Re: Leopard compatibility

2007-10-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
Has anyone tried running LyX (any version) under Mac OS 10.5? Yep (1.5.2). Any issues? None for me. Chris Menzel

Re: can´t send mail to the list

2007-11-03 Thread Christopher Menzel
There comes a time when one must admit that life's too short to continue with an email host not responsive to problems, even if the hosting is free. We should thank our host for his previous support, and then switch email hosts -- free if possible, paid otherwise. If 100 of us contribute a d

Compile failure

2007-11-03 Thread Christopher Menzel
I'm trying to compile from the latest sources. I've done this successfully several times in the past and I am (I think) following the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX correctly. I have compiled and installed the latest QT/Mac (4.3.2). I've set the appropriate env vars etc and believe I hav

Re: Compile failure

2007-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
Nonetheless I'm getting the following error (well into the compile): ld: library not found for -lQtCore this is not compile error, but linking problem. i guess you need to set path to qt4 in configure (if this is used on mac). Yes, a good suggesetion, but the curious thing is that I am se

Re: Compile failure

2007-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 4, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Yes, a good suggesetion, but the curious thing is that I am setting it. whats the exact configure command you use ? For compiling Qt: ./configure -static -no-exceptions -nomake examples -nomake tools - nomake demos -prefix /usr/local/Trolltec

Re: Troubles installing a new class in 1.5.2/Linux(Ubuntu-Gutsy)

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
I am trying to install a new class on Lyx 1.5.2 run against the latest TeX distribution provided by Kubunt 7.10 (Gutsy). I am following the instruction provided in the LyX manual: copy the .cls file (it's a single file, not a package) to $TEXMF/tex/ latex texhash LyX>Tools>Reconfigure quit

lyx2lyx failure

2007-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
Howdy, I am unable to import some older LyX files (from 2000 -- LyX format version 215) and I'm not finding any solutions on the web or the LyX archives or Wiki. Inside LyX, I get the following msg: (MyFile) is from a different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert i

Re: lyx2lyx failure

2007-12-08 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 8, 2007, at 4:06 AM, José Matos wrote: On Friday 07 December 2007 19:47:25 Christopher Menzel wrote: Howdy, I am unable to import some older LyX files (from 2000 -- LyX format version 215) A fix to this problem was committed to the next version (1.5.3). Excellent. Meanwhile a

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 11, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Manveru wrote: For most writers such feature is more a bug that a helpful feature. Those annoying red underlines may break your way of thinking during writing, the same is about autocorrection. Agreed about on-the-fly spellchecking, but autocorrection seems to me

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: ftp Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb Are we to assume negation as failure here or are there already packages available for

Re: aspell on ubuntu with LyX

2008-01-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't f

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) is released

2007-04-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) === We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2). I couldn't find a MacIntel version so I updated my SVN sources and recompiled. Copies can be found here: http://philebus.tamu.edu/ cmenzel/LyX.app.tgz

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
This might be heresy, but to be honest I much prefer the way that LyX installs and works under XP. Turn in your secret Linux decoder ring NOW! :-)

Re: lyx-1.5: textdegree

2007-05-13 Thread Christopher Menzel
...LyX 1.5beta that will be published tomorrow or on tuesday Will this include an OS X binary? Thanks to the LyX team, as usual...

Re: lyx-1.5: textdegree

2007-05-13 Thread Christopher Menzel
On May 13, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: ...LyX 1.5beta that will be published tomorrow or on tuesday Will this include an OS X binary? Thanks to the LyX team, as usual... Yes: both Intel and PPC. Excellent!

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
On May 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, LyX is truly wonderful. While slamming out content it's as fast as any wordprocessor I've used (WP51, MS Word, OO, Vim ... Vim, a word processor?? Better don yer flame-retardant suit in case this post gets out into the wild! :-)

Spellchecker and ú

2010-10-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
Greetings LyX users, The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the character ú. Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words that occ

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: Greetings LyX users, The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the character ú. Specifically, the name seems

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-03 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: > >> On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: >>> >>>> Greetings LyX users, >>>&g

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: > On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: >>> >>>> On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 6, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 05.11.2010 um 04:46 schrieb Christopher Menzel: > >> On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: >>> On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 7, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: >>>>>>>>> ...Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Greetings LyX users, >>>>>>>>>> >>>&g

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 2)

2010-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 7, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > I have installed the Beta2 in Mac OSX. It just works out of the box. > Magnificent! > I have also read in detail the WhatsNew page and the additions are really > impressive (I love many of them: Sweave support, inline spell-check, native > sp

Re: Spellchecker identifying correct words as incorrect

2010-12-10 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:57 PM, Pete Crite wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running the latest LyX on Mac OS X. I've had the spellchecker work fine > in the past, using aspell. I've just tried to spellcheck a new file, and > strange things are happening. Quite frequently, words that are spelt > correctly are

Re: How to use local package outside a texmf path?

2010-12-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 30, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > You have a space in the path to the file. Does it work if you escape the > space? Or rename the file to eliminate it? Linux sometimes doesn't play well with filenames containing whitespace. Chris Menzel

Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: I usually work in OS X or Linux but on occasion work in Windows 7. No problems at all with LyX under the former two but both forward and inverse searching are failing under Windows. I have followed all the instructions assiduously in the Additional Features document -- path to LyXserve

Re: Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows

2011-05-21 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 20/05/2011 2:43 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Christopher Menzel writes: >> >> I have followed all the instructions assiduously in the Additional >> Features document -- path to LyXserver pipe is set to >> \\.\pipe\lyxpipe, I've created the batch file lyxed

Re: Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows

2011-05-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On May 22, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Christopher Menzel writes: > >> Unfortunately, forward search is still not functioning, although I >> do see a small message at the bottom of the screen that reports >> "Couldn't proceed" when I inv

Re: Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows

2011-05-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 22/05/2011 6:07 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Christopher Menzel writes: >> >> Well, as I noted, I followed the instructions in the Additional >> Features document assiduously, so one of the first things I did >> was to choose the default command for the Yap pre

Re: Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows

2011-05-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 22/05/2011 7:07 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > ...Yes, yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. The relevant > debugging output appears to be this: > > ... > The row information is indeed there. I do not know enough about LyX's > internals to figure out from

Re: Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows (The Sequel)

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 05/22/2011 8:59 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > On 22/05/2011 7:07 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> ...Yes, yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. The relevant >> debugging output appears to be this: >> >> ... >> The row information is indeed there.

Re: Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows (The Sequel)

2011-05-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
On May 23, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Christopher Menzel writes: >> >> That is, LyX is calling the appropriate forward search command for a PDF >> preview document, not DVI. > > LyX performs a forward search for the last generated format, so it means

Re: Forward/reverse searching problems under Windows (The Sequel)

2011-05-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 05/25/2011 4:16 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Enrico Forestieri writes: > >> So, can anyone compiling LyX with MSVC perform that check? > > It turned out to be an issue with the MSVC compiler and should be fixed > in the next release. Wow, thanks for all the time and effort you put into thi

Re: TeX in LyX ?

2019-06-13 Thread Christopher Menzel
Why not simply enter it inline in math mode? > On Jun 13, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Carlos Knauer wrote: > > Hello. How do I enter a TeX command in LyX? I want to write lim_ {x-> 0} f > (x) in the middle of the text. Does the \ displaystyle enter before the > equation? That is: I write \ displaystyle

Re: Missing lyxeditor.cmd?

2019-08-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 22 Aug 2019, at 10:39 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 8/22/19 10:48 AM, Chris Menzel wrote: >> Gentle LyX folk, >> >> I have installed LyX 2.3.3 on a Dell XPS laptop and, Lo, the installation's >> bin directory appears to be missing lyxeditor.cmd, which is of course >> crucial for inve

Re: help with error message

2021-01-03 Thread Christopher Menzel
Dear Heba, Delete MiKTeX, install MacTeX-2020: https://www.tug.org/mactex/ > On Jan 3, 2021, at 3:59 PM, heba said wrote: > > Hi, I need to download Lyx, and as I know, I need MikTex first. I get the > following error message. I am MacBook Air high sierra. > > Process: MiKTeX C

Re: lyx-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 2

2021-01-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
MacTeX is not itself an application. It is a package that installs the TeX binaries and configuration files, none of which will show up in your Applications directory. (They are mostly in /Library/TeX.) LyX should know where they are and call them (with no input from you) when you try to view or

Re: shortcut for going to edge of ERT frame?

2021-08-08 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 8 Aug 2021, at 1:36 PM, David Pesetsky wrote: > On Aug 8, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Chris Menzel > wrote: >> >> For me, Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e move the cursor in an ERT frame to the first and >> last characters of the frame, respectively. However, I'm not sure if this is >

Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
Howdy LyX folk, Simple question. When I’m working on my laptop (or frankly anything short of a 27” monitor) I display my documents use PDF (cropped) to strip away unneeded marginal whitespace. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut to update my cropped PDFs? Something that will trigger th

Re: Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
Yo, works like a charm! I gave “pdf6” a try (can’t remember what my justification was!) but didn’t try “7”! Is this documented somewhere? And what determines the relevant number after “pdf”? Thanks!! -c > On 29 Aug 2022, at 4:44 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > On 8/29/22 17:28, Ch

Compile fail

2022-09-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: I’ve successfully compiled LyX from sources under Linux but my attempts to do so under MacOS for my M1 Macs (since I don’t want to use Rosetta 2). I installed QT5 using homebrew and I’m using what seem to me to be the right flags for the configure script, viz., % ./configure --enab

Re: Rebinding ESC to \

2022-10-19 Thread Christopher Menzel
You don’t identify your OS. Pavel gives you the answer for Linux. If you are on MacOS, Karabiner-Elements can do that sort of remapping in a jiffy via a convenient graphical interface. On Windows it’s a bit more work. You can either edit the registry (instructions are easy to find), use the Micr

Re: Rebinding ESC to \

2022-10-19 Thread Christopher Menzel
ote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 08:13:24AM -0500, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> You don’t identify your OS. Pavel gives you the answer for Linux. If you are >> on MacOS, Karabiner-Elements can do that sort of remapping in a jiffy via a >> convenient graphical interface. On W

Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

2022-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hi Daniel, I have used LyX 2.3.6.2 under Ventura and did find that it crashed regularly. Since the version on LyX.org is still only compiled for Intel, perhaps Rosetta is the problem. And just to note, in case it is helpful: if you are familiar with Linux and have, or don’t mind purchasing, a

Re: Testing

2022-12-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 12, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've not seen any posts on this list other than the two I sent last Friday. > Is there an issue with the list or has everyone gone away for the holidays? Or maybe has a pile of papers to grade. :-) -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.o

Re: Testing

2022-12-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
> Il 12/12/22 20:47, Christopher Menzel ha scritto: >> On Dec 12, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> I've not seen any posts on this list other than the two I sent last Friday. >>> Is there an issue with the list or has everyone gone away for the holidays?

Re: El Capitain

2015-09-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
I've been running LyX unproblematically on my retina 5k iMac since the first public beta of El Capitan. I'm currently running El Cap GM on both my iMac and my rMBP and have had no issues. -chris On 28 Sep 2015, at 7:45 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > > Am 28.09.2015 um 22:20 schrieb Anders Host-Ma

Re: El Capitan

2015-10-02 Thread Christopher Menzel
You can almost surely solve your El Capitan problems if you disable the new System Integrity Protection feature (a.k.a. rootless mode), which among other things prevents the creation of symlinks in /usr. Note that there are some good security reasons for SIP — in particular it makes it much hard

Lower case mathcal

2015-11-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
Dear LyX folk, Quick question — what would it take to get display support for lower case calligraphic letters, which you can get in your rendered PDF via a package like BOONDOX-cal. Currently, typing lower case letters inside a \mathcal tag in math mode generates a seemingly random selection of

Re: Lower case mathcal

2015-11-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 24 Nov 2015, at 2:32 PM, Guillaume Munch wrote: > Le 24/11/2015 19:58, Christopher Menzel a écrit : >> Dear LyX folk, >> >> Quick question — what would it take to get display support for lower >> case calligraphic letters, which you can get in your rendered PDF vi

RE: error creating pdf

2016-01-10 Thread Christopher Menzel
Sounds like a TeX installation problem. Have you installed MikTeX (Windows) or MacTeX (OS X)? -chris Original message From: Laura Schröder Date: 1/10/2016 2:57 AM (GMT-06:00) To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: error creating pdf Hello! I'm a very beginner in lyx. I started

Re: Looking for an automatic way of shuffling the items of enumerate

2016-01-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 20 Jan 2016, at 11:17 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Is there some automatic or semi-automatic way of shuffling the items > of an enumerate environment? If I'm understanding you, under OS X, Cmd- and Cmd- allow you move enumerated items up or down in an enumerated list. I reckon Ctrl-

Re: Looking for an automatic way of shuffling the items of enumerate

2016-01-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
Ah, gotcha. I'm sure this could be done with ERT but doubt it is a feature baked into LyX. -chris > On 20 Jan 2016, at 12:04 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Christopher Menzel > wrote: >>> >>> Is there some automatic or semi-a

LyX and Sierra beta

2016-08-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hello LyX folk, Has anyone tried out LyX 2.2 on the public beta of OS X Sierra? -chris

Re: LyX and Sierra beta

2016-08-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 05:01:02PM -0400, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> Hello LyX folk, >> >> Has anyone tried out LyX 2.2 on the public beta of OS X Sierra? > > We have not heard of anyone who ha

Re: macOS Sierra

2016-09-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 20 Sep 2016, at 2:16 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Has anyone tried LyX on MacOS Sierra? Any issues? LyX (currently 2.2) with MacTeX 2015 is rock solid for me under Sierra, and has been since the early public betas. Will upgrade to MacTeX 2016 one of these days but don't expect any problem

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.2 Released

2016-10-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
nd the whole LyX development team for this wonderful, incredibly useful piece of software. It is an absolute joy to use, and a marvel of collaborative, open source software design and engineering. -chris -- Christopher Menzel Professor of Philosophy Texas A&M University

Re: Attaching References

2017-01-25 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hi Bill, What platform? Mac? Windows? Linux? Also, what sorts of messages are you getting? And, just to make sure, did you insert a pointer to your .bib file at the end of your document by selecting Insert → List/TOC → BibTeX bibliography? All you say is that you stuck the file somewhere but La

RE: Shortcuts for symbols in text

2018-07-21 Thread Christopher Menzel
See, I was wrong. :-) -chris From: Richard Kimberly Heck Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2018 5:47 PM To: Tank Panzer; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Shortcuts for symbols in text On 07/21/2018 09:56 AM, Tank Panzer wrote: > In LyX one can cunfigure the shortcuts and even add new ones under > pre

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
I might well just be naive but I'm not getting this line of criticism at all. LyX has always been a frontend to LaTeX, right? That's it's raison d'etre. It's still the only game in town to that end, and it's fabulous at it. LaTeX creates PDFs. So you use LyX to create PDFs. Seems to me if you're

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
> BTW, LaTeX predates .PDFs. Well aware — I started writing in (a much earlier version of) LaTeX in Emacs at Stanford in the mid-1980s, while Knuth was still actively developing the TeX code. :-) The usual process back then was .tex → .dvi → .ps via the latex and dvips binaries. And when PDF ca

Re: Update of Ubuntu PPA for version 2.3.7?

2023-01-16 Thread Christopher Menzel
Whoever is in charge of the Kali distro is on the ball. I got a 2.3.7 update the day after it went live. Since that’s a Debian-based system, I should think you‘d be able to install the package on Ubuntu. (?) -chris > On Jan 16, 2023, at 7:02 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-21 Thread Christopher Menzel
Udi wrote: > I think this bug is already reported here > , it seems that you can enter the Unix > file path into the "File:" field manually. > > It's not a perfect solution, but it might solve your problem in the meantime. Can confirm. This definitely ap

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
3.7. You can’t insert a graphic via the file browser in either one. -cm > On 21/01/2023 23:02, Christopher Menzel wrote: > [...] > >> This definitely appears to be a Ventura thing. I can’t insert >> graphics on my 2021 MacBook Pro using either 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7 but both

Re: Problems with LyX on Mac computers

2023-01-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 22, 2023, at 10:48 AM, mark salmon wrote: > Marcus in your reply to Ed Burmeister you said there are 2 installers for Lyx > 2.3.7- for macs- one for old and one for new versions of MacOS .I don't > think I saw this when installing 2.3.7 I just chose the one option I saw in > front of

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Christopher Menzel
r purchasing it. For such folks, the VM solution (even if temporary) seems to me to be a reasonable one. > Makes no sense to me, whatsoever. Hope it makes at least a bit of sense to you now. ;-) -chris > On 22/01/2023 20:21, Christopher Menzel wrote: > [...] >>> The al

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Christopher Menzel
I stand corrected! I confess I never used it and — obviously! — never learned what “WINE” stood for. (And kudos for a very nice self-referential acronym!) -chris > On Jan 23, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Lorenzo Bertini > wrote: > > On 23/01/23 15:01, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> Vir

Re: Lyx 2.3.7 on Linux Mint

2023-02-23 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I have seen that a new version (2.3.7) has been released. > Trying to upgrade to this new version, I tried to install lyx PPA but I get > the error > "This PPA does not support jammy". > > My PC runs Linux Mint 21 Vanessa (which is the LTR based on Ubuntu 22.04). > > How can I upgrade Lyx on m

Alt/Option key question

2023-03-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
Gentle LyX folk: I use the Emacs UI for LyX, which means the Option key (or Alt key, for PC users) gets a good workout — e.g., Opt-D deletes word-forward, Opt-F moves the cursor forward by word, etc. (In the standard LyX UI, those keys bring up the File and Document menus, respectively, so I di

Re: Advanced text editing commands

2023-04-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Apr 30, 2023, at 1:20 PM, John Beattie wrote: > On 2023-04-27 12:41 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, do the emacs users on this list actually use emacs.bind? > > Yes. Linux Mint 20.1, also on Windows 10. Absolutely, under both MacOS Ventura and Kali Linux 2023.1 (both run

Shortcut to switch panes?

2023-07-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
Estimable LyX folk, The answer seems to be “no” but: is it possible to set up a keyboard shortcut that, when one has split a window into two panes (“views” in LyX-speak), will make the inactive pane active so that one can easily switch from one pane to the other? "Ctrl-X O" does this in emacs a

Re: Shortcut to switch panes?

2023-07-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Jul 7, 2023, at 10:58 AM, Kornel Benko wrote: > > Am Fri, 7 Jul 2023 09:45:11 +0200 > schrieb Christopher Menzel <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>>: > >>> On Jul 6, 2023, at 1:35 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: >>> Am Thu, 6 Jul 2023 12:

Icon "padding"

2023-08-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: There is a significant difference in the "padding" around the icons in 2.4.0-beta3 compared to 2.3.7. The difference is particularly stark when comparing 2.3.7 under MacOS

Can't open 2.4.0-beta5 doc in 2.4.0-beta3

2023-09-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk, I recently compiled Lyx 2.4.0-beta5 under Linux and find that I am unable to open the file in Lyx 2.4.0-beta3 under MacOS and the conversion script is failing to export to 2.3.x. By changing "\lyxformat 618” to "\lyxformat 616” I was able to load the document in 2.4.0-beta3 although I

Re: Can't open 2.4.0-beta5 doc in 2.4.0-beta3

2023-09-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 5 Sep 2023, at 5:01 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 9/5/23 16:45, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> LyX folk, >> >> I recently compiled Lyx 2.4.0-beta5 under Linux and find that I am unable to >> open the file in Lyx 2.4.0-beta3 under MacOS and the conversion scri

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out? >> It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors like ctl -, and >> ctl + or Up

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 6, 2023, at 10:28 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > On 12/6/23 15:55, Christopher Menzel wrote: >>> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck >>> wrote: >>> On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: >>>> Hello, >>

Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

2024-01-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference. I'm using lualatex to > produce pdf. > > In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If I don't > check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do check 'use > non-TeX font

Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

2024-01-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 12, 2024, at 3:25 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM Christopher Menzel <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker > <mailto:ndbeck...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> I'm writing another pa

Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

2024-01-13 Thread Christopher Menzel
Try the Palatino font with \usepackage{mathpazo}. That’s an attractive, classic TeX font combo. -chris > On Jan 13, 2024, at 9:50 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > >  > I have tried kpfonts. Surprisingly, it also has the same problem with > authormark misplaced! > > > > -- > lyx-users mailing lis

Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

2024-01-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 15, 2024, at 2:40 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > The LyX team is happy (and relieved) to announce the publication of the first > 'release candidate' for the long awaited 2.4.0. Just compiled it under Linux and was very happy to see that y’all fixed the chonky (specifically, overly

Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

2024-04-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
Gentle LyX folk: I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am unable to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees no spellchecker engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. Hunspell and the English dictionary are of course installed. I found an old th

Re: Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

2024-04-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
esired!). :-) -chris > Am 17.04.24 um 5:41 PM schrieb Christopher Menzel: >> I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am >> unable to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees >> no spellchecker engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. H

Re: Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

2024-04-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
> Le 18/04/2024 à 16:59, Christopher Menzel a écrit : >>> Maybe you need enchant (default on debian), it uses different spell >>> checkers. >>> >> Thank you for the suggestion. I finally got the bright idea of looking >> through the configure scrip

Re: LyX and MacOS upgrade to M3?

2024-04-25 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Apr 24, 2024, at 4:10 PM, eprb--- via lyx-users wrote: > I am happily using LyX Version 2.3.6.2 (7 January 2021) with MacOS High > Sierra, version 10.13.6. > > I need to upgrade my Mac, and I want to ensure continuity with LyX. > > Please: What is the best LyX and new MacOS combination for

Re: Calibri Font

2024-04-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I am a newbie to Lyx and I am using the Manchester PhD template on the LyX > website. Before LyX all my figures and text used Calibri font, it would be > great if I could use this in my LyX rendering. I have been on the web and > found several options however the solutions are dependant on sev

UPDATE: Pasted text from another document underlined in blue

2024-05-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
 PM, Christopher Menzel > wrote: > > LyX folk: > > I am working up a Beamer presentation for a talk based on a paper I’m working > on (in LyX, of course). For some reason, whenever I try to paste text from > the paper into the Beamer document, the pasted text is underlined in bl

Re: LyX 2.4 - Emph keyboard shortcut not working in OS X 14.4.1

2024-06-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Jun 1, 2024, at 6:51 PM, Artemy Kolchinsky wrote: > > Thank you for releasing this amazing piece of software! > > However, I am running into an annoying bug in Lyx 2.4 on OS X 14.4.1 (I > cannot post to the bug tracker due to lack of privileges). The cmd+e command > no longer works to t

Re: LyX 2.4.0 Released!

2024-06-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
I compiled 2.4.0 on Kali LInux 2024.2 with Qt6 (in a Parallels VM), no issues. Under MacOS I renamed RC4 just in case and then just copied 2.4.0 into the Applications folder as usual. Again, smooth sailing. I can’t begin to express my gratitude to the LyX developers for this fabulous program. I

Re: LyX 2.4 - Emph keyboard shortcut not working in OS X 14.4.1

2024-06-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jun 1, 2024, at 8:14 PM, Artemy Kolchinsky wrote: > I didn't know about ctlr-c e -- that works, thanks. > > cmd-i doesn't work for me. You should be able to set it in Preferences → Editing → Shortcuts. -chris > On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 7:34 PM Christopher Men

Re: LyX 2.4 & MikTeX problem

2024-06-02 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jun 2, 2024, at 9:12 AM, markhsalmon wrote: > >> It's because of this sort of problem, which seems to arise constantly, that >> we stopped recommending MiKTeX. > > [S]o what do you recommend please? If not MikTek? TeX Live -cm -- lyx-users maili

Re: Headline is massively indented

2024-06-02 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I have selected my font in the settings. I don't know how else to do it. A > package called texlive-full does not exist on my MikTex console. I don't know > how to install this package without using manual installation. Maybe with > \usepackage? That doesn't work. Ah, I didn’t realize you wer

Re: Please help me

2024-06-11 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH LyX > 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac computer with a Silicon chip and Mac OS > 14.5. No luck finding any useful information about this issue. > Is this possible? It’s not clear what you are asking. There should be no

Re: Please help me

2024-06-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:55 PM, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users > wrote: > >> 11 juni 2024 kl. 15:51 skrev Christopher Menzel : >> >>> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH >>> LyX 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac compu

Re: preview environment doesn't render in the document in 2.4.0?

2024-06-21 Thread Christopher Menzel
I’ve found over the years that it pays to install the complete TeX package on any platform I’m working on. Tons of stuff gets installed that I won’t ever need, but it guarantees that everything I will need is there. And disk space is cheap and plentiful these days. :-) -chris > On Jun 21, 2024

Re: problems with lyx on cywin on winxp

2003-11-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
I suggest that you install LyX for Win32, the version produced by Ruurd Reitsma. You can download it on: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ I have been using it for a while and I am superbly satisfied. Anybody know if Lyx for Win32 can be configured to work with the cygwin port of tetex i

Re: Move from d:drive to c:drive

2011-10-14 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 14, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Sølvi wrote: > ANYONE?? > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Sølvi > Date: 2011/10/11 > Subject: Move from d:drive to c:drive > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > > Hi, > > I'm currently using Windows XP with LyX v.2.0.0 > > I have a huge document, it's

Re: Move from d:drive to c:drive

2011-10-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
der Windows as long as perl (or python or the like) is installed. Do you have any geeky friends that could help you write such a script? Chris Menzel > 2011/10/14 Christopher Menzel > On Oct 14, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Sølvi wrote: > >> ANYONE?? >> >> -- Forwa

Re: Move from d:drive to c:drive

2011-10-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 15, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Sølvi wrote: > Julien Rioux physics.utoronto.ca> writes: > >> It should just work if all paths are written to the LyX file as relative >> paths. My hunch is that they might not be under Windows, but so much the better if they are. >> In most cases this should be t

Re: Move from d:drive to c:drive

2011-10-16 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:20 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: > It's really not that hard. Here's my attempt at a simple explanation: You're a good man, Jacob! > ... > As for your original problem of how to change the paths to relative paths, > you have two options. 1) You can do it manually with every file

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