Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and *Apply *just remain greyed out. (Someone posted the same issue running 2.0.7dev on ubunto on stackexchange here Just to check: For me, this happens with all write-protected files (e.g. Help... documents). Can you do other edits and save them back? Can you try with a new-created file? Günter
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and *Apply *just remain greyed out. ... What happens after you save the file to a different name (FileSave_As)? Günter
strange centering behavior in float
Dear all, I'm seeing this strange behavior when centering a paragraph within a table float. I see this in both 2.0.6 and 2.1beta1. In the attached document, each table float contains an ERT inset (for subsequent use with Sweave) within a centered paragraph. If the ERT inset is above the caption, then the following construct is used: \begin{centering} = 2+2 @ \par\end{centering} The same construct is used if the ERT inset is below the caption _and_ there is an empty line below it (say, kept with a protected space). But if I remove this line below, then this construct is used: \centering{}= 2+2 @ The problem with this construct is that since it's on the same line as the beginning of the chunk, it breaks Sweave compilation. So is this inconsistency expected? And can it be avoided? Regards, Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail lyx_float_centering.20.lyx Description: Binary data lyx_float_centering.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 10/10/13 01:03, Gwen Barnes a écrit : Hi folks, I am using LyX 2.0.6 on Mac 10.8.5. Whenever I try to scroll, for instance, with the mouse wheel, or with trackpad gestures, there is almost a full second lag before the screen starts to change, and then it moves jerkily until it gets to where it's going. Based on some comments I found online, I have found that the lag goes away if I make my LyX window tiny -- but then the window is not useful to me. Any ideas what the problem might be, and things I could try to fix it? The problem is a weakness in LyX display mechanism: text is drawn several characters at a time, while metrics (measurement of size) is done character-per-character. On windows and linux, it is not a problem, but on a Mac, where fonts use ligatures, it means that the cursor does not appear where it should. To alleviate that, by default mac builds draws the screen char-by-char too. It works, but it is quite slow... You can see what the effect is by adding \force_paint_single_char 0 in the preferences file. Unfortunately, this situation will not improve in version 2.1. This is discouraging news. This is a serious and longstanding problem. Thanks for the update, J-M. Jerry There is a branch that tackles this problem, but it is not ready yet. JMarc
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
On Oct 11, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 10/10/13 01:03, Gwen Barnes a écrit : Hi folks, I am using LyX 2.0.6 on Mac 10.8.5. Whenever I try to scroll, for instance, with the mouse wheel, or with trackpad gestures, there is almost a full second lag before the screen starts to change, and then it moves jerkily until it gets to where it's going. Based on some comments I found online, I have found that the lag goes away if I make my LyX window tiny -- but then the window is not useful to me. Any ideas what the problem might be, and things I could try to fix it? The problem is a weakness in LyX display mechanism: text is drawn several characters at a time, while metrics (measurement of size) is done character-per-character. On windows and linux, it is not a problem, but on a Mac, where fonts use ligatures, it means that the cursor does not appear where it should. To alleviate that, by default mac builds draws the screen char-by-char too. It works, but it is quite slow... You can see what the effect is by adding \force_paint_single_char 0 in the preferences file. Unfortunately, this situation will not improve in version 2.1. This is discouraging news. This is a serious and longstanding problem. Thanks for the update, J-M. Jerry Surely this is a Qt problem since there are many Qt programs that don't have this issue. In fact, there are text-related windows in OS X LyX that don't have this problem. (Written by a casual bystander, of course.) Jerry There is a branch that tackles this problem, but it is not ready yet. JMarc
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
11/10/2013 11:33, Jerry: Surely this is a Qt problem since there are many Qt programs that don't have this issue. In fact, there are text-related windows in OS X LyX that don't have this problem. (Written by a casual bystander, of course.) This is definitely a LyX bug. However, this part of the code is not well understood by active developers and we have to thank pdv [*] who provided an initial implementation of this idea and gave me motivation to start this rewrite. The branch has not landed yet because it did not get substantial testing. It is however more or less complete. JMarc [*] see the thread here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/145311
Re: how to add a caption to a Box inset?
Am Donnerstag 10 Oktober 2013, 19:16:52 schrieb Frank Leone: Dear Jürgen and others, Thanks a lot for the boxfloat, it is exactly what I needed. Now I however want to have a figure float within the boxfloat. If I however try to do this, I get the error: LaTeX error: No counter 'subboxfloat' defined. How can I make sure he understand sub-boxes/sub-figures inside a boxfloat? Thanks a lot in advance! I am afraid this is a bug in LyX, Frank. I'll make sure this will be fixed for the next release. Jürgen
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com írta: Dear all, I'm seeing this strange behavior when centering a paragraph within a table float. I see this in both 2.0.6 and 2.1beta1. In the attached document, each table float contains an ERT inset (for subsequent use with Sweave) within a centered paragraph. If the ERT inset is above the caption, then the following construct is used: \begin{centering} = 2+2 @ \par\end{centering} Liviu, What is begin{centering}? I know of \centering command and center environment as \begin{center}, \end{center}. Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link where it is described? Thanks, bcsikos
alignment of text in tables with fixed width
Hello: The question: How can I center text in columns in a table with fixed with? I would like to make a table with fixed width, where I set the width of the whole table, not the widths of the cells. Looking at the source it seems in lyx the tabular* environment is used for this with addition of @{\extracolsep{\fill} to the list definition. The result of this: the content of the cells/columns can't be aligned normally. Cannot be centered, left or right aligned, everything is shifted to the right (I think due to @{\extracolsep{\fill}). How can I center (or left align) text in such tables? Or what would be the workaround if it's not possible? Thanks, bcsikos
Re: lyx branches problem
Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org írta: On 10/10/2013 10:24 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: Liviu, Guenter: Thank you for drawing my attention to branches in lyx. I did not know about it before. I tried to convert an existing document to use branches. I find branches very attractive but I have a problem. In my document I have enumerate lists. One item has statements in two languages. After converting the lines to branches I get error at compilation: ! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end. What can cause this error? I attach a working and a converted non-working example file (no-branches-OK.lyx, branch-not-working.lyx). You can't put the newline after the inactive branch. It leads to LaTeX like: \item \\ German So there is, indeed, no line to end. See the attached. I see. I have dozens of branches with new line at the end. Replacing them manually one by one would be very tedious. I tried to use lyx's replace and advanced replace functions to replace newlines with paragraph end but I could not. Is it possible at all? Or I could do a find/replace on the lyx file but I don't know what strings to replace for what. Thanks, bcsikos I could do it on the source file
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 14:56:19 schrieb Csikos Bela: What is begin{centering}? I know of \centering command and center environment as \begin{center}, \end{center}. Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link where it is described? The centering environment internally just calls \centering ... \endcentering, with an empty \endcentering. You can do this with any switch, although it is rather the consequence of LaTeX's questionable environment implementation. LyX (mis)uses this, since it's easier than tracking switches. Jürgen
Re: Large figures with ContinuedFloat
Dear Helge, and others, I use boxfloat to create a box floating environment, which works really good. Now one of my boxes is larger than one page, so I would like it to continue. I found this post and tried the ERT trick (copying my entire float environment, insert \ContinuedFloat), but it doesn't help (nothing changes). I did include the the subfig package. Could you help me out how I can do this instead/what I do wrong? Thanks a lot in advance, best, Frank
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org írta: Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 14:56:19 schrieb Csikos Bela: What is begin{centering}? I know of \centering command and center environment as \begin{center}, \end{center}. Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link where it is described? The centering environment internally just calls \centering ... \endcentering, with an empty \endcentering. You can do this with any switch, although it is rather the consequence of LaTeX's questionable environment implementation. LyX (mis)uses this, since it's easier than tracking switches. Thanks. If I understand correctly in latex you can write \begin{centering}, which becomes/equals \centering, and \end{centering}, which becomes/equals \endcentering. What do you mean by empty \endcentering ? empty \endcentering. I have a question as well related to centering but as I don't want to hijack the thread I will ask it separately. Thanks, bcsikos
\centering in lyx
Is \centering supported by lyx natively? When I change paragraph alignment option to center, lyx uses center environment, which adds extra vertical space before the centered paragraph. Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? Thanks, bcsikos Thanks, bcsikos
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Csikos Bela wrote: What do you mean by empty \endcentering ? empty \endcentering. It means that \end{centering} calls \endcentering only if this command exists. This is due to the way LaTeX environments are defined (the environment end does not call \endcentering directly, but \csname endcentering\endcsname, which sets \endcentering to \relax if it is not defined. Hence, LaTeX does not complain about an undefined \endcentering, but just treat it as if th command was empty. Try \newcommand\myname{Csikos Bela} [...] \begin{myname} \end{myname} Jürgen
Re: \centering in lyx
Csikos Bela wrote: Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? No. Jürgen
Increasing font size upsets justification
I have completed a book in Book class using Palatino at 10pts. If I increase the font to 11pts this causes occasional lines to project too far toe the right by a few characters. AI can fix this manually but it's annoying. I thought it might be because I had hyphenpenalty set to 600 but turning it off makes no difference. Is this the expected behaviour? Can anything be done about it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412
Re: \centering in lyx
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Csikos Bela wrote: Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? No. Then is it a bug that \centering is being used in the attached float (using 2.0.6)? Liviu lyx_float_centering.206.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and *Apply *just remain greyed out. For me, this happens with all write-protected files (e.g. Help... documents). Can you do other edits and save them back? Can you try with a new-created file? On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: What happens after you save the file to a different name (FileSave_As)? The issue remains the same if I save the file with Save As and it also remains for any newly created file. The file is not write-protected on the filesystem. Also, I can save any changes within the document without any problems, just the Document Settings dialog forces me to click Cancel. Gerold
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and *Apply *just remain greyed out. (Someone posted the same issue running 2.0.7dev on ubunto on stackexchange here Just to check: For me, this happens with all write-protected files (e.g. Help... documents). Can you do other edits and save them back? Can you try with a new-created file? Günter
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and *Apply *just remain greyed out. ... What happens after you save the file to a different name (FileSave_As)? Günter
strange centering behavior in float
Dear all, I'm seeing this strange behavior when centering a paragraph within a table float. I see this in both 2.0.6 and 2.1beta1. In the attached document, each table float contains an ERT inset (for subsequent use with Sweave) within a centered paragraph. If the ERT inset is above the caption, then the following construct is used: \begin{centering} = 2+2 @ \par\end{centering} The same construct is used if the ERT inset is below the caption _and_ there is an empty line below it (say, kept with a protected space). But if I remove this line below, then this construct is used: \centering{}= 2+2 @ The problem with this construct is that since it's on the same line as the beginning of the chunk, it breaks Sweave compilation. So is this inconsistency expected? And can it be avoided? Regards, Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail lyx_float_centering.20.lyx Description: Binary data lyx_float_centering.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 10/10/13 01:03, Gwen Barnes a écrit : Hi folks, I am using LyX 2.0.6 on Mac 10.8.5. Whenever I try to scroll, for instance, with the mouse wheel, or with trackpad gestures, there is almost a full second lag before the screen starts to change, and then it moves jerkily until it gets to where it's going. Based on some comments I found online, I have found that the lag goes away if I make my LyX window tiny -- but then the window is not useful to me. Any ideas what the problem might be, and things I could try to fix it? The problem is a weakness in LyX display mechanism: text is drawn several characters at a time, while metrics (measurement of size) is done character-per-character. On windows and linux, it is not a problem, but on a Mac, where fonts use ligatures, it means that the cursor does not appear where it should. To alleviate that, by default mac builds draws the screen char-by-char too. It works, but it is quite slow... You can see what the effect is by adding \force_paint_single_char 0 in the preferences file. Unfortunately, this situation will not improve in version 2.1. This is discouraging news. This is a serious and longstanding problem. Thanks for the update, J-M. Jerry There is a branch that tackles this problem, but it is not ready yet. JMarc
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
On Oct 11, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 10/10/13 01:03, Gwen Barnes a écrit : Hi folks, I am using LyX 2.0.6 on Mac 10.8.5. Whenever I try to scroll, for instance, with the mouse wheel, or with trackpad gestures, there is almost a full second lag before the screen starts to change, and then it moves jerkily until it gets to where it's going. Based on some comments I found online, I have found that the lag goes away if I make my LyX window tiny -- but then the window is not useful to me. Any ideas what the problem might be, and things I could try to fix it? The problem is a weakness in LyX display mechanism: text is drawn several characters at a time, while metrics (measurement of size) is done character-per-character. On windows and linux, it is not a problem, but on a Mac, where fonts use ligatures, it means that the cursor does not appear where it should. To alleviate that, by default mac builds draws the screen char-by-char too. It works, but it is quite slow... You can see what the effect is by adding \force_paint_single_char 0 in the preferences file. Unfortunately, this situation will not improve in version 2.1. This is discouraging news. This is a serious and longstanding problem. Thanks for the update, J-M. Jerry Surely this is a Qt problem since there are many Qt programs that don't have this issue. In fact, there are text-related windows in OS X LyX that don't have this problem. (Written by a casual bystander, of course.) Jerry There is a branch that tackles this problem, but it is not ready yet. JMarc
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
11/10/2013 11:33, Jerry: Surely this is a Qt problem since there are many Qt programs that don't have this issue. In fact, there are text-related windows in OS X LyX that don't have this problem. (Written by a casual bystander, of course.) This is definitely a LyX bug. However, this part of the code is not well understood by active developers and we have to thank pdv [*] who provided an initial implementation of this idea and gave me motivation to start this rewrite. The branch has not landed yet because it did not get substantial testing. It is however more or less complete. JMarc [*] see the thread here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/145311
Re: how to add a caption to a Box inset?
Am Donnerstag 10 Oktober 2013, 19:16:52 schrieb Frank Leone: Dear Jürgen and others, Thanks a lot for the boxfloat, it is exactly what I needed. Now I however want to have a figure float within the boxfloat. If I however try to do this, I get the error: LaTeX error: No counter 'subboxfloat' defined. How can I make sure he understand sub-boxes/sub-figures inside a boxfloat? Thanks a lot in advance! I am afraid this is a bug in LyX, Frank. I'll make sure this will be fixed for the next release. Jürgen
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com írta: Dear all, I'm seeing this strange behavior when centering a paragraph within a table float. I see this in both 2.0.6 and 2.1beta1. In the attached document, each table float contains an ERT inset (for subsequent use with Sweave) within a centered paragraph. If the ERT inset is above the caption, then the following construct is used: \begin{centering} = 2+2 @ \par\end{centering} Liviu, What is begin{centering}? I know of \centering command and center environment as \begin{center}, \end{center}. Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link where it is described? Thanks, bcsikos
alignment of text in tables with fixed width
Hello: The question: How can I center text in columns in a table with fixed with? I would like to make a table with fixed width, where I set the width of the whole table, not the widths of the cells. Looking at the source it seems in lyx the tabular* environment is used for this with addition of @{\extracolsep{\fill} to the list definition. The result of this: the content of the cells/columns can't be aligned normally. Cannot be centered, left or right aligned, everything is shifted to the right (I think due to @{\extracolsep{\fill}). How can I center (or left align) text in such tables? Or what would be the workaround if it's not possible? Thanks, bcsikos
Re: lyx branches problem
Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org írta: On 10/10/2013 10:24 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: Liviu, Guenter: Thank you for drawing my attention to branches in lyx. I did not know about it before. I tried to convert an existing document to use branches. I find branches very attractive but I have a problem. In my document I have enumerate lists. One item has statements in two languages. After converting the lines to branches I get error at compilation: ! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end. What can cause this error? I attach a working and a converted non-working example file (no-branches-OK.lyx, branch-not-working.lyx). You can't put the newline after the inactive branch. It leads to LaTeX like: \item \\ German So there is, indeed, no line to end. See the attached. I see. I have dozens of branches with new line at the end. Replacing them manually one by one would be very tedious. I tried to use lyx's replace and advanced replace functions to replace newlines with paragraph end but I could not. Is it possible at all? Or I could do a find/replace on the lyx file but I don't know what strings to replace for what. Thanks, bcsikos I could do it on the source file
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 14:56:19 schrieb Csikos Bela: What is begin{centering}? I know of \centering command and center environment as \begin{center}, \end{center}. Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link where it is described? The centering environment internally just calls \centering ... \endcentering, with an empty \endcentering. You can do this with any switch, although it is rather the consequence of LaTeX's questionable environment implementation. LyX (mis)uses this, since it's easier than tracking switches. Jürgen
Re: Large figures with ContinuedFloat
Dear Helge, and others, I use boxfloat to create a box floating environment, which works really good. Now one of my boxes is larger than one page, so I would like it to continue. I found this post and tried the ERT trick (copying my entire float environment, insert \ContinuedFloat), but it doesn't help (nothing changes). I did include the the subfig package. Could you help me out how I can do this instead/what I do wrong? Thanks a lot in advance, best, Frank
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org írta: Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 14:56:19 schrieb Csikos Bela: What is begin{centering}? I know of \centering command and center environment as \begin{center}, \end{center}. Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link where it is described? The centering environment internally just calls \centering ... \endcentering, with an empty \endcentering. You can do this with any switch, although it is rather the consequence of LaTeX's questionable environment implementation. LyX (mis)uses this, since it's easier than tracking switches. Thanks. If I understand correctly in latex you can write \begin{centering}, which becomes/equals \centering, and \end{centering}, which becomes/equals \endcentering. What do you mean by empty \endcentering ? empty \endcentering. I have a question as well related to centering but as I don't want to hijack the thread I will ask it separately. Thanks, bcsikos
\centering in lyx
Is \centering supported by lyx natively? When I change paragraph alignment option to center, lyx uses center environment, which adds extra vertical space before the centered paragraph. Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? Thanks, bcsikos Thanks, bcsikos
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Csikos Bela wrote: What do you mean by empty \endcentering ? empty \endcentering. It means that \end{centering} calls \endcentering only if this command exists. This is due to the way LaTeX environments are defined (the environment end does not call \endcentering directly, but \csname endcentering\endcsname, which sets \endcentering to \relax if it is not defined. Hence, LaTeX does not complain about an undefined \endcentering, but just treat it as if th command was empty. Try \newcommand\myname{Csikos Bela} [...] \begin{myname} \end{myname} Jürgen
Re: \centering in lyx
Csikos Bela wrote: Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? No. Jürgen
Increasing font size upsets justification
I have completed a book in Book class using Palatino at 10pts. If I increase the font to 11pts this causes occasional lines to project too far toe the right by a few characters. AI can fix this manually but it's annoying. I thought it might be because I had hyphenpenalty set to 600 but turning it off makes no difference. Is this the expected behaviour? Can anything be done about it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412
Re: \centering in lyx
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Csikos Bela wrote: Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? No. Then is it a bug that \centering is being used in the attached float (using 2.0.6)? Liviu lyx_float_centering.206.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and *Apply *just remain greyed out. For me, this happens with all write-protected files (e.g. Help... documents). Can you do other edits and save them back? Can you try with a new-created file? On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: What happens after you save the file to a different name (FileSave_As)? The issue remains the same if I save the file with Save As and it also remains for any newly created file. The file is not write-protected on the filesystem. Also, I can save any changes within the document without any problems, just the Document Settings dialog forces me to click Cancel. Gerold
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: > I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with > changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and > *Apply *just remain greyed out. (Someone posted the same issue running > 2.0.7dev on ubunto on stackexchange here Just to check: For me, this happens with all write-protected files (e.g. Help>... documents). Can you do other edits and save them back? Can you try with a new-created file? Günter
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: > I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with > changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and > *Apply *just remain greyed out. ... What happens after you save the file to a different name (File>Save_As)? Günter
strange centering behavior in float
Dear all, I'm seeing this strange behavior when centering a paragraph within a table float. I see this in both 2.0.6 and 2.1beta1. In the attached document, each table float contains an ERT inset (for subsequent use with Sweave) within a centered paragraph. If the ERT inset is above the caption, then the following construct is used: \begin{centering} <<>>= 2+2 @ \par\end{centering} The same construct is used if the ERT inset is below the caption _and_ there is an empty line below it (say, kept with a protected space). But if I remove this line below, then this construct is used: \centering{}<<>>= 2+2 @ The problem with this construct is that since it's on the same line as the beginning of the chunk, it breaks Sweave compilation. So is this inconsistency expected? And can it be avoided? Regards, Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail lyx_float_centering.20.lyx Description: Binary data lyx_float_centering.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgoutteswrote: > Le 10/10/13 01:03, Gwen Barnes a écrit : >> Hi folks, >> >> I am using LyX 2.0.6 on Mac 10.8.5. Whenever I try to scroll, for >> instance, with the mouse wheel, or with trackpad gestures, there is >> almost a full second lag before the screen starts to change, and then it >> moves jerkily until it gets to where it's going. Based on some comments >> I found online, I have found that the lag goes away if I make my LyX >> window tiny -- but then the window is not useful to me. >> >> Any ideas what the problem might be, and things I could try to fix it? > > The problem is a weakness in LyX display mechanism: text is drawn several > characters at a time, while metrics (measurement of size) is done > character-per-character. On windows and linux, it is not a problem, but on a > Mac, where fonts use ligatures, it means that the cursor does not appear > where it should. > > To alleviate that, by default mac builds draws the screen char-by-char too. > It works, but it is quite slow... > You can see what the effect is by adding > \force_paint_single_char 0 > in the preferences file. > > Unfortunately, this situation will not improve in version 2.1. This is discouraging news. This is a serious and longstanding problem. Thanks for the update, J-M. Jerry > > There is a branch that tackles this problem, but it is not ready yet. > > JMarc
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
On Oct 11, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Jerrywrote: > > On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> Le 10/10/13 01:03, Gwen Barnes a écrit : >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I am using LyX 2.0.6 on Mac 10.8.5. Whenever I try to scroll, for >>> instance, with the mouse wheel, or with trackpad gestures, there is >>> almost a full second lag before the screen starts to change, and then it >>> moves jerkily until it gets to where it's going. Based on some comments >>> I found online, I have found that the lag goes away if I make my LyX >>> window tiny -- but then the window is not useful to me. >>> >>> Any ideas what the problem might be, and things I could try to fix it? >> >> The problem is a weakness in LyX display mechanism: text is drawn several >> characters at a time, while metrics (measurement of size) is done >> character-per-character. On windows and linux, it is not a problem, but on a >> Mac, where fonts use ligatures, it means that the cursor does not appear >> where it should. >> >> To alleviate that, by default mac builds draws the screen char-by-char too. >> It works, but it is quite slow... >> You can see what the effect is by adding >> \force_paint_single_char 0 >> in the preferences file. >> >> Unfortunately, this situation will not improve in version 2.1. > > This is discouraging news. This is a serious and longstanding problem. Thanks > for the update, J-M. > Jerry Surely this is a Qt problem since there are many Qt programs that don't have this issue. In fact, there are text-related windows in OS X LyX that don't have this problem. (Written by a casual bystander, of course.) Jerry > >> >> There is a branch that tackles this problem, but it is not ready yet. >> >> JMarc >
Re: LyX 2.0.6 scroll lag on Mac 10.8.5
11/10/2013 11:33, Jerry: Surely this is a Qt problem since there are many Qt programs that don't have this issue. In fact, there are text-related windows in OS X LyX that don't have this problem. (Written by a casual bystander, of course.) This is definitely a LyX bug. However, this part of the code is not well understood by active developers and we have to thank pdv [*] who provided an initial implementation of this idea and gave me motivation to start this rewrite. The branch has not landed yet because it did not get substantial testing. It is however more or less complete. JMarc [*] see the thread here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/145311
Re: how to add a caption to a Box inset?
Am Donnerstag 10 Oktober 2013, 19:16:52 schrieb Frank Leone: > Dear Jürgen and others, > > Thanks a lot for the boxfloat, it is exactly what I needed. Now I however > want to have a figure float within the boxfloat. If I however try to do > this, I get the error: > > LaTeX error: No counter 'subboxfloat' defined. > > How can I make sure he understand sub-boxes/sub-figures inside a boxfloat? > > Thanks a lot in advance! I am afraid this is a bug in LyX, Frank. I'll make sure this will be fixed for the next release. Jürgen
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Liviu Andronicírta: >Dear all, >I'm seeing this strange behavior when centering a paragraph within a >table float. I see this in both 2.0.6 and 2.1beta1. > >In the attached document, each table float contains an ERT inset (for >subsequent use with Sweave) within a centered paragraph. If the ERT >inset is above the caption, then the following construct is used: >\begin{centering} ><<>>= >2+2 >@ >\par\end{centering} Liviu, What is begin{centering}? I know of \centering command and center environment as \begin{center}, \end{center}. Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link where it is described? Thanks, bcsikos
alignment of text in tables with fixed width
Hello: The question: How can I center text in columns in a table with fixed with? I would like to make a table with fixed width, where I set the width of the whole table, not the widths of the cells. Looking at the source it seems in lyx the tabular* environment is used for this with addition of @{\extracolsep{\fill} to the list definition. The result of this: the content of the cells/columns can't be aligned normally. Cannot be centered, left or right aligned, everything is shifted to the right (I think due to @{\extracolsep{\fill}). How can I center (or left align) text in such tables? Or what would be the workaround if it's not possible? Thanks, bcsikos
Re: lyx branches problem
Richard Heckírta: >On 10/10/2013 10:24 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: >> Liviu, Guenter: >> >> Thank you for drawing my attention to branches in lyx. >> >> I did not know about it before. >> >> I tried to convert an existing document to use branches. >> >> I find branches very attractive but I have a problem. >> >> In my document I have enumerate lists. One item has statements in two >> >> languages. After converting the lines to branches I get error at compilation: >> >> ! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end. >> >> What can cause this error? >> >> I attach a working and a converted non-working example file >> >> (no-branches-OK.lyx, branch-not-working.lyx). > >You can't put the newline after the inactive branch. It leads to LaTeX like: > >\item \\ >German > >So there is, indeed, no line to end. > >See the attached. I see. I have dozens of branches with new line at the end. Replacing them manually one by one would be very tedious. I tried to use lyx's replace and advanced replace functions to replace newlines with paragraph end but I could not. Is it possible at all? Or I could do a find/replace on the lyx file but I don't know what strings to replace for what. Thanks, bcsikos I could do it on the source file
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 14:56:19 schrieb Csikos Bela: > What is begin{centering}? > > I know of \centering command and center environment as > \begin{center}, \end{center}. > > Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link > where it is described? The centering "environment" internally just calls \centering ... \endcentering, with an empty \endcentering. You can do this with any switch, although it is rather the consequence of LaTeX's questionable environment implementation. LyX (mis)uses this, since it's easier than tracking switches. Jürgen
Re: Large figures with ContinuedFloat
Dear Helge, and others, I use boxfloat to create a box floating environment, which works really good. Now one of my boxes is larger than one page, so I would like it to continue. I found this post and tried the ERT trick (copying my entire float environment, insert \ContinuedFloat), but it doesn't help (nothing changes). I did include the the subfig package. Could you help me out how I can do this instead/what I do wrong? Thanks a lot in advance, best, Frank
Re: strange centering behavior in float
"Jürgen Spitzmüller"írta: >Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 14:56:19 schrieb Csikos Bela: >> What is begin{centering}? >> >> I know of \centering command and center environment as >> \begin{center}, \end{center}. >> >> Can you give a definition of centering environment or a link >> where it is described? > >The centering "environment" internally just calls \centering ... >\endcentering, with an empty \endcentering. You can do this with any switch, >although it is rather the consequence of LaTeX's questionable environment >implementation. LyX (mis)uses this, since it's easier than tracking switches. Thanks. If I understand correctly in latex you can write \begin{centering}, which becomes/equals \centering, and \end{centering}, which becomes/equals \endcentering. What do you mean by "empty \endcentering" ? empty \endcentering. I have a question as well related to centering but as I don't want to hijack the thread I will ask it separately. Thanks, bcsikos
\centering in lyx
Is \centering supported by lyx natively? When I change paragraph alignment option to center, lyx uses center environment, which adds extra vertical space before the centered paragraph. Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? Thanks, bcsikos Thanks, bcsikos
Re: strange centering behavior in float
Csikos Bela wrote: > What do you mean by "empty \endcentering" ? > empty \endcentering. It means that \end{centering} calls \endcentering only if this command exists. This is due to the way LaTeX environments are defined (the environment end does not call \endcentering directly, but \csname endcentering\endcsname, which sets \endcentering to \relax if it is not defined. Hence, LaTeX does not complain about an undefined \endcentering, but just treat it as if th command was "empty". Try \newcommand\myname{Csikos Bela} [...] \begin{myname} \end{myname} Jürgen
Re: \centering in lyx
Csikos Bela wrote: > Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? No. Jürgen
Increasing font size upsets justification
I have completed a book in Book class using Palatino at 10pts. If I increase the font to 11pts this causes occasional lines to project too far toe the right by a few characters. AI can fix this manually but it's annoying. I thought it might be because I had hyphenpenalty set to 600 but turning it off makes no difference. Is this the expected behaviour? Can anything be done about it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412
Re: \centering in lyx
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüllerwrote: > Csikos Bela wrote: >> Can I apply \centering to text in lyx without using ERT? > > No. > Then is it a bug that \centering is being used in the attached float (using 2.0.6)? Liviu lyx_float_centering.206.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Lyx 2.0.6: Document settings can't be changed (OK greyed out)
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Guenter Mildewrote: > On 2013-10-10, Gerold Hintz wrote: > > I am running LyX 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1. I'm having an issue with > > changing any document settings of any file, the buttons *OK *and > > *Apply *just remain greyed out. > > For me, this happens with all write-protected files (e.g. Help>... > documents). Can you do other edits and save them back? > Can you try with a new-created file? On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > > What happens after you save the file to a different name (File>Save_As)? > The issue remains the same if I save the file with "Save As" and it also remains for any newly created file. The file is not write-protected on the filesystem. Also, I can save any changes within the document without any problems, just the "Document Settings" dialog forces me to click "Cancel". Gerold