Libertine support LyX version 2.1.0 (beta 1)

2013-08-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The latest version of libertine in MacTeX 2013 (updated with tlmgr) lacks the file libertineMono-type1.sty. I took libertineRoman-type1.sty, modified it accordingly, put it into my local tree, texhashed, reconfigured LyX and it works. Cool. el On 2013-08-01 10:40 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I am using it for most everything in my private practice as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. Letters, Operation Reports, Medical Certificates, Prescriptions, even third party forms (which I recreated), and of course presentations with Beamer. I use NeoOffice to import Word documents, export them

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ken, On 2013-08-18 01:28 , Ken Springer wrote: [...] > NeoOffice exports LaTeX Being able to exchange Word docs when > I need to is a concern of mine. I don't know how much I'll need > it, but I don't want to have to jump through hoops to get it done. > I'm not too sure about how well the RT

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I like Koma-Script for most everything which is very easy to tweak. But, the LaTeX requirement is a strength, rather than a weakness, in my view, "forcing" a certain structure for most cases. el On 2013-08-17 23:38 , Charlie wrote: [...] > Pluses, minuses? Don't know what they mean? I think i

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That I do with LaTeX and Perl (such as pulling out VAT out of my accounting package SQL-Ledger and printing it onto the scanned form :-)-O el On 2013-08-18 21:24 , Wolfgang Keller wrote: [...] > The only case where I still prefer to use LO over LyX is > generation of documents from databases. [.

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Maybe I am fortunate, in private practice and as such independent, but I plain refuse to send someone a document in Word format. And I tell all people sending me Microsoft documents that I don't use Microsoft products. el On 2013-08-19 00:02 , Chris Menzel wrote: [...] > Two of our best journals

Re: 2.6.1beta0 and Beamer

2013-08-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I'll make a plan sometime this week. el On 2013-08-16 07:55 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> I am actually rewriting it, because that is less work than tracing the >> issues manually :-)-O and because the new way is easier, anyway. > > Can you send me the problematic f

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Went and had a look, I can find LyX documents from 2000 having survived transitions through a number of Linux distributions and machines, to a number of Macs. :-)-O el on 2013-08-21 17:53 stefano franchi said the following: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Wolfgang Keller

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Even better, at the Technical University in Aachen they came with wonderful orange boxes to hold approximately a 10 cm stack of the cards so you kept them on your desk to write notes on the cards. I think I still have one with a few cards left at my mother's house :-)-O el On 2013-08-25 15:04 ,

Re: LyX and the Windows 8 Reader for PDFs

2013-08-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Is there a way of looking at all running programs? Pull a PDF into that viewer and see what the name of the EXE is, find it's location and see if you can get that in... el on 2013-08-24 13:58 Michael Maltenfort said the following: > > I have used LyX for a year or two, but I have recently star

Re: off topic: Is there a lyx user in Lund, Sweden?

2013-09-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wolfgang, Anders is right, it's that simple and does not need assistance :-)-O What he forgot is that you must run Tools -> Reconfigure after installation and then Quit and start LyX again. If the individual is computer literate, and is concerned about disk space, I would install the Basic packa

Re: LyX installation packages, possibly OT

2013-09-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Please google what RTFM measn :-)-O el On 2013-09-07 15:12 , Ken Springer wrote: > On 9/7/13 3:33 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 07.09.2013 um 03:19 schrieb Ken Springer : >> >>> Having resolved my issue with the LyX installation on my Mac, I also >>> have installed it under Windows 7. Also appea

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
No, hed doesn't, he "got into the program" :-)-O el On 2013-10-23 18:50 , Ernesto Posse wrote: > You do understand that a lot of open-source software, including > LyX, is developed by *volunteers*, do you? > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Ken Springer > wrote: [.

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I do my CVs (in German and English, hence 2) in the EuroPass format. (Google is your friend here). Unfortunately there is no LyX module for it which really works (for me) so I use the LaTeX version(s) with TeXshop. That is ok, because it doesn't change a lot and the changes are easy (the odd publ

Re: pleading paper

2013-12-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I find myself caught dead all the time, because I would not write a NeoOffice document if it was one sentence :-)-O It's a bit of a hassle to set things up sometimes, but once done, boy to the look good. So keep pn trying :-)-O el On 2013-12-08, 22:52 , Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 08 Dec 2013

Re: pleading paper

2013-12-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Apologies for the typos. Not caused by NeoOffice or LyX :-)-O el On 2013-12-11, 00:39 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > I find myself caught dead all the time, because I would not write > a NeoOffice document if it was one sentence :-)-O > > It's a bit of a hassle to set thin

Re: Koma(book) question

2013-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wolfgang, This is a LaTeX question, and I am sure this isn't really difficult, but why don't you ask Markus Kohm directly? el On 2013-12-13, 14:49 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Hello, > > > > i have a few questions re koma (book). > > The chapter title I am writing is supposed to be in ca

Re: Koma(book) question

2013-12-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Try de.comp.text.tex http://komascript.de el On 2013-12-16, 10:58 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > On Monday 16 December 2013 00:17:38 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > >> Wolfgang, > >> > >> This is a LaTeX question, and I am sure this isn't really di

Re: Koma(book) question

2013-12-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Auntie Google is your friend. Look for latex "section titles" ie https://www.google.com.na/search?q=latex+section+titles&oq=latex+section+titles&aqs=chrome..69i57.4700j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=119&espv=210&q=latex+%22section+titles%22 First link: http://tex.stackexc

Re: Koma(book) question

2013-12-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
O el on 2013-12-19, 14:14 Guenter Milde said the following: > On 2013-12-19, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Auntie Google is your friend. >> Look for latex "section titles" ie > > Generally a good idea. In this case, the search term should > include "KO

Variable to be used from Lyx in the LaTeX text

2014-01-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I have designed me a few form letters, and in one I need to use a date repeatedly in the text. It is a bit of a nuisance to have to look for the date throughout the text. I can put in LaTeX variables and enter the value in the preamble but wonder how I would create another variable (such as

Re: KOMA-Script (scrbook): Using Uppertitleback environment [RESOLVED]

2014-01-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I would post this in comp.text.tex or contact Markus Kohm directly. el on 2014-01-30, 02:25 Rich Shepard said the following: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> What am I missing here? > > A Web search led me to the solution. I document it here for use > by others. > > 1)

Re: Installing Lyx/Mac w/out MacTeX. Is it possible?

2014-01-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Stefano, put the Mac-Basic on a mac that uses this and load all missing packages with tlmgr until it works. Then run something like tlmgr list|grep ^i|awk '{print $2}' > mactexmedium.txt Now you install Mac-Basic on her computer taransfer the file and run something like sudo tlmgr install `cat

Request for Feature on Mac

2014-01-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Where would I request the following feature: Many Mac programs offer you the choice to Save, Don't Save/Discard, Cancel in the way that is shown in the enclosed alpha.jpg, ie if you use the Return/Enter key it'll save, if you use the Space key it'll Not Save (Quit) and you have to use the mouse to

Re: Request for Feature on Mac

2014-02-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I think this is correct, and a good idea. el On 2014-02-01, 05:30 , Jerry wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2014, at 3:00 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse > wrote: > >> Where would I request the following feature: >> >> Many Mac programs offer you the choice to Save, Don't >

Re: KOMA-Script Front Matter

2014-02-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, Markus reads comp.text.tex, if I am not mistaken. I would export the stuff to LaTeX, remove everything which doesn't cause the error and then try and figure it out. el On 2014-02-19, 00:24 , Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm using LyX-2.0.7 on Slackware and trying to implement three > front m

Re: beamer in lyx 2.0.1rc1 good experience

2014-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I have been using LyX 2.1 beta2 in production and have now switched to rc1. I have done a presentation with Beamer and knitR in beta without much problems. This reads and converts with rc1 as well. el

Re: beamer in lyx 2.0.1rc1 - bad experience

2014-03-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wow!!! This looks much better and and has my vote for permanence :-)-O el On 2014-03-28, 18:21 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2014-03-28 18:02 GMT+01:00 Csikos Bela >: [...] > There are minor issues regarding the look of the new layout. I > preferred the lo

Re: Change dinbrief.lyx

2014-04-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Have you looked at KomaScript? el on 2014-04-25, 15:40 "Philipp Gröne" said the following: > Hello again! > > Thank you very much for your help! > > I was not aware about the switch. This clarified things and solved my problems. > > Greetings! > Ph.

Re: "My first LyX document"

2014-05-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Maybe read the manual? review DOcument -> Settings? el On 2014-05-25, 13:50 , Robert de Kock wrote: > Dear List, > > I am evaluating LyX to see whether it is the document editor I can > finally make my peace with. WYSIWY-? is fine, the last time I was > really happy was with Word Perfect 5 un

User Dictionary on Mac

2014-06-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, where is the user dictionary for the native spell checker for 2.1 located? I added a misspelled word :-)-O el

Re: User Dictionary on Mac

2014-06-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That's good enough for me, thank you very much, el on 2014-06-09, 11:31 Stephan Witt said the following: > Am 09.06.2014 um 11:28 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse : > >> Hi, >> >> where is the user dictionary for the native spell checker for 2.1 located? >> >>

Re: date format

2014-07-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I use the Preamble: \usepackage{scrdate} which comes from KOMAScript and in the document as ERT \ISOToday which I select from the top left pulldown as Date. el on 2014-07-17, 02:12 Will Parsons said the following: > In a document I'm writing, I would like to print the date of the last > edit i

Re: frage

2014-08-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I also write on and off German language texts, and though I have a German Mac keyboard as spare at home and will connect it if I write something long, I really would like to be able to easily/quickly type the German Umlaute in lower and Upper case on the standard (US) keybopard. Alt-s is helpful,

Re: frage

2014-08-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Alt-U and then the upper/lower case vowel seems to work very well, but I'll try that too. el on 2014-08-20, 13:51 dapper dan said the following: > El, > > can't you use deadkeys in LyX on Mac? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key#Dead_keys_on_various_keyboard_layouts > > You might also want

Re: how to trasform .tex in .lyx

2014-09-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I made an LCO and include it in the Documents -> Settings -> Document Class Custom field. works very nicely, el on 2014-09-10, 12:47 Renato Pontefice said the following: > Hi, > I've made a letterhed model. I made it with emacs and saved as .tex > > Now I would convert it in .lyx, i.e. like the

Re: KOMA-script article does not compile

2014-09-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Export the sucker to LaTeX and run it directly. If that shows the error you remove, step by step, everything that does not contribute to the error until you have a small document which reproduces this, which you then post somewhere... It's clearly MikTeX related :-)-O el on 2014-09-16, 15:20 Ann

Re: KOMA-script article does not compile

2014-09-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I stand relieved, if not corrected :-)-O. Update the Koma-Script then :-)-O tlmgr on the Mac (but not the TeX Live Utility.App) can have alternative repositories for indvidual packages, and the author of KOMA Script makes updates available like such. Don't know how one would do that on WIndoze t

Re: Interesting for LyX: ShareLaTeX and github

2014-09-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Indeed, this sounds actually quite interesting, but I don't see how that would work with LyX. Doesn't LyX need a local LaTeX installation, even a small one? And, version control works on LyX files, not on LaTeX, right? On my Mac /usr/local/texlive from MacTex Basic has 514MB which even for my Ne

Re: Interesting for LyX: ShareLaTeX and github

2014-09-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Importing from LaTeX very often requires manual work. Yesterday, I had to figure out how to change the \MyLogo from beamerfoils in the middle of the document, and using \Mylogo{\includegraphics{whatever.jpg}} did not work. So exported to LaTeX. Re-import was a mess :-)-O, which is the point here.

Re: how compile LyX from the terminal [on Max 10.9.4] --> lyx not found

2014-09-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Have you tried lyx --help el on 2014-09-18, 11:01 Helmut Hauser said the following: > Hi Stephan, > > It is me again. Now I have troubles to compile with the export command. > > I have the right LyX path, since it works with the —help option. > However, the export does not work. I get the err

Re: pseudo letterhead

2014-09-25 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Google for KOMA-Script. el on 2014-09-25, 10:38 Renato Pontefice said the following: > Hi, > I need to realize, a simple letterhead. I do not need the script that > let me insert the various environment (address, etc.). > I just need a simple letter, where I can insert an image on top right > (in

Re: Appendix

2014-11-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Try asking in English, perhaps? el On 2014-11-20 14:02 , Hanna Hennig wrote: > Hallo, > > ich schreibe mit Lyx meine Masterarbeit und möchte gerne für die > Abbildungen bzw. Tabellen, die im Anhang vorkommen je ein neues > Verzeichnis machen. > Hat jemand eine Idee und kann mir weiter helfen? >

Re: Appendix

2014-11-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Sorry, too quick :-)-O However, that's a LaTeX issue and googling latex separate "list of figures" from appendix is of help el On 2014-11-23 19:21 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Try asking in English, perhaps? > > el > > On 2014-11-20 14:02 , Hanna Hen

Re: Book with Documentclasse koma-script book

2014-12-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Uwe, using unclear terminology makes this very difficult to understand. Ie there are no headlines. You can have Sections and Sections* and so forth. There are no counted lines, there are enumerate environments. In any case if you posted, what is called a minimal example, ie the smallest file w

Re: Zitierstil: Autor, Jahr, Kurztitel

2015-01-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Isn't this more a LaTeX or BiBTeX problem? Perhaps even BiBLateX? BTW, on an ENglish speaking mailing list/new group English works much better... el On 2015-01-09 15:20 , Lüdeke, Henri wrote: > Sehr geehrtes Lyx-Team, > > > > trotz umfangreicher Recherchen habe ich bisher keinen Weg gefunden

Re: Texteditor to open and resave .lyx in MacOS

2015-01-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Backup is for sissies :-)-O Especially with Time Machine where it is fully automatic. Version Control is for sissies. Especially since it is integrated into LyX seamlessly Updates are for sissies. Especially since both MacOs and LyX and their updates are free of charge. Deadlines are for sissies

Re: Fwd: Switching to Chicago NB Notes

2015-06-25 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
https://www.google.com/search?q=bibtex+chicago&oq=bibtex+chicago&aqs=chrome..69i57.2245j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8 el On 2015-06-25 10:52 , Bruce Pourciau wrote: > I should have mentioned that the volume will be using the Chicago Manual > of Style 16th edition bibliography style, whic

doc/Additional.lyx and latin

2015-08-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, in 2.1.4 on Yosemite when looking at the Help->Additional Features I get the Latin Text blue underlined (ie Latin :-)-O) and when I compile I get this: Package babel Error: You haven't defined the language latin yet. Doesn't bother me much, but I wonder if this should not be fixed :-)-O el

Re: doc/Additional.lyx and latin

2015-08-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Opps, must have overlooked in in the Tex Live Utility. thanks, el On 2015-08-07 10:47 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Freitag 07 August 2015, 10:31:18 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: >> Hi, >> >> in 2.1.4 on Yosemite when looking at the Help->Additional Features I &g

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Use include files. Many and small ones. :-)-O el On 2015-08-13 21:53, Hal Kierstead wrote: [...] > I do not think you understood me. Suppose a create a LyX file and > use it to generate a tex file. I send it to my coauthor who does > not use LyX. He makes modifications to the LaTex file witho

Re: Displaying PDF image in a Beamer frame [FIXED]

2024-10-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I would also cut away some of the white space on the top and bottom so you can use more of the screen real estate. el On 2024/10/17 23:59, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Help's needed. > > Mea culpa! It's been so long since I prepared a Beamer presentation >

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
A-Imam I seem to recallat some stage there was an option ozipping up all required files into one archive from within LyX, but can't find it any longer or am mistaken. Thank you, I'll play with it. el On 2024/10/09 15:34, A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > Dear Eberhard > Thank you for your comment. >

Re: preview after updates

2024-09-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Phillipe has bee so kind as to forward me an MWE. On my Mac M2 Sequoia 15.0 and LyX 2.4.2 (hot off the press :-)-O) it fails to preview the PDFTricks example too, and shows the TiKZ one. It compiles with LuaLaTeX to PDF but not with PDFLaTeX. Can that have anything to do with the Preview? el On

Re: LyX and newpax

2024-09-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Stef, I do my PDFs with Insert -> File -> External Material. If necessary I put a little ERT in front to it fits on the page (Portrait vs Landscape), but that is not relevant here. All links in the PDF continue to work. However, I would start looking at translating the Powerpoints with Pandoc

Re: lyx2lyx fails on document

2025-01-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On 2025/01/21 10:36, José Matos wrote: > On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 21:16 -0800, Lars wrote: [...] >> I created a lyx document a week or two ago with the then newest >> version of Lyx in the current stable distribution. Today, I tried to >> open the same document, and I receive this error: >> >> file.l

Re: lyx2lyx became destructive?

2025-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Murat, did you try the Time Machine? I don't use XeTeX. For the developers: If I run /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/tex2lyx without any parameters it crashes tex2lyx error: Not enough arguments. support/lassert.cpp (52): ASSERTION i < argc_ VIOLATED IN /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx

Re: Graphic file formatsx

2021-12-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
ne, but the result has 950 pages. As I wrote elsewhere when working on a chapter I can compile that child document separately which takes 5-10 seconds and look at that before running the Makefile. Works for me. greetings, el On 08/12/2021 19:37, Steve Litt wrote: Rich Shepard said on Wed, 8 Dec 202

Re: How to find LyX' compile strategy?

2021-12-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Steve, from my ~/.latemkrc # # set default to luatex (ie '4') # $pdf_mode = 4; # greetings, el On 08/12/2021 19:16, Steve Litt wrote: Dr Eberhard Lisse said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 17:22:34 +0200 [...] Aside from the fact that latexm

Re: LyX document corrupted [RESOLVED]

2021-12-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Rich, buy a Windoze box and you can do that daily :)-O el On 08/12/2021 21:05, Rich Shepard wrote: [...] Every few years something constipates the computer and it requires a reboot to clear the clog. [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.

Re: A big Christmas wish

2021-12-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Attaching the BIB file would help... el On 2021-12-13 09:18 , Daniel via lyx-users wrote: On 2021-12-11 10:39, Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote: After having spent numerous hours/days in trying to get a Koma script book to work under luatex/biblatex my biggest Christmas wish is to get a

Re: A big Christmas wish

2021-12-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Maybe, but it would be helpful not to have to look for it. el On 14/12/2021 12:21, Daniel via lyx-users wrote: On 13/12/2021 19:20, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote: [...] Attaching the BIB file would help... el Sorry. The attached file uses the standard biblatex example BIB file

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-12-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Or use curly braces. But why would you do this with ERT in the first place? Instead of \textdegree{} I just used the first character from Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts and Subscripts and get ⁰C. Never mind that this not only was not an MWE. as you not only don't need the graphic,

Re: A big Christmas wish

2021-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
That may be so, but MacTeX Basic does not have it, and I still believe it's very easy to enclose BIB files with MWEs. Especially for us (experienced but( casual users. el On 14/12/2021 13:59, Kornel Benko via lyx-users wrote: Am Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:36:52 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse vi

Re: I think we need a better name than "MWE"

2021-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
https://ctan.org/pkg/mwe el On 14/12/2021 22:05, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Hi all, Here on the LyX list we use the word MWE to mean the simplest example that still exhibits the symptom. But MWE stands for Minimum *Working* Example, and by definition, the file that exhibits the symptom do

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Rich, Steve, that was a rhetorical question of course :-)-O I do however find that whenever I find myself using ERT I always try and look for a LyX way to do it, because I don't like ERT :-)-O I just found out myself, that on the Mac I can just do Option-0 :-)-O BTW, it should be \textdegree{

Re: I think we need a better name than "MWE"

2021-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
And https://texfaq.org/FAQ-minxampl el On 15/12/2021 14:37, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote: https://ctan.org/pkg/mwe el On 14/12/2021 22:05, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Hi all, Here on the LyX list we use the word MWE to mean the simplest example that still exhibits the

Re: Fwd: "Lyx must be updated"

2021-12-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Murat, 2.40 is on the verge of going from Alpha to Beta, and patience is a virtue :-)-O el On 2021-12-16 10:56 , Murat Yildizoglu via lyx-users wrote: I have tried to send this to lyx-devel but I am not a member. Begin forwarded message: [...] This is what OSX 12.1 tells me now with Lyx

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Stve, I like the Noto fonts, but my understanding is that all TeX Gyre fonts also work under PDFLaTeX. But, LUA is really cool. You can put simple stuff into the preamble like \usepackage{luacode} \begin{luacode*} socket = require "socket" function hostn

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
And 20 seconds is a drama? Come on. And my understanding is that you can pass parameters from the command line to make, so this can become part of an automatable workflow. el On 2021-12-20 22:49 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08

Re: LyX on Apple Silicon (in a VM)

2021-12-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Chris, I have a development version which I run both on arm64 and x86_64. LyX does not "run" faster. The graphical front end on the M1 feels zippier, indeed, but while typing and enditing it does not make that much aof a differnece. The limiting factor is the (Lua)LaTeX running in the backgroun

Re: Program Listings

2022-01-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
RTFM of the LaTeX Listings package I would use a single word for the label or separate ords with ':' ie something like first:program. If that's the culprit, we should file an improvement request (ie checking for spaces from within LyX). Generally speaking attaching a MWE is very helpful, ie the

Re: Program Listings

2022-01-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Joe, When you open the Insert -> File -> Child Document -> Program Listing there should be a window looking something like the enclosed, where you can either type the path to the file (complete or relative as in this example) or click the Browse button, find the file and double click it after the

Re: Remove textquotedblplain from preamble

2022-01-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
This is not an MWE. It requires several files not provided and has a ton of entries in the Preamble. el On 2022-01-16 21:34 , tush via lyx-users wrote: I want to remove it because I don't have any idea what it add or alters in the shape of my output file. I want to have control over what is

Re: Single space TOC

2022-01-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Have a look at the tocloft package. el On 26/01/2022 08:35, Joseph Hesse via lyx-users wrote: I am writing a book with separate chapters in a master document. My TOC prints double spaced and I want to make it single spaced. I have the package setspace and I have \usepackage{setspace} in the p

Re: LyX for Mac

2022-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
My cursor does not blink and my background is an ugly beige (default) :-)-O The background is most certainly configurable. What are hotkeys? el On 2022-02-18 21:46 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote: I have version 2.3.6.2 on my MacBook Pro. I consider it a poor substitute for the Windows ve

Re: LyX for Mac

2022-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
I stand corrected, my cursor does blink :-)-O but I seem to be so used to it that I didn't even notice :-)-O. I copy and paste all my mail messages into an AlphaX window (I keep a file on the Desktop to double click) because that one can format format even indented text properly and then copy and

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Ken, where is the missing link :-)-O? This is great news. I am actually waiting for 2.4 and DocBook to convert my 859 page "handbook" to EPUB so my staff and I can carry it around on our Kindles (App on iPad actually). But, I would be very keen to see how your package works. My little handbo

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Steve, Since it such a schlepp, why don't you participate in the development or support the developers? Never mind that LyX seems to predate the Kindle, this is a LaTeX issue rather than a LyX one (which, after all, just a front end). As written numerous times I am very keen on on the new Doc

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Ken there is a mailing list/news group for elyxer (last traffic 2017) elyxer-us...@nongnu.org gmane.editors.lyx.elyxer el On 2022-03-07 04:35 , Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote: [...] Speaking of which, I did run into a problem with the LyXHTML export from LyX. The other HT

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Perl is your friend :-)-O or Python, Lua or whatever language you prefer. el On 2022-03-09 06:41 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote: Is there a substitute for \thinspace that will not generate an error in elxyer? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/

Re: Continuation of lists across beamer frames

2022-03-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
enumerate-resume? el On 15/03/2022 16:22, markhsalmon via lyx-users wrote: Hi,  I have tried everything I know without success and asked tis question on other fora without a result- simple question how do I continue an existing say numbered list onto a new Beamer frame/slide please? Thanks

Re: Setting up LyX on a new computer

2022-03-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
After installation (I do that from from Homebrew) I would do ln -fs $HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/preferences \ $HOME/lyxrc and run unison with a force from the old to the new, but installing unison is currently not advisable for casual users as the stable ma

Re: [Important] New behavior for spam handling on this list

2022-04-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
To me it is as much or little of an inconvenience as reading the manual ;-0-O el On 07/04/2022 10:12, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users said on Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:01:16 +0200 Dear all, Until now, the handling of the list was like: messages from subscribers

Re: lyx not a readable Lyx document

2022-04-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
An older version of lyx2lyx can't know about newer formats? el On 2022-04-07 09:55 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote: [...] I remember, that one does not need a lyx2lyx in the same version, here 2.4.x Has this changed? Wolfgang -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http:/

Re: lyx not a readable Lyx document

2022-04-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
o read the 2.4 format. el On 2022-04-08 08:18 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote: Am 08.04.22 um 07:21 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users: An older version of lyx2lyx can't know about newer formats? el On 2022-04-07 09:55 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote: [...] I rem

Re: Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

2022-04-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
If you think other people have the time you don't maybe you also not waste their time by posting this. el On 2022-04-11 09:22 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Daniel via lyx-users said on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:13:43 +0200 On 2022-04-11 03:44, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Hi all, In the pa

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