Re: Windows Lyx - Creating PDF files

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:19:06PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not
 PDF files.  The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of
 the paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try
 ViewPDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says 'There was an error opening this
 document. The file does not exist'. Checking out the tmp directory
 shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files have been
 created, but not a finalised one.

So you have pdflatex installed? If so, what happens if you export to
.tex and run pdflatex manually?

Andre'

Re: Ragged right. Please?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:30:33PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
 I want to have documents print out left justified, without justification 
 on the right.  I don't want hyphenation of words either.  Everything 
 else about the basic LyX document suits me perfectly.
 
 If I choose the paragraph layout, i can left justify a paragraph, EXCEPT 
 then the indentation of the first line is lost. And I don't want that. 
 
 The Lyx Tips and Tricks document has a listing Raggedright under R, but 
 when I click on it, it does not lead me anywhere. In other words, I 
 tried and can't figure which end is up.

Quick'n'dirty:  \raggedright in ERT.

If you need to limit the scope, use  '{\raggedright ' at the begin and
'}' in ERT at the end.

Andre'

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Helge Hafting]

Iain Mac Donald wrote:
Hello LyXers,

I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial
amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are
easy to produce. Great so far.
There is one thing which would make life easier though - being able to
configure the spellchecker to ignore all the sections of LyX-Code. I do
not see a way to do it using the preferences. I have Googled and even
read the manual but haven't found anything. I did notice that if you use
pspell you can spell check in different languages. Is this a clue?
If this is not possible please consider this as a feature request.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I don't think my left
mouse button can hold out much longer :-)
I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
language than the language used in your document.
This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.  I
gave up trying to compile lyx with aspell when it turned out that
the aspell wordlists lacked lots of common words that ispell have.
That may have changed, or the situation may be different for your
language of choice.

Four ways of working around this problem:

1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.
Move the cursor after your code and press F7 to restart spellchecking
at that point.  Unfortunately, you loose the ignore alls from the
previous spellchecking session
2. Put code in separate documents
In the main document, use insert-include file
and specify input as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.
The printed result is identical to having lyxcode inside
the document, but it won't be spellchecked because it is
in another file.  You can edit your code files from withing
the main document by clicking on the little input boxes you get.
3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
some latex, although support for this package is planned.
(Latex code isn't spellchecked)
The listings package has many advantages. It can list your source
files directly, so you need only one source file that will be used both
for compiling/interpreting and for printing.  And you can get stuff like
automatic line numbers and syntax highlighting if you like.
4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
everything in a single document.

Helge Hafting

Re: Windows Lyx - Creating PDF files

[Helge Hafting]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not PDF files.
The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the paths to Acrobat
have been correclty specified), but when I try  ViewPDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says
'There was an error opening this document. The file does not exist'. Checking
out the tmp directory shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files
have been created, but not a finalised one.
Do you get a useable pdf-file if you instead do an file-export-PDF(pdflatex) ?

Also, try on a simple file with just a line or two of text.  There
may be some things that trips up pdflatex.  This will show wether you
have a pdflatex problem or merely a document using constructs that
fail in pdflatex.
Helge Hafting

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:16PM +, Iain Mac Donald wrote:
 Hello LyXers,
 
 I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial
 amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are
 easy to produce. Great so far.
 
 There is one thing which would make life easier though - being able to
 configure the spellchecker to ignore all the sections of LyX-Code. I do
 not see a way to do it using the preferences. I have Googled and even
 read the manual but haven't found anything. I did notice that if you use
 pspell you can spell check in different languages. Is this a clue?
 
 If this is not possible please consider this as a feature request.

I don't think it is possible. To make sure people don't forget this
feature request please consider filing it on bugzilla.lyx.org.

 Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I don't think my left
 mouse button can hold out much longer :-)

In such cases I usually add the program's keywords to my personal
dictionary.

Andre'

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

Hello Helge,

Thanks for the reply

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote:

  
 
 I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
 marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
 language than the language used in your document.
 This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.

I am using a Debian binary which has a drop-down where I can select
ispell or aspell. However, I do not have a means under Layout/Paragraph
to select the language. Maybe this is only available if, as you said,
aspell is compiled-in as an option? By the way - the users guide
suggests this feature is only possible with pspell.

I shudder at the thought of messing with the pspell/ispell/aspell again
as I was trapped in a Spellchecker Dependancies Hell for weeks last year
after upgrading Ximian Evolution!
 
 
 Four ways of working around this problem:
 
 1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
 When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.

Yup. Do that currently.

 
 2. Put code in separate documents
 In the main document, use insert-include file
 and specify input as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.

Ah! Thats a good idea. I shall try that. Though with a lot of ducuments
it might be tricky managing the files (particularly over many hosts).
 
 3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
 some latex, although support for this package is planned.
 (Latex code isn't spellchecked)

Sounds good. What is it?
 
 4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
 The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
 instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
 everything in a single document.
 
This might just be the answer in the meantime. Copy the LyX-Code format
and re-implement in ERT.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Regards,

Iain.
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Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

Hello Andre,
Thanks for the reply.

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:09, Andre Poenitz wrote:

 I don't think it is possible. To make sure people don't forget this
 feature request please consider filing it on bugzilla.lyx.org.
 
Walking that way now.

 In such cases I usually add the program's keywords to my personal
 dictionary.
 
Hmmm. Just thinking out loud... could create word lists for each of the
main programming languages and setting them as a personal dictionary for
that document.

Regards,

Iain. 
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Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Helge Hafting]

Iain Mac Donald wrote:
Hello Helge,

Thanks for the reply

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote:


I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
language than the language used in your document.
This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.


I am using a Debian binary which has a drop-down where I can select
ispell or aspell. However, I do not have a means under Layout/Paragraph
to select the language. 
This is under layout-character, not paragraph.  Because a paragraph
may contain words in several different languages.
Maybe this is only available if, as you said,
aspell is compiled-in as an option? By the way - the users guide
suggests this feature is only possible with pspell.
It is always available, you may mark up your document with
languages all you want.  But ispell will check everything with the 
language specified in layout-document anyway.  I'm waiting for better
spellcheckers, marking up with language is wasted work as long as
it doesn't help.

I shudder at the thought of messing with the pspell/ispell/aspell again
as I was trapped in a Spellchecker Dependancies Hell for weeks last year
after upgrading Ximian Evolution!
 

Four ways of working around this problem:

1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.


Yup. Do that currently.


2. Put code in separate documents
In the main document, use insert-include file
and specify input as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.


Ah! Thats a good idea. I shall try that. Though with a lot of ducuments
it might be tricky managing the files (particularly over many hosts).
3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
some latex, although support for this package is planned.
(Latex code isn't spellchecked)


Sounds good. What is it?
See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf
It is a latex package that gives you pretty listings, either from 
source code files or from source code embedded in the document.
There are lots of examples in that pdf.


4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
everything in a single document.

This might just be the answer in the meantime. Copy the LyX-Code format
and re-implement in ERT.
For existing documents, just open the .tex in a text editor, then
cut  paste relevant parts into an ERT box in lyx.  No rewriting. :-)
Helge Hafting

Re: Page number on first page

[Karsten Heymann]

Hello Maria,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:52 -0800 (PST)
Maria Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How can I make a cover page so that the page numbering starts at 2 on
 the second page, but has no number on the first? Or...if the paper is
 for a scientific report, should it have a page number on the first
 page? Thanks,

If you are using an article class, the pagenumber of the first page will
be printed. If you use a reoprt or book class and use title,
autor,... title settings, the printing of the pagenumber on the first
page will be supressed (counting is not affected). To achieve this
effect in article class as well, enter \thispagestyle{empty} as ERT (via
the TeX button) between the title text and your normal text (e.g. after
title, author, date if used).

hth,
Karsten

Re: Windows Lyx - Creating PDF files

[Paul A. Rubin]

[posted and mailed]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

 
 I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not
 PDF files. The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the
 paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try 
 ViewPDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says 'There was an error opening this
 document. The file does not exist'. Checking out the tmp directory
 shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files have been
 created, but not a finalised one. 
 
 Any ideas?

Is Acrobat Reader *closed* when you try this?  The message you quoted 
will routinely occur if you attempt to View-PDF(pdflatex) or View-PDF
(dvipdfm).  Piping stuff in Windows is a major adventure (frequently with 
an unhappy ending), and this seems to be a case in point.  If View-PDF
(pdflatex) has to open Reader, it should work.  Go figure.

Cheers,

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Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 12:37, Helge Hafting wrote:
 
 I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
 marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
 language than the language used in your document.
 This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.
  
 
 This is under layout-character, not paragraph.  Because a paragraph
 may contain words in several different languages.
 
Doh! Of course it is. I tried it with ispell and aspell neither of which
works. I don't have pspell installed (gnome-spell is installed which is
a pspell variant but is not recognised by LyX) and therefore I haven't
tested it.

  
  Sounds good. What is it?
 See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf
 It is a latex package that gives you pretty listings, either from 
 source code files or from source code embedded in the document.
 There are lots of examples in that pdf.
 
  
Aha even better. I can see myself making even prettier documents and
less time actually doing anything ;-)

Regards,

Iain.
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Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

[b c r]

(sorry christian)

 OK, thanks.  i'm starting to get the hang of it now.  I see so far that
 its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that
 its good for much else.  most of the commands i can do much simpler
 elsewhere.

 so my question is, what interesting things do people use the mini buffer
 for?

 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

 Homer:But wait.  You can't kill me for being Krusty.  I'm not him.
   I'm Homer Simpson.

 Fat Tony:
   The same Homer Simpson who crashed his car through the wall of
 out club?

 Homer:Uh ... actually my name is Barney.  Yeah.  Barney Gumble.

  Homie the Clown
 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

 On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Christian Ridderström wrote:

  On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, b c r wrote:
 
  
   Hello.  How do i use that input bar at the bottom of my lyx window?
   What's it called, what sort of thing is it used for, and where can i read
   abotu it?  i looked a bit in the tutorial, but couldnt figure it out,
   since i dont know what its called or where to start.
 
  AFAIK, it's the 'mini-buffer'. There's a little bit of information related
  to it here:
 
  http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/LyxFunctions
 
  /Christian
 
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Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, b c r wrote:

 (sorry christian)
No problem :-)

  OK, thanks.  i'm starting to get the hang of it now.  I see so far that
  its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that
  its good for much else.  most of the commands i can do much simpler
  elsewhere.
 
  so my question is, what interesting things do people use the mini buffer
  for?

I collected some information lying around and compiled it here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mini-buffer

Feel free (anyone) to add more examples to that page of what it's good 
for.

/Christian

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redlined documents

[rick]

Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?  I would 
like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the people I'm negotiating 
with.

Thanks,

Rick

Re: redlined documents

[Rick Angell]

Please forgive me if the first version of this was incomprehensible.

I would like to be able to produce successive versions of a lyx document (a 
lease) which show changes.  This is so that the lawyer for the people I am 
negotiating with is not forced to check 40 pages of rather leaden prose to be 
sure that nothing was changed which was not advertised as changed.  Is it 
possible to do this?  If so, how.  Thanks, as usual, for your help and your 
patience with the garbled first request.

Rick

Re: redlined documents

[Angus Leeming]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?
  I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the
 people I'm negotiating with.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rick

See message 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
in the archives

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A display usability question

[Rich Shepard]

  I've changed the cursor color to red so that it is a bit more visible on a
large screen of text. However, it sometimes gets lost in the clutter (this
is the qt UI for 1.3.3). I can find the trackball pointer by holding down
the Alt key while clicking the left button, but that pointer is quite
visible on screen.

  Is there a way to make the cursor position advertise itself vividly? Not
the mouse/trackball cursor but the text insertion point cursor.

TIA,

Rich

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Re: A display usability question

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
   Is there a way to make the cursor position advertise itself
   vividly? Not the mouse/trackball cursor but the text 
   insertion point cursor.

Type some text?

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Re: A display usability question

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:

 Type some text?

Angus,

  That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up afterward.
I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger insertion
point cursor option or a way of making it flash and stand out from the
background.

Rich

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Re: A display usability question

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
 
 Type some text?
 
 Angus,
 
   That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up
   afterward.
 I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger
 insertion point cursor option or a way of making it flash and stand
 out from the background.
 
 Rich

Fancy writing some code?

Actually, it does flash already. At least mine does, both on the 
xforms and the qt version.

-- 
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package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Harold Mouras]

Dear Lyx users,
please could you let me know if the package at this adress
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
Than you very much in advance for your help,
sincerely,
Harold
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Re: redlined documents

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:08:29PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?
   I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the
  people I'm negotiating with.
  
 
 See message 
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
 in the archives

Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

RE: eps figures in pdflatex

[Paul A. Rubin]

Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Curious.  In Edit | Preferences | Converters, what program is being
 used to
 convert EPS to PDF (probably either convert or epstopdf)?  I find
 that convert works on my system (give or take some scaling issues)
 but epstopdf fails.
 
 I have found that a wrapper script that first cleans up your eps file 
 using eps2eps (epstoeps?) and then invokes epstopdf with the 
 cleaned-up file works beautifully.
 
 What I find perverse is that both scripts are part of the same 
 ghostscript distribution, yet epstopdf is so much more fragile than 
 eps2eps.
 
 Go figure.
 

Wrapping epstopdf in eps2eps worked here, too, although in my case they 
don't seem to come from the same distribution (eps2eps comes with 
Ghostscript but epstopdf doesn't; found epstopdf in MiKTeX's bin 
directory).

Another mystery solved (or at least remediated).

-- Paul

Re: redlined documents

[Nirmal Govind]

Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

Dekel,

What does Note that Ldiff might not always give correct results 
mean? What cases are not handled well by ldiff? Or was that just a 
general disclaimer for unknown bugs?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Angus Leeming]

Harold Mouras wrote:

 Dear Lyx users,
 please could you let me know if the package at this adress
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
 is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
 Than you very much in advance for your help,
 sincerely,
 Harold

Sure it is. However, it is not a package but a patch to the LyX 
source code. To use it you will have to download the source, apply 
this patch, apply Ruurd Reitsma's Win32 patch and follow the 
instructions on his page to compile and package the lyx executable 
for a Win32 machine.

If you're not willing to do all that, then may I direct you to Dekel 
Tsur's python script which is not integrated into LyX but will 
nonetheless produce change tracking markup in the latex-compiled 
output. See

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

-- 
Angus

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Nirmal Govind]

please could you let me know if the package at this adress
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
That's actually a patch for the source code.. so I presume it is 
possible to compile that patch with the source code for LyX (1.3.2 
at least) in the Cygwin environment on Windows (unless Ruurd 
incorporates it into the Win32 version)... check out the following 
thread if you're interested in compiling LyX/Qt on Windows/Cygwin:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/33736

nirmal

Package Font errors after upgrading LyX

[Russell W. Behne]

I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx
reports:  lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the
new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are
appearing in any new document I'm typesetting. Currently I'm writing
geneweb.lyx using Layout/Document/Book(AMS):


These 2 errors appeared before the title (GeneWeb Manual):

LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
 \usepachage{d
  raftcopy}
You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.

Undefined control sequence.
 \usepachage
{draftcopy}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.



These 2 errors appeared before the author: (Russell W. Behne)

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/14.4=ecbx1440 at 14.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file 
not 
 \maketitle
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.

Font T1/cmr/m/n/14.4=ecrm1440 at 14.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file 
not f
 \maketitle
   
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.



These 2 errors appeared before the first `Part' (Using GeneWeb)

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/20.74=ecbx2074 at 20.74pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) 
file no
 \part{\label{par:Using-GeneWeb}Using GeneWeb}
  
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/17.28=ecbx1728 at 17.28pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) 
file no
 \part{\label{par:Using-GeneWeb}Using GeneWeb}
  
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.


I have no idea what this is talking about and couldn't find anything in
the archives about it. Can anyone explain what's happening, and in
simple language, how to fix it?

I am using the following packages in the preamble:
\usepachage{draftcopy}
\usepackage{dropcaps}

If I set the title, author, and part to standard text then only the 
first 2 errors concerning the draftcopy package remain.

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Re: Package Font errors after upgrading LyX

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:09:36AM +, Russell W. Behne wrote:
 I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx
 reports:  lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the
 new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are
 appearing in any new document I'm typesetting. Currently I'm writing
 geneweb.lyx using Layout/Document/Book(AMS):
 
 
 These 2 errors appeared before the title (GeneWeb Manual):
 
 LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
  \usepachage{d
   raftcopy}
 You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
 If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.
 
 Undefined control sequence.
  \usepachage
 {draftcopy}

This should be \usepackage. Note the 'k'. 
I doubt this worked at any time before.

Andre'

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Re: Windows Lyx - Creating PDF files

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:19:06PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not
 PDF files.  The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of
 the paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try
 ViewPDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says 'There was an error opening this
 document. The file does not exist'. Checking out the tmp directory
 shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files have been
 created, but not a finalised one.

So you have pdflatex installed? If so, what happens if you export to
.tex and run pdflatex manually?

Andre'

Re: Ragged right. Please?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:30:33PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
 I want to have documents print out left justified, without justification 
 on the right.  I don't want hyphenation of words either.  Everything 
 else about the basic LyX document suits me perfectly.
 
 If I choose the paragraph layout, i can left justify a paragraph, EXCEPT 
 then the indentation of the first line is lost. And I don't want that. 
 
 The Lyx Tips and Tricks document has a listing Raggedright under R, but 
 when I click on it, it does not lead me anywhere. In other words, I 
 tried and can't figure which end is up.

Quick'n'dirty:  \raggedright in ERT.

If you need to limit the scope, use  '{\raggedright ' at the begin and
'}' in ERT at the end.

Andre'

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Helge Hafting]

Iain Mac Donald wrote:
Hello LyXers,

I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial
amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are
easy to produce. Great so far.
There is one thing which would make life easier though - being able to
configure the spellchecker to ignore all the sections of LyX-Code. I do
not see a way to do it using the preferences. I have Googled and even
read the manual but haven't found anything. I did notice that if you use
pspell you can spell check in different languages. Is this a clue?
If this is not possible please consider this as a feature request.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I don't think my left
mouse button can hold out much longer :-)
I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
language than the language used in your document.
This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.  I
gave up trying to compile lyx with aspell when it turned out that
the aspell wordlists lacked lots of common words that ispell have.
That may have changed, or the situation may be different for your
language of choice.

Four ways of working around this problem:

1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.
Move the cursor after your code and press F7 to restart spellchecking
at that point.  Unfortunately, you loose the ignore alls from the
previous spellchecking session
2. Put code in separate documents
In the main document, use insert-include file
and specify input as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.
The printed result is identical to having lyxcode inside
the document, but it won't be spellchecked because it is
in another file.  You can edit your code files from withing
the main document by clicking on the little input boxes you get.
3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
some latex, although support for this package is planned.
(Latex code isn't spellchecked)
The listings package has many advantages. It can list your source
files directly, so you need only one source file that will be used both
for compiling/interpreting and for printing.  And you can get stuff like
automatic line numbers and syntax highlighting if you like.
4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
everything in a single document.

Helge Hafting

Re: Windows Lyx - Creating PDF files

[Helge Hafting]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not PDF files.
The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the paths to Acrobat
have been correclty specified), but when I try  ViewPDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says
'There was an error opening this document. The file does not exist'. Checking
out the tmp directory shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files
have been created, but not a finalised one.
Do you get a useable pdf-file if you instead do an file-export-PDF(pdflatex) ?

Also, try on a simple file with just a line or two of text.  There
may be some things that trips up pdflatex.  This will show wether you
have a pdflatex problem or merely a document using constructs that
fail in pdflatex.
Helge Hafting

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:16PM +, Iain Mac Donald wrote:
 Hello LyXers,
 
 I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial
 amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are
 easy to produce. Great so far.
 
 There is one thing which would make life easier though - being able to
 configure the spellchecker to ignore all the sections of LyX-Code. I do
 not see a way to do it using the preferences. I have Googled and even
 read the manual but haven't found anything. I did notice that if you use
 pspell you can spell check in different languages. Is this a clue?
 
 If this is not possible please consider this as a feature request.

I don't think it is possible. To make sure people don't forget this
feature request please consider filing it on bugzilla.lyx.org.

 Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I don't think my left
 mouse button can hold out much longer :-)

In such cases I usually add the program's keywords to my personal
dictionary.

Andre'

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

Hello Helge,

Thanks for the reply

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote:

  
 
 I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
 marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
 language than the language used in your document.
 This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.

I am using a Debian binary which has a drop-down where I can select
ispell or aspell. However, I do not have a means under Layout/Paragraph
to select the language. Maybe this is only available if, as you said,
aspell is compiled-in as an option? By the way - the users guide
suggests this feature is only possible with pspell.

I shudder at the thought of messing with the pspell/ispell/aspell again
as I was trapped in a Spellchecker Dependancies Hell for weeks last year
after upgrading Ximian Evolution!
 
 
 Four ways of working around this problem:
 
 1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
 When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.

Yup. Do that currently.

 
 2. Put code in separate documents
 In the main document, use insert-include file
 and specify input as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.

Ah! Thats a good idea. I shall try that. Though with a lot of ducuments
it might be tricky managing the files (particularly over many hosts).
 
 3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
 some latex, although support for this package is planned.
 (Latex code isn't spellchecked)

Sounds good. What is it?
 
 4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
 The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
 instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
 everything in a single document.
 
This might just be the answer in the meantime. Copy the LyX-Code format
and re-implement in ERT.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Regards,

Iain.
-- 

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

Hello Andre,
Thanks for the reply.

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:09, Andre Poenitz wrote:

 I don't think it is possible. To make sure people don't forget this
 feature request please consider filing it on bugzilla.lyx.org.
 
Walking that way now.

 In such cases I usually add the program's keywords to my personal
 dictionary.
 
Hmmm. Just thinking out loud... could create word lists for each of the
main programming languages and setting them as a personal dictionary for
that document.

Regards,

Iain. 
-- 

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Helge Hafting]

Iain Mac Donald wrote:
Hello Helge,

Thanks for the reply

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote:


I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
language than the language used in your document.
This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.


I am using a Debian binary which has a drop-down where I can select
ispell or aspell. However, I do not have a means under Layout/Paragraph
to select the language. 
This is under layout-character, not paragraph.  Because a paragraph
may contain words in several different languages.
Maybe this is only available if, as you said,
aspell is compiled-in as an option? By the way - the users guide
suggests this feature is only possible with pspell.
It is always available, you may mark up your document with
languages all you want.  But ispell will check everything with the 
language specified in layout-document anyway.  I'm waiting for better
spellcheckers, marking up with language is wasted work as long as
it doesn't help.

I shudder at the thought of messing with the pspell/ispell/aspell again
as I was trapped in a Spellchecker Dependancies Hell for weeks last year
after upgrading Ximian Evolution!
 

Four ways of working around this problem:

1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.


Yup. Do that currently.


2. Put code in separate documents
In the main document, use insert-include file
and specify input as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.


Ah! Thats a good idea. I shall try that. Though with a lot of ducuments
it might be tricky managing the files (particularly over many hosts).
3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
some latex, although support for this package is planned.
(Latex code isn't spellchecked)


Sounds good. What is it?
See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf
It is a latex package that gives you pretty listings, either from 
source code files or from source code embedded in the document.
There are lots of examples in that pdf.


4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
everything in a single document.

This might just be the answer in the meantime. Copy the LyX-Code format
and re-implement in ERT.
For existing documents, just open the .tex in a text editor, then
cut  paste relevant parts into an ERT box in lyx.  No rewriting. :-)
Helge Hafting

Re: Page number on first page

[Karsten Heymann]

Hello Maria,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:52 -0800 (PST)
Maria Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How can I make a cover page so that the page numbering starts at 2 on
 the second page, but has no number on the first? Or...if the paper is
 for a scientific report, should it have a page number on the first
 page? Thanks,

If you are using an article class, the pagenumber of the first page will
be printed. If you use a reoprt or book class and use title,
autor,... title settings, the printing of the pagenumber on the first
page will be supressed (counting is not affected). To achieve this
effect in article class as well, enter \thispagestyle{empty} as ERT (via
the TeX button) between the title text and your normal text (e.g. after
title, author, date if used).

hth,
Karsten

Re: Windows Lyx - Creating PDF files

[Paul A. Rubin]

[posted and mailed]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

 
 I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not
 PDF files. The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the
 paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try 
 ViewPDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says 'There was an error opening this
 document. The file does not exist'. Checking out the tmp directory
 shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files have been
 created, but not a finalised one. 
 
 Any ideas?

Is Acrobat Reader *closed* when you try this?  The message you quoted 
will routinely occur if you attempt to View-PDF(pdflatex) or View-PDF
(dvipdfm).  Piping stuff in Windows is a major adventure (frequently with 
an unhappy ending), and this seems to be a case in point.  If View-PDF
(pdflatex) has to open Reader, it should work.  Go figure.

Cheers,

-- Paul

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Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 12:37, Helge Hafting wrote:
 
 I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
 marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
 language than the language used in your document.
 This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.
  
 
 This is under layout-character, not paragraph.  Because a paragraph
 may contain words in several different languages.
 
Doh! Of course it is. I tried it with ispell and aspell neither of which
works. I don't have pspell installed (gnome-spell is installed which is
a pspell variant but is not recognised by LyX) and therefore I haven't
tested it.

  
  Sounds good. What is it?
 See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf
 It is a latex package that gives you pretty listings, either from 
 source code files or from source code embedded in the document.
 There are lots of examples in that pdf.
 
  
Aha even better. I can see myself making even prettier documents and
less time actually doing anything ;-)

Regards,

Iain.
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Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

[b c r]

(sorry christian)

 OK, thanks.  i'm starting to get the hang of it now.  I see so far that
 its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that
 its good for much else.  most of the commands i can do much simpler
 elsewhere.

 so my question is, what interesting things do people use the mini buffer
 for?

 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

 Homer:But wait.  You can't kill me for being Krusty.  I'm not him.
   I'm Homer Simpson.

 Fat Tony:
   The same Homer Simpson who crashed his car through the wall of
 out club?

 Homer:Uh ... actually my name is Barney.  Yeah.  Barney Gumble.

  Homie the Clown
 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

 On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Christian Ridderström wrote:

  On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, b c r wrote:
 
  
   Hello.  How do i use that input bar at the bottom of my lyx window?
   What's it called, what sort of thing is it used for, and where can i read
   abotu it?  i looked a bit in the tutorial, but couldnt figure it out,
   since i dont know what its called or where to start.
 
  AFAIK, it's the 'mini-buffer'. There's a little bit of information related
  to it here:
 
  http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/LyxFunctions
 
  /Christian
 
  --
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Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, b c r wrote:

 (sorry christian)
No problem :-)

  OK, thanks.  i'm starting to get the hang of it now.  I see so far that
  its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that
  its good for much else.  most of the commands i can do much simpler
  elsewhere.
 
  so my question is, what interesting things do people use the mini buffer
  for?

I collected some information lying around and compiled it here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mini-buffer

Feel free (anyone) to add more examples to that page of what it's good 
for.

/Christian

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redlined documents

[rick]

Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?  I would 
like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the people I'm negotiating 
with.

Thanks,

Rick

Re: redlined documents

[Rick Angell]

Please forgive me if the first version of this was incomprehensible.

I would like to be able to produce successive versions of a lyx document (a 
lease) which show changes.  This is so that the lawyer for the people I am 
negotiating with is not forced to check 40 pages of rather leaden prose to be 
sure that nothing was changed which was not advertised as changed.  Is it 
possible to do this?  If so, how.  Thanks, as usual, for your help and your 
patience with the garbled first request.

Rick

Re: redlined documents

[Angus Leeming]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?
  I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the
 people I'm negotiating with.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rick

See message 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
in the archives

-- 
Angus

A display usability question

[Rich Shepard]

  I've changed the cursor color to red so that it is a bit more visible on a
large screen of text. However, it sometimes gets lost in the clutter (this
is the qt UI for 1.3.3). I can find the trackball pointer by holding down
the Alt key while clicking the left button, but that pointer is quite
visible on screen.

  Is there a way to make the cursor position advertise itself vividly? Not
the mouse/trackball cursor but the text insertion point cursor.

TIA,

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com

Re: A display usability question

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
   Is there a way to make the cursor position advertise itself
   vividly? Not the mouse/trackball cursor but the text 
   insertion point cursor.

Type some text?

-- 
Angus

Re: A display usability question

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:

 Type some text?

Angus,

  That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up afterward.
I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger insertion
point cursor option or a way of making it flash and stand out from the
background.

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com

Re: A display usability question

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
 
 Type some text?
 
 Angus,
 
   That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up
   afterward.
 I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger
 insertion point cursor option or a way of making it flash and stand
 out from the background.
 
 Rich

Fancy writing some code?

Actually, it does flash already. At least mine does, both on the 
xforms and the qt version.

-- 
Angus

package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Harold Mouras]

Dear Lyx users,
please could you let me know if the package at this adress
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
Than you very much in advance for your help,
sincerely,
Harold
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Re: redlined documents

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:08:29PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?
   I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the
  people I'm negotiating with.
  
 
 See message 
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
 in the archives

Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

RE: eps figures in pdflatex

[Paul A. Rubin]

Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Curious.  In Edit | Preferences | Converters, what program is being
 used to
 convert EPS to PDF (probably either convert or epstopdf)?  I find
 that convert works on my system (give or take some scaling issues)
 but epstopdf fails.
 
 I have found that a wrapper script that first cleans up your eps file 
 using eps2eps (epstoeps?) and then invokes epstopdf with the 
 cleaned-up file works beautifully.
 
 What I find perverse is that both scripts are part of the same 
 ghostscript distribution, yet epstopdf is so much more fragile than 
 eps2eps.
 
 Go figure.
 

Wrapping epstopdf in eps2eps worked here, too, although in my case they 
don't seem to come from the same distribution (eps2eps comes with 
Ghostscript but epstopdf doesn't; found epstopdf in MiKTeX's bin 
directory).

Another mystery solved (or at least remediated).

-- Paul

Re: redlined documents

[Nirmal Govind]

Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

Dekel,

What does Note that Ldiff might not always give correct results 
mean? What cases are not handled well by ldiff? Or was that just a 
general disclaimer for unknown bugs?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Angus Leeming]

Harold Mouras wrote:

 Dear Lyx users,
 please could you let me know if the package at this adress
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
 is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
 Than you very much in advance for your help,
 sincerely,
 Harold

Sure it is. However, it is not a package but a patch to the LyX 
source code. To use it you will have to download the source, apply 
this patch, apply Ruurd Reitsma's Win32 patch and follow the 
instructions on his page to compile and package the lyx executable 
for a Win32 machine.

If you're not willing to do all that, then may I direct you to Dekel 
Tsur's python script which is not integrated into LyX but will 
nonetheless produce change tracking markup in the latex-compiled 
output. See

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

-- 
Angus

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Nirmal Govind]

please could you let me know if the package at this adress
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
That's actually a patch for the source code.. so I presume it is 
possible to compile that patch with the source code for LyX (1.3.2 
at least) in the Cygwin environment on Windows (unless Ruurd 
incorporates it into the Win32 version)... check out the following 
thread if you're interested in compiling LyX/Qt on Windows/Cygwin:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/33736

nirmal

Package Font errors after upgrading LyX

[Russell W. Behne]

I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx
reports:  lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the
new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are
appearing in any new document I'm typesetting. Currently I'm writing
geneweb.lyx using Layout/Document/Book(AMS):


These 2 errors appeared before the title (GeneWeb Manual):

LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
 \usepachage{d
  raftcopy}
You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.

Undefined control sequence.
 \usepachage
{draftcopy}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.



These 2 errors appeared before the author: (Russell W. Behne)

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/14.4=ecbx1440 at 14.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file 
not 
 \maketitle
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.

Font T1/cmr/m/n/14.4=ecrm1440 at 14.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file 
not f
 \maketitle
   
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.



These 2 errors appeared before the first `Part' (Using GeneWeb)

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/20.74=ecbx2074 at 20.74pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) 
file no
 \part{\label{par:Using-GeneWeb}Using GeneWeb}
  
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/17.28=ecbx1728 at 17.28pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) 
file no
 \part{\label{par:Using-GeneWeb}Using GeneWeb}
  
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.


I have no idea what this is talking about and couldn't find anything in
the archives about it. Can anyone explain what's happening, and in
simple language, how to fix it?

I am using the following packages in the preamble:
\usepachage{draftcopy}
\usepackage{dropcaps}

If I set the title, author, and part to standard text then only the 
first 2 errors concerning the draftcopy package remain.

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Re: Package Font errors after upgrading LyX

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:09:36AM +, Russell W. Behne wrote:
 I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx
 reports:  lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the
 new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are
 appearing in any new document I'm typesetting. Currently I'm writing
 geneweb.lyx using Layout/Document/Book(AMS):
 
 
 These 2 errors appeared before the title (GeneWeb Manual):
 
 LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
  \usepachage{d
   raftcopy}
 You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
 If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.
 
 Undefined control sequence.
  \usepachage
 {draftcopy}

This should be \usepackage. Note the 'k'. 
I doubt this worked at any time before.

Andre'

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Re: Windows Lyx -> Creating PDF files

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:19:06PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not
> PDF files.  The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of
> the paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try
> View>PDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says 'There was an error opening this
> document. The file does not exist'. Checking out the tmp directory
> shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files have been
> created, but not a finalised one.

So you have pdflatex installed? If so, what happens if you export to
.tex and run pdflatex manually?

Andre'

Re: Ragged right. Please?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:30:33PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I want to have documents print out left justified, without justification 
> on the right.  I don't want hyphenation of words either.  Everything 
> else about the basic LyX document suits me perfectly.
> 
> If I choose the paragraph layout, i can left justify a paragraph, EXCEPT 
> then the indentation of the first line is lost. And I don't want that. 
> 
> The Lyx Tips and Tricks document has a listing Raggedright under R, but 
> when I click on it, it does not lead me anywhere. In other words, I 
> tried and can't figure which end is up.

Quick'n'dirty:  \raggedright in ERT.

If you need to limit the scope, use  '{\raggedright ' at the begin and
'}' in ERT at the end.

Andre'

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Helge Hafting]

Iain Mac Donald wrote:
Hello LyXers,

I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial
amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are
easy to produce. Great so far.
There is one thing which would make life easier though - being able to
configure the spellchecker to ignore all the sections of LyX-Code. I do
not see a way to do it using the preferences. I have Googled and even
read the manual but haven't found anything. I did notice that if you use
pspell you can spell check in different languages. Is this a clue?
If this is not possible please consider this as a feature request.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I don't think my left
mouse button can hold out much longer :-)
I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
language than the language used in your document.
This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.  I
gave up trying to compile lyx with aspell when it turned out that
the aspell wordlists lacked lots of common words that ispell have.
That may have changed, or the situation may be different for your
language of choice.

Four ways of working around this problem:

1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.
Move the cursor after your code and press F7 to restart spellchecking
at that point.  Unfortunately, you loose the "ignore alls" from the
previous spellchecking session
2. Put code in separate documents
In the main document, use insert->include file
and specify "input" as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.
The printed result is identical to having lyxcode inside
the document, but it won't be spellchecked because it is
in another file.  You can edit your code files from withing
the main document by clicking on the little "input" boxes you get.
3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
some latex, although support for this package is planned.
(Latex code isn't spellchecked)
The listings package has many advantages. It can list your source
files directly, so you need only one source file that will be used both
for compiling/interpreting and for printing.  And you can get stuff like
automatic line numbers and syntax highlighting if you like.
4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
everything in a single document.

Helge Hafting

Re: Windows Lyx -> Creating PDF files

[Helge Hafting]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not PDF files.
The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the paths to Acrobat
have been correclty specified), but when I try  View>PDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says
'There was an error opening this document. The file does not exist'. Checking
out the tmp directory shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files
have been created, but not a finalised one.
Do you get a useable pdf-file if you instead do an file->export->PDF(pdflatex) ?

Also, try on a simple file with just a line or two of text.  There
may be some things that trips up pdflatex.  This will show wether you
have a pdflatex problem or merely a document using constructs that
fail in pdflatex.
Helge Hafting

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:16PM +, Iain Mac Donald wrote:
> Hello LyXers,
> 
> I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial
> amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are
> easy to produce. Great so far.
> 
> There is one thing which would make life easier though - being able to
> configure the spellchecker to ignore all the sections of LyX-Code. I do
> not see a way to do it using the preferences. I have Googled and even
> read the manual but haven't found anything. I did notice that if you use
> pspell you can spell check in different languages. Is this a clue?
> 
> If this is not possible please consider this as a feature request.

I don't think it is possible. To make sure people don't forget this
feature request please consider filing it on bugzilla.lyx.org.

> Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I don't think my left
> mouse button can hold out much longer :-)

In such cases I usually add the program's keywords to my personal
dictionary.

Andre'

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

Hello Helge,

Thanks for the reply

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote:

> > 
> 
> I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
> marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
> language than the language used in your document.
> This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.

I am using a Debian binary which has a drop-down where I can select
ispell or aspell. However, I do not have a means under Layout/Paragraph
to select the language. Maybe this is only available if, as you said,
aspell is compiled-in as an option? By the way - the users guide
suggests this feature is only possible with pspell.

I shudder at the thought of messing with the pspell/ispell/aspell again
as I was trapped in a Spellchecker Dependancies Hell for weeks last year
after upgrading Ximian Evolution!
 
> 
> Four ways of working around this problem:
> 
> 1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
> When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.

Yup. Do that currently.

> 
> 2. Put code in separate documents
> In the main document, use insert->include file
> and specify "input" as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.

Ah! Thats a good idea. I shall try that. Though with a lot of ducuments
it might be tricky managing the files (particularly over many hosts).
> 
> 3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
> some latex, although support for this package is planned.
> (Latex code isn't spellchecked)

Sounds good. What is it?
> 
> 4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
> The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
> instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
> everything in a single document.
> 
This might just be the answer in the meantime. Copy the LyX-Code format
and re-implement in ERT.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Regards,

Iain.
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Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

Hello Andre,
Thanks for the reply.

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:09, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> I don't think it is possible. To make sure people don't forget this
> feature request please consider filing it on bugzilla.lyx.org.
> 
Walking that way now.

> In such cases I usually add the program's keywords to my personal
> dictionary.
> 
Hmmm. Just thinking out loud... could create word lists for each of the
main programming languages and setting them as a personal dictionary for
that document.

Regards,

Iain. 
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Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Helge Hafting]

Iain Mac Donald wrote:
Hello Helge,

Thanks for the reply

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote:


I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
language than the language used in your document.
This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.


I am using a Debian binary which has a drop-down where I can select
ispell or aspell. However, I do not have a means under Layout/Paragraph
to select the language. 
This is under layout->character, not paragraph.  Because a paragraph
may contain words in several different languages.
Maybe this is only available if, as you said,
aspell is compiled-in as an option? By the way - the users guide
suggests this feature is only possible with pspell.
It is always available, you may mark up your document with
languages all you want.  But ispell will check everything with the 
language specified in layout->document anyway.  I'm waiting for better
spellcheckers, marking up with language is wasted work as long as
it doesn't help.

I shudder at the thought of messing with the pspell/ispell/aspell again
as I was trapped in a Spellchecker Dependancies Hell for weeks last year
after upgrading Ximian Evolution!
 

Four ways of working around this problem:

1. Skipping code snippets manually - no changes to your documents.
When ispell find the first bad word in code, terminate spellchecking.


Yup. Do that currently.


2. Put code in separate documents
In the main document, use insert->include file
and specify "input" as the way of including the file containing lyxcode.


Ah! Thats a good idea. I shall try that. Though with a lot of ducuments
it might be tricky managing the files (particularly over many hosts).
3. Consider the listings package.  Currently, that means using
some latex, although support for this package is planned.
(Latex code isn't spellchecked)


Sounds good. What is it?
See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf
It is a latex package that gives you pretty listings, either from 
source code files or from source code embedded in the document.
There are lots of examples in that pdf.


4. Take a look at the .tex file produced from a file containing lyx code.
The lyxcode part isn't that difficult.  Write your code entirely in ERT
instead of using lyxcode.  ERT isn't spellchecked, and you get 
everything in a single document.

This might just be the answer in the meantime. Copy the LyX-Code format
and re-implement in ERT.
For existing documents, just open the .tex in a text editor, then
cut & paste relevant parts into an ERT box in lyx.  No rewriting. :-)
Helge Hafting

Re: Page number on first page

[Karsten Heymann]

Hello Maria,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:52 -0800 (PST)
"Maria Torres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> How can I make a cover page so that the page numbering starts at 2 on
> the second page, but has no number on the first? Or...if the paper is
> for a scientific report, should it have a page number on the first
> page? Thanks,

If you are using an article class, the pagenumber of the first page will
be printed. If you use a reoprt or book class and use "title",
"autor",... title settings, the printing of the pagenumber on the first
page will be supressed (counting is not affected). To achieve this
effect in article class as well, enter \thispagestyle{empty} as ERT (via
the TeX button) between the title text and your normal text (e.g. after
title, author, date if used).

hth,
Karsten

Re: Windows Lyx -> Creating PDF files

[Paul A. Rubin]

[posted and mailed]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> 
> I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not
> PDF files. The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the
> paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try 
> View>PDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says 'There was an error opening this
> document. The file does not exist'. Checking out the tmp directory
> shows that something is happening - some proto-pdf files have been
> created, but not a finalised one. 
> 
> Any ideas?

Is Acrobat Reader *closed* when you try this?  The message you quoted 
will routinely occur if you attempt to View->PDF(pdflatex) or View->PDF
(dvipdfm).  Piping stuff in Windows is a major adventure (frequently with 
an unhappy ending), and this seems to be a case in point.  If View->PDF
(pdflatex) has to open Reader, it should work.  Go figure.

Cheers,

-- Paul

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Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

[Iain Mac Donald]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 12:37, Helge Hafting wrote:
 
> >>I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by 
> >>marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other
> >>language than the language used in your document.
> >>This doesn't work with ispell, but is supposed to work with aspell.
> > 
> 
> This is under layout->character, not paragraph.  Because a paragraph
> may contain words in several different languages.
> 
Doh! Of course it is. I tried it with ispell and aspell neither of which
works. I don't have pspell installed (gnome-spell is installed which is
a pspell variant but is not recognised by LyX) and therefore I haven't
tested it.

> > 
> > Sounds good. What is it?
> See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf
> It is a latex package that gives you pretty listings, either from 
> source code files or from source code embedded in the document.
> There are lots of examples in that pdf.
> 
> > 
Aha even better. I can see myself making even prettier documents and
less time actually doing anything ;-)

Regards,

Iain.
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Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

[b c r]

(sorry christian)

> OK, thanks.  i'm starting to get the hang of it now.  I see so far that
> its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that
> its good for much else.  most of the commands i can do much simpler
> elsewhere.
>
> so my question is, what interesting things do people use the mini buffer
> for?
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> Homer:But wait.  You can't kill me for being Krusty.  I'm not him.
>   I'm Homer Simpson.
>
> Fat Tony:
>   The same Homer Simpson who crashed his car through the wall of
> out club?
>
> Homer:Uh ... actually my name is Barney.  Yeah.  Barney Gumble.
>
>  Homie the Clown
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Christian Ridderström wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, b c r wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello.  How do i use that input bar at the bottom of my lyx window?
> > > What's it called, what sort of thing is it used for, and where can i read
> > > abotu it?  i looked a bit in the tutorial, but couldnt figure it out,
> > > since i dont know what its called or where to start.
> >
> > AFAIK, it's the 'mini-buffer'. There's a little bit of information related
> > to it here:
> >
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/LyxFunctions
> >
> > /Christian
> >
> > --
> > Christian Ridderström   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
> >
> >
>

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Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, b c r wrote:

> (sorry christian)
No problem :-)

> > OK, thanks.  i'm starting to get the hang of it now.  I see so far that
> > its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that
> > its good for much else.  most of the commands i can do much simpler
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > so my question is, what interesting things do people use the mini buffer
> > for?

I collected some information lying around and compiled it here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mini-buffer

Feel free (anyone) to add more examples to that page of what it's good 
for.

/Christian

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redlined documents

[rick]

Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?  I would 
like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the people I'm negotiating 
with.

Thanks,

Rick

Re: redlined documents

[Rick Angell]

Please forgive me if the first version of this was incomprehensible.

I would like to be able to produce successive versions of a lyx document (a 
lease) which show changes.  This is so that the lawyer for the people I am 
negotiating with is not forced to check 40 pages of rather leaden prose to be 
sure that nothing was changed which was not advertised as changed.  Is it 
possible to do this?  If so, how.  Thanks, as usual, for your help and your 
patience with the garbled first request.

Rick

Re: redlined documents

[Angus Leeming]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?
>  I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the
> people I'm negotiating with.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick

See message 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
in the archives

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A display usability question

[Rich Shepard]

  I've changed the cursor color to red so that it is a bit more visible on a
large screen of text. However, it sometimes gets lost in the clutter (this
is the qt UI for 1.3.3). I can find the trackball pointer by holding down
the Alt key while clicking the left button, but that pointer is quite
visible on screen.

  Is there a way to make the cursor position advertise itself vividly? Not
the mouse/trackball cursor but the text insertion point cursor.

TIA,

Rich

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Re: A display usability question

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Is there a way to make the cursor position advertise itself
>   vividly? Not the mouse/trackball cursor but the text 
>   insertion point cursor.

Type some text?

-- 
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Re: A display usability question

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:

> Type some text?

Angus,

  That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up afterward.
I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger insertion
point cursor option or a way of making it flash and stand out from the
background.

Rich

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Re: A display usability question

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
> 
>> Type some text?
> 
> Angus,
> 
>   That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up
>   afterward.
> I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger
> insertion point cursor option or a way of making it flash and stand
> out from the background.
> 
> Rich

Fancy writing some code?

Actually, it does flash already. At least mine does, both on the 
xforms and the qt version.

-- 
Angus

package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Harold Mouras]

Dear Lyx users,
please could you let me know if the package at this adress
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
Than you very much in advance for your help,
sincerely,
Harold
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Re: redlined documents

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:08:29PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents?
> >  I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the
> > people I'm negotiating with.
> > 
> 
> See message 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
> in the archives

Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

RE: eps figures in pdflatex

[Paul A. Rubin]

Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> Curious.  In Edit | Preferences | Converters, what program is being
>> used to
>> convert EPS to PDF (probably either convert or epstopdf)?  I find
>> that convert works on my system (give or take some scaling issues)
>> but epstopdf fails.
> 
> I have found that a wrapper script that first cleans up your eps file 
> using eps2eps (epstoeps?) and then invokes epstopdf with the 
> cleaned-up file works beautifully.
> 
> What I find perverse is that both scripts are part of the same 
> ghostscript distribution, yet epstopdf is so much more fragile than 
> eps2eps.
> 
> Go figure.
> 

Wrapping epstopdf in eps2eps worked here, too, although in my case they 
don't seem to come from the same distribution (eps2eps comes with 
Ghostscript but epstopdf doesn't; found epstopdf in MiKTeX's bin 
directory).

Another mystery solved (or at least remediated).

-- Paul

Re: redlined documents

[Nirmal Govind]

Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

Dekel,

What does "Note that Ldiff might not always give correct results" 
mean? What cases are not handled well by ldiff? Or was that just a 
general disclaimer for unknown bugs?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Angus Leeming]

Harold Mouras wrote:

> Dear Lyx users,
> please could you let me know if the package at this adress
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
> is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
> Than you very much in advance for your help,
> sincerely,
> Harold

Sure it is. However, it is not a "package" but a patch to the LyX 
source code. To use it you will have to download the source, apply 
this patch, apply Ruurd Reitsma's Win32 patch and follow the 
instructions on his page to compile and package the lyx executable 
for a Win32 machine.

If you're not willing to do all that, then may I direct you to Dekel 
Tsur's python script which is not integrated into LyX but will 
nonetheless produce change tracking markup in the latex-compiled 
output. See

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

-- 
Angus

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

[Nirmal Govind]

please could you let me know if the package at this adress
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643
is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows?
That's actually a patch for the source code.. so I presume it is 
possible to compile that patch with the source code for LyX (1.3.2 
at least) in the Cygwin environment on Windows (unless Ruurd 
incorporates it into the Win32 version)... check out the following 
thread if you're interested in compiling LyX/Qt on Windows/Cygwin:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/33736

nirmal

Package & Font errors after upgrading LyX

[Russell W. Behne]

I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx
reports:  lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the
new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are
appearing in any new document I'm typesetting. Currently I'm writing
geneweb.lyx using Layout/Document/Book(AMS):


These 2 errors appeared before the title (GeneWeb Manual):

LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
 \usepachage{d
  raftcopy}
You're in trouble here.  Try typingto proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X   to quit.

Undefined control sequence.
 \usepachage
{draftcopy}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.



These 2 errors appeared before the author: (Russell W. Behne)

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/14.4=ecbx1440 at 14.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file 
not 
 \maketitle
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font='.

Font T1/cmr/m/n/14.4=ecrm1440 at 14.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file 
not f
 \maketitle
   
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font='.



These 2 errors appeared before the first `Part' (Using GeneWeb)

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/20.74=ecbx2074 at 20.74pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) 
file no
 \part{\label{par:Using-GeneWeb}Using GeneWeb}
  
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font='.

Font T1/cmr/bx/n/17.28=ecbx1728 at 17.28pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) 
file no
 \part{\label{par:Using-GeneWeb}Using GeneWeb}
  
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font='.


I have no idea what this is talking about and couldn't find anything in
the archives about it. Can anyone explain what's happening, and in
simple language, how to fix it?

I am using the following packages in the preamble:
\usepachage{draftcopy}
\usepackage{dropcaps}

If I set the title, author, and part to standard text then only the 
first 2 errors concerning the draftcopy package remain.

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Re: Package & Font errors after upgrading LyX

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:09:36AM +, Russell W. Behne wrote:
> I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx
> reports:  lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the
> new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are
> appearing in any new document I'm typesetting. Currently I'm writing
> geneweb.lyx using Layout/Document/Book(AMS):
> 
> 
> These 2 errors appeared before the title (GeneWeb Manual):
> 
> LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>  \usepachage{d
>   raftcopy}
> You're in trouble here.  Try typingto proceed.
> If that doesn't work, type  X   to quit.
> 
> Undefined control sequence.
>  \usepachage
> {draftcopy}

This should be \usepackage. Note the 'k'. 
I doubt this worked at any time before.

Andre'

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