Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Andre Berger
Hi there! German Gurus told me the palatino, times, and pslatex fonts were obsolete, and told me to use mathpazo and mathptmx instead. I wonder if LyX will reflect this development? -Andre

Re: tex2lyx Mac undefined symbols

2005-07-31 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2005 04:09 schrieb Saul Gelfand: > Hello, > > I downloaded tex2lyx_MacOSX_21Jul05.zip which expanded to a directory > LyX which I then moved to /Applications (there wasnt any installation > package or Makefile so I assumed this was all that was necessary with > this precomp

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-31 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2005 09:27 schrieb Georg Baum: > Gerhard Lindel wrote: > > > Hello George, I used your instructions on > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Linux and it runs in a shell. There is only one > > deb. in the parent-directory and one cannot install it: > > This is probbaly the result of

Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Hi, I compiled Lyx 1.3.6 using the frontend xforms 1.0 on my slackware 9.1 (./configure;make). I'm getting an error crashing Lyx when I hit Aide/Manuel d'Apprentissage (Help/Manual): BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) id: 27263303 Any idea? -- jean-marie pacquet

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Andre Berger wrote: German Gurus told me the palatino, times, and pslatex fonts were obsolete, and told me to use mathpazo and mathptmx instead. I wonder if LyX will reflect this development? Andre, I certainly hope not! I like Palatino. It's the default font in all my

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marie" == Jean-Marie Pacquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jean-Marie> Hi, I compiled Lyx 1.3.6 using the frontend xforms 1.0 on Jean-Marie> my slackware 9.1 (./configure;make). I'm getting an error Jean-Marie> crashing Lyx when I hit Aide/Manuel d'Apprentissage Jean-Marie> (Help/Manual)

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : [...] Is there a reason why you prefer the xforms frontend? I'm mostly using GTK/Gnome environment and I was trying to avoid any QT stuff because of the extra load it will require on memory (I may be wrong here... tell me). Thanks for the quick answer! -- jean

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Am Sonntag, 31. Juli 2005 16:23 schrieb Rich Shepard: > Andre, > >    I certainly hope not! I like Palatino. It's the default font in all my > writing and what I used in my book. Why would I want to use math fonts for > body text instead of Palatino or Times? Rich, mathpazo.sty is an enhanced rep

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Andre Berger
* Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-07-31 16:25 +0200: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Andre Berger wrote: > > >German Gurus told me the palatino, times, and pslatex fonts were obsolete, > >and told me to use mathpazo and mathptmx instead. I wonder if LyX will > >reflect this development? > > Andre,

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: mathpazo.sty is an enhanced replacement package for the package palatino.sty with support for math and other things (small caps, old style figures etc.). It still uses the Palatino (or, more precise: Palladio) font. The same counts for times.sty v

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Berger wrote: > Maybe one could just make them > available in the document layout font menu, for a start :) It's not that easy. We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx -> mathptm -> times).

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marie" == Jean-Marie Pacquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jean-Marie> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : >> [...] Is there a reason why you prefer the xforms frontend? >> Jean-Marie> I'm mostly using GTK/Gnome environment and I was trying to Jean-Marie> avoid any QT stuff because of the ex

Re: Safe to exchange Lyx documents between Mac and Linux/PC?

2005-07-31 Thread Roy Schestowitz
Quoting Christian: On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > Nice. Just learned to love Natbib. :-) Should I install any additional > packages, except what is already mentioned on the Wiki page > (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mac)? If you want a template that will make a good starting point fo

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The Qt port is really nicer than the xforms one (but indeed a bit slower). Jean-Marc, OK, you got me here. How does one define "faster" and "slower" with a text processing application? Seems to me the computer is wasting cycles waiting for me

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rich> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> The Qt port is really nicer than the xforms one (but indeed a bit >> slower). Rich>OK, you got me here. How does one define "faster" and Rich> "slower" with a text processing app

Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong

2005-07-31 Thread Gilles Mioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I was trying to create debian lyx 1.3.6 package for Sarge, following instructions from lyx wiki on : http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Linux When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as : *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object* ma

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: You take a slower computer, and try to see how responsive it is to page up/down, selection, etc. I can tell you, unfortunately, that currently LyX/Qt 1.4.0cvs feels really sluggish compared to lyx/xfoms. But since we do not really know why, it is

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rich>Oh. Since I upgraded hardware almost two years ago (from a Rich> PII/333MHz to Athlon XP+1700 and Athlon XP+2800), I assumed I Rich> was the last to move from 7-year-old hardware. Rich>I suspect that Qt seems sluggish because i

Renumbering Sections - How to keep WYSIWYM up to date?

2005-07-31 Thread Wil Hunt
Hey all, I'm currently writing a study guide for a class, and thus need to skip over some chapters in the book that are not being covered in the class. I've found the \setcounter{section}{...} command, and this works great for the generated documents (post LaTeX). Unfortunately, Lyx (1.3.5)

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-07-31 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Rich Shepard a écrit : Oh. Since I upgraded hardware almost two years ago (from a PII/333MHz to Athlon XP+1700 and Athlon XP+2800), I assumed I was the last to move from 7-year-old hardware. My laptop is a 5-year-old PIII/500MHz and (for the next two years?) I care for speed. I'm curren

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong

2005-07-31 Thread Gilles Mioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A bad version of libtools have caused compile error signaled at last message. I've installed the good one. But another problem went : #./build-tree-qt/src/support/.libs/libsupport.al support/.libs/libsupport.al: could not read symbols: Archive has no i

1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

2005-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
I've not before had a problem building lyx. The config.log is attached (gzipped). Make failed after 15.5 minutes when I did not specify the qt directories; now that I've specified them, it fails in 8 seconds: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../src -I../../../src/frontends -I.

View->PDF lost

2005-07-31 Thread Roger McMurtrie
The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu. I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit->reconfigure. I have also recently added the Edit->Change tracking patch which seems to be working fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Roger