Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It
Paul is hard to make out an exclamation point.

Two solutions:

- make sure that in EditPreferenceLookFeelScreen fonts, you have
  unchecked 'rescale bitmap fonts'. This will ensure that you only use
  hand-drawn bitmap fonts, which look much better than scaled PS fonts

or

- make the microsoft times new roman and arial fonts available to your
  X system and configure lyx to use them. These are some of the few good
  quality scalable screen fonts I know of

JMarc

Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Felix Voigt]

Thanx for the answer, Herbert,
the include command by lyx works nicely if I really want to include all
the lyx-files (according to
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/misc/IncludeInput.phtml).
But if I only want to include some of them it does not work. I have
tried \includeonly{...} in tex script - it effects 4 errors in lyx. I've
tried nicht setzten after clicking on the Include:...-box in lyx,
which should be the proper way, I suppose, and I get 8 errors. If
anybody wants to check it himself I can send the lyx-files to him/her.
Maybe this is a bug in lyx1.1.6fix2 or have I done it totally the wrong
way? :)

I would be glad about help.

Felix

Herbert Voss schrieb:
 

 have a look at
 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/misc/IncludeInput.phtml
 
 Herbert
 
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Felix


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Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Herbert Voss]

Felix Voigt wrote:

 But if I only want to include some of them it does not work. I have
 tried \includeonly{...} in tex script - it effects 4 errors in lyx. I've
 tried nicht setzten after clicking on the Include:...-box in lyx,
 which should be the proper way, I suppose, and I get 8 errors. If
 anybody wants to check it himself I can send the lyx-files to him/her.
 Maybe this is a bug in lyx1.1.6fix2 or have I done it totally the wrong
 way? :)


write the includeonly command into the Layout-Document-Preamble


Herbert



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Re: question on bibtex

[Herbert Voss]

Ery Djunaedy wrote:

 Dear All,
 I tried to test my bib file using
 \nocite{*}
 
 But lyx complains: Resulting file is empty.
 
 And there is a message in the shell window:
 ###
 This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
 The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux
 I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file bibtest.aux


did you insert a bibstyle in the BiBTeX-GUI?


Herbert




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Re: math from lyx - rtf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:10:58PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
  Has anyone else had this problem (or is this the way
  it's supposed to be?)?
  
 I haven't had the same problem that you're having but am having a
 related problem where if I do an export to HTML from within LyX
 (File-Export-HTML), then the resulting HTML file does not show any of
 the math in the LyX File. I checked the conversion options in LyX and it
 does a no subdir conversion... when I export to latex and then do
 latex2html from the command line after running latex on it (so that the
 aux file is created) the conversion is fine.. the conversion options is
 Lyx says needaux .. so if aux is needed then what's the best way to
 use the LyX - HTML converter if one has to anyways convert to .tex and
 run latex on it?

Try changing the latex2html converter to
  latex2html -dir $$b_html -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i
and the flags to
  originaldir,needaux,resultdir=$$b_html,resultfile=$$b.html

This should fix the HTML export problem.

Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Felix Voigt]

Thanks a lot,
that solution is actually working!

Felix

Herbert Voss schrieb:
 
 write the includeonly command into the Layout-Document-Preamble
 
 Herbert
 
 --
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: math from lyx - rtf

[Nirmal Govind]

 Try changing the latex2html converter to
   latex2html -dir $$b_html -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i
 and the flags to
   originaldir,needaux,resultdir=$$b_html,resultfile=$$b.html
 
 This should fix the HTML export problem.
 

I tried the above and this is the error I get (when I started lyx from
the command line):

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
The top-level auxiliary file: noise_correlation.aux
The style file: apalikenew.bst
Database file #1: /home/nirmalg/Research/Thesis/robust_design.bib
Fatal: can't open pipe: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/latex2html
line 8955.

Is it looking for the .bib file in /usr/bin/latex2html ? Also, won't the
above commands result in a directory? Is it possible to generate the
html file directly without a directory?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: question on bibtex

[Ery Djunaedy]

BibTeX-GUI?
I dont understand that. :(
Can you please explain it?
Ery

* Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021010 11:22]:
 Ery Djunaedy wrote:
 
 Dear All,
 I tried to test my bib file using
 \nocite{*}
 
 But lyx complains: Resulting file is empty.
 
 And there is a message in the shell window:
 ###
 This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
 The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux
 I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file bibtest.aux
 
 
 did you insert a bibstyle in the BiBTeX-GUI?
 
 
 Herbert
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: question on bibtex

[Herbert Voss]

Ery Djunaedy wrote:

 BibTeX-GUI?
 I dont understand that. :(
 Can you please explain it?

Insert-ListsTOC-BiBTeX Reference


opens the Graphical User Interface, seen as the first
image in http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/bibtex/bibtex-start.phtml

Herbert


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Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Steve Litt]

If you're using Mandrake, especially 7.2, 8.0, or 8.1, their default font 
setup is terrible. Here's a workaround:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cookiecrumbfonts.htm

Steve

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On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:35 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
 The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It is hard
 to make out an exclamation point.

 I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen font is
 determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could get font info if
 I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is my output:

 lyx -dbg font
 Setting debug level to font
 Debugging `font' (Font handling)
 Find a free buffer.
 Using scalable font to get
 -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched by
 -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background
 LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area
 LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor
 LyX: X11 color black allocated for text

 Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look fine. For
 example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, however, looks just
 like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look.

 How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font to look
 readable?

 Thanks

 Paul

cannot bind M- and M-

[Dan Bikel]

I'd like to bind M- and M- to be buffer-begin and buffer-end, 
respectively, just like I'm used to using in emacs.  Unfortunately, no 
matter what I try in my personal emacs.bind file, I canot get these keys 
to work.  All I get is a  or  inserted into my document.

I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:

\bind M-   buffer-begin
\bind M-S- buffer-begin
\bind M-S-, buffer-begin

and similarly for buffer-end, but all to no avail.

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Dekel Tsur]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:52:03PM +0800, Hisyam Lee wrote:
 Yes, I do see the appendices appear in the TOC after compilation. Thanks.
 How can I change the appendices format from Appendix A, Appendix B, etc to
 Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.?

In the preamble:

\let\oldappendix=\appendix
\renewcommand{\appendix}{%
  \oldappendix%
  \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}

Re: cannot bind M- and M-

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
 I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:
 
 \bind M-   buffer-begin

Can you bind M-less?

Andre'

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will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: cannot bind M- and M-

[Dan Bikel]

That does not appear to work, either.  Any other suggestions?

Andre Poenitz wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
 
I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:

\bind M-   buffer-begin
 
 
 Can you bind M-less?
 
 Andre'
 

Re: cannot bind M- and M-

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
 That does not appear to work, either.  Any other suggestions?

M-~S-less

Andre'

PS: Lucky me that I made a copy of the following ;-) :

Please quote only the relevant parts of the message you are responding
to. People who need the full message can go to the archives. And please
write _below_ the parts you are quoting as it is easier to read top-down
(context, then your remark) than vice versa.

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will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

[OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Peter Clark]

Quoting Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Fonts are always a mystery in linux, especially when I have used a
 Macintosh my whole life. (In a Macintosh,  you simply drag a font to a
 folder, and voila! You have the font available for printing and
 viewing.)

Tangentally off-topic, but KDE has a built in control-module that handles
font installation. It's not quite as simple as drag-and-drop, (you just have to
tell it where the font you want to install is located...come to think of it,
maybe it does do drag-and-drop, I haven't checked), but it is many orders of
magnitude better than moving the font file to the right directory, running the
scripts, and restarting the X server. Don't know about GNOME, someone will speak
up if this is the case as well.
Moving closer to topicality, the problem with LaTeX (and LyX by inheritance)
is its complicated font management system, which is separate from X (of course)
and something that will probably never be streamlined.

 On my linux box, I was able to get a much more readable font by tweaking
 the zoom and Screen DPI in the LyX - Edit - Preferences - Screen Fonts.

I hope that when the QT frontend is released that it will automatically
detect the default fonts used on the desktop and use those as the screen fonts.
Sure, leave in the option to change the font, but at least have it default to
the user's desktop preferences.
:Peter

LyX 1.2.1 build failure under YellowDog 2.3

[David Garza]

I'm running into trouble trying to build LyX 1.2.1 from the source RPM,
but I get the following error when I try to compile:

g++ -O3 -fsigned-char -o lyx BufferView.o BufferView2.o BufferView_pimpl.o Bullet.o 
Chktex.o ColorHandler.o CutAndPaste.o DepTable.o FloatList.o Floating.o FontInfo.o 
FontLoader.o FuncStatus.o LColor.o LaTeX.o LaTeXFeatures.o LyXAction.o LyXView.o 
MenuBackend.o Painter.o PainterBase.o ParagraphParameters.o Spacing.o TextCache.o 
Thesaurus.o ToolbarDefaults.o WorkArea.o XFormsView.o box.o buffer.o bufferlist.o 
bufferparams.o bufferview_funcs.o chset.o converter.o debug.o encoding.o exporter.o 
font.o gettext.o importer.o intl.o iterators.o kbmap.o kbsequence.o language.o 
lastfiles.o lengthcommon.o lyx_cb.o lyx_gui.o lyx_main.o lyx_sty.o lyxcursor.o 
lyxfont.o lyxfind.o lyxfunc.o lyxgluelength.o lyxlayout.o lyxlength.o lyxlex.o 
lyxlex_pimpl.o lyxlookup.o lyxrc.o lyxrow.o lyxserver.o lyxtextclass.o 
lyxtextclasslist.o lyxvc.o main.o minibuffer.o paragraph.o paragraph_pimpl.o screen.o 
sp_spell.o tabular.o tabular-old.o tabular_funcs.o tex-accent.o tex-strings.o texrow.o 
text.o text2.o tracer.o trans.o trans_mgr.o undo.o undo_funcs.o undostack.o 
vc-backend.o version.o vspace.o  mathed/.libs/libmathed.a insets/.libs/libinsets.a 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a -lflimage /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -lforms 
graphics/.libs/libgraphics.a support/.libs/libsupport.a ../sigc++/.libs/libsigc.a 
-lXpm -lSM -lICE -liberty -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(FormError.o): In function `FormError::update(void)':
FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): undefined reference to `ControlInsetInsetError, 
lyxstring::params(void)'
FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 
ControlInsetInsetError, lyxstring::params(void)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [lyx] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86864 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86864 (%build)

The system is a PowerMac Dual G4/450 running Yellow Dog Linux 2.3.  
The compiler is GCC 2.95.4  I'm using xforms 1.0 RC 5.2, which I 
made using the source tarball and a slightly modified version of 
the xforms 1.0 RC5 spec file from Kayvan Sylvan.  If anyone is 
interested in the spec file modifications, let me know.  The 1.2.1 
announcement says LyX now works with xforms 1.0 RC4.  This wouldn't 
be caused by a change from RC4 to RC5, would it?

Thanks,
David Garza
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:18:30PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
 tell it where the font you want to install is located...come to think of
 it, maybe it does do drag-and-drop, I haven't checked), but it is many
 orders of magnitude better than moving the font file to the right
 directory, running the scripts, and restarting the X server.

Given  'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should
never be needed.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:18:30PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:

 Moving closer to topicality, the problem with LaTeX (and LyX by inheritance)
 is its complicated font management system, which is separate from X (of course)
 and something that will probably never be streamlined.

Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts

There is also fontconfig

 I hope that when the QT frontend is released that it will automatically
 detect the default fonts used on the desktop and use those as the screen fonts.

Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.

john

-- 
Everything in the world runs through Birmingham, and 
gets stuck on New Street.
- Brian Marsden

Re: LyX 1.2.1 build failure under YellowDog 2.3

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:22:25PM -0500, David Garza wrote:

 FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): undefined reference to `ControlInsetInsetError, 
lyxstring::params(void)'
 FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 
ControlInsetInsetError, lyxstring::params(void)

This is a toolchain problem (gcc, ld)

 announcement says LyX now works with xforms 1.0 RC4.  This wouldn't 
 be caused by a change from RC4 to RC5, would it?

no

john

-- 
Everything in the world runs through Birmingham, and 
gets stuck on New Street.
- Brian Marsden

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:23:21PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
 
 Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts
 
 There is also fontconfig
   

RH8 uses fontconfig.

 Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.

See an example at
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:34 pm, Dekel Tsur wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:52:03PM +0800, Hisyam Lee wrote:
  Yes, I do see the appendices appear in the TOC after compilation. Thanks.
  How can I change the appendices format from Appendix A, Appendix B, etc
  to Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.?

 In the preamble:

 \let\oldappendix=\appendix
 \renewcommand{\appendix}{%
   \oldappendix%
   \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}

Dekel --

Does the \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}} remain in scope only 
indide the braces, or does it affect any other chapter environments following 
the appendix (not that there should be any chapter environments after the 
appendix, but...)

thanks

Steve

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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:32:30PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:

  There is also fontconfig

 
 RH8 uses fontconfig.

Well, that's what I meant... guess I wasn't clear

 See an example at
 http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png


Luvverly

john

-- 
Everything in the world runs through Birmingham, and 
gets stuck on New Street.
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Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Paul Tremblay]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
 
 If you're using Mandrake, especially 7.2, 8.0, or 8.1, their default font 
 setup is terrible. Here's a workaround:
 
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cookiecrumbfonts.htm
 
 Steve
 
 

As a matter of fact, I am using Mandrake 8.1.

I read your nice tutorial, but I'm not sure I got it to work. 

In my /etc/X11/Xconfig-4, I commented out the line

# FontPath   unix/:-1 

I then added the font paths as you suggested. I shut down X and
restarted it, and everything seemed to work fine. However, just to test
things, I commented out all of the font paths. According to your
tutorial, this means that X shouldn't be able to start at all. However,
even with no font paths in the configuration file, X started.

The fonts look much better in LyX, but that is the result of my tweaking
the zoom and screen dpi settings. It also helps greatly to uncheck the
use scalable fonts box.

I would like to get your tip to work, since it would not only helpt he
appearance of LyX, but of other applications like Netscape and Abiword.
(I tested Abiword after following your tutorial, and it looked as
pitiful as ever.)

Thanks

Paul

 
 On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:35 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
  The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It is hard
  to make out an exclamation point.
 
  I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen font is
  determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could get font info if
  I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is my output:
 
  lyx -dbg font
  Setting debug level to font
  Debugging `font' (Font handling)
  Find a free buffer.
  Using scalable font to get
  -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
  Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched by
  -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
  LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background
  LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area
  LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor
  LyX: X11 color black allocated for text
 
  Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look fine. For
  example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, however, looks just
  like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look.
 
  How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font to look
  readable?
 
  Thanks
 
  Paul
 
 

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Re: math from lyx - rtf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:13:24AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
 I tried the above and this is the error I get (when I started lyx from
 the command line):
 
 This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
 The top-level auxiliary file: noise_correlation.aux
 The style file: apalikenew.bst
 Database file #1: /home/nirmalg/Research/Thesis/robust_design.bib
 Fatal: can't open pipe: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/latex2html
 line 8955.

 Is it looking for the .bib file in /usr/bin/latex2html ? Also, won't the
No.
The error is that LyX is unable to run latex2html.

 above commands result in a directory? Is it possible to generate the
 html file directly without a directory?

IF you want LyX to move the equation files generated by latex2html,
you must create a directory.

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:49:22PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
  \let\oldappendix=\appendix
  \renewcommand{\appendix}{%
\oldappendix%
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}
 
 Dekel --
 
 Does the \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}} remain in scope only 
 indide the braces, or does it affect any other chapter environments following 
 the appendix (not that there should be any chapter environments after the 
 appendix, but...)

No, after \appendix you do use chapters, but they do generate by default
Appendix A, Appendix B etc. instead of Chapter 1, Chapter 2 etc.
The code above changes the former to Appendix 1, Appendix 2 etc.

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Peter Clark]

I'm condensing several messages here, beware!

Quoting Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Given  'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should
 never be needed.

Oops, my bad, I meant restart the X *font* server. Well, I guess
technically it isn't the font server, but that was my general drift. The point
that I was trying to make, was that to install a new font the old way is
unnecessarily involved.

Quoting Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:23:21PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
  
  Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts
Nice. I'm using Debian, which uses defoma (Debian Font Manager), a beast
that I haven't tried tackling yet. 

  Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.
 
 See an example at
 http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png

Very pretty. As I recall, someone said that it would be trivial to replace
the icons; most of them look like they could be replaced by standard KDE icons;
that ought to make it look more at home on my desktop...
Speaking of which, its been a while since I've tried the QT version--how is
it progressing? Waiting with baited breath,
:Peter

wide char support override?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

 Howdy, is there any non-hairy way of compiling latest
lyx build without wide char support? I'm using OpenBSD and
it does not yet have wchar.h.

TIA

Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Carole Womeldorf]

On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I
get failed dependencies tetex-dvips and tetex-latex.  I tried
installing the rpms from tetex but I must have gotten the wrong
versions.  My current version of teTeX is beta.20020207-70.
Suggestions?

Also
1)  Is there a good guide for a newbie to learn to turn a *.cls file
into something useful in Lyx
2)  Are there many demos of different journal article formats somewhere?

Thanks a bunch everybody -

Carole
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Herbert Voss]

Carole Womeldorf wrote:

 On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
 1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I


rpm -Uvh --nodeps 

 Also
 1)  Is there a good guide for a newbie to learn to turn a *.cls file
 into something useful in Lyx


http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/layout.phtml

 2)  Are there many demos of different journal article formats somewhere?


http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/templates.phtml

and the examples which are part of LyX



Herbert




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dot, ddot and... dddot??

[J.Lauffenburger]

Hi all,

This is perhaps not a Lyx problem, but someone should have faced with
this problem
Is it possible to obtain, like the dot or the ddot command, the third
derivative of a parameter?

Best regards,
Jean-Philippe

LyX scrolls too fast

[Paul Tremblay]

When I try to hi-lite text using a standard mouse, LyX scrolls too fast.
For example, I have a paragraph at the bottom of the page. I want to
hi-lite this paragrah, and the three below. I hi-lite the paragraph I
can see, and then drag the mouse past the bottom of the window. But the
text jumps so fast, I am 10 or 15 paragraphs down.

I checked the archives and google, and couldn't find any hits for this
problem. Do I need to change something in my .Xauthority file?

I also realized that there is a buffer at the bottom of LyX that works
like emacs. However, being a vim person, I don't know how this works,
and also couldn't find any documentation on it.

This seemingly small problem is quite big. Right now I can't hi-lite the
text I want. 

Thanks

Paul

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Re: LyX scrolls too fast

[Vladimir Milovanovic]

Yeah, I have the same problem. The only way that I know to get around it 
is to highlight using the shift key and the cursor keys, but it does get 
tedious when you have to highlight a lot of text. Maybe someone else 
knows a better way? I already set the mousewheel scrolls setting to 1 
line in KDE, but it had no effect.

Cheers,
Vlad.

Paul Tremblay wrote:

When I try to hi-lite text using a standard mouse, LyX scrolls too fast.
For example, I have a paragraph at the bottom of the page. I want to
hi-lite this paragrah, and the three below. I hi-lite the paragraph I
can see, and then drag the mouse past the bottom of the window. But the
text jumps so fast, I am 10 or 15 paragraphs down.

I checked the archives and google, and couldn't find any hits for this
problem. Do I need to change something in my .Xauthority file?

I also realized that there is a buffer at the bottom of LyX that works
like emacs. However, being a vim person, I don't know how this works,
and also couldn't find any documentation on it.

This seemingly small problem is quite big. Right now I can't hi-lite the
text I want.

Thanks

Paul

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*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*


  

Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Carole Womeldorf]

Herbert Voss wrote:

 Carole Womeldorf wrote:
  On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
  1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I

 rpm -Uvh --nodeps 

Thanks for all the tips, Herbert.

Quick question - will I be losing any functionality by doing this?  Are
tetex-latex and tetex-dvips already in my version of teTeX (beta.20020207-70)
but just not registering as individual programs in the rpm database?

Carole

Re: dot, ddot and... dddot??

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:22:33AM +0200, J.Lauffenburger wrote:
 This is perhaps not a Lyx problem, but someone should have faced with
 this problem
 Is it possible to obtain, like the dot or the ddot command, the third
 derivative of a parameter?

Yes. By typing \dddot. But I don't remember what was the first LyX version
which supported this.

Andre'

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will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: wide char support override?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:31:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Howdy, is there any non-hairy way of compiling latest
 lyx build without wide char support? I'm using OpenBSD and
 it does not yet have wchar.h.

How about copying a wchar.h from a system that has it?
[Actually I am a bit surprised by your statement. 
Does 'grep wchar /usr/include/*' indeed yield nothing?]

Andre'

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Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:59:45PM -0400, Carole Womeldorf wrote:
 On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
 1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I
 get failed dependencies tetex-dvips and tetex-latex.  I tried
 installing the rpms from tetex but I must have gotten the wrong
 versions.  My current version of teTeX is beta.20020207-70.
 Suggestions?

rpm -Uvh --nodeps lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm  ;-)

 Also
 1)  Is there a good guide for a newbie to learn to turn a *.cls file
 into something useful in Lyx

None that I am aware of. Best way is probably to copy some existing
.layout and tweak this.

 2)  Are there many demos of different journal article formats somewhere?

'Many' is the wrong word. There are a few article .layout files in
/lib/layouts/ though.

Andre'

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Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:20:47PM -0400, Carole Womeldorf wrote:
 Herbert Voss wrote:
 
  Carole Womeldorf wrote:
   On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
   1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I
 
  rpm -Uvh --nodeps 
 
 Thanks for all the tips, Herbert.
 
 Quick question - will I be losing any functionality by doing this?  Are
 tetex-latex and tetex-dvips already in my version of teTeX (beta.20020207-70)
 but just not registering as individual programs in the rpm database?

They are probably there but registered with another name. On SuSE 7.3:

rpm -qa | grep tex:

te_etex-1.0.7-319
tetex-latex-heb-1.0-3
te_latex-1.0.7-285
tetex-1.0.7-285

The problem is that the dependencies built into the .rpm are for RedHat
packages, and naming differs between RedHat and SuSE.

If you have teTeX installed you should not encounter any problems when
using --nodeps.

Andre'

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Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It
Paul is hard to make out an exclamation point.

Two solutions:

- make sure that in EditPreferenceLookFeelScreen fonts, you have
  unchecked 'rescale bitmap fonts'. This will ensure that you only use
  hand-drawn bitmap fonts, which look much better than scaled PS fonts

or

- make the microsoft times new roman and arial fonts available to your
  X system and configure lyx to use them. These are some of the few good
  quality scalable screen fonts I know of

JMarc

Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Felix Voigt]

Thanx for the answer, Herbert,
the include command by lyx works nicely if I really want to include all
the lyx-files (according to
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/misc/IncludeInput.phtml).
But if I only want to include some of them it does not work. I have
tried \includeonly{...} in tex script - it effects 4 errors in lyx. I've
tried nicht setzten after clicking on the Include:...-box in lyx,
which should be the proper way, I suppose, and I get 8 errors. If
anybody wants to check it himself I can send the lyx-files to him/her.
Maybe this is a bug in lyx1.1.6fix2 or have I done it totally the wrong
way? :)

I would be glad about help.

Felix

Herbert Voss schrieb:
 

 have a look at
 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/misc/IncludeInput.phtml
 
 Herbert
 
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Felix


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Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Herbert Voss]

Felix Voigt wrote:

 But if I only want to include some of them it does not work. I have
 tried \includeonly{...} in tex script - it effects 4 errors in lyx. I've
 tried nicht setzten after clicking on the Include:...-box in lyx,
 which should be the proper way, I suppose, and I get 8 errors. If
 anybody wants to check it himself I can send the lyx-files to him/her.
 Maybe this is a bug in lyx1.1.6fix2 or have I done it totally the wrong
 way? :)


write the includeonly command into the Layout-Document-Preamble


Herbert



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Re: question on bibtex

[Herbert Voss]

Ery Djunaedy wrote:

 Dear All,
 I tried to test my bib file using
 \nocite{*}
 
 But lyx complains: Resulting file is empty.
 
 And there is a message in the shell window:
 ###
 This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
 The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux
 I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file bibtest.aux


did you insert a bibstyle in the BiBTeX-GUI?


Herbert




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Re: math from lyx - rtf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:10:58PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
  Has anyone else had this problem (or is this the way
  it's supposed to be?)?
  
 I haven't had the same problem that you're having but am having a
 related problem where if I do an export to HTML from within LyX
 (File-Export-HTML), then the resulting HTML file does not show any of
 the math in the LyX File. I checked the conversion options in LyX and it
 does a no subdir conversion... when I export to latex and then do
 latex2html from the command line after running latex on it (so that the
 aux file is created) the conversion is fine.. the conversion options is
 Lyx says needaux .. so if aux is needed then what's the best way to
 use the LyX - HTML converter if one has to anyways convert to .tex and
 run latex on it?

Try changing the latex2html converter to
  latex2html -dir $$b_html -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i
and the flags to
  originaldir,needaux,resultdir=$$b_html,resultfile=$$b.html

This should fix the HTML export problem.

Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Felix Voigt]

Thanks a lot,
that solution is actually working!

Felix

Herbert Voss schrieb:
 
 write the includeonly command into the Layout-Document-Preamble
 
 Herbert
 
 --
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: math from lyx - rtf

[Nirmal Govind]

 Try changing the latex2html converter to
   latex2html -dir $$b_html -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i
 and the flags to
   originaldir,needaux,resultdir=$$b_html,resultfile=$$b.html
 
 This should fix the HTML export problem.
 

I tried the above and this is the error I get (when I started lyx from
the command line):

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
The top-level auxiliary file: noise_correlation.aux
The style file: apalikenew.bst
Database file #1: /home/nirmalg/Research/Thesis/robust_design.bib
Fatal: can't open pipe: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/latex2html
line 8955.

Is it looking for the .bib file in /usr/bin/latex2html ? Also, won't the
above commands result in a directory? Is it possible to generate the
html file directly without a directory?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: question on bibtex

[Ery Djunaedy]

BibTeX-GUI?
I dont understand that. :(
Can you please explain it?
Ery

* Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021010 11:22]:
 Ery Djunaedy wrote:
 
 Dear All,
 I tried to test my bib file using
 \nocite{*}
 
 But lyx complains: Resulting file is empty.
 
 And there is a message in the shell window:
 ###
 This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
 The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux
 I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file bibtest.aux
 
 
 did you insert a bibstyle in the BiBTeX-GUI?
 
 
 Herbert
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: question on bibtex

[Herbert Voss]

Ery Djunaedy wrote:

 BibTeX-GUI?
 I dont understand that. :(
 Can you please explain it?

Insert-ListsTOC-BiBTeX Reference


opens the Graphical User Interface, seen as the first
image in http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/bibtex/bibtex-start.phtml

Herbert


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Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Steve Litt]

If you're using Mandrake, especially 7.2, 8.0, or 8.1, their default font 
setup is terrible. Here's a workaround:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cookiecrumbfonts.htm

Steve

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On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:35 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
 The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It is hard
 to make out an exclamation point.

 I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen font is
 determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could get font info if
 I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is my output:

 lyx -dbg font
 Setting debug level to font
 Debugging `font' (Font handling)
 Find a free buffer.
 Using scalable font to get
 -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched by
 -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background
 LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area
 LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor
 LyX: X11 color black allocated for text

 Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look fine. For
 example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, however, looks just
 like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look.

 How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font to look
 readable?

 Thanks

 Paul

cannot bind M- and M-

[Dan Bikel]

I'd like to bind M- and M- to be buffer-begin and buffer-end, 
respectively, just like I'm used to using in emacs.  Unfortunately, no 
matter what I try in my personal emacs.bind file, I canot get these keys 
to work.  All I get is a  or  inserted into my document.

I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:

\bind M-   buffer-begin
\bind M-S- buffer-begin
\bind M-S-, buffer-begin

and similarly for buffer-end, but all to no avail.

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Dekel Tsur]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:52:03PM +0800, Hisyam Lee wrote:
 Yes, I do see the appendices appear in the TOC after compilation. Thanks.
 How can I change the appendices format from Appendix A, Appendix B, etc to
 Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.?

In the preamble:

\let\oldappendix=\appendix
\renewcommand{\appendix}{%
  \oldappendix%
  \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}

Re: cannot bind M- and M-

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
 I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:
 
 \bind M-   buffer-begin

Can you bind M-less?

Andre'

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Re: cannot bind M- and M-

[Dan Bikel]

That does not appear to work, either.  Any other suggestions?

Andre Poenitz wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
 
I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:

\bind M-   buffer-begin
 
 
 Can you bind M-less?
 
 Andre'
 

Re: cannot bind M- and M-

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
 That does not appear to work, either.  Any other suggestions?

M-~S-less

Andre'

PS: Lucky me that I made a copy of the following ;-) :

Please quote only the relevant parts of the message you are responding
to. People who need the full message can go to the archives. And please
write _below_ the parts you are quoting as it is easier to read top-down
(context, then your remark) than vice versa.

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[OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Peter Clark]

Quoting Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Fonts are always a mystery in linux, especially when I have used a
 Macintosh my whole life. (In a Macintosh,  you simply drag a font to a
 folder, and voila! You have the font available for printing and
 viewing.)

Tangentally off-topic, but KDE has a built in control-module that handles
font installation. It's not quite as simple as drag-and-drop, (you just have to
tell it where the font you want to install is located...come to think of it,
maybe it does do drag-and-drop, I haven't checked), but it is many orders of
magnitude better than moving the font file to the right directory, running the
scripts, and restarting the X server. Don't know about GNOME, someone will speak
up if this is the case as well.
Moving closer to topicality, the problem with LaTeX (and LyX by inheritance)
is its complicated font management system, which is separate from X (of course)
and something that will probably never be streamlined.

 On my linux box, I was able to get a much more readable font by tweaking
 the zoom and Screen DPI in the LyX - Edit - Preferences - Screen Fonts.

I hope that when the QT frontend is released that it will automatically
detect the default fonts used on the desktop and use those as the screen fonts.
Sure, leave in the option to change the font, but at least have it default to
the user's desktop preferences.
:Peter

LyX 1.2.1 build failure under YellowDog 2.3

[David Garza]

I'm running into trouble trying to build LyX 1.2.1 from the source RPM,
but I get the following error when I try to compile:

g++ -O3 -fsigned-char -o lyx BufferView.o BufferView2.o BufferView_pimpl.o Bullet.o 
Chktex.o ColorHandler.o CutAndPaste.o DepTable.o FloatList.o Floating.o FontInfo.o 
FontLoader.o FuncStatus.o LColor.o LaTeX.o LaTeXFeatures.o LyXAction.o LyXView.o 
MenuBackend.o Painter.o PainterBase.o ParagraphParameters.o Spacing.o TextCache.o 
Thesaurus.o ToolbarDefaults.o WorkArea.o XFormsView.o box.o buffer.o bufferlist.o 
bufferparams.o bufferview_funcs.o chset.o converter.o debug.o encoding.o exporter.o 
font.o gettext.o importer.o intl.o iterators.o kbmap.o kbsequence.o language.o 
lastfiles.o lengthcommon.o lyx_cb.o lyx_gui.o lyx_main.o lyx_sty.o lyxcursor.o 
lyxfont.o lyxfind.o lyxfunc.o lyxgluelength.o lyxlayout.o lyxlength.o lyxlex.o 
lyxlex_pimpl.o lyxlookup.o lyxrc.o lyxrow.o lyxserver.o lyxtextclass.o 
lyxtextclasslist.o lyxvc.o main.o minibuffer.o paragraph.o paragraph_pimpl.o screen.o 
sp_spell.o tabular.o tabular-old.o tabular_funcs.o tex-accent.o tex-strings.o texrow.o 
text.o text2.o tracer.o trans.o trans_mgr.o undo.o undo_funcs.o undostack.o 
vc-backend.o version.o vspace.o  mathed/.libs/libmathed.a insets/.libs/libinsets.a 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a -lflimage /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -lforms 
graphics/.libs/libgraphics.a support/.libs/libsupport.a ../sigc++/.libs/libsigc.a 
-lXpm -lSM -lICE -liberty -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(FormError.o): In function `FormError::update(void)':
FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): undefined reference to `ControlInsetInsetError, 
lyxstring::params(void)'
FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 
ControlInsetInsetError, lyxstring::params(void)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [lyx] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86864 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86864 (%build)

The system is a PowerMac Dual G4/450 running Yellow Dog Linux 2.3.  
The compiler is GCC 2.95.4  I'm using xforms 1.0 RC 5.2, which I 
made using the source tarball and a slightly modified version of 
the xforms 1.0 RC5 spec file from Kayvan Sylvan.  If anyone is 
interested in the spec file modifications, let me know.  The 1.2.1 
announcement says LyX now works with xforms 1.0 RC4.  This wouldn't 
be caused by a change from RC4 to RC5, would it?

Thanks,
David Garza
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:18:30PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
 tell it where the font you want to install is located...come to think of
 it, maybe it does do drag-and-drop, I haven't checked), but it is many
 orders of magnitude better than moving the font file to the right
 directory, running the scripts, and restarting the X server.

Given  'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should
never be needed.

Andre'

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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:18:30PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:

 Moving closer to topicality, the problem with LaTeX (and LyX by inheritance)
 is its complicated font management system, which is separate from X (of course)
 and something that will probably never be streamlined.

Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts

There is also fontconfig

 I hope that when the QT frontend is released that it will automatically
 detect the default fonts used on the desktop and use those as the screen fonts.

Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.

john

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gets stuck on New Street.
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Re: LyX 1.2.1 build failure under YellowDog 2.3

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:22:25PM -0500, David Garza wrote:

 FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): undefined reference to `ControlInsetInsetError, 
lyxstring::params(void)'
 FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 
ControlInsetInsetError, lyxstring::params(void)

This is a toolchain problem (gcc, ld)

 announcement says LyX now works with xforms 1.0 RC4.  This wouldn't 
 be caused by a change from RC4 to RC5, would it?

no

john

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gets stuck on New Street.
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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:23:21PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
 
 Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts
 
 There is also fontconfig
   

RH8 uses fontconfig.

 Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.

See an example at
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:34 pm, Dekel Tsur wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:52:03PM +0800, Hisyam Lee wrote:
  Yes, I do see the appendices appear in the TOC after compilation. Thanks.
  How can I change the appendices format from Appendix A, Appendix B, etc
  to Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.?

 In the preamble:

 \let\oldappendix=\appendix
 \renewcommand{\appendix}{%
   \oldappendix%
   \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}

Dekel --

Does the \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}} remain in scope only 
indide the braces, or does it affect any other chapter environments following 
the appendix (not that there should be any chapter environments after the 
appendix, but...)

thanks

Steve

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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:32:30PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:

  There is also fontconfig

 
 RH8 uses fontconfig.

Well, that's what I meant... guess I wasn't clear

 See an example at
 http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png


Luvverly

john

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Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Paul Tremblay]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
 
 If you're using Mandrake, especially 7.2, 8.0, or 8.1, their default font 
 setup is terrible. Here's a workaround:
 
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cookiecrumbfonts.htm
 
 Steve
 
 

As a matter of fact, I am using Mandrake 8.1.

I read your nice tutorial, but I'm not sure I got it to work. 

In my /etc/X11/Xconfig-4, I commented out the line

# FontPath   unix/:-1 

I then added the font paths as you suggested. I shut down X and
restarted it, and everything seemed to work fine. However, just to test
things, I commented out all of the font paths. According to your
tutorial, this means that X shouldn't be able to start at all. However,
even with no font paths in the configuration file, X started.

The fonts look much better in LyX, but that is the result of my tweaking
the zoom and screen dpi settings. It also helps greatly to uncheck the
use scalable fonts box.

I would like to get your tip to work, since it would not only helpt he
appearance of LyX, but of other applications like Netscape and Abiword.
(I tested Abiword after following your tutorial, and it looked as
pitiful as ever.)

Thanks

Paul

 
 On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:35 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
  The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It is hard
  to make out an exclamation point.
 
  I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen font is
  determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could get font info if
  I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is my output:
 
  lyx -dbg font
  Setting debug level to font
  Debugging `font' (Font handling)
  Find a free buffer.
  Using scalable font to get
  -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
  Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched by
  -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
  LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background
  LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area
  LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor
  LyX: X11 color black allocated for text
 
  Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look fine. For
  example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, however, looks just
  like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look.
 
  How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font to look
  readable?
 
  Thanks
 
  Paul
 
 

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Re: math from lyx - rtf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:13:24AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
 I tried the above and this is the error I get (when I started lyx from
 the command line):
 
 This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
 The top-level auxiliary file: noise_correlation.aux
 The style file: apalikenew.bst
 Database file #1: /home/nirmalg/Research/Thesis/robust_design.bib
 Fatal: can't open pipe: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/latex2html
 line 8955.

 Is it looking for the .bib file in /usr/bin/latex2html ? Also, won't the
No.
The error is that LyX is unable to run latex2html.

 above commands result in a directory? Is it possible to generate the
 html file directly without a directory?

IF you want LyX to move the equation files generated by latex2html,
you must create a directory.

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:49:22PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
  \let\oldappendix=\appendix
  \renewcommand{\appendix}{%
\oldappendix%
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}
 
 Dekel --
 
 Does the \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}} remain in scope only 
 indide the braces, or does it affect any other chapter environments following 
 the appendix (not that there should be any chapter environments after the 
 appendix, but...)

No, after \appendix you do use chapters, but they do generate by default
Appendix A, Appendix B etc. instead of Chapter 1, Chapter 2 etc.
The code above changes the former to Appendix 1, Appendix 2 etc.

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Peter Clark]

I'm condensing several messages here, beware!

Quoting Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Given  'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should
 never be needed.

Oops, my bad, I meant restart the X *font* server. Well, I guess
technically it isn't the font server, but that was my general drift. The point
that I was trying to make, was that to install a new font the old way is
unnecessarily involved.

Quoting Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:23:21PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
  
  Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts
Nice. I'm using Debian, which uses defoma (Debian Font Manager), a beast
that I haven't tried tackling yet. 

  Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.
 
 See an example at
 http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png

Very pretty. As I recall, someone said that it would be trivial to replace
the icons; most of them look like they could be replaced by standard KDE icons;
that ought to make it look more at home on my desktop...
Speaking of which, its been a while since I've tried the QT version--how is
it progressing? Waiting with baited breath,
:Peter

wide char support override?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

 Howdy, is there any non-hairy way of compiling latest
lyx build without wide char support? I'm using OpenBSD and
it does not yet have wchar.h.

TIA

Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Carole Womeldorf]

On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I
get failed dependencies tetex-dvips and tetex-latex.  I tried
installing the rpms from tetex but I must have gotten the wrong
versions.  My current version of teTeX is beta.20020207-70.
Suggestions?

Also
1)  Is there a good guide for a newbie to learn to turn a *.cls file
into something useful in Lyx
2)  Are there many demos of different journal article formats somewhere?

Thanks a bunch everybody -

Carole
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Herbert Voss]

Carole Womeldorf wrote:

 On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
 1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I


rpm -Uvh --nodeps 

 Also
 1)  Is there a good guide for a newbie to learn to turn a *.cls file
 into something useful in Lyx


http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/layout.phtml

 2)  Are there many demos of different journal article formats somewhere?


http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/templates.phtml

and the examples which are part of LyX



Herbert




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dot, ddot and... dddot??

[J.Lauffenburger]

Hi all,

This is perhaps not a Lyx problem, but someone should have faced with
this problem
Is it possible to obtain, like the dot or the ddot command, the third
derivative of a parameter?

Best regards,
Jean-Philippe

LyX scrolls too fast

[Paul Tremblay]

When I try to hi-lite text using a standard mouse, LyX scrolls too fast.
For example, I have a paragraph at the bottom of the page. I want to
hi-lite this paragrah, and the three below. I hi-lite the paragraph I
can see, and then drag the mouse past the bottom of the window. But the
text jumps so fast, I am 10 or 15 paragraphs down.

I checked the archives and google, and couldn't find any hits for this
problem. Do I need to change something in my .Xauthority file?

I also realized that there is a buffer at the bottom of LyX that works
like emacs. However, being a vim person, I don't know how this works,
and also couldn't find any documentation on it.

This seemingly small problem is quite big. Right now I can't hi-lite the
text I want. 

Thanks

Paul

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Re: LyX scrolls too fast

[Vladimir Milovanovic]

Yeah, I have the same problem. The only way that I know to get around it 
is to highlight using the shift key and the cursor keys, but it does get 
tedious when you have to highlight a lot of text. Maybe someone else 
knows a better way? I already set the mousewheel scrolls setting to 1 
line in KDE, but it had no effect.

Cheers,
Vlad.

Paul Tremblay wrote:

When I try to hi-lite text using a standard mouse, LyX scrolls too fast.
For example, I have a paragraph at the bottom of the page. I want to
hi-lite this paragrah, and the three below. I hi-lite the paragraph I
can see, and then drag the mouse past the bottom of the window. But the
text jumps so fast, I am 10 or 15 paragraphs down.

I checked the archives and google, and couldn't find any hits for this
problem. Do I need to change something in my .Xauthority file?

I also realized that there is a buffer at the bottom of LyX that works
like emacs. However, being a vim person, I don't know how this works,
and also couldn't find any documentation on it.

This seemingly small problem is quite big. Right now I can't hi-lite the
text I want.

Thanks

Paul

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*Paul Tremblay *
*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*


  

Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Carole Womeldorf]

Herbert Voss wrote:

 Carole Womeldorf wrote:
  On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
  1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I

 rpm -Uvh --nodeps 

Thanks for all the tips, Herbert.

Quick question - will I be losing any functionality by doing this?  Are
tetex-latex and tetex-dvips already in my version of teTeX (beta.20020207-70)
but just not registering as individual programs in the rpm database?

Carole

Re: dot, ddot and... dddot??

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:22:33AM +0200, J.Lauffenburger wrote:
 This is perhaps not a Lyx problem, but someone should have faced with
 this problem
 Is it possible to obtain, like the dot or the ddot command, the third
 derivative of a parameter?

Yes. By typing \dddot. But I don't remember what was the first LyX version
which supported this.

Andre'

-- 
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will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: wide char support override?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:31:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Howdy, is there any non-hairy way of compiling latest
 lyx build without wide char support? I'm using OpenBSD and
 it does not yet have wchar.h.

How about copying a wchar.h from a system that has it?
[Actually I am a bit surprised by your statement. 
Does 'grep wchar /usr/include/*' indeed yield nothing?]

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:59:45PM -0400, Carole Womeldorf wrote:
 On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
 1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I
 get failed dependencies tetex-dvips and tetex-latex.  I tried
 installing the rpms from tetex but I must have gotten the wrong
 versions.  My current version of teTeX is beta.20020207-70.
 Suggestions?

rpm -Uvh --nodeps lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm  ;-)

 Also
 1)  Is there a good guide for a newbie to learn to turn a *.cls file
 into something useful in Lyx

None that I am aware of. Best way is probably to copy some existing
.layout and tweak this.

 2)  Are there many demos of different journal article formats somewhere?

'Many' is the wrong word. There are a few article .layout files in
/lib/layouts/ though.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: Lyx upgrade Latex to Lyx *.cls files

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:20:47PM -0400, Carole Womeldorf wrote:
 Herbert Voss wrote:
 
  Carole Womeldorf wrote:
   On my SuSE 8.0 system, I want to upgrade my Lyx version (currently
   1.1.6fix4) - however when I run rpm -Uvh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm I
 
  rpm -Uvh --nodeps 
 
 Thanks for all the tips, Herbert.
 
 Quick question - will I be losing any functionality by doing this?  Are
 tetex-latex and tetex-dvips already in my version of teTeX (beta.20020207-70)
 but just not registering as individual programs in the rpm database?

They are probably there but registered with another name. On SuSE 7.3:

rpm -qa | grep tex:

te_etex-1.0.7-319
tetex-latex-heb-1.0-3
te_latex-1.0.7-285
tetex-1.0.7-285

The problem is that the dependencies built into the .rpm are for RedHat
packages, and naming differs between RedHat and SuSE.

If you have teTeX installed you should not encounter any problems when
using --nodeps.

Andre'

-- 
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will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Paul" == Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It
Paul> is hard to make out an exclamation point.

Two solutions:

- make sure that in Edit>Preference>Look>Screen fonts, you have
  unchecked 'rescale bitmap fonts'. This will ensure that you only use
  hand-drawn bitmap fonts, which look much better than scaled PS fonts

or

- make the microsoft times new roman and arial fonts available to your
  X system and configure lyx to use them. These are some of the few good
  quality scalable screen fonts I know of

JMarc

Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Felix Voigt]

Thanx for the answer, Herbert,
the include command by lyx works nicely if I really want to include all
the lyx-files (according to
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/misc/IncludeInput.phtml).
But if I only want to include some of them it does not work. I have
tried \includeonly{...} in tex script - it effects 4 errors in lyx. I've
tried "nicht setzten" after clicking on the "Include:..."-box in lyx,
which should be the proper way, I suppose, and I get 8 errors. If
anybody wants to check it himself I can send the lyx-files to him/her.
Maybe this is a bug in lyx1.1.6fix2 or have I done it totally the wrong
way? :)

I would be glad about help.

Felix

Herbert Voss schrieb:
> 

> have a look at
> 
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/misc/IncludeInput.phtml
> 
> Herbert
> 
> --
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/



Felix


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Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Herbert Voss]

Felix Voigt wrote:

> But if I only want to include some of them it does not work. I have
> tried \includeonly{...} in tex script - it effects 4 errors in lyx. I've
> tried "nicht setzten" after clicking on the "Include:..."-box in lyx,
> which should be the proper way, I suppose, and I get 8 errors. If
> anybody wants to check it himself I can send the lyx-files to him/her.
> Maybe this is a bug in lyx1.1.6fix2 or have I done it totally the wrong
> way? :)


write the includeonly command into the Layout->Document->Preamble


Herbert



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Re: question on bibtex

[Herbert Voss]

Ery Djunaedy wrote:

> Dear All,
> I tried to test my bib file using
> \nocite{*}
> 
> But lyx complains: "Resulting file is empty".
> 
> And there is a message in the shell window:
> ###
> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
> The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux
> I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file bibtest.aux


did you insert a bibstyle in the BiBTeX-GUI?


Herbert




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Re: math from lyx -> rtf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:10:58PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> > Has anyone else had this problem (or is this the way
> > it's supposed to be?)?
> > 
> I haven't had the same problem that you're having but am having a
> related problem where if I do an export to HTML from within LyX
> (File->Export->HTML), then the resulting HTML file does not show any of
> the math in the LyX File. I checked the conversion options in LyX and it
> does a no subdir conversion... when I export to latex and then do
> latex2html from the command line after running latex on it (so that the
> aux file is created) the conversion is fine.. the conversion options is
> Lyx says "needaux" .. so if aux is needed then what's the best way to
> use the LyX -> HTML converter if one has to anyways convert to .tex and
> run latex on it?

Try changing the latex2html converter to
  latex2html -dir $$b_html -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i
and the flags to
  originaldir,needaux,resultdir=$$b_html,resultfile=$$b.html

This should fix the HTML export problem.

Re: large documents, devision into several parts

[Felix Voigt]

Thanks a lot,
that solution is actually working!

Felix

Herbert Voss schrieb:
 
> write the includeonly command into the Layout->Document->Preamble
> 
> Herbert
> 
> --
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: math from lyx -> rtf

[Nirmal Govind]

> Try changing the latex2html converter to
>   latex2html -dir $$b_html -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i
> and the flags to
>   originaldir,needaux,resultdir=$$b_html,resultfile=$$b.html
> 
> This should fix the HTML export problem.
> 

I tried the above and this is the error I get (when I started lyx from
the command line):

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
The top-level auxiliary file: noise_correlation.aux
The style file: apalikenew.bst
Database file #1: /home/nirmalg/Research/Thesis/robust_design.bib
Fatal: can't open pipe: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/latex2html
line 8955.

Is it looking for the .bib file in /usr/bin/latex2html ? Also, won't the
above commands result in a directory? Is it possible to generate the
html file directly without a directory?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: question on bibtex

[Ery Djunaedy]

BibTeX-GUI?
I dont understand that. :(
Can you please explain it?
Ery

* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021010 11:22]:
> Ery Djunaedy wrote:
> 
> >Dear All,
> >I tried to test my bib file using
> >\nocite{*}
> >
> >But lyx complains: "Resulting file is empty".
> >
> >And there is a message in the shell window:
> >###
> >This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
> >The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux
> >I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file bibtest.aux
> 
> 
> did you insert a bibstyle in the BiBTeX-GUI?
> 
> 
> Herbert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: question on bibtex

[Herbert Voss]

Ery Djunaedy wrote:

> BibTeX-GUI?
> I dont understand that. :(
> Can you please explain it?

Insert->Lists>BiBTeX Reference


opens the Graphical User Interface, seen as the first
image in http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/bibtex/bibtex-start.phtml

Herbert


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Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Steve Litt]

If you're using Mandrake, especially 7.2, 8.0, or 8.1, their default font 
setup is terrible. Here's a workaround:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cookiecrumbfonts.htm

Steve

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On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:35 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It is hard
> to make out an exclamation point.
>
> I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen font is
> determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could get font info if
> I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is my output:
>
> lyx -dbg font
> Setting debug level to font
> Debugging `font' (Font handling)
> Find a free buffer.
> Using scalable font to get
> -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched by
> -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background
> LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area
> LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor
> LyX: X11 color black allocated for text
>
> Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look fine. For
> example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, however, looks just
> like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look.
>
> How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font to look
> readable?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul

cannot bind M-< and M->

[Dan Bikel]

I'd like to bind M-< and M-> to be "buffer-begin" and "buffer-end", 
respectively, just like I'm used to using in emacs.  Unfortunately, no 
matter what I try in my personal emacs.bind file, I canot get these keys 
to work.  All I get is a "<" or ">" inserted into my document.

I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:

\bind "M-<"   "buffer-begin"
\bind "M-S-<" "buffer-begin"
\bind "M-S-," "buffer-begin"

and similarly for "buffer-end", but all to no avail.

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Dekel Tsur]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:52:03PM +0800, Hisyam Lee wrote:
> Yes, I do see the appendices appear in the TOC after compilation. Thanks.
> How can I change the appendices format from Appendix A, Appendix B, etc to
> Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.?

In the preamble:

\let\oldappendix=\appendix
\renewcommand{\appendix}{%
  \oldappendix%
  \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}

Re: cannot bind M-< and M->

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
> I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:
> 
> \bind "M-<"   "buffer-begin"

Can you bind "M-less"?

Andre'

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will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: cannot bind M-< and M->

[Dan Bikel]

That does not appear to work, either.  Any other suggestions?

Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
> 
>>I've separately tried including the following lines in my emacs.bind file:
>>
>>\bind "M-<"   "buffer-begin"
> 
> 
> Can you bind "M-less"?
> 
> Andre'
> 

Re: cannot bind M-< and M->

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote:
> That does not appear to work, either.  Any other suggestions?

M-~S-less

Andre'

PS: Lucky me that I made a copy of the following ;-) :

Please quote only the relevant parts of the message you are responding
to. People who need the full message can go to the archives. And please
write _below_ the parts you are quoting as it is easier to read top-down
(context, then your remark) than vice versa.

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[OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Peter Clark]

Quoting Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Fonts are always a mystery in linux, especially when I have used a
> Macintosh my whole life. (In a Macintosh,  you simply drag a font to a
> folder, and voila! You have the font available for printing and
> viewing.)

Tangentally off-topic, but KDE has a built in control-module that handles
font installation. It's not quite as simple as drag-and-drop, (you just have to
tell it where the font you want to install is located...come to think of it,
maybe it does do drag-and-drop, I haven't checked), but it is many orders of
magnitude better than moving the font file to the right directory, running the
scripts, and restarting the X server. Don't know about GNOME, someone will speak
up if this is the case as well.
Moving closer to topicality, the problem with LaTeX (and LyX by inheritance)
is its complicated font management system, which is separate from X (of course)
and something that will probably never be streamlined.

> On my linux box, I was able to get a much more readable font by tweaking
> the zoom and Screen DPI in the LyX -> Edit -> Preferences -> Screen Fonts.

I hope that when the QT frontend is released that it will automatically
detect the default fonts used on the desktop and use those as the screen fonts.
Sure, leave in the option to change the font, but at least have it default to
the user's desktop preferences.
:Peter

LyX 1.2.1 build failure under YellowDog 2.3

[David Garza]

I'm running into trouble trying to build LyX 1.2.1 from the source RPM,
but I get the following error when I try to compile:

g++ -O3 -fsigned-char -o lyx BufferView.o BufferView2.o BufferView_pimpl.o Bullet.o 
Chktex.o ColorHandler.o CutAndPaste.o DepTable.o FloatList.o Floating.o FontInfo.o 
FontLoader.o FuncStatus.o LColor.o LaTeX.o LaTeXFeatures.o LyXAction.o LyXView.o 
MenuBackend.o Painter.o PainterBase.o ParagraphParameters.o Spacing.o TextCache.o 
Thesaurus.o ToolbarDefaults.o WorkArea.o XFormsView.o box.o buffer.o bufferlist.o 
bufferparams.o bufferview_funcs.o chset.o converter.o debug.o encoding.o exporter.o 
font.o gettext.o importer.o intl.o iterators.o kbmap.o kbsequence.o language.o 
lastfiles.o lengthcommon.o lyx_cb.o lyx_gui.o lyx_main.o lyx_sty.o lyxcursor.o 
lyxfont.o lyxfind.o lyxfunc.o lyxgluelength.o lyxlayout.o lyxlength.o lyxlex.o 
lyxlex_pimpl.o lyxlookup.o lyxrc.o lyxrow.o lyxserver.o lyxtextclass.o 
lyxtextclasslist.o lyxvc.o main.o minibuffer.o paragraph.o paragraph_pimpl.o screen.o 
sp_spell.o tabular.o tabular-old.o tabular_funcs.o tex-accent.o tex-strings.o texrow.o 
text.o text2.o tracer.o trans.o trans_mgr.o undo.o undo_funcs.o undostack.o 
vc-backend.o version.o vspace.o  mathed/.libs/libmathed.a insets/.libs/libinsets.a 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a -lflimage /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -lforms 
graphics/.libs/libgraphics.a support/.libs/libsupport.a ../sigc++/.libs/libsigc.a 
-lXpm -lSM -lICE -liberty -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(FormError.o): In function `FormError::update(void)':
FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): undefined reference to `ControlInset::params(void)'
FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 
ControlInset::params(void)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [lyx] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/lyx-1.2.1/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86864 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86864 (%build)

The system is a PowerMac Dual G4/450 running Yellow Dog Linux 2.3.  
The compiler is GCC 2.95.4  I'm using xforms 1.0 RC 5.2, which I 
made using the source tarball and a slightly modified version of 
the xforms 1.0 RC5 spec file from Kayvan Sylvan.  If anyone is 
interested in the spec file modifications, let me know.  The 1.2.1 
announcement says LyX now works with xforms 1.0 RC4.  This wouldn't 
be caused by a change from RC4 to RC5, would it?

Thanks,
David Garza
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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:18:30PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
> tell it where the font you want to install is located...come to think of
> it, maybe it does do drag-and-drop, I haven't checked), but it is many
> orders of magnitude better than moving the font file to the right
> directory, running the scripts, and restarting the X server.

Given  'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should
never be needed.

Andre'

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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:18:30PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:

> Moving closer to topicality, the problem with LaTeX (and LyX by inheritance)
> is its complicated font management system, which is separate from X (of course)
> and something that will probably never be streamlined.

Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts

There is also fontconfig

> I hope that when the QT frontend is released that it will automatically
> detect the default fonts used on the desktop and use those as the screen fonts.

Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.

john

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Re: LyX 1.2.1 build failure under YellowDog 2.3

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:22:25PM -0500, David Garza wrote:

> FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): undefined reference to `ControlInsetlyxstring>::params(void)'
> FormError.o(.text+0x1d8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 
>ControlInset::params(void)

This is a toolchain problem (gcc, ld)

> announcement says LyX now works with xforms 1.0 RC4.  This wouldn't 
> be caused by a change from RC4 to RC5, would it?

no

john

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gets stuck on New Street."
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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:23:21PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> 
> Installing a font on RH8 means dropping the font in $HOME/.fonts
> 
> There is also fontconfig
   

RH8 uses fontconfig.

> Yes. If Qt is set up for it, you get anti-aliased fonts for free too.

See an example at
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png

Re: Adding List of Appendices

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:34 pm, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:52:03PM +0800, Hisyam Lee wrote:
> > Yes, I do see the appendices appear in the TOC after compilation. Thanks.
> > How can I change the appendices format from Appendix A, Appendix B, etc
> > to Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.?
>
> In the preamble:
>
> \let\oldappendix=\appendix
> \renewcommand{\appendix}{%
>   \oldappendix%
>   \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}}

Dekel --

Does the \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}} remain in scope only 
indide the braces, or does it affect any other chapter environments following 
the appendix (not that there should be any chapter environments after the 
appendix, but...)

thanks

Steve

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Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[John Levon]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:32:30PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:

> > There is also fontconfig
>
> 
> RH8 uses fontconfig.

Well, that's what I meant... guess I wasn't clear

> See an example at
> http://www.math.tau.ac.il/%7Edekelts/lyx/qt.png


Luvverly

john

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gets stuck on New Street."
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Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

[Paul Tremblay]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> If you're using Mandrake, especially 7.2, 8.0, or 8.1, their default font 
> setup is terrible. Here's a workaround:
> 
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cookiecrumbfonts.htm
> 
> Steve
> 
> 

As a matter of fact, I am using Mandrake 8.1.

I read your nice tutorial, but I'm not sure I got it to work. 

In my /etc/X11/Xconfig-4, I commented out the line

# FontPath   "unix/:-1" 

I then added the font paths as you suggested. I shut down X and
restarted it, and everything seemed to work fine. However, just to test
things, I commented out all of the font paths. According to your
tutorial, this means that X shouldn't be able to start at all. However,
even with no font paths in the configuration file, X started.

The fonts look much better in LyX, but that is the result of my tweaking
the zoom and screen dpi settings. It also helps greatly to uncheck the
"use scalable fonts" box.

I would like to get your tip to work, since it would not only helpt he
appearance of LyX, but of other applications like Netscape and Abiword.
(I tested Abiword after following your tutorial, and it looked as
pitiful as ever.)

Thanks

Paul

> 
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:35 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> > The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It is hard
> > to make out an exclamation point.
> >
> > I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen font is
> > determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could get font info if
> > I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is my output:
> >
> > lyx -dbg font
> > Setting debug level to font
> > Debugging `font' (Font handling)
> > Find a free buffer.
> > Using scalable font to get
> > -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> > Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched by
> > -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> > LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background
> > LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area
> > LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor
> > LyX: X11 color black allocated for text
> >
> > Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look fine. For
> > example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, however, looks just
> > like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look.
> >
> > How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font to look
> > readable?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Paul
> 
> 

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