Re: Lyx and selinux
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Jim Rockford wrote: Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux? I'm not really savvy enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great) document processing program! If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents
Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel.
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] The new Update installer version allows you to update your existing LyX installation to the latest version. To use this installer you must have my last development snaphot LyX 1.5svn-09-04-2007 installed. [...] After updating using this installer I now have problems with converting images. For example, when trying to use pdflatex to view the help document 'EmbeddedObjects.lyx' I get 'No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in preferences'. This also happens with documents of my own that contain images. Everything was working properly using the 09-04-2007 snapshot. The same problem occurs if I try to view a DVI. Keep up the good work, it is greatly appreciated. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thursday 19 April 2007 4:48:49 am Jim Rockford wrote: Lyx version: 1.4.4 OS: Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit) I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to view my document as PDF or DVI. I kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like - convert: zlib error /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR Execution of convert failed FAILED to find the default font: ' ', 'Sans' -- I had zlib installed, and seemingly everything else necessary. I finally discovered an unholy intrusion of the selinux (security enhanced linux) policy. By manually disabling selinux (System-Administration-Security Level and Firewall) I was able to get all of these problems to magically disappear, and Lyx now seems to function flawlessly. I am using Fedora 6 as well. :-) Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux? I'm not really savvy enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great) document processing program! Perhaps someone can tell me how to allow Lyx to access certain libraries without raising some sort of security flag or encountering permission problems. Please fill a bugzilla entry for Fedora in the lyx component. Rex Dieter, Fedora packager of lyx, is very responsive and he reads this list often but a bugzilla entry will be easier to track. I am sending him this message CC'ed. FWIW I suspect that this is related with python .pyc or .pyo's files and their interaction with selinux, as discussed yesterday in fedora's list. Thanks, Jim -- José Abílio
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thursday 19 April 2007 8:30:58 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) I consider my files to be sensitive data, not most of them but at least some of them. The purpose of selinux is to give another level of protection so a security-enhanced system is always a good thing. :-) https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) I agree. /Christian -- José Abílio
Fast way to insert citations?
Hi, usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Regards, Toby
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? If you mean without the mouse, yes, it's possible: Alt-i c optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. Enter Enter. In 1.5, it will be even faster. Abdel.
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hello clicking Insert - Citation,...? Why do you consider this as slow? ALT+E - Z, then select or search for the citation - OK. Isn't that fast enough?
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. And don't forget the search function in the very dialog.
Re: Lyx and selinux
José Matos wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 8:30:58 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) Even plain linux is already much safer than windows. There are reasons that linux desktops aren't full of malware and spyware. And no - windows being the more common desktop is not the biggest reason. Windows is _designed_ with security holes like executing code from websites or email messages by default - for users that generally have admin privileges. They need privileges, or common programs will fail. In that world, people think that an up to date virus scanner is something every responsible computer owner should have, even though such a thing only ever catch bad stuff after the fact. Also, the OS have no package database and so no idea about what files are supposed to be there, nor their checksums. No clean uninstall and people think it is normal to reinstall now and then to clean up and regain performance! Linux is not like that. Code generally don't run unless you install it. The user account used for daily work don't have admin privileges. And the email software generally don't run attachments. Virus scanners are unnecessary - as virus technology just won't work. Perfect uninstalls and verification by file checksums are possible, at least on some distributions. I have only ever reinstalled linux because of a dead disk - and probably won't need to do that again thanks to raid-1. I consider my files to be sensitive data, not most of them but at least some of them. The purpose of selinux is to give another level of protection so a security-enhanced system is always a good thing. :-) https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) I agree. Sure, nothing wrong with that. But it seems to me that the problem must be with SELinux in this case. Once installed, LyX doesn't need special privileges. It needs access to the display, the printers, temp directories, latex, a great variety of fonts, viewers and images conversion programs. SELinux should not deny any of this - it is all normal end-user activities. Helge Hafting
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi Abdel, If you mean without the mouse, yes, it's possible: Alt-i c optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. Enter Enter. thanks for your answer but this is not what I meant 'cause this is they way I do it right now but this still take some time: in the German version of I have to type Alt-e z Alt-s (to focus the search field) Ctrl-v (to insert the BibTeX-Key, arrows are not an option because there are almost 300 entries in the database) Alt-V (to search for the item) Enter Enter since there are approximately ~10 citations per page this just gets annoying... I was thinking of something analog to the way of inserting a footnote: mark the text press Alt-e f and the text is put in a footnote.. I see, unfortunately, there is no such thing. Please put an enhancement request in bugzilla. The good news is that it will be a bit faster in 1.5 were the citation dialog has been redesigned with search as type feature. So you'll have at least 2 less operations: Alt-i c Alt-f (to focus the find field) Alt-v (to focus the Available Citation list) Enter Maybe we could also map the Enter key in the find field to avoid the Alt-v step. I'll see what I can do. Abdel.
Math alias
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
Thx
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Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Math alias
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style
for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
\newcommand{\fuzzy}[1]{\underset{\sim}{#1}}
Select it and press Ctrl-m
You get a math macro (also documented in the documentation). You can
then use \fuzzy in your formulas.
Schimmi
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Re: Math alias
Thanx a lot Stefan... I was just looking in the wiki with words other
than macro... Of course, nothing showed up... :D
On 4/19/07, Stefan Schimanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style
for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
\newcommand{\fuzzy}[1]{\underset{\sim}{#1}}
Select it and press Ctrl-m
You get a math macro (also documented in the documentation). You can
then use \fuzzy in your formulas.
Schimmi
--
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Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) Even plain linux is already much safer than windows. From a practical, real-life perspective, I agree, but -please- let us skip this discussion! (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) Sure, nothing wrong with that. But it seems to me that the problem must be with SELinux in this case. Se let's get back on topic... Didn't he report a missing font or something? /Christian PS. I still think that he as a normal user at this time won't need SELinux, but having the discussion and possibly file a bugzilla entry won't hurt. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
Nick Hopton wrote: After updating using this installer I now have problems with converting images. For example, when trying to use pdflatex to view the help document 'EmbeddedObjects.lyx' I get 'No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in preferences'. This also happens with documents of my own that contain images. Everything was working properly using the 09-04-2007 snapshot. The same problem occurs if I try to view a DVI. The update didn't screw up anything for me; I can view EmbeddedObjects.lyx as either DVI or PDF. Is the path to ImageMagick on Tools - Preferences... - Paths - PATH prefix? /Paul
[Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. thank! Exactly what I was looking for (still one key stroke would be better but this is already great!). That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? No, I can not use the lyxpipe for two reasons: I got the keys in freemind and freemind does not support pushing - there would be workarounds with small and quickly programmed things but I guess WinVista (which I have to use for some other reasons) is not the perfect environment to use the lyxpipe... Regards, Toby
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: [Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob I've compiled QT4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn without problems a few days ago on a (PPC) mac. pdv
Re: [Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On 4/19/07 11:53 AM, Patrick De Visschere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob I've compiled QT4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn without problems a few days ago on a (PPC) mac. pdv If you don't mind. What were your ./configure commands for both Qt4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn? Bob
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, I know of the discussion---actually I raised that question recently. But using a third helper utility to bridge Lyx and a bib management app is one thing, having a quick way (what Tobias said one-key-stroke) to insert citations from clipboard is another. I think insert-citation-in-one-key-stroke method would be a very useful, general feature, no matter what OS you are in. Thanks for providing the command buffer method. I tried it. It works well. I am thinking if LyX could have a command citation-insert-from-clipboard, where you don't need to append literally the citation key list, it also would be great. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Yes, I can see that. Can you add a bugzilla request? I take it the idea would be to have a really, really simple dialog: You enter the key, period. Maybe we could also allow entering the before, after, etc. But mostly it'd be for quick entries of the key. This would not be hard to do. The Model-View-Controller framework sees to that. rh Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I know of the discussion---actually I raised that question recently. But using a third helper utility to bridge Lyx and a bib management app is one thing, having a quick way (what Tobias said one-key-stroke) to insert citations from clipboard is another. I think insert-citation-in-one-key-stroke method would be a very useful, general feature, no matter what OS you are in. Thanks for providing the command buffer method. I tried it. It works well. I am thinking if LyX could have a command citation-insert-from-clipboard, where you don't need to append literally the citation key list, it also would be great. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Jim Rockford wrote: Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux? I'm not really savvy enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great) document processing program! If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents
Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel.
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] The new Update installer version allows you to update your existing LyX installation to the latest version. To use this installer you must have my last development snaphot LyX 1.5svn-09-04-2007 installed. [...] After updating using this installer I now have problems with converting images. For example, when trying to use pdflatex to view the help document 'EmbeddedObjects.lyx' I get 'No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in preferences'. This also happens with documents of my own that contain images. Everything was working properly using the 09-04-2007 snapshot. The same problem occurs if I try to view a DVI. Keep up the good work, it is greatly appreciated. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thursday 19 April 2007 4:48:49 am Jim Rockford wrote: Lyx version: 1.4.4 OS: Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit) I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to view my document as PDF or DVI. I kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like - convert: zlib error /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR Execution of convert failed FAILED to find the default font: ' ', 'Sans' -- I had zlib installed, and seemingly everything else necessary. I finally discovered an unholy intrusion of the selinux (security enhanced linux) policy. By manually disabling selinux (System-Administration-Security Level and Firewall) I was able to get all of these problems to magically disappear, and Lyx now seems to function flawlessly. I am using Fedora 6 as well. :-) Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux? I'm not really savvy enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great) document processing program! Perhaps someone can tell me how to allow Lyx to access certain libraries without raising some sort of security flag or encountering permission problems. Please fill a bugzilla entry for Fedora in the lyx component. Rex Dieter, Fedora packager of lyx, is very responsive and he reads this list often but a bugzilla entry will be easier to track. I am sending him this message CC'ed. FWIW I suspect that this is related with python .pyc or .pyo's files and their interaction with selinux, as discussed yesterday in fedora's list. Thanks, Jim -- José Abílio
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thursday 19 April 2007 8:30:58 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) I consider my files to be sensitive data, not most of them but at least some of them. The purpose of selinux is to give another level of protection so a security-enhanced system is always a good thing. :-) https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) I agree. /Christian -- José Abílio
Fast way to insert citations?
Hi, usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Regards, Toby
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? If you mean without the mouse, yes, it's possible: Alt-i c optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. Enter Enter. In 1.5, it will be even faster. Abdel.
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hello clicking Insert - Citation,...? Why do you consider this as slow? ALT+E - Z, then select or search for the citation - OK. Isn't that fast enough?
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. And don't forget the search function in the very dialog.
Re: Lyx and selinux
José Matos wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 8:30:58 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) Even plain linux is already much safer than windows. There are reasons that linux desktops aren't full of malware and spyware. And no - windows being the more common desktop is not the biggest reason. Windows is _designed_ with security holes like executing code from websites or email messages by default - for users that generally have admin privileges. They need privileges, or common programs will fail. In that world, people think that an up to date virus scanner is something every responsible computer owner should have, even though such a thing only ever catch bad stuff after the fact. Also, the OS have no package database and so no idea about what files are supposed to be there, nor their checksums. No clean uninstall and people think it is normal to reinstall now and then to clean up and regain performance! Linux is not like that. Code generally don't run unless you install it. The user account used for daily work don't have admin privileges. And the email software generally don't run attachments. Virus scanners are unnecessary - as virus technology just won't work. Perfect uninstalls and verification by file checksums are possible, at least on some distributions. I have only ever reinstalled linux because of a dead disk - and probably won't need to do that again thanks to raid-1. I consider my files to be sensitive data, not most of them but at least some of them. The purpose of selinux is to give another level of protection so a security-enhanced system is always a good thing. :-) https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) I agree. Sure, nothing wrong with that. But it seems to me that the problem must be with SELinux in this case. Once installed, LyX doesn't need special privileges. It needs access to the display, the printers, temp directories, latex, a great variety of fonts, viewers and images conversion programs. SELinux should not deny any of this - it is all normal end-user activities. Helge Hafting
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi Abdel, If you mean without the mouse, yes, it's possible: Alt-i c optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. Enter Enter. thanks for your answer but this is not what I meant 'cause this is they way I do it right now but this still take some time: in the German version of I have to type Alt-e z Alt-s (to focus the search field) Ctrl-v (to insert the BibTeX-Key, arrows are not an option because there are almost 300 entries in the database) Alt-V (to search for the item) Enter Enter since there are approximately ~10 citations per page this just gets annoying... I was thinking of something analog to the way of inserting a footnote: mark the text press Alt-e f and the text is put in a footnote.. I see, unfortunately, there is no such thing. Please put an enhancement request in bugzilla. The good news is that it will be a bit faster in 1.5 were the citation dialog has been redesigned with search as type feature. So you'll have at least 2 less operations: Alt-i c Alt-f (to focus the find field) Alt-v (to focus the Available Citation list) Enter Maybe we could also map the Enter key in the find field to avoid the Alt-v step. I'll see what I can do. Abdel.
Math alias
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
Thx
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Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Math alias
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style
for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
\newcommand{\fuzzy}[1]{\underset{\sim}{#1}}
Select it and press Ctrl-m
You get a math macro (also documented in the documentation). You can
then use \fuzzy in your formulas.
Schimmi
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Re: Math alias
Thanx a lot Stefan... I was just looking in the wiki with words other
than macro... Of course, nothing showed up... :D
On 4/19/07, Stefan Schimanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style
for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
\newcommand{\fuzzy}[1]{\underset{\sim}{#1}}
Select it and press Ctrl-m
You get a math macro (also documented in the documentation). You can
then use \fuzzy in your formulas.
Schimmi
--
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) Even plain linux is already much safer than windows. From a practical, real-life perspective, I agree, but -please- let us skip this discussion! (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) Sure, nothing wrong with that. But it seems to me that the problem must be with SELinux in this case. Se let's get back on topic... Didn't he report a missing font or something? /Christian PS. I still think that he as a normal user at this time won't need SELinux, but having the discussion and possibly file a bugzilla entry won't hurt. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
Nick Hopton wrote: After updating using this installer I now have problems with converting images. For example, when trying to use pdflatex to view the help document 'EmbeddedObjects.lyx' I get 'No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in preferences'. This also happens with documents of my own that contain images. Everything was working properly using the 09-04-2007 snapshot. The same problem occurs if I try to view a DVI. The update didn't screw up anything for me; I can view EmbeddedObjects.lyx as either DVI or PDF. Is the path to ImageMagick on Tools - Preferences... - Paths - PATH prefix? /Paul
[Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. thank! Exactly what I was looking for (still one key stroke would be better but this is already great!). That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? No, I can not use the lyxpipe for two reasons: I got the keys in freemind and freemind does not support pushing - there would be workarounds with small and quickly programmed things but I guess WinVista (which I have to use for some other reasons) is not the perfect environment to use the lyxpipe... Regards, Toby
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: [Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob I've compiled QT4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn without problems a few days ago on a (PPC) mac. pdv
Re: [Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On 4/19/07 11:53 AM, Patrick De Visschere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying qt 4 library not found !. Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob I've compiled QT4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn without problems a few days ago on a (PPC) mac. pdv If you don't mind. What were your ./configure commands for both Qt4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn? Bob
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, I know of the discussion---actually I raised that question recently. But using a third helper utility to bridge Lyx and a bib management app is one thing, having a quick way (what Tobias said one-key-stroke) to insert citations from clipboard is another. I think insert-citation-in-one-key-stroke method would be a very useful, general feature, no matter what OS you are in. Thanks for providing the command buffer method. I tried it. It works well. I am thinking if LyX could have a command citation-insert-from-clipboard, where you don't need to append literally the citation key list, it also would be great. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Yes, I can see that. Can you add a bugzilla request? I take it the idea would be to have a really, really simple dialog: You enter the key, period. Maybe we could also allow entering the before, after, etc. But mostly it'd be for quick entries of the key. This would not be hard to do. The Model-View-Controller framework sees to that. rh Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I know of the discussion---actually I raised that question recently. But using a third helper utility to bridge Lyx and a bib management app is one thing, having a quick way (what Tobias said one-key-stroke) to insert citations from clipboard is another. I think insert-citation-in-one-key-stroke method would be a very useful, general feature, no matter what OS you are in. Thanks for providing the command buffer method. I tried it. It works well. I am thinking if LyX could have a command citation-insert-from-clipboard, where you don't need to append literally the citation key list, it also would be great. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely insert it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like insert from clipboard, which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert - Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type citation-insert and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Jim Rockford wrote: Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux? I'm not really savvy enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great) document processing program! If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents
Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying "qt 4 library not found !". Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel.
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] The new Update installer version allows you to update your existing LyX installation to the latest version. To use this installer you must have my last development snaphot LyX 1.5svn-09-04-2007 installed. [...] After updating using this installer I now have problems with converting images. For example, when trying to use pdflatex to view the help document 'EmbeddedObjects.lyx' I get 'No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in preferences'. This also happens with documents of my own that contain images. Everything was working properly using the 09-04-2007 snapshot. The same problem occurs if I try to view a DVI. Keep up the good work, it is greatly appreciated. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thursday 19 April 2007 4:48:49 am Jim Rockford wrote: > Lyx version: 1.4.4 > OS: Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit) > > I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to "view" my document as PDF or DVI. > I kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like > > - > convert: zlib error > /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR > Execution of "convert" failed > FAILED to find the default font: ' ', 'Sans' > -- > > I had zlib installed, and seemingly everything else necessary. I finally > discovered an unholy intrusion of the selinux (security enhanced linux) > policy. By manually disabling selinux (System->Administration->Security > Level and Firewall) I was able to get all of these problems to magically > disappear, and Lyx now seems > to function flawlessly. I am using Fedora 6 as well. :-) > Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux? I'm not really savvy > enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my > druthers I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly > great) document processing program! Perhaps someone can tell me how to > allow Lyx to access > certain libraries without raising some sort of security flag or > encountering permission problems. Please fill a bugzilla entry for Fedora in the lyx component. Rex Dieter, Fedora packager of lyx, is very responsive and he reads this list often but a bugzilla entry will be easier to track. I am sending him this message CC'ed. FWIW I suspect that this is related with python .pyc or .pyo's files and their interaction with selinux, as discussed yesterday in fedora's list. > Thanks, > Jim -- José Abílio
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thursday 19 April 2007 8:30:58 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think > you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) I consider my files to be sensitive data, not most of them but at least some of them. The purpose of selinux is to give another level of protection so a security-enhanced system is always a good thing. :-) > https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm > > (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) I agree. > /Christian -- José Abílio
Fast way to insert citations?
Hi, usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? Regards, Toby
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? If you mean without the mouse, yes, it's possible: Alt-i c optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. Enter Enter. In 1.5, it will be even faster. Abdel.
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hello clicking Insert -> Citation,...? Why do you consider this as slow? ALT+E - Z, then select or search for the citation -> OK. Isn't that fast enough?
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. And don't forget the search function in the very dialog.
Re: Lyx and selinux
José Matos wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 8:30:58 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think you need to use security-enhanced Linux. Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) Even plain linux is already much safer than windows. There are reasons that linux desktops aren't full of malware and spyware. And no - windows being the more common desktop is not the biggest reason. Windows is _designed_ with security holes like executing code from websites or email messages by default - for users that generally have admin privileges. They need privileges, or common programs will fail. In that world, people think that an up to date virus scanner is something every responsible computer owner should have, even though such a thing only ever catch bad stuff after the fact. Also, the OS have no package database and so no idea about what files are supposed to be there, nor their checksums. No clean uninstall and people think it is normal to reinstall now and then to "clean up" and regain performance! Linux is not like that. Code generally don't run unless you install it. The user account used for daily work don't have admin privileges. And the email software generally don't run attachments. Virus scanners are unnecessary - as virus technology just won't work. Perfect uninstalls and verification by file checksums are possible, at least on some distributions. I have only ever reinstalled linux because of a dead disk - and probably won't need to do that again thanks to raid-1. I consider my files to be sensitive data, not most of them but at least some of them. The purpose of selinux is to give another level of protection so a security-enhanced system is always a good thing. :-) https://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) I agree. Sure, nothing wrong with that. But it seems to me that the problem must be with SELinux in this case. Once installed, LyX doesn't need special privileges. It needs access to the display, the printers, temp directories, latex, a great variety of fonts, viewers and images conversion programs. SELinux should not deny any of this - it is all "normal end-user activities". Helge Hafting
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi Abdel, If you mean without the mouse, yes, it's possible: Alt-i c optional step: type the first letter to speedup this operation. Down arrow until your desired citation is selected. Enter Enter. thanks for your answer but this is not what I meant 'cause this is they way I do it right now but this still take some time: in the German version of I have to type Alt-e z Alt-s (to focus the search field) Ctrl-v (to insert the BibTeX-Key, arrows are not an option because there are almost 300 entries in the database) Alt-V (to search for the item) Enter Enter since there are approximately ~10 citations per page this just gets annoying... I was thinking of something analog to the way of inserting a footnote: mark the text press Alt-e f and the text is put in a footnote.. I see, unfortunately, there is no such thing. Please put an enhancement request in bugzilla. The good news is that it will be a bit faster in 1.5 were the citation dialog has been redesigned with "search as type" feature. So you'll have at least 2 less operations: Alt-i c Alt-f (to focus the find field) Alt-v (to focus the "Available Citation" list) Enter Maybe we could also map the Enter key in the find field to avoid the Alt-v step. I'll see what I can do. Abdel.
Math alias
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
Thx
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Re: Math alias
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style
for variables:
\underset{\sim}{I}
\underset{\sim}{P_1}
What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
\fuzzy
And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
So? Can I?
\newcommand{\fuzzy}[1]{\underset{\sim}{#1}}
Select it and press Ctrl-m
You get a math macro (also documented in the documentation). You can
then use \fuzzy in your formulas.
Schimmi
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Re: Math alias
Thanx a lot Stefan... I was just looking in the wiki with words other
than "macro"... Of course, nothing showed up... :D
On 4/19/07, Stefan Schimanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment?
>
> I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style
> for variables:
> \underset{\sim}{I}
> \underset{\sim}{P_1}
>
> What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment):
> \fuzzy
>
> And that it shows an underset with wiggly line on the bottom.
>
> So? Can I?
\newcommand{\fuzzy}[1]{\underset{\sim}{#1}}
Select it and press Ctrl-m
You get a math macro (also documented in the documentation). You can
then use \fuzzy in your formulas.
Schimmi
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Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx and selinux
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: > If you are not using your machine for very sensitive work, I don't think > you need to use security-enhanced Linux. > Could you tell that to windows users who have malware and spyware? ;-) Even plain linux is already much safer than windows. From a practical, real-life perspective, I agree, but -please- let us skip this discussion! > (It would still be good if LyX worked well with SELinux) Sure, nothing wrong with that. But it seems to me that the problem must be with SELinux in this case. Se let's get back on topic... Didn't he report a missing font or something? /Christian PS. I still think that he as a normal user at this time won't need SELinux, but having the discussion and possibly file a bugzilla entry won't hurt. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
Nick Hopton wrote: After updating using this installer I now have problems with converting images. For example, when trying to use pdflatex to view the help document 'EmbeddedObjects.lyx' I get 'No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in preferences'. This also happens with documents of my own that contain images. Everything was working properly using the 09-04-2007 snapshot. The same problem occurs if I try to view a DVI. The update didn't screw up anything for me; I can view EmbeddedObjects.lyx as either DVI or PDF. Is the path to ImageMagick on Tools -> Preferences... -> Paths -> PATH prefix? /Paul
[Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, "Abdelrazak Younes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Lounsbury wrote: > >> Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the >> same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying "qt >> 4 library not found !". > > Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? > In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk > directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? > Hopefully someone will solve the problem. > > Thanks a lot for your effort, > Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Tobias Krause wrote: > usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete > BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the > citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type "citation-insert " and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type "citation-insert " and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. thank! Exactly what I was looking for (still one key stroke would be better but this is already great!). That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? No, I can not use the lyxpipe for two reasons: I got the keys in freemind and freemind does not support pushing - there would be workarounds with small and quickly programmed things but I guess WinVista (which I have to use for some other reasons) is not the perfect environment to use the lyxpipe... Regards, Toby
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely "insert" it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like "insert from clipboard", which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type "citation-insert " and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I had the exact same question as Tobias'. > > In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication > between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or > not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the > JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system > clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely "insert" it to the LyX. > > Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the > citation insertion dialog, something like "insert from clipboard", > which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it > to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered > by the LyX team. > > Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same > purpose nicely. > > Thanks, > > James > > Richard Heck wrote: >> Tobias Krause wrote: >>> usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete >>> BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the >>> citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? >> Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus >> it, type "citation-insert " and then paste the key. But the next time, >> you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the >> key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something >> else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than >> what you're doing. >> >> That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from >> somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on >> a system that doesn't do that? >> >> Richard >> -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: [Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, "Abdelrazak Younes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying "qt 4 library not found !". Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? Hopefully someone will solve the problem. Thanks a lot for your effort, Abdel. This message was after ./configure. Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from source with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I just want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly compiling Qt. However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with Qt4.3.0 then I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further suggestions? Bob I've compiled QT4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn without problems a few days ago on a (PPC) mac. pdv
Re: [Qt4.3 with LyX1.5.0 on mac] was {Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents}
On 4/19/07 11:53 AM, "Patrick De Visschere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > >> On 4/19/07 1:53 AM, "Abdelrazak Younes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Bob Lounsbury wrote: >>> Well, after hours and hours and hours of compiling it seems I've come to the same result as Bennett. When compiling LyX1.5.0svn I get an error saying "qt 4 library not found !". >>> >>> Is it after './autogen.sh' or after './configure'? >>> In any case, I guess there should be some log file in the trunk >>> directory. Could you please send that log(s) to the devel list? >>> Hopefully someone will solve the problem. >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your effort, >>> Abdel. >> >> This message was after ./configure. >> >> Just for shits and giggles I'm compiling Qt4.3.0 and Qt4.2.3 from >> source >> with the same commands to see if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with either of >> these. I know there is a precompiled Qt4.2.3 package for mac, but I >> just >> want to see if I can make it work myself from source. If I can't >> compile >> LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 then I'll assume that I am not properly >> compiling Qt. >> However, if I can compile LyX1.5.0 with Qt4.2.3 but not with >> Qt4.3.0 then >> I'll assume there is potentially an LyX issue. Any further >> suggestions? >> >> Bob >> >> > I've compiled QT4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn without problems a few days ago > on a (PPC) mac. > pdv If you don't mind. What were your ./configure commands for both Qt4.2.3 and LyX1.5.0svn? Bob
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Hi Richard, I know of the discussion---actually I raised that question recently. But using a third helper utility to bridge Lyx and a bib management app is one thing, having a quick way (what Tobias said "one-key-stroke") to insert citations from clipboard is another. I think "insert-citation-in-one-key-stroke" method would be a very useful, general feature, no matter what OS you are in. Thanks for providing the command buffer method. I tried it. It works well. I am thinking if LyX could have a command "citation-insert-from-clipboard", where you don't need to append literally the citation key list, it also would be great. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. Richard Yu, James wrote: Hi Richard, I had the exact same question as Tobias'. In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely "insert" it to the LyX. Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the citation insertion dialog, something like "insert from clipboard", which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered by the LyX team. Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same purpose nicely. Thanks, James Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type "citation-insert " and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard
Re: Fast way to insert citations?
Yes, I can see that. Can you add a bugzilla request? I take it the idea would be to have a really, really simple dialog: You enter the key, period. Maybe we could also allow entering the before, after, etc. But mostly it'd be for quick entries of the key. This would not be hard to do. The Model-View-Controller framework sees to that. rh Yu, James wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I know of the discussion---actually I raised that question recently. > But using a third helper utility to bridge Lyx and a bib management > app is one thing, having a quick way (what Tobias said > "one-key-stroke") to insert citations from clipboard is another. > > I think "insert-citation-in-one-key-stroke" method would be a very > useful, general feature, no matter what OS you are in. > > Thanks for providing the command buffer method. I tried it. It works > well. I am thinking if LyX could have a command > "citation-insert-from-clipboard", where you don't need to append > literally the citation key list, it also would be great. > > Thanks, > > James > > > > Richard Heck wrote: >> It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get >> reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that >> have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel >> list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I >> don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. >> >> Richard >> >> Yu, James wrote: >>> Hi Richard, >>> >>> I had the exact same question as Tobias'. >>> >>> In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication >>> between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or >>> not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the >>> JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system >>> clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely "insert" it to the LyX. >>> >>> Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the >>> citation insertion dialog, something like "insert from clipboard", >>> which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it >>> to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered >>> by the LyX team. >>> >>> Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same >>> purpose nicely. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> James >>> >>> Richard Heck wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: > usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete > BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the > citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus it, type "citation-insert " and then paste the key. But the next time, you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight the key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than what you're doing. That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it from somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, sadly, on a system that doesn't do that? Richard >> >> -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
