Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

[John B. Egger]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:


Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt:
 


Hi all,

If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit
version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to
compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and
not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed
Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a package.
   



Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or .3 in 
your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their were minor or 
major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help those people like me who 
use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable distr and not fiddle around 
with the current one. I for instance try so far unsuccessfully to implement  
Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 2006. There are dependencies on other 
packages which I with my low PC-IQ am not able to solve so far.


Wolfgang

 

I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 
4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had 
some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead 
anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's 
still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open 
and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., 
and view in dvi and pdf) has worked.


--
--John
Registered Linux User #291592

Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

Hope someone can help me with this:
I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to  
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I  
got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the  
following message:


 LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

Is there something missing? And where can I get it?

Regards, François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[George Fairbanks]

Hi Francois,

sh is the unix shell, python is a scripting language used by Lyx. 
It sounds like the unix shell is complaining that it cannot find the 
python interpreter to run the scripts (they end with .py).  It sounds 
like you need to install python but I don't have a suggestion on how to 
to that under slackware.  If python is already installed then it may be 
a path problem and the shell just can't find the python executable.


Regards,

-George

Francois wrote:


Hope someone can help me with this:
I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to 
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. 
I got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get 
the following message:


 LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

Is there something missing? And where can I get it?

Regards, François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:


I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I
got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the
following message:

LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.


François,

  I've been running Slackware for over three years since moving from Red Hat
7. I've not seen messages like the above. However, it looks like you do not
have python installed, for some reason. Check that.

  Also, I've always built LyX from source, configuring it with
'--with-frontend=qt'. That builds the executable based on what's installed
on the local machines. Consider this route, too.

Rich

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Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

[Richard Kleeman]

I compiled 1.4.3 from source using the Debian infrastructure (Debian 
testing has 1.4.3) on the latest 64bit Ubuntu (edgy). Works great. 
Compile was easy.


Richard Kleeman

John B. Egger wrote:

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:


Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt:
 


Hi all,

If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit
version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to
compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and
not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed
Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a 
package.
  


Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or 
.3 in your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their 
were minor or major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help 
those people like me who use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable 
distr and not fiddle around with the current one. I for instance try 
so far unsuccessfully to implement  Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 
2006. There are dependencies on other packages which I with my low 
PC-IQ am not able to solve so far.


Wolfgang

 

I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 
4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had 
some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead 
anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's 
still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open 
and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., 
and view in dvi and pdf) has worked.

Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

[Reinhart Baumgratz]

In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: The 
document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not 
support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method? 
If i press yes yap crashes, if no yap shows the text without the pictures. What 
can i do? I am a newbie in Lyx.

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

[Gmane User]

Enrico Forestieri wrote:
 Gmane User [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically.  It now
 takes seconds to do
 View-pdflatex from Lyx.  It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure
 that's just a matter of
 googling the class and installing it in the tetex directory structure.  (I've
 installed a few packages on
 the tetex tree already, so I'm not too fazed by that).  Thanks alot!!!
 
 I am sure that after you reconfigure LyX (Tools-Reconfigure) the scrbook
 problem will also magically disappear :)

Wow.  This is all very awesome.  After the reconfiguration, the user-guide 
compiled in a short amount of time and even the hyerlinks work.  A quick google 
shows that tetex-extra contains hyperref already.  Amazing.  Before moving to 
Lyx, I invested quite some time learning about tetex to install packages for 
LaTeX (to make a document template work).  Ah well, the learning will be 
useful, I'm sure.

Thanks again for you help, Enrico.

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:27:44 +0100, Rich Shepard  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




Francois,

   It looks like the conversion filters are missing. You probably got an
incomplete package. Did you get it from www.linuxpackages.net? That's
exclusively Slackware.


I cant really remember wether I got it there or somewhere else but it is a  
*.tgz-package, version 1.4.2.
I found out that I didnt have tetex installed either, so I have installed  
it now, but it doesnt help. Is it important to have this particular  
package? In RedHat I remember there was a tetex-latex package which had to  
be installed. This package I dont find in Slackware. But I'll give it a  
try after your instructions now with another package and see wether this  
helps.


   If you have all the development tools, it's a simple, five-step  
process.


What are these development tools? I have CDs with Slackware10, can I find  
these things there?
I think my problem comes from that I installed Vector-Linux which builds  
on Slackware, but it doesnt come with all the needed stuff.


François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:


I found out that I didnt have tetex installed either, so I have installed
it now, but it doesnt help. Is it important to have this particular
package? In RedHat I remember there was a tetex-latex package which had to
be installed.  This package I dont find in Slackware. But I'll give it a
try after your instructions now with another package and see wether this
helps.


Francios,

  One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for LaTeX. TeTeX
is a LaTeX version.


What are these development tools? I have CDs with Slackware10, can I find
these things there?


  You want autoconf, make, gcc, and the rest of the /d directory.

Rich

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Strange behaviour of mathed and instant preview.

[Rudi Gaelzer]

Since I changed to LyX 1.4.3, I've noticed some strange behaviour when editing 
mathematical formulas and using Instant Preview, which was absent in the 
1.3.x versions.

I think you can reproduce some of my woes in the attached file.  Open it, 
enable Instant Preview and wait until it renders all the formulas.  Take the 
first (reasonably long) formula.   Click on it and do some editing, then 
click outside the math environment.  When I do this with my formulas, most of 
the time Instant Preview will not render the modified equation the first 
time; I have to click on it again and then go outside for it to be rendered 
correctly.

Now, take the second (longer) equation.  This equation takes more than one 
window size in my 800x600 notebook display.  Everytime I click on the 
beginning or the ending part of the equation, the display jumps to the middle 
of it, making any attempt to modify it very annoying.

There are some further issues concerning navigation inside math formulas, but 
I'll leave it to a future message.

Has anyone by any chance noticed this kind of behaviour?

Thank you.
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered Linux User # 153741


LyXMathDWoes.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




   One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for LaTeX.  
TeTeX is a LaTeX version.


It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in  
Slackware...



   You want autoconf, make, gcc, and the rest of the /d directory.


I think I have a problem if I have to install everything that's in the /d  
directory, because it has kernel-headers 2.4 and I have a kernel 2.6  
installed... Isnt that a problem? If it is then I would consider  
downloading the /d directory from the Slackware-version that was used to  
build the Vector-Linux5.1 (I think it's slack-10.2, but I check that).  
There are quite a lot of things in that directory, do I need all of them?


François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[John Coppens]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:13:06 +0100
Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard  
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
  directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for
  LaTeX. TeTeX is a LaTeX version.
 
 It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in  
 Slackware...

The complete tex installation is in the 't' directory inside /slackware.
Probably on the first disk for Slack 10.1 and .2. On disk 2 for Slack 11.0
You'll have to install the two tetex packages, and xfig/transfig if you
want to use those drawing programs (probably not).

John
 

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:

It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in 
Slackware...


Francios,

  On the official Slackware distribution disk set it's in
root/slackware/t/.

  On my 11.0 disk #2 is:

./t
./t/install-packages
./t/install.end
./t/maketag
./t/maketag.ez
./t/tagfile
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.txt
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.txt
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz.asc
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.txt
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz.asc
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.txt

  Plus all the tcl stuff, and more.


I think I have a problem if I have to install everything that's in the /d
directory, because it has kernel-headers 2.4 and I have a kernel 2.6
installed... Isnt that a problem? If it is then I would consider
downloading the /d directory from the Slackware-version that was used to
build the Vector-Linux5.1 (I think it's slack-10.2, but I check that).
There are quite a lot of things in that directory, do I need all of them?


  I'm still running the 2.4.x kernel on my systems because there's nothing
in the 2.6.x series that I need for the hardware here. Patrick keeps the 2.4
as the default.

  Regardless, if you want to use the 2.6 kernel, then you need the 2.6
kernel-headers, too.

  If you have a high-speed connection (or use bit-torrent), you can get the
11.0 .iso images from http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-11.0-iso/. It
has all the files and patches and is faster than slackware.com.

  You probably don't _need_ cscope, CLISP, cvs, distcc, doxygen, rcs, or
subversion. The rest, yes. Read the package descriptions and you'll gain
more insight.

  Also, since you're running on older, slower hardware, take a close look at
Xfce http://www.xfce.org/ as a window/desktop manager. It's all I've used
since it came out and it's lighter on resources (and faster) than KDE or
Gnome. Unless, of course, you want your desktop to look just like one from
Winduhs.

Rich

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http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:23 +0100, Rich Shepard  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   You cannot harm your system. Even building a custom kernel from  
source is safe, as long as you leave a working kernel in /boot.


Right then, I'll try that! It seems that I have what I need.

Re: Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Reinhart Baumgratz schrieb:

In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: The 
document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not 
support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method?


This is a problem of the DVI-viewer Yap. That this question occurs is 
normal because the default rendering method is PK fonts and not 
dvips. Pressing yes should display the file as you expect it.



If i press yes yap crashes, if no yap shows the text without the pictures.


Yap shouldn't crash. Update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's 
update manager and try it again. If the problem doesn't disappaer, 
please report the problem in MiKTeX's bug database:

http://www.miktex.org/Bugs.aspx
and attach the problematic DVI-file there.

As workaround open Yap and set in the menu View - Options - Display 
the render method dvips. With this setting the question won't appear.


regards Uwe

Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

[John B. Egger]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:


Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt:
 


Hi all,

If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit
version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to
compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and
not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed
Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a package.
   



Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or .3 in 
your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their were minor or 
major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help those people like me who 
use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable distr and not fiddle around 
with the current one. I for instance try so far unsuccessfully to implement  
Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 2006. There are dependencies on other 
packages which I with my low PC-IQ am not able to solve so far.


Wolfgang

 

I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 
4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had 
some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead 
anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's 
still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open 
and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., 
and view in dvi and pdf) has worked.


--
--John
Registered Linux User #291592

Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

Hope someone can help me with this:
I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to  
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I  
got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the  
following message:


 LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

Is there something missing? And where can I get it?

Regards, François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[George Fairbanks]

Hi Francois,

sh is the unix shell, python is a scripting language used by Lyx. 
It sounds like the unix shell is complaining that it cannot find the 
python interpreter to run the scripts (they end with .py).  It sounds 
like you need to install python but I don't have a suggestion on how to 
to that under slackware.  If python is already installed then it may be 
a path problem and the shell just can't find the python executable.


Regards,

-George

Francois wrote:


Hope someone can help me with this:
I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to 
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. 
I got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get 
the following message:


 LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

Is there something missing? And where can I get it?

Regards, François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:


I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I
got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the
following message:

LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.


François,

  I've been running Slackware for over three years since moving from Red Hat
7. I've not seen messages like the above. However, it looks like you do not
have python installed, for some reason. Check that.

  Also, I've always built LyX from source, configuring it with
'--with-frontend=qt'. That builds the executable based on what's installed
on the local machines. Consider this route, too.

Rich

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

[Richard Kleeman]

I compiled 1.4.3 from source using the Debian infrastructure (Debian 
testing has 1.4.3) on the latest 64bit Ubuntu (edgy). Works great. 
Compile was easy.


Richard Kleeman

John B. Egger wrote:

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:


Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt:
 


Hi all,

If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit
version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to
compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and
not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed
Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a 
package.
  


Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or 
.3 in your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their 
were minor or major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help 
those people like me who use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable 
distr and not fiddle around with the current one. I for instance try 
so far unsuccessfully to implement  Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 
2006. There are dependencies on other packages which I with my low 
PC-IQ am not able to solve so far.


Wolfgang

 

I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 
4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had 
some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead 
anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's 
still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open 
and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., 
and view in dvi and pdf) has worked.

Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

[Reinhart Baumgratz]

In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: The 
document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not 
support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method? 
If i press yes yap crashes, if no yap shows the text without the pictures. What 
can i do? I am a newbie in Lyx.

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

[Gmane User]

Enrico Forestieri wrote:
 Gmane User [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically.  It now
 takes seconds to do
 View-pdflatex from Lyx.  It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure
 that's just a matter of
 googling the class and installing it in the tetex directory structure.  (I've
 installed a few packages on
 the tetex tree already, so I'm not too fazed by that).  Thanks alot!!!
 
 I am sure that after you reconfigure LyX (Tools-Reconfigure) the scrbook
 problem will also magically disappear :)

Wow.  This is all very awesome.  After the reconfiguration, the user-guide 
compiled in a short amount of time and even the hyerlinks work.  A quick google 
shows that tetex-extra contains hyperref already.  Amazing.  Before moving to 
Lyx, I invested quite some time learning about tetex to install packages for 
LaTeX (to make a document template work).  Ah well, the learning will be 
useful, I'm sure.

Thanks again for you help, Enrico.

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:27:44 +0100, Rich Shepard  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




Francois,

   It looks like the conversion filters are missing. You probably got an
incomplete package. Did you get it from www.linuxpackages.net? That's
exclusively Slackware.


I cant really remember wether I got it there or somewhere else but it is a  
*.tgz-package, version 1.4.2.
I found out that I didnt have tetex installed either, so I have installed  
it now, but it doesnt help. Is it important to have this particular  
package? In RedHat I remember there was a tetex-latex package which had to  
be installed. This package I dont find in Slackware. But I'll give it a  
try after your instructions now with another package and see wether this  
helps.


   If you have all the development tools, it's a simple, five-step  
process.


What are these development tools? I have CDs with Slackware10, can I find  
these things there?
I think my problem comes from that I installed Vector-Linux which builds  
on Slackware, but it doesnt come with all the needed stuff.


François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:


I found out that I didnt have tetex installed either, so I have installed
it now, but it doesnt help. Is it important to have this particular
package? In RedHat I remember there was a tetex-latex package which had to
be installed.  This package I dont find in Slackware. But I'll give it a
try after your instructions now with another package and see wether this
helps.


Francios,

  One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for LaTeX. TeTeX
is a LaTeX version.


What are these development tools? I have CDs with Slackware10, can I find
these things there?


  You want autoconf, make, gcc, and the rest of the /d directory.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |The Environmental Permitting
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Strange behaviour of mathed and instant preview.

[Rudi Gaelzer]

Since I changed to LyX 1.4.3, I've noticed some strange behaviour when editing 
mathematical formulas and using Instant Preview, which was absent in the 
1.3.x versions.

I think you can reproduce some of my woes in the attached file.  Open it, 
enable Instant Preview and wait until it renders all the formulas.  Take the 
first (reasonably long) formula.   Click on it and do some editing, then 
click outside the math environment.  When I do this with my formulas, most of 
the time Instant Preview will not render the modified equation the first 
time; I have to click on it again and then go outside for it to be rendered 
correctly.

Now, take the second (longer) equation.  This equation takes more than one 
window size in my 800x600 notebook display.  Everytime I click on the 
beginning or the ending part of the equation, the display jumps to the middle 
of it, making any attempt to modify it very annoying.

There are some further issues concerning navigation inside math formulas, but 
I'll leave it to a future message.

Has anyone by any chance noticed this kind of behaviour?

Thank you.
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
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LyXMathDWoes.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




   One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for LaTeX.  
TeTeX is a LaTeX version.


It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in  
Slackware...



   You want autoconf, make, gcc, and the rest of the /d directory.


I think I have a problem if I have to install everything that's in the /d  
directory, because it has kernel-headers 2.4 and I have a kernel 2.6  
installed... Isnt that a problem? If it is then I would consider  
downloading the /d directory from the Slackware-version that was used to  
build the Vector-Linux5.1 (I think it's slack-10.2, but I check that).  
There are quite a lot of things in that directory, do I need all of them?


François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[John Coppens]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:13:06 +0100
Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard  
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
  directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for
  LaTeX. TeTeX is a LaTeX version.
 
 It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in  
 Slackware...

The complete tex installation is in the 't' directory inside /slackware.
Probably on the first disk for Slack 10.1 and .2. On disk 2 for Slack 11.0
You'll have to install the two tetex packages, and xfig/transfig if you
want to use those drawing programs (probably not).

John
 

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:

It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in 
Slackware...


Francios,

  On the official Slackware distribution disk set it's in
root/slackware/t/.

  On my 11.0 disk #2 is:

./t
./t/install-packages
./t/install.end
./t/maketag
./t/maketag.ez
./t/tagfile
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.txt
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.txt
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz.asc
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.txt
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz.asc
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.txt

  Plus all the tcl stuff, and more.


I think I have a problem if I have to install everything that's in the /d
directory, because it has kernel-headers 2.4 and I have a kernel 2.6
installed... Isnt that a problem? If it is then I would consider
downloading the /d directory from the Slackware-version that was used to
build the Vector-Linux5.1 (I think it's slack-10.2, but I check that).
There are quite a lot of things in that directory, do I need all of them?


  I'm still running the 2.4.x kernel on my systems because there's nothing
in the 2.6.x series that I need for the hardware here. Patrick keeps the 2.4
as the default.

  Regardless, if you want to use the 2.6 kernel, then you need the 2.6
kernel-headers, too.

  If you have a high-speed connection (or use bit-torrent), you can get the
11.0 .iso images from http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-11.0-iso/. It
has all the files and patches and is faster than slackware.com.

  You probably don't _need_ cscope, CLISP, cvs, distcc, doxygen, rcs, or
subversion. The rest, yes. Read the package descriptions and you'll gain
more insight.

  Also, since you're running on older, slower hardware, take a close look at
Xfce http://www.xfce.org/ as a window/desktop manager. It's all I've used
since it came out and it's lighter on resources (and faster) than KDE or
Gnome. Unless, of course, you want your desktop to look just like one from
Winduhs.

Rich

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Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:23 +0100, Rich Shepard  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   You cannot harm your system. Even building a custom kernel from  
source is safe, as long as you leave a working kernel in /boot.


Right then, I'll try that! It seems that I have what I need.

Re: Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Reinhart Baumgratz schrieb:

In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: The 
document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not 
support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method?


This is a problem of the DVI-viewer Yap. That this question occurs is 
normal because the default rendering method is PK fonts and not 
dvips. Pressing yes should display the file as you expect it.



If i press yes yap crashes, if no yap shows the text without the pictures.


Yap shouldn't crash. Update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's 
update manager and try it again. If the problem doesn't disappaer, 
please report the problem in MiKTeX's bug database:

http://www.miktex.org/Bugs.aspx
and attach the problematic DVI-file there.

As workaround open Yap and set in the menu View - Options - Display 
the render method dvips. With this setting the question won't appear.


regards Uwe

Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

[John B. Egger]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:


Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt:
 


Hi all,

If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit
version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to
compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and
not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed
Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a package.
   



Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or .3 in 
your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their were minor or 
major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help those people like me who 
use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable distr and not fiddle around 
with the current one. I for instance try so far unsuccessfully to implement  
Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 2006. There are dependencies on other 
packages which I with my low PC-IQ am not able to solve so far.


Wolfgang

 

I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 
4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had 
some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead 
anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's 
still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open 
and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., 
and view in dvi and pdf) has worked.


--
--John
Registered Linux User #291592

Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

Hope someone can help me with this:
I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to  
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I  
got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the  
following message:


 LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

Is there something missing? And where can I get it?

Regards, François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[George Fairbanks]

Hi Francois,

"sh" is the unix shell, "python" is a scripting language used by Lyx. 
It sounds like the unix shell is complaining that it cannot find the 
python interpreter to run the scripts (they end with .py).  It sounds 
like you need to install python but I don't have a suggestion on how to 
to that under slackware.  If python is already installed then it may be 
a path problem and the shell just can't find the python executable.


Regards,

-George

Francois wrote:


Hope someone can help me with this:
I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to 
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. 
I got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get 
the following message:


 LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

Is there something missing? And where can I get it?

Regards, François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:


I have been running LyX for a few years on RedHat7 to 9. I have now to
change distro and went for Vector-Linux5.1, which is a Slackware-build. I
got all the packages I needed and installed. When I start LyX I get the
following message:

LyX: reconfiguring user directory
sh: python: command not found
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.


François,

  I've been running Slackware for over three years since moving from Red Hat
7. I've not seen messages like the above. However, it looks like you do not
have python installed, for some reason. Check that.

  Also, I've always built LyX from source, configuring it with
'--with-frontend=qt'. That builds the executable based on what's installed
on the local machines. Consider this route, too.

Rich

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Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

[Richard Kleeman]

I compiled 1.4.3 from source using the Debian infrastructure (Debian 
testing has 1.4.3) on the latest 64bit Ubuntu (edgy). Works great. 
Compile was easy.


Richard Kleeman

John B. Egger wrote:

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:


Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt:
 


Hi all,

If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit
version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to
compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and
not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed
Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a 
package.
  


Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or 
.3 in your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their 
were minor or major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help 
those people like me who use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable 
distr and not fiddle around with the current one. I for instance try 
so far unsuccessfully to implement  Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 
2006. There are dependencies on other packages which I with my low 
PC-IQ am not able to solve so far.


Wolfgang

 

I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 
4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had 
some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead 
anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's 
still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open 
and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., 
and view in dvi and pdf) has worked.

Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

[Reinhart Baumgratz]

In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: "The 
document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not 
support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method?" 
If i press yes yap crashes, if no yap shows the text without the pictures. What 
can i do? I am a newbie in Lyx.

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

[Gmane User]

Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically.  It now
>> takes seconds to do
>> View->pdflatex from Lyx.  It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure
>> that's just a matter of
>> googling the class and installing it in the tetex directory structure.  (I've
>> installed a few packages on
>> the tetex tree already, so I'm not too fazed by that).  Thanks alot!!!
> 
> I am sure that after you reconfigure LyX (Tools->Reconfigure) the scrbook
> problem will also magically disappear :)

Wow.  This is all very awesome.  After the reconfiguration, the user-guide 
compiled in a short amount of time and even the hyerlinks work.  A quick google 
shows that tetex-extra contains hyperref already.  Amazing.  Before moving to 
Lyx, I invested quite some time learning about tetex to install packages for 
LaTeX (to make a document template work).  Ah well, the learning will be 
useful, I'm sure.

Thanks again for you help, Enrico.

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:27:44 +0100, Rich Shepard  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




Francois,

   It looks like the conversion filters are missing. You probably got an
incomplete package. Did you get it from www.linuxpackages.net? That's
exclusively Slackware.


I cant really remember wether I got it there or somewhere else but it is a  
*.tgz-package, version 1.4.2.
I found out that I didnt have tetex installed either, so I have installed  
it now, but it doesnt help. Is it important to have this particular  
package? In RedHat I remember there was a tetex-latex package which had to  
be installed. This package I dont find in Slackware. But I'll give it a  
try after your instructions now with another package and see wether this  
helps.


   If you have all the development tools, it's a simple, five-step  
process.


What are these development tools? I have CDs with Slackware10, can I find  
these things there?
I think my problem comes from that I installed Vector-Linux which builds  
on Slackware, but it doesnt come with all the needed stuff.


François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:


I found out that I didnt have tetex installed either, so I have installed
it now, but it doesnt help. Is it important to have this particular
package? In RedHat I remember there was a tetex-latex package which had to
be installed.  This package I dont find in Slackware. But I'll give it a
try after your instructions now with another package and see wether this
helps.


Francios,

  One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for LaTeX. TeTeX
is a LaTeX version.


What are these development tools? I have CDs with Slackware10, can I find
these things there?


  You want autoconf, make, gcc, and the rest of the /d directory.

Rich

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Strange behaviour of mathed and instant preview.

[Rudi Gaelzer]

Since I changed to LyX 1.4.3, I've noticed some strange behaviour when editing 
mathematical formulas and using Instant Preview, which was absent in the 
1.3.x versions.

I think you can reproduce some of my woes in the attached file.  Open it, 
enable Instant Preview and wait until it renders all the formulas.  Take the 
first (reasonably long) formula.   Click on it and do some editing, then 
click outside the math environment.  When I do this with my formulas, most of 
the time Instant Preview will not render the modified equation the first 
time; I have to click on it again and then go outside for it to be rendered 
correctly.

Now, take the second (longer) equation.  This equation takes more than one 
window size in my 800x600 notebook display.  Everytime I click on the 
beginning or the ending part of the equation, the display jumps to the middle 
of it, making any attempt to modify it very annoying.

There are some further issues concerning navigation inside math formulas, but 
I'll leave it to a future message.

Has anyone by any chance noticed this kind of behaviour?

Thank you.
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered Linux User # 153741


LyXMathDWoes.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




   One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for LaTeX.  
TeTeX is a LaTeX version.


It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in  
Slackware...



   You want autoconf, make, gcc, and the rest of the /d directory.


I think I have a problem if I have to install everything that's in the /d  
directory, because it has kernel-headers 2.4 and I have a kernel 2.6  
installed... Isnt that a problem? If it is then I would consider  
downloading the /d directory from the Slackware-version that was used to  
build the Vector-Linux5.1 (I think it's slack-10.2, but I check that).  
There are quite a lot of things in that directory, do I need all of them?


François

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[John Coppens]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:13:06 +0100
Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard  
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> >One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which
> > directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end for
> > LaTeX. TeTeX is a LaTeX version.
> 
> It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in  
> Slackware...

The complete tex installation is in the 't' directory inside /slackware.
Probably on the first disk for Slack 10.1 and .2. On disk 2 for Slack 11.0
You'll have to install the two tetex packages, and xfig/transfig if you
want to use those drawing programs (probably not).

John
 

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:

It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in 
Slackware...


Francios,

  On the "official" Slackware distribution disk set it's in
/slackware/t/.

  On my 11.0 disk #2 is:

./t
./t/install-packages
./t/install.end
./t/maketag
./t/maketag.ez
./t/tagfile
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc
./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.txt
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc
./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.txt
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz.asc
./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.txt
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz.asc
./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.txt

  Plus all the tcl stuff, and more.


I think I have a problem if I have to install everything that's in the /d
directory, because it has kernel-headers 2.4 and I have a kernel 2.6
installed... Isnt that a problem? If it is then I would consider
downloading the /d directory from the Slackware-version that was used to
build the Vector-Linux5.1 (I think it's slack-10.2, but I check that).
There are quite a lot of things in that directory, do I need all of them?


  I'm still running the 2.4.x kernel on my systems because there's nothing
in the 2.6.x series that I need for the hardware here. Patrick keeps the 2.4
as the default.

  Regardless, if you want to use the 2.6 kernel, then you need the 2.6
kernel-headers, too.

  If you have a high-speed connection (or use bit-torrent), you can get the
11.0 .iso images from http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-11.0-iso/. It
has all the files and patches and is faster than slackware.com.

  You probably don't _need_ cscope, CLISP, cvs, distcc, doxygen, rcs, or
subversion. The rest, yes. Read the package descriptions and you'll gain
more insight.

  Also, since you're running on older, slower hardware, take a close look at
Xfce  as a window/desktop manager. It's all I've used
since it came out and it's lighter on resources (and faster) than KDE or
Gnome. Unless, of course, you want your desktop to look just like one from
Winduhs.

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

[Francois]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:23 +0100, Rich Shepard  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


   You cannot harm your system. Even building a custom kernel from  
source is safe, as long as you leave a working kernel in /boot.


Right then, I'll try that! It seems that I have what I need.

Re: Preview dvi (strg-D) in Lyx 1.43-5 Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Reinhart Baumgratz schrieb:

In my document with some pictures i get the message after pressing Strg-D: "The 
document cannot be rendered properly because the current render method does not 
support Post Script specials. Temporarily switch to the Dvips render method?"


This is a problem of the DVI-viewer Yap. That this question occurs is 
normal because the default rendering method is "PK fonts" and not 
"dvips". Pressing yes should display the file as you expect it.



If i press yes yap crashes, if no yap shows the text without the pictures.


Yap shouldn't crash. Update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's 
update manager and try it again. If the problem doesn't disappaer, 
please report the problem in MiKTeX's bug database:

http://www.miktex.org/Bugs.aspx
and attach the problematic DVI-file there.

As workaround open Yap and set in the menu View -> Options -> Display 
the render method "dvips". With this setting the question won't appear.


regards Uwe