Re: problem with odt export on Windows Lyx 1.5.1-1

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Heck
Andrew Dolman wrote: Hi All, I'm having difficulty exporting to .odt format. I notice that there have been a few threads covering this but they don't seem to solve the issue for me. The process seems to run ok but no odt file appears. I've search thoroughly for it, it's not just that it is hidi

Converting from UTF-8 to UCS-4LE ?

2007-09-18 Thread Nicolas Ferré
Dear LyXers, Recently I opened an 'old' 1.4 file with LyX 1.5.1. The document is written in French, using the standard encoding, from what I can see in the preferences. Each time I add a single character in it, I get the following message: Error returned from iconv EINVAL An incomplete multi

Re: LyX on Mac: Error converting EPS to loadable format

2007-09-18 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Gerard, thanks for your investigations! I tried what you suggested but it still does not work. My ImageMagick (convert) is I assume the one that is by default installed by the MacTeX package. It lives in the default locations /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib. Nevertheless I tried to set the

Re: LyX on Mac: Error converting EPS to loadable format

2007-09-18 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Hello, the problem seemed to be an incompatibility of the ImageMagick and Ghostscript versions that are shipped with MacTeX-2007 (I used 20070520). \ImageMagick 6.3.3 03/06/07 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11) LyX calls convertDefault.py, which calls ImageMagic

Re: Major and minor Problems with Lyx

2007-09-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi Anja, I've forwarded your message to the users' list, you had sent it to the documentation list. /Christian On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Anja Moos wrote: Hi, I tried to use Lyx to write my master thesis but had several problems. The most severe one: !!!Lyx doesn't work any more - not at all!!

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Thank you both, Paul and Helge, for your complete explanations! I understood why the source view, in LyX, doesn't operate like a "code mode" yet. Nevertheless, to work on the exported LaTeX I'm not convinced that a "simple text editor" is the best solution, even if for tw

Re: Major and minor Problems with Lyx

2007-09-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Anja Moos schrieb: I tried to use Lyx to write my master thesis but had several problems. The most severe one: !!!Lyx doesn't work any more - not at all!!! When opening it, it says: "Lyx has been closed because of an unexpected situation. This is most likely caused by a flaw in the software[..

Logo in lyx document class letter (g-brief, German)

2007-09-18 Thread colden
Hello Lyx Users, I have the following Problem: I want to put a logo in the upper left corner of a document of the lyx document class letter (g-brief, German). So I added a picture to "Name". This resulted in what I desired regarding the upper left corner, BUT the name is also used in the Senders A

Re: problem with odt export on Windows Lyx 1.5.1-1

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew Dolman
Further attempts and I have found another issue. I can't export to plain latex either. I get the message "There are spaces in the path to your BibTeX style file. BibTeX will be unable to find it." Then the program crashes. There are of course spaces in the path on Windows, "Program Files" is the ob

Re: problem with odt export on Windows Lyx 1.5.1-1

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Heck
Andrew Dolman wrote: Yes, this is the full detail of the message I get if I try to export to Latex (Plain), I don't get a crash exporting to odt, it just doesn't produce a file. I'd like to try running from the command line to see all the error messages, but I don't know how to do this in Windows

Re: problem with odt export on Windows Lyx 1.5.1-1

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew Dolman
Yes, this is the full detail of the message I get if I try to export to Latex (Plain), I don't get a crash exporting to odt, it just doesn't produce a file. I'd like to try running from the command line to see all the error messages, but I don't know how to do this in Windows (i've run oolatex in L