date:20080602

nobody wrote:
 One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I
 understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts.  But how can I
 say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular
 font? Or, that this document should use margins of this length?

Document-Settings-Fonts.

 Related point: I have hundreds of fonts installed under Windows, but I
 can't see them in any of the LyX menus.  How do I give LyX access to them?
 (I'm using MiKTeX - is there a command I need to run to have it load all of
 my Windows fonts?).

No. Normal LaTeX can only access its own fonts (which are usually PostScript 
fonts). You can access system (OpenType) fonts with LaTeX derivates such as 
XeTeX, which is not fully supported by LyX, though.

Jürgen

Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy

gdmj100 wrote:
 Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems
 implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I
 will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at
 implementing this into 1.6, it  seems to be a natural upgrade.

Native support is planned, but it will most likely not make it into 1.6. 
Biblatex is such a mighty package that sensible support requires some major 
changes in LyX's general bibliography handling.

However, with the workarounds described in the Wiki, it is possible to use 
biblatex in LyX without too much hassle.

Jürgen

Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-02 Thread Nicolás

You are right in that we may have cross-references between children documents. I still think that my proposal of automatically renaming
labels is a good idea. What you say is actually not a problem is a little of care is taken by LyX when inserting cros-references.

Imagine we are working in document A and want to insert a reference to a label LabelInA in the same document. Then LyX would
introduce the reference as usual, i.e. \ref{LabelInA}. Now we want to insert a reference to a label LabelInB in same document B. LyX
would detect that the label is in another document (easy, since we have to choose that document in the cross-references dialog) and
introduce the reference as, e.g., \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB}.
Now, when we include document A in a third document and compile, LyX would rename all labels of document A (and of all documents,
including the master) by adding a prefix DocumentA: and would update the references (in the same document A) to those lables
accordingly (in our example would change \ref{LabelInA} to \ref{DocumentA:LabelInA}). Note that the \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB} would not
be modified, and that would not be necessary, since the labels in document B would also be renamed by adding prefix DocumentB: to them.

I actually thing that, with independence of doing what I say or not, differentiating whether a reference points to a label in the same
document or in another document is wise to facilitate debugging, in case this is necessary.

Cheers,
Nicolás

rgheck wrote:

Humberto Castejon wrote:

Hi!

I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels
of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may
have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into
account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children
documents? If not, I think this would be a nice feature, rather than
having to modify manually the overlapping labels.

No, you don't really want LyX to do that. It should be possible to
reference labels in one child from the other children---which it is, as
things are. If you start modifying the labels themselves, then you would
have also to modify the references to those labels. But then how do you
know which one you meant to reference?

impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts


Hej everybody.

I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to 
copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the 
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor Selection with mouse + 3rd button 
to paste work...

I guess this issue has already been discussed ...

Thanks in advance

nicolas

Re: Problems setting up LyX


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Hello,

I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary
compatible with Etch).

I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as
possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage.

I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or
DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then
changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on
dial up at the moment).

I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but
there's not much that's intuitive.

I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions?

Kind regards,
Ryan




Once you have texlive fully installed. Run Tools-Reconfigure in LyX a
couple of times to see if it picks up the texlive installation.

Cheers,
/Bob

  

Thanks, Bob.

Merely running Reconfigure gave me access to most functions (I forgot
about that).

But now I have to downgrade to tetex if I want to use both LyX and
TeXmacs on Mepis/Etch.

Should finally be sorted after that...

Ryan

keystrokes and styles


Hi,

I'm quite new to LyX and am struggling to find a list of key strokes. 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc) 
can be assigned with keystrokes. In FreeMind we use the F keys to assign 
styles. So in my setup I have F1 for root, F2: Title, F3: Abstract, F4: 
Section, etc.


Is this possible with LyX?

Regards,
Ryan

Re: keystrokes and styles

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc)  
 can be assigned with keystrokes. 

Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly either
cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

[SOLVED]impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts


G. Milde a écrit :

On  2.06.08, nicolas roy wrote:

  
I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to  
copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the  
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor Selection with mouse + 3rd button  
to paste work...



* In my experience, it sometimes works after I have copied some test
  from within LyX... (mark text + Ctrl-C)

  

This solves the problem, indeed. But what is the reason ?

Thanks a lot, anyway !

nicolas

[SOLVED] problem with postscript figures and mac os 10.5

2008-06-02 Thread Jean Kaplan


Hello

No one answered the attached message, but I was able to solve this  
problem thanks to a message from Konrad Hofbauer on another subject.  
Konrad  indicated how to open LyX from the terminal. Doing so,  I was  
able to see that the problem originated from the program convert.  
After reinstalling a recent version of imagemagick an reconfiguring  
LyX, the problem has been solved. May be this information will help  
someone.


Jean Kaplan

Début du message réexpédié :


De : Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date : 26 mai 2008 11:33:07 HAEC
À : LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Objet : problem with postscript figures and mac os 10.5

Hello

I work with a powerbook G4, and now with mac os 10.5.2, to which I  
recently migrated from the last version of mac os 10.4. Since then I  
have the following problem: some postscript figures, but not all, do  
not show up in lyx, although they appear correctly in the typeset  
tex file. The lyx diagnostic is erreur lors de la conversion vers  
un format lisible, which means in english error while converting  
to a readable format. The strange fact is that some figures are  
correctly displayed while others, very similar, are not displayed. I  
have two examples of two figures, one of which is a simple  
modification of the other, and one is displayed and the other not.  
The path for all figures is the same and is the full one. Most of my  
figures are created using xfig, but the problem does not seem to be  
linked with that. It occurs also for figures created with  
mathematica and excel.


Did anybody experience the same problem, and/or knows how to solve it?

Jean Kaplan

Re: impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts

On  2.06.08, nicolas roy wrote:

 I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to  
 copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the  
 keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor Selection with mouse + 3rd button  
 to paste work...

There might be a number of causes:

* not all other programs implement the X-selection protocoll in a failproof
  and modern way. - Try with a selection of other programs (best some Qt,
  some GTK and some pure x programs and maybe also the xclip command line
  program).
  
* running a clipboard application can interfere.

* running several LyX instances in parallel mith pose a problem.

* In my experience, it sometimes works after I have copied some test
  from within LyX... (mark text + Ctrl-C)

 I guess this issue has already been discussed ...

It has:

http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.editors.lyx.generalquery=selection

BTW: it would be nice to have a link to search the lists on
 http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists
 
Günter

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


George G. Szegö wrote:

I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I
updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the
operating system yesterday.


Can you start LyX from the Terminal and see if there is any output on 
the Terminal?

You do this with a command like this (adapt the path to your LyX.app):
/Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx

Also, you could try starting LyX in debug mode and post the output here 
with:

/Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg any

Regards,
Konrad

Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?


Hi

I have chosen document class report

i have chapter 1, with section 1.1, and subsections 1.1.1 and 1.1.2

Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to  
2.0.3?


I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?



JonB

Re: 1.6 release

2008-06-02 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof


Abdelrazak Younes skrev:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Hi

How is it going along with version 1.6?
According to the release schedule alpha 2 has been released, but beta 
1 and 2 should also have been released, but have not.

Also even though alpha 2 should be out there, I can not find it.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule, and I can't find a release 
anywhere.


--
Rune

Re: 1.6 release


Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes skrev:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Hi

How is it going along with version 1.6?
According to the release schedule alpha 2 has been released, but 
beta 1 and 2 should also have been released, but have not.

Also even though alpha 2 should be out there, I can not find it.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule, and I can't find a 
release anywhere.

Shxxxt happens sometimes :-)
Hopefully a beta2 will appear soon.

Abdel.

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?

On  2.06.08, Jon Bendtsen wrote:

 I have chosen document class report
...
 Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to 
 2.0.3?

 I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?

This is strange indeed and should not happen. It is also not yet heard
of, so I do not epxect this to be default behaviour.

Try to create a *minimal* example that shows this behaviour and post it
here. (Maybe in the course you will even find the reason in some part of
your document.)

Günter

converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

2008-06-02 Thread ian.ogilvy

We were in the process of moving some documentation from being
maintained by open office over to lyx.

The process started and all was going well, then the computers being
used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b,
writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by open office.

Lyx can import the latex output by 0.4b quite well, but stumbles
completely at the new output produced by version 0.5.  

I would hate abort the process of migrating the documentation in
question to Lyx as some sub documents have already been edited in lyx
with very satisfactory results.

Does anyone know a solution to converting open office documents to latex
that lyx can read given that writer2latex 0.5 creates such problems for
lyx?

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?

2008-06-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi

 I have chosen document class report

 i have chapter 1, with section 1.1, and subsections 1.1.1 and 1.1.2

 Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to
 2.0.3?

 I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?

I am not surprised that LyX does that (this is how I coded it :), but
what does the LaTeX output look like?

subsections are rest with each new section, not each new chapter.

JMarc

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?



On 02/06/2008, at 16.10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


subsections are rest with each new section, not each new chapter.


why do chapters restore new sections, but not new subsections?


It is coded like that (and matches LaTeX, I just checked) because one
is not supposed to have a subsection without an enclosing section


Okay. I just dont like using a section right there, and i dont fancy  
moving

my subsections up to section level, so i have decided to use subsection*
and avoid the numbering problem.

Maybe i should start using parts


JonB

Re: converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

FreeMind can handle simple documents. If you select all in Writer and 
copy and paste into FreeMind, then you can export using the included 
XSLT script (accessories folder) to LaTeX book or LaTeX article with 
good results. We just got a bug report today that copy and paste from 
Writer in FreeMind 0.9 beta is broken, so you will need the stable 
0.8.1. If your documents are very big, pressing alt+home will fold all 
and counteract any speed lag.


https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118

Also I see LyX imports MS word documents and plain text. So you can 
always save your files in that format and then import them in LyX.


Lastly, you could always Google for an XSLT script that handles 
ODT--LaTeX. There may be more one option.


Regards,
Ryan

ian.ogilvy wrote:

We were in the process of moving some documentation from being
maintained by open office over to lyx.

The process started and all was going well, then the computers being
used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b,
writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by open office.

Lyx can import the latex output by 0.4b quite well, but stumbles
completely at the new output produced by version 0.5.  


I would hate abort the process of migrating the documentation in
question to Lyx as some sub documents have already been edited in lyx
with very satisfactory results.

Does anyone know a solution to converting open office documents to latex
that lyx can read given that writer2latex 0.5 creates such problems for
lyx?

Re: 1.6 release


Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule,


I updated it.


and I can't find a release anywhere.


I announced the Win version for beta 1 here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg65030.html

But be careful as this version includes a dataloss bug, so beta 2 will follow 
soon.

regards Uwe

Re: 1.6 release


Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule,


I updated it.


and I can't find a release anywhere.


I announced the Win version for beta 1 here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg65030.html

But be careful as this version includes a dataloss bug, so beta 2 will 
follow soon.

That's why I marked it as Cancelled

Abdel.

unicode in math (was: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document)

On 29.05.08, G. Milde wrote:
 On 28.05.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
  Helge Hafting wrote:
  Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

  How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths?

  In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I
  guess.
  This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is  
  normally used in math. The only strange thing about it was that it
  was in unicode rather than spelled out \delta. 

 Support for individuall unicode characters in math can be achieved easily
 with lines like

 % centered dot
 \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00B7}{\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi}

 in the LaTeX preamble (from Herbert Voss' de_math.lyx tips)
 without any change to the LyX code.

Unfortunately, this fails if the character in question is the first
character in a math array or equationarray (and similar).
See attached file math-inputenc-test.lyx.

(This is usually not a problem with characters like the centered dot
(Malzeichen) or \textdegree.)

 As with all common LaTeX problems, there should be a package providing
 this kind of table.

There are two packages supporting unicode in math (at least partially):

1. Package ucs and its utf8x font encoding together with 
   \SetUnicodeOption{mathletters} in the LaTeX preamble.
   
   + simple, all requirements are part of TeXLive (and probabely most
 other standard TeX distributions)
 
   - Not suited for Greek text
   - set of math unicode chars not easily extendable,
 5·3 becomes 5Δ3.
 
   see attachment math-inputenc-ucs-test.lyx

2. The experimental package inpmath
   http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/inpmath.zip
   
   + extensible 
   + works also parallel to LGR encoding for Greek text
   
   - experimental package not in TeXLive
   - no pre-defined MathMeaning for Greek symbols

   see attachment math-inpmath-test.lyx
   
All attachements work with my lyx 1.5.5 on Debian (after installing
inpmath).

Günter



math-inputenc-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


math-inputenc-ucs-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


math-inpmath-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

Bennett Helm wrote:

 I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything
 like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted.

Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?

 Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works?

In case of that bug reinstalling did not help, and it did not crash.


Georg

Re: Greek fonts


Liviu Andronic schrieb:


while for the Greek font I use:
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}

 \usepackage[greek, english]{babel}

You don't need both, this is handled (and automatically inserted) by LyX.

regards Uwe

Greek fonts

2008-06-02 Thread Liviu Andronic

Hello everyone,

I currently write a multi-lingual document (containing English and
Greek text), of very simple structure. I use Palatino as the default
font (selected via LyX), while for the Greek font I use:
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
\usepackage[10pt]{type1ec}
\usepackage[greek, english]{babel}

I you write similar documents, how do you select Greek fonts? What is
the font of your choice?

Thank you,
Liviu

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Bennett Helm wrote:

  I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen
 anything
  like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted.

 Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?


It doesn't look like it. (I've attached the screenshot here.)

Bennett
attachment: LyX 1.5.5.png

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:57 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On 01/06/2008, at 9:09 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

  I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything
 like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted.
 Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works?


 Sorry, Bennett. I have downloaded the LyX-1.5.5-Mac-Universal.dmg binary
 file and reinstalled, but still no luck.
 This is just a weird problem and I don't think there is an easy diagnosis.
 I'll continue using the earlier version 1.5.4
 for now. If I figure out what's wrong, I'll let you know.
 I truly appreciate your help.


George -

Please make sure you cc the user's list so that other can benefit from your
experience (and any solution we might find).

I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to me). It
looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening some files, and I
wonder whether there are problems that result from that. Try moving aside
your preferences file (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences)
and restarting LyX-1.5.5. Does that fix the problem?

You might also try keeping your preferences file but instead deleting all
your cache files (in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/cache/) and
launching LyX. Does that do it?

Bennett

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


On 02/06/2008, at 3:28 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to  
me). It looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening  
some files, and I wonder whether there are problems that result from  
that. Try moving aside your preferences file (at ~/Library/ 
Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences) and restarting LyX-1.5.5.  
Does that fix the problem?
You might also try keeping your preferences file but instead  
deleting all your cache files (in ~/Library/Application Support/ 
LyX-1.5/cache/) and launching LyX. Does that do it?


Bennett,
Sorry, but neither setting aside the preference file, nor cleaning the  
cache directory solved the issue.

Any more ideas?
Cheers,
George

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Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Bennett Helm wrote:

I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to me). It
looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening some files, and I
wonder whether there are problems that result from that. 


Problems seem to start already much earlier, right at the beginning 
(line 70), with:


Mon Jun  2 12:04:33 ggszego.local lyx[3331] Error: 
CGBitmapContextCreate: unsupported parameter combination: 8 integer 
bits/component; 8 bits/pixel; 0-component colorspace; 
kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst; 16 bytes/row.

QPaintDevice: Unable to create context for pixmap (4/4/64)

George: Blind guess: In System Preferences - Displays, how many colours 
have you set? Thousands or Millions?


Bennett: should we put this on bugzilla and/or report to devel?

/Konrad

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Bennett Helm wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Georg Baum 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:


Bennett Helm wrote:

  I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen
anything
  like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was
corrupted.

Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?


It doesn't look like it. (I've attached the screenshot here.)


This looks like lib/ui/stdtoolbar.ui file is corrupted because all 
toolbars seems to be loaded with no icons.
George, could you please delete your resource directory (the one 
containing the above file) and reinstall again?


Abdel.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Bennett Helm wrote:

 I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to me).
 It
 looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening some files, and
 I
 wonder whether there are problems that result from that.


 Problems seem to start already much earlier, right at the beginning (line
 70), with:

 Mon Jun  2 12:04:33 ggszego.local lyx[3331] Error: CGBitmapContextCreate:
 unsupported parameter combination: 8 integer bits/component; 8 bits/pixel;
 0-component colorspace; kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst; 16 bytes/row.
 QPaintDevice: Unable to create context for pixmap (4/4/64)

 George: Blind guess: In System Preferences - Displays, how many colours
 have you set? Thousands or Millions?

 Bennett: should we put this on bugzilla and/or report to devel?


I've provided George a fresh build with debug info for 10.5-Intel. Let's see
how that goes first.

Bennett

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

Bennett Helm wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Georg Baum
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?
 
 
 It doesn't look like it. (I've attached the screenshot here.)

Yes, that is completely different. Do you have any idea about bug 4907? Or
is OS X 10.3.9 too old nowadays? That would be a pity, that machine is
ideal for travelling and has more than enough power for writing.


Georg

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update



On 02/06/2008, at 4:13 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

I'm taking this off list. Try downloading this version of  
LyX-1.5.6svn.

LyX-1.5.x.app.zip
(It's *not* an official release, it's just the current development  
build of 1.5.6, which may well have bugs that could cause dataloss,  
etc. That said, I tend to use these builds and have not experienced  
any problems with them.)
It was compiled with 10.5.3 on Intel Mac, and won't work on anything  
less than 10.5-Intel. But I wonder if it works for you. If not, we  
can try getting further debug info from it, but I'll explain how  
later, if need be.

Bennett



Bennett: I was trying to compile a development version for testing  
myself, but you have made my life easier. LyX-1.5.6svn works well.


George: Blind guess: In System Preferences - Displays, how many  
colours have you set? Thousands or Millions?



Konrad: I have set Millions of colours and the Display profile is the  
default iMac.


Thank you both very much,
George

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Re: Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents


Nicolás wrote:
You are right in that we may have cross-references between children 
documents. I still think that my proposal of automatically renaming 
labels is a good idea. What you say is actually not a problem is a 
little of care is taken by LyX when inserting cros-references.


Imagine we are working in document A and want to insert a reference to 
a label LabelInA in the same document. Then LyX would introduce the 
reference as usual, i.e. \ref{LabelInA}. Now we want to insert a 
reference to a label LabelInB in same document B. LyX would detect 
that the label is in another document (easy, since we have to choose 
that document in the cross-references dialog) and introduce the 
reference as, e.g., \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB}.
Now, when we include document A in a third document and compile, LyX 
would rename all labels of document A (and of all documents, including 
the master) by adding a prefix DocumentA: and would update the 
references (in the same document A) to those lables accordingly (in 
our example would change \ref{LabelInA} to \ref{DocumentA:LabelInA}). 
Note that the \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB} would not be modified, and that 
would not be necessary, since the labels in document B would also be 
renamed by adding prefix DocumentB: to them.


I actually thing that, with independence of doing what I say or not, 
differentiating whether a reference points to a label in the same 
document or in another document is wise to facilitate debugging, in 
case this is necessary.



Well, one problem I can see is that this could make cut and paste 
between documents difficult. And it involves a lot of keeping track of 
what's a child of what.


But maybe something like this could be made to work. You're welcome to 
bugzilla it.


rh

Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page


D.Zorig wrote:
RH, thank you for your help.  The language is Russian.  There are 
quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments 
and following seems to work well in my case.

\hyphenpenalty=2000

\exhyphenpenalty=2000

\sloppy



Do you know any way to mix different paper formats?  My document is A4 
paper size but I need a few pages of A3 paper format for large 
flowsheet diagrams.



Unfortunately, no, but you might try posting a separate message with 
this title. Someone else may.


rh

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:57 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On 02/06/2008, at 4:13 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

  I'm taking this off list. Try downloading this version of LyX-1.5.6svn.
 LyX-1.5.x.app.zip
 (It's *not* an official release, it's just the current development build
 of 1.5.6, which may well have bugs that could cause dataloss, etc. That
 said, I tend to use these builds and have not experienced any problems with
 them.)
 It was compiled with 10.5.3 on Intel Mac, and won't work on anything less
 than 10.5-Intel. But I wonder if it works for you. If not, we can try
 getting further debug info from it, but I'll explain how later, if need be.
 Bennett



 Bennett: I was trying to compile a development version for testing myself,
 but you have made my life easier. LyX-1.5.6svn works well.


I doubt that anything has changed between 1.5.5 and 1.5.6svn that would
account for it working now. My guess is that it has something to do with
1.5.6svn being compiled on the same system as yours (Intel Mac, 10.5.3),
which makes me wonder whether something has gone wrong with our build
process for the released version. If so, we'll have the same problem for
future releases.

Perhaps at this point we should wait and see if we have other reports of
problems. (Has anyone else experienced the same problems as George?)

Bennett

Re: Collaboration using LyX in a MS Office workplace

2008-06-02 Thread Alex Fu


Hi,

David Hewitt wrote:

Check AREnable http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/, a very
good command line tool to enable comments on PDF's. That's what I
use.


Worked for me. Thanks.

The only trouble is that the rights are enabled only until the file is
saved after editing. Then it reverts to uneditable. Any ideas of what
to do without re-enabling rights each time someone wants to make
changes?


If they're tied to MS Office I would guess they're using the Windows version 
in a Windows OS.  In that case, you might try making them use PDF-XChange 
Viewer: http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer 
(it's what I use with vanilla pdflatex-generated documents).


The free version allows you to annotate PDF files (locking is *optional*, 
by default disabled).  However, after saving a PDF file with unlocked comments 
from PDF-XChange Viewer, Adobe Reader 8 Windows displays them as locked (and 
also reports it doesn't have permissions for assembly, signing, and creation 
of templates... strangely).  But if you stick to that viewer to make changes, 
commenting should work smoothly.


Alex

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-02 Thread James Sutherland

Perhaps at this point we should wait and see if we have other  
reports of

problems. (Has anyone else experienced the same problems as George?)

No problem here.  I just installed LyX 1.5.5 with OSX 10.5.3.  I am  
running an intel MacBook Pro and a MacBook.


James

Re: Changing the fonts of the Document

nobody wrote:
 One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I
 understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts.  But how can I
 say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular
 font? Or, that this document should use margins of this length?

Document-Settings-Fonts.

 Related point: I have hundreds of fonts installed under Windows, but I
 can't see them in any of the LyX menus.  How do I give LyX access to them?
 (I'm using MiKTeX - is there a command I need to run to have it load all of
 my Windows fonts?).

No. Normal LaTeX can only access its own fonts (which are usually PostScript 
fonts). You can access system (OpenType) fonts with LaTeX derivates such as 
XeTeX, which is not fully supported by LyX, though.

Jürgen

Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy

gdmj100 wrote:
 Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems
 implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I
 will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at
 implementing this into 1.6, it  seems to be a natural upgrade.

Native support is planned, but it will most likely not make it into 1.6. 
Biblatex is such a mighty package that sensible support requires some major 
changes in LyX's general bibliography handling.

However, with the workarounds described in the Wiki, it is possible to use 
biblatex in LyX without too much hassle.

Jürgen

Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-02 Thread Nicolás

Cheers,
Nicolás

rgheck wrote:

Humberto Castejon wrote:

Hi!

impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts


Hej everybody.

I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to 
copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the 
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor Selection with mouse + 3rd button 
to paste work...

I guess this issue has already been discussed ...

Thanks in advance

nicolas

Re: Problems setting up LyX


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Hello,

I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary
compatible with Etch).

I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as
possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage.

I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or
DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then
changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on
dial up at the moment).

I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but
there's not much that's intuitive.

I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions?

Kind regards,
Ryan




Once you have texlive fully installed. Run Tools-Reconfigure in LyX a
couple of times to see if it picks up the texlive installation.

Cheers,
/Bob

  

Thanks, Bob.

Merely running Reconfigure gave me access to most functions (I forgot
about that).

But now I have to downgrade to tetex if I want to use both LyX and
TeXmacs on Mepis/Etch.

Should finally be sorted after that...

Ryan

keystrokes and styles


Hi,

I'm quite new to LyX and am struggling to find a list of key strokes. 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc) 
can be assigned with keystrokes. In FreeMind we use the F keys to assign 
styles. So in my setup I have F1 for root, F2: Title, F3: Abstract, F4: 
Section, etc.


Is this possible with LyX?

Regards,
Ryan

Re: keystrokes and styles

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc)  
 can be assigned with keystrokes. 

Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly either
cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

[SOLVED]impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts


G. Milde a écrit :

On  2.06.08, nicolas roy wrote:

  
I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to  
copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the  
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor Selection with mouse + 3rd button  
to paste work...



* In my experience, it sometimes works after I have copied some test
  from within LyX... (mark text + Ctrl-C)

  

This solves the problem, indeed. But what is the reason ?

Thanks a lot, anyway !

nicolas

[SOLVED] problem with postscript figures and mac os 10.5

2008-06-02 Thread Jean Kaplan


Hello

No one answered the attached message, but I was able to solve this  
problem thanks to a message from Konrad Hofbauer on another subject.  
Konrad  indicated how to open LyX from the terminal. Doing so,  I was  
able to see that the problem originated from the program convert.  
After reinstalling a recent version of imagemagick an reconfiguring  
LyX, the problem has been solved. May be this information will help  
someone.


Jean Kaplan

Début du message réexpédié :


De : Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date : 26 mai 2008 11:33:07 HAEC
À : LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Objet : problem with postscript figures and mac os 10.5

Hello

I work with a powerbook G4, and now with mac os 10.5.2, to which I  
recently migrated from the last version of mac os 10.4. Since then I  
have the following problem: some postscript figures, but not all, do  
not show up in lyx, although they appear correctly in the typeset  
tex file. The lyx diagnostic is erreur lors de la conversion vers  
un format lisible, which means in english error while converting  
to a readable format. The strange fact is that some figures are  
correctly displayed while others, very similar, are not displayed. I  
have two examples of two figures, one of which is a simple  
modification of the other, and one is displayed and the other not.  
The path for all figures is the same and is the full one. Most of my  
figures are created using xfig, but the problem does not seem to be  
linked with that. It occurs also for figures created with  
mathematica and excel.


Did anybody experience the same problem, and/or knows how to solve it?

Jean Kaplan

Re: impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts

On  2.06.08, nicolas roy wrote:

 I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to  
 copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the  
 keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor Selection with mouse + 3rd button  
 to paste work...

There might be a number of causes:

* not all other programs implement the X-selection protocoll in a failproof
  and modern way. - Try with a selection of other programs (best some Qt,
  some GTK and some pure x programs and maybe also the xclip command line
  program).
  
* running a clipboard application can interfere.

* running several LyX instances in parallel mith pose a problem.

* In my experience, it sometimes works after I have copied some test
  from within LyX... (mark text + Ctrl-C)

 I guess this issue has already been discussed ...

It has:

http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.editors.lyx.generalquery=selection

BTW: it would be nice to have a link to search the lists on
 http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists
 
Günter

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


George G. Szegö wrote:

I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I
updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the
operating system yesterday.


Can you start LyX from the Terminal and see if there is any output on 
the Terminal?

You do this with a command like this (adapt the path to your LyX.app):
/Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx

Also, you could try starting LyX in debug mode and post the output here 
with:

/Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg any

Regards,
Konrad

Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?


Hi

I have chosen document class report

i have chapter 1, with section 1.1, and subsections 1.1.1 and 1.1.2

Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to  
2.0.3?


I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?



JonB

Re: 1.6 release

2008-06-02 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof


Abdelrazak Younes skrev:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Hi

How is it going along with version 1.6?
According to the release schedule alpha 2 has been released, but beta 
1 and 2 should also have been released, but have not.

Also even though alpha 2 should be out there, I can not find it.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule, and I can't find a release 
anywhere.


--
Rune

Re: 1.6 release


Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes skrev:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Hi

How is it going along with version 1.6?
According to the release schedule alpha 2 has been released, but 
beta 1 and 2 should also have been released, but have not.

Also even though alpha 2 should be out there, I can not find it.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule, and I can't find a 
release anywhere.

Shxxxt happens sometimes :-)
Hopefully a beta2 will appear soon.

Abdel.

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?

On  2.06.08, Jon Bendtsen wrote:

 I have chosen document class report
...
 Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to 
 2.0.3?

 I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?

This is strange indeed and should not happen. It is also not yet heard
of, so I do not epxect this to be default behaviour.

Try to create a *minimal* example that shows this behaviour and post it
here. (Maybe in the course you will even find the reason in some part of
your document.)

Günter

converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

2008-06-02 Thread ian.ogilvy

We were in the process of moving some documentation from being
maintained by open office over to lyx.

The process started and all was going well, then the computers being
used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b,
writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by open office.

Lyx can import the latex output by 0.4b quite well, but stumbles
completely at the new output produced by version 0.5.  

I would hate abort the process of migrating the documentation in
question to Lyx as some sub documents have already been edited in lyx
with very satisfactory results.

Does anyone know a solution to converting open office documents to latex
that lyx can read given that writer2latex 0.5 creates such problems for
lyx?

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?

2008-06-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi

 I have chosen document class report

 i have chapter 1, with section 1.1, and subsections 1.1.1 and 1.1.2

 Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to
 2.0.3?

 I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?

I am not surprised that LyX does that (this is how I coded it :), but
what does the LaTeX output look like?

subsections are rest with each new section, not each new chapter.

JMarc

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?



On 02/06/2008, at 16.10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


subsections are rest with each new section, not each new chapter.


why do chapters restore new sections, but not new subsections?


It is coded like that (and matches LaTeX, I just checked) because one
is not supposed to have a subsection without an enclosing section


Okay. I just dont like using a section right there, and i dont fancy  
moving

my subsections up to section level, so i have decided to use subsection*
and avoid the numbering problem.

Maybe i should start using parts


JonB

Re: converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

FreeMind can handle simple documents. If you select all in Writer and 
copy and paste into FreeMind, then you can export using the included 
XSLT script (accessories folder) to LaTeX book or LaTeX article with 
good results. We just got a bug report today that copy and paste from 
Writer in FreeMind 0.9 beta is broken, so you will need the stable 
0.8.1. If your documents are very big, pressing alt+home will fold all 
and counteract any speed lag.


https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118

Also I see LyX imports MS word documents and plain text. So you can 
always save your files in that format and then import them in LyX.


Lastly, you could always Google for an XSLT script that handles 
ODT--LaTeX. There may be more one option.


Regards,
Ryan

ian.ogilvy wrote:

We were in the process of moving some documentation from being
maintained by open office over to lyx.

The process started and all was going well, then the computers being
used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b,
writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by open office.

Lyx can import the latex output by 0.4b quite well, but stumbles
completely at the new output produced by version 0.5.  


I would hate abort the process of migrating the documentation in
question to Lyx as some sub documents have already been edited in lyx
with very satisfactory results.

Does anyone know a solution to converting open office documents to latex
that lyx can read given that writer2latex 0.5 creates such problems for
lyx?

Re: 1.6 release


Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule,


I updated it.


and I can't find a release anywhere.


I announced the Win version for beta 1 here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg65030.html

But be careful as this version includes a dataloss bug, so beta 2 will follow 
soon.

regards Uwe

Re: 1.6 release


Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule,


I updated it.


and I can't find a release anywhere.


I announced the Win version for beta 1 here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg65030.html

But be careful as this version includes a dataloss bug, so beta 2 will 
follow soon.

That's why I marked it as Cancelled

Abdel.

unicode in math (was: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document)

On 29.05.08, G. Milde wrote:
 On 28.05.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
  Helge Hafting wrote:
  Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

  How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths?

  In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I
  guess.
  This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is  
  normally used in math. The only strange thing about it was that it
  was in unicode rather than spelled out \delta. 

 Support for individuall unicode characters in math can be achieved easily
 with lines like

 % centered dot
 \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00B7}{\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi}

 in the LaTeX preamble (from Herbert Voss' de_math.lyx tips)
 without any change to the LyX code.

Unfortunately, this fails if the character in question is the first
character in a math array or equationarray (and similar).
See attached file math-inputenc-test.lyx.

(This is usually not a problem with characters like the centered dot
(Malzeichen) or \textdegree.)

 As with all common LaTeX problems, there should be a package providing
 this kind of table.

There are two packages supporting unicode in math (at least partially):

1. Package ucs and its utf8x font encoding together with 
   \SetUnicodeOption{mathletters} in the LaTeX preamble.
   
   + simple, all requirements are part of TeXLive (and probabely most
 other standard TeX distributions)
 
   - Not suited for Greek text
   - set of math unicode chars not easily extendable,
 5·3 becomes 5Δ3.
 
   see attachment math-inputenc-ucs-test.lyx

2. The experimental package inpmath
   http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/inpmath.zip
   
   + extensible 
   + works also parallel to LGR encoding for Greek text
   
   - experimental package not in TeXLive
   - no pre-defined MathMeaning for Greek symbols

   see attachment math-inpmath-test.lyx
   
All attachements work with my lyx 1.5.5 on Debian (after installing
inpmath).

Günter



math-inputenc-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


math-inputenc-ucs-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


math-inpmath-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

Bennett Helm wrote:

 I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything
 like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted.

Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?

 Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works?

In case of that bug reinstalling did not help, and it did not crash.


Georg

Re: Greek fonts


Liviu Andronic schrieb:


while for the Greek font I use:
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}

 \usepackage[greek, english]{babel}

You don't need both, this is handled (and automatically inserted) by LyX.

regards Uwe

Greek fonts

2008-06-02 Thread Liviu Andronic

Hello everyone,

I currently write a multi-lingual document (containing English and
Greek text), of very simple structure. I use Palatino as the default
font (selected via LyX), while for the Greek font I use:
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
\usepackage[10pt]{type1ec}
\usepackage[greek, english]{babel}

I you write similar documents, how do you select Greek fonts? What is
the font of your choice?

Thank you,
Liviu

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Bennett Helm wrote:

  I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen
 anything
  like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted.

 Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?


It doesn't look like it. (I've attached the screenshot here.)

Bennett
attachment: LyX 1.5.5.png

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:57 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On 01/06/2008, at 9:09 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

  I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything
 like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted.
 Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works?


 Sorry, Bennett. I have downloaded the LyX-1.5.5-Mac-Universal.dmg binary
 file and reinstalled, but still no luck.
 This is just a weird problem and I don't think there is an easy diagnosis.
 I'll continue using the earlier version 1.5.4
 for now. If I figure out what's wrong, I'll let you know.
 I truly appreciate your help.


George -

Please make sure you cc the user's list so that other can benefit from your
experience (and any solution we might find).

I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to me). It
looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening some files, and I
wonder whether there are problems that result from that. Try moving aside
your preferences file (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences)
and restarting LyX-1.5.5. Does that fix the problem?

You might also try keeping your preferences file but instead deleting all
your cache files (in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/cache/) and
launching LyX. Does that do it?

Bennett

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


On 02/06/2008, at 3:28 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to  
me). It looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening  
some files, and I wonder whether there are problems that result from  
that. Try moving aside your preferences file (at ~/Library/ 
Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences) and restarting LyX-1.5.5.  
Does that fix the problem?
You might also try keeping your preferences file but instead  
deleting all your cache files (in ~/Library/Application Support/ 
LyX-1.5/cache/) and launching LyX. Does that do it?


Bennett,
Sorry, but neither setting aside the preference file, nor cleaning the  
cache directory solved the issue.

Any more ideas?
Cheers,
George

smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Bennett Helm wrote:

I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to me). It
looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening some files, and I
wonder whether there are problems that result from that. 


Problems seem to start already much earlier, right at the beginning 
(line 70), with:


Mon Jun  2 12:04:33 ggszego.local lyx[3331] Error: 
CGBitmapContextCreate: unsupported parameter combination: 8 integer 
bits/component; 8 bits/pixel; 0-component colorspace; 
kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst; 16 bytes/row.

QPaintDevice: Unable to create context for pixmap (4/4/64)

George: Blind guess: In System Preferences - Displays, how many colours 
have you set? Thousands or Millions?


Bennett: should we put this on bugzilla and/or report to devel?

/Konrad

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Bennett Helm wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Georg Baum 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:


Bennett Helm wrote:

  I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen
anything
  like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was
corrupted.

Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?


It doesn't look like it. (I've attached the screenshot here.)


This looks like lib/ui/stdtoolbar.ui file is corrupted because all 
toolbars seems to be loaded with no icons.
George, could you please delete your resource directory (the one 
containing the above file) and reinstall again?


Abdel.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Bennett Helm wrote:

 I looked at the dbg output you sent to Konrad (which he forwarded to me).
 It
 looks like when you launch LyX, it's automatically opening some files, and
 I
 wonder whether there are problems that result from that.


 Problems seem to start already much earlier, right at the beginning (line
 70), with:

 Mon Jun  2 12:04:33 ggszego.local lyx[3331] Error: CGBitmapContextCreate:
 unsupported parameter combination: 8 integer bits/component; 8 bits/pixel;
 0-component colorspace; kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst; 16 bytes/row.
 QPaintDevice: Unable to create context for pixmap (4/4/64)

 George: Blind guess: In System Preferences - Displays, how many colours
 have you set? Thousands or Millions?

 Bennett: should we put this on bugzilla and/or report to devel?


I've provided George a fresh build with debug info for 10.5-Intel. Let's see
how that goes first.

Bennett

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

Bennett Helm wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Georg Baum
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?
 
 
 It doesn't look like it. (I've attached the screenshot here.)

Yes, that is completely different. Do you have any idea about bug 4907? Or
is OS X 10.3.9 too old nowadays? That would be a pity, that machine is
ideal for travelling and has more than enough power for writing.


Georg

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update



On 02/06/2008, at 4:13 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

I'm taking this off list. Try downloading this version of  
LyX-1.5.6svn.

LyX-1.5.x.app.zip
(It's *not* an official release, it's just the current development  
build of 1.5.6, which may well have bugs that could cause dataloss,  
etc. That said, I tend to use these builds and have not experienced  
any problems with them.)
It was compiled with 10.5.3 on Intel Mac, and won't work on anything  
less than 10.5-Intel. But I wonder if it works for you. If not, we  
can try getting further debug info from it, but I'll explain how  
later, if need be.

Bennett



Bennett: I was trying to compile a development version for testing  
myself, but you have made my life easier. LyX-1.5.6svn works well.


George: Blind guess: In System Preferences - Displays, how many  
colours have you set? Thousands or Millions?



Konrad: I have set Millions of colours and the Display profile is the  
default iMac.


Thank you both very much,
George

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Re: Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents


Nicolás wrote:
You are right in that we may have cross-references between children 
documents. I still think that my proposal of automatically renaming 
labels is a good idea. What you say is actually not a problem is a 
little of care is taken by LyX when inserting cros-references.


Imagine we are working in document A and want to insert a reference to 
a label LabelInA in the same document. Then LyX would introduce the 
reference as usual, i.e. \ref{LabelInA}. Now we want to insert a 
reference to a label LabelInB in same document B. LyX would detect 
that the label is in another document (easy, since we have to choose 
that document in the cross-references dialog) and introduce the 
reference as, e.g., \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB}.
Now, when we include document A in a third document and compile, LyX 
would rename all labels of document A (and of all documents, including 
the master) by adding a prefix DocumentA: and would update the 
references (in the same document A) to those lables accordingly (in 
our example would change \ref{LabelInA} to \ref{DocumentA:LabelInA}). 
Note that the \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB} would not be modified, and that 
would not be necessary, since the labels in document B would also be 
renamed by adding prefix DocumentB: to them.


I actually thing that, with independence of doing what I say or not, 
differentiating whether a reference points to a label in the same 
document or in another document is wise to facilitate debugging, in 
case this is necessary.



Well, one problem I can see is that this could make cut and paste 
between documents difficult. And it involves a lot of keeping track of 
what's a child of what.


But maybe something like this could be made to work. You're welcome to 
bugzilla it.


rh

Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page


D.Zorig wrote:
RH, thank you for your help.  The language is Russian.  There are 
quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments 
and following seems to work well in my case.

\hyphenpenalty=2000

\exhyphenpenalty=2000

\sloppy



Do you know any way to mix different paper formats?  My document is A4 
paper size but I need a few pages of A3 paper format for large 
flowsheet diagrams.



Unfortunately, no, but you might try posting a separate message with 
this title. Someone else may.


rh

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:57 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On 02/06/2008, at 4:13 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:

  I'm taking this off list. Try downloading this version of LyX-1.5.6svn.
 LyX-1.5.x.app.zip
 (It's *not* an official release, it's just the current development build
 of 1.5.6, which may well have bugs that could cause dataloss, etc. That
 said, I tend to use these builds and have not experienced any problems with
 them.)
 It was compiled with 10.5.3 on Intel Mac, and won't work on anything less
 than 10.5-Intel. But I wonder if it works for you. If not, we can try
 getting further debug info from it, but I'll explain how later, if need be.
 Bennett



 Bennett: I was trying to compile a development version for testing myself,
 but you have made my life easier. LyX-1.5.6svn works well.


I doubt that anything has changed between 1.5.5 and 1.5.6svn that would
account for it working now. My guess is that it has something to do with
1.5.6svn being compiled on the same system as yours (Intel Mac, 10.5.3),
which makes me wonder whether something has gone wrong with our build
process for the released version. If so, we'll have the same problem for
future releases.

Perhaps at this point we should wait and see if we have other reports of
problems. (Has anyone else experienced the same problems as George?)

Bennett

Re: Collaboration using LyX in a MS Office workplace

2008-06-02 Thread Alex Fu


Hi,

David Hewitt wrote:

Check AREnable http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/, a very
good command line tool to enable comments on PDF's. That's what I
use.


Worked for me. Thanks.

The only trouble is that the rights are enabled only until the file is
saved after editing. Then it reverts to uneditable. Any ideas of what
to do without re-enabling rights each time someone wants to make
changes?


If they're tied to MS Office I would guess they're using the Windows version 
in a Windows OS.  In that case, you might try making them use PDF-XChange 
Viewer: http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer 
(it's what I use with vanilla pdflatex-generated documents).


The free version allows you to annotate PDF files (locking is *optional*, 
by default disabled).  However, after saving a PDF file with unlocked comments 
from PDF-XChange Viewer, Adobe Reader 8 Windows displays them as locked (and 
also reports it doesn't have permissions for assembly, signing, and creation 
of templates... strangely).  But if you stick to that viewer to make changes, 
commenting should work smoothly.


Alex

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-02 Thread James Sutherland

Perhaps at this point we should wait and see if we have other  
reports of

problems. (Has anyone else experienced the same problems as George?)

No problem here.  I just installed LyX 1.5.5 with OSX 10.5.3.  I am  
running an intel MacBook Pro and a MacBook.


James

Re: Changing the fonts of the Document

nobody wrote:
> One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I
> understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts.  But how can I
> say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular
> font? Or, that this document should use margins of this length?

Document->Settings->Fonts.

> Related point: I have hundreds of fonts installed under Windows, but I
> can't see them in any of the LyX menus.  How do I give LyX access to them?
> (I'm using MiKTeX - is there a command I need to run to have it load all of
> my Windows fonts?).

No. Normal LaTeX can only access its own fonts (which are usually PostScript 
fonts). You can access system (OpenType) fonts with LaTeX derivates such as 
XeTeX, which is not fully supported by LyX, though.

Jürgen

Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy

gdmj100 wrote:
> Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems
> implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I
> will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at
> implementing this into 1.6, it  seems to be a natural upgrade.

Native support is planned, but it will most likely not make it into 1.6. 
Biblatex is such a mighty package that sensible support requires some major 
changes in LyX's general bibliography handling.

However, with the workarounds described in the Wiki, it is possible to use 
biblatex in LyX without too much hassle.

Jürgen

Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-02 Thread Nicolás

Imagine we are working in document A and want to insert a reference to a label "LabelInA" in the same document. Then LyX would
introduce the reference as usual, i.e. \ref{LabelInA}. Now we want to insert a reference to a label "LabelInB" in same document B. LyX
would detect that the label is in another document (easy, since we have to choose that document in the cross-references dialog) and
introduce the reference as, e.g., \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB}.
Now, when we include document A in a third document and compile, LyX would rename all labels of document A (and of all documents,
including the master) by adding a prefix "DocumentA:" and would update the references (in the same document A) to those lables
accordingly (in our example would change \ref{LabelInA} to \ref{DocumentA:LabelInA}). Note that the \ref{DocumentB:LabelInB} would not
be modified, and that would not be necessary, since the labels in document B would also be renamed by adding prefix "DocumentB:" to them.

Cheers,
Nicolás

rgheck wrote:

Humberto Castejon wrote:

Hi!

impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts


Hej everybody.

I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to 
copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the 
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor "Selection with mouse + 3rd button 
to paste" work...

I guess this issue has already been discussed ...

Thanks in advance

nicolas

Re: Problems setting up LyX


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

Hello,

I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary
compatible with Etch).

I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as
possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage.

I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or
DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then
changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on
dial up at the moment).

I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but
there's not much that's intuitive.

I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions?

Kind regards,
Ryan




Once you have texlive fully installed. Run Tools->Reconfigure in LyX a
couple of times to see if it picks up the texlive installation.

Cheers,
/Bob

  

Thanks, Bob.

Merely running Reconfigure gave me access to most functions (I forgot
about that).

But now I have to downgrade to tetex if I want to use both LyX and
TeXmacs on Mepis/Etch.

Should finally be sorted after that...

Ryan

keystrokes and styles


Hi,

I'm quite new to LyX and am struggling to find a list of key strokes. 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc) 
can be assigned with keystrokes. In FreeMind we use the F keys to assign 
styles. So in my setup I have F1 for root, F2: Title, F3: Abstract, F4: 
Section, etc.


Is this possible with LyX?

Regards,
Ryan

Re: keystrokes and styles

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

> Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc)  
> can be assigned with keystrokes. 

Yes. See Help>Customization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the "emulation mode", most commonly either
"cua" or "emacs" and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

[SOLVED]impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts


G. Milde a écrit :

On  2.06.08, nicolas roy wrote:

  
I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to  
copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the  
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor "Selection with mouse + 3rd button  
to paste" work...



* In my experience, it sometimes works after I have copied some test
  from within LyX... (mark text + Ctrl-C)

  

This solves the problem, indeed. But what is the reason ?

Thanks a lot, anyway !

nicolas

[SOLVED] problem with postscript figures and mac os 10.5

2008-06-02 Thread Jean Kaplan


Hello

No one answered the attached message, but I was able to solve this  
problem thanks to a message from Konrad Hofbauer on another subject.  
Konrad  indicated how to open LyX from the terminal. Doing so,  I was  
able to see that the problem originated from the program "convert".  
After reinstalling a recent version of "imagemagick" an reconfiguring  
LyX, the problem has been solved. May be this information will help  
someone.


Jean Kaplan

Début du message réexpédié :


De : Jean Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date : 26 mai 2008 11:33:07 HAEC
À : LyX User 
Objet : problem with postscript figures and mac os 10.5

Hello

I work with a powerbook G4, and now with mac os 10.5.2, to which I  
recently migrated from the last version of mac os 10.4. Since then I  
have the following problem: some postscript figures, but not all, do  
not show up in lyx, although they appear correctly in the typeset  
tex file. The lyx diagnostic is "erreur lors de la conversion vers  
un format lisible", which means in english "error while converting  
to a readable format". The strange fact is that some figures are  
correctly displayed while others, very similar, are not displayed. I  
have two examples of two figures, one of which is a simple  
modification of the other, and one is displayed and the other not.  
The path for all figures is the same and is the full one. Most of my  
figures are created using xfig, but the problem does not seem to be  
linked with that. It occurs also for figures created with  
mathematica and excel.


Did anybody experience the same problem, and/or knows how to solve it?

Jean Kaplan

Re: impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts

On  2.06.08, nicolas roy wrote:

> I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to  
> copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the  
> keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor "Selection with mouse + 3rd button  
> to paste" work...

There might be a number of causes:

* not all other programs implement the X-selection protocoll in a failproof
  and modern way. -> Try with a selection of other programs (best some Qt,
  some GTK and some "pure" x programs and maybe also the xclip command line
  program).

* running a "clipboard" application can interfere.

* running several LyX instances in parallel mith pose a problem.

* In my experience, it sometimes works after I have copied some test
  from within LyX... (mark text + Ctrl-C)

> I guess this issue has already been discussed ...

It has:

http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.editors.lyx.general=selection

BTW: it would be nice to have a link to search the lists on
 http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists

Günter

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


George G. Szegö wrote:

I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I
updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the
operating system yesterday.


Can you start LyX from the Terminal and see if there is any output on 
the Terminal?

You do this with a command like this (adapt the path to your LyX.app):
/Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx

Also, you could try starting LyX in debug mode and post the output here 
with:

/Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg any

Regards,
Konrad

Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?


Hi

I have chosen document class report

i have chapter 1, with section 1.1, and subsections 1.1.1 and 1.1.2

Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to  
2.0.3?


I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?



JonB

Re: 1.6 release

2008-06-02 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof


Abdelrazak Younes skrev:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Hi

How is it going along with version 1.6?
According to the release schedule alpha 2 has been released, but beta 
1 and 2 should also have been released, but have not.

Also even though alpha 2 should be out there, I can not find it.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule, and I can't find a release 
anywhere.


--
Rune

Re: 1.6 release


Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes skrev:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:

Hi

How is it going along with version 1.6?
According to the release schedule alpha 2 has been released, but 
beta 1 and 2 should also have been released, but have not.

Also even though alpha 2 should be out there, I can not find it.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule, and I can't find a 
release anywhere.

Shxxxt happens sometimes :-)
Hopefully a beta2 will appear soon.

Abdel.

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?

On  2.06.08, Jon Bendtsen wrote:

> I have chosen document class report
...
> Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to 
> 2.0.3?

> I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?

This is strange indeed and should not happen. It is also not yet heard
of, so I do not epxect this to be default behaviour.

Try to create a *minimal* example that shows this behaviour and post it
here. (Maybe in the course you will even find the reason in some part of
your document.)

Günter

converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

2008-06-02 Thread ian.ogilvy

We were in the process of moving some documentation from being
maintained by open office over to lyx.

The process started and all was going well, then the computers being
used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b,
writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by open office.

Lyx can import the latex output by 0.4b quite well, but stumbles
completely at the new output produced by version 0.5.  

I would hate abort the process of migrating the documentation in
question to Lyx as some sub documents have already been edited in lyx
with very satisfactory results.

Does anyone know a solution to converting open office documents to latex
that lyx can read given that writer2latex 0.5 creates such problems for
lyx?

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?

2008-06-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

Jon Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi
>
> I have chosen document class report
>
> i have chapter 1, with section 1.1, and subsections 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
>
> Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to
> 2.0.3?
>
> I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3?

I am not surprised that LyX does that (this is how I coded it :), but
what does the LaTeX output look like?

subsections are rest with each new section, not each new chapter.

JMarc

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?



On 02/06/2008, at 16.10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Jon Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


subsections are rest with each new section, not each new chapter.


why do chapters restore new sections, but not new subsections?


It is coded like that (and matches LaTeX, I just checked) because one
is not supposed to have a subsection without an enclosing section


Okay. I just dont like using a section right there, and i dont fancy  
moving

my subsections up to section level, so i have decided to use subsection*
and avoid the numbering problem.

Maybe i should start using parts


JonB

Re: converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

FreeMind can handle simple documents. If you select all in Writer and 
copy and paste into FreeMind, then you can export using the included 
XSLT script (accessories folder) to LaTeX book or LaTeX article with 
good results. We just got a bug report today that copy and paste from 
Writer in FreeMind 0.9 beta is broken, so you will need the stable 
0.8.1. If your documents are very big, pressing alt+home will fold all 
and counteract any speed lag.


https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118

Also I see LyX imports MS word documents and plain text. So you can 
always save your files in that format and then import them in LyX.


Lastly, you could always Google for an XSLT script that handles 
ODT-->LaTeX. There may be more one option.


Regards,
Ryan

ian.ogilvy wrote:

We were in the process of moving some documentation from being
maintained by open office over to lyx.

The process started and all was going well, then the computers being
used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b,
writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by open office.

Lyx can import the latex output by 0.4b quite well, but stumbles
completely at the new output produced by version 0.5.  


I would hate abort the process of migrating the documentation in
question to Lyx as some sub documents have already been edited in lyx
with very satisfactory results.

Does anyone know a solution to converting open office documents to latex
that lyx can read given that writer2latex 0.5 creates such problems for
lyx?

Re: 1.6 release


Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule,


I updated it.


and I can't find a release anywhere.


I announced the Win version for beta 1 here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg65030.html

But be careful as this version includes a dataloss bug, so beta 2 will follow 
soon.

regards Uwe

Re: 1.6 release


Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule


I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least 
that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-)


Hmm. What happened?
No status on beta 1 on the release schedule,


I updated it.


and I can't find a release anywhere.


I announced the Win version for beta 1 here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg65030.html

But be careful as this version includes a dataloss bug, so beta 2 will 
follow soon.

That's why I marked it as "Cancelled"

Abdel.

unicode in math (was: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document)

On 29.05.08, G. Milde wrote:
> On 28.05.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > Helge Hafting wrote:
> >> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> >>> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

>  How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths?

> >>> In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I
> >>> guess.
> >> This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is  
> >> normally used in math. The only strange thing about it was that it
> >> was in unicode rather than spelled out \delta. 

> Support for individuall unicode characters in math can be achieved easily
> with lines like

> % centered dot
> \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00B7}{\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi}

> in the LaTeX preamble (from Herbert Voss' "de_math.lyx" tips)
> without any change to the LyX code.

Unfortunately, this fails if the character in question is the first
character in a math array or equationarray (and similar).
See attached file math-inputenc-test.lyx.

(This is usually not a problem with characters like the centered dot
(Malzeichen) or \textdegree.)

> As with all common LaTeX problems, there should be a package providing
> this kind of table.

There are two packages supporting unicode in math (at least partially):

1. Package ucs and its utf8x font encoding together with 
   \SetUnicodeOption{mathletters} in the LaTeX preamble.
   
   + simple, all requirements are part of TeXLive (and probabely most
 other standard TeX distributions)
 
   - Not suited for Greek text
   - set of math unicode chars not easily extendable,
 5·3 becomes 5Δ3.
 
   see attachment math-inputenc-ucs-test.lyx

2. The experimental package inpmath
   http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/inpmath.zip
   
   + extensible 
   + works also parallel to LGR encoding for Greek text
   
   - experimental package not in TeXLive
   - no pre-defined MathMeaning for Greek symbols

   see attachment math-inpmath-test.lyx
   
All attachements work with my lyx 1.5.5 on Debian (after installing
inpmath).

Günter



math-inputenc-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


math-inputenc-ucs-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


math-inpmath-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

Bennett Helm wrote:

> I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything
> like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted.

Which screenshot? Does it look like the problem in
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4907 ?

> Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works?

In case of that bug reinstalling did not help, and it did not crash.

Georg

Re: Greek fonts