Re: moving to linux... part 2 - tetex package installation

2007-06-15 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 10:10:36 Helge Hafting wrote: > Most other distributions use the rpm packaging system. > It is a long time since I used those - one usually had to > download lots of rpm files and then give a command to install > them all. The main difference from the "apt" command above w

Re: LyX and temporary directory

2007-06-23 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 23 June 2007 09:11:24 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > /home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp/ > need > /home/wolfgang/tmp/ ?? > > Any Linux user there who knows? I never saw the problems you are describing. :-) If I understand you correctly you said that as soon as you changed the temporary directory

LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2) is released

2007-06-27 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2) === We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2). We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0, and until the first stable release only critical bugs and regressions will be ad

Re: Fwd: Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2) is released

2007-06-28 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 28 June 2007 16:34:12 killermike wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 15:03:05 Urtzi Jauregi wrote: > > As usual, remember not to save important documents with RC2 as the > > stable version won't be able to open them. > > What is the latest version that can save documents that can be o

Re: Fwd: Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2) is released

2007-07-01 Thread José Matos
On Friday 29 June 2007 11:14:25 Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > > If you really don't want to install rc2, you should at least copy the > > lib/lyx2lyx directory from the rc2 tarball and replace the one in your > > rc1 installation. This way, you will be able to open the rc2 generated > > document with

Re: HTML Export

2007-07-01 Thread José Matos
On Friday 29 June 2007 03:44:20 John O'Gorman wrote: > > i cant remember which on top of my head, but it is in the docs. > > Latex2HTML You can install that for Fedora (another option is hevea): $ yum search latex2html hevea hevea.i386 1.08-6.fc6 fedora

Re: How to crash LyX1.5.0beta2

2007-07-11 Thread José Matos
On Friday 06 July 2007 17:24:22 Bob Lounsbury wrote: > Cannot reproduce the crash on LyX 1.5.0rc2 on XP, I opened your > example and did Shift->Up and Shift->Right a bunch of different times > all over the table. I've found rc2 to be fairly resistant to crashes. The same here with Fedora (7) Lin

Re: Lyx 1.5.0rc2: \overset math command

2007-07-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:27:55 Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:02:47PM +0200, Nicolás wrote: > > If I write \overset{def}{=} I get the preview shown in the attached > > picture, that is 'def' does not appear above '=', but they both overlap. > > Right. > > Patch attached. > >

Re: how to convert lyx1.3 to 1.5

2007-07-16 Thread José Matos
On Monday 16 July 2007 11:33:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I ve just installed the rc2 of lyx 1.5, and was suprised to not read my > previous doc written with lyx 1.3. > There is a possibility to save in 1.3 format but not to load from. Is there any problem opening old files? It should jus

Re: how to convert lyx1.3 to 1.5

2007-07-16 Thread José Matos
On Monday 16 July 2007 14:52:42 Valter Filipe Silva wrote: > I also have problem openning old files (from Lyx 1.5Beta3). ? What kind of problems? We will release 1.5.0 really soon and I would like to hear about those problems. > Best regards > > Valter -- José Abílio

Re: how to convert lyx1.3 to 1.5

2007-07-17 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 16:51:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is an example written in lyx 1.4 > > best regards > > bela OK, the problem was easy to spot. :-) Just for reference here it is the patch that fixes the problem: Index: lyx_1_5.py =

Re: Read only as default.

2007-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Friday 10 August 2007 19:38:57 Bernhard Roider wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: > > Emacs also have a "open read only" command. We could do something like > > that and bind it to C-S-o, but not put it in menu. > > afaics there is nothing to do in the source code: just add the following > l

Re: Prosper y Lyx

2007-08-29 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:03:04 Jorge Mario wrote: > Hello, I need to make presentations or transparencies with the Prosper > in Lyx, I download the examples and the package of it page it of Lyx > wiki but they don't work. > > Has somebody implemented slides with the package Prosper? > > than

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:54:07 Andre Poenitz wrote: > My kpdf runs on fvwm2, and your file looks good. I have kpdf under kde and the text looks perfect. :-) > Andre' -- José Abílio

Re: Bug with background color of LyX notes?

2007-09-04 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 15:54:58 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Go for it.  But I won't be surprised if it's a long wait before a > developer gets around to that one. Have we told you that we accept patches? ;-) Not that every patch goes in directly but a patch is a nice start. :-) > /Paul --

Re: Portuguese hyphenation?

2007-09-21 Thread José Matos
On Friday 21 September 2007 14:48:08 Roberto Gorjão wrote: > Hello, > > This probably is really a newbie question but there it goes: how do I > set the Portuguese hyphenation on? > > I've already set up the Portuguese language (with an utf8 encoding, > because of BibTeX) on the document settings di

Re: DVI sem imagens

2007-09-25 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 02:47:18 David L. Johnson wrote: > That's about the extent of my Spanish. With the single exception that original post is in Portuguese your answer is accurate. ;-) -- José Abílio

Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x

2007-10-12 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:40:51 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like > you, I have a bunch of them).  The format for LyX document files evolves > with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to > convert older format

Re: What's the problem with encoding?

2007-10-16 Thread José Matos
On Friday 12 October 2007 00:02:00 Armando Duarte Senra Martins wrote: > Hello! Olá, > I am trying to get through with Latex using Lyx to type a document in > portuguese. > I had a document previously typed with a WYSIWYG. When I imported it to > Lyx lots af characters were lost. So I had to do

Re: problems converting old files

2007-10-17 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 16:50:47 Mark Hansel wrote: > Hi, > > This AM, I tried to open a file with lyx format 2.16 and the lyx2lyx > script failed. I can provide details off-list. Please do. I am interested to see where it fails to fix it. > Mark Hansel -- José Abílio

Re: Enumarating lists and continuation at particular depth

2007-11-08 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 08 November 2007 21:57:51 Bruce Pourciau wrote: > When I try to open example lyx files posted on this list, I get a > conversion script failure: "filename.lyz is from an earlier version > of lyx, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it" I'm running LyX > 1.4.1. Must I upgrade to 1.5

Re: Enumarating lists and continuation at particular depth

2007-11-08 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 08 November 2007 21:00:30 Manveru wrote: > What I need is to continue the text at particular level before I put new > enumerated position on the list. > > Now I put "standard" paragraph for continuations, but I loose formating and > continuous enumeration then. > > Any advices?? Some

Re: Script Conversion Failure

2007-11-09 Thread José Matos
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:42:25 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > The lyx2lyx script has an optional argument indicating the format to > which to convert.  (It also has an optional from argument, though I > don't see in the code where that is used.  But then I don't really speak > Python.) LyX always c

Re: Script Conversion Failure

2007-11-09 Thread José Matos
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:56:54 José Matos wrote: >   The latest version of 1.4.x (1.4.5.1) is able to read 1.5.x documents. > That was the mainly purpose of its release. :-) That was the main purpose of its release... -- José Abílio

Re: LyX 1.5.2: Some document classes "not available"

2007-11-20 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 14:05:27 Patrick Schoenbach wrote: > Thanks. This already helps. However, www.sgmltools.org does not exist > anymore. Where do I get SGMLTools for Windows from? Google does not help > much, or did I overlook something? That is not a latex class. (personal note) I need

Re: LyX 1.5.2: Some document classes "not available"

2007-11-21 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 02:59:24 Koji Yokota wrote: > SGMLtools was succeeded by SGMLtools-Lite. It can be found at: > > http://sgmltools-lite.sourceforge.net/ > > As SGML is already becoming obsolete, you may want to consider using > DocBook as the above webpage tells you. I think

Re: DocBook Support?

2007-11-22 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 22 November 2007 10:40:03 Ryan Cross wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen some pointers to using Lyx for creating/editing DocBook > documents. However, the wiki suggests this isn't supported any more. I think that you are referring to linuxdoc and not to docbook. > Does > anyone know how t

Re: Getting errors with microtype

2007-11-27 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 24 November 2007 12:48:34 Paul Smith wrote: > How can one update pdfeTeX to a newer version? I am using Fedora Linux 7. It is possible to install the texlive packages that are under review for Fedora inclusion in Fedora 7. The idea is to replace tetex by texlive and the packages ar

Re: DocBook Support?

2007-11-27 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 22 November 2007 22:12:56 Ryan Cross wrote: > I don't know much about linuxdoc - but I am pretty sure I am correctly > referring to docbook. Its an xml format for generating multiple types of > documentation, pdf/html/chm (windows help files)/etc > > You can see lyx linked directly from

Re: Getting errors with microtype

2007-11-28 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 22:27:00 Paul Smith wrote: > However, it only contains F8 packages and none of F7. > > Paul I had the same complain. :-) Jindřich Nový replied that those packages work in F7 as well. The only exception is xdvi that requires some symbol from the new glibc shipped with F

Re: lyx2lyx failure

2007-12-08 Thread José Matos
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) 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 d

Re: TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users

2007-12-09 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 09 December 2007 10:20:06 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Did you try my suggestion on bugzilla (uninstalling KDE4)? I suspect that you are right. In my new desktop I have not (yet) installed kde4 and lyx displays figures and math previews. On my laptop were kde4libs are installed it c

Re: TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users

2007-12-10 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 09 December 2007 17:54:40 Rex Dieter wrote: > If you could try the kde-3.96 update coming to updates-testing soon, and > let folks know if it helps or not, it would be greatly appreciated. > > Else, someone (hint hint, else will probably will fall to me or others of > fedora's KDE SIG  :)

Re: TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users

2007-12-10 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 09 December 2007 17:53:00 Rex Dieter wrote: > What is most likely, afaict, is that this is a bug in some version(s) > kdelibs4, and this isn't fedora (8) specific at all. I agree with Rex on this point. :-) > -- Rex -- José Abílio

Re: dejavu fonts with texlive (fedora 8)

2007-12-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:37:01 Neal Becker wrote: > I noticed after installing texlive on fedora f8 that now if I create a > beamer document, the default fonts are ugly, and they are coming from: > /usr/share/fonts/dejavu-lgc/DejaVuLGCSans.ttf > > If I do \usepackage{cmlgc}, everything is c

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 17:24:00 Todd Denniston wrote: > Automatically translated text: > Comapñeros of habal Hispanic. We ask in Spanish? There was a type here, it is Compañeros. So the translations should be something like: Dear Spanish speaker fellows may I ask questions in Spanish? Yo

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 29 December 2007 00:37:44 Paul Smith wrote: > Here: LyX 1.5.2 on Fedora 8. Hopefully, the official LyX 1.5.3 rpm for > F8 will be available soon. That version is already in updates-testing # yum update lyx --enable-repo=updates-testing should update lyx to the new version. It

Re: DocBook Support?

2008-01-04 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 08:03:52 Ryan Cross wrote: > Bump... Can anyone provide some guidance on working with DocBook for Lyx > (with any current versions)? > > Thanks! > -Ryan I am sorry for the delay. I have been recovering from a small surgery just before the holidays, and now I am reco

Re: Reminder of otl2lyx.awk

2008-01-04 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 30 December 2007 19:05:04 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > otl2lyx.awk has been tested and works for LyX 1.4.x. I hear 1.5.x has a > different format, so obviously otl2lyx.awk must be changed to output the > 1.5.x type LyX, or maybe the LyX project offers a converter. Either way > it's not

Re: lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:02:43 rgheck wrote: > If the file is from 1.5, upgrade to 1.4.5.1: It can read files from 1.5. > If the problem is file corruption, we can try to solve the problem if > you post the file here. Sometimes that is not possible due to privacy reasons, in some cases you c

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:18:05 rgheck wrote: > I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the > second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm > thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is > for me. Gentoo would be an option,

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 13:14:45 rgheck wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] > > > > [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile > > time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is > > maybe better suite

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:46:02 Steve Litt wrote: > > IIRC the Mandriva 2007 I use defaults to KDE and has lots and lots of KDE > programs (I'm writing this on kmail), but my hatred of KDE is so profound > that my first step was to switch to IceWM, and my second step was to find > non-KDE substi

Re: bug in conversion of old lyx file to 1.5.3 (uwthesis template)

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 23:55:02 Scott Otterson wrote: > I'm trying to use lyx 1.5.3 to read a lyx file which was created with an > older version of lyx (the University of Washington lyx thesis template: > http://staff.washington.edu/fox/tex/uwthesis_lyx.zip).  When I open the > file,  this tr

Re: bug in conversion of old lyx file to 1.5.3 (uwthesis template)

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:37:44 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > BTW, the traceback seems to relate to the zlib library.  Were you > attempting to convert the file while it was in an archive?  The last > line of the error dump suggests not, but I wonder why then lyx2lyx was > executing something gzip-re

Re: accents and dead keys

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 31 January 2008 09:41:59 Ignacio García wrote: > Then, I should like to know if this behaviour also works for you, in > other GNU/Linux > flavours or O.S., and/or in other languages using dead keys for accent > keys. Fedora 8 and a Portuguese keyboard here. The dead keys work just

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 05:55:21 Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there any news on this trouble?  I'm a little puzzled by it. > > On Fedora 8, I just installed the bleeding edge KDE4 and found that > lyx crashed, and then I googled my way to this thread.  I am running > the lyx package that is distrib

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:43:12 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I've promised to keep out of this thread but this is again plain FUD, > LyX-1.5 is perfectly compilable with Qt-4.1.0. The INSTALL file only > says that it has been _tested_ with Qt-4.1.5. All version of Qt-4.1.x > are course binary a

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: > So I'd add something like: > > WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A > BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! > > And then add a sentence saying why. make clean is not enough? I am asking although I suspect that the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:03:04 Steve Litt wrote: >   --with-version-suffix=1.5.3 You can simply use --with-version-suffix and configure will put the right version for you. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: > On my box, every make, whether successful or failure, takes about 25 > minutes, and ./configure takes 5 minutes. I'm not going to have time to do > that for at least a couple weeks. In such cases ccache is really useful. :-) > The answer

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 18:50:20 Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: > I reported this bug (4633) 1.6svn seems to be incapable to read 1.5.x > files (on my Win XP Pro system). And I replied there that I suspect from your python installation. :-) We need a better debugging info for this kind

Re: pdf file size

2008-03-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 21:03:11 Miki Dovrat wrote: > Hi, > > Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex > package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to > reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. > > I would love to do it "on t

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 00:48:50 M-L wrote: > I agree. The bird is good, instantly recognisable and synonymous with LyX. > It is the LyX brand in that it is unique. That is not a bird. That is a platypus and is a mammal although it lays eggs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus So please don't

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 27 March 2008 01:49:50 Rich Shepard wrote: >    Regardless, naming the mascot Lydia is a great idea: no other FOSS > application has such a name. Perhaps we could mate Lydia and Tux, sell the > off-spring to zoos (once they hatch, of course) and fund development that > way. Oh, it woul

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:06:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah, and I guess it's no coincidence that there's a platypus in the users' > guide?  Is there a story behind this particular animal, e.g. something > like that it's a "hybrid animal", like LyX? I am not sure, the platypus figure made

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:04:54 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I hope this will be fixed in LyX 1.6. That will be released on Christmas. > Jürgen -- José Abílio

Re: When will Lyx 1.6 be available?

2008-04-06 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:30:27 HZ wrote: > Hi all > > I have seen a lot of new features with Lyx 1.6. > It is so attractive. So I am just wondering when will it be released? When it is ready. :-) > Is there any new information about that? We are near the release of the second alpha (the fi

Re: lyx2lyx fails to import .tex document created by openoffice

2008-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 16:39:25 José Matos wrote: > This problem happens both for lyx 1.5.5svn and 1.6.0svn. > > > best, > > rené toth In order not to forget this bug I filled this in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4719 -- José Abílio

Re: lyx2lyx fails to import .tex document created by openoffice

2008-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 15:21:07 René Toth wrote: > hello, > > it seems that i've got a problem with lyx2lyx, when i try to import .tex > documents which i've created with openoffice. > lyx always reports an error to me, that the conversion-script failed, > because the created .lyx file comes from

Re: Creating LaTeX File Programmatically: The Solution

2008-04-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 00:58:49 Rich Shepard wrote: >    I don't mind contributing this to the Wiki if Christian (or anyone else) > thinks there might be future interest in this, but I did not try it with > LyX because I knew there would be a lot of adjustments to get the > positioning just right

Re: Missing the Obvious? -- FIXED!

2008-04-08 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 23:33:13 Rich Shepard wrote: >    I now return you to your regularly scheduled mail list. Welcome to the "Teddy bear effect". :-) http://www.answers.com/topic/teddy-bear-effect > Rich -- José Abílio

Re: Can't \includegraphic in preamble or ERT

2008-04-16 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:34:17 Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > I have the layout of a Memoir book title page defined in LyX using   > LaTeX, because it is too complex to be done with the LyX editor.  One   > line of it is this: > > \includegraphics[scale=0.1]{terminuspress.png} I know that it is a wa

Re: lyx2lyx convert failed

2008-04-19 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:36:19 Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: > Dear all > > I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 > version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find > attach the file. Correction, your lyx files says that you created it

Re: lyx 1.5.4 - make check Fail!.

2008-04-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 17:50:18 Enrique J. Madrid M. wrote: > Hi, > > When I run the "make check" command, I get the message bellow: > > ... > PASS: test_convert > FAIL: test_filetools > PASS: test_lstrings > > 1 of 3 tests failed > Please report to

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows

2008-04-24 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 24 April 2008 14:06:50 killermike wrote: > On Thursday 24 April 2008 13:50:13 Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Hello LyX testers, > > > > I uploaded a new snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows: > > LyX 1.6.0alpha2. > > Could someone confirm for me: is the Linux 1.6.0 alpha 2 actual

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:35:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; > I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has > anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? > Please let me know I have

Re: Thesis template in Lyx

2008-04-30 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:57:54 Bob Lounsbury wrote: > I then renamed report.layout to ufthesis.layout and changed the first line > from: > > \DeclareLaTeXClass{report} > to > \DeclareLaTeXClass{ufthesis} > > And done. You now have a layout file for your ufthesis.cls file. Or better yet, inclu

Re: Tex capacity exceeded

2008-05-03 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 03 May 2008 16:34:01 Adrian Peter wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am working on a multipart thesis using Lyx. I keep getting the following > error when I try to export to PDF or view the DVI: > > > > TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000] > > I checked the mail archive and saw tha

Re: Thesis template in Lyx (including a chapter)

2008-05-05 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 03 May 2008 03:30:28 Adrian Peter wrote: > I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the > same type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to > point to the ufthesis.cls file).  Is the child document somehow redefining > the graphicx package

Re: LyX formatting citations incorrectly-- Desperate for help

2008-05-08 Thread José Matos
On Friday 09 May 2008 00:06:24 Adam Pantanowitz wrote: > Hi all > > I have searched far and wide, read documents, and tried messing around with > layout and cls files, but have been unable to find an answer. > > If someone can help me, I'd be immensely grateful! > > I am trying to use the IEEEtran

Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote: > I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format > this to a file to include in lyx? > > I tried making a file with: > > \begin_layout Standard > \begin_inset Graphics > filename N=512,e=--20.pdf > width 1

Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:38:02 Neal Becker wrote: > Not sure what you mean here. Help->Customization-> Chapter 6 - Including External Material -- José Abílio

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: > So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 > documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. It should not, if it does that and is not documented in NEWS or RELEASE-NOTES it is a bug and it should be fixed. So if you want to

Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:24:04 Rich Shepard wrote: >    The 'Missing $ inserted' error message is generated when there is a math > symbol (e.g., $) in the text string that causes LaTeX to enter math mode. I > do not have any monetary amounts in the text. What other character might be > seen by L

Re: Help with euro symbol

2006-08-05 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 05 August 2006 00:05, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Of course because LyX 1.4.x couldn't handle Unicode or the encoding the > encodings to display the euro sign. LyX 1.5 wiil have this feature. Nope, there is a bug somewhere. LyX supports latin9, the encoding used for the euro, and I have inse

Re: A Spell Checker Error

2006-08-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 03:45, Rich Shepard wrote: >    Running 1.4.2 on linux here. Evoked the spelling checker on a short > article and fixed the errors it found. Then I ran the source through > pdflatex. > >    While reading the typeset document, I saw the word, 'th .' "How > strange," I thoug

Re: placing a large table in landscape orientation

2006-08-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 06:54, John Pye wrote: > Hi all, > > I have moderately wide table that I would like to place on a page of my > LyX document in landscape format. I have been able to do this, although > note that it comes out wrong in the DVI viewer, but appears not bad in > the pdflatex ou

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 August 2006 14:25, Pupeno wrote: > My wife is doing some work in which she pastes lots of text from mails and > other places, most of the on UTF-8 and pastes it on Lyx, but Lyx uses > Latin-1, so she ends up with a lot of weird characters. Any ideas how to > solve the problem ? somethi

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:58, Pupeno wrote: > >   In 1.4.2 I don't have any problem copy and pasting from an external > > source to lyx. > > Is the external selection in UTF-8 ? is your locale in UTF-8 ? is your > desktop environment all using UTF-8 as well ? If so, can you track that it > is a

Re: Math-intensive work in 1.4.x impossible.

2006-08-17 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 17 August 2006 18:56, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Indeed, I'm running lyx on FC5 with gcc 4.1.x. > Attached is the bug report obtained with  "lyx -dbg mathed,action 2> > lyx_bug.txt" > > Apparently, the crash really occurs when I exit mathed mode and instant > preview should kick in... > > Co

Re: Math-intensive work in 1.4.x impossible.

2006-08-17 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 17 August 2006 19:21, Georg Baum wrote: > Rudi, I think it is best if you stick with 1.3.7 until we have fixed this > issue and then try again. Or turn off instant preview for the moment. :-) > Georg -- José Abílio

Designing a book with LyX (link)

2006-08-24 Thread José Matos
Hi all, I found this link in Linux Weekly News: Designing a book with LyX - http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/1859251 It should be interesting to add to wiki. It is a good promotion of LyX's abilities. :-) Thanks to the authors for the text. -- José Abílio

Re: Problem with including a gnuplot picture

2006-09-09 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 09 September 2006 15:03, Georg Baum wrote: > Or write an external template for gnuplot. I am actually surprised > that nobody did that yet. Angus tried this but found that it is not secure, you can pass any argument to gnuplot, you can not use it in a sand box. This is the only r

Re: wiki: FYI, the word "propecia" is now blocked

2006-09-12 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If there is any legitimate reason why you would want to write "propecia" > in a page, let me know. (I don't even know what it means...) Wikipedia is your friend. ;-) > /Christian -- José Abílio

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) > I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. > > But when was it first announced or

Re: Footnotes in an Appendix?

2006-09-18 Thread José Matos
On Monday 18 September 2006 20:47, Dave Jarvis wrote: > Hi, > > I love LyX. But that's not why I'm writing. > > I have recently (and perhaps naively) added footnotes into a table > within an Appendix. When the PDF was generated, no footnotes appeared. > Two pages from the same document illustrate t

Re: Footnotes in an Appendix?

2006-09-18 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 07:33, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > It's there now: > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#footintab Thanks, > Jürgen -- José Abílio

Re: Read only mode?

2006-09-22 Thread José Matos
On Friday 22 September 2006 19:58, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Is there a read only mode for lyx? > > From a message sent by Jean-Marc in may, I gathered that there is such a > thing: > --- snip -- > You can use buffer-readonly-toggle (which can

Re: 1.4.3 preview error

2006-09-23 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 23 September 2006 17:10, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I have Linux Suse 9.3, lyx 1.4.3 compiled. > > View > DVI no work > appears DVI visor, xdvik, with file name but nothing > more, white page. > > PDF´s updates no work. What is the pdf viewer you are using? Does i

Re: Enumerate with Figure

2006-10-06 Thread José Matos
On Friday 06 October 2006 13:37, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Helge, > > Sounds like what I need, but when I tried to open your file I saw   > this message: "This file is from an earlier version of LyX, but the   > lyx2lyx script failed to convert it." The file was generated with a newer version and

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 02:05, Timothy Reaves wrote: > I'd like to use the DocBook Book document class, but it is listed as > unavailable. I have all the DocBook tools installed (as that's what > I've used the last several years). What do I need to do to make the > classes available to Ly

Re: config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 14:32, Guy Hindell wrote: > Hi there - a couple of questions. > > First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it > exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a > software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-10 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 04:32, Timothy Reaves wrote: > > > > Hi Timothy, > > the answer is in configure.py, we search for the presence of sgmltools > > or db2x scripts. What other tools do you propose for us to check the > > availability? > > > >>Thanks. > > None. But I have tho

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-11 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 05:17, Timothy Reaves wrote: > I understand that, but it's not being picked up. AFAIR, the environment variable PATH in the OSX package is set so that latex can be find in the way. For docbook we test for the presence of db2dvi in PATH. So you should gua

Re: lyxformat command

2006-10-29 Thread José Matos
On Monday 30 October 2006 3:07 am, Mohan V. Chunkath wrote: > Dear Paul, > Does that mean that if I have the latest version of Lyx (1.4.3) for Windows > XP I do not have to worry about the \lyxformat command i.e. are later > versions backward compatible with earlier versions. Thanks in advance.

Re: Trouble with Floats and Graphic centering

2006-10-31 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 3:59 pm, Stan Gatchel wrote: > Any ideas on how to center the graphic in the float box? Go to the paragraph where the figure is, inside the float, and change its alignment to Center. > Thanks, > > Stan -- José Abílio

Re: Import of large latex table into Lyx does not work

2006-11-12 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 11 November 2006 10:18 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:26:44PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > > The problem are empty cells, which are represented by "$$", which causes > > confusion in LyX. > > Now I don't know if this is a accepted format in LaTeX and if there

Re: zlib and 1.4.3

2006-11-13 Thread José Matos
On Monday 13 November 2006 1:16 am, John B. Egger wrote: > I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and > ./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib > is installed properly. Although I went ahead with "make" anyway, and LyX > 1.4.3 is runnin

Re: looking for step-by-step guide for using docbook-xml with LyX

2006-11-15 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 12:15 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I asked about this in May but didn't get any reply. I am sorry Jeremy, I am the responsible for this area and I have been really busy. > I am looking for a step-by-step guide for using docbook-xml with LyX. > > My configure.py has

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