Re: Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in French)

2014-01-23 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
 wrote:
>
>
> -- Message transféré --
> De : Murat Yildizoglu 
> Date : jeudi 23 janvier 2014
> Objet : Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in
> French)
> À : Scott Kostyshak 
>
>
>
>
>
> Le jeudi 23 janvier 2014, Scott Kostyshak  a écrit :
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Murat Yildizoglu
>>  wrote:
>> > http://yildizoglu.x10.mx/ED-lyx-latex/
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for sharing, Murat. That looks like a useful course that I wish
>> I had access to when I was learning about this stuff. I'm looking
>> forward to seeing the slides on Sage.
>
> Thank you Scott!
>
> Well, that ones will wait unfortunately because I have just discovered that
> my setup for sage is currently broken and I have difficulty to locate the
> culprit (I have updated both Lyx and Sage recently and have not checked that
> the connection is working. Stupid of me. Anyway, I will not have time for
> this I think given the only job I have been able to do today in 5 hours (and
> I have only three hours left tomorrow).

Unfortunately I'm not surprised the integration is fragile. I wish I
had more time to look into this. Please let us know if you find a
solution.

>> My only suggestion is that you link to a .lyx file as well as your
>> PDFs. The best way to learn is through example.
>
>
> Yes, definitely! I have promised this to them today. But I need to
> completely finis writing them :-)
> They will be public also, as soon as I become enough confident in them ;-)

Makes sense.

Scott


Fwd: Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in French)

2014-01-23 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
-- Message transféré --
De : *Murat Yildizoglu* 
Date : jeudi 23 janvier 2014
Objet : Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in
French)
À : Scott Kostyshak 




Le jeudi 23 janvier 2014, Scott Kostyshak
>
a écrit :

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Murat Yildizoglu
>  wrote:
> > http://yildizoglu.x10.mx/ED-lyx-latex/
> >
>
> Thanks for sharing, Murat. That looks like a useful course that I wish
> I had access to when I was learning about this stuff. I'm looking
> forward to seeing the slides on Sage.

Thank you Scott!

Well, that ones will wait unfortunately because I have just discovered that
my setup for sage is currently broken and I have difficulty to locate the
culprit (I have updated both Lyx and Sage recently and have not checked
that the connection is working. Stupid of me. Anyway, I will not have time
for this I think given the only job I have been able to do today in 5 hours
(and I have only three hours left tomorrow).


> My only suggestion is that you link to a .lyx file as well as your
> PDFs. The best way to learn is through example.


Yes, definitely! I have promised this to them today. But I need to
completely finis writing them :-)
They will be public also, as soon as I become enough confident in them ;-)

Best regards,

Murat

>
> Best,
>
> Scott
>


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Re: Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in French)

2014-01-23 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Murat Yildizoglu
 wrote:
> http://yildizoglu.x10.mx/ED-lyx-latex/
>

Thanks for sharing, Murat. That looks like a useful course that I wish
I had access to when I was learning about this stuff. I'm looking
forward to seeing the slides on Sage.

My only suggestion is that you link to a .lyx file as well as your
PDFs. The best way to learn is through example.

Best,

Scott


Re: Keyboard shortcut for unicode input not working

2014-01-23 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Hi William,

Please respond to the list (or tell me explicitly if you wish for an
email to be private).

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:21 PM, William Furnass  wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> On 23 January 2014 16:23, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:37 AM, William Furnass  wrote:
>>> I'm running LyX v2.06 on Linux Mint 16.  In other applications I can
>>> enter a unicode character using ctrl-shift-u then the code point.
>>> However, I'm unable to do this in LyX, even if I explicitly bind
>>> 'unicode-input' to ctrl-shift-u in the preferences (results in '\bind
>>> "C-S-u" "unicode-insert"' being added to .lyx/bind/user.bind).
>
>> What happens for you when you do ctrl+shift+u? On Ubuntu 13.10 with
>> LyX2.1beta2 I get a "u" with an underline, but on the next character
>> it disappears. I have the feeling this is a Qt-related issue (I was
>> just wrong on this same feeling in a thread before though so beware).
>
> I have a list of unicode code points taped to my monitor and want to
> be able to enter the corresponding characters for them all without
> having to set up shortcut keys for each.

Nice idea. I often forget the usefulness of physical cheat sheets.
I've been meaning to print some.

> I forgot to mention that Ctrl-Shift-u allows me to subsequently enter
> code points to input unicode characters in LyX on another machine
> running Ubuntu 13.10

So you are saying that it works as you expect on this machine? Which
version of LyX is it?

> and, more importantly, that pressing Ctrl-Shift-U
> on my machine oddly generates a O with a backslash through it, without
> me entering any characters afterwards.  I've now unset Ctrl-Shift-U in
> the key bindings and still see this behaviour.

This is why I think it's Qt-related. I don't think there's a built-in
LyX binding for Ctrl+Shift+U.

Best,

Scott


Re: Seeing invisible table grid lines in the GUI

2014-01-23 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 23.01.2014 um 08:58 schrieb Stephan Witt :

> Am 22.01.2014 um 22:46 schrieb Stephen Buonopane :
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 22, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Maria Gouskova  wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Maria Gouskova  
> wrote:
>> Hi LyX users,
>> 
>> I use LyX on several computers (all version 2.0.6) and cannot figure
>> out which setting allows one to see invisible table grid lines. They
>> helpfully show up as light gray lines on the Macs running 10.6.8, but
>> not on the one running 10.8.5. Is this a setting somewhere in the GUI
>> that I need to turn on?
>> 
>> Maria
> 
> Hi Maria,
> 
> I've never heard of this particular issue but other Mac-related screen
> issues have been solved by zooming. In Tools > Preferences > Look &
> Feel > Screen Fonts, does increasing "Zoom" help?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Scott
 
 Hi Scott,
 
 No, it didn't make a difference. I increased it from 150% to 250%, no
 hint of grid lines.
 
 Am I imagining that showing/hiding table gridlines used to be a
 setting in the GUI somewhere?
>>> 
>>> You could be right. I don't remember. You could see if there are any
>>> differences in your preferences between the two computers. But I'm
>>> guessing it's a Qt related issue.
>>> 
>>> Scott
>> 
>> 
>> Try this perhaps
>> LyX->Preferences->Look & Feel->Colors->table on/off line (last entry in the 
>> list)
>> 
>> I am on LyX 2.0.6, OSX 10.7.5.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can reproduce the problem on OSX 10.8.6 here.
> The preference setting mentioned above doesn't help.
> 
> I tested the upcoming LyX 2.0.7 with Qt-4.8.5 and Cocoa API.
> 
> I'm almost sure it's a LyX problem and not related with Qt.
> With LyX 2.1.0 dev and the same Qt libraries the problem is gone.
> 
> I'll investigate further.

I recommend to file a bug on trac. Maria, do you want me to do it?

The cause of the problem is not obvious and IMHO it's not caused by 
user action.

Stephan

Re: Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in French)

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
 wrote:
> Thanks Liviu for your feedback! I reply below
>
>
> 2014/1/23 Liviu Andronic 
>>
>> Thanks. For the "Questions sur LyX", I would actually link to
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lyx . And for the
>
>
> Thank you! I have corrected this.
>
>>
>> 2.1beta binaries, if there are any Linux users you could also
>> advertise the devel PPA:
>> https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/daily ; Ubuntu users would
>> need to install 'lyx2.1pre'.
>
>
> There are no Linux users I think. I am find this page rather frightening
> :-) Are you sure that it is a good idea to include it?
>
Well, if any of your students happens to use Ubuntu, chances are that
they'll know what to  do with that page. :) At the very list this link
is reference here: http://www.lyx.org/Download#toc5 , and some
instructions are given here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3
. Maybe you can just reference the LyX Downloads link.

Best,
Liviu


> Best regards,
>
> Murat
>
>>

>>
>> Liviu
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
>>  wrote:
>> > http://yildizoglu.x10.mx/ED-lyx-latex/
>> >
>> > --
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Re: Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in French)

2014-01-23 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Thanks Liviu for your feedback! I reply below


2014/1/23 Liviu Andronic 

> Thanks. For the "Questions sur LyX", I would actually link to
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lyx . And for the
>

Thank you! I have corrected this.


> 2.1beta binaries, if there are any Linux users you could also
> advertise the devel PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/daily ; Ubuntu users would
> need to install 'lyx2.1pre'.
>

There are no Linux users I think. I am find this page rather frightening
 :-) Are you sure that it is a good idea to include it?

Best regards,

Murat


>
> Liviu
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
>  wrote:
> > http://yildizoglu.x10.mx/ED-lyx-latex/
> >
> > --
> > Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
> >
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> >
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> >
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Re: Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in French)

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thanks. For the "Questions sur LyX", I would actually link to
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lyx . And for the
2.1beta binaries, if there are any Linux users you could also
advertise the devel PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/daily ; Ubuntu users would
need to install 'lyx2.1pre'.

Liviu

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
 wrote:
> http://yildizoglu.x10.mx/ED-lyx-latex/
>
> --
> Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
>
> Note: Please use the following address as such
>
> UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
> GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
> MURAT YILDIZOGLU
> 16 AVENUE LEON DUGUIT
> CS 50057
> 33608 PESSAC CEDEX
> FRANCE
>
> Bureau : E-331
>
> mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr
>
> web: yildizoglu.info



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Here is the URL of the course page for LaTeX, LyX and friends (in French)

2014-01-23 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
http://yildizoglu.x10.mx/ED-lyx-latex/

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Re: Beamer frames in the 2.1b2

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was teaching today a course on (a little bit of LaTeX), (a lot of) LyX,
> beamer etc. to our doctoral students, and I have somewhat lost them when I
> showed they how I create a new frame in the new system. Am I doing something
> too cumbersome, or this is the only way to do?
>
> To introduce a new Frame (imagine the first one, for example)
>
> - I type returns until I get on the left border of the page (so out of any
> other environment),
>
> - than I choose the Frame layout from the layouts combo.
>
> -Lyx creates the Frame inset, and sometimes a box for the frame title (not
> always),
>
> - then I get out of the title box, if any, using the right arrow, type
> return to go to a new line,
>
> - insert a Separator layout
>
> -come back with the left arrow,
>
> -type return to go into the frame
>
> - type TAB to get into the environment
>
> - then LyX creates another Frame environment here (bizarre, no?)
>
> - I change the layout in something more useful (standard for a figure or
> BeamerIncrementalItemize, etc.)
>
> - then at last I can fill my frame!
>
> That seems too many operations also to me (I do not feel them, because I
> have KeyboardMaestro shortcuts for doing them), but I have seen that the
> students became discouraged by this.
>
> Questions :
>
> 1/ is there a quicker way?
>
I stumbled onto the same issue when playing around with 2.1 beamer. I
may be wrong, but I don't think there's a quicker way. And for what
it's worth, I also found the whole process rather confusing and
somewhat cumbersome. (Just to be sure check the official docs Help >
Specific > Beamer, or wait for Juergen's input.) Personally I think
that the 2.1 overhaul of Beamer support is absolutely awesome and very
useful, and rids us of many limitations and compatibility issues that
plagued Beamer in LyX <=2.0.x. But it is still rough around the edges,
at least user-experience-wise.

I was wondering, though, if maybe we should consider using custom
insets instead of styles (at least for the frames, as is done in the
'seminar' layout; check Examples > seminar.lyx and
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5515 ). This should remove the
frustrating experience of inserting a frame (that you describe above).
And it should make a Beamer document much easier to read, much more
intuitive for casual LyX users. Of course we would need to close
several related bugs, like http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7877 and
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6825 , but nothing insurmountable as
far as I can see.


Regards,
Liviu


> 2/ If not, would not the environment we get after the TAB be something more
> useful, like Standard, instead of another Frame?
>
> I am teaching bibTeX, zotero and knitR tomorrow morning, so if you have a
> better way, I would be happy to tell it to them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Murat
>
>
> --
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>
> Note: Please use the following address as such
>
> UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
> GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
> MURAT YILDIZOGLU
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> 33608 PESSAC CEDEX
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>
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>
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Re: Keyboard shortcut for unicode input not working

2014-01-23 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Hi William,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:37 AM, William Furnass  wrote:
> I'm running LyX v2.06 on Linux Mint 16.  In other applications I can
> enter a unicode character using ctrl-shift-u then the code point.
> However, I'm unable to do this in LyX, even if I explicitly bind
> 'unicode-input' to ctrl-shift-u in the preferences (results in '\bind
> "C-S-u" "unicode-insert"' being added to .lyx/bind/user.bind).
>
> Anyone got any ideas why this isn't working?

Yes. It's because as you say one must enter the full string on the
mini-buffer. You can only make shortcuts to a full command, not
something that still requires input.

Also note that it's 'unicode-insert' and not 'unicode-input' in LyX
2.1 (perhaps this changed?).

What happens for you when you do ctrl+shift+u? On Ubuntu 13.10 with
LyX2.1beta2 I get a "u" with an underline, but on the next character
it disappears. I have the feeling this is a Qt-related issue (I was
just wrong on this same feeling in a thread before though so beware).

> I know I can enter
> unicode using alt-x then typing 'unicode-input <>' in the
> input box that appears at the bottom of the main window but this is
> rather cumbersome.

I've always been interested in use cases for this. Do you just
remember lots of handy unicode so you can enter them quickly? I only
use them when I look them up some where. So for me, the 10 seconds of
having to type alt-x then typing 'unicode-insert <>' is far
less than the time it takes for me to actually find the code of the
character I want to insert.

On the other hand, if you have 10 or so unicodes memorized, you could
just instead make shortcuts. For example, if you want to enter unicode
, bind something to 'unicode-insert ' and for a
different one make a new one. This won't work if you have many of them
memorized though, but I just wanted to suggest that in case you hadn't
thought of it.

Best,

Scott


Beamer frames in the 2.1b2

2014-01-23 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hello,

I was teaching today a course on (a little bit of LaTeX), (a lot of) LyX,
beamer etc. to our doctoral students, and I have somewhat lost them when I
showed they how I create a new frame in the new system. Am I doing
something too cumbersome, or this is the only way to do?

To introduce a new Frame (imagine the first one, for example)

- I type returns until I get on the left border of the page (so out of any
other environment),

- than I choose the Frame layout from the layouts combo.

-Lyx creates the Frame inset, and sometimes a box for the frame title (not
always),

- then I get out of the title box, if any, using the right arrow, type
return to go to a new line,

- insert a Separator layout

-come back with the left arrow,

-type return to go into the frame

- type TAB to get into the environment

- then LyX creates another Frame environment here (bizarre, no?)

- I change the layout in something more useful (standard for a figure or
BeamerIncrementalItemize, etc.)

- then at last I can fill my frame!

That seems too many operations also to me (I do not feel them, because I
have KeyboardMaestro shortcuts for doing them), but I have seen that the
students became discouraged by this.

*Questions :*

1/ is there a quicker way?

2/ If not, would not the environment we get after the TAB be something more
useful, like Standard, instead of another Frame?

I am teaching bibTeX, zotero and knitR tomorrow morning, so if you have a
better way, I would be happy to tell it to them.

Best regards,

Murat


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restart panel?

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all,
I sometimes have the panel starting to misbehave, and I need to
restart it. Before 4.10 there was a way to restart the panel by
right-clicking on it, but this seems to have been removed. So what is
the recommended way to restart the panel?

Regards,
Liviu

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Keyboard shortcut for unicode input not working

2014-01-23 Thread William Furnass
I'm running LyX v2.06 on Linux Mint 16.  In other applications I can
enter a unicode character using ctrl-shift-u then the code point.
However, I'm unable to do this in LyX, even if I explicitly bind
'unicode-input' to ctrl-shift-u in the preferences (results in '\bind
"C-S-u" "unicode-insert"' being added to .lyx/bind/user.bind).

Anyone got any ideas why this isn't working?  I know I can enter
unicode using alt-x then typing 'unicode-input <>' in the
input box that appears at the bottom of the main window but this is
rather cumbersome.

Regards,

Will


Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Guenter Milde  wrote:
> On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
>> So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text
>> macros? Is there a nicer approach?
>
> IMO, it is a bad idea. "Math macros" are for mathematical typesetting (and
> even then not the cleanest LaTeX code results).
>
Thanks. I should drop this, then.


> The text alternative to "math macros" are "insets". You could define them
> either in a custom layout, a module or a local layout.
>
For anyone interested, here's an example of how to do this:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/155442/15538 . However this is a bit
awkward to set up all the time.

I'm still curious though if it is easier now, given the custom inset
lift-up in 2.1, to fix http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1704 ?

Liviu


Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text
> macros? Is there a nicer approach?

IMO, it is a bad idea. "Math macros" are for mathematical typesetting (and
even then not the cleanest LaTeX code results).

The text alternative to "math macros" are "insets". You could define them
either in a custom layout, a module or a local layout.

Günter



Re: Seeing invisible table grid lines in the GUI

2014-01-23 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 22.01.2014 um 22:46 schrieb Stephen Buonopane :

> 
> On Jan 22, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Maria Gouskova  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Maria Gouskova  
 wrote:
> Hi LyX users,
> 
> I use LyX on several computers (all version 2.0.6) and cannot figure
> out which setting allows one to see invisible table grid lines. They
> helpfully show up as light gray lines on the Macs running 10.6.8, but
> not on the one running 10.8.5. Is this a setting somewhere in the GUI
> that I need to turn on?
> 
> Maria
 
 Hi Maria,
 
 I've never heard of this particular issue but other Mac-related screen
 issues have been solved by zooming. In Tools > Preferences > Look &
 Feel > Screen Fonts, does increasing "Zoom" help?
 
 Best,
 
 Scott
>>> 
>>> Hi Scott,
>>> 
>>> No, it didn't make a difference. I increased it from 150% to 250%, no
>>> hint of grid lines.
>>> 
>>> Am I imagining that showing/hiding table gridlines used to be a
>>> setting in the GUI somewhere?
>> 
>> You could be right. I don't remember. You could see if there are any
>> differences in your preferences between the two computers. But I'm
>> guessing it's a Qt related issue.
>> 
>> Scott
> 
> 
> Try this perhaps
> LyX->Preferences->Look & Feel->Colors->table on/off line (last entry in the 
> list)
> 
> I am on LyX 2.0.6, OSX 10.7.5.

Hi,

I can reproduce the problem on OSX 10.8.6 here.
The preference setting mentioned above doesn't help.

I tested the upcoming LyX 2.0.7 with Qt-4.8.5 and Cocoa API.

I'm almost sure it's a LyX problem and not related with Qt.
With LyX 2.1.0 dev and the same Qt libraries the problem is gone.

I'll investigate further.

Stephan