Re: how to install LyX in Windows?

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/24/2009 01:19 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: It was rather surprise for me that installing LyX in Linux seems to be much more complecated than in Windows. In fact, I have no experience in Linux... It's actually a whole lot simpler to install software in Linux than in Windows.

Re: I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

2009-07-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Steve Litt wrote: If I'm not mistaken, the doc class for "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist" was derived from Koma. I'll keep you informed :-) SteveT, Whatever floats your boat is OK with me. It's your issue, so do whatever feels good. Rich --

Re: I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

2009-07-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: But "Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting is built with a document class based on Memoir, and it's nothing but trouble. First I had to get Memoir from the web because the Ubuntu one didn't seem to work. Now I need memhfixc or my book gets the "zero output" error. The mem

Re: I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 July 2009 19:08:43 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > > Worse, this isn't the first time. Every time I lay down a new OS, my > > memoir derived book fails. > > Steve, > >Perhaps this is a clue to stick with a single distribution. :-) > > > I'm not saying

Re: I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

2009-07-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Worse, this isn't the first time. Every time I lay down a new OS, my memoir derived book fails. Steve, Perhaps this is a clue to stick with a single distribution. :-) I'm not saying Memoir doesn't have its place. The person who uses Memoir for every

I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Memoir. Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch. Memoir. Never again! As you know I switched to Ubuntu and of course things are different. But for the most part, my books whose document classes were based on "book" fired up just fine once I fixed the layout location (and of course o

Re: LyX 1.6.2 crashed

2009-07-24 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 15:25 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: ... > I did what you said, and now have a very stable 1.6.3. You helped me out > immensely. So, it works! Great :-)

Re: how to install LyX in Windows?

2009-07-24 Thread Witold (grizz) Firlej
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 19:19, wrote: > It was rather surprise for me that installing LyX in Linux seems to be > much more complecated than in Windows. In fact, I have no experience in > Linux... for example in PLD Linux ipoldek install lyx DONE ;) -- :: Witek Firlej :: Voiceless it cri

Re: LyX 1.6.2 crashed

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 July 2009 04:14:50 you wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > I opened one of my docs in LyX, clicked "document" on the menu, and > > > > lyx terminated... > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > LyX Version 1.6.2 > > > > > > ... > > Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > If you have no strong reasons to sti

Re: LyX 1.6.2 crashed

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 July 2009 14:29:34 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > OK, I've downloaded these two, for 32 bit Jaunty, which I think is what I > > have. I know I have 32 bit, and I know I have 9.0.4. > > 9.04 is indeed Jaunty Jackelope. > > > Here's what I downloaded: > > > > * lyx_1.6.3-1~

Re: LyX 1.6.2 crashed

2009-07-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: OK, I've downloaded these two, for 32 bit Jaunty, which I think is what I have. I know I have 32 bit, and I know I have 9.0.4. 9.04 is indeed Jaunty Jackelope. Here's what I downloaded: * lyx_1.6.3-1~getdeb1_i386.deb * lyx-common_1.6.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb I've never us

Re: how to install LyX in Linux?

2009-07-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:23 AM, wrote: > It was rather surprise for me that installing LyX in Linux seems to be > much more complecated than in Windows. In fact, I have no experience in > Linux... > Why there is hard to find "install. exe" file for LyX at lyx.org? In Linux it is traditional to i

Re: LyX 1.6.2 crashed

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 July 2009 04:14:50 Nikos Alexandris wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > I opened one of my docs in LyX, clicked "document" on the menu, and > > > > lyx terminated... > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > LyX Version 1.6.2 > > > > > > ... > > Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > If you have no strong r

Re: how to install LyX in Linux?

2009-07-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: It was rather surprise for me that installing LyX in Linux seems to be much more complecated than in Windows. In fact, I have no experience in Linux... Why there is hard to find "install. exe" file for LyX at lyx.org? Because it's not nee

how to install LyX in Linux?

2009-07-24 Thread M . Kocinski
It was rather surprise for me that installing LyX in Linux seems to be much more complecated than in Windows. In fact, I have no experience in Linux... Why there is hard to find "install. exe" file for LyX at lyx.org? Is it true taht that words "Major Linux distributions take care of LyX binaries t

how to install LyX in Windows?

2009-07-24 Thread M . Kocinski
It was rather surprise for me that installing LyX in Linux seems to be much more complecated than in Windows. In fact, I have no experience in Linux... Why there is hard to find "install. exe" file for LyX at lyx.org? Is it true taht that words "Major Linux distributions take care of LyX binaries t

Re: strange bug: two tabs opened when starting LyX

2009-07-24 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Problem solved. Very simple.* Thanks Vincent!* Here is a summary for others in the future: I went to Preferences > Look Feel > User Interface then pressed "clear all sessions information" Thanks, Erez On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW < v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl

Re: strange bug: two tabs opened when starting LyX

2009-07-24 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi Vincent Thanks, but I don't really get what to do. What do you mean by "contents of your session file " ?? Even when I start LyX without opening a file, two Tabs are automatically generated. One with LyX 1.6.3-1 , and the other with just LyX. In the file> open recent, I can see the last ope

RE: strange bug: two tabs opened when starting LyX

2009-07-24 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>Every time I start LyX, two tabs are opened. >*Tab 1* doesn't do anything when you press it. Its name >is LyX 1.6.3-1. >*Tab 2 *is the LyX program tab. Its name is first file >I'm working on at the moment. What's the contents of your session file ? And especially, what entries are there in the

Trouble with lyx ftp site

2009-07-24 Thread Anton Driesse
Hi, The site ftp.lyx.org doesn't seem to be responding to my home computers. All I get is the response "connected to durga.via.ecp.fr" and then nothing happens. I can ftp to other sites. I have also downloaded lyx using my work computer, and managed to install it at home, but when the ins

strange bug: two tabs opened when starting LyX

2009-07-24 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear All, I'm using LyX 1.6.3-1 with windows. In the last week I get this funny bug. Every time I start LyX, two tabs are opened. *Tab 1* doesn't do anything when you press it. Its name is LyX 1.6.3-1. *Tab 2 *is the LyX program tab. Its name is first file I'm working on at the moment. I know t

LyX overwrite

2009-07-24 Thread Ed
Is there a way to get LyX to default to overwrite files when exporting rather than throw up a dialog box that can get lost under other windows? I looked a bit but never found that option. Thanks!

Re: Creating pdf or dvi file

2009-07-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 24 July 2009 15:14:02 schrieb Conor Quigley: > Hello, > I am a new user to LyX and I sometimes have trouble updating and viewing > either the dvi or the pdf file. > It works fine up to a point, and then for no apparent reason it will not > update the dvi/pdf. This is happening when I am p

Creating pdf or dvi file

2009-07-24 Thread Conor Quigley
Hello, I am a new user to LyX and I sometimes have trouble updating and viewing either the dvi or the pdf file. It works fine up to a point, and then for no apparent reason it will not update the dvi/pdf. This is happening when I am putting in my Biblography. Has anybody come across this before o

noweb chunk cross references in lyx

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Liddicott
I can use an ERT: \nextchunklabel{save-handle} to define a label for a code chunk, and then refer to this from another part of the document with ERT: \subpageref{save-handle} Does/Can lyx support this more natively to avoid the ERT, but allow a new label type beginning with nw: ? Sam

Re: turkish language error

2009-07-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, Please let us know your version of LyX and your OS. Liviu 2009/7/23 Taner Mutlu : > > I get compilation error when the following two configurations are done at the > same time; > > 1)Change language from document->settings to turkish > 2)The ouput size(scale, width and/or height) of a grap

turkish language error

2009-07-24 Thread Taner Mutlu
I get compilation error when the following two configurations are done at the same time; 1)Change language from document->settings to turkish 2)The ouput size(scale, width and/or height) of a graphic is altered anyhow. The error scheen is as follows: Package babel Error: You haven't loaded the

Re: logical markup and noweb articles

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Sam Liddicott wrote, On 24/07/09 11:13: > The logical markup module's code markup: >\code{code here} > > works fine, unless a noweb article is selected, in which case the > typewriter font runs through to the rest of the document. The other > logical markup types seem to work fine. > As f

Re: logical markup and noweb articles

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Sam Liddicott wrote, On 24/07/09 11:13: > The logical markup module's code markup: >\code{code here} > > works fine, unless a noweb article is selected, in which case the > typewriter font runs through to the rest of the document. The other > logical markup types seem to work fine. > > Any

Re: \rm in formula

2009-07-24 Thread Matthias Bechmann
Patrick Dupre writes: > lyx forces: > ${\rm CH}_{3}$. > Is their any way to by pass this problem ? you can try using \mathrm instead of \rm matthias

logical markup and noweb articles

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Liddicott
The logical markup module's code markup: \code{code here} works fine, unless a noweb article is selected, in which case the typewriter font runs through to the rest of the document. The other logical markup types seem to work fine. Any clues for me? (Lyx 1.6.2) Sam

\rm in formula

2009-07-24 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, With version 1.6.3 it is easy to see what does lyx, so I would like to mention this problem. In math mode (CTRL M), I can type \rm and then CH, but I want a subscript, I need to leave the rm mode while latex like: $\rm CH_3$ or $\rm CH_{3}$ Using lyx, I did not find any way to enter the sa

Re: LyX 1.6.2 crashed

2009-07-24 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Steve Litt wrote: > > > I opened one of my docs in LyX, clicked "document" on the menu, and lyx > > > terminated... > > ... > > > LyX Version 1.6.2 > > ... Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > If you have no strong reasons to stick with 1.6.2 you could try out 1.6.3. Steve Litt wrote: > Is there a wa