Importing and displaying graphic files

[Mike Reeks]

Having problems importing eps files and displaying them on the screen in
lyx - I get 'error converting to loadable format' and doing a straight
latex pdf fails. However the graphics files appear in the dvi text using
YAP viewer  and a readable pdf file is generated clicking on
PDF(dvipdfm). Something to do with Imagemagick I guess. Any suggestions?

Prof. Michael W Reeks
School of Mechanical Systems Engineering
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
UK
 
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Re: Importing and displaying graphic files

[Angus Leeming]

Mike Reeks wrote:

 Having problems importing eps files and displaying them on the screen in
 lyx - I get 'error converting to loadable format' and doing a straight
 latex pdf fails. However the graphics files appear in the dvi text using
 YAP viewer  and a readable pdf file is generated clicking on
 PDF(dvipdfm). Something to do with Imagemagick I guess. Any suggestions?

This is using LyX/Win 1.3.3, right? I ask because the 1.3.5 version that
Ruurd has released recently has it's own problems.

Assuming that this is the case, there are several things to check:

If you run lyx -dbg graphics from the CMD prompt, you'll get a whole heap
of diagnostic info about exactly what LyX is doing. In general, you can
define your own converters from file format A to a format loadable by the
Qt library routines, but here I'd expect that you're falling through to
the use of the default convertDefault.sh script, to be found in the
$PREFIX/share/lyx/scripts directory. (Your LyX executable is found at
$PREFIX/bin/lyx.exe.)

Assuming that you are indeed using convertDefault.sh, then this is simply a
wrapper for ImageMagick's convert.exe tool. The next thing to check,
therefore is that your PATH environment variable has the path to the
ImageMagick convert utility coming before that to the system tool of the
same name. Something to do with changing the type of your partitions...

Finally, we have had reports that the clever little check in
convertDefault.sh that all has been converted, doesn't work. Just remove
these lines, therefore, and try again.

# It appears that convert succeeded, but we know better than to trustit ;-)
# convert is passed strings in the form FMT:FILENAME, so use the ':' to
# delimit the two parts.
# Note that Win32 filenames have the form 'C:\my\file',
# so use everything from the first ':' to the end of the line.
FILE=`echo $2 | cut -d ':' -f 2-`

test -f $FILE || {
echo $0 ERROR
echo Unable to find file \${FILE}\
exit 1
}

echo $0 generated file \${FILE}\ successfully.

HTH,
Angus

ps, be warned. These conversions on LyX/Win are *blocking*. You'll have to
go make a cup of tea whilst all your images are loaded onto the LyX
screen. I'm working on fixing that but you'll have to wait for LyX 1.3.6.
Till then: tea and more tea.

pps LyX 1.3.6 will run natively on Windows out of the box. Ruurd will
probably still provide a nice package for it all, but there will be no
need for him to hack the sources to create the executable.

ppps answering the doing a straight latex pdf fails part:
obviously, it's failing for reasons outlined above. However, you may also
find that LyX is converting your nice vector EPS file to a bitmapped PNG
file rather than a PDF file. pdflatex will understand both, but only the
PDF version will scale nicely in your final document.

Again, check by looking at the output of lyx -dbg graphics. You're
looking for the output from:

lyxerr[Debug::GRAPHICS]
 \tThe original file is   orig_file  \n
 \tA copy has been made and convert is to be called with:\n
 \tfile to convert =   temp_file  '\n'
 \toutfile_base =   outfile_base  '\n'
 \t from   from   to   to  '\n';

A.

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Georg Baum]

Sven Schreiber wrote:

 My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and produces a
 bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that the relyx

The guess is probably correct.
 
 1. I read somewhere that another import tool is coming with the new lyx
 version (tex2lyx?); if this is true (and it would be great), would it be
 possible to provide it standalone even before the new lyx version is
 released?

It would be possible, but some work. Unfortunately the table import is the
least developed area of tex2lyx, so it would probably not help much in this
case.

 2. In the meantime it would be nice if the relyx-savvy could provide
 (permanent links to) more concrete advice on what latex constructs to
 avoid. (In my particular case retyping the tables in lyx is probably
 quicker than hand-editing the latex code, but for long-term or
 search-and-replace batch operations this may be helpful.) Maybe I just
 missed it?

IMHO the needed time would be better spent in improving tex2lyx wrt tables.

 3. Because the lyx doc format apparently changes from time to time, it
 seems to me that lyx2lyx is a very very important component of lyx. I
 understand that developer resources are limited, so what I'm saying is
 just that making lyx2lyx more robust should maybe receive higher
 priority than other or new features.

The problem is most definitely not lyx2lyx, but reLyX. It does not produce
clean 2.15 files, but a mixture of different formats. This in turn causes
trouble for lyx2lyx.


Georg

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul Well, Jean-Marc, in spite of having libaiksaurus installed, I
Paul get the following:

Paul, Mark,

Thanks for your config.log files. It turns out that you boh suffer
from the same problem: our configure script thinks that libAikSaurus
requires the bzip2 library to operate. While the aiksaurus
documentation is a bit hard to find, I suspect that it is not needed
anymore.

Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
that) installed? 

JMarc

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Georg Sven Schreiber wrote:
 My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and
 produces a bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that
 the relyx

Georg The guess is probably correct.

Another guess is that lyx2lyx fails to run. What version of LyX for
windows are you using? 1.3.5 has a bug that prevents lyx2lyx from
running (it is invoked directly, and windows does not guess that it is
a python script, since it does not have a .py extension).

Windows users, please correct me if I am wrong.

JMarc
 

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed?

I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command

locate bzip | grep aurus

produces nothing as an output.

Paul

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Angus Leeming]

Paul Smith wrote:

 On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed?
 
 I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command
 
 locate bzip | grep aurus
 
 produces nothing as an output.

Make that:

$ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
[snip remaining output]

$ locate bz | grep bin
/usr/bin/bzip2recover
/usr/bin/bzcat
/usr/bin/bzcmp
/usr/bin/bzdiff
/usr/bin/bzgrep
/usr/bin/bzip2
/usr/bin/bzless
/usr/bin/bzmore

-- 
Angus

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed?

Paul I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command

Paul locate bzip | grep aurus

Try to install libbzip2_1.

JMarc

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:42:48 +, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Thanks, Angus.

 $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz

$ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
/usr/share/man/man8/cups-calibrate.8.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/perlclib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/perlmodlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/loadshlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/ranlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-genmarshal.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-gettextize.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-mkenums.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man5/libao.conf.5.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libblkid.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/ExtUtils::testlib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Net::libnetFAQ.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/blib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/lib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Object::Subclass.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libuuid.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/mseclib.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Boxed.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Error.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Flags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::GenPod.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Log.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::MainLoop.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::MakeHelper.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Object.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Boolean.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Double.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Enum.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Flags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Int.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::String.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::UInt.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::ParamSpec.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::ParseXSDoc.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Signal.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Type.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Utils.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::devel.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::index.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::version.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::xsapi.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libst.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::demos::widget_lib::slide.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::demos::widget_lib::trace2.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/zlib.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libmng.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libpng.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libpngpf.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/qlibrary.3qt.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libexpect.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libgg.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libgii.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/display-svgalib.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libggi.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/library.n.bz2
/usr/share/doc/libbzip2_1-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libbzip2_1-1.0.2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libxpm4-devel-3.4k/xpm_examples.tar.bz2
/usr/share/info/libidn.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/libtool.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/xemacs/elib.info.bz2
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/bz2.so
/usr/lib/kde3/kbzip2filter.la
/usr/lib/kde3/kbzip2filter.so
/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libbzip2.so
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/mergelib.1x.bz2


 $ locate bz | grep bin

$ locate bz | grep bin
/usr/share/man/man1/bind.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/t1binary.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::bind.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::bindtags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/qaxbindable.3qt.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/binary.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/bind.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/bindtags.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/tk_bindForTraversal.n.bz2
/usr/share/info/binutils.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/gdbint.info.bz2
/usr/bin/bzip2recover
/usr/bin/bzcat
/usr/bin/bzdiff
/usr/bin/bzgrep
/usr/bin/bzip2
/usr/bin/bzless
/usr/bin/bzme
/usr/bin/bzmore
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XRebindKeysym.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineMask.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineRectangles.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineRegion.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineShape.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XrmCombineDatabase.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XrmCombineFileDatabase.3x.bz2

Paul

bug report: latex error

[Tuukka Toivonen]

BUG #1:
When trying to View Postscript on the file attached to this message,
I get dialog box There were errors during the LaTeX run ... 8 errors 
detected. I believe this should not happen and is thus a bug.

I'm using LyX/Qt 1.3.4 from official Debian Sarge package
on Linux/x86.
BUG #2:
Select (eg. with mouse) the equation so that selection begins and ends just 
outside the equation. Press ! button, which turns emphasis off for
the equation and makes the text in the equation upright. Select View 
Postscript (by the way, this time it gives just 6 errors).
Since removing the emphasis did not help, try undoing the change by
pressing Ctrl-Z.
And voila: instead of reverting the equation back to emphasis on, LyX 
removes whole equation! This is a nasty bug, could destroy document.

Next I'll find if I can find a workaround for the first one.
Please keep me on the CC, I'm not subscribed.
I didn't use bugzilla, too lazy to create account and check
if somebody has already reported these bugs.
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Section

Review 2
\layout Standard


\emph on 
Comments 
\layout Enumerate


\emph on 
Shorten has 
\begin_inset Formula $\textrm{mod 2^{8}+1}$
\end_inset 

 but 
\layout Standard

Muu
\the_end

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:44:38 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Try to install libbzip2_1.

# urpmi libbzip2_1
Everything already installed

Paul

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

There is something I do not understand: you have

Paul $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
[...]
Paul /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
Paul /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 

whereas your config.log says:
configure:5506: checking for main in -lAiksaurus
configure:5531: g++ -o conftest -O   conftest.cc -lAiksaurus -lbz2 -lc -lm  5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Can someone tell me how come libbz2 is not found?

JMarc

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 Georg Sven Schreiber wrote:
 My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and
 produces a bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that
 the relyx
 
 Georg The guess is probably correct.
 
 Another guess is that lyx2lyx fails to run. What version of LyX for
 windows are you using? 1.3.5 has a bug that prevents lyx2lyx from
 running (it is invoked directly, and windows does not guess that it is
 a python script, since it does not have a .py extension).
 
 Windows users, please correct me if I am wrong.

I understand that that wouldn't work even if it had a .py extension. That
mechanism is triggered only if you click on the blighter or such like.
Apparently. The only sure fire way to get things working is to invoke it
as python path to/lyx2lyx.

-- 
Angus

Re: bug report: latex error

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
When trying to View Postscript on the file attached to this message,
I get dialog box There were errors during the LaTeX run ... 8 errors 
detected. I believe this should not happen and is thus a bug.
Found the problem: I used accidentally math superscript inside textrm (M-m 
m). Removing the textrm mode during the superscript made everything work 
perfectly, but IMHO, LyX still could handle this more nicely.

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[hansel]

bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2 identifies 
9 binaries, man files and documentation files).

I do not intend to use aiksaurus, so this is not a big issue.  
Interesting effort, lots of promise, but not ready for prime time! I open
Roget's in an emacs window and do a search for the word for which I want a
synonym. I also find it is extremely useful to have a good dictionary
(paper) handy and in my favorite work site, I have several within arms
length. Highly recommended.

Mark Hansel

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

  Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Paul Well, Jean-Marc, in spite of having libaiksaurus installed, I
 Paul get the following:
 
 Paul, Mark,
 
 Thanks for your config.log files. It turns out that you boh suffer
 from the same problem: our configure script thinks that libAikSaurus
 requires the bzip2 library to operate. While the aiksaurus
 documentation is a bit hard to find, I suspect that it is not needed
 anymore.
 
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed? 

Re: LyX Mac Spell checker

[Tomoharu Nishino]

A symbolic link is the UNIX equivalent of the alias in the Finder.  
(Unfortunately, the UNIX part of OSX can't properly handle Finder 
aliases.)

To do what you want open the terminal application and type the 
following commands:

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s 
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell 
aspell

Note the second command requires you to have administrator privileges, 
and you will be asked to enter your password.  This should create a 
symbolic link file called aspell in the /usr/local/bin directory that 
points back to the cocoAspell file.

To make sure you have done this correctly, from the /usr/local/bin 
directory, type:

ls -la | more
In the output that follows, look for the line for aspell, if it is 
configured correctly, the line should contain:

aspell - 
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell

Then, go into LyX preferences and specify aspell as the spell checker.
This should do it.
Tn
On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:27 PM, James Bennett wrote:
Hi,
I'm just a beginner trying to set up LyX on my Mac (OS 10.3.7), which I
recently downloaded from the wiki.lyx site.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to make cocoAspell (the
recommended spellchecker) work with LyX. The instruction on the 
wiki.lyx
site is to make a symbolic link from
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell to
/usr/local/bin/aspell

I'm not sure how to do this, or if it's even possible - any pointers?
James Bennett

Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

Hello everybody,
I just want to share my experience with xfig and the specialtext feature. I 
like that I can use Latex typesetting together with postscript graphics.  I 
also like to see the graphics in Lyx.  When  a  .pstex_t file is inserted 
in Lyx, the compiled version of the document looks good but WYSIWYG 
advantage of Lyx is lost somewhat as the graphics is not shown in the 
document.

So what I normally do is I create xfig -specialtext  graphics and latex 
text, then I use a dummy Lyx document to produce a postscript file then I 
insert that new file in my real document.  It takes me an extra step to 
accomplish what I want.  Not a big deal as the graphics don't change very 
often. In most cases I do it once and it's all set.

What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are there 
plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and somehow 
(probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result inside the 
document?

Thank you
Leo

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Angus Leeming]

LB wrote:
  What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
  there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
  somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
  inside the document?

You mean like this ;-)

Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.

What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.

For Instant Preview see here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
-- 
Angusattachment: lyx_external_inset_with_instant_preview.jpg

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
inside the document?

You mean like this ;-)
Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.
What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.
fine, only one problem ... :-)
why did you use xfig for that??
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 hansel == hansel  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

hansel bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2
hansel identifies 9 binaries, man files and documentation files).

Yes, but I guess bzip2 depends on some bzip2-libs package of some
sort, which provides the library.

hansel I do not intend to use aiksaurus, so this is not a big issue.

Well, I do not use it (nor have it) either, but it is sad to have a
feature disappear for no reason.

JMarc

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't even 
have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?

Cheers
Leo
- Original Message - 
From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Xfig with specialtext


LB wrote:
 What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
 there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
 somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
 inside the document?
You mean like this ;-)
Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.
What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.
For Instant Preview see here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
--
Angus 

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Herbert Voss]

LB wrote:
That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't 
even have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?
\includegraphics{file.ps}
or with LyX insert-graphics-file.ps
wher is the problem with ps files?
Herbert

--
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http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

Herbert,
There is no problem with .ps.  I use it all the time.  What I meant was that 
the .pstex_t file does not need to be generated by xfig. So if one has a .ps 
file produced by some other software one can add latex text to it and 
preview the whole image in Lyx.

Cheers
Leo
- Original Message - 
From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Xfig with specialtext


LB wrote:
That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't 
even have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?
\includegraphics{file.ps}
or with LyX insert-graphics-file.ps
wher is the problem with ps files?
Herbert

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Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:33:54 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hansel bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2
 hansel identifies 9 binaries, man files and documentation files).
 
 Yes, but I guess bzip2 depends on some bzip2-libs package of some
 sort, which provides the library.

Maybe, it would be useful to look at how Abiword does, as Abiword uses
Aiksaurus.

Paul

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Angus Leeming]

LB wrote:

 Herbert,
 
 There is no problem with .ps.  I use it all the time.  What I meant was
 that the .pstex_t file does not need to be generated by xfig. So if one
 has a .ps file produced by some other software one can add latex text to
 it and preview the whole image in Lyx.

I think that you can do that already. Use the Include Inset and turn on
Instant Preview. Of course, you'll need to get Instant Preview working
on your box.

-- 
Angus

Lyx + Mathematica

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Torquil_Madonald_S=F8rensen?=]

I have a Lyx (1.3.5) document containing several eps-plots generated by 
Mathematica (4.2). The EPS-plots have labels on the axes containg 
parentheses and slashes.

This worked fine until I decided to include as appendix 
aMathematica-notebook saved to Latex format. I added

\usepackage{notebook2e,latexsym,wrisym}
to the preamble, and installed all the files in the texmf subdirectory 
in the mathematica installation folder into my latex distribution.

In addition, I added the line
\newcommand{\IndentingNewLine}{}
since otherwise I got error messages regarding this command in the 
exported mathematica-notebook.

Then a new problem appeared: The slashes and parentheses on the text 
labels on the axes of my eps-plots disappeared. Does anybody know how to 
fix this problem?

Gratefully,
TMS

Re: accents no work

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Marcelo=20Acu=FFfffff1a?=]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you use qt-3.3.3?

There is a bug in this Qt version: the dead keys are, well, dead.

So if you tyÃpoe an accent, say, ^, it doesn't wait for the character
to be typed that it will be an accent of.

Very irritating. It also disables the use of ^ for superscript in math.

- Martin


I have qt 3.3.1-33

Is this a bad version?

Thanks, Martin. Marcelo Acuña. Argentina.


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Importing and displaying graphic files

[Mike Reeks]

Having problems importing eps files and displaying them on the screen in
lyx - I get 'error converting to loadable format' and doing a straight
latex pdf fails. However the graphics files appear in the dvi text using
YAP viewer  and a readable pdf file is generated clicking on
PDF(dvipdfm). Something to do with Imagemagick I guess. Any suggestions?

Prof. Michael W Reeks
School of Mechanical Systems Engineering
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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UK
 
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Re: Importing and displaying graphic files

[Angus Leeming]

Mike Reeks wrote:

 Having problems importing eps files and displaying them on the screen in
 lyx - I get 'error converting to loadable format' and doing a straight
 latex pdf fails. However the graphics files appear in the dvi text using
 YAP viewer  and a readable pdf file is generated clicking on
 PDF(dvipdfm). Something to do with Imagemagick I guess. Any suggestions?

This is using LyX/Win 1.3.3, right? I ask because the 1.3.5 version that
Ruurd has released recently has it's own problems.

Assuming that this is the case, there are several things to check:

If you run lyx -dbg graphics from the CMD prompt, you'll get a whole heap
of diagnostic info about exactly what LyX is doing. In general, you can
define your own converters from file format A to a format loadable by the
Qt library routines, but here I'd expect that you're falling through to
the use of the default convertDefault.sh script, to be found in the
$PREFIX/share/lyx/scripts directory. (Your LyX executable is found at
$PREFIX/bin/lyx.exe.)

Assuming that you are indeed using convertDefault.sh, then this is simply a
wrapper for ImageMagick's convert.exe tool. The next thing to check,
therefore is that your PATH environment variable has the path to the
ImageMagick convert utility coming before that to the system tool of the
same name. Something to do with changing the type of your partitions...

Finally, we have had reports that the clever little check in
convertDefault.sh that all has been converted, doesn't work. Just remove
these lines, therefore, and try again.

# It appears that convert succeeded, but we know better than to trustit ;-)
# convert is passed strings in the form FMT:FILENAME, so use the ':' to
# delimit the two parts.
# Note that Win32 filenames have the form 'C:\my\file',
# so use everything from the first ':' to the end of the line.
FILE=`echo $2 | cut -d ':' -f 2-`

test -f $FILE || {
echo $0 ERROR
echo Unable to find file \${FILE}\
exit 1
}

echo $0 generated file \${FILE}\ successfully.

HTH,
Angus

ps, be warned. These conversions on LyX/Win are *blocking*. You'll have to
go make a cup of tea whilst all your images are loaded onto the LyX
screen. I'm working on fixing that but you'll have to wait for LyX 1.3.6.
Till then: tea and more tea.

pps LyX 1.3.6 will run natively on Windows out of the box. Ruurd will
probably still provide a nice package for it all, but there will be no
need for him to hack the sources to create the executable.

ppps answering the doing a straight latex pdf fails part:
obviously, it's failing for reasons outlined above. However, you may also
find that LyX is converting your nice vector EPS file to a bitmapped PNG
file rather than a PDF file. pdflatex will understand both, but only the
PDF version will scale nicely in your final document.

Again, check by looking at the output of lyx -dbg graphics. You're
looking for the output from:

lyxerr[Debug::GRAPHICS]
 \tThe original file is   orig_file  \n
 \tA copy has been made and convert is to be called with:\n
 \tfile to convert =   temp_file  '\n'
 \toutfile_base =   outfile_base  '\n'
 \t from   from   to   to  '\n';

A.

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Georg Baum]

Sven Schreiber wrote:

 My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and produces a
 bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that the relyx

The guess is probably correct.
 
 1. I read somewhere that another import tool is coming with the new lyx
 version (tex2lyx?); if this is true (and it would be great), would it be
 possible to provide it standalone even before the new lyx version is
 released?

It would be possible, but some work. Unfortunately the table import is the
least developed area of tex2lyx, so it would probably not help much in this
case.

 2. In the meantime it would be nice if the relyx-savvy could provide
 (permanent links to) more concrete advice on what latex constructs to
 avoid. (In my particular case retyping the tables in lyx is probably
 quicker than hand-editing the latex code, but for long-term or
 search-and-replace batch operations this may be helpful.) Maybe I just
 missed it?

IMHO the needed time would be better spent in improving tex2lyx wrt tables.

 3. Because the lyx doc format apparently changes from time to time, it
 seems to me that lyx2lyx is a very very important component of lyx. I
 understand that developer resources are limited, so what I'm saying is
 just that making lyx2lyx more robust should maybe receive higher
 priority than other or new features.

The problem is most definitely not lyx2lyx, but reLyX. It does not produce
clean 2.15 files, but a mixture of different formats. This in turn causes
trouble for lyx2lyx.


Georg

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul Well, Jean-Marc, in spite of having libaiksaurus installed, I
Paul get the following:

Paul, Mark,

Thanks for your config.log files. It turns out that you boh suffer
from the same problem: our configure script thinks that libAikSaurus
requires the bzip2 library to operate. While the aiksaurus
documentation is a bit hard to find, I suspect that it is not needed
anymore.

Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
that) installed? 

JMarc

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Georg Sven Schreiber wrote:
 My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and
 produces a bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that
 the relyx

Georg The guess is probably correct.

Another guess is that lyx2lyx fails to run. What version of LyX for
windows are you using? 1.3.5 has a bug that prevents lyx2lyx from
running (it is invoked directly, and windows does not guess that it is
a python script, since it does not have a .py extension).

Windows users, please correct me if I am wrong.

JMarc
 

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed?

I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command

locate bzip | grep aurus

produces nothing as an output.

Paul

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Angus Leeming]

Paul Smith wrote:

 On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed?
 
 I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command
 
 locate bzip | grep aurus
 
 produces nothing as an output.

Make that:

$ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
[snip remaining output]

$ locate bz | grep bin
/usr/bin/bzip2recover
/usr/bin/bzcat
/usr/bin/bzcmp
/usr/bin/bzdiff
/usr/bin/bzgrep
/usr/bin/bzip2
/usr/bin/bzless
/usr/bin/bzmore

-- 
Angus

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed?

Paul I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command

Paul locate bzip | grep aurus

Try to install libbzip2_1.

JMarc

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:42:48 +, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Thanks, Angus.

 $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz

$ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
/usr/share/man/man8/cups-calibrate.8.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/perlclib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/perlmodlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/loadshlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/ranlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-genmarshal.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-gettextize.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-mkenums.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man5/libao.conf.5.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libblkid.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/ExtUtils::testlib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Net::libnetFAQ.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/blib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/lib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Object::Subclass.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libuuid.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/mseclib.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Boxed.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Error.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Flags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::GenPod.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Log.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::MainLoop.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::MakeHelper.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Object.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Boolean.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Double.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Enum.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Flags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Int.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::String.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::UInt.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::ParamSpec.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::ParseXSDoc.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Signal.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Type.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Utils.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::devel.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::index.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::version.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::xsapi.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libst.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::demos::widget_lib::slide.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::demos::widget_lib::trace2.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/zlib.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libmng.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libpng.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libpngpf.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/qlibrary.3qt.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libexpect.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libgg.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libgii.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/display-svgalib.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libggi.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/library.n.bz2
/usr/share/doc/libbzip2_1-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libbzip2_1-1.0.2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libxpm4-devel-3.4k/xpm_examples.tar.bz2
/usr/share/info/libidn.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/libtool.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/xemacs/elib.info.bz2
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/bz2.so
/usr/lib/kde3/kbzip2filter.la
/usr/lib/kde3/kbzip2filter.so
/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libbzip2.so
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/mergelib.1x.bz2


 $ locate bz | grep bin

$ locate bz | grep bin
/usr/share/man/man1/bind.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/t1binary.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::bind.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::bindtags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/qaxbindable.3qt.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/binary.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/bind.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/bindtags.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/tk_bindForTraversal.n.bz2
/usr/share/info/binutils.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/gdbint.info.bz2
/usr/bin/bzip2recover
/usr/bin/bzcat
/usr/bin/bzdiff
/usr/bin/bzgrep
/usr/bin/bzip2
/usr/bin/bzless
/usr/bin/bzme
/usr/bin/bzmore
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XRebindKeysym.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineMask.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineRectangles.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineRegion.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineShape.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XrmCombineDatabase.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XrmCombineFileDatabase.3x.bz2

Paul

bug report: latex error

[Tuukka Toivonen]

BUG #1:
When trying to View Postscript on the file attached to this message,
I get dialog box There were errors during the LaTeX run ... 8 errors 
detected. I believe this should not happen and is thus a bug.

I'm using LyX/Qt 1.3.4 from official Debian Sarge package
on Linux/x86.
BUG #2:
Select (eg. with mouse) the equation so that selection begins and ends just 
outside the equation. Press ! button, which turns emphasis off for
the equation and makes the text in the equation upright. Select View 
Postscript (by the way, this time it gives just 6 errors).
Since removing the emphasis did not help, try undoing the change by
pressing Ctrl-Z.
And voila: instead of reverting the equation back to emphasis on, LyX 
removes whole equation! This is a nasty bug, could destroy document.

Next I'll find if I can find a workaround for the first one.
Please keep me on the CC, I'm not subscribed.
I didn't use bugzilla, too lazy to create account and check
if somebody has already reported these bugs.
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Section

Review 2
\layout Standard


\emph on 
Comments 
\layout Enumerate


\emph on 
Shorten has 
\begin_inset Formula $\textrm{mod 2^{8}+1}$
\end_inset 

 but 
\layout Standard

Muu
\the_end

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:44:38 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Try to install libbzip2_1.

# urpmi libbzip2_1
Everything already installed

Paul

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

There is something I do not understand: you have

Paul $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
[...]
Paul /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
Paul /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 

whereas your config.log says:
configure:5506: checking for main in -lAiksaurus
configure:5531: g++ -o conftest -O   conftest.cc -lAiksaurus -lbz2 -lc -lm  5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Can someone tell me how come libbz2 is not found?

JMarc

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 Georg Sven Schreiber wrote:
 My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and
 produces a bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that
 the relyx
 
 Georg The guess is probably correct.
 
 Another guess is that lyx2lyx fails to run. What version of LyX for
 windows are you using? 1.3.5 has a bug that prevents lyx2lyx from
 running (it is invoked directly, and windows does not guess that it is
 a python script, since it does not have a .py extension).
 
 Windows users, please correct me if I am wrong.

I understand that that wouldn't work even if it had a .py extension. That
mechanism is triggered only if you click on the blighter or such like.
Apparently. The only sure fire way to get things working is to invoke it
as python path to/lyx2lyx.

-- 
Angus

Re: bug report: latex error

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
When trying to View Postscript on the file attached to this message,
I get dialog box There were errors during the LaTeX run ... 8 errors 
detected. I believe this should not happen and is thus a bug.
Found the problem: I used accidentally math superscript inside textrm (M-m 
m). Removing the textrm mode during the superscript made everything work 
perfectly, but IMHO, LyX still could handle this more nicely.

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[hansel]

bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2 identifies 
9 binaries, man files and documentation files).

I do not intend to use aiksaurus, so this is not a big issue.  
Interesting effort, lots of promise, but not ready for prime time! I open
Roget's in an emacs window and do a search for the word for which I want a
synonym. I also find it is extremely useful to have a good dictionary
(paper) handy and in my favorite work site, I have several within arms
length. Highly recommended.

Mark Hansel

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

  Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Paul Well, Jean-Marc, in spite of having libaiksaurus installed, I
 Paul get the following:
 
 Paul, Mark,
 
 Thanks for your config.log files. It turns out that you boh suffer
 from the same problem: our configure script thinks that libAikSaurus
 requires the bzip2 library to operate. While the aiksaurus
 documentation is a bit hard to find, I suspect that it is not needed
 anymore.
 
 Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
 that) installed? 

Re: LyX Mac Spell checker

[Tomoharu Nishino]

A symbolic link is the UNIX equivalent of the alias in the Finder.  
(Unfortunately, the UNIX part of OSX can't properly handle Finder 
aliases.)

To do what you want open the terminal application and type the 
following commands:

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s 
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell 
aspell

Note the second command requires you to have administrator privileges, 
and you will be asked to enter your password.  This should create a 
symbolic link file called aspell in the /usr/local/bin directory that 
points back to the cocoAspell file.

To make sure you have done this correctly, from the /usr/local/bin 
directory, type:

ls -la | more
In the output that follows, look for the line for aspell, if it is 
configured correctly, the line should contain:

aspell - 
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell

Then, go into LyX preferences and specify aspell as the spell checker.
This should do it.
Tn
On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:27 PM, James Bennett wrote:
Hi,
I'm just a beginner trying to set up LyX on my Mac (OS 10.3.7), which I
recently downloaded from the wiki.lyx site.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to make cocoAspell (the
recommended spellchecker) work with LyX. The instruction on the 
wiki.lyx
site is to make a symbolic link from
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell to
/usr/local/bin/aspell

I'm not sure how to do this, or if it's even possible - any pointers?
James Bennett

Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

Hello everybody,
I just want to share my experience with xfig and the specialtext feature. I 
like that I can use Latex typesetting together with postscript graphics.  I 
also like to see the graphics in Lyx.  When  a  .pstex_t file is inserted 
in Lyx, the compiled version of the document looks good but WYSIWYG 
advantage of Lyx is lost somewhat as the graphics is not shown in the 
document.

So what I normally do is I create xfig -specialtext  graphics and latex 
text, then I use a dummy Lyx document to produce a postscript file then I 
insert that new file in my real document.  It takes me an extra step to 
accomplish what I want.  Not a big deal as the graphics don't change very 
often. In most cases I do it once and it's all set.

What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are there 
plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and somehow 
(probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result inside the 
document?

Thank you
Leo

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Angus Leeming]

LB wrote:
  What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
  there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
  somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
  inside the document?

You mean like this ;-)

Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.

What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.

For Instant Preview see here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
-- 
Angusattachment: lyx_external_inset_with_instant_preview.jpg

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
inside the document?

You mean like this ;-)
Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.
What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.
fine, only one problem ... :-)
why did you use xfig for that??
Herbert
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http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 hansel == hansel  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

hansel bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2
hansel identifies 9 binaries, man files and documentation files).

Yes, but I guess bzip2 depends on some bzip2-libs package of some
sort, which provides the library.

hansel I do not intend to use aiksaurus, so this is not a big issue.

Well, I do not use it (nor have it) either, but it is sad to have a
feature disappear for no reason.

JMarc

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't even 
have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?

Cheers
Leo
- Original Message - 
From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Xfig with specialtext


LB wrote:
 What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
 there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
 somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
 inside the document?
You mean like this ;-)
Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.
What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.
For Instant Preview see here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
--
Angus 

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Herbert Voss]

LB wrote:
That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't 
even have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?
\includegraphics{file.ps}
or with LyX insert-graphics-file.ps
wher is the problem with ps files?
Herbert

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http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

Herbert,
There is no problem with .ps.  I use it all the time.  What I meant was that 
the .pstex_t file does not need to be generated by xfig. So if one has a .ps 
file produced by some other software one can add latex text to it and 
preview the whole image in Lyx.

Cheers
Leo
- Original Message - 
From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Xfig with specialtext


LB wrote:
That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't 
even have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?
\includegraphics{file.ps}
or with LyX insert-graphics-file.ps
wher is the problem with ps files?
Herbert

--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:33:54 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hansel bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2
 hansel identifies 9 binaries, man files and documentation files).
 
 Yes, but I guess bzip2 depends on some bzip2-libs package of some
 sort, which provides the library.

Maybe, it would be useful to look at how Abiword does, as Abiword uses
Aiksaurus.

Paul

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Angus Leeming]

LB wrote:

 Herbert,
 
 There is no problem with .ps.  I use it all the time.  What I meant was
 that the .pstex_t file does not need to be generated by xfig. So if one
 has a .ps file produced by some other software one can add latex text to
 it and preview the whole image in Lyx.

I think that you can do that already. Use the Include Inset and turn on
Instant Preview. Of course, you'll need to get Instant Preview working
on your box.

-- 
Angus

Lyx + Mathematica

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Torquil_Madonald_S=F8rensen?=]

I have a Lyx (1.3.5) document containing several eps-plots generated by 
Mathematica (4.2). The EPS-plots have labels on the axes containg 
parentheses and slashes.

This worked fine until I decided to include as appendix 
aMathematica-notebook saved to Latex format. I added

\usepackage{notebook2e,latexsym,wrisym}
to the preamble, and installed all the files in the texmf subdirectory 
in the mathematica installation folder into my latex distribution.

In addition, I added the line
\newcommand{\IndentingNewLine}{}
since otherwise I got error messages regarding this command in the 
exported mathematica-notebook.

Then a new problem appeared: The slashes and parentheses on the text 
labels on the axes of my eps-plots disappeared. Does anybody know how to 
fix this problem?

Gratefully,
TMS

Re: accents no work

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Marcelo=20Acu=FFfffff1a?=]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you use qt-3.3.3?

There is a bug in this Qt version: the dead keys are, well, dead.

So if you tyÃpoe an accent, say, ^, it doesn't wait for the character
to be typed that it will be an accent of.

Very irritating. It also disables the use of ^ for superscript in math.

- Martin


I have qt 3.3.1-33

Is this a bad version?

Thanks, Martin. Marcelo Acuña. Argentina.


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Importing and displaying graphic files

[Mike Reeks]

Having problems importing eps files and displaying them on the screen in
lyx - I get 'error converting to loadable format' and doing a straight
latex pdf fails. However the graphics files appear in the dvi text using
YAP viewer  and a readable pdf file is generated clicking on
PDF(dvipdfm). Something to do with Imagemagick I guess. Any suggestions?

Prof. Michael W Reeks
School of Mechanical& Systems Engineering
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
UK
 
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Re: Importing and displaying graphic files

[Angus Leeming]

Mike Reeks wrote:

> Having problems importing eps files and displaying them on the screen in
> lyx - I get 'error converting to loadable format' and doing a straight
> latex pdf fails. However the graphics files appear in the dvi text using
> YAP viewer  and a readable pdf file is generated clicking on
> PDF(dvipdfm). Something to do with Imagemagick I guess. Any suggestions?

This is using LyX/Win 1.3.3, right? I ask because the 1.3.5 version that
Ruurd has released recently has it's own problems.

Assuming that this is the case, there are several things to check:

If you run "lyx -dbg graphics" from the CMD prompt, you'll get a whole heap
of diagnostic info about exactly what LyX is doing. In general, you can
define your own converters from file format A to a format loadable by the
Qt library routines, but here I'd expect that you're falling through to
the use of the default convertDefault.sh script, to be found in the
$PREFIX/share/lyx/scripts directory. (Your LyX executable is found at
$PREFIX/bin/lyx.exe.)

Assuming that you are indeed using convertDefault.sh, then this is simply a
wrapper for ImageMagick's convert.exe tool. The next thing to check,
therefore is that your PATH environment variable has the path to the
ImageMagick convert utility coming before that to the system tool of the
same name. Something to do with changing the type of your partitions...

Finally, we have had reports that the clever little check in
convertDefault.sh that all has been converted, doesn't work. Just remove
these lines, therefore, and try again.

# It appears that convert succeeded, but we know better than to trustit ;-)
# convert is passed strings in the form "FMT:FILENAME", so use the ':' to
# delimit the two parts.
# Note that Win32 filenames have the form 'C:\my\file',
# so use everything from the first ':' to the end of the line.
FILE=`echo "$2" | cut -d ':' -f 2-`

test -f "$FILE" || {
echo "$0 ERROR"
echo "Unable to find file \"${FILE}\""
exit 1
}

echo "$0 generated file \"${FILE}\" successfully."

HTH,
Angus

ps, be warned. These conversions on LyX/Win are *blocking*. You'll have to
go make a cup of tea whilst all your images are loaded onto the LyX
screen. I'm working on fixing that but you'll have to wait for LyX 1.3.6.
Till then: tea and more tea.

pps LyX 1.3.6 will run natively on Windows out of the box. Ruurd will
probably still provide a nice package for it all, but there will be no
need for him to hack the sources to create the executable.

ppps answering the "doing a straight latex pdf fails" part:
obviously, it's failing for reasons outlined above. However, you may also
find that LyX is converting your nice vector EPS file to a bitmapped PNG
file rather than a PDF file. pdflatex will understand both, but only the
PDF version will scale nicely in your final document.

Again, check by looking at the output of "lyx -dbg graphics". You're
looking for the output from:

lyxerr[Debug::GRAPHICS]
<< "\tThe original file is " << orig_file << "\n"
<< "\tA copy has been made and convert is to be called with:\n"
<< "\tfile to convert = " << temp_file << '\n'
<< "\toutfile_base = " << outfile_base << '\n'
<< "\t from " << from << " to " << to << '\n';

A.

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Georg Baum]

Sven Schreiber wrote:

> My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and produces a
> bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that the relyx

The guess is probably correct.
 
> 1. I read somewhere that another import tool is coming with the new lyx
> version (tex2lyx?); if this is true (and it would be great), would it be
> possible to provide it standalone even before the new lyx version is
> released?

It would be possible, but some work. Unfortunately the table import is the
least developed area of tex2lyx, so it would probably not help much in this
case.

> 2. In the meantime it would be nice if the relyx-savvy could provide
> (permanent links to) more concrete advice on what latex constructs to
> avoid. (In my particular case retyping the tables in lyx is probably
> quicker than hand-editing the latex code, but for long-term or
> search-and-replace batch operations this may be helpful.) Maybe I just
> missed it?

IMHO the needed time would be better spent in improving tex2lyx wrt tables.

> 3. Because the lyx doc format apparently changes from time to time, it
> seems to me that lyx2lyx is a very very important component of lyx. I
> understand that developer resources are limited, so what I'm saying is
> just that making lyx2lyx more robust should maybe receive higher
> priority than other or new features.

The problem is most definitely not lyx2lyx, but reLyX. It does not produce
clean 2.15 files, but a mixture of different formats. This in turn causes
trouble for lyx2lyx.


Georg

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

Paul> Well, Jean-Marc, in spite of having libaiksaurus installed, I
Paul> get the following:

Paul, Mark,

Thanks for your config.log files. It turns out that you boh suffer
from the same problem: our configure script thinks that libAikSaurus
requires the bzip2 library to operate. While the aiksaurus
documentation is a bit hard to find, I suspect that it is not needed
anymore.

Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
that) installed? 

JMarc

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Georg> Sven Schreiber wrote:
>> My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and
>> produces a bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that
>> the relyx

Georg> The guess is probably correct.

Another guess is that lyx2lyx fails to run. What version of LyX for
windows are you using? 1.3.5 has a bug that prevents lyx2lyx from
running (it is invoked directly, and windows does not guess that it is
a python script, since it does not have a .py extension).

Windows users, please correct me if I am wrong.

JMarc
 

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
> that) installed?

I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command

locate bzip | grep aurus

produces nothing as an output.

Paul

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Angus Leeming]

Paul Smith wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
>> that) installed?
> 
> I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command
> 
> locate bzip | grep aurus
> 
> produces nothing as an output.

Make that:

$ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
[snip remaining output]

$ locate bz | grep bin
/usr/bin/bzip2recover
/usr/bin/bzcat
/usr/bin/bzcmp
/usr/bin/bzdiff
/usr/bin/bzgrep
/usr/bin/bzip2
/usr/bin/bzless
/usr/bin/bzmore

-- 
Angus

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

Paul> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Paul> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
>> that) installed?

Paul> I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command

Paul> locate bzip | grep aurus

Try to install libbzip2_1.

JMarc

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:42:48 +, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks, Angus.

> $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz

$ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
/usr/share/man/man8/cups-calibrate.8.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/perlclib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/perlmodlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/loadshlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/ranlib.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-genmarshal.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-gettextize.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/glib-mkenums.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man5/libao.conf.5.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libblkid.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/ExtUtils::testlib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Net::libnetFAQ.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/blib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/lib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Object::Subclass.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libuuid.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/mseclib.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Boxed.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Error.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Flags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::GenPod.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Log.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::MainLoop.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::MakeHelper.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Object.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Boolean.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Double.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Enum.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Flags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::Int.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::String.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Param::UInt.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::ParamSpec.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::ParseXSDoc.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Signal.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Type.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Utils.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::devel.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::index.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::version.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::xsapi.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libst.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::demos::widget_lib::slide.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::demos::widget_lib::trace2.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/zlib.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libmng.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libpng.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libpngpf.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/qlibrary.3qt.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/libexpect.3.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libgg.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libgii.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/display-svgalib.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/man7/libggi.7.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/library.n.bz2
/usr/share/doc/libbzip2_1-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libbzip2_1-1.0.2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libxpm4-devel-3.4k/xpm_examples.tar.bz2
/usr/share/info/libidn.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/libtool.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/xemacs/elib.info.bz2
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/bz2.so
/usr/lib/kde3/kbzip2filter.la
/usr/lib/kde3/kbzip2filter.so
/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libbzip2.so
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/mergelib.1x.bz2


> $ locate bz | grep bin

$ locate bz | grep bin
/usr/share/man/man1/bind.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/t1binary.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::bind.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/Tk::bindtags.3pm.bz2
/usr/share/man/man3/qaxbindable.3qt.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/binary.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/bind.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/bindtags.n.bz2
/usr/share/man/mann/tk_bindForTraversal.n.bz2
/usr/share/info/binutils.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/gdbint.info.bz2
/usr/bin/bzip2recover
/usr/bin/bzcat
/usr/bin/bzdiff
/usr/bin/bzgrep
/usr/bin/bzip2
/usr/bin/bzless
/usr/bin/bzme
/usr/bin/bzmore
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XRebindKeysym.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineMask.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineRectangles.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineRegion.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XShapeCombineShape.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XrmCombineDatabase.3x.bz2
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XrmCombineFileDatabase.3x.bz2

Paul

bug report: latex error

[Tuukka Toivonen]

BUG #1:
When trying to "View Postscript" on the file attached to this message,
I get dialog box "There were errors during the LaTeX run ... 8 errors 
detected". I believe this should not happen and is thus a bug.

I'm using LyX/Qt 1.3.4 from official Debian Sarge package
on Linux/x86.
BUG #2:
Select (eg. with mouse) the equation so that selection begins and ends just 
outside the equation. Press "!" button, which turns emphasis off for
the equation and makes the text in the equation upright. Select "View 
Postscript" (by the way, this time it gives just 6 errors).
Since removing the emphasis did not help, try undoing the change by
pressing Ctrl-Z.
And voila: instead of reverting the equation back to emphasis on, LyX 
removes whole equation! This is a nasty bug, could destroy document.

Next I'll find if I can find a workaround for the first one.
Please keep me on the CC, I'm not subscribed.
I didn't use bugzilla, too lazy to create account and check
if somebody has already reported these bugs.
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Section

Review 2
\layout Standard


\emph on 
Comments 
\layout Enumerate


\emph on 
Shorten has "
\begin_inset Formula $\textrm{mod 2^{8}+1}$
\end_inset 

" but 
\layout Standard

Muu
\the_end

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:44:38 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try to install libbzip2_1.

# urpmi libbzip2_1
Everything already installed

Paul

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

There is something I do not understand: you have

Paul> $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz
[...]
Paul> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
Paul> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 

whereas your config.log says:
configure:5506: checking for main in -lAiksaurus
configure:5531: g++ -o conftest -O   conftest.cc -lAiksaurus -lbz2 -lc -lm  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Can someone tell me how come libbz2 is not found?

JMarc

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Georg> Sven Schreiber wrote:
>>> My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and
>>> produces a bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that
>>> the relyx
> 
> Georg> The guess is probably correct.
> 
> Another guess is that lyx2lyx fails to run. What version of LyX for
> windows are you using? 1.3.5 has a bug that prevents lyx2lyx from
> running (it is invoked directly, and windows does not guess that it is
> a python script, since it does not have a .py extension).
> 
> Windows users, please correct me if I am wrong.

I understand that that wouldn't work even if it had a .py extension. That
mechanism is triggered only if you click on the blighter or such like.
Apparently. The only sure fire way to get things working is to invoke it
as "python /lyx2lyx".

-- 
Angus

Re: bug report: latex error

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
When trying to "View Postscript" on the file attached to this message,
I get dialog box "There were errors during the LaTeX run ... 8 errors 
detected". I believe this should not happen and is thus a bug.
Found the problem: I used accidentally math superscript inside textrm (M-m 
m). Removing the textrm mode during the superscript made everything work 
perfectly, but IMHO, LyX still could handle this more nicely.

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[hansel]

bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2 identifies 
9 binaries, man files and documentation files).

I do not intend to use aiksaurus, so this is not a big issue.  
Interesting effort, lots of promise, but not ready for prime time! I open
Roget's in an emacs window and do a search for the word for which I want a
synonym. I also find it is extremely useful to have a good dictionary
(paper) handy and in my favorite work site, I have several within arms
length. Highly recommended.

Mark Hansel

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> > "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Paul> Well, Jean-Marc, in spite of having libaiksaurus installed, I
> Paul> get the following:
> 
> Paul, Mark,
> 
> Thanks for your config.log files. It turns out that you boh suffer
> from the same problem: our configure script thinks that libAikSaurus
> requires the bzip2 library to operate. While the aiksaurus
> documentation is a bit hard to find, I suspect that it is not needed
> anymore.
> 
> Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like
> that) installed? 

Re: LyX Mac Spell checker

[Tomoharu Nishino]

A symbolic link is the UNIX equivalent of the alias in the Finder.  
(Unfortunately, the UNIX part of OSX can't properly handle Finder 
aliases.)

To do what you want open the terminal application and type the 
following commands:

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s 
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell 
aspell

Note the second command requires you to have administrator privileges, 
and you will be asked to enter your password.  This should create a 
symbolic link file called aspell in the /usr/local/bin directory that 
points back to the cocoAspell file.

To make sure you have done this correctly, from the /usr/local/bin 
directory, type:

ls -la | more
In the output that follows, look for the line for aspell, if it is 
configured correctly, the line should contain:

aspell -> 
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell

Then, go into LyX preferences and specify aspell as the spell checker.
This should do it.
Tn
On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:27 PM, James Bennett wrote:
Hi,
I'm just a beginner trying to set up LyX on my Mac (OS 10.3.7), which I
recently downloaded from the wiki.lyx site.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to make cocoAspell (the
recommended spellchecker) work with LyX. The instruction on the 
wiki.lyx
site is to "make a symbolic link from
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell to
/usr/local/bin/aspell"

I'm not sure how to do this, or if it's even possible - any pointers?
James Bennett

Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

Hello everybody,
I just want to share my experience with xfig and the specialtext feature. I 
like that I can use Latex typesetting together with postscript graphics.  I 
also like to see the graphics in Lyx.  When  a  .pstex_t file is inserted 
in Lyx, the compiled version of the document looks good but WYSIWYG 
advantage of Lyx is lost somewhat as the graphics is not shown in the 
document.

So what I normally do is I create "xfig -specialtext"  graphics and latex 
text, then I use a dummy Lyx document to produce a postscript file then I 
insert that new file in my real document.  It takes me an extra step to 
accomplish what I want.  Not a big deal as the graphics don't change very 
often. In most cases I do it once and it's all set.

What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are there 
plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and somehow 
(probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result inside the 
document?

Thank you
Leo

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Angus Leeming]

LB wrote:
>  What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
>  there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
>  somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
>  inside the document?

You mean like this ;-)

Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.

What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.

For Instant Preview see here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
-- 
Angus<>

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
inside the document?

You mean like this ;-)
Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.
What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.
fine, only one problem ... :-)
why did you use xfig for that??
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "hansel" == hansel  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

hansel> bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2
hansel> identifies 9 binaries, man files and documentation files).

Yes, but I guess bzip2 depends on some bzip2-libs package of some
sort, which provides the library.

hansel> I do not intend to use aiksaurus, so this is not a big issue.

Well, I do not use it (nor have it) either, but it is sad to have a
feature disappear for no reason.

JMarc

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't even 
have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?

Cheers
Leo
- Original Message - 
From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Xfig with specialtext


LB wrote:
 What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it?  Are
 there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and
 somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result
 inside the document?
You mean like this ;-)
Excuse the poor resolution of this screenshot, but I wanted to make the
image file as small as possible.
What you can see is an Instant Preview image of an XFig external inset in
LyX 1.4.0cvs. Not available to the public yet, but getting closer.
For Instant Preview see here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
--
Angus 

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Herbert Voss]

LB wrote:
That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't 
even have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?
\includegraphics{file.ps}
or with LyX insert->graphics->file.ps
wher is the problem with ps files?
Herbert

--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[LB]

Herbert,
There is no problem with .ps.  I use it all the time.  What I meant was that 
the .pstex_t file does not need to be generated by xfig. So if one has a .ps 
file produced by some other software one can add latex text to it and 
preview the whole image in Lyx.

Cheers
Leo
- Original Message - 
From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Xfig with specialtext


LB wrote:
That's great.  It would be a useful feature!
If Lyx can combine ps files and latex files like that, then they don't 
even have to be produced by xfig. Am I right?
\includegraphics{file.ps}
or with LyX insert->graphics->file.ps
wher is the problem with ps files?
Herbert

--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:33:54 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hansel> bzip2 is installed, but there are no libraries (rpm -ql bzip2
> hansel> identifies 9 binaries, man files and documentation files).
> 
> Yes, but I guess bzip2 depends on some bzip2-libs package of some
> sort, which provides the library.

Maybe, it would be useful to look at how Abiword does, as Abiword uses
Aiksaurus.

Paul

Re: Xfig with specialtext

[Angus Leeming]

LB wrote:

> Herbert,
> 
> There is no problem with .ps.  I use it all the time.  What I meant was
> that the .pstex_t file does not need to be generated by xfig. So if one
> has a .ps file produced by some other software one can add latex text to
> it and preview the whole image in Lyx.

I think that you can do that already. Use the "Include Inset" and turn on
"Instant Preview". Of course, you'll need to get Instant Preview working
on your box.

-- 
Angus

Lyx + Mathematica

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Torquil_Madonald_S=F8rensen?=]

I have a Lyx (1.3.5) document containing several eps-plots generated by 
Mathematica (4.2). The EPS-plots have labels on the axes containg 
parentheses and slashes.

This worked fine until I decided to include as appendix 
aMathematica-notebook saved to Latex format. I added

\usepackage{notebook2e,latexsym,wrisym}
to the preamble, and installed all the files in the texmf subdirectory 
in the mathematica installation folder into my latex distribution.

In addition, I added the line
\newcommand{\IndentingNewLine}{}
since otherwise I got error messages regarding this command in the 
exported mathematica-notebook.

Then a new problem appeared: The slashes and parentheses on the text 
labels on the axes of my eps-plots disappeared. Does anybody know how to 
fix this problem?

Gratefully,
TMS

Re: accents no work

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Marcelo=20Acu=FFfffff1a?=]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you use qt-3.3.3?

There is a bug in this Qt version: the dead keys are, well, dead.

So if you tyÃpoe an accent, say, ^, it doesn't wait for the character
to be typed that it will be an accent of.

Very irritating. It also disables the use of ^ for superscript in math.

- Martin


I have qt 3.3.1-33

Is this a bad version?

Thanks, Martin. Marcelo Acuña. Argentina.


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