Re: How to refresh images of equations

2024-05-22 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 23/05/2024 6:13 am, David Cardon wrote: Version 2.4.0~RC4 (Sunday, March 24, 2024) Qt Version (run-time): 6.6.1 on platform windows Qt Version (compile-time): 6.6.1 OS Version (run-time): Windows 11 Version 23H2 Python detected: 3.11.4 (C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311

Re: Quotation / invoice in Lyx?

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Parsloe
tables are built in LyX using its table toolbar. #The calculated values appear only in the pdf (ps, dvi etc) document #not in LyX. A one-celled table provides a calculator of sorts. #DescriptionEnd # #v.1.1 2011-10-28 #Assumes version 0.4a of spreadtab.sty and #will fail with 0.3 and earlier versio

Re: Quotation / invoice in Lyx?

2011-10-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 28/10/2011 5:40 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Rainer, In my view spreadtab is exactly what you are after, but not 'out of the box' because you will be immersed in ERT and it will hardly seem worth it. I created a

Conflict between hanging module and primed symbols

2011-12-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Hullo Richard, I recently tried to use the hanging.module with a document and got a Latex error (input stack size capacity exceeded). Some experimenting showed there was a conflict between hanging.sty and the use in maths mode of a prime embellishment to a symbol (e.g. to indicate feet and in

View other formats button

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
The time comes to compile a document. Perhaps something other than pdflatex is wanted. Clicking on the View-other-formats button produces a list of alternatives. Once another format has been chosen, the icon on the the button changes according to the format chosen. Fine, but now you might want

Re: Bounding box for pstricks graphics with LyX

2012-01-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 15/01/2012 9:24 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 15/01/2012 8:51 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: [1] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7839 Yes, this looks likely Liviu -- cropped

"Equation editor" (was Bounding box for pstricks graphics with LyX)

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Hullo Liviu, I've now tried your "equation editor/picture cropper" at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7839 using GSview for postscript and Acroreader for pdf. For both template files, EPS.lyx and PDF-cropped.lyx, I had to reduce the \lyxformat from 416 to 413 for them to be accepted by LyX 2.

Wiki problem with Upload option

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
When I go to the Wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/) there are a line of options (upper right) View Edit Upload History Print All work as I imagine is intended except when I click on Upload. After a pause Firefox gives me the message: The page isn't redirecting properly Firefox has d

Re: configure conundrum

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 14/03/2012 7:45 a.m., Julien Rioux wrote: On 07/03/2012 3:00 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 07/03/2012 05:04, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : (Most of my posts should really go to a tinkerers' list -- lyx-tin...@lists.org? -- for matters lying between the developers' list and the u

Re: underfull/ overfull badboxes

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 20/03/2012 10:43 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/19/2012 04:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:57:37 -0400 Richard Heckwrote: On 03/19/2012 12:17 PM, paul sutton wrote: 27,underfull \hbox (badness 10,000) in par

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 17/04/2012 7:21 a.m., Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > I want to personally congratulate Mr Andrew Parsloe for this piece of > art. It's outstanding and is what I'm looking for a few days ago, there > are off course some issues I want to discuss: > > 1. when you import

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 17/04/2012 7:53 a.m., Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > I'm still trying Mr Andrew Parsloe's work and there are to new thing I > have discovered > > 3. The math insets such as $^{90}$ are imported as text when they should > be imported as math, see point 1. > 4. The coding \textemdash is imported as te

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 17/04/2012 8:43 p.m., PhilipPirrip wrote: Excuse me for not trying what you've done, but I have to ask first: why do you think this is better than using Mendeley, for instance, or some other bibliography management software? I don't (not that I've ever tried any bibliography manager) but it

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/04/2012 2:18 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: at all. This is why LyX should have a reference manager. However if you get Perhaps it _should_ not. LyX has evolved, in the spirit of Linux apps development, to be very flexible and inte

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-25 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/04/2012 2:08 p.m., Sam Lewis wrote: From: Liviu Andronic It may be nice, perhaps, for LyX to provide an 'Edit BibTeX refs' button that would allow to easily launch your preferred reference manager on your ref library. +1 Cheers, Sam Ah! You mean launch another instance of LyX? Andrew

Re: Lyx bibliography

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
ument but the citations are messed up. I get things like "l [e,?]" where the citation should go (but the corresponding reference in the bibliography is there. Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Daniel Hi Daniel! I strongly recommend you Andrew Parsloe bib impo

LyX 2.0.4 and View Source

2012-07-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
The announcement of LyX 2.0.4 seems to have passed without a murmur. I note two good enhancements from my particular point of view: the View Source > Preamble Only option, and the plain-text exporting of the *contents* of child documents when exporting a master rather than just an include notic

Re: LyX 2.0.4 and View Source

2012-07-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 11/07/2012 1:43 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 07/10/2012 06:04 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: But I do still find myself wondering why LyX's own file format is not offered as an option for the View Source window. For anyone writing a converter from or to LyX, it would be helpful to see

Re: Graphics Tools

2012-07-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/07/2012 5:06 a.m., William R. Buckley wrote: Thank you all for the list of tools. As my need was urgent, I tried IPE, and it works well, though is a bit clunky. Will try the others, and return a quick sense of utility for each. wrb There is nothing like an enquiry about graphics tools

List manipulations

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
When working recently with some fairly long lists, in which sub-lists occurred within items, I found myself wanting to re-order some of the items. Okay, copy and paste did the trick, but it would be convenient to have buttons that would move an item (with its sub-items) up or down a list. There

Re: List manipulations

2012-08-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/08/2012 7:15 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2012/8/9 Richard Heck: On 08/08/2012 06:38 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: That said, isn't there some "move this paragraph up or down" function in LyX? If so, does it work here? Yes and yes. The shortcut is Alt+ArrowUp/Down J

Re: Alphabetically sorting a table in Lyx

2012-09-11 Thread Andrew Parsloe
in the first column only, use the specification # @@@ 1n # The @@@ marker and at least one column number and letter # (a, A or n) are essential. # # Andrew Parsloe, 12 September 2012, apars...@clear.net.nz # # tablesort.py infile.lyx outfile.lyx # # import sys, re, argparse from o

Re: Alphabetically sorting a table in Lyx

2012-09-12 Thread Andrew Parsloe
lumns up to the number in the table can be speci- # fied. The specification should be placed in a yellow note before # the first row to be sorted. # # Andrew Parsloe, 13 September 2012, apars...@clear.net.nz # # tablesort.py infile.lyx outfile.lyx # # import sys, re, argparse from operator impo

Size limit for the list archives?

2012-09-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I wish to add some material to the Wiki. Ideally it would go in the upload repository, but that seems to be permanently deceased now. The next best place available to me seems to be the users' list archives. By attaching material to a posting to the list I can make a link to the archive. From p

Re: Size limit for the list archives?

2012-09-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 17/09/2012 5:56 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I wish to add some material to the Wiki. Ideally it would go in the upload repository, but that seems to be permanently deceased now. The next best Not deceased, but likely ill again. I

Re: An experiment with compressed files

2012-09-21 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/09/2012 8:00 p.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 21/09/2012 01:42, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : I've attached the latest version (1.3) of my spreadtab.module which enables the LaTeX spreadtab package to be used with LyX. With instant preview on, one has the pleasure of seeing t

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-09-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/09/2012 8:59 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: Andrew Your script and module are great, and this is a functionality that deserves getting into base LyX. Maybe worth opening a bug report for this. OK. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I've attached a python s

Re: How to specify the style of the next environment in this environment?

2012-10-11 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 12/10/2012 10:45 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/11/2012 04:47 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:53:34 -0400, Steve Litt said: Putting "LatexType Environment" in the LyX definition causes the next paragraph to be of the s

Re: LaTeX Question

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 30/10/2012 3:35 a.m., Guenter Milde wrote: On 2012-10-29, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear Group, This is more of a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, but I know there are many LaTeX experts here, too, so here goes. I'm currently working with a set of fluids equations which have both veloc

LyX 2.0.5 & View Source

2012-11-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I've just installed LyX 2.0.5 (Windows Vista). The updating of View Source is a definite plus, with only the relevant formats now listed in the Format box, and both LyX's own format and plain text included in the options -- both of which I nagged for, so thank you. However I note that if I s

Re: LyX 2.0.5 & View Source

2012-11-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 10/11/2012 2:47 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 11/09/2012 05:17 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I've just installed LyX 2.0.5 (Windows Vista). The updating of View Source is a definite plus, with only the relevant formats now listed in the Format box, and both LyX's own format and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.5

2012-11-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/11/2012 9:52 p.m., Olivier Ripoll wrote: On 12.11.2012 17:26, rgheck wrote:> > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.5. This is the fifth > maintenance release in the 2.0.x series. > > LyX 2.0.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version > even more reliab

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-11-27 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 28/11/2012 1:13 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I've attached a python script, tablesort.py, a module tablesort.module containing a custom inset (suggested by Liviu Andronic), and an explanatory document, SortingTablesInLyX.lyx deta

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-11-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 28/11/2012 7:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I've used the same trick (exporting to an alternatively named LyX format, but retaining the lyx file extension) for a number of other tasks (e.g. sorting lists, expanding abbrevia

Custom insets 1: ResetsFont

2012-12-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I'm trying to clarify some issues about custom insets. (I have a project that makes heavy use of them.) The Customization manual says (Sect. 5.3.9 on flex insets): ResetsFont [0,1] Whether this inset should use the font of its surrounding environment or uses its own. Default is true: uses its

Custom insets 2: naming

2012-12-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
(1) If an inset name contains a vertical bar, |, the part after the bar is not shown in the Insert > Custom Insets list, but is retained in LyX format. Using the schema, inset definition => Custom Insets list => LyX file format, InsetLayout Flex:foo|bah => foo => \begin_inset Flex foo|bah (Th

Custom insets 3: CopyStyle

2012-12-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Does CopyStyle do *anything* in custom insets? I was just about to send off another Custom insets query when a last trial-&-error thought struck me: although CopyStyle doesn't seem to do anything, where is the name of a previously defined inset, perhaps CopyStyle Flex: will work? And to

Re: Pipe in FlexInset Names

2012-12-11 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 11/12/2012 5:23 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 12/08/2012 04:17 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: (1) If an inset name contains a vertical bar, |, the part after the bar is not shown in the Insert > Custom Insets list, but is retained in LyX format. Using the schema, inset definition => Custom

Re: Pipe in FlexInset Names

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 12/12/2012 11:02 a.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 11/12/12 23:00, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : Thanks for the responses to this and my other custom inset queries Richard. I've put in a bug report about ResetsFont in custom insets. I'm going to continue to use the pipe symb

Re: Pipe in FlexInset Names

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 12/12/2012 5:10 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 12/11/2012 05:02 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 11/12/12 23:00, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : Thanks for the responses to this and my other custom inset queries Richard. I've put in a bug report about ResetsFont in custom insets. I'

Re: Show line numbers in the sources

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 14/12/2012 7:13 a.m., Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Hello, I would like to make a suggestion for a new feature. When I try to compile a file using LyX and there is a syntax error, the LaTeX protocol tells me in which line the error occurred. If there were line numbers displayed in the sources window

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/12/2012 7:58 p.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Have a look at BibDesk, takes 1% of the time you took to re-invent the wheel. el On 2012-04-17 10:39 , Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 17/04/2012 8:43 p.m., PhilipPirrip wrote: Excuse me for not trying what you've done, but I have to ask first

The pLyX system

2013-01-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
m insets for specifying python scripts # to run. To be used with the converter pLyX.py which # exports from LyX to pLyX format. #DescriptionEnd # #v.1.0 2013-01-01 #Author: Andrew Parsloe # Preamble \newcommand{\pLyXgobble}[1]{} EndPreamble # All inset names begin with a full stop # to ai

The pLyX system: sorting tables and lists

2013-01-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
-a \series default option has been invoked. \end_layout ''' # Sort the rows of a table according to values in specified # columns. Part of the pLyX system; not an independent script. # # sortable.py # # Andrew Parsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) # import re, argparse fro

The pLyX system: text macros

2013-01-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
aking any substantial writing task in LyX now without this facility to hand. Andrew # Define and expand text macros in a LyX document. # Part of the pLyX.py system; not an independent script # # txtmacs.py # # Andrew Parsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) # #

Double quotes in LyX-Code

2013-01-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I notice when I press the double-quote key in a LyX-Code environment that LyX displays *slanted* double quotes, nor does there seem to be any shortcut specified to produce straight double quotes. I can understand this for the usual text environments (Standard, Quote etc.) but for LyX-Code this

Re: Double quotes in LyX-Code

2013-01-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 15/01/2013 1:03 a.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Andrew Parsloe wrote: I notice when I press the double-quote key in a LyX-Code environment that LyX displays slanted double quotes, nor does there seem to be any shortcut specified to produce straight double quotes. Straight quotes are bound

Re: Double quotes in LyX-Code

2013-01-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 15/01/2013 8:47 p.m., Stephan Witt wrote: Am 15.01.2013 um 08:46 schrieb Stephan Witt : Am 15.01.2013 um 08:06 schrieb Liviu Andronic : On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 14.01.2013 um 21:56 schrieb Andrew Parsloe : What does ~ signify here? It's th

pLyX system: find & replace LyX format code

2013-01-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
ful regular expression mode similarly capable, but also of condensing multiple simple searches into one regexp search (and, of course, with a health warning about crashing LyX, given the obscurity of regexps, but it's great fun). Andrew # Find & replace elements of the LyX source. # P

Re: creating a quiz /multiple choice questions with Lyx

2013-02-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 4/02/2013 9:36 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: This has been discussed on the list before. The best answer I have seen (in my humble opinion) is to use branches. This (quizzes/mult. choice questions) My crack at multiple-choice questions in

Sort check box in the Outline window for figures & equations

2013-04-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
When one looks at lists of figures or equations in the Outline window, and *clears* the Sort check box, the sort order is the natural and expected numerical order. If one *sets* the Sort check box the ordering becomes alphabetical, resulting in things like Figure 1.1 Figure 1.10 Figure 1.11 Fi

Re: pstricks example in a lyx file

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 24/04/2013 8:14 p.m., Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2013, 07:17:30 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: Hallo, Andrew and thanks for your pstricks examples in lyx. Both of them work for me. I have used your pst3dplotExample.lyx as a template for my file pst3dplotExampleForTests.lyx

Fwd: Re: pstricks example in a lyx file

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Original Message Subject: Re: pstricks example in a lyx file Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:30 +1200 From: Andrew Parsloe To: engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de On 23/04/2013 8:01 p.m., Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody share with me a working lyx file with a pstricks

Re: En-dashes

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 27/04/2013 5:13 p.m., Bryce Myers wrote: Hey, So I am using Lyx, and if I type an en-dash, it does not always appear, when I save the document as a pdf. Sometimes they appear, but there is no rhyme or reason to when they do. Sometimes when I have two within a sentence, one will disappear. Some

Outline window display

2013-05-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I have a master document with a number of parts, each part containing a number of chapters. Each chapter is a separate child document. I open a child document (a chapter). The Outline window has the slider at the bottom of the window hard to the left but displays to section level the particular

Re: Outline window display

2013-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 6/05/2013 2:39 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/05/2013 12:00 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I have a master document with a number of parts, each part containing a number of chapters. Each chapter is a separate child document. I open a child document (a chapter). The Outline window has the

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-07 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 8/05/2013 4:39 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/07/2013 10:17 AM, Stephen Brooking wrote: Hi, I have specified a new converter to convert Visio drawings into PDF (using some VBScript borrowed from elsewhere on the web), but have run into issues. My converter is specified like this: cscri

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/05/2013 1:34 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/07/2013 05:10 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 8/05/2013 4:39 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/07/2013 10:17 AM, Stephen Brooking wrote: Hi, I have specified a new converter to convert Visio drawings into PDF (using some VBScript borrowed from

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 10/05/2013 1:13 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/08/2013 05:34 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 9/05/2013 1:34 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/07/2013 05:10 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 8/05/2013 4:39 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/07/2013 10:17 AM, Stephen Brooking wrote: Hi, I have

Re: Place float:figure in this subparagraph

2013-06-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 10/06/2013 10:35 p.m., Philipp Gröne wrote: Hi! Thanks for your answer! I've tried every setting on the subtext menu you write about, to no avail. "Here definitely" leads to a behavior of my graphics that is very depend of linebreaks above it, nearly WYSIWYG-like. What I really want is a

Re: noun in index

2013-06-23 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 23/06/2013 7:36 p.m., Jürgen Lange wrote: Hello all, I tried to add a "noun" to the index. (mark word -> toggle noun -> Index entry) Unfortunately the small-caps format of the noun is lost in Index. Is this behavior intended? regards Jürgen -- If you look in the View Source window you'll se

Re: Changing the size of insets' labels. Is it possible?

2013-06-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 29/06/2013 9:58 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: I'd like to shorten the size of the onscreen label for various insets ("Label" "Index" and so on), as I find them very distracting when writing. I vaguely remember a discussion about this, but I cannot find any trace of it in the lists, or on Goo

Re: Changing the size of insets' labels. Is it possible?

2013-06-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 30/06/2013 4:29 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: Andrew, Liviu, I may a bit thick, but I can't see how to reduce the size of a Label inset. 2 problems: 1. I cannot find an InsetLayout for labels. 2. Even if I could find it what would I change the LabelString to? Currently I see the full label

Fwd: Re: Changing the size of insets' labels. Is it possible?

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Original Message Subject: Re: Changing the size of insets' labels. Is it possible? Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:16:11 +1200 From: Andrew Parsloe To: stefano franchi Very clever solution, Andrew. I'm sorry to report, however, that I get exactly the same behavior

Re: Changing the size of insets' labels. Is it possible?

2013-07-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 2/07/2013 3:36 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: I got it to work. Many thanks to Andrew---excellent fix. Perhaps you should post your solution on the wiki? Cheers, Stefano I've put a link to the posting with the module and shortcuts in the Modules page on the wiki, under Cosmetics. Andre

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/07/2013 10:56 a.m., Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, First of all, thank you for adding Character Styles in LyX 1.4.x in 2006. As far as I'm concerned, character styles was the last thing LyX needed to be complete. Now I'd like to ask another favor: a quicker way to apply character styles. As i

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/07/2013 9:38 p.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 21/07/2013 02:39, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : I find it convenient to also have a shortcut to jump out of an inset. The right arrow key is a bit of a stretch and I like to have something lying more naturally under the fingers. I use Ctrl+J

Re: [Formating?]

2013-08-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
or informal letters without a trace of mathematics.) Andrew #\DeclareLyXModule{Informal} #DescriptionBegin #Adds a ragged-right, first-line-indented paragraph environment #with paragraphs separated by extra vertical space. #DescriptionEnd #author: Andrew Parsloe 8 April 2011 Format 11 St

Re: LyX + CAS

2013-09-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/09/2013 8:33 a.m., David R. José wrote: Yildizoglu, Found it! Creating a copy of cmaple.exe with the name maple.exe and pointing the LyX path to \bin.win\ at the Maple dir does the deal. Guess there should be a Help Section were we could put this info :) Unfortunately the two CAS able to int

Re: LyX + CAS

2013-09-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/09/2013 10:41 a.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/09/2013 8:33 a.m., David R. José wrote: Yildizoglu, Found it! Creating a copy of cmaple.exe with the name maple.exe and pointing the LyX path to \bin.win\ at the Maple dir does the deal. Guess there should be a Help Section were we could put

Re: Thank you for View->Update

2013-09-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 11/09/2013 4:44 a.m., Bob Alvarez wrote: On 9/10/13 1:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG wrote: Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context

Re: Biblatex-LyX Windows problem

2013-09-19 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 20/09/2013 3:58 a.m., Guido Milanese wrote: Dear Experts, I am not a regular user of LyX, but I do suggest this excellent programme to my students for their thesis/dissertation and the result is normally very good. Personally, I prefer using LaTeX directly. I use Biblatex with LaTeX and I w

Re: New Feature Request: Chapter Contents

2013-10-06 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 7/10/2013 4:49 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 10/06/2013 07:33 AM, Mark Horton wrote: Hi Developers It would make navigation a lot easier for large documents if we had the the ability to generate a contents of Chapters at the start. Plus a more detailed contents page at the start of each Chap

Re: New Feature Request: Chapter Contents

2013-10-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Stephano has replied, but he has not used MikTeX and doesn't use windows. Combining that with my near complete ignorance he has quite sensibly suggested I try to find out about installing packages with MikTeX. Having so far managed to produce a pretty impressive document (if only by weight) in

Re: New Feature Request: Chapter Contents

2013-10-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/10/2013 11:34 a.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote: Stephano has replied, but he has not used MikTeX and doesn't use windows. Combining that with my near complete ignorance he has quite sensibly suggested I try to find out about installing packages with MikTeX. Having so far managed to prod

Re: main text on left page, notes on right page?

2013-10-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/10/2013 6:49 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 10/08/2013 01:31 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote: Dear LyX-Users, I would like to create the following layout for exchanging comments on drafts with collaborators: Text on the left / verso page, right / recto page reserved for notes. When you insert a note

Re: New Feature Request: Chapter Contents

2013-10-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 14/10/2013 4:08 a.m., Mark Horton wrote: Andrew Parsloe clear.net.nz> writes: On 9/10/2013 11:34 a.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote: Stephano has replied, but he has not used MikTeX and doesn't use windows. Combining that with my near complete ignorance he has quite sensibly sug

Re: New Feature Request: Chapter Contents

2013-10-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 14/10/2013 5:35 a.m., Mark Horton wrote: Mark Horton yahoo.co.uk> writes: Nevertheless I have continued to work in TeXworks to see how far I can get. With the Tables of Contents and have got quite far… The new mini TOC’s seem to be behaving ok, and respond to depth changes, but the i

Re: New Feature Request: Chapter Contents

2013-10-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/10/2013 7:02 a.m., Mark Horton wrote: Guenter Milde users.sf.net> writes: On 2013-10-13, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 14/10/2013 5:35 a.m., Mark Horton wrote: Mark Horton yahoo.co.uk> writes: ... However I am still getting the problem of being unable to control the depth

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/10/2013 3:32 a.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I cannot speak for other free (as in freedom) software, but the deal is simple: programmers do what they can and scratch their own itches, either because they need a feature or they want to implement it, and users do what they want and scrat

Do you have a personal texmf tree?

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I would like to know how widespread the use is among LyX users of a personal texmf tree. Do you have one? There are the standard LaTeX distributions (usually MiKTeX or TeXLive). But what do you do with "waifs & strays" which are not part of these distros but can be found on CTAN? Or personal p

Re: Using LyX for calculations (was Rendering of LyX's math screen fonts.)

2013-11-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/11/2013 9:03 a.m., Georg Baum wrote: Jerry wrote: I know that LyX has hooks for some computer algebra systems (Mathematica, Maple, Maxima) and Octave. I have played with these a little (Octave and Mathematica) and it seems potentially useful but possibly not fully developed in LyX. It

Re: Sorting in Lyx

2013-11-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 17/11/2013 10:49 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Josh Hieronymus wrote: What are your source and target formats? If you're going from pure text to pure text, you might be best served writing a small script using a language like Python. To my understanding this

Re: creating a quiz /multiple choice questions with Lyx

2013-11-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/11/2013 10:03 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Riding my particular hobby horses, generating a randomized selection looks like a candidate for a python script after the fashion envisaged in the pLyX system (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples

Re: creating a quiz /multiple choice questions with Lyx

2013-11-21 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/11/2013 8:54 p.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 21/11/2013 10:03 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Riding my particular hobby horses, generating a randomized selection looks like a candidate for a python script after the fashion envisaged in

Semi-automatic indexing

2013-12-06 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Hullo Frederick, Back at the start of October, you asked on the list about semi-automatic indexing. Richard Heck suggested this was the kind of thing that could be done with a script. It occurred to me that I might be able to elaborate the find-&-replace script of the pLyX system (http://wiki

Re: Index doesn't get output

2013-12-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 8/12/2013 5:27 p.m., Richard Opheim wrote: Why doesn't the index in the attached minimal ex. output? Using LyX 2.0.6. on WIN8 -- Richard Opheim Skype name: richard.opheim Self-publishing Consultant Editing---Layout---Musical Scores---Images---Ebooks https://sites.google.com/site/opheimricha

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

2014-01-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 4/01/2014 9:57 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Premanshu Bhushan wrote: Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100% textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script for me in Lyx. Not really. I guess a good starting point would be this:

Re: Quick question regarding copy/paste and cut/paste

2014-01-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/01/2014 8:25 a.m., A Choi wrote: I am sending this again to include my OS and lyx version. as well as a more detailed description of the problem. Windows 7 and 2.0.6. If I have a math expression, say, $acb$, and want to change the order of them, I select b inside the math environment an

Re: graphics location

2014-01-25 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/01/2014 7:13 a.m., Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Dear Lyx Users, I have exported my lyx file as a lyx archive, which contains as a tar.gz file the lyx file, the used bib file and the figures used. This is quite handy, because only the used figures, bib are saved. However, I have this proble

Re: plyx

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 29/01/2014 11:03 p.m., Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Saturday 25 January 2014 22:52:50 Andrew Parsloe wrote: Andrew recommended to useplyx for eg exchanging globally in a lyx document the location of the figure paths (e.g. from something to ./) I have tried to install the plyx/qlyx and

Re: 2.0.7: view PDF no longer working?

2014-02-12 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 13/02/2014 6:19 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Daniel Renshaw wrote: Thanks Scott, I've installed SumatraPDF and, after changing the default viewer for PDFs in Windows, it opens fine on "view". Task Manager shows that the filename is passed on the command

Re: 2.0.7: view PDF no longer working?

2014-02-12 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 13/02/2014 9:43 a.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 13/02/2014 6:19 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Daniel Renshaw wrote: Thanks Scott, I've installed SumatraPDF and, after changing the default viewer for PDFs in Windows, it opens fine on "vi

Re: Toggle capitalisation

2024-10-12 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 13/10/2024 6:35 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 12/10/2024 à 19:22, Folsk Pratima via lyx-users a écrit : In M$ Office and LibreOffice, you can select some text, hit shift+F3 and it toggles capitalisation, cycling through 'all lower case -> first character is upper case -> all upper case'

LyX 2.4.2 user folders on windows

2024-11-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Dear LyX users, For those of you on windows and using LyX 2.4.2, can you check whether your LyX user directory at (something like) C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.4 contains the folders tabletemplates and xtemplates? I'm on windows 10. After uninstalling  earlier versions of both LyX 2.4 and

Re: LyX 2.4.2 user folders on windows

2024-11-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/11/2024 9:49 pm, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Montag, dem 18.11.2024 um 10:36 +1300 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: Something I've just noticed is that the lyx files in the tabletemplates directory are all headed #LyX 2.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxforma

Re: LyX 2.4.2 user folders on windows

2024-11-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 15/11/2024 4:31 am, Yu Jin wrote: Am Mi., 13. Nov. 2024 um 21:15 Uhr schrieb Andrew Parsloe : Dear LyX users, For those of you on windows and using LyX 2.4.2, can you check whether your LyX user directory at (something like) C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.4

Re: LyX 2.4.2 user folders on windows

2024-11-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/11/2024 3:48 am, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Samstag, dem 16.11.2024 um 16:20 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: My understanding was that the files are present in the system directory on Windows, and that the crash happens unless the tabletemplates/ folder is copied from the system dir

Re: LyX 2.4.2 user folders on windows

2024-11-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/11/2024 10:28 pm, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Montag, dem 18.11.2024 um 22:22 +1300 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: Yes The system directory is at C:\Users\ajpar\AppData\Local\Programs\LyX 2.4 with a space before 2.4; the user directory is at C:\Users\ajpar\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.4 without a

Re: LyX 2.4.2 user folders on windows

2024-11-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/11/2024 7:58 am, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Freitag, dem 15.11.2024 um 10:48 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: If I understand, the problem is simply that these folders do not exist in the USER directory. So when we try to save something there, it fails. That should not be the proble

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