shortcut to screen font?
Is it possible to set shortcut to change my screen font size? thanks Pol
LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?
Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? I'm new to using a Mac, so this may also be my unfamiliarity with OS X. I've downloaded and installed MacTeX, Python, and LyX. (As I understand it, MacTeX includes ImageMagic and ghostscript; just to be sure, I used i-installer to reinstall those packages and still have the same problem.) LyX runs fine, but it can't produce output in any format that's useful for me: not PDF, not PS. I also have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed; do I need some other PDF software? Do I just need to tell LyX how to send the file to a PDF handler? I have encountered this problem in two relatively distinct situations: First, when I try to create any LyX document and preview it or export it to PDF, it tells me: No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex) Second, before I realized I had this problem, I created a scratch file for purposes of testing LyX and its integration with BibDesk and saved it. Now when I open that file, it gives me the following error message: The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the Customization documentation for more information. LyX will not be able to produce output. I suspect that article.layout is something that should have been included in the bibliography file that I tried to include in this scratch document. If that's the case, this part of the problem can wait; if I can get some kind of meaningful output from LyX I'll settle arguments between LyX and BibDesk later. Thank you! Faith Anne Scott
Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?
Faith Anne Scott wrote: Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? Try the menu Tools - Reconfigure and then restart. Abdel.
Slow input with cross-reference window open
Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small documents. I have more than a hundred cross references in the document that I tested, and typing speed is limited to about 2 characters per second. I wonder if this also happens on Windows or Linux platforms? Jens
Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open
On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small documents. I have more than a hundred cross references in the document that I tested, and typing speed is limited to about 2 characters per second. I wonder if this also happens on Windows or Linux platforms? Jens As an addendum: this issue is already present in LyX 1.4.4 on the same platform. Of course the work-around is to always close the cross- ref window after inserting a ref, but for users with sufficient display real estate it may be desirable to leave some of those windows open all the time. Switching between open windows is somewhat more convenient than opening and closing a window. Jens
Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:14 PM, Dov Feldstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Abdel, thanks for the heads up. I just haven't been able to keep up with the mailing list / development in the past few weeks... :( I don't really understand much at all about the packaging. My understanding is that these are LaTeX issues, over which LyX has no control, and which are also very platform specific. So I'm afraid I can't be of much help here... Dov, I'm not an expert, but my understanding is also that my issue is a LaTeX issue. I think, however, that you're missing my point. On platforms where a package manager is the standard way to obtain software, LyX installs great, and I have no complaints. On platforms where the standard way to obtain software is by downloading a file from a website (Windows, Mac OS X), however, an application should, whenever possible, include all of its dependencies in the installation file. Basically, my point is that It is not user-friendly if an application does not work properly out-of-the box. I am not disputing that. As I said, I just don't know anything about the packaging, so I can't help out here. And as Abdel said, any contributions are, of course, welcome... Dov
shortcut to screen font?
Is it possible to set shortcut to change my screen font size? thanks Pol
LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?
Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? I'm new to using a Mac, so this may also be my unfamiliarity with OS X. I've downloaded and installed MacTeX, Python, and LyX. (As I understand it, MacTeX includes ImageMagic and ghostscript; just to be sure, I used i-installer to reinstall those packages and still have the same problem.) LyX runs fine, but it can't produce output in any format that's useful for me: not PDF, not PS. I also have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed; do I need some other PDF software? Do I just need to tell LyX how to send the file to a PDF handler? I have encountered this problem in two relatively distinct situations: First, when I try to create any LyX document and preview it or export it to PDF, it tells me: No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex) Second, before I realized I had this problem, I created a scratch file for purposes of testing LyX and its integration with BibDesk and saved it. Now when I open that file, it gives me the following error message: The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the Customization documentation for more information. LyX will not be able to produce output. I suspect that article.layout is something that should have been included in the bibliography file that I tried to include in this scratch document. If that's the case, this part of the problem can wait; if I can get some kind of meaningful output from LyX I'll settle arguments between LyX and BibDesk later. Thank you! Faith Anne Scott
Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?
Faith Anne Scott wrote: Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? Try the menu Tools - Reconfigure and then restart. Abdel.
Slow input with cross-reference window open
Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small documents. I have more than a hundred cross references in the document that I tested, and typing speed is limited to about 2 characters per second. I wonder if this also happens on Windows or Linux platforms? Jens
Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open
On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small documents. I have more than a hundred cross references in the document that I tested, and typing speed is limited to about 2 characters per second. I wonder if this also happens on Windows or Linux platforms? Jens As an addendum: this issue is already present in LyX 1.4.4 on the same platform. Of course the work-around is to always close the cross- ref window after inserting a ref, but for users with sufficient display real estate it may be desirable to leave some of those windows open all the time. Switching between open windows is somewhat more convenient than opening and closing a window. Jens
Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:14 PM, Dov Feldstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Abdel, thanks for the heads up. I just haven't been able to keep up with the mailing list / development in the past few weeks... :( I don't really understand much at all about the packaging. My understanding is that these are LaTeX issues, over which LyX has no control, and which are also very platform specific. So I'm afraid I can't be of much help here... Dov, I'm not an expert, but my understanding is also that my issue is a LaTeX issue. I think, however, that you're missing my point. On platforms where a package manager is the standard way to obtain software, LyX installs great, and I have no complaints. On platforms where the standard way to obtain software is by downloading a file from a website (Windows, Mac OS X), however, an application should, whenever possible, include all of its dependencies in the installation file. Basically, my point is that It is not user-friendly if an application does not work properly out-of-the box. I am not disputing that. As I said, I just don't know anything about the packaging, so I can't help out here. And as Abdel said, any contributions are, of course, welcome... Dov
shortcut to screen font?
Is it possible to set shortcut to change my screen font size? thanks Pol
LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?
Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? I'm new to using a Mac, so this may also be my unfamiliarity with OS X. I've downloaded and installed MacTeX, Python, and LyX. (As I understand it, MacTeX includes ImageMagic and ghostscript; just to be sure, I used i-installer to reinstall those packages and still have the same problem.) LyX runs fine, but it can't produce output in any format that's useful for me: not PDF, not PS. I also have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed; do I need some other PDF software? Do I just need to tell LyX how to send the file to a PDF handler? I have encountered this problem in two relatively distinct situations: First, when I try to create any LyX document and preview it or export it to PDF, it tells me: "No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex)" Second, before I realized I had this problem, I created a "scratch" file for purposes of testing LyX and its integration with BibDesk and saved it. Now when I open that file, it gives me the following error message: "The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the Customization documentation for more information. LyX will not be able to produce output." I suspect that "article.layout" is something that should have been included in the bibliography file that I tried to include in this scratch document. If that's the case, this part of the problem can wait; if I can get some kind of meaningful output from LyX I'll settle arguments between LyX and BibDesk later. Thank you! Faith Anne Scott
Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?
Faith Anne Scott wrote: Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? Try the menu "Tools -> Reconfigure" and then restart. Abdel.
Slow input with cross-reference window open
Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small documents. I have more than a hundred cross references in the document that I tested, and typing speed is limited to about 2 characters per second. I wonder if this also happens on Windows or Linux platforms? Jens
Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open
On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small documents. I have more than a hundred cross references in the document that I tested, and typing speed is limited to about 2 characters per second. I wonder if this also happens on Windows or Linux platforms? Jens As an addendum: this issue is already present in LyX 1.4.4 on the same platform. Of course the work-around is to always close the cross- ref window after inserting a ref, but for users with sufficient display real estate it may be desirable to leave some of those windows open all the time. Switching between open windows is somewhat more convenient than opening and closing a window. Jens
Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:14 PM, Dov Feldstern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Abdel, thanks for the heads up. I just haven't been able to keep up with the mailing list / development in the past few weeks... :( I don't really understand much at all about the packaging. My understanding is that these are LaTeX issues, over which LyX has no control, and which are also very platform specific. So I'm afraid I can't be of much help here... Dov, I'm not an expert, but my understanding is also that my issue is a LaTeX issue. I think, however, that you're missing my point. On platforms where a package manager is the standard way to obtain software, LyX installs great, and I have no complaints. On platforms where the standard way to obtain software is by downloading a file from a website (Windows, Mac OS X), however, an application should, whenever possible, include all of its dependencies in the installation file. Basically, my point is that It is not user-friendly if an application does not work properly out-of-the box. I am not disputing that. As I said, I just don't know anything about the packaging, so I can't help out here. And as Abdel said, any contributions are, of course, welcome... Dov
