Re: Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I have had to do this a bit recently and find that the easiest way is to open the file in OpenOffice, and export it to LaTeX (you need an extension, google for it) using the ultra-clean option. Then I use TeXShop to get rid of some unnecessary stuff and change the header to what

Re: biblatex: elatex and texlive

2011-01-12 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Use the TeXLive Utility and update. el On 1/13/11 12:33 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: > Dear All, > > This is slightly off-topic. > > I have successfully used biblatex with LyX for a long time. Today > after changing my TexLive DVD installation from 2009 to 2010, I am > not able to compile documents an

Re: Import/export errors

2011-01-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Michelle, open the RTF in OpenOffice (or NeoOffice on the Mac :-)-O) into which you have installed the Writer2LateX extension. Then you export it to Latex, paying attention to the screen that comes up by way of using the Ultra-Clean export. Then you run tex2lyx and have a look for evil red text,

Re: Please confirm your message

2011-01-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
ur address once. > > If you do not respond to this confirmation request within 14 days, > your message will not be delivered. -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \/ Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na/ * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421

Re: Please confirm your message

2011-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
th one of those silly > handshake thingies be de-listed and forever banned. > > SteveT > > On Sunday 23 January 2011 00:17:06 Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> On 1/23/11 7:15 AM, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org wrote: >>> This message was created automatically by mail deliver

Re: Please confirm your message

2011-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Pleasure. LyX is such an important piece of software for me since many years so that those very few opportunities I get to contribute, I try :-)-O el On 1/23/11 9:04 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Op 23-1-2011 19:45, Dr Eberhard W Lisse schreef: >> You have my full support. >

Re: Minutes typeseting

2011-01-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Me three! el On 1/25/11 11:32 AM, Xabier Abasolo wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking for templates to take or write minutes, and I found this: > ***___CTAN home_*** ***/ **___tex-archive_* > */ **___macros_* >

Re: Minutes typeseting

2011-01-26 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
This is such an awesome package that someone should try and hack a LyX layout. el On 1/26/11 2:44 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:47:48 +0100, Xabier Abasolo > wrote: >> >> >> -Mensaje original- >> I doubt that the package has native LyX support, but you could still us

Re: Minutes typeseting

2011-01-26 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
perhaps a modified/simplified adaptation may be attempted? el -- Sent from the iPhone of Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse On Jan 27, 2011, at 0:08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Le 26 janv. 2011 à 22:30, Dr Eberhard W Lisse a écrit : > >> This is such an awesome package that som

Re: .odt -> .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I have very good experiences, with exporting from NeoOffice using the Write2LaTeX UltraClean option, then removing a few unnecessary things, can be done by (perl) script and then tex2lyx'ing it. el On 3/9/11 3:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 03/09/2011 05:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> Hi, >

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 2011-03-28 21:10 , Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: >> I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. >> I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my >> .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition and then the local user(s) pull off of that one? el On 2011-03-28 15:13 , Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Guenter Milde wrote: > >>

rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Hi, I am writing a document with multiple include chapters using the intrinsic RCS on LyX RC1 on OS X 10.6.7. I am using pdfdraftcopy to watermark the master document and all included files, and have \usepackage{rcs-multi} \rcsid{$Id$} \usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy} \draftfontsize{60} \draftc

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-29 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 3/29/11 4:05 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: [...] > however lyx support only .lyx files, not files like bibliography > or pictures around. these need to be manually added so if you > don't intend to become commandline capable, the lyx support of > version control won't be enough for you. [...] If you

Re: rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-29 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 3/29/11 8:27 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-03-28, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: [...] >> When I export the master document to pdflatex the children do not have >> the preamble, so the output is technically correct, however undesired. > >> How do I achieve the want

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-29 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 3/29/11 1:52 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: [...] > You can point MiKTeX's package manager at any "repository", which can be one > downloaded to a local or networked drive. The repository is not a server (in > the sense that no software daemon runs); it's just a directory (and 10^100 > subdirectories).

Checking in/out of multiple files

2011-03-29 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Hi, is it possible (on OS X 10.6.7, LyX 2.0 RC1) to check in or out several files? It's rather tedious having to do this manually if you have to make a change to several files... el

Re: Editing Process

2011-04-02 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Bruce, First of all I would use LyX's version control system. Secondly there are programs around to compare two tex files and write out the differences, which should help you with the editing, which I would then continue to do within LyX. el On 2011-04-02 15:55 , Bruce Pourciau wrote: > A journ

Re: Editing Process

2011-04-02 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 4/3/11 4:30 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: [...] > As it was suggested earlier, it should be easy to track down all the > modifications that the editor performed: use a graphical interface to > dfif (such as Meld [1]) to compare the tex file that you sent > (original) with the tex that you received (

Re: Making Templates.

2011-04-17 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Gordon, can you share the templates? There ia very niche minutes package for LaTeX which has been discussed here before, but seems difficult to implement in LyX. el On 2011-04-17 08:40 , gordon cooper wrote: > Greetings to all. > > I am very new to Lyx but have had some experience with Latex

Re: Importing and RTF document into LyX

2011-05-02 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Eric, I load the RTF into OpenOffice (NeoOffice to be correct) into which I have installed the writer2latex extension and export as Ultraclean. That I manipulate a little with TexShop removing the \bigskip and the likes (which I could do with a Perl Script too) and then tex2lyx it. That works bet

Re: Importing and RTF document into LyX

2011-05-04 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
e: > > On May 2, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >> I load the RTF into OpenOffice (NeoOffice to be correct) into >> which I have installed the writer2latex extension and export as >> Ultraclean. That I manipulate a little with TexShop removing the &

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Liviu, on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. greetings, el On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where yo

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Oh, I see, gnumeric will pull ODS or XLS in as well as its own. This is non-intuitive, but I haven't read the manual yet:-)-O el On 5/5/11 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OO

Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?

2011-05-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Toss 1.6! Done that when rc1 came out and never looked back. el On 5/8/11 1:58 PM, Pierfranco Minsenti wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if it is possible and how to install Lyx 2.0 on a > MAC OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard) as a a separate installation so that it > doesn't interfere with the 1

Request for Feature

2011-05-10 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
anything else that I don't think I'll do presentations with beamer again :-)-O Thanks everybody involved so very much for this marvelous piece of software. el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \/ Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na/ * | Telephone: +264 81 124

Re: Request for Feature

2011-05-10 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
hack up a presentation :-)-O el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \/ Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na/ * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Please do NOT email to this address Bachbrecht, Namibia ;/ if it is DNS related in ANY way

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
PULEEZE. Even my little netbok air has 120 Gig. Meddling is not worth the effort. It's better suing something like CleanMyMac or similar. greetings, el On 5/25/11 7:47 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > Yeah but the link on the LyX wiki doesn't point to the TUG address it > points direct to the FTP ser

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
't going to know that. We don't all have > perfect knowledge. > > And if one wants to boast LyX is installed here on a MacMini Server with > 8Gb and 1Tb of disk storage. And on a 120Gb Macbook Pro. > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:e...

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Interesting that you are familiar with the download speeds of places say in Namibia. If download was the issue, buy the DVD. It not trims a Tex installation, it trims the whole lot. el On 5/25/11 10:45 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <ma

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

2011-06-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't allow access to ftp? greetings, el

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

2011-06-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
thanks el -- Sent from the iPhone of Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse On Jun 13, 2011, at 15:59, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > On lun. 13 juin 2011 14:12:17 CEST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't >> allow access to ftp?

Re: Implementation of minutes.sty in LyX?

2011-06-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Marcus, please advise outcome :-)-O el On 6/15/11 12:37 AM, Marcus Glöder wrote: > Dear LyX-users, > > to write minutes of meetings, there is the LaTeX package minutes.sty. Is > there a way to install a LyX implementation of this package at documents > -> settings -> modules? > > greetings fro

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

2011-08-11 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 8/11/11 11:25 PM, Richard Heck wrote: [...] > I saw it once, too, and fled. It's probably great for netbooks and > tablets, but why would I want to use such a thing on a desktop machine? > And don't get me started about Gnome 3.0 I don't even use it on the eeePC el

Re: Lyx 2.0: can't open new files with Wordpad/Editor

2011-08-27 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Are you sure you unchecked Document -> Compressed ? el On 8/27/11 6:49 PM, Guest_NP wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I am unable to open the Lyx 2.0 files with Wordpad or Editor. > Lyx 1.6 files do open. > What has happened? > > Bernd > >

Re: Lyx 2.0: can't open new files with Wordpad/Editor

2011-08-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Yes, what does the command file doc.lyx say? el On 8/28/11 10:45 AM, Guest_NP wrote: > Yes, checkbox is off. > > So Lyx 2.0 files open for you? > > Bernd > > > On Aug 27, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >> Are you sure you unchecked

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.3 Released

2018-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Will do. But, can you reproduce? el Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad mini 4 On 16 Dec 2018, 04:24 +0200, Richard Kimberly Heck , wrote: > On 12/15/18 7:48 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > Thanks, > > > > but I noticed a real nuisance on Mojave 10.14.1 > > > > When I click on the Text Style button it us

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.3 Released

2018-12-16 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Anders, That is correct. el Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad mini 4 On 16 Dec 2018, 10:39 +0200, Anders Ekberg , wrote: > On 16 Dec 2018, at 08:28, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > > > > Will do. > > > > But, can you reproduce? > > > > el > > > > Sent fr

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.3 Released

2018-12-16 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I have filed the bug report and downgraded to 2.3.1. greetings, el On 2018-12-16 11:33 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Anders, > > That is correct. > > el > > Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad mini 4 > On 16 Dec 2018, 10:39 +0200, Anders Ekberg , wrote: >> On 16 Dec 2018,

Re: graphic on title page of book

2019-01-20 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
le current token: 'LabelType' context: ''] LyX: Unknown InsetLayout tag [around line 82 of file current token: 'Static' context: ''] LyX: Unknown InsetLayout tag [around line 101 of file current token: 'LabelType' context: ''] LyX: Un

Re: Articles written with LyX

2019-05-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
like the look, in particular the front page matter. >> >> Can you send me (e...@lisse.na) the source(s) of one to have a look how >> you did that? > > Hi Eberhard, > > I didn't make the website or any document there. I don't have any > sources. > &

Re: tex2lyx 2.3.2 and enumerate-resume

2019-05-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
t; Is this known? > > Yes. > >> >> Would that be a bug? > > It's basically https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11259 > > It's fixed in 2.4.x. It might get backported to 2.3.4 (but not 2.3.3). > > Jürgen > >> >> Ca

Re: 14 point type

2019-07-03 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
John, use one of the Koma Script formats, perhaps article, and then in the  Document Settings Document Class Custum put 14pt. In Document Settings Fonts use Base Size Default and select the fonts. That should do it. el Sent from Dr Lisse’s SE On 4. Jul 2019, 08:11 +0200, John White , wrote: >

Re: 14 point type (solved)

2019-07-04 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
John, I would even go so far as to use Noto Serif and if that looks too big (compare with New Century Schoolbook 14) use 13pt. :-)-O el On 2019-07-04 07:53 , John White wrote: > > On Thursday, July 4, 2019 8:30:45 AM PDT Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> John, >> >> us

Re: 14 point type (solved)

2019-07-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Why would one ever use pdf2pdf? Lualatex (pdf5) generates proper PDF. I haven't encountered the italic issue, but if I can verify it I will take it up with the package maintainer. You can take any font you like, and if New Century Schoolbook 14 works, use that. I just happen to like Noto :-)-O

Re: 14 point type (solved)

2019-07-06 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
ost when, all else being the > same, I switch from Noto serif to new century schoolbook. > > John [...] -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) e...@lisse.na/ * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 / Bachbrecht,

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-24 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
e of the JabRef devs responded to my post on the mail list. There >> have been many changes in recent versions. Also, it might be the >> reference format style. >> >> So, I have the latest development version and will try that as well as >> trying different authordate styles. >> >> Thanks for the offer, >> >> Rich >> -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) e...@lisse.na/ * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;/

Re: Background doesn't work.

2019-08-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
t; > }, > > angle=0, > > scale=1.0, > > opacity=1.0 > > } > >   > > I also have lines.pdf in the same subdirectory. See attached. However, > lyx does not see lines.pdf. > >   > > Does anyone know how I can get lyx to see and open lines

Re: Importing files: Some file types (.tex, .odt) only show up under "All files"

2020-02-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
e routine calling a file type when using > File -> Import -> LaTeX (plain) and Insert -> File -> Subdocument -> > Search in Folder? > Thankful for any helpful hints > Tobias Hilbricht [...] -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@l

Re: FW: Problems using Bibtex with lyx.

2020-06-16 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Mike, I am an elderly Gynecologist myself (and (have to) use Windows10 for the practice management software (of course in a VirtualBox window on a Mac)) :-)-O and I can tell you even my mother could switch from Windows to the Mac :-)-O. And, as a matter of fact, she did :-)-O I like to bleed on

Re: Changes to LaTeX

2020-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 2020-10-14 19:33 , John White wrote: > Isn't git owned by Gates? > > John Yes, by Linux Gates :-)-O el -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Changes to LaTeX

2020-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Rich, I could do that, but why for as they say here? This has happened for the second time in as many years so it's not really worth the effort. This happens because LaTeX is being revised significantly and thus needs to be lived with :-)-O I have every box I work with connected to a hard drive

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Andreas, this is a (LaTeX) font issue. The previewer used has nothing to do with it. And not even unknown :-)-O http://google.com/search?q=latex+palatino+ligatures So you may have to select another font. As Kornel wrote, DejVu which I don't have installed. Interestingly Tex Gyre's

Re: Reconfigure doesn't work

2020-10-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Get a Mac. el On 2020-10-22 16:00 , Carlos Knauer wrote: > Hi > I have installed MiKTeX in my notebook and LyX.  The command Reconfigure > doesn't work.  Windows 7. May be it this problem  ? > > Carlos Fernando Knauer  > > -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.or

Re: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-29 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Or, actually this both means, get rid of Windows :-)-O Seriously, I have tried to get LyX and MikTeX working on Windows, but given up. And I need Windows for my practice software, so I run it now in Virtual Box on an iMac which works out well. Not only for LyX. On my servers I run Ubuntu by th

Re: Changes to LaTeX

2020-11-01 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
If you have issues with menukeys and the new LaTeX kernel, run the upgrade once in a while until you mirror sees: On 2020-11-01 14:44 , CTAN Announcements wrote: > Tobias Weh submitted an update to the > > menukeys > > package. > > Version: 1.6 2020-10-31 Patience is a virtue (i

Re: Changes to LaTeX

2020-11-01 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
John, I love to tinker :-)-O Given my profession I must have a cell phone (and I have another one unlisted :-)-O), but I recently cancelled the landline at my house, since I haven't used it for 6 months or so. el On 2020-11-01 22:32 , John White wrote: > Thanks Doc, > > Lyx is working just fin

Re: No first line in double enumeration

2020-11-26 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
RTFM, the TAB button is your friend. el On 2020-11-25 21:22 , Hal Kierstead wrote: > All - > > Is there a way to enter the following code in LyX without ERT: > > \begin{enumerate} > \item  > \begin{enumerate} > \item a > \item b > \end{enumerate} > \item 2 > \end{enumerate} > > > Thanks, >

Re: Fwd: No first line in double enumeration

2020-11-26 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
; >>>> \begin{enumerate} >>>> \item  >>>> \begin{enumerate} >>>> \item a >>>> \item b >>>> \end{enumerate} >>>> \item 2 >>>> \end{enumerate} >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>&

Re: LyX under WSL2 using VcXsrv (sharing clipboard problems)

2020-11-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Chris, What about something like: 1) Install and use LyX for Windoze 2) setup the WSL (linux) directory structure to be accessible to the Reconfigure step 3) prefix all calls to external commands with 'wsl' or whatever needs to be done to run linux commands from a Windoze command line, with th

Re: beamer notes support?

2020-12-03 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Slightly off topic, but prompted by BeamerNotes, on the Mac there is the marvelous SlidePilot PDF viewer https://slidepilotapp.com/en/ which has a little iOS companion (to drive the presentation on screen) and specifically supports BeamerNotes. It took me 5 minutes of experimenting to ge

Re: beamer notes support?

2020-12-03 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Forgot an important point, it can control movies internally (like Acrobat). el On 2020-12-04 08:38 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Slightly off topic, but prompted by BeamerNotes, on the Mac there is > the marvelous SlidePilot PDF viewer > > https://slidepilotapp.com/en/ >

Re: beamer notes support?

2020-12-03 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
John, that thing only works on the Mac :-)-O el On 2020-12-04 08:53 , John White wrote: > So, what to do? Not knowing much of Beamer and nothing of Apple. I > open the url and it asks me to open or save. When I open it I get an > ad for Slide Pilot. Where does my debian buster system fit in

Re: Mac Binary with Qt 5.12.9

2020-12-06 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
; see if anything comes up. > > Riki [...] -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP 10007, Namibia ;__

Re: Markdown to Lyx

2020-12-10 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Murat, I would not do that through an import from the LyX GUI. Convert to LaTeX (with pandoc) and then modify the template pandoc uses in steps until the TeX file it produces converts into proper LyX (tex2lyx). Write yourself a Makefile, especially if a little Perl or Python is required to make

Re: Mac Os X 10.10

2020-12-10 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Corinna, it looks as if you do not have TeX installed. Look for MacTeX at https://www.tug.org/mactex/ and if you ask me, download only the Smaller Download from https://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html If you have homebrew installed, do something like brew lyx bas

Re: Markdown to Lyx

2020-12-11 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
g that does not play very well with LyX, and the possibility of > including raw latex in the MD document. > > With time, I will have to make things more sophist aced (including YAML > headers, references etc.) but for now I am quite happy with what I get as a > basis. > > Best regar

Re: Xubuntu 20.04: Qt Library

2020-12-12 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Hartmut, would a better approach not be an alternative repository from which the package manager then can install the latest DEB? el On 2020-12-12 12:47 , Hartmut Haase wrote: Hi Richard, I'm a little puzzled why you would need that. LyX uses Qt, yes, but if I install LyX from the distributi

Re: Xubuntu 20.04: Qt Library

2020-12-12 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
or Ubuntu. I don't know if it works with Debian. > > Riki > > > > > > Best, > > > > John > > > > On Saturday, December 12, 2020 7:42:23 AM PST Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > > > Hartmut, > > > > > > would a better

Re: How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?

2020-12-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Steve, you don't need to do anything, because beamer does not produce paper. I collaborate a lot with a colleague in the US and do need to do anything for the presentations. For the papers he changes the LyX to Letter if he wants to print and I to A4 if I want to print. If you like, you can exp

Re: Markdown to Lyx

2020-12-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Murat, what is the Wiki link? — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone On 14 Dec 2020, 07:28 +0200, Murat Yildizoglu , wrote: > > > > Le 11 déc. 2020 à 15:50, Dr Eberhard W Lisse a écrit : > > > > Murat, > > > > also look for pandoc’s template (-t latex) which you c

Re: Has anybody lost their book's index when switching to lualatex?

2021-01-01 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
LyX does this automatically, doesn't it? Or do you export to TeX and then run lualatex? el On 2020-12-31 18:24 , Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I switched from compiling with LaTeX to compiling with LuaLaTeX, and my > book's index went away. Upon further research, I found that I had > forgott

Re: Has anybody lost their book's index when switching to lualatex?

2021-01-02 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
was exporting to LuaLaTeX I would use latexmk to compile, because that will also do all the indexing and bibliographing. greetings, el On 2021-01-02 22:00 , Steve Litt wrote: [...] > On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 23:42:47 +0200 Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >> LyX does this automatically

Re: help with error message

2021-01-04 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
very hard to > download. Any alternative? If I need to buy a new Mac/ laptop for > programming, what will be the best ? > > Thanks and regards > /Heba Hussein (/何芭 侯赛因) BDS, MDSc, PhD, NBDE [...] -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician &

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

2021-01-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Heba, I am not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Fire up LyX and do a Tools -> Reconfigure. Restart LyX and open or create a document. Then hit Command-R or click on the icon with the two eyes. el On 2021-01-04 17:37 , heba said wrote: > Thanks Dr I downloaded and installed the MacT

Re: help with error message

2021-01-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
x27;t know what upstream tex is nor package installed tex. el On 2021-01-05 18:56 , Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:43:26 +0200 > Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >> Heba, >> >> download BasicTeX from the MacTex site. And then use tlmgr from the >> co

Re: [lyx-announce] LyX 2.3.6.2 Update for OSX Only

2021-01-16 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Thanks, Thunderbird is being difficult (perhaps because I don't want to upgrade :-)-O) I didn't notice the issue, since I use synctex rarely. But, as I said, I dutifully upgrade to all stable versions. Gruss aus dem Süden, el On 2021-01-15 17:12 , Daniel wrote: > On 2021-01-14 10:52, Dr Eberha

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-20 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
While, I like XML out of principle, but besides that I find the tone of the request a bit over the top, especially for such a huge undertaking, it is rare to require LyX documents to be both manually and programmatically editable. Messing with the LyX file is admittedly difficult, why do it in th

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:48:43 +0200 > Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >> While, >> >> I like XML out of principle, but besides that I find the tone of the >> request a bit over the top, especially for such a huge undertaking, it >> is rare to

Re: Frontispiz with LYX

2021-01-26 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I would ask the author of Koma Script for assistance putting that into the Preamble. el On 2021-01-26 20:15 , Andreas Plihal wrote: > Hi, >   > I work with KOMA-Script in LYX. By the time I was creating a book, I > already got the front cover. The only thing missing is a frontispiece. > How can I

Re: best route for org-mode --> LyX

2021-02-07 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
If you can get it read by pandoc you are halfway there https://pandoc.org/org.html Creating a template which exports LaTeX that translates 1-1 to LyX has been done and been discussed here recently. el On 2021-02-06 18:40 , Saša Janiška wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to start taking no

Re: best route for org-mode --> LyX

2021-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
If org-mode can produce LaTeX which tex2lyx can import easily then I would not go the pandoc route. Note-Taking should produce "predictable" LaTeX so tex2lyx should get this done. However, if not, pandoc is very configurable especially through the template. I modified it extensively and still had

Re: find next?

2021-02-11 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I can also confirm that CMD-G is bound to word-find-forward in 2.3.6.2 and (that non working of if) has been irritating me on all of my Macs for at least 5 but maybe even 10 years. Does one of the (Core-) Developers have a Mac? el On 2021-02-12 04:39 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 2/11/21

Re: find next?

2021-02-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
' but no name of that unknow function. Where else can I look? On 2021-02-12 10:10 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Freitag, dem 12.02.2021 um 08:35 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse: >> I can also confirm that CMD-G is bound to word-find-forward in >> 2.3.6.2  and (that non wo

Re: find next?

2021-02-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Yes hundreds of times for man years. On the Mac Ctrl-F does not work, it is CMD-F el On 2021-02-13 18:07 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Samstag, dem 13.02.2021 um 18:03 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse: >> Makes no difference here. > > Just to be sure, did you really try thi

Re: find next?

2021-02-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Statusbar shows nothing. /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg action shows frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1603): cmd: action: 169 [word-find-forward] arg: '' x: 0 y: 0 BufferView.cpp (1261): BufferView::dispatch: cmd: action: 169 [word-find-forward] arg: '

Re: find next?

2021-02-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
As I posted, I get the same, and I most certainly did all the steps, it did find the string in thw window and with the "Find-Next" but not with CMD-G frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1603): cmd: action: 241 [word-find] arg: 'ermany 0 0 1' x: 0 y: 0 BufferView.cpp (1261)

Re: Format KOMA-Script-Book

2021-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
RTFM, google "scrguien" el n 2021-02-20 20:42 , Andreas Plihal wrote: > Hi, >   > I am writing a book with LYX und choose KOMA-Script-Book and the paper > size A4. >   > The result is that the printed A4 pages are only marginally full: a > right-hand page leaves 3 cm to the top margin, 5 cm to t

Re: de_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx

2021-02-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Reinstall babel? On my Mac Catalina it compiles without issue. el On 2021-02-24 12:22 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > If I fetch > de_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx > from > New from Templates > and export it as pdf > I get > Package babel error > option ngerman unknown > > What should I do?

Re: Layout

2021-03-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
KOMA Book? el On 2021-03-13 11:56 , Mario Moles wrote: Dear lyx-users I'm happy to be part of your community. I am new to the Lyx world. I would like to know if there is a paperback layout. I haven't found any. Do you have any idea? Thanks so much Mario Moles -- lyx-users mailing list

Re: blurish pdf figure

2021-03-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Wolfgang, make it export SVGA and use that :-0-O el On 2021-03-15 12:31 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am 15.03.21 um 10:38 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: Wolfgang, how is this produced? el On 12/03/2021 12:01, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: If I insert the graphic (appended) in a lyx document, it lo

Re: blurish pdf figure

2021-03-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
That should read SVG of course. LyX finds rsvg-convert on the Mac when libsvg is installed, which has a smaller footprint than inkscape and very good qualitywise. greetings, el On 2021-03-15 19:29 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Wolfgang, > > make it export SVGA and use that :-0

Re: blurish pdf figure

2021-03-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Maybe, maybe not. For me it has always worked very well. And for graphs it should should be ok. Perhaps try both. el On 2021-03-15 19:53 , Neal Becker wrote: Doesn't rsvg-covert output raster, which would be lower quality than inkscape vector output? [...] -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users

Re: Aw: lyx-users Digest, Vol 77, Issue 4

2021-03-16 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Andreas, can I make a suggestion, please put a meaningful subject line in, I for one select what I read by subject, most of the time. el On 2021-03-16 20:49 , Andreas Plihal wrote: > Hi, > in between thank you very much for all the help so far! > Now to my problem: No, unfortunately the update

Re: Changing Figure Labelling in LyX

2021-03-18 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Phillipe, this is a LaTeX issue, and if asked on a LaTeX related forum Usenet's comp.text.tex or Stackexchange might yield better results. Google is also you friend. el On 2021-03-18 20:13 , Philippe Burden wrote: To whomever this may concern, I have recently started using LyX to write scie

Re: 3D graphics for LYX

2021-03-27 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
There are 375482 tools around to produce professional 3D graphics. This is the wrong question. The question must be what data you got, and what you want to show. R and knitR are very well suited to produce very good graphics from within LyX. el On 2021-03-26 16:06 , Andreas Plihal wrote: > W

Re: Pasting latex in a lyx file

2021-04-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Yes, it does. el On 2021-04-08 00:57 , Paul A. Rubin wrote: [...] Actually, I usually do the same thing (because I forget about the paste LaTeX option). Sometimes, though, what plops into the ERT box is a mess of the sort Mario described, and I end up inserting newlines to make it readable

Re: Pasting latex in a lyx file

2021-04-19 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Me three :-)-O el On 2021-04-19 14:47 , Christoph Schmitz wrote: > I want to second this proposal! > > I do not know how much work it would be to create a new setting, which > would allow users to use whatever method they prefer. If I have to > chose between the two options, Daniel's proposal i

Re: Solved: capacity exeeded

2021-05-03 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
It is a real nuisance, bein gunable to understand what is meant by this. Quoting the whole Digest without even referring what helped makes no sense. el On 2021-05-02 18:45 , Andreas Plihal wrote: Thank you very much - that helped! Greetings Andreas *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 28. April 2021 um 14:00

Re: Wallpaper on first page only........

2021-05-07 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
If it is in the preamble you can try to but it into (the braces of) something like \AtBeginDocument{} or \NowButAfterBeginDocument{} greetings, el On 2021-05-06 13:40 , Charlie wrote: Christoph Schmitz informed me regarding: Re: Wallpaper on first page only...

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