Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

2006-11-18 Thread John B. Egger
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of

Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread Francois
Hope someone can help me with this: I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the following message: LyX: reconfiguri

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread George Fairbanks
Hi Francois, "sh" is the unix shell, "python" is a scripting language used by Lyx. It sounds like the unix shell is complaining that it cannot find the python interpreter to run the scripts (they end with .py). It sounds like you need to install python but I don't have a suggestion on how to

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote: I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the following message: LyX: reconfiguring use

Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Kleeman
I compiled 1.4.3 from source using the Debian infrastructure (Debian testing has 1.4.3) on the latest 64bit Ubuntu (edgy). Works great. Compile was easy. Richard Kleeman John B. Egger wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If

Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

2006-11-18 Thread Reinhart Baumgratz
In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: "The document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method?" If i press yes yap crashes, if no yap shows the text witho

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-18 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically. It now >> takes seconds to do >> View->pdflatex from Lyx. It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure >> that's just a matter of >> googling the class

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread Francois
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:27:44 +0100, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Francois, It looks like the conversion filters are missing. You probably got an incomplete package. Did you get it from www.linuxpackages.net? That's exclusively Slackware. I cant really remember wether I got it

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote: I found out that I didnt have tetex installed either, so I have installed it now, but it doesnt help. Is it important to have this particular package? In RedHat I remember there was a tetex-latex package which had to be installed. This package I dont find in

Strange behaviour of mathed and instant preview.

2006-11-18 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Since I changed to LyX 1.4.3, I've noticed some strange behaviour when editing mathematical formulas and using Instant Preview, which was absent in the 1.3.x versions. I think you can reproduce some of my woes in the attached file. Open it, enable Instant Preview and wait until it renders all

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread Francois
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for LaTeX. TeTeX is a LaTeX version. It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex packag

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:13:06 +0100 Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which > > directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end fo

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote: It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in Slackware... Francios, On the "official" Slackware distribution disk set it's in /slackware/t/. On my 11.0 disk #2 is: ./t ./t/install-packages ./t/install.end ./t/maketag ./t/mak

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread Francois
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:23 +0100, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You cannot harm your system. Even building a custom kernel from source is safe, as long as you leave a working kernel in /boot. Right then, I'll try that! It seems that I have what I need.

Re: Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

2006-11-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Reinhart Baumgratz schrieb: In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: "The document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method?" This is a problem of the DV