Fwd: Problem using old Lyx document

2010-02-26 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hi Michael, Do you use the geometry package in your document? It has a lot changed during the last years (the last version is not compatible anymore with version 2, for example). If you use it in the old way (it was enough to tell the page size to have a large text width), you should give it explic

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Steve and others, > For those using Linux, may I strongly recommend GNU Stow for this > purpose? It puts the compiled version in a "safe" place (ie, away from > anthing that your package manager is interested in) and puts symbolic > links to this safe place. It is a brilliant system for working o

Re: LyX 2: So far so good, except outlines

2010-02-26 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, Just a quick note to say that I really like the idea. It'd make LyX a great tool for jotting ideas (notetaking). I'm already using it in this way. Btw word 2010 has similar improvements on the outliner sidebar, taken from oneNote (oneNote is a great piece of software, the only thing I miss sin

Re: raw latex commands on a lyx doc?

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-26, Jose Quesada wrote: > I'm new to LyX. I need to use a .cls file (larkc.cls attached), and have > done all the steps described in the documentation and this wiki post: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts ... > This seems to work. Now I need to be able to set values for \

Re: Preamble lyx 1.6 revtex4

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Scott, Robert wrote: > I am attempting to use revtex 4 as a template to write a paper. The problem= > is that I need to alter some of the latex code in the 'preamble' but there= > seems to be no method for accessing this in later versions of Lyx. Earlier= > version refer to a men

Re: Mystified by \selectlanguage [modified]

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: >I've traced this to the use of the babel package - it seems to be > automatically set for use in Tools->Preferences...->Language > settings->Language dialog. AFAIK, babel is loaded by default if you use any Language other than English (US), be it as

Re: text-mode macros?

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, rgheck wrote: > On 02/25/2010 10:13 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: >> I use math-macros in lyx but I was wondering if there is any way to >> achieve macros in text-mode. > There's a bug about this, an enhancement request. So no. While there is no direct analogon to math-macros

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Anyways, I cannot get > past the black boxes with the yat character (see attached). I am not > sure why. Did you try a different screen font (like DejaVu)?

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/26/10, Guenter Milde wrote: > Did you try a different screen font (like DejaVu)? > I have selected Bistream Vera Serif (and Sans) for both Screen and Document fonts. Although the yat character is correctly rendered in LyX, View XeTeX will create a PDF with boxes instead of the character. Livi

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Andrey wrote: > It seems that XeTeX is indeed a feasible way to print some old-orthography > Russian letters. And this is great! > However, a more ambitious task, which is similar to enabling Greek > polytonic, would be to enable the true Church Slavonic in LyX, which > would be am

Re: text-mode macros?

2010-02-26 Thread rgheck
On 02/26/2010 04:26 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-02-25, rgheck wrote: On 02/25/2010 10:13 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: I use math-macros in lyx but I was wondering if there is any way to achieve macros in text-mode. There's a bug about this, an enhancement re

Re: LyX 2: So far so good, except outlines

2010-02-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 02/26/2010 05:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: In August I put in a request for a couple improvements to LyX outline mode that would stratospherically launch productivity. See it here: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg154181.html http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6174 The enhance

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-26 Thread j...@att
This is my first attempt to post to the list so if it is incorrect, please let me know. I'm attempting to compile Lyx 2.0 on my MacBook Pro. I used port to get what's indicated in INSTALL.MacOSX. ./configure worked ok. Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program

Re: LyX 2: So far so good, except outlines

2010-02-26 Thread obregonmateo
I also miss having a good outlining mode in LyX. At the moment I use Freemind mindmaps that I then pull into LyX via LaTeX. I cannot work on this project now however. Mateo. On Friday 26 February 2010, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 02/26/2010 05:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > In August I put in a

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-26 Thread BH
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:32 AM, j...@att wrote: > This is my first attempt to post to the list so if it is incorrect, please > let me know. > > I'm attempting to compile Lyx 2.0 on my MacBook Pro.  I used port to get > what's indicated in INSTALL.MacOSX. > ./configure worked ok. > > Config

Re: LyX 2: So far so good, except outlines

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 26 February 2010 07:31:49 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 02/26/2010 05:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > In August I put in a request for a couple improvements to LyX outline > > mode that would stratospherically launch productivity. See it here: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@li

Re: LyX 2: So far so good, except outlines

2010-02-26 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 02/26/10, Steve Litt wrote: >On Friday 26 February 2010 07:31:49 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> On 02/26/2010 05:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> One way to trigger the interest of a developper is to create a sponsor >> project like we've done for the inline spellchecker or the compare >> feature; see:

Outlines fallback plan

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm sure it won't come to this, but if nobody else does the outline mode improvement I'll have to do it. Could someone please tell me the source files encompassing the current outline functionality, as well as the source files implementing an input box with buttons and a text box? Basi

RE: [help] impossible to use Lyx with miktex 2.8?

2010-02-26 Thread franck.meyer
Hi, I've retried for the 6th time... Same error : all lyx layouts not available... Please find attached the last lyx installation report. Before I've checked and cleaned all the register base (Windows XP - FR). May be it's a problem of the French version? May be it's a curse problem? Surely wit

LyX 2-dev on MacOSX compiled

2010-02-26 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Happy to announce that I compiled successfully the LyX 2.0 svn version on MacOSX 10.4 Tiger today. Thanks to the hints from Julio Rojas and Guenter Milde, and the especially the kindly helping of "BH" , all on gmane.editors.lyx.general (ML lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) within the thread "Lyx

Re: [help] impossible to use Lyx with miktex 2.8?

2010-02-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
franck.me...@orange-ftgroup.com schrieb: I’ve retried for the 6th time… Same error : all lyx layouts not available… The text file you attached shows that LaTeX was successfully installed and that LyX could find the LaTeX packages. So it is definitively no an issue of MiKTeX. I therefore don

Re: Outlines fallback plan

2010-02-26 Thread rgheck
On 02/26/2010 12:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm sure it won't come to this, but if nobody else does the outline mode improvement I'll have to do it. We'd welcome it. It may not be that bad, and we can help you clean up the code. Could someone please tell me the source files encomp

Re: raw latex commands on a lyx doc?

2010-02-26 Thread Jose Quesada
Thanks Guenter, your solution works. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2010-02-26, Jose Quesada wrote: > > > I'm new to LyX. I need to use a .cls file (larkc.cls attached), and have > > done all the steps described in the documentation and this wiki post: > > > http://wi

correct way to troubleshot .cls/layout problems?

2010-02-26 Thread Jose Quesada
A question for the rest of the list too, and linux heads... I got LyX to see the larkc.cls on win but it doesn't work on ubuntu. I placed the .cls and figures here /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex LyX sees the layout just fine, but renders it like 'book'. this is the layout: --- #% Do not dele

Re: Problem using old Lyx document

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Born
Thank you for the info. I looked through the .lyx files to find a small one for illustrating the problem, but there is no small example :-( The whole document consists of 2 .lyx files and 42 pictures - that is 25MB in all. Compressed it is 1.3MB large. Is it allowed to attach such a large file to a

Re: correct way to troubleshot .cls/layout problems?

2010-02-26 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
Did you run the texhash command (no args) from the command line after you placed the .cls file in the texlive dir? You might have to run that as root. -- Manoj On Friday 26 February 2010 03:41:36 pm Jose Quesada wrote: > A question for the rest of the list too, and linux heads... > > I got LyX

Re: correct way to troubleshot .cls/layout problems?

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 26 February 2010 15:41:36 Jose Quesada wrote: > A question for the rest of the list too, and linux heads... > > I got LyX to see the larkc.cls on win but it doesn't work on ubuntu. > > I placed the .cls and figures here > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex > > LyX sees the layout just

Re: LyX 2-dev on MacOSX compiled

2010-02-26 Thread BH
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > But: > this result, the _overwriting_ of the former LyX 1.6 had not been intended > by me. To keep the actual LyX 1.6.5 installation, what should I had typed > within the $ ./configure command? > > $ ./configure --prefix=/Applications/LyX-

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-26 Thread j...@gmail
Made the changes you suggested; still receiving the same error messages. I'm running Snow Leopard, could that be a factor? Other suggestions? On Feb 26, 2010 8:09 AM, "BH" wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:32 AM, j...@att wrote: > This is my first attempt to ... This looks to me like you didn't