Re: table-editing a mess
Sven == Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven About the slowness (only part of the problems, of course...): Sven When the table float inset is open, even typing in a paragraph Sven next to, but *outside* the table float is difficult, lyx not Sven keeping up with my speed. CPU usage reaches 70-100% during Sven typing, compared to 10% when typing with the table float inset Sven closed. Sven Is this really unknown? The problems with slowness of editing inside insets are unfortunately known. They seem to be worse on Mac in particular. Some effort has been done to mitigate it for collapsable insets, but we are facing some qt speed problem, it seems. Basically, you can type with a good speed in a paragraph that is along on its row on screen. JMarc
Word counting
Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? Thanks a lot. Onder Gurcan
Re: Word counting
Önder == Önder Gürcan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Önder Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? The menu entry is Toolscount Words, which counts either the current selection or the whole document. Currently, all the words are taken in account, even in ERT or notes. Did I answer your question? JMarc
Re: LyX and aspell
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Tristan Krautz wrote: Hey All, I have recently installed LyX for Mac OS X and cocoAspell. I am not able to get aspell to work correctly. At first I got an error message saying the specified dictionary could not be found. I addressed this by pasting the path to the dictionary in the Alternative language field in spelling preferences. I longer get an error message when checking for incorrect spelling. However, when I click the button to start the spell checker a window pops up and disappears, followed by a dialogue box telling me that the spell check is complete. None of the spelling errors are identified. Furthermore, I can only activate the spell checker when the text bar is at the very start of the document. I am new to this, and any advice would be appreciated. cocoAspell seems to work for some and not for others. I recently revised the LyXOnMac wiki page to make the option of cocoAspell more prominent because from what I could tell it was working better than in the past. However, it is still not consistent. What I've found some users need to do is to open the Terminal, and then go to the directory where the aspell library is installed; for me this involves entering the following: cd /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0 (You might have it installed at ~/Library/... instead.) Then (making sure you're in an administrative account on your Mac) type: sudo make install followed by your password when it asks. At that point, make sure LyX is open, select Tools Reconfigure, and restart LyX. Double check to make sure that aspell is selected in your spelling preferences (LyX Preferences Spellchecker Spellchecker executable), and hopefully things will work. Let us know if this is successful for you. Bennett
Re: table-editing a mess
Sven Schreiber wrote: (oops, Helge and I forgot to cc the list..., but here's the fix:) Helge Hafting schrieb: Please file this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Tables are not supposed to be slow, and with a bug report you show that people really care about tables wider than the screen. (I guess you also want this on the list...) Are you sure? There are already many bug reports about tables, so I thought adding another specific thing isn't very useful. But maybe that's wrong. More reports are always useful. If there are lots of table bugs, chances are higher someone will start working on tables. About the slowness (only part of the problems, of course...): When the table float inset is open, even typing in a paragraph next to, but *outside* the table float is difficult, lyx not keeping up with my speed. CPU usage reaches 70-100% during typing, compared to 10% when typing with the table float inset closed. Not known to me, but I don't work with very large tables. Perhaps the problem gets worse the more cells there is, an I usually end up with something small like 3x4. Bad performance is definitely a problem. Not something I can fix, but the more noise you make, the more people might notice. Helge Hafting
What lyx commands are available?
Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. thanks guy
Re: What lyx commands are available?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Guy Hindell wrote: Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. The commands are most likely the so called LyX Functions, or 'lfuns'. AFAIK there is no updated list, but you can find an old one here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions If you feel adventerous, you can look in the very latest source: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/src/LyXAction.C The functions are however not properly documented. (I've at least had listing the lfuns on my todo-list, but I haven't had the time...) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
External Xfig inset conversion fails
Hello, External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launch from the file manager (I created an association between the file type and the application on the Solaris application server). I can reproduce it by launching from a mail attachment. Is this an explanation, and is this behaviour known ? I see nothing in bugzilla. LyX-1.4.2-qt/Solaris Best regards. -- Jean-Pierre
single spacing does not work
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Historical question
Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex
Re: Historical question
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based version. (At version 1.5 :-) Some lines refer this in the Changelog from 0.7 code that we have in ftp.lyx.org Those are the packages I have been able to recover in 2003. Alex -- José Abílio
Re: Historical question
Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 21:37 schrieb Alex: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex you might like to contact Matthias Ettrich who is currently at Trolltech in Oslo (N). He should know, since he started Lyx as a seminar work. In case you need translation of the following, let me know Wolfgang http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 vergrößern Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 Matthias Ettrich (* 14. Juni 1972 in Bietigheim, Deutschland) ist ein deutscher Informatiker und der Initiator des KDE-Projekts, indem er 1996 eine konsistente, nette und freie Desktop-Umgebung [sic] [1] für Unix im Usenet in Angriff nahm, die auf dem Qt-GUI-Toolkit basiert. Seit 1995 ist der deutsche Programmierer ebenso Autor des grafischen TeX-Frontends LyX, das er als Student zur Abfassung seiner Seminararbeiten als Semesterarbeit entwickelte. Da LyX hauptsächlich für Linux gedacht war, versuchte er, die Linux Desktop Umgebung für Anwender zu vereinfachen. Die Einsicht, dass dies nur über Vereinheitlichung möglich sei, führte schließlich zur Gründung des KDE-Projektes. Er studierte am Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und arbeitet zur Zeit bei Trolltech in Oslo an der Weiterentwicklung von Qt, der Toolkit-Basis von KDE.
Re: Historical question
Dear Wolfgang, Thanks. I can understand most of the text. I started to study german ;) I will contact him. It is very strange for me, that I could not find info how old is this wonderful tool! I prefer to put it onto the website, when it is known. Alex Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 21:37 schrieb Alex: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex you might like to contact Matthias Ettrich who is currently at Trolltech in Oslo (N). He should know, since he started Lyx as a seminar work. In case you need translation of the following, let me know Wolfgang http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 vergrößern Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 Matthias Ettrich (* 14. Juni 1972 in Bietigheim, Deutschland) ist ein deutscher Informatiker und der Initiator des KDE-Projekts, indem er 1996 eine konsistente, nette und freie Desktop-Umgebung [sic] [1] für Unix im Usenet in Angriff nahm, die auf dem Qt-GUI-Toolkit basiert. Seit 1995 ist der deutsche Programmierer ebenso Autor des grafischen TeX-Frontends LyX, das er als Student zur Abfassung seiner Seminararbeiten als Semesterarbeit entwickelte. Da LyX hauptsächlich für Linux gedacht war, versuchte er, die Linux Desktop Umgebung für Anwender zu vereinfachen. Die Einsicht, dass dies nur über Vereinheitlichung möglich sei, führte schließlich zur Gründung des KDE-Projektes. Er studierte am Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und arbeitet zur Zeit bei Trolltech in Oslo an der Weiterentwicklung von Qt, der Toolkit-Basis von KDE.
Re: Historical question
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:05:43 +0100 José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based version. (At version 1.5 :-) Oh, no, I don't still use that version. But I got more involved after I found the program (who here remembers when Matthias called it LyriX?) because of motif. In order to compile it under linux, you needed motif libraries. I had actually gone out and paid for them, so provided (legally, I think...) binaries. Heck, I think the first ones were static binaries. The whole tarball, with binary, fit on one floppy disk. I also built AIX-3.5 binaries, and some of those are still in the archives. The name was changed because someone contacted Matthias threatening to sue, that name having been taken for a word processor of some sort. I no longer can find any of these old binaries. But, they were carved on clay tablets, anyway, so I couldn't read them now. I believe Matthias released his first version sometime in 1995. It did not display math at all. All formulas were ERT. Yes, it was red, even back then. I don't recall a version number. -- David L. Johnson __o | The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand _`\(,_ | mathematics. (_)/ (_) |
Re: External Xfig inset conversion fails
On 9/13/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launch from the file manager (I created an association between the file type and the application on the Solaris application server). I can reproduce it by launching from a mail attachment. Is this an explanation, and is this behaviour known ? I see nothing in bugzilla. LyX-1.4.2-qt/Solaris I do not use Solaris, but something similar to what you describe occurs if I try to insert the *.pstex and not the *.fig file itself. Are you sure that your colleagues are not doing that? Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Works for me (albeit on Win XP, not WinServer 03). The first error
sounds like you don't have the setspace package installed, which you
need if you're going to vary the spacing of pieces of the document. If
you open a DOS windows and type 'kpsewhich setspace.sty', do you get
back a path to the file? If not, try installing it. (If you're using
MikTeX, you can run MikTeX's Package Manager from the program menu and
use it to install setspace. If you're using a different LaTeX
distribution, it may mean downloading the package yourself and manually
installing it.)
If you have setspace.sty, in LyX click Help-LaTeX Configuration, scroll
down to section 7.13 (or just search for setspace), and see if it says
'yes'. If not, LyX didn't find setspace during installation, which
means (assuming you have it installed) something burped during the
installation.
If you have setspace and LyX knows you have setspace, the best I can
suggest is cutting down your document to a minimal example that screws
up and then posting it to the list. Sometimes things get out of order,
or the document gets damaged, but the only way I know to diagnose that
is to look at the source code, and you have to know what you're
looking for. Which means consulting the experts on the list. (Which
excludes me.)
/Paul
Re: table-editing a mess
Sven == Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven About the slowness (only part of the problems, of course...): Sven When the table float inset is open, even typing in a paragraph Sven next to, but *outside* the table float is difficult, lyx not Sven keeping up with my speed. CPU usage reaches 70-100% during Sven typing, compared to 10% when typing with the table float inset Sven closed. Sven Is this really unknown? The problems with slowness of editing inside insets are unfortunately known. They seem to be worse on Mac in particular. Some effort has been done to mitigate it for collapsable insets, but we are facing some qt speed problem, it seems. Basically, you can type with a good speed in a paragraph that is along on its row on screen. JMarc
Word counting
Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? Thanks a lot. Onder Gurcan
Re: Word counting
Önder == Önder Gürcan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Önder Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? The menu entry is Toolscount Words, which counts either the current selection or the whole document. Currently, all the words are taken in account, even in ERT or notes. Did I answer your question? JMarc
Re: LyX and aspell
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Tristan Krautz wrote: Hey All, I have recently installed LyX for Mac OS X and cocoAspell. I am not able to get aspell to work correctly. At first I got an error message saying the specified dictionary could not be found. I addressed this by pasting the path to the dictionary in the Alternative language field in spelling preferences. I longer get an error message when checking for incorrect spelling. However, when I click the button to start the spell checker a window pops up and disappears, followed by a dialogue box telling me that the spell check is complete. None of the spelling errors are identified. Furthermore, I can only activate the spell checker when the text bar is at the very start of the document. I am new to this, and any advice would be appreciated. cocoAspell seems to work for some and not for others. I recently revised the LyXOnMac wiki page to make the option of cocoAspell more prominent because from what I could tell it was working better than in the past. However, it is still not consistent. What I've found some users need to do is to open the Terminal, and then go to the directory where the aspell library is installed; for me this involves entering the following: cd /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0 (You might have it installed at ~/Library/... instead.) Then (making sure you're in an administrative account on your Mac) type: sudo make install followed by your password when it asks. At that point, make sure LyX is open, select Tools Reconfigure, and restart LyX. Double check to make sure that aspell is selected in your spelling preferences (LyX Preferences Spellchecker Spellchecker executable), and hopefully things will work. Let us know if this is successful for you. Bennett
Re: table-editing a mess
Sven Schreiber wrote: (oops, Helge and I forgot to cc the list..., but here's the fix:) Helge Hafting schrieb: Please file this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Tables are not supposed to be slow, and with a bug report you show that people really care about tables wider than the screen. (I guess you also want this on the list...) Are you sure? There are already many bug reports about tables, so I thought adding another specific thing isn't very useful. But maybe that's wrong. More reports are always useful. If there are lots of table bugs, chances are higher someone will start working on tables. About the slowness (only part of the problems, of course...): When the table float inset is open, even typing in a paragraph next to, but *outside* the table float is difficult, lyx not keeping up with my speed. CPU usage reaches 70-100% during typing, compared to 10% when typing with the table float inset closed. Not known to me, but I don't work with very large tables. Perhaps the problem gets worse the more cells there is, an I usually end up with something small like 3x4. Bad performance is definitely a problem. Not something I can fix, but the more noise you make, the more people might notice. Helge Hafting
What lyx commands are available?
Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. thanks guy
Re: What lyx commands are available?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Guy Hindell wrote: Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. The commands are most likely the so called LyX Functions, or 'lfuns'. AFAIK there is no updated list, but you can find an old one here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions If you feel adventerous, you can look in the very latest source: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/src/LyXAction.C The functions are however not properly documented. (I've at least had listing the lfuns on my todo-list, but I haven't had the time...) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
External Xfig inset conversion fails
Hello, External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launch from the file manager (I created an association between the file type and the application on the Solaris application server). I can reproduce it by launching from a mail attachment. Is this an explanation, and is this behaviour known ? I see nothing in bugzilla. LyX-1.4.2-qt/Solaris Best regards. -- Jean-Pierre
single spacing does not work
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Historical question
Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex
Re: Historical question
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based version. (At version 1.5 :-) Some lines refer this in the Changelog from 0.7 code that we have in ftp.lyx.org Those are the packages I have been able to recover in 2003. Alex -- José Abílio
Re: Historical question
Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 21:37 schrieb Alex: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex you might like to contact Matthias Ettrich who is currently at Trolltech in Oslo (N). He should know, since he started Lyx as a seminar work. In case you need translation of the following, let me know Wolfgang http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 vergrößern Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 Matthias Ettrich (* 14. Juni 1972 in Bietigheim, Deutschland) ist ein deutscher Informatiker und der Initiator des KDE-Projekts, indem er 1996 eine konsistente, nette und freie Desktop-Umgebung [sic] [1] für Unix im Usenet in Angriff nahm, die auf dem Qt-GUI-Toolkit basiert. Seit 1995 ist der deutsche Programmierer ebenso Autor des grafischen TeX-Frontends LyX, das er als Student zur Abfassung seiner Seminararbeiten als Semesterarbeit entwickelte. Da LyX hauptsächlich für Linux gedacht war, versuchte er, die Linux Desktop Umgebung für Anwender zu vereinfachen. Die Einsicht, dass dies nur über Vereinheitlichung möglich sei, führte schließlich zur Gründung des KDE-Projektes. Er studierte am Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und arbeitet zur Zeit bei Trolltech in Oslo an der Weiterentwicklung von Qt, der Toolkit-Basis von KDE.
Re: Historical question
Dear Wolfgang, Thanks. I can understand most of the text. I started to study german ;) I will contact him. It is very strange for me, that I could not find info how old is this wonderful tool! I prefer to put it onto the website, when it is known. Alex Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 21:37 schrieb Alex: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex you might like to contact Matthias Ettrich who is currently at Trolltech in Oslo (N). He should know, since he started Lyx as a seminar work. In case you need translation of the following, let me know Wolfgang http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 vergrößern Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 Matthias Ettrich (* 14. Juni 1972 in Bietigheim, Deutschland) ist ein deutscher Informatiker und der Initiator des KDE-Projekts, indem er 1996 eine konsistente, nette und freie Desktop-Umgebung [sic] [1] für Unix im Usenet in Angriff nahm, die auf dem Qt-GUI-Toolkit basiert. Seit 1995 ist der deutsche Programmierer ebenso Autor des grafischen TeX-Frontends LyX, das er als Student zur Abfassung seiner Seminararbeiten als Semesterarbeit entwickelte. Da LyX hauptsächlich für Linux gedacht war, versuchte er, die Linux Desktop Umgebung für Anwender zu vereinfachen. Die Einsicht, dass dies nur über Vereinheitlichung möglich sei, führte schließlich zur Gründung des KDE-Projektes. Er studierte am Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und arbeitet zur Zeit bei Trolltech in Oslo an der Weiterentwicklung von Qt, der Toolkit-Basis von KDE.
Re: Historical question
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:05:43 +0100 José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based version. (At version 1.5 :-) Oh, no, I don't still use that version. But I got more involved after I found the program (who here remembers when Matthias called it LyriX?) because of motif. In order to compile it under linux, you needed motif libraries. I had actually gone out and paid for them, so provided (legally, I think...) binaries. Heck, I think the first ones were static binaries. The whole tarball, with binary, fit on one floppy disk. I also built AIX-3.5 binaries, and some of those are still in the archives. The name was changed because someone contacted Matthias threatening to sue, that name having been taken for a word processor of some sort. I no longer can find any of these old binaries. But, they were carved on clay tablets, anyway, so I couldn't read them now. I believe Matthias released his first version sometime in 1995. It did not display math at all. All formulas were ERT. Yes, it was red, even back then. I don't recall a version number. -- David L. Johnson __o | The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand _`\(,_ | mathematics. (_)/ (_) |
Re: External Xfig inset conversion fails
On 9/13/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launch from the file manager (I created an association between the file type and the application on the Solaris application server). I can reproduce it by launching from a mail attachment. Is this an explanation, and is this behaviour known ? I see nothing in bugzilla. LyX-1.4.2-qt/Solaris I do not use Solaris, but something similar to what you describe occurs if I try to insert the *.pstex and not the *.fig file itself. Are you sure that your colleagues are not doing that? Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Works for me (albeit on Win XP, not WinServer 03). The first error
sounds like you don't have the setspace package installed, which you
need if you're going to vary the spacing of pieces of the document. If
you open a DOS windows and type 'kpsewhich setspace.sty', do you get
back a path to the file? If not, try installing it. (If you're using
MikTeX, you can run MikTeX's Package Manager from the program menu and
use it to install setspace. If you're using a different LaTeX
distribution, it may mean downloading the package yourself and manually
installing it.)
If you have setspace.sty, in LyX click Help-LaTeX Configuration, scroll
down to section 7.13 (or just search for setspace), and see if it says
'yes'. If not, LyX didn't find setspace during installation, which
means (assuming you have it installed) something burped during the
installation.
If you have setspace and LyX knows you have setspace, the best I can
suggest is cutting down your document to a minimal example that screws
up and then posting it to the list. Sometimes things get out of order,
or the document gets damaged, but the only way I know to diagnose that
is to look at the source code, and you have to know what you're
looking for. Which means consulting the experts on the list. (Which
excludes me.)
/Paul
Re: table-editing a mess
> "Sven" == Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> About the slowness (only part of the problems, of course...): Sven> When the table float inset is open, even typing in a paragraph Sven> next to, but *outside* the table float is difficult, lyx not Sven> keeping up with my speed. CPU usage reaches 70-100% during Sven> typing, compared to <10% when typing with the table float inset Sven> closed. Sven> Is this really unknown? The problems with slowness of editing inside insets are unfortunately known. They seem to be worse on Mac in particular. Some effort has been done to mitigate it for collapsable insets, but we are facing some qt speed problem, it seems. Basically, you can type with a good speed in a paragraph that is along on its row on screen. JMarc
Word counting
Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? Thanks a lot. Onder Gurcan
Re: Word counting
> "Önder" == Önder Gürcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Önder> Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? The menu entry is Tools>count Words, which counts either the current selection or the whole document. Currently, all the words are taken in account, even in ERT or notes. Did I answer your question? JMarc
Re: LyX and aspell
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Tristan Krautz wrote: Hey All, I have recently installed LyX for Mac OS X and cocoAspell. I am not able to get aspell to work correctly. At first I got an error message saying the specified dictionary could not be found. I addressed this by pasting the path to the dictionary in the "Alternative language" field in spelling preferences. I longer get an error message when checking for incorrect spelling. However, when I click the button to start the spell checker a window pops up and disappears, followed by a dialogue box telling me that the spell check is complete. None of the spelling errors are identified. Furthermore, I can only activate the spell checker when the text bar is at the very start of the document. I am new to this, and any advice would be appreciated. cocoAspell seems to work for some and not for others. I recently revised the LyXOnMac wiki page to make the option of cocoAspell more prominent because from what I could tell it was working better than in the past. However, it is still not consistent. What I've found some users need to do is to open the Terminal, and then go to the directory where the aspell library is installed; for me this involves entering the following: cd /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0 (You might have it installed at ~/Library/... instead.) Then (making sure you're in an administrative account on your Mac) type: sudo make install followed by your password when it asks. At that point, make sure LyX is open, select Tools > Reconfigure, and restart LyX. Double check to make sure that aspell is selected in your spelling preferences (LyX > Preferences > Spellchecker > Spellchecker executable), and hopefully things will work. Let us know if this is successful for you. Bennett
Re: table-editing a mess
Sven Schreiber wrote: (oops, Helge and I forgot to cc the list..., but here's the fix:) Helge Hafting schrieb: Please file this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Tables are not supposed to be slow, and with a bug report you show that people really care about tables wider than the screen. (I guess you also want this on the list...) Are you sure? There are already many bug reports about tables, so I thought adding another specific thing isn't very useful. But maybe that's wrong. More reports are always useful. If there are lots of table bugs, chances are higher someone will start working on tables. About the slowness (only part of the problems, of course...): When the table float inset is open, even typing in a paragraph next to, but *outside* the table float is difficult, lyx not keeping up with my speed. CPU usage reaches 70-100% during typing, compared to <10% when typing with the table float inset closed. Not known to me, but I don't work with very large tables. Perhaps the problem gets worse the more cells there is, an I usually end up with something small like 3x4. Bad performance is definitely a problem. Not something I can fix, but the more noise you make, the more people might notice. Helge Hafting
What lyx commands are available?
Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. thanks guy
Re: What lyx commands are available?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Guy Hindell wrote: > Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. > > How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed > via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. The commands are most likely the so called LyX Functions, or 'lfuns'. AFAIK there is no updated list, but you can find an old one here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions If you feel adventerous, you can look in the very latest source: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/src/LyXAction.C The functions are however not properly documented. (I've at least had listing the lfuns on my todo-list, but I haven't had the time...) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
External Xfig inset conversion fails
Hello, External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launch from the file manager (I created an association between the file type and the application on the Solaris application server). I can reproduce it by launching from a mail attachment. Is this an explanation, and is this behaviour known ? I see nothing in bugzilla. LyX-1.4.2-qt/Solaris Best regards. -- Jean-Pierre
single spacing does not work
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the "paragraph
settings" button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing "setspace.sty". I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, "LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined" and "LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}." When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Historical question
Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex
Re: Historical question
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) > I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. > > But when was it first announced or released to the public? In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based version. (At version 1.5 :-) Some lines refer this in the Changelog from 0.7 code that we have in ftp.lyx.org Those are the packages I have been able to recover in 2003. > Alex -- José Abílio
Re: Historical question
Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 21:37 schrieb Alex: > Hi! > > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? > > I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. > > But when was it first announced or released to the public? > > Alex you might like to contact Matthias Ettrich who is currently at Trolltech in Oslo (N). He should know, since he started Lyx as a seminar work. In case you need translation of the following, let me know Wolfgang http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 vergrößern Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 Matthias Ettrich (* 14. Juni 1972 in Bietigheim, Deutschland) ist ein deutscher Informatiker und der Initiator des KDE-Projekts, indem er 1996 eine "konsistente, nette und freie Desktop-Umgebung" [sic] [1] für Unix im Usenet in Angriff nahm, die auf dem Qt-GUI-Toolkit basiert. Seit 1995 ist der deutsche Programmierer ebenso Autor des grafischen TeX-Frontends LyX, das er als Student zur Abfassung seiner Seminararbeiten als Semesterarbeit entwickelte. Da LyX hauptsächlich für Linux gedacht war, versuchte er, die Linux Desktop Umgebung für Anwender zu vereinfachen. Die Einsicht, dass dies nur über Vereinheitlichung möglich sei, führte schließlich zur Gründung des KDE-Projektes. Er studierte am Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und arbeitet zur Zeit bei Trolltech in Oslo an der Weiterentwicklung von Qt, der Toolkit-Basis von KDE.
Re: Historical question
Dear Wolfgang, Thanks. I can understand most of the text. I started to study german ;) I will contact him. It is very strange for me, that I could not find info how old is this wonderful tool! I prefer to put it onto the website, when it is known. Alex Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 21:37 schrieb Alex: >> Hi! >> >> I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? >> >> I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. >> >> But when was it first announced or released to the public? >> >> Alex > > you might like to contact Matthias Ettrich who is currently at Trolltech in > Oslo (N). He should know, since he started Lyx as a seminar work. In case you > need translation of the following, let me know > > Wolfgang > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich > aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie > Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche > Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 > vergrößern > Matthias Ettrich auf dem LinuxTag 2005 > > Matthias Ettrich (* 14. Juni 1972 in Bietigheim, Deutschland) ist ein > deutscher Informatiker und der Initiator des KDE-Projekts, indem er 1996 eine > "konsistente, nette und freie Desktop-Umgebung" [sic] [1] für Unix im Usenet > in Angriff nahm, die auf dem Qt-GUI-Toolkit basiert. > > Seit 1995 ist der deutsche Programmierer ebenso Autor des grafischen > TeX-Frontends LyX, das er als Student zur Abfassung seiner Seminararbeiten > als Semesterarbeit entwickelte. Da LyX hauptsächlich für Linux gedacht war, > versuchte er, die Linux Desktop Umgebung für Anwender zu vereinfachen. Die > Einsicht, dass dies nur über Vereinheitlichung möglich sei, führte > schließlich zur Gründung des KDE-Projektes. > > Er studierte am Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik an der > Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und arbeitet zur Zeit bei Trolltech in > Oslo an der Weiterentwicklung von Qt, der Toolkit-Basis von KDE. > >
Re: Historical question
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:05:43 +0100 José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? > > This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all > hears. :-) > > > I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. > > > > But when was it first announced or released to the public? > > In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based > version. (At version 1.5 :-) Oh, no, I don't still use that version. But I got more involved after I found the program (who here remembers when Matthias called it "LyriX"?) because of motif. In order to compile it under linux, you needed motif libraries. I had actually gone out and paid for them, so provided (legally, I think...) binaries. Heck, I think the first ones were static binaries. The whole tarball, with binary, fit on one floppy disk. I also built AIX-3.5 binaries, and some of those are still in the archives. The name was changed because someone contacted Matthias threatening to sue, that name having been taken for a word processor of some sort. I no longer can find any of these old binaries. But, they were carved on clay tablets, anyway, so I couldn't read them now. I believe Matthias released his first version sometime in 1995. It did not display math at all. All formulas were ERT. Yes, it was red, even back then. I don't recall a version number. -- David L. Johnson __o | The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand _`\(,_ | mathematics. (_)/ (_) |
Re: External Xfig inset conversion fails
On 9/13/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launch from the file manager (I created an association between the file type and the application on the Solaris application server). I can reproduce it by launching from a mail attachment. Is this an explanation, and is this behaviour known ? I see nothing in bugzilla. LyX-1.4.2-qt/Solaris I do not use Solaris, but something similar to what you describe occurs if I try to insert the *.pstex and not the *.fig file itself. Are you sure that your colleagues are not doing that? Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the "paragraph
settings" button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing "setspace.sty". I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, "LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined" and "LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}." When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Works for me (albeit on Win XP, not WinServer 03). The first error
sounds like you don't have the setspace package installed, which you
need if you're going to vary the spacing of pieces of the document. If
you open a DOS windows and type 'kpsewhich setspace.sty', do you get
back a path to the file? If not, try installing it. (If you're using
MikTeX, you can run MikTeX's Package Manager from the program menu and
use it to install setspace. If you're using a different LaTeX
distribution, it may mean downloading the package yourself and manually
installing it.)
If you have setspace.sty, in LyX click Help->LaTeX Configuration, scroll
down to section 7.13 (or just search for "setspace"), and see if it says
'yes'. If not, LyX didn't find setspace during installation, which
means (assuming you have it installed) something burped during the
installation.
If you have setspace and LyX knows you have setspace, the best I can
suggest is cutting down your document to a minimal example that screws
up and then posting it to the list. Sometimes things get out of order,
or the document gets damaged, but the only way I know to diagnose that
is to look at the "source code", and you have to know what you're
looking for. Which means consulting the experts on the list. (Which
excludes me.)
/Paul
