Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 19/04/2012 06:09, Xu Wang a écrit :

I can't seem to self-insert a space. I'm sure I could come up with a
hack for entering a letter and a space and a letter and then using
char-backward to delete the two letters, but I'm guessing there's an
easier way.


Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert  
but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other 
commands, this is a bit random).


This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a 
preference files format change to correct all existing instances of 
self-insert.


Please create a ticket at trac.lyx.org.

JMarc

Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert  
 but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other
 commands, this is a bit random).

 This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a preference
 files format change to correct all existing instances of self-insert.

For the time being, you can also use
unicode-insert 0x0020

HTH
Jürgen

Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Radhakrishna chivukula]

Hello all,

From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on my pc
(Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.
Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?

I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
Can I download lyx from some other server?
I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3

Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.

Thank you

-- 
regards,
Radhakrishna Chivukula

Re: Special formatting for branches in exported PDF?

[Pavel Sanda]

Bert Lloyd wrote:
 I am finding the Branches function to be incredibly useful for adding
 notes and questions to shared documents. I would like to know if there
 is a way to have specific formats applied to certain branches when
 exporting to PDF. In particular, I would like to have the text
 highlighted, but it would also be useful if the text appeared in a
 special color, emphasized, boldface, etc.
 
 Many thanks in advance.

Note that this was added for LyX 2.1. Pavel

Re: Conversion to doc via pandoc

[Pavel Sanda]

Rainer M Krug wrote:
 $ xhtml2odt -i AS_BC_manuscrip.xhtml -o AS_BC_manuscrip.odt
 Tidy could not clean up the document, aborting.
 Conversion failed.
 $
 
 So it is not as robust as pandoc - at this point vote for pandoc. Tests will 
 be ongoing.

Point for sure, but most important is how good are these guys at preserving 
structure,
formats, bibliography, foot/margin notes, math of _correct_ xhtml file...

If you have some time to make more detailed comparison of nowadays tools 
-odt/doc 
transition for LyX document (having main features cited above) I'm sure many 
people
around would be happy to read the results (perhaps wiki page would be 
appropriate).

Pavel

Re: Conversion to doc via pandoc

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 19/04/12 13:29, Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Rainer M Krug wrote:
 $ xhtml2odt -i AS_BC_manuscrip.xhtml -o AS_BC_manuscrip.odt Tidy could not 
 clean up the 
 document, aborting. Conversion failed. $
 
 So it is not as robust as pandoc - at this point vote for pandoc. Tests will 
 be ongoing.
 
 Point for sure, but most important is how good are these guys at preserving 
 structure,
 formats, bibliography, foot/margin notes, math of _correct_ xhtml file...
 
 If you have some time to make more detailed comparison of nowadays tools 
 -odt/doc transition 
 for LyX document (having main features cited above) I'm sure many people 
 around would be happy 
 to read the results (perhaps wiki page would be appropriate).

Would be very useful - but at the moment absolutely no time. I just made the 
other comparison, as
I was looking for a useful converter and I found pandoc wich is working very 
nicely with the
document. But I will put it into my TODO list.

Cheers,

Rainer

 
 Pavel


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UCT), Dipl. Phys.
(Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
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South Africa

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Gnumeric + LyX on Mac (spreadsheet imbedded in LyX)

[Anders Høg]

On Windows I use the excellent gnumeric functionality of embedding spreadsheets 
in LyX documents. But gnumeric doesn't seem to be available for Mac. Is there 
possibly a workaround for this? It's a really great functionality, and 
something I hope will someday be featured in the default LyX installation.

Regards
Anders H.

Re: Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Richard Heck]

On 04/19/2012 05:25 AM, Radhakrishna chivukula wrote:

Hello all,

From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on 
my pc (Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.

Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?

I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
Can I download lyx from some other server?
I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3

Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.

It seems to be working fine here. There may be some issue with a 
firewall somewhere.


There are other mirrors, which you can find under mirrors here:
http://www.lyx.org/Download

Richard

Re: Gnumeric + LyX on Mac (spreadsheet imbedded in LyX)

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Anders Høg mail.ande...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Windows I use the excellent gnumeric functionality of embedding 
 spreadsheets in LyX documents. But gnumeric doesn't seem to be available for 
 Mac. Is there possibly a workaround for this?

I am no Mac expert, but it seems to me that Gnumeric can be used on
that platform. See MacPorts [1] and here [2]. It seems that sometimes
Linux applications can be used on Mac when they are made available via
such services. Else, build from source and cross your fingers. :)

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=namesubstr=gnumeric
[2] http://www.flyn.org/apple/


 It's a really great functionality, and something I hope will someday be 
 featured in the default LyX installation.

 Regards
 Anders H.



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Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 19/04/2012 11:23, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert  
but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other
commands, this is a bit random).

This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a preference
files format change to correct all existing instances of self-insert.


For the time being, you can also use
unicode-insert 0x0020


Indeed, well spotted.

JMarc

Re: Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Radhakrishna]

Thank you Brian an Richard. 
I got the working links.

Radhakrishna

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 04/19/2012 05:25 AM, Radhakrishna chivukula wrote:
 Hello all,
 
 From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on my pc 
 (Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.
 Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?
 
 I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
 Can I download lyx from some other server?
 I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.
 
 ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3
 
 Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.
 
 It seems to be working fine here. There may be some issue with a firewall 
 somewhere.
 
 There are other mirrors, which you can find under mirrors here:
http://www.lyx.org/Download
 
 Richard
 

LyX export to RTF

[Janwillem van Dijk]

I have a paper written in Lyx that when exported to rtf produces more or 
less garbage. Everywhere where there is inline math the text get 
corruptes. Also the references in the text are corruped. The references 
come from a BibTeX that is an export from Zotero.


an example:

Use terms and definitions issued by the Joint Committee on Guides in 
Metrology, JCGM 
joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)008,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)008-1,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)011,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)009 




or:

Use operational quantities defined in ICRU51: /H/\s\do5(/p/)\(0.07\), 
/H/\s\do5(/p/)\(3\) and /H/\s\do5(/p/)\(10\)


where it should be Hp(0.07) etcetra with H italic and p roman subscript 
coming from $H_{\mathrm{p}}(0.07)$


The pdf export is fine and the html export is ok.

Please give me some tips where to start getting it right; I have to 
cooperate with Windows/Office colleages.

My system Ubuntu 12.04, Lyx 2.0.2, latex2rtf 1.9.19

By the way export to openoffice results in one blank page of about 30kb.
Thanks for helping, Janwillem

Changing captions and order in reference list

[Hannu Vuolasaho]

Hello everybody!

I have on problem with reference list. I havenly five references. So this isn't 
that bad problem. It can be done also some ugly manual way.
I want to get list as 

/1/ reference

/2/ reference
instead Lyx always generates 

[1] reference

[2] reference

So how that is changed?

Another problem is that the appear in same order as in text and I want them in 
alphabetically ordered by last name. And the format is 
Last name, First name, Title, [doctype], URL, date of retrieval 

Is there any style that does this or what is the right way to do this?

Best regards,
Hannu Vuolasaho
  

Re: Labels

[El Merehbi, Ibrahim]

Hello Richard,

Yes inded; I just realized I can choose sort  Group to sort them. 
thanks

On Thu 15 Mar 2012 05:06:59 AM EET, Richard Heck wrote:
 On 03/14/2012 05:02 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote:
 Hello,

 Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections
 subsctionslabels separate?

 By default, LyX uses different prefixes for these: fig, sec, sub.

 I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the
 cross reference window!!!

 Try sorting them.

 Richard


--
Sincerely Yours,
-El Merehbi, Ibrahim (Bob)

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Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

[Merhebi, Bob]

Hello again,

Thanks Rob  Liviu. I reported a bug  it has been confirmed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/974269

Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How
big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics  physics?
Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like
it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection?

On 04/03/2012 07:07 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
 On 4/3/2012 10:01 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote:
 Hello all,

 I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately  just now I was thinking of
 using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download
 of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I
 recall that on 10.04 it required ~ 25MB. Am I mistaken? Is there
 something wrong?
 Hi Bob,

 The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much
 larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu
 project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected.
 Liviu Andronic manages a PPA with an unofficial build, which might be
 less damaging to your Internet quota
 (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release). I'm not sure he's
 added support for Precise Penguin, yet, though.

 Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If
 so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed.

 Regardless, I would definitely get in touch with the Ubuntu project. To
 the best of my knowledge, they don't subscribe to this list, and it's
 something that they will want to hear about.

 Cheers,

 Rob


On 04/03/2012 08:00 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
 The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much
 larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu
 project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected.
 Liviu Andronic manages a PPA with an unofficial build, which might be
 less damaging to your Internet quota
 (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release). I'm not sure he's
 added support for Precise Penguin, yet, though.

 A version for Precise is available at my experimental PPA [1]. When I
 get some positive feedback on the build and/or Precise gets released,
 I will move it to the lyx-devel PPA.

 [1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/experimental


 Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If
 so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed.

 I am also suspecting that your total download size contains a bunch of
 LaTeX dependencies. Else, see Rob's comments.

 Regards
 Liviu

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
-Merhebi, Bob

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Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

[David L. Johnson]

On 04/19/2012 08:03 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote:

Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How
big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics  physics?
Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like
it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection?


I would suggest that if you are doing either mathematics or physics, you 
really, really need the TeX packages, no matter what.  The idea of not 
using TeX to write mathematics is impossible for me to deal with -- 
especially if your alternative is Word.


In my opinion, TeX is a huge improvement in writing technical material 
over anything else out there, and LyX is a huge improvement to using 
TeX.  Yes, these things require a large download any more (I remember 
when LyX fit on a floppy disk -- without TeX, but even so, one floppy disk).


If you have no internet connection, then I imagine you have a usb port, 
or other pluggable access.  Get a  usb keychain drive, or equivalent 
other media, get access somehow to download the archive to the drive, 
and you should have no problem.  You clearly have some internet access 
since you did send this message.


Others can answer about how big the distribution ought to be, but again, 
believe me, you need this to write mathematics.


--

David L. Johnson

When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that
your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
-- LBJ

Help! Float placement problem

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

I have lyx 2.0.3. My figures come out of order, that is Figure 2 is
displayed before Figure 1. They are both float. Figure 1 is span
columns. Lyx puts it on top of the next page instead of the top of the
current page. I tried everything. The option to put it at the bottom
of the page is not available (greyed out). I am using the IEEEtran
document class. What to do?

Help!
-- 
   myriam

PS better email me directly as I am not yet subscribed to this list. 

Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 19/04/2012 06:09, Xu Wang a écrit :

I can't seem to self-insert a space. I'm sure I could come up with a
hack for entering a letter and a space and a letter and then using
char-backward to delete the two letters, but I'm guessing there's an
easier way.


Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert  
but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other 
commands, this is a bit random).


This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a 
preference files format change to correct all existing instances of 
self-insert.


Please create a ticket at trac.lyx.org.

JMarc

Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert  
 but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other
 commands, this is a bit random).

 This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a preference
 files format change to correct all existing instances of self-insert.

For the time being, you can also use
unicode-insert 0x0020

HTH
Jürgen

Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Radhakrishna chivukula]

Hello all,

From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on my pc
(Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.
Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?

I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
Can I download lyx from some other server?
I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3

Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.

Thank you

-- 
regards,
Radhakrishna Chivukula

Re: Special formatting for branches in exported PDF?

[Pavel Sanda]

Bert Lloyd wrote:
 I am finding the Branches function to be incredibly useful for adding
 notes and questions to shared documents. I would like to know if there
 is a way to have specific formats applied to certain branches when
 exporting to PDF. In particular, I would like to have the text
 highlighted, but it would also be useful if the text appeared in a
 special color, emphasized, boldface, etc.
 
 Many thanks in advance.

Note that this was added for LyX 2.1. Pavel

Re: Conversion to doc via pandoc

[Pavel Sanda]

Rainer M Krug wrote:
 $ xhtml2odt -i AS_BC_manuscrip.xhtml -o AS_BC_manuscrip.odt
 Tidy could not clean up the document, aborting.
 Conversion failed.
 $
 
 So it is not as robust as pandoc - at this point vote for pandoc. Tests will 
 be ongoing.

Point for sure, but most important is how good are these guys at preserving 
structure,
formats, bibliography, foot/margin notes, math of _correct_ xhtml file...

If you have some time to make more detailed comparison of nowadays tools 
-odt/doc 
transition for LyX document (having main features cited above) I'm sure many 
people
around would be happy to read the results (perhaps wiki page would be 
appropriate).

Pavel

Re: Conversion to doc via pandoc

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 19/04/12 13:29, Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Rainer M Krug wrote:
 $ xhtml2odt -i AS_BC_manuscrip.xhtml -o AS_BC_manuscrip.odt Tidy could not 
 clean up the 
 document, aborting. Conversion failed. $
 
 So it is not as robust as pandoc - at this point vote for pandoc. Tests will 
 be ongoing.
 
 Point for sure, but most important is how good are these guys at preserving 
 structure,
 formats, bibliography, foot/margin notes, math of _correct_ xhtml file...
 
 If you have some time to make more detailed comparison of nowadays tools 
 -odt/doc transition 
 for LyX document (having main features cited above) I'm sure many people 
 around would be happy 
 to read the results (perhaps wiki page would be appropriate).

Would be very useful - but at the moment absolutely no time. I just made the 
other comparison, as
I was looking for a useful converter and I found pandoc wich is working very 
nicely with the
document. But I will put it into my TODO list.

Cheers,

Rainer

 
 Pavel


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UCT), Dipl. Phys.
(Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
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Gnumeric + LyX on Mac (spreadsheet imbedded in LyX)

[Anders Høg]

On Windows I use the excellent gnumeric functionality of embedding spreadsheets 
in LyX documents. But gnumeric doesn't seem to be available for Mac. Is there 
possibly a workaround for this? It's a really great functionality, and 
something I hope will someday be featured in the default LyX installation.

Regards
Anders H.

Re: Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Richard Heck]

On 04/19/2012 05:25 AM, Radhakrishna chivukula wrote:

Hello all,

From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on 
my pc (Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.

Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?

I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
Can I download lyx from some other server?
I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3

Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.

It seems to be working fine here. There may be some issue with a 
firewall somewhere.


There are other mirrors, which you can find under mirrors here:
http://www.lyx.org/Download

Richard

Re: Gnumeric + LyX on Mac (spreadsheet imbedded in LyX)

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Anders Høg mail.ande...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Windows I use the excellent gnumeric functionality of embedding 
 spreadsheets in LyX documents. But gnumeric doesn't seem to be available for 
 Mac. Is there possibly a workaround for this?

I am no Mac expert, but it seems to me that Gnumeric can be used on
that platform. See MacPorts [1] and here [2]. It seems that sometimes
Linux applications can be used on Mac when they are made available via
such services. Else, build from source and cross your fingers. :)

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=namesubstr=gnumeric
[2] http://www.flyn.org/apple/


 It's a really great functionality, and something I hope will someday be 
 featured in the default LyX installation.

 Regards
 Anders H.



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Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 19/04/2012 11:23, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert  
but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other
commands, this is a bit random).

This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a preference
files format change to correct all existing instances of self-insert.


For the time being, you can also use
unicode-insert 0x0020


Indeed, well spotted.

JMarc

Re: Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Radhakrishna]

Thank you Brian an Richard. 
I got the working links.

Radhakrishna

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 04/19/2012 05:25 AM, Radhakrishna chivukula wrote:
 Hello all,
 
 From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on my pc 
 (Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.
 Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?
 
 I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
 Can I download lyx from some other server?
 I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.
 
 ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3
 
 Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.
 
 It seems to be working fine here. There may be some issue with a firewall 
 somewhere.
 
 There are other mirrors, which you can find under mirrors here:
http://www.lyx.org/Download
 
 Richard
 

LyX export to RTF

[Janwillem van Dijk]

I have a paper written in Lyx that when exported to rtf produces more or 
less garbage. Everywhere where there is inline math the text get 
corruptes. Also the references in the text are corruped. The references 
come from a BibTeX that is an export from Zotero.


an example:

Use terms and definitions issued by the Joint Committee on Guides in 
Metrology, JCGM 
joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)008,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)008-1,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)011,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)009 




or:

Use operational quantities defined in ICRU51: /H/\s\do5(/p/)\(0.07\), 
/H/\s\do5(/p/)\(3\) and /H/\s\do5(/p/)\(10\)


where it should be Hp(0.07) etcetra with H italic and p roman subscript 
coming from $H_{\mathrm{p}}(0.07)$


The pdf export is fine and the html export is ok.

Please give me some tips where to start getting it right; I have to 
cooperate with Windows/Office colleages.

My system Ubuntu 12.04, Lyx 2.0.2, latex2rtf 1.9.19

By the way export to openoffice results in one blank page of about 30kb.
Thanks for helping, Janwillem

Changing captions and order in reference list

[Hannu Vuolasaho]

Hello everybody!

I have on problem with reference list. I havenly five references. So this isn't 
that bad problem. It can be done also some ugly manual way.
I want to get list as 

/1/ reference

/2/ reference
instead Lyx always generates 

[1] reference

[2] reference

So how that is changed?

Another problem is that the appear in same order as in text and I want them in 
alphabetically ordered by last name. And the format is 
Last name, First name, Title, [doctype], URL, date of retrieval 

Is there any style that does this or what is the right way to do this?

Best regards,
Hannu Vuolasaho
  

Re: Labels

[El Merehbi, Ibrahim]

Hello Richard,

Yes inded; I just realized I can choose sort  Group to sort them. 
thanks

On Thu 15 Mar 2012 05:06:59 AM EET, Richard Heck wrote:
 On 03/14/2012 05:02 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote:
 Hello,

 Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections
 subsctionslabels separate?

 By default, LyX uses different prefixes for these: fig, sec, sub.

 I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the
 cross reference window!!!

 Try sorting them.

 Richard


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Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

[Merhebi, Bob]

Hello again,

Thanks Rob  Liviu. I reported a bug  it has been confirmed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/974269

Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How
big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics  physics?
Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like
it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection?

On 04/03/2012 07:07 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
 On 4/3/2012 10:01 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote:
 Hello all,

 I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately  just now I was thinking of
 using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download
 of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I
 recall that on 10.04 it required ~ 25MB. Am I mistaken? Is there
 something wrong?
 Hi Bob,

 The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much
 larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu
 project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected.
 Liviu Andronic manages a PPA with an unofficial build, which might be
 less damaging to your Internet quota
 (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release). I'm not sure he's
 added support for Precise Penguin, yet, though.

 Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If
 so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed.

 Regardless, I would definitely get in touch with the Ubuntu project. To
 the best of my knowledge, they don't subscribe to this list, and it's
 something that they will want to hear about.

 Cheers,

 Rob


On 04/03/2012 08:00 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
 The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much
 larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu
 project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected.
 Liviu Andronic manages a PPA with an unofficial build, which might be
 less damaging to your Internet quota
 (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release). I'm not sure he's
 added support for Precise Penguin, yet, though.

 A version for Precise is available at my experimental PPA [1]. When I
 get some positive feedback on the build and/or Precise gets released,
 I will move it to the lyx-devel PPA.

 [1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/experimental


 Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If
 so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed.

 I am also suspecting that your total download size contains a bunch of
 LaTeX dependencies. Else, see Rob's comments.

 Regards
 Liviu

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-Merhebi, Bob

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Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

[David L. Johnson]

On 04/19/2012 08:03 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote:

Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How
big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics  physics?
Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like
it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection?


I would suggest that if you are doing either mathematics or physics, you 
really, really need the TeX packages, no matter what.  The idea of not 
using TeX to write mathematics is impossible for me to deal with -- 
especially if your alternative is Word.


In my opinion, TeX is a huge improvement in writing technical material 
over anything else out there, and LyX is a huge improvement to using 
TeX.  Yes, these things require a large download any more (I remember 
when LyX fit on a floppy disk -- without TeX, but even so, one floppy disk).


If you have no internet connection, then I imagine you have a usb port, 
or other pluggable access.  Get a  usb keychain drive, or equivalent 
other media, get access somehow to download the archive to the drive, 
and you should have no problem.  You clearly have some internet access 
since you did send this message.


Others can answer about how big the distribution ought to be, but again, 
believe me, you need this to write mathematics.


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When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that
your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
-- LBJ

Help! Float placement problem

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

I have lyx 2.0.3. My figures come out of order, that is Figure 2 is
displayed before Figure 1. They are both float. Figure 1 is span
columns. Lyx puts it on top of the next page instead of the top of the
current page. I tried everything. The option to put it at the bottom
of the page is not available (greyed out). I am using the IEEEtran
document class. What to do?

Help!
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Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 19/04/2012 06:09, Xu Wang a écrit :

I can't seem to self-insert a space. I'm sure I could come up with a
hack for entering a letter and a space and a letter and then using
char-backward to delete the two letters, but I'm guessing there's an
easier way.


Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert " "
but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other 
commands, this is a bit random).


This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a 
preference files format change to correct all existing instances of 
self-insert.


Please create a ticket at trac.lyx.org.

JMarc

Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
>  self-insert " "
> but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other
> commands, this is a bit random).
>
> This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a preference
> files format change to correct all existing instances of self-insert.

For the time being, you can also use
unicode-insert 0x0020

HTH
Jürgen

Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Radhakrishna chivukula]

Hello all,

>From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on my pc
(Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.
Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?

I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
Can I download lyx from some other server?
I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3

Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.

Thank you

-- 
regards,
Radhakrishna Chivukula

Re: Special formatting for branches in exported PDF?

[Pavel Sanda]

Bert Lloyd wrote:
> I am finding the Branches function to be incredibly useful for adding
> notes and questions to shared documents. I would like to know if there
> is a way to have specific formats applied to certain branches when
> exporting to PDF. In particular, I would like to have the text
> highlighted, but it would also be useful if the text appeared in a
> special color, emphasized, boldface, etc.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

Note that this was added for LyX 2.1. Pavel

Re: Conversion to doc via pandoc

[Pavel Sanda]

Rainer M Krug wrote:
> $ xhtml2odt -i AS_BC_manuscrip.xhtml -o AS_BC_manuscrip.odt
> Tidy could not clean up the document, aborting.
> Conversion failed.
> $
> 
> So it is not as robust as pandoc - at this point vote for pandoc. Tests will 
> be ongoing.

Point for sure, but most important is how good are these guys at preserving 
structure,
formats, bibliography, foot/margin notes, math of _correct_ xhtml file...

If you have some time to make more detailed comparison of nowadays tools 
->odt/doc 
transition for LyX document (having main features cited above) I'm sure many 
people
around would be happy to read the results (perhaps wiki page would be 
appropriate).

Pavel

Re: Conversion to doc via pandoc

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 19/04/12 13:29, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> $ xhtml2odt -i AS_BC_manuscrip.xhtml -o AS_BC_manuscrip.odt Tidy could not 
>> clean up the 
>> document, aborting. Conversion failed. $
>> 
>> So it is not as robust as pandoc - at this point vote for pandoc. Tests will 
>> be ongoing.
> 
> Point for sure, but most important is how good are these guys at preserving 
> structure,
> formats, bibliography, foot/margin notes, math of _correct_ xhtml file...
> 
> If you have some time to make more detailed comparison of nowadays tools 
> ->odt/doc transition 
> for LyX document (having main features cited above) I'm sure many people 
> around would be happy 
> to read the results (perhaps wiki page would be appropriate).

Would be very useful - but at the moment absolutely no time. I just made the 
other comparison, as
I was looking for a useful converter and I found pandoc wich is working very 
nicely with the
document. But I will put it into my TODO list.

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> Pavel


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Gnumeric + LyX on Mac (spreadsheet imbedded in LyX)

[Anders Høg]

On Windows I use the excellent gnumeric functionality of embedding spreadsheets 
in LyX documents. But gnumeric doesn't seem to be available for Mac. Is there 
possibly a workaround for this? It's a really great functionality, and 
something I hope will someday be featured in the default LyX installation.

Regards
Anders H.

Re: Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Richard Heck]

On 04/19/2012 05:25 AM, Radhakrishna chivukula wrote:

Hello all,

From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on 
my pc (Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.

Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?

I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
Can I download lyx from some other server?
I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3

Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.

It seems to be working fine here. There may be some issue with a 
firewall somewhere.


There are other mirrors, which you can find under "mirrors" here:
http://www.lyx.org/Download

Richard

Re: Gnumeric + LyX on Mac (spreadsheet imbedded in LyX)

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Anders Høg  wrote:
> On Windows I use the excellent gnumeric functionality of embedding 
> spreadsheets in LyX documents. But gnumeric doesn't seem to be available for 
> Mac. Is there possibly a workaround for this?
>
I am no Mac expert, but it seems to me that Gnumeric can be used on
that platform. See MacPorts [1] and here [2]. It seems that sometimes
Linux applications can be used on Mac when they are made available via
such services. Else, build from source and cross your fingers. :)

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name=gnumeric
[2] http://www.flyn.org/apple/


> It's a really great functionality, and something I hope will someday be 
> featured in the default LyX installation.
>
> Regards
> Anders H.



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Re: LFUN: self-insert a space?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 19/04/2012 11:23, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Actually, I am not sure there is a way... The proper way should be to do
  self-insert " "
but self-insert does not handle properly quoted argument (some other
commands, this is a bit random).

This is not something we can change in branch, because we need a preference
files format change to correct all existing instances of self-insert.


For the time being, you can also use
unicode-insert 0x0020


Indeed, well spotted.

JMarc

Re: Not able to download Lyx from the ftp server

[Radhakrishna]

Thank you Brian an Richard. 
I got the working links.

Radhakrishna

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:

> On 04/19/2012 05:25 AM, Radhakrishna chivukula wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> From last 2 days I am trying to download the binary version of Lyx on my pc 
>> (Windows XP), but i am not successful yet.
>> Is the problem with the server or anyother issues?
>> 
>> I am about to write my thesis, so I am worried about it.
>> Can I download lyx from some other server?
>> I had tried the following link, as mentioned in the lyx website.
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3
>> 
>> Any kind of help regarding this will be appreciated.
>> 
> It seems to be working fine here. There may be some issue with a firewall 
> somewhere.
> 
> There are other mirrors, which you can find under "mirrors" here:
>http://www.lyx.org/Download
> 
> Richard
> 

LyX export to RTF

[Janwillem van Dijk]

I have a paper written in Lyx that when exported to rtf produces more or 
less garbage. Everywhere where there is inline math the text get 
corruptes. Also the references in the text are corruped. The references 
come from a BibTeX that is an export from Zotero.


an example:

Use terms and definitions issued by the Joint Committee on Guides in 
Metrology, JCGM 
joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)008,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)008-1,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)011,joint\s\do5(c)ommittee\s\do5(f)or\s\do5(g)uides\s\do5(i)n\s\do5(m)etrology\s\do5(e)valuation\s\do5(2)009 




or:

Use operational quantities defined in ICRU51: /H/\s\do5(/p/)\(0.07\), 
/H/\s\do5(/p/)\(3\) and /H/\s\do5(/p/)\(10\)


where it should be Hp(0.07) etcetra with H italic and p roman subscript 
coming from $H_{\mathrm{p}}(0.07)$


The pdf export is fine and the html export is ok.

Please give me some tips where to start getting it right; I have to 
cooperate with Windows/Office colleages.

My system Ubuntu 12.04, Lyx 2.0.2, latex2rtf 1.9.19

By the way export to openoffice results in one blank page of about 30kb.
Thanks for helping, Janwillem

Changing captions and order in reference list

[Hannu Vuolasaho]

Hello everybody!

I have on problem with reference list. I havenly five references. So this isn't 
that bad problem. It can be done also some ugly manual way.
I want to get list as 

/1/ reference

/2/ reference
instead Lyx always generates 

[1] reference

[2] reference

So how that is changed?

Another problem is that the appear in same order as in text and I want them in 
alphabetically ordered by last name. And the format is 
Last name, First name, Title, [doctype], URL, date of retrieval 

Is there any style that does this or what is the right way to do this?

Best regards,
Hannu Vuolasaho
  

Re: Labels

[El Merehbi, Ibrahim]

Hello Richard,

Yes inded; I just realized I can choose "sort" & "Group" to sort them. 
thanks

On Thu 15 Mar 2012 05:06:59 AM EET, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 05:02 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections&
>> subsctions"labels" separate?
>>
> By default, LyX uses different prefixes for these: fig, sec, sub.
>
>> I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the
>> cross reference window!!!
>>
> Try sorting them.
>
> Richard
>

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Sincerely Yours,
-El Merehbi, Ibrahim (Bob)

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Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

[Merhebi, Bob]

Hello again,

Thanks Rob & Liviu. I reported a bug & it has been confirmed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/974269

Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How
big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics & physics?
Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like
it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection?

On 04/03/2012 07:07 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
> On 4/3/2012 10:01 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately & just now I was thinking of
>> using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download
>> of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I
>> recall that on 10.04 it required ~ 25MB. Am I mistaken? Is there
>> something wrong?
> Hi Bob,
>
> The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much
> larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu
> project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected.
> Liviu Andronic manages a PPA with an unofficial build, which might be
> less damaging to your Internet quota
> (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release). I'm not sure he's
> added support for Precise Penguin, yet, though.
>
> Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If
> so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed.
>
> Regardless, I would definitely get in touch with the Ubuntu project. To
> the best of my knowledge, they don't subscribe to this list, and it's
> something that they will want to hear about.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob


On 04/03/2012 08:00 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Rob Oakes  wrote:
>> The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much
>> larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu
>> project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected.
>> Liviu Andronic manages a PPA with an unofficial build, which might be
>> less damaging to your Internet quota
>> (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release). I'm not sure he's
>> added support for Precise Penguin, yet, though.
>>
> A version for Precise is available at my experimental PPA [1]. When I
> get some positive feedback on the build and/or Precise gets released,
> I will move it to the lyx-devel PPA.
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/experimental
>
>
>> Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If
>> so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed.
>>
> I am also suspecting that your total download size contains a bunch of
> LaTeX dependencies. Else, see Rob's comments.
>
> Regards
> Liviu

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-Merhebi, Bob

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Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

[David L. Johnson]

On 04/19/2012 08:03 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote:

Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How
big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics&  physics?
Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like
it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection?


I would suggest that if you are doing either mathematics or physics, you 
really, really need the TeX packages, no matter what.  The idea of not 
using TeX to write mathematics is impossible for me to deal with -- 
especially if your alternative is Word.


In my opinion, TeX is a huge improvement in writing technical material 
over anything else out there, and LyX is a huge improvement to using 
TeX.  Yes, these things require a large download any more (I remember 
when LyX fit on a floppy disk -- without TeX, but even so, one floppy disk).


If you have no internet connection, then I imagine you have a usb port, 
or other pluggable access.  Get a  usb keychain drive, or equivalent 
other media, get access somehow to download the archive to the drive, 
and you should have no problem.  You clearly have some internet access 
since you did send this message.


Others can answer about how big the distribution ought to be, but again, 
believe me, you need this to write mathematics.


--

David L. Johnson

When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that
your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
-- LBJ

Help! Float placement problem

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

I have lyx 2.0.3. My figures come out of order, that is Figure 2 is
displayed before Figure 1. They are both float. Figure 1 is span
columns. Lyx puts it on top of the next page instead of the top of the
current page. I tried everything. The option to put it at the bottom
of the page is not available (greyed out). I am using the IEEEtran
document class. What to do?

Help!
-- 
   myriam

PS better email me directly as I am not yet subscribed to this list.