math font in Lyx1.4.3-4
Hello I decided to upgrade from LyX1.4.2 to LyX1.4.3-4. The new version does not display equations correctly on my system. I tried to download BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip math fonts and to reinstall them in to WinXP but was not successful at fixing the math fonts in 1.4.3-4. LyX1.4.2 and earlier did not experience this problem with math. Does anybody know what could be causing this? Thank you Leo
Some feedback
Hello, My name is Marcelo and I am a relatively new lyx user. I have seen in the documentations that you ask for feedback so i will give it. As you probably know the learn curve for a latex user is much more difficult than the learn curve for a typical WYSIWYG word processor. With lyx this is much better. But maybe not enough, at least if you purpose is to reach a broader user base. What i mean is that people in general are busy with their activities. They would start learning a new program only if they need it, only on rare occasions they would learn it just for fun. If they have to write a document then they might consider using Lyx/Latex, maybe they would even read the documentation for a while. But they wont be able to really start using it till they have learned enough and they invested enough time. That is because features that might be considered advanced amongst the developers and are considered to be reserved for power users are in fact needed for almost any user. Every user trying to write a document would like to draw some boxes and arrows, or change a little bit some colors. They can do it quite simply in other programs including some open sourced like open office. I know that learning Lyx pays back because the user will be more efficient in future works and because of the better formatting. However, for the first document the user would have to work; he would have to download latex extensions, learn all the commands for the symbols he needs and understand the WYSIWYM model. Most of the people are not willing to do this, because they want they document as quickly as possible. I am not sure what could be a proper solution for this problem, i guess that the only thing to do is continue improving the graphic interface to make it even easier for the user. In addition to the learn curve considerations, i also write here a recommendation for a new feature. Lyx has the ability to insert plain tex document in the middle of the document, this is good, because there might be some command that Lyx does not understand and cannot represent. However, the user using this feature losses the WYGIWYM functionality for the whole code, even for commands that Lyx DOES understand. An example is that I want to write a document which has some logic proofs and i want to present them as derivation trees. There are some latex packages that enable me to do this, so i can insert them as tex code in my lyx document. There are commands that let me position nodes and connect them, the labels of the nodes are simple tex text, which means that i can use commands like \beta \to, it would be nice that lyx would parse the commands that it understand and show the proper symbols. Another good feature would be that lyx had a thumbnail display mode for Tex code; that is in addition to the modes inline, collapsed and open. In that mode lyx would cache a preview of that piece of code parsed by latex and show it inside a square, to give some feel about how the page looks like. It would not have interactive edition capabilities but it would help to understand the document better when a document has many of code pieces. I don't expect this things to be implemented tomorrow, but it would be great if you consider this recommendations for the long run. Good luck, people. Marcelo
math macros
I do a lot of math in lyx, and I create a lot of macros on the fly. What's the best way to keep them organized? Maybe make it so every file I open has all the same macros? -- Nick Kuzmik AIM nkuzmik 845-406-5115
Re: math macros
On Sunday 15 October 2006 19:56, Nick Kuzmik wrote: > I do a lot of math in lyx, and I create a lot of macros on the fly. What's > the best way to keep them organized? Maybe make it so every file I open > has all the same macros? In .lyx/bind/ directory you will find a lot of files, there you can write keyboard shortcuts for them, and you can also create a template that you always start working with. Then you can add many macros to the latex preamble. I hope this helps.
Re: math font in Lyx1.4.3-4
LB wrote: Hello I decided to upgrade from LyX1.4.2 to LyX1.4.3-4. The new version does not display equations correctly on my system. I tried to download BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip math fonts and to reinstall them in to WinXP but was not successful at fixing the math fonts in 1.4.3-4. LyX1.4.2 and earlier did not experience this problem with math. Does anybody know what could be causing this? The following steps worked for me: 1. Delete or hide the Resources\fonts directory under the LyX 1.4.3 installation directory. (To hide it, just change its name.) 2. Use the Windows font applet to delete all the fonts in the Bakoma4LyX archive. 3. Unpack Bakoma4LyX somewhere and use the font applet to install them. If you've used LyX (and seen the wrong glyphs) since the last boot, I think you'll have to reboot. (I think Windows has the old fonts in memory at that point.) /Paul
aspell problem installing spanish spellcheck
Hi, I have Lyx for windows xp version 1.4.2 all ready installed and working fine. Aspell 0.50-3 is also installed. English version spellcheck works fine, but i cant get to use the spanish spellcheck. I have the aspell.es 0.60 installed in the c:/Aspell directory, but I cant get to setup this dictionary as the default one for spanish text. Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] M:57-3-315.835.58.89 F:57-1-212.95.29 Bogotá-COLOMBIA
Re: math font in Lyx1.4.3-4
Thank you Paul for pointing me to the "Resources\fonts" directory. Removing it just before reinstalling lyx1.4.3-4 did the trick. Thanks Leo > LB wrote: > > Hello > > > > I decided to upgrade from LyX1.4.2 to LyX1.4.3-4. The new version does not > > display equations correctly on my system. I tried to download > > BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip math fonts and to reinstall them in to WinXP but was not > > successful at fixing the math fonts in 1.4.3-4. > > > > LyX1.4.2 and earlier did not experience this problem with math. Does > > anybody know what could be causing this? > > > > The following steps worked for me: > > 1. Delete or hide the Resources\fonts directory under the LyX 1.4.3 > installation directory. (To hide it, just change its name.) > > 2. Use the Windows font applet to delete all the fonts in the > Bakoma4LyX archive. > > 3. Unpack Bakoma4LyX somewhere and use the font applet to install them. > > If you've used LyX (and seen the wrong glyphs) since the last boot, I > think you'll have to reboot. (I think Windows has the old fonts in > memory at that point.) > > /Paul > > >
Re: Table of content
Paul Schwartz wrote: > May be I misinterpret, but in "Document parameters ", "Numbering and TOC" > window, I find : > Example numbered appears in TOC > Part* yes yes > section* yes yes > subsection yes yes > subsubsection no no ... > and when I click on the "toc" button inside the document it is exactly what > is appearing. but never in the pdf doc. You're right, they are indeed listed there. It's a bug (having the starred headings there does not make sense). I'll file a report on bugzilla. Jürgen
