemistry: Hi, Guys I Installed Lyx 1.3.6 on MacOSX. and teTex. when i l

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this > thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I > assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

2005-07-21 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: Bennett Helm wrote: I've placed a version on the wiki. As Angus said, the wiki page on tex2lyx is: , from which you can find a link to the Mac version. (The direct link to the Mac version is:

Re: citations and references in multi document files

2005-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:48:52 +0200 Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > references to > > other parts of the document have to be entered manually and I can only > > push > > citations from bibtex as they are not known to the local document and even > > then > >

Re: citations and references in multi document files

2005-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:40:08 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I just split my thesis into multiple documents as it became impossible to > > handle after the 80 page mark without folding (which AFAIK lyx doesn't > > support). > > Do you know View->Navigate?

Re: citations and references in multi document files

2005-07-21 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Another way to do it is to 'compile' the main document first, eg by doing view dvi. This effectively lets all Includes see all the other stuff such as biblios or sections in other includes for cross referencing. - Original Message - From: "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sen

Mac installation problem

2005-07-21 Thread Lenore Horner
I thought I'd upgrade to the most recent version of LyX (from 1.3.3) on my iBook running 10.3.9. I downloaded the binary, dragged the LyX icon to my Applications folder and then double clicked the LyX Installer icon whereupon I received the message: "The operation could not be completed. An u

Page Style Fancy Problem

2005-07-21 Thread Roger McMurtrie
I am using the document class book with page style fancy. However, footnotes on Chapter pages don't appear when viewed. My LaTeX book suggests that maybe I should use \pagestyle{fancyplain} which I tried putting in the preamble but this didn't work. I imagine there's a simple solution but I can't

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Bennett Helm wrote: >> If you grab the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh script from >> http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/tex2lyx then everything should be >> done automatically. > > Fixed ... and the wiki updated. Good man! -- Angus