export-- pdf
Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the version 1.5.1. I am aware of two ways to get the pdf right now: - using the preview option and then save the file directly from the pdf-viewer. - or get it from the (changeable) temporay directory but both seem to me a little bit of a work around. When I try it the old way File Export Custom I get a lot of possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software, Helmut PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora). -- Helmut Hauser Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences Technische Universitaet Graz Inffeldgasse 16b, I A-8010 Graz, Austria --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: + 43 316 873-5821 Fax: + 43 316 873-5805 http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/
Re: export-- pdf
On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the When I try it the old way File Export Custom I get a lot of possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button. Any suggestions? What about File Export PDF (pdflatex) or File Export PDF (ps2pdf) ? Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software, Helmut PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora). -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
Re: export-- pdf
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the When I try it the old way File Export Custom I get a lot of possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button. Any suggestions? What about File Export PDF (pdflatex) or File Export PDF (ps2pdf) ? Hi John, Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are offered to me: CKJ (1.4.x) (big5) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr) latex (pdf) latex (plain) LyX 1.3.x LyX 1.4.x Plain Text Plain Text (ps2ascii) Custom How can I change that? - helmut Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software, Helmut PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora). -- Helmut Hauser Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences Technische Universitaet Graz Inffeldgasse 16b, I A-8010 Graz, Austria --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: + 43 316 873-5821 Fax: + 43 316 873-5805 http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/
Re: export-- pdf
On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the snip Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are offered to me: CKJ (1.4.x) (big5) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr) latex (pdf) latex (plain) LyX 1.3.x LyX 1.4.x Plain Text Plain Text (ps2ascii) Custom I'd try doing Tools Reconfigure. If that doesn't work, see if latex and pdflatex are still installed (e.g. try running latex or pdflatex from a terminal) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
Re: export-- pdf
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the snip Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are offered to me: CKJ (1.4.x) (big5) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr) latex (pdf) latex (plain) LyX 1.3.x LyX 1.4.x Plain Text Plain Text (ps2ascii) Custom I'd try doing Tools Reconfigure. I had already tried that before posting my question. No difference. If that doesn't work, see if latex and pdflatex are still installed (e.g. try running latex or pdflatex from a terminal) Yes they are installed and work well. - helmut -- Helmut Hauser Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences Technische Universitaet Graz Inffeldgasse 16b, I A-8010 Graz, Austria --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: + 43 316 873-5821 Fax: + 43 316 873-5805 http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. I read the TOC at that site. Seems like a good book for the intended audience. Perhaps a link on the lyx wiki site would be appropriate? There is a page for suggested reading there, and your book documents LyX usage. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SuggestedReading Helge Hafting
Re: export-- pdf
Hauser Helmut wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the version 1.5.1. I am aware of two ways to get the pdf right now: - using the preview option and then save the file directly from the pdf-viewer. - or get it from the (changeable) temporay directory but both seem to me a little bit of a work around. Indeed. Now, things can go wrong with the LytX setup, but I am surprised that you have view-PDF but no export-PDF. I believed that these entries were tied to each other - enabled or disabled at the same time. Have you ever attempted to customize the menus of your LyX? Old settings from a previous LyX might confuse the new version. Try moving the LyX user directory ( .lyx/ on a linux system, don't know on others) to a different name. LyX will then create a new such directory, and you still have the old one in case you have something important there. See if this fixes the menus. Helge Hafting
installation problem (Win XP)
Hi, I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All is very easy, thanks a lot. But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears: Debug log TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed What does that mean and what should I do?? Please, note I'm not at all a geek! Thanks for your help Sara
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Err, download from where? I think any good book on self-publishing would be useful for the LyX community and is likely to extend its use. Also I can easily see transfering from Word or OpenOffice to LyX for final publishing even if most or all of the writing has been done in a wp. I am tending to stick poorly laidout Word reports into LyX just to get a decent readable document for personal use. --- Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Cheers, Alan Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file
Hi! I had to reinstall lyx a few days ago and ever since it crashes whenever I go to File--New with the following error message: /lyx: Disabling LyX socket. Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class std::basic_stringchar,struct std::char_traitschar,class std::allocatorchar ) by failing check empty() || absolutePath(name_) in file D:\LyX\lyx-1.5.1\src\support\FileName.cpp:47 This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. Completed/ I don't know if it's relevant but the path D:\Lyx is totally non-existent and unless the installer used it at some point I'd say it never existed at all. Any help on how to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated, Michael
Re: Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file
Michael Clerx schrieb: I had to reinstall lyx a few days ago and ever since it crashes whenever I go to File--New with the following error message: /lyx: Disabling LyX socket. Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class std::basic_stringchar,struct std::char_traitschar,class std::allocatorchar ) by failing check empty() || absolutePath(name_) in file D:\LyX\lyx-1.5.1\src\support\FileName.cpp:47 ... I don't know if it's relevant but the path D:\Lyx is totally non-existent and unless the installer used it at some point I'd say it never existed at all. This is only the degug message path: LyX was compiled on a computer using the path D:\LyX. Any help on how to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated, It seems that soemthing is misconfigured. For a quick solution, uninstall LyX completely and try to reinstall using this installer: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.1/LyX-1.5.1-3-18-AltInstaller-Small.exe If this also don't work, uninstall LyX again completely, uninstall also MiKTeX _completely_, uninstall Aspell, reboot, reinstall LyX using this installer: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.1/LyX-1.5.1-3-18-AltInstaller-Complete.exe I hope it helps. regards Uwe
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Rather than advising to add page headings using ERT, why not add to the document preamble?
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts.
Re: ftp 3rd day down
Robert Poser wrote: mhh, ftp is still down (3rd day) ... any new information about rearrivel? It seems to be up again now. Jürgen
AMS 2000 Classification
Hello, I use LyX 1.4.3-5 in XP. I use article(ams) document class. In the scroll-down menu there is a 'subjectclass', which produces the '1991 MSC' instead of 'MSC2000'. What could I do if I do not want to type by hand the MSC2000? Thanks, Sandor
Prosper y Lyx
Hello, I need to make presentations or transparencies with the Prosper in Lyx, I download the examples and the package of it page it of Lyx wiki but they don't work. Has somebody implemented slides with the package Prosper? thanks Alguien Ha trabajado con el paquete Prosper en Lyx , porfavor si alguien sabe como hacerlo denme un ejemplo gracias
Re: installation problem (Win XP)
sara teinturier schrieb: I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All is very easy, thanks a lot. But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears: Debug log TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed Does this workaraound help?: Delete the files textclass.lst and packages.lst in the folder ~:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX1.5.x and restart LyX. regards Uwe
Re: Prosper y Lyx
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:03:04 Jorge Mario wrote: Hello, I need to make presentations or transparencies with the Prosper in Lyx, I download the examples and the package of it page it of Lyx wiki but they don't work. Has somebody implemented slides with the package Prosper? thanks Unless you really need to use prosper I would like to suggest beamer. That works with LyX. :-) Alguien Ha trabajado con el paquete Prosper en Lyx , porfavor si alguien sabe como hacerlo denme un ejemplo Well I did long time ago but I already forgot the details. :-) gracias De nada. :-) -- José Abílio
Re: export-- pdf
Helge Hafting wrote: Hauser Helmut wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the version 1.5.1. I am aware of two ways to get the pdf right now: - using the preview option and then save the file directly from the pdf-viewer. - or get it from the (changeable) temporay directory but both seem to me a little bit of a work around. Indeed. Now, things can go wrong with the LytX setup, but I am surprised that you have view-PDF but no export-PDF. I believed that these entries were tied to each other - enabled or disabled at the same time. Have you ever attempted to customize the menus of your LyX? Old settings from a previous LyX might confuse the new version. I had exactly this problem. Editing ~/.lyx/preferences and removing the PDF customization lines solved it. 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: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 08:33, Neal Becker wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts. PDF looked fine with my Acroread program on Mandriva 2007 Linux. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: AMS 2000 Classification
Sandor Szabo wrote: Hello, I use LyX 1.4.3-5 in XP. I use article(ams) document class. In the scroll-down menu there is a 'subjectclass', which produces the '1991 MSC' instead of 'MSC2000'. What could I do if I do not want to type by hand the MSC2000? Thanks, Sandor Go to lyx/Resources/layouts, find amsdefs.inc, and copy it to your home/layouts directory. (If you don't know where home is on your system, look at Help - About LyX - Version; it will show your user directory, which is the parent of the layouts directory we want.) Now open the copy in a text editor, search for 1991 (it will be in Style Subjectclass), change it to 2000, save and exit, and restart LyX. /Paul
Re: AMS 2000 Classification
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Go to lyx/Resources/layouts, find amsdefs.inc, and copy it to your home/layouts directory. (If you don't know where home is on your system, look at Help - About LyX - Version; it will show your user directory, which is the parent of the layouts directory we want.) Now open the copy in a text editor, search for 1991 (it will be in Style Subjectclass), change it to 2000, save and exit, and restart LyX. Sorry, but this will not work. That will only change the label within LyX. You need to change the LaTeX code to \subjclass[2000] to get the change to appear on the output. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: AMS 2000 Classification
David L. Johnson wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Go to lyx/Resources/layouts, find amsdefs.inc, and copy it to your home/layouts directory. (If you don't know where home is on your system, look at Help - About LyX - Version; it will show your user directory, which is the parent of the layouts directory we want.) Now open the copy in a text editor, search for 1991 (it will be in Style Subjectclass), change it to 2000, save and exit, and restart LyX. Sorry, but this will not work. That will only change the label within LyX. You need to change the LaTeX code to \subjclass[2000] to get the change to appear on the output. Arrgh! Can't believe I missed that! In the line above the one I changed (LatexName), change subjclass to subjclass[2000] and it seems to work. I'll post the updated amsdefs.inc file to the Wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS) momentarily. /Paul
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 00:17, Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Cheers, Alan Excellent book Alan. I like the way you make a beautifully typeset book, describing LyX, using LyX. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for giving your opinion that the frontmatter should be freelanced rather than styled. I also liked the way you didn't make a big deal out of it not being WYSIWYG or call it WYGIWYM or whatever, and in fact praised its wordprocessor like qualities. If it weren't for those wordprocessor like qualities, I'd just use LaTeX directly. I liked your description of where NOT to use LyX (the cover, newsletters and the like). This all too important topic is often left out in a rush to evangelize LyX. I liked the way you described various things you can do from the LyX menus -- things I've been doing in ERT all these years because I didn't know they existed directly from LyX. Your book makes LyX very approachable for the newbie. There's just one little thing... warning type=Litts usual diatribe The one thing you left out is what the self-publisher does when he needs a style that doesn't exist. The little boxes, in every tech book, that start with Note:, Tip:, Warning:, Caution:, or a custom title. I don't think there's a document class anywhere that includes these. Or maybe you have a special short phrase you want typeset a certain way -- maybe its your trademark product or whatever. Obviously this is beyond the scope of your book, and beyond the current technical knowledge of your reader, and it would scare the Dickens out of your reader. But shouldn't the reader at least know this issue will surface, before he's half way through a book and can't create a Tip box? Perhaps you could include a chapter on how to make and integrate a very basic paragraph style, and a very basic character style -- maybe even have it pasteable. Then tell the reader he can style it in this basic way for now, and then either he or a more LyXically proficient person can adjust it to what the intended appearance later on. If you do it right it wouldn't be too complex or too scary for the reader. On the same note, I don't remember seeing a lot about the LyX-Users mailing list. The prospective self-publisher should know this resource exists. I'm lucky Dekl Tsur was on the mailing list in 2001. Without Dekl Tsur's color text workaround for character styles (before true LyX character styles existed), I would have had to abandon LyX at the beginning of my first book. But because Dekl was on the mailing list and told me how to do it, I was able to complete my first book. /warning In summary, it's a good book, and it's obvious upon reading that it's written by a guy who's been in the trenches, and it can be even better if very basic style customization is addressed. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Indented paragraph in description list.
Returning to this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=lyx-usersm=116026623917165w=2
which concerns the creation of a multi-paragraph description list, the recipe
works, but the new paragraph is not indented inside the description.
Now, in LaTeX2e, you can set the length of \listparindent to 1\parindent, or
something else, but you have to set it inside the list_decl field of the list
environment.
Is there no way I can set a paragraph indentation inside a list in LyX? I
even tried to issue the command
\setlength{\listpartindent}{1\parindent}
or
\setlength{\listpartindent}{0.5cm}
on the preamble, but it was solemnly ignored by LyX...
Thanks.
--
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741
Re: Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file
Thanks for the quick response! I get the exact same error though (as well as the 'textclass not found' one)
[solved] Re: installation problem (Win XP)
Wonderful, it works now. Thanks a lot for your help and for LyX which is really great... Regards, Sara Uwe Stöhr a écrit : sara teinturier schrieb: I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All is very easy, thanks a lot. But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears: Debug log TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed Does this workaraound help?: Delete the files textclass.lst and packages.lst in the folder ~:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX1.5.x and restart LyX. regards Uwe
Error in MiKTeX package manager
I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what the cause would be. MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp Line: 712 MiKTeX: 2.6 OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) SystemAdmin: yes PowerUser: yes SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager
Dave Hewitt wrote: I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what the cause would be. MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp Line: 712 MiKTeX: 2.6 OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) SystemAdmin: yes PowerUser: yes SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Could be a transient error. See http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/f6c01b1b1df5cf3c for one possible explanation. If you run the MikTeX Settings application and click Refresh FNDB, does the same thing happen, or does it work ok? Have you retried the package installation? /Paul
Re: Mac Shut-down Bug
I'm having trouble posting the crash log for this error. Is there a specific portion that I should focus on an post? Mike On Aug 28, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Aug 28, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: No, the problem comes when I try to quit LyX. The application itself will not shut down and becomes unresponsive and requires me to force quit. During this unresponsive period, my system monitor shows that lyx is using 55% of the CPU during this time... this is unrelated to a computer log out or shut down. I haven't seen this with 1.5.x. Are there more details you can find? (When this happens, is there anything that appears in console.log?) Bennett
Re: Mac Shut-down Bug
On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: I'm having trouble posting the crash log for this error. Is there a specific portion that I should focus on an post? It came through for me. It's the same thing repeated many times, though I'm not competent to make sense of it. (Anyone else?) Here's the relevant bit: Host Name: michael-andersons-computer Date/Time: 2007-08-28 14:32:41.506 -0700 OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2218) Report Version: 4 Command: lyx Path:/Applications/TeX/Lyx/1.5/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx Parent: WindowServer [64] Version: 1.5.0 (???) PID:3834 Thread: 0 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xeadc Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90b2ef65 std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar ::_Rep::_M_grab(std::allocatorchar const, std::allocatorchar const) + 9 1 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90b302fe std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar ::basic_string[in-charge](std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar const) + 86 2 org.lyx.lyx 0x000edf89 0x1000 + 970633 3 org.lyx.lyx 0x007fe597 std::_Rb_treelyx::support::FileName, std::pairlyx::support::FileName const, boost::shared_ptrlyx::graphics::CacheItem , std::_Select1ststd::pairlyx::support::FileName const, boost::shared_ptrlyx::graphics::CacheItem , std::lesslyx::support::FileName, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::support::FileName const, boost::shared_ptrlyx::graphics::CacheItem ::find (lyx::support::FileName const) + 47 4 org.lyx.lyx 0x00258699 0x1000 + 2455193 5 org.lyx.lyx 0x00257c36 0x1000 + 2452534 6 org.lyx.lyx 0x00257e0c 0x1000 + 2453004 7 org.lyx.lyx 0x007fe296 void boost::checked_deletelyx::graphics::Loader::Impl (lyx::graphics::Loader::Impl*) + 22 8 org.lyx.lyx 0x007e549b boost::detail::function::void_function_obj_invoker0boost::_bi::bind_tl yx::Buffer const* const, boost::_mfi::cmf1lyx::Buffer const* const, lyx::LyX, lyx::Inset const*, boost::_bi::list2boost::reference_wrapperlyx::LyX const, boost::_bi::valuelyx::Inset const* , void::invoke (boost::detail::function::function_buffer) + 71 9 org.lyx.lyx 0x001615a6 0x1000 + 1443238 10 org.lyx.lyx 0x00050abc 0x1000 + 326332 11 org.lyx.lyx 0x0073e3dd std::_List_baselyx::Paragraph, std::allocatorlyx::Paragraph ::_M_clear() + 49 12 org.lyx.lyx 0x0073e467 std::_List_baselyx::Paragraph, std::allocatorlyx::Paragraph ::~_List_base [not-in-charge]() + 19 13 org.lyx.lyx 0x0075cf42 void std::_Destroystd::_Deque_iteratorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long*, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long (std::_Deque_iteratorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long*, std::_Deque_iteratorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long*, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long ) + 26 14 org.lyx.lyx 0x0075d59e std::dequestd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long ::~deque [in-charge]() + 102 15 org.lyx.lyx 0x3245 0x1000 + 8773 16 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900103e1 __cxa_finalize + 226 17 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900102e8 exit + 24 18 org.lyx.lyx 0x2e32 0x1000 + 7730 19 org.lyx.lyx 0x2d51 0x1000 + 7505 Thread 1: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90009cd7 mach_msg_trap + 7 1 com.unsanity.ape0xc0001db2 __ape_agent + 307 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 2: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9001a1cc select + 12 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 3: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90026d5c kevent + 12 1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cb8c6c PrivateMPEntryPoint + 51 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 4: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900248c7 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 7 1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cb8e11 MPWaitOnQueue + 198 2 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x92712953 TNodeSyncTask::SyncTaskProc(void*) + 143 3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cb8c6c PrivateMPEntryPoint + 51 4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 0
Re: Indented paragraph in description list.
On 8/29/07, Rudi Gaelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Returning to this thread: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-usersm=116026623917165w=2 which concerns the creation of a multi-paragraph description list, the recipe works, but the new paragraph is not indented inside the description. It seems to me you are working too hard. Just use the LyX tools. If you type a standard paragraph after a description, and then increase the depth of that environment, the you DO get the kind of multiparagraph environment you are looking for. That is, you get TERM Sentence Indented paragraph Indented paragrraph NEWTERM Some sentence Intented paragraph. If you don't want blank space ahead of each new paragraph, use a control-return instead of a return between each. Lyx document attached. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas descriptions.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Indented paragraph in description list.
Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
Returning to this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=lyx-usersm=116026623917165w=2
which concerns the creation of a multi-paragraph description list, the recipe
works, but the new paragraph is not indented inside the description.
Now, in LaTeX2e, you can set the length of \listparindent to 1\parindent, or
something else, but you have to set it inside the list_decl field of the list
environment.
Is there no way I can set a paragraph indentation inside a list in LyX? I
even tried to issue the command
\setlength{\listpartindent}{1\parindent}
or
\setlength{\listpartindent}{0.5cm}
on the preamble, but it was solemnly ignored by LyX...
Thanks.
Inelegant but seems to work:
* Add to the preamble
\newlength{\lpinx}
\setlength{\lpinx}{1\parindent}
\newcommand{\lpin}{\hspace*{\lpinx}}
(change names and length to taste).
* At the start of the indented items, add \lpin (including the trailing
space, of course) in ERT.
For a more aesthetically pleasing solution, I think you would need
either to redefine the itemize environment or create your own (and then
add you new environment to the layout file). Specification of a value
for \listparindent has to be done in an argument to the begin command
for the list environment, which is why LaTeX turned its nose up at your
attempts. (But at least it did so solemnly.)
/Paul
Error in MiKTeX package manager
Paul et al., It was apparently a transient error, as you suggested. It worked the next time around, with a caveat. The caveat is that it gave me a timeout was reached error at one point and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS window came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not come up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical? I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name as options in LyX. So buried in here is a further question about adding classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me (I'm new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days ago). Once a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to do, besides Reconfigure LyX? Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help, Dave
Re: Exporting
I just tried export to OpenDocument format with the new LyX and have some advice that may help. Run LyX from a terminal window. That way, you can watch the error messages. emitted by the programs that do the translation. For me, the first export to ODT frailed--tex4ht crashed because it could not find a font. WHen I went to LyX document-settings and changed the default font, then the export to ODT did work. If you just run lyx from a menu, you don't see the error messages. If you run it from a terminal, you see stuff like this: --- error --- Can't find/open file `ecbx1000.tfm' t4ht.c (2006-09-13-14:28 kpathsea) t4ht -f/descriptions.tex -coo (/usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/base/unix/tex4ht.env) Entering descriptions.lg Error: Cannot view file File does not exist: /tmp/lyx_tmpdir9646cneuJa/lyx_tmpbuf0/descriptions.odt Apparently I lack whatever package has the ecbx fonts, so it dies. But If I change the font to TimesRoman, then it does work. But you don't see these errors unless you run LyX from a Terminal. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager
Dave Hewitt wrote:
The caveat is that it gave me a timeout was reached error at one point
and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS
window came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then
disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document
classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not
come up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical?
After the packages have been downloaded and unpacked, MikTeX has to
refresh its file name database (which is how it knows where to find all
those packages when you want to use them). Additionally, if the
packages install new fonts, it has to do some LaTeX magic to record the
font metrics or some such. As to whether it's critical that the
post-download installation stuff runs, only if you want to use the
packages. :-)
Try running MikTeX's Settings application, and in the general tab click
Refresh FNDB and, when that's done, Update Formats (may or may not
be necessary, but can't hurt). This is the stuff the package installer
does automatically at the end of an installation, but you can always do
it here (and will have to if you install a LaTeX package from a source
other than a MikTeX repository).
I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for
articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name
as options in LyX.
You wouldn't even if the installation went smoothly. In order to use a
document class in LyX, you need two things: the LaTeX package, properly
installed; and a layout file (which tells LyX what stuff goes in a
document of that class, and how to lay it out on-screen). Help -
Customization chapter 5 goes into the sordid details, but the usual
approach is to copy a layout file from an existing class that's similar
to yours, paste it into your local layouts directory with a new name,
edit it a bit, reconfigure LyX (Tools - Reconfigure), restart LyX and
hope for the best. (Sacrificing a small furry animal, such as a
wolverine, might help, though I wouldn't advertise that to PETA.)
The layouts that come with LyX are installed at
lyxroot/Resources/layouts. When in doubt, article.layout (for the
basic article class) is usually a good layout to start from. Customized
layouts can be stored in home/layouts, where home is your home
directory (helpfully listed under user directory in Help - About LyX).
LyX expects the name of the layout file to match the name of the
document class file, so if you installed 'nrc.cls' then you'll want to
create 'nrc.layout'. In the second line of the layout file, you'll see
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{whatever}
-- change whatever is inside the braces to the language you want to see
in the drop-down list of classes (e.g., article (NRC)). That should
get you started. Further changes will be necessary to add some
specialized feature of the NRC class that you really need (such as a
special environment for cursing out reviewers) or to get rid of some
environment that doesn't exist in the NRC class (so that you don't
accidentally select it and have to sift through LaTeX error messages).
So buried in here is a further question about adding
classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me
(I'm new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days
ago). Once a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to
do, besides Reconfigure LyX?
Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help,
Dave
/Paul
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Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:16:37 -0400 (EDT)
John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Err, download from where?
sorry, I see that my original post wasn't entirely clear. You can
download from the Lulu.com site.
Alan
I think any good book on self-publishing would be
useful for the LyX community and is likely to extend
its use.
Also I can easily see transfering from Word or
OpenOffice to LyX for final publishing even if most or
all of the writing has been done in a wp.
I am tending to stick poorly laidout Word reports into
LyX just to get a decent readable document for
personal use.
--- Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a
free download or as a
USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870
Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it.
It is directed at
people who want to self-publish and are probably
using Word or
OpenOffice.
But, any feedback appreciated.
Cheers,
Alan
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Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:33:28 -0400 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts. Arrgghhh!! What viewer are you using and on what system? I checked it out fairly carefully with xpdf and Acroread on Debian Etch. The printed version looks good. What do I do to improve it? Thanks, Alan
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:40:24 -0400 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Rather than advising to add page headings using ERT, why not add to the document preamble? Because that give headings and folios in all of the frontmatter.
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Typhoon wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:33:28 -0400
Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or
as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870
Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed
at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or
OpenOffice.
But, any feedback appreciated.
Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts.
Arrgghhh!! What viewer are you using and on what system? I checked it
out fairly carefully with xpdf and Acroread on Debian Etch. The printed
version looks good.
What do I do to improve it?
Thanks,
Alan
I used kpdf.
What I always do is
\usepackage{lmodern}
or
\usepackage(cmlgc}
This should give type1 versions of all the cm fonts to be used, assuming you
have cmlgc or lmodern properly installed.
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:04:03AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:33:28 -0400 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts. Arrgghhh!! What viewer are you using and on what system? I checked it out fairly carefully with xpdf and Acroread on Debian Etch. The printed version looks good. What do I do to improve it? Unrelated 'problem': Do I really have to sign up there? Andre'
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:12:29 +0200 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:04:03AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:33:28 -0400 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts. Arrgghhh!! What viewer are you using and on what system? I checked it out fairly carefully with xpdf and Acroread on Debian Etch. The printed version looks good. What do I do to improve it? Unrelated 'problem': Do I really have to sign up there? Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Andre'
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Typhoon wrote: Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Thanks for that. The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too nicely. I guess it suffers from the same font problem that others have mentioned. Regards, Walter
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:09 +0200 Walter van Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typhoon wrote: Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Thanks for that. The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too nicely. I guess it suffers from the same font problem that others have mentioned. That is very disappointing. I hesitate to fool around with the fonts since Lulu can be very touchy with pdf files and the current settings print beautifully. I would appreciate some feedback on this issue from Windows users. Thanks, Alan Regards, Walter
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On 8/29/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PDF looked fine with my Acroread program on Mandriva 2007 Linux. Looks nice with Acrobat Reader, but not that nice with Kpdf. Paul
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:09 +0200
Walter van Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf
Thanks for that.
The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too nicely. I
guess it suffers from the same font problem that others have
mentioned.
I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier.
Could you, and others with problems, download it from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results?
Many thanks.
Alan
Regards,
Walter
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On 8/29/07, Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier.
Could you, and others with problems, download it from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results?
The new version looks perfect on Kpdf.
Congratulations, Alan, for your excellent book!
Paul
A source for document class layouts?
Many thanks to Paul Rubin for his recent help on document classes. But, as he probably suspected, my dilemna continues (me and the wolverine are both a bit worse for wear, but we'll live) and now I think it rises to a new level... There's many wonderful document classes out there, and new users are probably interested in trying them out in LyX, but the layout file is (as described) difficult to deal with. I spent an hour or so messing with NRC's classes and a couple others (using Paul's suggestions and the Customization Ch. 5), all to no avail. LyX fails to convert files with just a single line of text into any of the three I tried (from article). So, my question is: is there a repository somewhere of layout files that people have created to work with the various document classes? Dave Hewitt
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:29:01 +0100
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/29/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PDF looked fine with my Acroread program on Mandriva 2007 Linux.
Looks nice with Acrobat Reader, but not that nice with Kpdf.
Yes. I just installed Kpdf and it looks dreadful - even when compiled
with \usepackage{lmodern}.
Disappointing, but I don't know what to do about it. It looks fine to
me in other viewers.
Alan
Paul
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:36:17 +0100
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/29/07, Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier.
Could you, and others with problems, download it from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results?
The new version looks perfect on Kpdf.
That's weird. As I just posted at about the same time as you, it still
looks bad on my Debian Etch under Kpdf. I'm running Gnome, but I can't
imagine that this makes a difference.
Congratulations, Alan, for your excellent book!
Thanks, Paul.
Paul
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:52:55AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: Unrelated 'problem': Do I really have to sign up there? Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Thanks ;-) Andre'
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On 8/29/07, Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PDF looked fine with my Acroread program on Mandriva 2007 Linux.
Looks nice with Acrobat Reader, but not that nice with Kpdf.
Yes. I just installed Kpdf and it looks dreadful - even when compiled
with \usepackage{lmodern}.
Disappointing, but I don't know what to do about it. It looks fine to
me in other viewers.
Compiled with
\usepackage{lmodern}
looks great on Kpdf, but not that great on Acrobat Reader.
Compiled without
\usepackage{lmodern}
looks great on Acrobat Reader, but not that great on Kpdf.
Paul
Re: A source for document class layouts?
Dave Hewitt wrote: Many thanks to Paul Rubin for his recent help on document classes. But, as he probably suspected, my dilemna continues (me and the wolverine are both a bit worse for wear, but we'll live) and now I think it rises to a new level... There's many wonderful document classes out there, and new users are probably interested in trying them out in LyX, but the layout file is (as described) difficult to deal with. I spent an hour or so messing with NRC's classes and a couple others (using Paul's suggestions and the Customization Ch. 5), all to no avail. LyX fails to convert files with just a single line of text into any of the three I tried (from article). Post the layout file or files. What kinds of error messages are you getting? So, my question is: is there a repository somewhere of layout files that people have created to work with the various document classes? Other than /usr/share/lyx/layouts/? Seriously, I think there are some on the wiki somewhere, but this remains one of the biggest issues with LyX. Some kind of layout editor would be really nice to have, and I think some of Helge's students started one in Java. And some of us have thought about it from time to time. It really wouldn't be that hard, if you know some C++. I'd do it, but I have other targets at the moment (not to mention a dayjob). 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: A source for document class layouts?
Dave Hewitt wrote: Many thanks to Paul Rubin for his recent help on document classes. No sweat -- it was either this or do actual work. :-) But, as he probably suspected, my dilemna continues (me and the wolverine are both a bit worse for wear, but we'll live) Good in your case, undesirable w.r.t. the weasels. and now I think it rises to a new level... There's many wonderful document classes out there, and new users are probably interested in trying them out in LyX, but the layout file is (as described) difficult to deal with. I spent an hour or so messing with NRC's classes and a couple others (using Paul's suggestions and the Customization Ch. 5), all to no avail. LyX fails to convert files with just a single line of text into any of the three I tried (from article). So, my question is: is there a repository somewhere of layout files that people have created to work with the various document classes? Someone (Christian?) started a page on the wiki for contributed layouts (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts). People who create or modify layouts are invited to contribute them there. As you'll see upon visiting, so far there have not been very many contributions, and in particular none that strike me as matching your class. When you say LyX fails to convert files, what error message or pathology do you get? I assume that it's displaying your hacked layouts in Document - Settings... - Document class. Also, you might want to verify that MikTeX did in fact install the class properly. An easy check is to open a DOS shell and run kpsewhich nrc1.cls kpsewhich nrc2.cls (those seem to be the names of the class files). It should give you the path to the class files. If not, the culprit is likely not the layout file. Be sure that the layout files have matching names (nrc1.layout, not nrc.layout). /Paul
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:30:08AM +1000, Typhoon wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:09 +0200
Walter van Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf
Thanks for that.
The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too nicely. I
guess it suffers from the same font problem that others have
mentioned.
I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier.
Could you, and others with problems, download it from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results?
Looks good in acroread and kpdf.
Andre'
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:12, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:04:03AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:33:28 -0400 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts. Arrgghhh!! What viewer are you using and on what system? I checked it out fairly carefully with xpdf and Acroread on Debian Etch. The printed version looks good. What do I do to improve it? Unrelated 'problem': Do I really have to sign up there? Yeah, one principle of sales is to make it easy for the customer, and given that this is a free download and given that the author will NOT be informed by LULU of who downloads (or buys for that matter), it might be a good idea to have the file downloadable elsewhere. StveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:45:55AM +1000, Typhoon wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:36:17 +0100
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/29/07, Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier.
Could you, and others with problems, download it from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results?
The new version looks perfect on Kpdf.
That's weird. As I just posted at about the same time as you, it still
looks bad on my Debian Etch under Kpdf. I'm running Gnome, but I can't
imagine that this makes a difference.
My kpdf runs on fvwm2, and your file looks good.
Andre'
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:48:19 +0100
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/29/07, Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PDF looked fine with my Acroread program on Mandriva 2007 Linux.
Looks nice with Acrobat Reader, but not that nice with Kpdf.
Yes. I just installed Kpdf and it looks dreadful - even when
compiled with \usepackage{lmodern}.
Disappointing, but I don't know what to do about it. It looks fine
to me in other viewers.
Compiled with
\usepackage{lmodern}
looks great on Kpdf, but not that great on Acrobat Reader.
Compiled without
\usepackage{lmodern}
looks great on Acrobat Reader, but not that great on Kpdf.
Arrgghhh (again)! I guess I'll just leave it for the time being.
Download the \usepackage{lmodern} from the
web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf site and the not\usepackage{lmodern} from
the Lulu site.
An interesting possibility here is to upload a postscript file to the
Lulu site. They will then convert using Adobe Distiller, and I suppose
the result should keep everyone happy.
Except that all the linkages would be lost.
Life is hard and cruel!
Cheers,
Alan
Paul
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:54:07 Andre Poenitz wrote: My kpdf runs on fvwm2, and your file looks good. I have kpdf under kde and the text looks perfect. :-) Andre' -- José Abílio
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Typhoon wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:09 +0200
Walter van Holst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf
Thanks for that.
The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too nicely. I
guess it suffers from the same font problem that others have
mentioned.
I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier.
Could you, and others with problems, download it from
http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results?
Many thanks.
Alan
This one (with lmodern) looks good here (kpdf). Fonts are now all type1 as
expected.
Re: Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file
I get the exact same error though (as well as the 'textclass not found' one) Hm, what happens when you open a console and then start LyX with the command lyx -dbg 3 Uwe
Re: A source for document class layouts?
I should have been more complete. Below I've tried to address both Paul and
Richard's most recent comments/queries.
Paul: Also, you might want to verify that MikTeX did in fact install the
class properly. An easy check is to open a DOS shell and run ... (those
seem to be the names of the class files). It should give you the path to
the class files. If not, the culprit is likely not the layout file. Be sure
that the layout files have matching names (nrc1.layout, not nrc.layout).
DONE. I can see that they're installed in the MiKTeX Package Manager and
find the pieces (tex, docs) in the MiKTeX latex directories (and the DOS
search finds them). That's how I figured out what the .cls files were named
(and .sty in this case). I also read the Readme files for the packages.
Richard: Post the layout file or files. What kinds of error messages are
you getting?
Paul: When you say LyX fails to convert files, what error message or
pathology do you get? I assume that it's displaying your hacked layouts in
Document - Settings... - Document class.
I copied article.layout from the LyX\Resources\layouts directory and
renamed it nrc1.layout, then I pasted it into my user layout directory.
Following along with Customization - Ch. 5, I altered the second line in
the file this way:
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[nrc1,nrc1.sty]{article (nrc1)}
(the nrc package comes with nrc1.cls, nrc1.sty, nrc2.cls, nrc2.sty, plus a
bunch of other files including a PDF user's guide, which probably means
something to people that know LaTeX)
I also tried simply:
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (nrc1)}
I also tried adding various combinations of package names into the brackets
of example 1 (as I sort of deduced the User's Guide was telling me to do),
but unsurprisingly they didn't work either.
I added some Preamble code to the file on one attempt as per the UG, but
that didn't help (and I really had no clue what I was doing anyway).
In no attempt did I alter anything else down in the file.
Either way, YES, the document class shows up in the LyX drop-down, but when
I choose it, LyX generates an error window with a red 'X' on it and a
warning that says The document could not be converted into the document
class nrc1 -- I click OK and it reverts to article in the drop-down.
This is what happened with two other classes I tried as well.
Dave
qt4 dir?
I never get that --with-qt4-dir= right. I have compiled and installed qt-mac-opensource-src-4.3.1 with prefex=~/lib - so what --with-qt4-dir does lyx want? This problem have annoyed my time and time again both on Debian and now on Mac. Martin
Re: A source for document class layouts?
Dave Hewitt wrote:
I copied article.layout from the LyX\Resources\layouts directory and
renamed it nrc1.layout, then I pasted it into my user layout
directory. Following along with Customization - Ch. 5, I altered the
second line in the file this way:
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[nrc1,nrc1.sty]{article (nrc1)}
(the nrc package comes with nrc1.cls, nrc1.sty, nrc2.cls, nrc2.sty, plus
a bunch of other files including a PDF user's guide, which probably
means something to people that know LaTeX)
The PDF manual is actually quite well written, but oddly enough it gives
no clue what nrc1.sty and nrc2.sty would be used for. Maybe you can use
article.cls and load nrc1.sty as a package?? Anyway, you'll want to use
nrc1.cls (one column) or nrc2.cls (two column). So the optional
arguments (inside the brackets) above are almost surely wrong.
I also tried simply:
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (nrc1)}
This is the way to go (and works for me).
I also tried adding various combinations of package names into the
brackets of example 1 (as I sort of deduced the User's Guide was telling
me to do), but unsurprisingly they didn't work either.
I added some Preamble code to the file on one attempt as per the UG, but
that didn't help (and I really had no clue what I was doing anyway).
Probably a good idea to delete that, then.
In no attempt did I alter anything else down in the file.
Either way, YES, the document class shows up in the LyX drop-down, but
when I choose it, LyX generates an error window with a red 'X' on it and
a warning that says The document could not be converted into the
document class nrc1 -- I click OK and it reverts to article in the
drop-down. This is what happened with two other classes I tried as well.
This happens when you create a new document (ctrl-N or File - New) and
then switch it to NRC1 using Document - Settings... - Document Class?
Odd that it doesn't happen for me. I'm attaching the layout file I
kludged (from article.layout), although it should exactly match your
most parsimonious attempt. I don't know that it exposes all the bells
and whistles of the NRC class (such as journal name), but it doesn't
blow up in my face.
There's one bit of funkiness I came across. It shouldn't cause LyX to
revert to article, but it will cause a minor headache trying to get
output. By default, LyX adds \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} to every
document. According to the NRC manual, this is a bozo no-no. So you
need to go to Tools - Preferences... - Outputs - LaTeX and change
TeX encoding from T1 to default. At this point, you have two
choices. If all you're ever going to use is the NRC classes, click
Save. That gets rid of the encoding line in every LyX document. If you
plan to use other classes, though, you're probably going to want to
click Apply but not Save. That applies it only to the current session.
Unfortunately, that also means you have to remember to do this every
time you futz with an NRC document. (Maybe Richard or somebody knows a
way to make this document-specific, or to slip it into the layout file.
I don't.)
One last thing. There are some options for each of the NRC packages,
such as 'leqno' for NRC1 (which I assume moves equations numbers from
the right margin to the left). If you want to specify any of those for
a document, just go to Document - Settings... - Document Class and
stuff the options, separated by commas, into the aptly named Options
field. No need to mess with the layout file.
Let us know if the attached layout file blows up on you.
/Paul
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (NRC)}
# Article textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
# Author : Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Transposed by Pascal André [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Format 4
Input stdclass.inc
SecNumDepth 3
TocDepth3
NoStyle Chapter
NoStyle Chapter*
Style Part
Align Left
AlignPossible Left
TopSep2
BottomSep 1.5
Font
SizeLarger
EndFont
End
Style Part*
Align Left
AlignPossible Left
TopSep2
BottomSep 1.5
Font
SizeLarger
EndFont
End
Re: qt4 dir?
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote: I never get that --with-qt4-dir= right. I have compiled and installed qt-mac-opensource-src-4.3.1 with prefex=~/lib - so what --with-qt4-dir does lyx want? This problem have annoyed my time and time again both on Debian and now on Mac. Use ~ (not with lib) Jeremy C. Reed
Re: qt4 dir?
I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will just contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct. :o/ Martin On 8/30/07, Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote: I never get that --with-qt4-dir= right. I have compiled and installed qt-mac-opensource-src-4.3.1 with prefex=~/lib - so what --with-qt4-dir does lyx want? This problem have annoyed my time and time again both on Debian and now on Mac. Use ~ (not with lib) Jeremy C. Reed
Re: qt4 dir?
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote: I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will just contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct. :o/ Okay. ~/lib/lib/libQt* Sometimes you can't use ~ (tilde). Maybe use the /the/full/path/to/lib. Maybe don't use ~/lib for prefix for the Qt installation, but use ~/qt4 as that may make more sense.
Re: qt4 dir?
Actually, I did expand the ~ but still using --with-qt-dir=full/path/lib or full/path/lib/lib dosn't do the trick ... the lib/lib contains: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/lib/lib$ ll total 19440 drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 Qt3Support.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 917 Aug 30 13:08 Qt3Support.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 941 Aug 30 13:08 Qt3Support_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtAssistant.framework drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:07 QtCore.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 682 Aug 30 13:07 QtCore.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 706 Aug 30 13:07 QtCore_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:09 QtDesigner.framework drwxr-xr-x8 m.hansen Group-Ma 272 Aug 30 13:09 QtDesignerComponents.framework drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtGui.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 784 Aug 30 13:08 QtGui.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 808 Aug 30 13:07 QtGui_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtNetwork.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 768 Aug 30 13:08 QtNetwork.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 792 Aug 30 13:08 QtNetwork_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtOpenGL.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 876 Aug 30 13:08 QtOpenGL.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 900 Aug 30 13:08 QtOpenGL_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtScript.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 763 Aug 30 13:08 QtScript.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 787 Aug 30 13:08 QtScript_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtSql.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 748 Aug 30 13:08 QtSql.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 772 Aug 30 13:08 QtSql_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtSvg.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 845 Aug 30 13:08 QtSvg.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 869 Aug 30 13:08 QtSvg_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:08 QtTest.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 834 Aug 30 13:08 QtTest.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 858 Aug 30 13:08 QtTest_debug.la drwxr-xr-x9 m.hansen Group-Ma 306 Aug 30 13:07 QtXml.framework -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 748 Aug 30 13:07 QtXml.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 772 Aug 30 13:07 QtXml_debug.la -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 1064100 Aug 30 13:09 libQtUiTools.a -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 1098 Aug 30 13:09 libQtUiTools.prl -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 8795388 Aug 30 13:08 libQtUiTools_debug.a -rw-r--r--1 m.hansen Group-Ma 1096 Aug 30 13:08 libQtUiTools_debug.prl drwxr-xr-x 26 m.hansen Group-Ma 884 Aug 30 13:09 pkgconfig Martin On 8/30/07, Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote: I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will just contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct. :o/ Okay. ~/lib/lib/libQt* Sometimes you can't use ~ (tilde). Maybe use the /the/full/path/to/lib. Maybe don't use ~/lib for prefix for the Qt installation, but use ~/qt4 as that may make more sense.
export-- pdf
Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the version 1.5.1. I am aware of two ways to get the pdf right now: - using the preview option and then save the file directly from the pdf-viewer. - or get it from the (changeable) temporay directory but both seem to me a little bit of a work around. When I try it the old way File Export Custom I get a lot of possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software, Helmut PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora). -- Helmut Hauser Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences Technische Universitaet Graz Inffeldgasse 16b, I A-8010 Graz, Austria --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: + 43 316 873-5821 Fax: + 43 316 873-5805 http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/
Re: export-- pdf
On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the When I try it the old way File Export Custom I get a lot of possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button. Any suggestions? What about File Export PDF (pdflatex) or File Export PDF (ps2pdf) ? Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software, Helmut PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora). -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
Re: export-- pdf
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the When I try it the old way File Export Custom I get a lot of possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button. Any suggestions? What about File Export PDF (pdflatex) or File Export PDF (ps2pdf) ? Hi John, Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are offered to me: CKJ (1.4.x) (big5) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr) latex (pdf) latex (plain) LyX 1.3.x LyX 1.4.x Plain Text Plain Text (ps2ascii) Custom How can I change that? - helmut Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software, Helmut PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora). -- Helmut Hauser Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences Technische Universitaet Graz Inffeldgasse 16b, I A-8010 Graz, Austria --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: + 43 316 873-5821 Fax: + 43 316 873-5805 http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/
Re: export-- pdf
On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the snip Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are offered to me: CKJ (1.4.x) (big5) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr) latex (pdf) latex (plain) LyX 1.3.x LyX 1.4.x Plain Text Plain Text (ps2ascii) Custom I'd try doing Tools Reconfigure. If that doesn't work, see if latex and pdflatex are still installed (e.g. try running latex or pdflatex from a terminal) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
Re: export-- pdf
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the snip Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are offered to me: CKJ (1.4.x) (big5) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp) CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr) latex (pdf) latex (plain) LyX 1.3.x LyX 1.4.x Plain Text Plain Text (ps2ascii) Custom I'd try doing Tools Reconfigure. I had already tried that before posting my question. No difference. If that doesn't work, see if latex and pdflatex are still installed (e.g. try running latex or pdflatex from a terminal) Yes they are installed and work well. - helmut -- Helmut Hauser Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences Technische Universitaet Graz Inffeldgasse 16b, I A-8010 Graz, Austria --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: + 43 316 873-5821 Fax: + 43 316 873-5805 http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. I read the TOC at that site. Seems like a good book for the intended audience. Perhaps a link on the lyx wiki site would be appropriate? There is a page for suggested reading there, and your book documents LyX usage. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SuggestedReading Helge Hafting
Re: export-- pdf
Hauser Helmut wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the version 1.5.1. I am aware of two ways to get the pdf right now: - using the preview option and then save the file directly from the pdf-viewer. - or get it from the (changeable) temporay directory but both seem to me a little bit of a work around. Indeed. Now, things can go wrong with the LytX setup, but I am surprised that you have view-PDF but no export-PDF. I believed that these entries were tied to each other - enabled or disabled at the same time. Have you ever attempted to customize the menus of your LyX? Old settings from a previous LyX might confuse the new version. Try moving the LyX user directory ( .lyx/ on a linux system, don't know on others) to a different name. LyX will then create a new such directory, and you still have the old one in case you have something important there. See if this fixes the menus. Helge Hafting
installation problem (Win XP)
Hi, I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All is very easy, thanks a lot. But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears: Debug log TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed What does that mean and what should I do?? Please, note I'm not at all a geek! Thanks for your help Sara
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Err, download from where? I think any good book on self-publishing would be useful for the LyX community and is likely to extend its use. Also I can easily see transfering from Word or OpenOffice to LyX for final publishing even if most or all of the writing has been done in a wp. I am tending to stick poorly laidout Word reports into LyX just to get a decent readable document for personal use. --- Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Cheers, Alan Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file
Hi! I had to reinstall lyx a few days ago and ever since it crashes whenever I go to File--New with the following error message: /lyx: Disabling LyX socket. Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class std::basic_stringchar,struct std::char_traitschar,class std::allocatorchar ) by failing check empty() || absolutePath(name_) in file D:\LyX\lyx-1.5.1\src\support\FileName.cpp:47 This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. Completed/ I don't know if it's relevant but the path D:\Lyx is totally non-existent and unless the installer used it at some point I'd say it never existed at all. Any help on how to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated, Michael
Re: Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file
Michael Clerx schrieb: I had to reinstall lyx a few days ago and ever since it crashes whenever I go to File--New with the following error message: /lyx: Disabling LyX socket. Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class std::basic_stringchar,struct std::char_traitschar,class std::allocatorchar ) by failing check empty() || absolutePath(name_) in file D:\LyX\lyx-1.5.1\src\support\FileName.cpp:47 ... I don't know if it's relevant but the path D:\Lyx is totally non-existent and unless the installer used it at some point I'd say it never existed at all. This is only the degug message path: LyX was compiled on a computer using the path D:\LyX. Any help on how to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated, It seems that soemthing is misconfigured. For a quick solution, uninstall LyX completely and try to reinstall using this installer: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.1/LyX-1.5.1-3-18-AltInstaller-Small.exe If this also don't work, uninstall LyX again completely, uninstall also MiKTeX _completely_, uninstall Aspell, reboot, reinstall LyX using this installer: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.1/LyX-1.5.1-3-18-AltInstaller-Complete.exe I hope it helps. regards Uwe
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Rather than advising to add page headings using ERT, why not add to the document preamble?
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts.
Re: ftp 3rd day down
Robert Poser wrote: mhh, ftp is still down (3rd day) ... any new information about rearrivel? It seems to be up again now. Jürgen
AMS 2000 Classification
Hello, I use LyX 1.4.3-5 in XP. I use article(ams) document class. In the scroll-down menu there is a 'subjectclass', which produces the '1991 MSC' instead of 'MSC2000'. What could I do if I do not want to type by hand the MSC2000? Thanks, Sandor
Prosper y Lyx
Hello, I need to make presentations or transparencies with the Prosper in Lyx, I download the examples and the package of it page it of Lyx wiki but they don't work. Has somebody implemented slides with the package Prosper? thanks Alguien Ha trabajado con el paquete Prosper en Lyx , porfavor si alguien sabe como hacerlo denme un ejemplo gracias
Re: installation problem (Win XP)
sara teinturier schrieb: I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All is very easy, thanks a lot. But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears: Debug log TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed Does this workaraound help?: Delete the files textclass.lst and packages.lst in the folder ~:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX1.5.x and restart LyX. regards Uwe
Re: Prosper y Lyx
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:03:04 Jorge Mario wrote: Hello, I need to make presentations or transparencies with the Prosper in Lyx, I download the examples and the package of it page it of Lyx wiki but they don't work. Has somebody implemented slides with the package Prosper? thanks Unless you really need to use prosper I would like to suggest beamer. That works with LyX. :-) Alguien Ha trabajado con el paquete Prosper en Lyx , porfavor si alguien sabe como hacerlo denme un ejemplo Well I did long time ago but I already forgot the details. :-) gracias De nada. :-) -- José Abílio
Re: export-- pdf
Helge Hafting wrote: Hauser Helmut wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the version 1.5.1. I am aware of two ways to get the pdf right now: - using the preview option and then save the file directly from the pdf-viewer. - or get it from the (changeable) temporay directory but both seem to me a little bit of a work around. Indeed. Now, things can go wrong with the LytX setup, but I am surprised that you have view-PDF but no export-PDF. I believed that these entries were tied to each other - enabled or disabled at the same time. Have you ever attempted to customize the menus of your LyX? Old settings from a previous LyX might confuse the new version. I had exactly this problem. Editing ~/.lyx/preferences and removing the PDF customization lines solved it. 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: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 08:33, Neal Becker wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Ironically, the pdf looks poor. I see it is loaded with type3 fonts. PDF looked fine with my Acroread program on Mandriva 2007 Linux. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: AMS 2000 Classification
Sandor Szabo wrote: Hello, I use LyX 1.4.3-5 in XP. I use article(ams) document class. In the scroll-down menu there is a 'subjectclass', which produces the '1991 MSC' instead of 'MSC2000'. What could I do if I do not want to type by hand the MSC2000? Thanks, Sandor Go to lyx/Resources/layouts, find amsdefs.inc, and copy it to your home/layouts directory. (If you don't know where home is on your system, look at Help - About LyX - Version; it will show your user directory, which is the parent of the layouts directory we want.) Now open the copy in a text editor, search for 1991 (it will be in Style Subjectclass), change it to 2000, save and exit, and restart LyX. /Paul
Re: AMS 2000 Classification
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Go to lyx/Resources/layouts, find amsdefs.inc, and copy it to your home/layouts directory. (If you don't know where home is on your system, look at Help - About LyX - Version; it will show your user directory, which is the parent of the layouts directory we want.) Now open the copy in a text editor, search for 1991 (it will be in Style Subjectclass), change it to 2000, save and exit, and restart LyX. Sorry, but this will not work. That will only change the label within LyX. You need to change the LaTeX code to \subjclass[2000] to get the change to appear on the output. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: AMS 2000 Classification
David L. Johnson wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Go to lyx/Resources/layouts, find amsdefs.inc, and copy it to your home/layouts directory. (If you don't know where home is on your system, look at Help - About LyX - Version; it will show your user directory, which is the parent of the layouts directory we want.) Now open the copy in a text editor, search for 1991 (it will be in Style Subjectclass), change it to 2000, save and exit, and restart LyX. Sorry, but this will not work. That will only change the label within LyX. You need to change the LaTeX code to \subjclass[2000] to get the change to appear on the output. Arrgh! Can't believe I missed that! In the line above the one I changed (LatexName), change subjclass to subjclass[2000] and it seems to work. I'll post the updated amsdefs.inc file to the Wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS) momentarily. /Paul
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 00:17, Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or OpenOffice. But, any feedback appreciated. Cheers, Alan Excellent book Alan. I like the way you make a beautifully typeset book, describing LyX, using LyX. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for giving your opinion that the frontmatter should be freelanced rather than styled. I also liked the way you didn't make a big deal out of it not being WYSIWYG or call it WYGIWYM or whatever, and in fact praised its wordprocessor like qualities. If it weren't for those wordprocessor like qualities, I'd just use LaTeX directly. I liked your description of where NOT to use LyX (the cover, newsletters and the like). This all too important topic is often left out in a rush to evangelize LyX. I liked the way you described various things you can do from the LyX menus -- things I've been doing in ERT all these years because I didn't know they existed directly from LyX. Your book makes LyX very approachable for the newbie. There's just one little thing... warning type=Litts usual diatribe The one thing you left out is what the self-publisher does when he needs a style that doesn't exist. The little boxes, in every tech book, that start with Note:, Tip:, Warning:, Caution:, or a custom title. I don't think there's a document class anywhere that includes these. Or maybe you have a special short phrase you want typeset a certain way -- maybe its your trademark product or whatever. Obviously this is beyond the scope of your book, and beyond the current technical knowledge of your reader, and it would scare the Dickens out of your reader. But shouldn't the reader at least know this issue will surface, before he's half way through a book and can't create a Tip box? Perhaps you could include a chapter on how to make and integrate a very basic paragraph style, and a very basic character style -- maybe even have it pasteable. Then tell the reader he can style it in this basic way for now, and then either he or a more LyXically proficient person can adjust it to what the intended appearance later on. If you do it right it wouldn't be too complex or too scary for the reader. On the same note, I don't remember seeing a lot about the LyX-Users mailing list. The prospective self-publisher should know this resource exists. I'm lucky Dekl Tsur was on the mailing list in 2001. Without Dekl Tsur's color text workaround for character styles (before true LyX character styles existed), I would have had to abandon LyX at the beginning of my first book. But because Dekl was on the mailing list and told me how to do it, I was able to complete my first book. /warning In summary, it's a good book, and it's obvious upon reading that it's written by a guy who's been in the trenches, and it can be even better if very basic style customization is addressed. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Indented paragraph in description list.
Returning to this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=lyx-usersm=116026623917165w=2
which concerns the creation of a multi-paragraph description list, the recipe
works, but the new paragraph is not indented inside the description.
Now, in LaTeX2e, you can set the length of \listparindent to 1\parindent, or
something else, but you have to set it inside the list_decl field of the list
environment.
Is there no way I can set a paragraph indentation inside a list in LyX? I
even tried to issue the command
\setlength{\listpartindent}{1\parindent}
or
\setlength{\listpartindent}{0.5cm}
on the preamble, but it was solemnly ignored by LyX...
Thanks.
--
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741
Re: Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file
Thanks for the quick response! I get the exact same error though (as well as the 'textclass not found' one)
[solved] Re: installation problem (Win XP)
Wonderful, it works now. Thanks a lot for your help and for LyX which is really great... Regards, Sara Uwe Stöhr a écrit : sara teinturier schrieb: I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All is very easy, thanks a lot. But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears: Debug log TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed Does this workaraound help?: Delete the files textclass.lst and packages.lst in the folder ~:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX1.5.x and restart LyX. regards Uwe
Error in MiKTeX package manager
I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what the cause would be. MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp Line: 712 MiKTeX: 2.6 OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) SystemAdmin: yes PowerUser: yes SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager
Dave Hewitt wrote: I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what the cause would be. MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp Line: 712 MiKTeX: 2.6 OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) SystemAdmin: yes PowerUser: yes SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6 UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6 Could be a transient error. See http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/f6c01b1b1df5cf3c for one possible explanation. If you run the MikTeX Settings application and click Refresh FNDB, does the same thing happen, or does it work ok? Have you retried the package installation? /Paul
Re: Mac Shut-down Bug
I'm having trouble posting the crash log for this error. Is there a specific portion that I should focus on an post? Mike On Aug 28, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Aug 28, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: No, the problem comes when I try to quit LyX. The application itself will not shut down and becomes unresponsive and requires me to force quit. During this unresponsive period, my system monitor shows that lyx is using 55% of the CPU during this time... this is unrelated to a computer log out or shut down. I haven't seen this with 1.5.x. Are there more details you can find? (When this happens, is there anything that appears in console.log?) Bennett
Re: Mac Shut-down Bug
On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: I'm having trouble posting the crash log for this error. Is there a specific portion that I should focus on an post? It came through for me. It's the same thing repeated many times, though I'm not competent to make sense of it. (Anyone else?) Here's the relevant bit: Host Name: michael-andersons-computer Date/Time: 2007-08-28 14:32:41.506 -0700 OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2218) Report Version: 4 Command: lyx Path:/Applications/TeX/Lyx/1.5/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx Parent: WindowServer [64] Version: 1.5.0 (???) PID:3834 Thread: 0 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xeadc Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90b2ef65 std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar ::_Rep::_M_grab(std::allocatorchar const, std::allocatorchar const) + 9 1 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90b302fe std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar ::basic_string[in-charge](std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar const) + 86 2 org.lyx.lyx 0x000edf89 0x1000 + 970633 3 org.lyx.lyx 0x007fe597 std::_Rb_treelyx::support::FileName, std::pairlyx::support::FileName const, boost::shared_ptrlyx::graphics::CacheItem , std::_Select1ststd::pairlyx::support::FileName const, boost::shared_ptrlyx::graphics::CacheItem , std::lesslyx::support::FileName, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::support::FileName const, boost::shared_ptrlyx::graphics::CacheItem ::find (lyx::support::FileName const) + 47 4 org.lyx.lyx 0x00258699 0x1000 + 2455193 5 org.lyx.lyx 0x00257c36 0x1000 + 2452534 6 org.lyx.lyx 0x00257e0c 0x1000 + 2453004 7 org.lyx.lyx 0x007fe296 void boost::checked_deletelyx::graphics::Loader::Impl (lyx::graphics::Loader::Impl*) + 22 8 org.lyx.lyx 0x007e549b boost::detail::function::void_function_obj_invoker0boost::_bi::bind_tl yx::Buffer const* const, boost::_mfi::cmf1lyx::Buffer const* const, lyx::LyX, lyx::Inset const*, boost::_bi::list2boost::reference_wrapperlyx::LyX const, boost::_bi::valuelyx::Inset const* , void::invoke (boost::detail::function::function_buffer) + 71 9 org.lyx.lyx 0x001615a6 0x1000 + 1443238 10 org.lyx.lyx 0x00050abc 0x1000 + 326332 11 org.lyx.lyx 0x0073e3dd std::_List_baselyx::Paragraph, std::allocatorlyx::Paragraph ::_M_clear() + 49 12 org.lyx.lyx 0x0073e467 std::_List_baselyx::Paragraph, std::allocatorlyx::Paragraph ::~_List_base [not-in-charge]() + 19 13 org.lyx.lyx 0x0075cf42 void std::_Destroystd::_Deque_iteratorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long*, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long (std::_Deque_iteratorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long*, std::_Deque_iteratorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long*, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long ) + 26 14 org.lyx.lyx 0x0075d59e std::dequestd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long, std::allocatorstd::pairlyx::ParagraphList, unsigned long ::~deque [in-charge]() + 102 15 org.lyx.lyx 0x3245 0x1000 + 8773 16 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900103e1 __cxa_finalize + 226 17 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900102e8 exit + 24 18 org.lyx.lyx 0x2e32 0x1000 + 7730 19 org.lyx.lyx 0x2d51 0x1000 + 7505 Thread 1: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90009cd7 mach_msg_trap + 7 1 com.unsanity.ape0xc0001db2 __ape_agent + 307 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 2: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9001a1cc select + 12 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 3: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90026d5c kevent + 12 1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cb8c6c PrivateMPEntryPoint + 51 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 4: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900248c7 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 7 1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cb8e11 MPWaitOnQueue + 198 2 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x92712953 TNodeSyncTask::SyncTaskProc(void*) + 143 3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cb8c6c PrivateMPEntryPoint + 51 4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84 Thread 0
