Re: Footnote crash...

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Bo Peng 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.



One thing I have noticed with the latest version is that if I move the
cursor to immediately before a footnote, LyX dies instantly. Here is a
test file, I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this phenomenon?


This problem has been fixed yesterday.

[...]

Hello Bo, do we have any idea about when the fixed binaries will appear 
on BerliOS?


Thanks for all of the good work.

Regards,
Nick.

--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton
Caversham, Reading, England
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Footnote crash...

[Bo Peng]

Hello Bo, do we have any idea about when the fixed binaries will appear
on BerliOS?


I think there will be an alpha 2 (or even beta) release soon. This
release will be much more usable in terms of crashes.

Bo

Re: Calligraphic Typeface

[Donald MacKinnon]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:


On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:


Bruce Pourciau wrote:

\fontfamily{pzc}\large {text} seems to work, but replacing \large by
\larger does not. What's up with that?


try \Large, \LARGE, \huge and \Huge

Jürgen



Thanks, Jürgen.


I was intrigued by this inquiry. Out of interest I read the replies to 
you question and I tried an experiment. It gave the expected result.

In the main text of my small document I did the following:
1. Added a TeX box i.e. ERT from the Lyx menu.
2. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{pzc}\Large{ }
 Added some lines in Lyx verse
3. Added a TeX box i.e. ERT from the Lyx menu
4. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{concrete}\normalize{ }

As I said earlier it gave the desired result.

I also notice that my Mandrake Linux OS appears to contain a 
calligraphic font under:

/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan

A somewhat long and torturous example is given by the following URL:
http://www.katspace.org/stuff/Computers/LyxHow

Regards, Donald

Re: Calligraphic Typeface

[Donald MacKinnon]

My apologies. The word normalize in 4. should be normalsize, i.e.
4. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{concrete}\normalsize{ }

Regards, Donald

character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Stacia Hartleben]

I had a question about character styles in LyX 1.5.0. In 1.4.x, they
were implemented as a bit of a hack through the command buffer. I
remember being really excited about this feature (as I use a lot of
ERT for things in different scripts) but I never ended up using it
because of the clunky interface (or lack thereof) and lack of
documentation. This was a really promising feature but I think it
needs more work before people actually begin to use it on a daily
basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
a GUI to add more character styles?

Re: character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
 a GUI to add more character styles?

You can customise layout files.

Gregor

Using Hollywood template on windows

[Andrew Diederich]

Hello lyx-users,

  I just installed LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows XP, with the bundle so I
made sure to get miktek installed, etc. However, when I open a new
file with the hollywood template, I get an error message:

The document uses a missing TeX class hollywod. LyX will not be able
to produce output.

I saw some indications in the wiki that the windows installer copied
the hollywood.cls file into the right place in miktek, but it isn't
there anywhere.  It is in c:\Program Files\Lyx14\Resources\tex.

How do I get LyX to use the Hollywood template correctly?  Thanks for
the help.

-- 
Best regards,
 Andrew

Re: Using Hollywood template on windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Andrew Diederich schrieb:


  I just installed LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows XP, with the bundle so I
made sure to get miktek installed, etc. However, when I open a new
file with the hollywood template, I get an error message:

The document uses a missing TeX class hollywod. LyX will not be able
to produce output.


Copy the file hollywod.cls somewhere to a subfolder of MiKTeX's installation folder and then refresh MiKTeX file name database using the 
program MiKTeX Options. Then reconfigure LyX.


When you install LyX using this installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller

this is done for you automatically in the background while installing LyX.

regards Uwe

long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8

[faunt]

Hi, I've been using LyX quite successfully for a few years in slackware 
linux. But now I need to get it running on a Mac as well.


LyX installs fine and runs fine on the mac including the basic program 
functions, classes, styles, etc. But I'm having a problem with the DVI and 
postscript viewers.


Previous to installing LyX I installed ghostscript, imagemagic, DVI and 
TeX via fink. I tried it via i-install but it couldn't complete the 
installations so I uninstalled everything and tried again with fink. I 
also previously tried MacTeX and it also couldn't complete the install. I 
also re-installed LyX 1.4.3 for intel after succeeding with fink.


The classes seem fine now that I've fixed the path and such. But now the 
three types of PDF viewers insist on bringing up QuickTime even though 
I've de-configured quicktime to view PDF files. argh!


I've checked the file conversions and path and have taken out anything 
that pre-empts the /sw (/sw/bin:/sw/sbin mainly) sub-dirs where fink 
installs everything. I can't see anything wrong even though I've 
re-configured and checked all that.


The Postscript viewer brings up Preview -- which is okay. But I mainly 
need the DVI viewer like I have in linux and the ability to create good 
pdf files. I can't do either at this point on the mac.


Does someone know what might be wrong and recommend a fix, or the most 
optimal way for me to install everything on the intel Mac with OSX 10.4.8?


thanks much,

jamie faunt

Re: long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8

[Jens Noeckel]

On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Hi, I've been using LyX quite successfully for a few years in  
slackware linux. But now I need to get it running on a Mac as well.


LyX installs fine and runs fine on the mac including the basic  
program functions, classes, styles, etc. But I'm having a problem  
with the DVI and postscript viewers.


Previous to installing LyX I installed ghostscript, imagemagic, DVI  
and TeX via fink. I tried it via i-install but it couldn't complete  
the installations so I uninstalled everything and tried again with  
fink. I also previously tried MacTeX and it also couldn't complete  
the install. I also re-installed LyX 1.4.3 for intel after  
succeeding with fink.


The classes seem fine now that I've fixed the path and such. But  
now the three types of PDF viewers insist on bringing up QuickTime  
even though I've de-configured quicktime to view PDF files. argh!


I've checked the file conversions and path and have taken out  
anything that pre-empts the /sw (/sw/bin:/sw/sbin mainly) sub-dirs  
where fink installs everything. I can't see anything wrong even  
though I've re-configured and checked all that.


The Postscript viewer brings up Preview -- which is okay. But I  
mainly need the DVI viewer like I have in linux and the ability to  
create good pdf files. I can't do either at this point on the mac.


Does someone know what might be wrong and recommend a fix, or the  
most optimal way for me to install everything on the intel Mac with  
OSX 10.4.8?


thanks much,

jamie faunt


Jamie,
I'm also getting all my tex software through fink, and things work  
fine on my Intel Mac. But you do need to tweak the paths for LyX a  
little.


First, make sure that you have tetex-base installed from fink. That  
gives you the dvi viewer you're looking for (I'd recommend xdvik),  
and of course latex  friends. In order to use the DVI viewer, you  
need to have X11 installed (it's on the Tiger Install disk as an  
optional install). Once you're sure these are installed and work from  
the command line, go to LyX Preferences, and under File Formats  
select DVI. For the Viewer, enter the following line:


open-x11  export DISPLAY=:0.0  /sw/bin/xdvik

The entries for PDF viewers are simpler: I just have the single  
command open in the Viewer field (I think it's auto by default).  
Just make sure that you've selected a reasonable default viewer for  
PDF files in the Finder Info (select a pdf file, show Info, select  
your favorite application for Open with..., and click Change all).
Maybe this should be on the Wiki somewhere... if it works for you,  
I'll perhaps add it under known issues, because you're not the  
first to have trouble opening pdf files.


Hope this works,
Jens

fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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I'm using lyx 1.3.7 on kubuntu linux (Dapper)

I started with the included letter template which I modified the margins
etc... for a NON business letter to my brother.

Then I used it to play with the fancy header example in the Extended
features manual. It took me a while to figure out that I couldn't use
\lhead{Section \thesection} in the letter if I wanted stable results...

Question 1 of 3

Why is the header/footer suppressed on page 1? That is how can I get
headers and/or footers to output on the first page???


Question 2 of 3

Evidently \rhead{Page \thepage} yields: Page $currentpage
But how would I get Page $currentpage of $pagecount???

That is page 1 of 3, page 2 of 3, Page 3 of 3 etc...


Question 3 of 3

Is there a list of {key words?} that can be used to insert values into
header/footers such as

/thepage   current output page number
/today Today's date
etc...

Much thanks in advance.




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Re: character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:
 I had a question about character styles in LyX 1.5.0. In 1.4.x, they
 were implemented as a bit of a hack through the command buffer. 

You don't need the command buffer. You need to define the character styles in 
the layout files (or included inc-files; see attached example); then you'll 
see a menu entry Insert-Char Style.

 I remember being really excited about this feature (as I use a lot of
 ERT for things in different scripts) but I never ended up using it
 because of the clunky interface (or lack thereof) and lack of
 documentation. 

This is unfortunately true.

 This was a really promising feature but I think it 
 needs more work before people actually begin to use it on a daily
 basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
 a GUI to add more character styles?

I'm afraid not (we're in feature freeze). But it's high on my agenda for 1.6.

Jürgen
# Textclass definition file for docbook.
# Author : José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Character Styles definition

Format 2
CharStyle Versal
LatexType Command
LatexName versal
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   blue
EndFont
Preamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\usepackage{soul}
}{}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\DeclareRobustCommand*\versal[1]{%
\MakeUppercase{\scalefont{.92}\null{\caps{#1}}}%
}
}{}
EndPreamble
End

CharStyle Enquote*
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote*
Font
  Family  Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
End

CharStyle Enquote
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
End

CharStyle Test
LatexType Command
LatexName dummy
Font
  Family  Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand\dummy[1]{#1}
endPreamble
End

Re: Footnote crash...

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Bo Peng 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.



One thing I have noticed with the latest version is that if I move the
cursor to immediately before a footnote, LyX dies instantly. Here is a
test file, I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this phenomenon?


This problem has been fixed yesterday.

[...]

Hello Bo, do we have any idea about when the fixed binaries will appear 
on BerliOS?


Thanks for all of the good work.

Regards,
Nick.

--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton
Caversham, Reading, England
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Footnote crash...

[Bo Peng]

Hello Bo, do we have any idea about when the fixed binaries will appear
on BerliOS?


I think there will be an alpha 2 (or even beta) release soon. This
release will be much more usable in terms of crashes.

Bo

Re: Calligraphic Typeface

[Donald MacKinnon]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:


On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:


Bruce Pourciau wrote:

\fontfamily{pzc}\large {text} seems to work, but replacing \large by
\larger does not. What's up with that?


try \Large, \LARGE, \huge and \Huge

Jürgen



Thanks, Jürgen.


I was intrigued by this inquiry. Out of interest I read the replies to 
you question and I tried an experiment. It gave the expected result.

In the main text of my small document I did the following:
1. Added a TeX box i.e. ERT from the Lyx menu.
2. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{pzc}\Large{ }
 Added some lines in Lyx verse
3. Added a TeX box i.e. ERT from the Lyx menu
4. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{concrete}\normalize{ }

As I said earlier it gave the desired result.

I also notice that my Mandrake Linux OS appears to contain a 
calligraphic font under:

/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan

A somewhat long and torturous example is given by the following URL:
http://www.katspace.org/stuff/Computers/LyxHow

Regards, Donald

Re: Calligraphic Typeface

[Donald MacKinnon]

My apologies. The word normalize in 4. should be normalsize, i.e.
4. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{concrete}\normalsize{ }

Regards, Donald

character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Stacia Hartleben]

I had a question about character styles in LyX 1.5.0. In 1.4.x, they
were implemented as a bit of a hack through the command buffer. I
remember being really excited about this feature (as I use a lot of
ERT for things in different scripts) but I never ended up using it
because of the clunky interface (or lack thereof) and lack of
documentation. This was a really promising feature but I think it
needs more work before people actually begin to use it on a daily
basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
a GUI to add more character styles?

Re: character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
 a GUI to add more character styles?

You can customise layout files.

Gregor

Using Hollywood template on windows

[Andrew Diederich]

Hello lyx-users,

  I just installed LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows XP, with the bundle so I
made sure to get miktek installed, etc. However, when I open a new
file with the hollywood template, I get an error message:

The document uses a missing TeX class hollywod. LyX will not be able
to produce output.

I saw some indications in the wiki that the windows installer copied
the hollywood.cls file into the right place in miktek, but it isn't
there anywhere.  It is in c:\Program Files\Lyx14\Resources\tex.

How do I get LyX to use the Hollywood template correctly?  Thanks for
the help.

-- 
Best regards,
 Andrew

Re: Using Hollywood template on windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Andrew Diederich schrieb:


  I just installed LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows XP, with the bundle so I
made sure to get miktek installed, etc. However, when I open a new
file with the hollywood template, I get an error message:

The document uses a missing TeX class hollywod. LyX will not be able
to produce output.


Copy the file hollywod.cls somewhere to a subfolder of MiKTeX's installation folder and then refresh MiKTeX file name database using the 
program MiKTeX Options. Then reconfigure LyX.


When you install LyX using this installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller

this is done for you automatically in the background while installing LyX.

regards Uwe

long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8

[faunt]

Hi, I've been using LyX quite successfully for a few years in slackware 
linux. But now I need to get it running on a Mac as well.


LyX installs fine and runs fine on the mac including the basic program 
functions, classes, styles, etc. But I'm having a problem with the DVI and 
postscript viewers.


Previous to installing LyX I installed ghostscript, imagemagic, DVI and 
TeX via fink. I tried it via i-install but it couldn't complete the 
installations so I uninstalled everything and tried again with fink. I 
also previously tried MacTeX and it also couldn't complete the install. I 
also re-installed LyX 1.4.3 for intel after succeeding with fink.


The classes seem fine now that I've fixed the path and such. But now the 
three types of PDF viewers insist on bringing up QuickTime even though 
I've de-configured quicktime to view PDF files. argh!


I've checked the file conversions and path and have taken out anything 
that pre-empts the /sw (/sw/bin:/sw/sbin mainly) sub-dirs where fink 
installs everything. I can't see anything wrong even though I've 
re-configured and checked all that.


The Postscript viewer brings up Preview -- which is okay. But I mainly 
need the DVI viewer like I have in linux and the ability to create good 
pdf files. I can't do either at this point on the mac.


Does someone know what might be wrong and recommend a fix, or the most 
optimal way for me to install everything on the intel Mac with OSX 10.4.8?


thanks much,

jamie faunt

Re: long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8

[Jens Noeckel]

On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Hi, I've been using LyX quite successfully for a few years in  
slackware linux. But now I need to get it running on a Mac as well.


LyX installs fine and runs fine on the mac including the basic  
program functions, classes, styles, etc. But I'm having a problem  
with the DVI and postscript viewers.


Previous to installing LyX I installed ghostscript, imagemagic, DVI  
and TeX via fink. I tried it via i-install but it couldn't complete  
the installations so I uninstalled everything and tried again with  
fink. I also previously tried MacTeX and it also couldn't complete  
the install. I also re-installed LyX 1.4.3 for intel after  
succeeding with fink.


The classes seem fine now that I've fixed the path and such. But  
now the three types of PDF viewers insist on bringing up QuickTime  
even though I've de-configured quicktime to view PDF files. argh!


I've checked the file conversions and path and have taken out  
anything that pre-empts the /sw (/sw/bin:/sw/sbin mainly) sub-dirs  
where fink installs everything. I can't see anything wrong even  
though I've re-configured and checked all that.


The Postscript viewer brings up Preview -- which is okay. But I  
mainly need the DVI viewer like I have in linux and the ability to  
create good pdf files. I can't do either at this point on the mac.


Does someone know what might be wrong and recommend a fix, or the  
most optimal way for me to install everything on the intel Mac with  
OSX 10.4.8?


thanks much,

jamie faunt


Jamie,
I'm also getting all my tex software through fink, and things work  
fine on my Intel Mac. But you do need to tweak the paths for LyX a  
little.


First, make sure that you have tetex-base installed from fink. That  
gives you the dvi viewer you're looking for (I'd recommend xdvik),  
and of course latex  friends. In order to use the DVI viewer, you  
need to have X11 installed (it's on the Tiger Install disk as an  
optional install). Once you're sure these are installed and work from  
the command line, go to LyX Preferences, and under File Formats  
select DVI. For the Viewer, enter the following line:


open-x11  export DISPLAY=:0.0  /sw/bin/xdvik

The entries for PDF viewers are simpler: I just have the single  
command open in the Viewer field (I think it's auto by default).  
Just make sure that you've selected a reasonable default viewer for  
PDF files in the Finder Info (select a pdf file, show Info, select  
your favorite application for Open with..., and click Change all).
Maybe this should be on the Wiki somewhere... if it works for you,  
I'll perhaps add it under known issues, because you're not the  
first to have trouble opening pdf files.


Hope this works,
Jens

fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1


I'm using lyx 1.3.7 on kubuntu linux (Dapper)

I started with the included letter template which I modified the margins
etc... for a NON business letter to my brother.

Then I used it to play with the fancy header example in the Extended
features manual. It took me a while to figure out that I couldn't use
\lhead{Section \thesection} in the letter if I wanted stable results...

Question 1 of 3

Why is the header/footer suppressed on page 1? That is how can I get
headers and/or footers to output on the first page???


Question 2 of 3

Evidently \rhead{Page \thepage} yields: Page $currentpage
But how would I get Page $currentpage of $pagecount???

That is page 1 of 3, page 2 of 3, Page 3 of 3 etc...


Question 3 of 3

Is there a list of {key words?} that can be used to insert values into
header/footers such as

/thepage   current output page number
/today Today's date
etc...

Much thanks in advance.




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Re: character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:
 I had a question about character styles in LyX 1.5.0. In 1.4.x, they
 were implemented as a bit of a hack through the command buffer. 

You don't need the command buffer. You need to define the character styles in 
the layout files (or included inc-files; see attached example); then you'll 
see a menu entry Insert-Char Style.

 I remember being really excited about this feature (as I use a lot of
 ERT for things in different scripts) but I never ended up using it
 because of the clunky interface (or lack thereof) and lack of
 documentation. 

This is unfortunately true.

 This was a really promising feature but I think it 
 needs more work before people actually begin to use it on a daily
 basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
 a GUI to add more character styles?

I'm afraid not (we're in feature freeze). But it's high on my agenda for 1.6.

Jürgen
# Textclass definition file for docbook.
# Author : José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Character Styles definition

Format 2
CharStyle Versal
LatexType Command
LatexName versal
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   blue
EndFont
Preamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\usepackage{soul}
}{}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\DeclareRobustCommand*\versal[1]{%
\MakeUppercase{\scalefont{.92}\null{\caps{#1}}}%
}
}{}
EndPreamble
End

CharStyle Enquote*
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote*
Font
  Family  Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
End

CharStyle Enquote
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
End

CharStyle Test
LatexType Command
LatexName dummy
Font
  Family  Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand\dummy[1]{#1}
endPreamble
End

Re: Footnote crash...

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.



One thing I have noticed with the latest version is that if I move the
cursor to immediately before a footnote, LyX dies instantly. Here is a
test file, I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this phenomenon?


This problem has been fixed yesterday.

[...]

Hello Bo, do we have any idea about when the fixed binaries will appear 
on BerliOS?


Thanks for all of the good work.

Regards,
Nick.

--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton
Caversham, Reading, England
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Footnote crash...

[Bo Peng]

Hello Bo, do we have any idea about when the fixed binaries will appear
on BerliOS?


I think there will be an alpha 2 (or even beta) release soon. This
release will be much more usable in terms of crashes.

Bo

Re: Calligraphic Typeface

[Donald MacKinnon]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:


On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:


Bruce Pourciau wrote:

\fontfamily{pzc}\large {text} seems to work, but replacing \large by
\larger does not. What's up with that?


try \Large, \LARGE, \huge and \Huge

Jürgen



Thanks, Jürgen.


I was intrigued by this inquiry. Out of interest I read the replies to 
you question and I tried an experiment. It gave the expected result.

In the main text of my small document I did the following:
1. Added a TeX box i.e. ERT from the Lyx menu.
2. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{pzc}\Large{ }
 Added some lines in Lyx "verse"
3. Added a TeX box i.e. ERT from the Lyx menu
4. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{concrete}\normalize{ }

As I said earlier it gave the desired result.

I also notice that my Mandrake Linux OS appears to contain a 
calligraphic font under:

/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan

A somewhat long and torturous example is given by the following URL:
http://www.katspace.org/stuff/Computers/LyxHow

Regards, Donald

Re: Calligraphic Typeface

[Donald MacKinnon]

My apologies. The word normalize in 4. should be normalsize, i.e.
4. Inserted into the ERT box
\fontfamily{concrete}\normalsize{ }

Regards, Donald

character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Stacia Hartleben]

I had a question about character styles in LyX 1.5.0. In 1.4.x, they
were implemented as a bit of a hack through the command buffer. I
remember being really excited about this feature (as I use a lot of
ERT for things in different scripts) but I never ended up using it
because of the clunky interface (or lack thereof) and lack of
documentation. This was a really promising feature but I think it
needs more work before people actually begin to use it on a daily
basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
a GUI to add more character styles?

Re: character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
> a GUI to add more character styles?

You can customise layout files.

Gregor

Using Hollywood template on windows

[Andrew Diederich]

Hello lyx-users,

  I just installed LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows XP, with the bundle so I
made sure to get miktek installed, etc. However, when I open a new
file with the hollywood template, I get an error message:

The document uses a missing TeX class "hollywod". LyX will not be able
to produce output.

I saw some indications in the wiki that the windows installer copied
the hollywood.cls file into the right place in miktek, but it isn't
there anywhere.  It is in c:\Program Files\Lyx14\Resources\tex.

How do I get LyX to use the Hollywood template correctly?  Thanks for
the help.

-- 
Best regards,
 Andrew

Re: Using Hollywood template on windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Andrew Diederich schrieb:


  I just installed LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows XP, with the bundle so I
made sure to get miktek installed, etc. However, when I open a new
file with the hollywood template, I get an error message:

The document uses a missing TeX class "hollywod". LyX will not be able
to produce output.


Copy the file "hollywod.cls" somewhere to a subfolder of MiKTeX's installation folder and then refresh MiKTeX file name database using the 
program MiKTeX Options. Then reconfigure LyX.


When you install LyX using this installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller

this is done for you automatically in the background while installing LyX.

regards Uwe

long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8

[faunt]

Hi, I've been using LyX quite successfully for a few years in slackware 
linux. But now I need to get it running on a Mac as well.


LyX installs fine and runs fine on the mac including the basic program 
functions, classes, styles, etc. But I'm having a problem with the DVI and 
postscript viewers.


Previous to installing LyX I installed ghostscript, imagemagic, DVI and 
TeX via fink. I tried it via i-install but it couldn't complete the 
installations so I uninstalled everything and tried again with fink. I 
also previously tried MacTeX and it also couldn't complete the install. I 
also re-installed LyX 1.4.3 for intel after succeeding with fink.


The classes seem fine now that I've fixed the path and such. But now the 
three types of PDF viewers insist on bringing up QuickTime even though 
I've de-configured quicktime to view PDF files. 


I've checked the file conversions and path and have taken out anything 
that pre-empts the /sw (/sw/bin:/sw/sbin mainly) sub-dirs where fink 
installs everything. I can't see anything wrong even though I've 
re-configured and checked all that.


The Postscript viewer brings up Preview -- which is "okay." But I mainly 
need the DVI viewer like I have in linux and the ability to create good 
pdf files. I can't do either at this point on the mac.


Does someone know what might be wrong and recommend a fix, or the most 
optimal way for me to install everything on the intel Mac with OSX 10.4.8?


thanks much,

jamie faunt

Re: long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8

[Jens Noeckel]

On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Hi, I've been using LyX quite successfully for a few years in  
slackware linux. But now I need to get it running on a Mac as well.


LyX installs fine and runs fine on the mac including the basic  
program functions, classes, styles, etc. But I'm having a problem  
with the DVI and postscript viewers.


Previous to installing LyX I installed ghostscript, imagemagic, DVI  
and TeX via fink. I tried it via i-install but it couldn't complete  
the installations so I uninstalled everything and tried again with  
fink. I also previously tried MacTeX and it also couldn't complete  
the install. I also re-installed LyX 1.4.3 for intel after  
succeeding with fink.


The classes seem fine now that I've fixed the path and such. But  
now the three types of PDF viewers insist on bringing up QuickTime  
even though I've de-configured quicktime to view PDF files. 


I've checked the file conversions and path and have taken out  
anything that pre-empts the /sw (/sw/bin:/sw/sbin mainly) sub-dirs  
where fink installs everything. I can't see anything wrong even  
though I've re-configured and checked all that.


The Postscript viewer brings up Preview -- which is "okay." But I  
mainly need the DVI viewer like I have in linux and the ability to  
create good pdf files. I can't do either at this point on the mac.


Does someone know what might be wrong and recommend a fix, or the  
most optimal way for me to install everything on the intel Mac with  
OSX 10.4.8?


thanks much,

jamie faunt


Jamie,
I'm also getting all my tex software through fink, and things work  
fine on my Intel Mac. But you do need to tweak the paths for LyX a  
little.


First, make sure that you have tetex-base installed from fink. That  
gives you the dvi viewer you're looking for (I'd recommend xdvik),  
and of course latex & friends. In order to use the DVI viewer, you  
need to have X11 installed (it's on the Tiger Install disk as an  
optional install). Once you're sure these are installed and work from  
the command line, go to LyX Preferences, and under "File Formats"  
select DVI. For the Viewer, enter the following line:


open-x11 && export DISPLAY=:0.0 && /sw/bin/xdvik

The entries for PDF viewers are simpler: I just have the single  
command "open" in the Viewer field (I think it's "auto" by default).  
Just make sure that you've selected a reasonable default viewer for  
PDF files in the Finder Info (select a pdf file, show Info, select  
your favorite application for Open with..., and click "Change all").
Maybe this should be on the Wiki somewhere... if it works for you,  
I'll perhaps add it under "known issues", because you're not the  
first to have trouble opening pdf files.


Hope this works,
Jens

fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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I'm using lyx 1.3.7 on kubuntu linux (Dapper)

I started with the included letter template which I modified the margins
etc... for a NON business letter to my brother.

Then I used it to play with the fancy header example in the Extended
features manual. It took me a while to figure out that I couldn't use
\lhead{Section \thesection} in the letter if I wanted stable results...

Question 1 of 3

Why is the header/footer suppressed on page 1? That is how can I get
headers and/or footers to output on the first page???


Question 2 of 3

Evidently "\rhead{Page \thepage}" yields: "Page $currentpage"
But how would I get "Page $currentpage of $pagecount"???

That is "page 1 of 3", "page 2 of 3", "Page 3 of 3" etc...


Question 3 of 3

Is there a list of {key words?} that can be used to insert values into
header/footers such as

/thepage   current output page number
/today Today's date
etc...

Much thanks in advance.




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Re: character styles in LyX 1.5.0?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:
> I had a question about character styles in LyX 1.5.0. In 1.4.x, they
> were implemented as a bit of a hack through the command buffer. 

You don't need the command buffer. You need to define the character styles in 
the layout files (or included inc-files; see attached example); then you'll 
see a menu entry "Insert->Char Style".

> I remember being really excited about this feature (as I use a lot of
> ERT for things in different scripts) but I never ended up using it
> because of the clunky interface (or lack thereof) and lack of
> documentation. 

This is unfortunately true.

> This was a really promising feature but I think it 
> needs more work before people actually begin to use it on a daily
> basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
> a GUI to add more character styles?

I'm afraid not (we're in feature freeze). But it's high on my agenda for 1.6.

Jürgen
# Textclass definition file for docbook.
# Author : José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Character Styles definition

Format 2
CharStyle Versal
LatexType Command
LatexName versal
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   blue
EndFont
Preamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\usepackage{soul}
}{}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\DeclareRobustCommand*\versal[1]{%
\MakeUppercase{\scalefont{.92}\null{\caps{#1}}}%
}
}{}
EndPreamble
End

CharStyle Enquote*
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote*
Font
  Family  Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
End

CharStyle Enquote
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
End

CharStyle Test
LatexType Command
LatexName dummy
Font
  Family  Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   green
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand\dummy[1]{#1}
endPreamble
End