Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
The new features are a great improvement and make my everyday life certainly easier, so I definetly like that and would like to thank you for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. cheers, peerlynt
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
Hi José, in general, I very much enjoyed the overall energy that went into the release. Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I really enjoy working with this release. Also, from what I see in the young 1.6.x cycle, 1.6.0 seems to be relatively stable, given the loads of new features and core revisions that went into it. Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the maintainer in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid bug fixing only stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. All only my 2¢, of course. Jürgen José Matos wrote: Hi all, in order to improve the development process of LyX I would to call for feedback regarding the development of 1.6.0 I have decide to wait a bit before asking for a public evaluation avoid the transient state that occurs after the release. We are now in a better way to evaluate the procedure with enough distance as to guarantee a more objective view while at the same time the details are still fresh in memory. What did you like in the development of 1.6.0 and what do you think that could be improved? Regards,
MacPort to get rtf2latex2e
To use Import RTF in LyX 1.6 on Mac-OSX I downloaded and installed MacPort, because the rtf2latex2e modul/application(?) is said to be Unix. But I have problems to use the MacPort at all, not even to know wether it is correctly installed. In the thread Import RTF Lyx 1.6 error I had no answer from Konrad Hofbauer or someone else for my problem. So I try again with the specific subject - knowing that this this is beneath the focus of this LyX-list. But it's a problem to use a LyX feature on MacOSX. So if somebody has installed MacPorts and can give a hint, I'll thankful. joachim Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Joachim Kreimer-de Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 7. Dezember 2008 14:52:59 MEZ Betreff: Re: Import RTF Lyx 1.6 error Am 04.12.2008 um 15:49 schrieb Konrad Hofbauer: If there is no native os x version, then install macports (http:// www.macports.org/), and from there install the needed packages. I made the same experience as Joachim K. Rennstich, so I followed the advice of Konrad Hofbauer, downloaded the Mac-OSX 10.4 Tiger version of MacPorts, made the standard MacPorts-1.6.0-10.4-Tiger.dmg installing, the installer program said MacPorts have been successfully installed at your system or the like, but now I'm puzzling about: == How to install the needed packages (i. e. the rtf2latex2e script or package) from there (MacPorts?). Testwise I called in the Terminal sudo port -d selfupdate with the answer: sudo: port: command not found Konrad or others, can you tell me how to install rtf2latex2e with MacPorts? How can I proof if MacPorts is installed rightly, how to run it? Hopefully, joachim -- MacTeXLive 2008 - TeXShop 2.18-svn - LyX 1.6 MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger
Re: MacPort to get rtf2latex2e
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: But I have problems to use the MacPort at all, not even to know wether it is correctly installed. In the thread Import RTF Lyx 1.6 error I had no answer from Konrad Hofbauer or someone else for my problem. So I ... must have missed that (or not known an answer). == How to install the needed packages (i. e. the rtf2latex2e script or package) from there (MacPorts?). Testwise I called in the Terminal sudo port -d selfupdate with the answer: sudo: port: command not found This indicates that your Macports-installation does not work (i.e., you seem to have the Macports stuff not in your PATH). This list is the wrong place for this, ask at the Macports list. I assume you ran the Installer, but something went wrong. Read: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell Konrad or others, can you tell me how to install rtf2latex2e with MacPorts? How can I proof if MacPorts is installed rightly, how to run it? To see what exists: $ port search rtf2latex rtf2latex tex/rtf2latex 1.5 Filter to convert RTF text into LaTeX code rtf2latex2etex/rtf2latex2e 1.0fc1 Filter to convert rtf files into LaTeX2e code. To install: $ sudo port install rtf2latex2e [And now it would tell you that it fetches the package, configures, compiles, installs, etc.] HTH, Konrad
Re: can't produce smaller page-sizes
Any hope for a comment? Should I file a bug report?.. Not yet, first find out if it is LaTeX or LyX... I have a strange problem trying to change a document to smaller page-size 7.50x9.25 in. The produced DVI and PDF (pdflatex) files both have letter-sized (or is it A4?) pages Bewildered, I even opened an older document, produced with LyX-1.5.4 and tried to re-generate the PDF. Unlike the older version, LyX-1.5.7 produced a PDF with letter-sized pages... Normally this is handled by LaTeX. Did you change anything in your LaTeX setup and configuration? Is there a regression in LyX-1.5.7? Inside the file I can see the relevant pieces set correctly: \paperorientation portrait \paperwidth 7.5in \paperheight 9.25in \leftmargin 28mm \topmargin 15mm \rightmargin 15mm \bottommargin 15mm \headheight 1cm \headsep 1cm \footskip 1cm Could you find out if the paperwidth and paperheight arguments are correct in the exported LaTeX source (or with ViewSource)? Could you compare exported LaTeX files from 1.5.4 and 1.5.7? Günter
Re: Sweave
rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yy191502 wrote: I am using LyX 1.6.0, R 2.8.0, and MiKTeX 2.7 on Windows XP PC. I am trying to use the Sweave to create literate-article documents. Ultimately fail when I try to produce any layout by any method. I get the following error information, An error occured whilst running R CMD Sweave mySweave.Rnw . why is that? Any your advice on how to troubleshoot this would be very much appreciated. One problem I know about is that your R code cannot read a data file without giving a full path to this file. JMarc
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. I think you what you wrote is useful feedback, impressions do matter. And more specifically, we now know it wasn't just James that had this perspective. So if you (or others) have more thoughts, and perhaps ideas on how to do things better, please share them! Thanks and sincere regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this. Making LyX more visible and easy to install might be what lured them in :-) Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. I agree! The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the maintainer in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid bug fixing only stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I'm inclined to agree, and it's not that different from the current description (http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes) Release candidate (prerelease) A release candidate is a release of the LyX software from the development source code at a point when only bug fixes are expected to be added before the first stable release. If the bug fix requires a file format change then OK. The question is how José interprets the above. /Christian PS. José is the original author of that descirption. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I think this is a worry that several people have expressed in one form or another: that the early rcx releases were a bit too beta. But I'm guessing we thought they were more stable than they turned out to be and only found out what the real problems were once people started using them for real, which they only did once they were called release candidates. So it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. rh
graphs in color
Some of my color graphs in .eps format come out in black and white when inserted in to my lyx file. They come out this way both in the on-screen preview and in the compiled .pdf file. Other seemingly similar color .eps files come out in color. I'm using the beamer style, but I think this happens in other styles too. thanks, jonathan
Re: Specific converter and child documents
Any news about this matter? I'd like to see it integrated somehow into lyx. There's also well known script called sierotki.el which works, as I read, well with emacs. I've to emphasize that eliminating that single letters on the end of each line in polish typography is very important. Can I somehow help? 2008/11/16 Tomasz Kołodziejski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, I think it'd be quite useful. My script is very easy and as far as I remember it can break something when in your image there's such a single letter (it's stupid and inserts ~ almost everywhere ;-)). You can see it here - http://neo.mlodzi.pl/sierotki (three links described in polish: sierotki - script adding ~, pdflatex_pl described in my previous post and licence) Now you can also try a bug I was writing about. Pozdrawiam ;-)
RE: using ACM SIGGRAPH layout
Any progress on getting this to work properly? I'm happy to be a guinea pig because I'm going to be submitting a paper to the SIGGRAPH conference at the end of January. I'm highly motivated to make this work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:54 AM To: Manveru Cc: Brian Guenter; LyX User Subject: Re: using ACM SIGGRAPH layout Manveru schrieb: If yes - try to add siggraph package from the MikTeX Package Manager (available from menu group of MikTex). This file is not the official one and it is not recommended to use it for submissions. %BEEP% I do not have LyX layout for siggraph only for sigplan. Do you have your layout file for this style? LyX didn't yet have a layout file for acmsiggraph, but I now created one. You find it together with the installation instructions and an example file here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSiggraph Please test it out and report me back. When you can use it successfully, I will include the layout file to the next LyX version. regards Uwe
line breaks in tabulars
Hi, I have a simular question to one posted by Jeremy about a year ago (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg56795.html [http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg56795.html]). I do want to use automatic line breaks in LaTex tabulars since I do have cells that contain lots of text. The tabular environments I am using are e.g. xtab, sidewaystable, tabular, supertabular, ... The suggested solution back then was: set the width of that particular column to a fixed amount Can anybody help me out how to do that in LaTex (example code)? I am currently still using LaTex, not Lyx... Best, Pascal Pt! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: *http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123* [http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123]
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
The new features are a great improvement and make my everyday life certainly easier, so I definetly like that and would like to thank you for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. cheers, peerlynt
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
Hi José, in general, I very much enjoyed the overall energy that went into the release. Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I really enjoy working with this release. Also, from what I see in the young 1.6.x cycle, 1.6.0 seems to be relatively stable, given the loads of new features and core revisions that went into it. Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the maintainer in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid bug fixing only stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. All only my 2¢, of course. Jürgen José Matos wrote: Hi all, in order to improve the development process of LyX I would to call for feedback regarding the development of 1.6.0 I have decide to wait a bit before asking for a public evaluation avoid the transient state that occurs after the release. We are now in a better way to evaluate the procedure with enough distance as to guarantee a more objective view while at the same time the details are still fresh in memory. What did you like in the development of 1.6.0 and what do you think that could be improved? Regards,
MacPort to get rtf2latex2e
To use Import RTF in LyX 1.6 on Mac-OSX I downloaded and installed MacPort, because the rtf2latex2e modul/application(?) is said to be Unix. But I have problems to use the MacPort at all, not even to know wether it is correctly installed. In the thread Import RTF Lyx 1.6 error I had no answer from Konrad Hofbauer or someone else for my problem. So I try again with the specific subject - knowing that this this is beneath the focus of this LyX-list. But it's a problem to use a LyX feature on MacOSX. So if somebody has installed MacPorts and can give a hint, I'll thankful. joachim Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Joachim Kreimer-de Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 7. Dezember 2008 14:52:59 MEZ Betreff: Re: Import RTF Lyx 1.6 error Am 04.12.2008 um 15:49 schrieb Konrad Hofbauer: If there is no native os x version, then install macports (http:// www.macports.org/), and from there install the needed packages. I made the same experience as Joachim K. Rennstich, so I followed the advice of Konrad Hofbauer, downloaded the Mac-OSX 10.4 Tiger version of MacPorts, made the standard MacPorts-1.6.0-10.4-Tiger.dmg installing, the installer program said MacPorts have been successfully installed at your system or the like, but now I'm puzzling about: == How to install the needed packages (i. e. the rtf2latex2e script or package) from there (MacPorts?). Testwise I called in the Terminal sudo port -d selfupdate with the answer: sudo: port: command not found Konrad or others, can you tell me how to install rtf2latex2e with MacPorts? How can I proof if MacPorts is installed rightly, how to run it? Hopefully, joachim -- MacTeXLive 2008 - TeXShop 2.18-svn - LyX 1.6 MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger
Re: MacPort to get rtf2latex2e
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: But I have problems to use the MacPort at all, not even to know wether it is correctly installed. In the thread Import RTF Lyx 1.6 error I had no answer from Konrad Hofbauer or someone else for my problem. So I ... must have missed that (or not known an answer). == How to install the needed packages (i. e. the rtf2latex2e script or package) from there (MacPorts?). Testwise I called in the Terminal sudo port -d selfupdate with the answer: sudo: port: command not found This indicates that your Macports-installation does not work (i.e., you seem to have the Macports stuff not in your PATH). This list is the wrong place for this, ask at the Macports list. I assume you ran the Installer, but something went wrong. Read: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell Konrad or others, can you tell me how to install rtf2latex2e with MacPorts? How can I proof if MacPorts is installed rightly, how to run it? To see what exists: $ port search rtf2latex rtf2latex tex/rtf2latex 1.5 Filter to convert RTF text into LaTeX code rtf2latex2etex/rtf2latex2e 1.0fc1 Filter to convert rtf files into LaTeX2e code. To install: $ sudo port install rtf2latex2e [And now it would tell you that it fetches the package, configures, compiles, installs, etc.] HTH, Konrad
Re: can't produce smaller page-sizes
Any hope for a comment? Should I file a bug report?.. Not yet, first find out if it is LaTeX or LyX... I have a strange problem trying to change a document to smaller page-size 7.50x9.25 in. The produced DVI and PDF (pdflatex) files both have letter-sized (or is it A4?) pages Bewildered, I even opened an older document, produced with LyX-1.5.4 and tried to re-generate the PDF. Unlike the older version, LyX-1.5.7 produced a PDF with letter-sized pages... Normally this is handled by LaTeX. Did you change anything in your LaTeX setup and configuration? Is there a regression in LyX-1.5.7? Inside the file I can see the relevant pieces set correctly: \paperorientation portrait \paperwidth 7.5in \paperheight 9.25in \leftmargin 28mm \topmargin 15mm \rightmargin 15mm \bottommargin 15mm \headheight 1cm \headsep 1cm \footskip 1cm Could you find out if the paperwidth and paperheight arguments are correct in the exported LaTeX source (or with ViewSource)? Could you compare exported LaTeX files from 1.5.4 and 1.5.7? Günter
Re: Sweave
rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yy191502 wrote: I am using LyX 1.6.0, R 2.8.0, and MiKTeX 2.7 on Windows XP PC. I am trying to use the Sweave to create literate-article documents. Ultimately fail when I try to produce any layout by any method. I get the following error information, An error occured whilst running R CMD Sweave mySweave.Rnw . why is that? Any your advice on how to troubleshoot this would be very much appreciated. One problem I know about is that your R code cannot read a data file without giving a full path to this file. JMarc
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. I think you what you wrote is useful feedback, impressions do matter. And more specifically, we now know it wasn't just James that had this perspective. So if you (or others) have more thoughts, and perhaps ideas on how to do things better, please share them! Thanks and sincere regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this. Making LyX more visible and easy to install might be what lured them in :-) Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. I agree! The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the maintainer in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid bug fixing only stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I'm inclined to agree, and it's not that different from the current description (http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes) Release candidate (prerelease) A release candidate is a release of the LyX software from the development source code at a point when only bug fixes are expected to be added before the first stable release. If the bug fix requires a file format change then OK. The question is how José interprets the above. /Christian PS. José is the original author of that descirption. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I think this is a worry that several people have expressed in one form or another: that the early rcx releases were a bit too beta. But I'm guessing we thought they were more stable than they turned out to be and only found out what the real problems were once people started using them for real, which they only did once they were called release candidates. So it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. rh
graphs in color
Some of my color graphs in .eps format come out in black and white when inserted in to my lyx file. They come out this way both in the on-screen preview and in the compiled .pdf file. Other seemingly similar color .eps files come out in color. I'm using the beamer style, but I think this happens in other styles too. thanks, jonathan
Re: Specific converter and child documents
Any news about this matter? I'd like to see it integrated somehow into lyx. There's also well known script called sierotki.el which works, as I read, well with emacs. I've to emphasize that eliminating that single letters on the end of each line in polish typography is very important. Can I somehow help? 2008/11/16 Tomasz Kołodziejski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, I think it'd be quite useful. My script is very easy and as far as I remember it can break something when in your image there's such a single letter (it's stupid and inserts ~ almost everywhere ;-)). You can see it here - http://neo.mlodzi.pl/sierotki (three links described in polish: sierotki - script adding ~, pdflatex_pl described in my previous post and licence) Now you can also try a bug I was writing about. Pozdrawiam ;-)
RE: using ACM SIGGRAPH layout
Any progress on getting this to work properly? I'm happy to be a guinea pig because I'm going to be submitting a paper to the SIGGRAPH conference at the end of January. I'm highly motivated to make this work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:54 AM To: Manveru Cc: Brian Guenter; LyX User Subject: Re: using ACM SIGGRAPH layout Manveru schrieb: If yes - try to add siggraph package from the MikTeX Package Manager (available from menu group of MikTex). This file is not the official one and it is not recommended to use it for submissions. %BEEP% I do not have LyX layout for siggraph only for sigplan. Do you have your layout file for this style? LyX didn't yet have a layout file for acmsiggraph, but I now created one. You find it together with the installation instructions and an example file here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSiggraph Please test it out and report me back. When you can use it successfully, I will include the layout file to the next LyX version. regards Uwe
line breaks in tabulars
Hi, I have a simular question to one posted by Jeremy about a year ago (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg56795.html [http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg56795.html]). I do want to use automatic line breaks in LaTex tabulars since I do have cells that contain lots of text. The tabular environments I am using are e.g. xtab, sidewaystable, tabular, supertabular, ... The suggested solution back then was: set the width of that particular column to a fixed amount Can anybody help me out how to do that in LaTex (example code)? I am currently still using LaTex, not Lyx... Best, Pascal Pt! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: *http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123* [http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123]
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
The new features are a great improvement and make my everyday life certainly easier, so I definetly like that and would like to thank you for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. cheers, peerlynt
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
Hi José, in general, I very much enjoyed the overall energy that went into the release. Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I really enjoy working with this release. Also, from what I see in the young 1.6.x cycle, 1.6.0 seems to be relatively stable, given the loads of new features and core revisions that went into it. Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the "maintainer" in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid "bug fixing only" stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term "release candidate" :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. All only my 2¢, of course. Jürgen José Matos wrote: > Hi all, > in order to improve the development process of LyX I would to call for > feedback regarding the development of 1.6.0 > > I have decide to wait a bit before asking for a public evaluation avoid > the transient state that occurs after the release. We are now in a better > way to evaluate the procedure with enough distance as to guarantee a more > objective view while at the same time the details are still fresh in > memory. > > What did you like in the development of 1.6.0 and what do you think that > could be improved? > > Regards,
MacPort to get rtf2latex2e
To use "Import RTF" in LyX 1.6 on Mac-OSX I downloaded and installed MacPort, because the rtf2latex2e modul/application(?) is said to be Unix. But I have problems to use the MacPort at all, not even to know wether it is correctly installed. In the thread "Import RTF > Lyx 1.6 error" I had no answer from Konrad Hofbauer or someone else for my problem. So I try again with the specific subject - knowing that this this is beneath the focus of this LyX-list. But it's a problem to use a LyX feature on MacOSX. So if somebody has installed MacPorts and can give a hint, I'll thankful. joachim Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Joachim Kreimer-de Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: 7. Dezember 2008 14:52:59 MEZ Betreff: Re: Import RTF > Lyx 1.6 error Am 04.12.2008 um 15:49 schrieb Konrad Hofbauer: If there is no native os x version, then install macports (www.macports.org/>), and from there install the needed packages. I made the same experience as Joachim K. Rennstich, so I followed the advice of Konrad Hofbauer, downloaded the Mac-OSX 10.4 Tiger version of MacPorts, made the standard MacPorts-1.6.0-10.4-Tiger.dmg installing, the installer program said "MacPorts have been successfully installed at your system" or the like, but now I'm puzzling about: ==> How to "install the needed packages" (i. e. the rtf2latex2e script or package) "from there" (MacPorts?). Testwise I called in the Terminal sudo port -d selfupdate with the answer: "sudo: port: command not found" Konrad or others, can you tell me how to install rtf2latex2e with MacPorts? How can I proof if MacPorts is installed rightly, how to run it? Hopefully, joachim -- MacTeXLive 2008 - TeXShop 2.18-svn - LyX 1.6 MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger
Re: MacPort to get rtf2latex2e
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: But I have problems to use the MacPort at all, not even to know wether it is correctly installed. In the thread "Import RTF > Lyx 1.6 error" I had no answer from Konrad Hofbauer or someone else for my problem. So I ... must have missed that (or not known an answer). ==> How to "install the needed packages" (i. e. the rtf2latex2e script or package) "from there" (MacPorts?). Testwise I called in the Terminal sudo port -d selfupdate with the answer: "sudo: port: command not found" This indicates that your Macports-installation does not work (i.e., you seem to have the Macports stuff not in your PATH). This list is the wrong place for this, ask at the Macports list. I assume you ran the Installer, but something went wrong. Read: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell Konrad or others, can you tell me how to install rtf2latex2e with MacPorts? How can I proof if MacPorts is installed rightly, how to run it? To see what exists: $ port search rtf2latex rtf2latex tex/rtf2latex 1.5 Filter to convert RTF text into LaTeX code rtf2latex2etex/rtf2latex2e 1.0fc1 Filter to convert rtf files into LaTeX2e code. To install: $ sudo port install rtf2latex2e [And now it would tell you that it fetches the package, configures, compiles, installs, etc.] HTH, Konrad
Re: can't produce smaller page-sizes
> Any hope for a comment? Should I file a bug report?.. Not yet, first find out if it is LaTeX or LyX... >> I have a strange problem trying to change a document to smaller >> page-size 7.50x9.25 in. >> The produced DVI and PDF (pdflatex) files both have letter-sized (or >> is it A4?) pages >> Bewildered, I even opened an older document, produced with LyX-1.5.4 >> and tried to re-generate the PDF. Unlike the older version, LyX-1.5.7 >> produced a PDF with letter-sized pages... Normally this is handled by LaTeX. Did you change anything in your LaTeX setup and configuration? >> Is there a regression in LyX-1.5.7? Inside the file I can see the >> relevant pieces set correctly: >>\paperorientation portrait >>\paperwidth 7.5in >>\paperheight 9.25in >>\leftmargin 28mm >>\topmargin 15mm >>\rightmargin 15mm >>\bottommargin 15mm >>\headheight 1cm >>\headsep 1cm >>\footskip 1cm Could you find out if the paperwidth and paperheight arguments are correct in the exported LaTeX source (or with View>Source)? Could you compare exported LaTeX files from 1.5.4 and 1.5.7? Günter
Re: Sweave
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yy191502 wrote: >> I am using LyX 1.6.0, R 2.8.0, and MiKTeX 2.7 on Windows XP PC. I am trying >> to use the Sweave to create literate-article documents. Ultimately fail when >> I try to produce any layout by any method. I get the following error >> information, " An error occured whilst running R CMD Sweave "mySweave.Rnw" >> ". why is that? Any your advice on how to troubleshoot this would be very >> much appreciated. One problem I know about is that your R code cannot read a data file without giving a full path to this file. JMarc
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. I think you what you wrote is useful feedback, impressions do matter. And more specifically, we now know it wasn't just James that had this perspective. So if you (or others) have more thoughts, and perhaps ideas on how to do things better, please share them! Thanks and sincere regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this. Making LyX more visible and easy to install might be what "lured" them in :-) Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. I agree! The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the "maintainer" in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid "bug fixing only" stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term "release candidate" :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I'm inclined to agree, and it's not that different from the current description (http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes) Release candidate (prerelease) A release candidate is a release of the LyX software from the development source code at a point when only bug fixes are expected to be added before the first stable release. If the bug fix requires a file format change then OK. The question is how José interprets the above. /Christian PS. José is the original author of that descirption. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term "release candidate" :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I think this is a worry that several people have expressed in one form or another: that the early rcx releases were a bit too beta. But I'm guessing we thought they were more stable than they turned out to be and only found out what the real problems were once people started using them for real, which they only did once they were called release candidates. So it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. rh
graphs in color
Some of my color graphs in .eps format come out in black and white when inserted in to my lyx file. They come out this way both in the on-screen preview and in the compiled .pdf file. Other seemingly similar color .eps files come out in color. I'm using the beamer style, but I think this happens in other styles too. thanks, jonathan
Re: Specific converter and child documents
Any news about this matter? I'd like to see it integrated somehow into lyx. There's also well known script called sierotki.el which works, as I read, well with emacs. I've to emphasize that eliminating that single letters on the end of each line in polish typography is very important. Can I somehow help? 2008/11/16 Tomasz Kołodziejski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yeah, I think it'd be quite useful. > > My script is very easy and as far as I remember it can break something > when in your image there's such a single letter (it's stupid and > inserts ~ almost everywhere ;-)). You can see it here - > http://neo.mlodzi.pl/sierotki (three links described in polish: > sierotki - script adding ~, pdflatex_pl described in my previous post > and licence) > > Now you can also try a bug I was writing about. > > Pozdrawiam ;-)
RE: using ACM SIGGRAPH layout
Any progress on getting this to work properly? I'm happy to be a guinea pig because I'm going to be submitting a paper to the SIGGRAPH conference at the end of January. I'm highly motivated to make this work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:54 AM To: Manveru Cc: Brian Guenter; LyX User Subject: Re: using ACM SIGGRAPH layout Manveru schrieb: > If yes - try to add "siggraph" package from the MikTeX Package Manager > (available from menu group of MikTex). This file is not the official one and it is not recommended to use it for submissions. > %BEEP% I do not have LyX layout for siggraph only for sigplan. Do you > have your layout file for this style? LyX didn't yet have a layout file for acmsiggraph, but I now created one. You find it together with the installation instructions and an example file here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSiggraph Please test it out and report me back. When you can use it successfully, I will include the layout file to the next LyX version. regards Uwe
line breaks in tabulars
Hi, I have a simular question to one posted by Jeremy about a year ago (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg56795.html [http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg56795.html]). I do want to use automatic line breaks in LaTex tabulars since I do have cells that contain lots of text. The tabular environments I am using are e.g. xtab, sidewaystable, tabular, supertabular, ... The suggested solution back then was: set the width of that particular column to a fixed amount Can anybody help me out how to do that in LaTex (example code)? I am currently still using LaTex, not Lyx... Best, Pascal Pt! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: *http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123* [http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123]
