Re: Coexist of LyX 2.1.1 w Miktex 2.9 and Lyx 2.0.5 w Miktex 2.8?

[Paul A . Rubin]

I can't say anything useful about fonts (other than that a friend of mine
will hunt you down and hurt you if you use Comic Sans).

Two versions of LyX sharing the same version of MiKTeX is no problem. Having
two versions of MiKTeX coexist is slightly tricky. Bear in mind that when
any program (including LyX) calls any TeX executable, such as pdflatex, you
will typically run the first matching program found in the command path. So
if MiKTeX 2.9 precedes MiKTeX 2.8, calling pdflatex without a full path
specification will always run the 2.9 version.

I *think* you can circumvent this by specifying the path to whichever
version of MiKTeX is not default in the configuration of the version of LyX
that needs it (in Tools  Preferences  Paths  PATH prefix. A simpler (?),
cleaner (?) solution might be to create a new user account on the machine.
Let's say your normal login is configured with the older versions of MiKTeX
and LyX. Install the newer versions using the alternate login, and specify
that you are installing them just for that user and not for all users. Then
you just have to switch to the right account for whichever version you want.

Paul

PDF output on mac suddenly became very slow

[Michael Bay]

Hello dear LyX community,

I'm quite new with LyX and probably just have been looking at the 
wrong places for answers to my following question, so please, 
if that should be the case, be so kind to tell me a link to the answer ;-)

If not, I'll be happy to learn about what I've been doing wrong.

I've been writing on LyX for one week now, after having been fed up 
with the programming of LaTeX as a novice with a few weeks 
experience in TeX and some knowledge in programming.

The system:
Mac (10.9.4, Mavericks)
LyX version 2.1.1
BibDesk version 1.6.3 (3296)

The problem:
Everything was fine till two days ago, when LyX suddenly decided 
to take two minutes for each output to pdf-preview. 
I'm working on my bachelor's thesis, so the document is 
about 40 pages of text with about 20 graphics, 
probably nothing out of the ordinary.

If my memory is correct, the problem occured after inserting and 
removing some bigger JPG  PNG graphics, in the process of 
finding the best graphics-format. Now none of these graphics are 
still inserted, the floating objects are removed as well. 

What I also did was changing some directories where I stored 
these files in my project-folder, but LyX should warn me, 
if it doesn't find any external files anymore, shouldn't it? 

Well, it doesn't. What it does is stated in the 
(very basic and to some extend german) 
log at the end of this message.

The first thing to catch my eye is the unnamed process 
from (16:31:02.323) to (16:31:29.225), which occurs three times 
and obviously causes the problem with almost 30s of duration.

Any suggestions?

What I've also been trying is enabling the glossary with no 
success to this point. But I've removed all my attempts, 
including the glossary macro at the end of LyX. 
So that - theoretically - should have no influence and is not 
part of my question.

I hope you have some ideas for the further process of problem solving...

With best regards,
Michael


16:30:59.719: Generiere Vorschau ...
16:30:59.761: (buffer-view: ⌘R)Buffer.cpp (408): Buffer::Buffer()
Buffer.cpp (1650): lyx document header finished
Buffer.cpp (1762): preamble finished, now the body.
Buffer.cpp (1791): Finished making LaTeX file.
Buffer.cpp (1792): Row count was 3000.
16:31:01.544: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.texsupport/Systemcall.cpp (243): 
Running: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.tex  /dev/null
16:31:02.284: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 
(TeX Live 2013)
16:31:02.284:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:02.307: entering extended mode
16:31:02.308: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:02.308: LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
16:31:02.310: Babel 3.9f and hyphenation patterns for 78 
languages loaded.
16:31:02.323: 
16:31:29.225: bibtex bachelorLYXsupport/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: bibtex bachelorLYX
16:31:30.240: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:30.241: The top-level auxiliary file: bachelorLYX.aux
16:31:30.241: The style file: plain.bst
16:31:30.242: Database file #1: I deleted the directory Bachelor-
Arbeit_BA_LaTeX_bib_bachelor_bib.bib
16:31:30.243: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for 
smallsignal2010
16:31:30.247: Warning--need editor, key, or series for 
dickreiter97b2 to crossref dickreiter97b1
16:31:30.251: Warning--can't use both author and editor 
fields in zwicker07
16:31:30.252: Warning--empty note in muenster
16:31:30.252: Warning--empty note in saarland12
16:31:30.253: (There were 5 warnings)
16:31:30.259: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.texsupport/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: pdflatex  
bachelorLYX.tex  /dev/null
16:31:30.975: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 
(TeX Live 2013)
16:31:30.976:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:31.008: entering extended mode
16:31:31.011: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:31.011: LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
16:31:31.012: Babel 3.9f and hyphenation patterns for 78 
languages loaded.
16:31:31.012: 
16:31:57.364: bibtex bachelorLYXsupport/Systemcall.cpp (243): 
Running: bibtex bachelorLYX
16:31:58.122: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:58.123: The top-level auxiliary file: bachelorLYX.aux
16:31:58.124: The style file: plain.bst
16:31:58.125: Database file #1: deleted again Bachelor-
Arbeit_BA_LaTeX_bib_bachelor_bib.bib
16:31:58.126: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for 
smallsignal2010
16:31:58.129: Warning--need editor, key, or series for 
dickreiter97b2 to crossref dickreiter97b1
16:31:58.134: Warning--can't use both author and editor 
fields in zwicker07
16:31:58.135: Warning--empty note in muenster
16:31:58.136: Warning--empty note in saarland12
16:31:58.136: (There were 5 warnings)
16:31:58.141: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.texsupport/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.tex  /dev/null
16:31:58.872: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14
 (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:58.873:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:58.898: entering extended mode
16:31:58.900: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:58.900: LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
16:31:58.901: Babel 3.9f and hyphenation patterns for 
78 languages loaded.

LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Martin Vlk]

Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:

 \par

\end{center}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this

control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?

My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.


 \par\end{center}

 Try typing return to proceed.

If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.

ETC.

I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
document which I can successfully convert.

I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.

Many Thanks
Martin

Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Martin Vlk mar...@vlkk.cz wrote:
 Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
 LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

 When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:

 \par

 \end{center}

 I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this

 control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?

 My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.


 \par\end{center}

 Try typing return to proceed.

 If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.


 ETC.

 I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
 document which I can successfully convert.

 I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.

 Many Thanks
 Martin

Hi Martin, indeed something strange might be happening here. I don't
have access to LyX 2.1 right now but on LyX 2.2dev it exports fine for
me on Ubuntu 14.04. Note however that I'm using TeX Live 2014 (which I
installed with https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu).
Either the LyX version of the TeX Live version could explain the
difference. Can you install LyX 2.2dev by using the daily PPA? see
instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3

If after that, it doesn't work, I would be happy to take a look at it
(not right now though) *if* you provide a script that will allow me to
reproduce your error from a fresh Ubuntu installation. Perhaps the
script would just contain the following line?
sudo apt-get install lyx texlive-full
Actually I think you'll need to put adding the PPA (and a sudo apt-get
update and then install of the package name).

Best,

Scott

Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Martin Vlk mar...@vlkk.cz wrote:
 Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
 LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

Here LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 previews the UserGuide as expected.

Liviu


 When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:

 \par

 \end{center}

 I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this

 control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?

 My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.


 \par\end{center}

 Try typing return to proceed.

 If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.


 ETC.

 I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
 document which I can successfully convert.

 I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.

 Many Thanks
 Martin



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

Re: Lyx, Kindle, epub

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Really grateful to Les for his advice below. This works very well!
Gracias... from India. FN


On 14 July 2014 04:30, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:

 On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:08:47 +0530
  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
 fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:

  * What is the easiest way to convert a Lyx file (with images) to epub?
  * How can one ensure this will be consistent with epub standards?
  * Any site to test the resultant epub?
  * Can Lyx developers help to develop some tools that make it easy to
  create epub and other formats of ebooks?

 Frederick,

 I've done this for several books. From my experience the answer to your
 questions are:

 * Conversion
 1. Export your file to LyXHTML
 2. Using your favorite text editor (I use vi), delete the first line of
 the file (something like ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?) and
 save as type HTML.
 3. The file can now be imported into Sigil
   (http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/files/OEBPS/Text/introduction.html
 ),
   which saves files in epub format.

 * Epub standards
 Sigil includes the FlightCrew validator, and also a link to validate
 stylesheets with W3C.

 * Testing the epub
 I don't know of any site for testing, other than
   http://validator.idpf.org/, which as far as I know does exactly the
   same as the Sigil validator. The real problem is that no e-reader
   supports the standards completely and exactly, so you need to test
   your epub on several readers. I use Nook, Calibre and FBreader.

 * LyX development
 I'll leave this to developers.

 Without images, the conversion is straightforward, with the main
 problem being how to handle footnotes: as epub is reflowable, the
 concept of footnote does not exist, so you will have to decide how to
 handle them. Sigil gives you the tools to implement any solution you
 decide on, but it may involve a lot of detailed editing.

 Images complicate the conversion. Do you want small images in a fixed
 location in the text? That is fairly easy. So is putting all the images
 at the end of a chapter (or at the end of the book). But if you want
 clickable links to images, and a clickable link to return you to the
 page you were on, it can become very complicated, and involve a lot of
 hand editing. But again, Sigil has all the tools you need for this.

 I hope this helps,

 Les




-- 
FN P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 http://goa1556.in

Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Martin Vlk mar...@vlkk.cz wrote:
 Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
 LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

 Here LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 previews the UserGuide as expected.

With which version of TeX Live?

Scott

Re: Coexist of LyX 2.1.1 w Miktex 2.9 and Lyx 2.0.5 w Miktex 2.8?

[Paul A . Rubin]

I can't say anything useful about fonts (other than that a friend of mine
will hunt you down and hurt you if you use Comic Sans).

Two versions of LyX sharing the same version of MiKTeX is no problem. Having
two versions of MiKTeX coexist is slightly tricky. Bear in mind that when
any program (including LyX) calls any TeX executable, such as pdflatex, you
will typically run the first matching program found in the command path. So
if MiKTeX 2.9 precedes MiKTeX 2.8, calling pdflatex without a full path
specification will always run the 2.9 version.

I *think* you can circumvent this by specifying the path to whichever
version of MiKTeX is not default in the configuration of the version of LyX
that needs it (in Tools  Preferences  Paths  PATH prefix. A simpler (?),
cleaner (?) solution might be to create a new user account on the machine.
Let's say your normal login is configured with the older versions of MiKTeX
and LyX. Install the newer versions using the alternate login, and specify
that you are installing them just for that user and not for all users. Then
you just have to switch to the right account for whichever version you want.

Paul

PDF output on mac suddenly became very slow

[Michael Bay]

Hello dear LyX community,

I'm quite new with LyX and probably just have been looking at the 
wrong places for answers to my following question, so please, 
if that should be the case, be so kind to tell me a link to the answer ;-)

If not, I'll be happy to learn about what I've been doing wrong.

I've been writing on LyX for one week now, after having been fed up 
with the programming of LaTeX as a novice with a few weeks 
experience in TeX and some knowledge in programming.

The system:
Mac (10.9.4, Mavericks)
LyX version 2.1.1
BibDesk version 1.6.3 (3296)

The problem:
Everything was fine till two days ago, when LyX suddenly decided 
to take two minutes for each output to pdf-preview. 
I'm working on my bachelor's thesis, so the document is 
about 40 pages of text with about 20 graphics, 
probably nothing out of the ordinary.

If my memory is correct, the problem occured after inserting and 
removing some bigger JPG  PNG graphics, in the process of 
finding the best graphics-format. Now none of these graphics are 
still inserted, the floating objects are removed as well. 

What I also did was changing some directories where I stored 
these files in my project-folder, but LyX should warn me, 
if it doesn't find any external files anymore, shouldn't it? 

Well, it doesn't. What it does is stated in the 
(very basic and to some extend german) 
log at the end of this message.

The first thing to catch my eye is the unnamed process 
from (16:31:02.323) to (16:31:29.225), which occurs three times 
and obviously causes the problem with almost 30s of duration.

Any suggestions?

What I've also been trying is enabling the glossary with no 
success to this point. But I've removed all my attempts, 
including the glossary macro at the end of LyX. 
So that - theoretically - should have no influence and is not 
part of my question.

I hope you have some ideas for the further process of problem solving...

With best regards,
Michael


16:30:59.719: Generiere Vorschau ...
16:30:59.761: (buffer-view: ⌘R)Buffer.cpp (408): Buffer::Buffer()
Buffer.cpp (1650): lyx document header finished
Buffer.cpp (1762): preamble finished, now the body.
Buffer.cpp (1791): Finished making LaTeX file.
Buffer.cpp (1792): Row count was 3000.
16:31:01.544: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.texsupport/Systemcall.cpp (243): 
Running: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.tex  /dev/null
16:31:02.284: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 
(TeX Live 2013)
16:31:02.284:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:02.307: entering extended mode
16:31:02.308: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:02.308: LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
16:31:02.310: Babel 3.9f and hyphenation patterns for 78 
languages loaded.
16:31:02.323: 
16:31:29.225: bibtex bachelorLYXsupport/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: bibtex bachelorLYX
16:31:30.240: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:30.241: The top-level auxiliary file: bachelorLYX.aux
16:31:30.241: The style file: plain.bst
16:31:30.242: Database file #1: I deleted the directory Bachelor-
Arbeit_BA_LaTeX_bib_bachelor_bib.bib
16:31:30.243: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for 
smallsignal2010
16:31:30.247: Warning--need editor, key, or series for 
dickreiter97b2 to crossref dickreiter97b1
16:31:30.251: Warning--can't use both author and editor 
fields in zwicker07
16:31:30.252: Warning--empty note in muenster
16:31:30.252: Warning--empty note in saarland12
16:31:30.253: (There were 5 warnings)
16:31:30.259: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.texsupport/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: pdflatex  
bachelorLYX.tex  /dev/null
16:31:30.975: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 
(TeX Live 2013)
16:31:30.976:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:31.008: entering extended mode
16:31:31.011: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:31.011: LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
16:31:31.012: Babel 3.9f and hyphenation patterns for 78 
languages loaded.
16:31:31.012: 
16:31:57.364: bibtex bachelorLYXsupport/Systemcall.cpp (243): 
Running: bibtex bachelorLYX
16:31:58.122: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:58.123: The top-level auxiliary file: bachelorLYX.aux
16:31:58.124: The style file: plain.bst
16:31:58.125: Database file #1: deleted again Bachelor-
Arbeit_BA_LaTeX_bib_bachelor_bib.bib
16:31:58.126: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for 
smallsignal2010
16:31:58.129: Warning--need editor, key, or series for 
dickreiter97b2 to crossref dickreiter97b1
16:31:58.134: Warning--can't use both author and editor 
fields in zwicker07
16:31:58.135: Warning--empty note in muenster
16:31:58.136: Warning--empty note in saarland12
16:31:58.136: (There were 5 warnings)
16:31:58.141: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.texsupport/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: pdflatex  bachelorLYX.tex  /dev/null
16:31:58.872: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14
 (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:58.873:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:58.898: entering extended mode
16:31:58.900: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:58.900: LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
16:31:58.901: Babel 3.9f and hyphenation patterns for 
78 languages loaded.

LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Martin Vlk]

Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:

 \par

\end{center}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this

control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?

My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.


 \par\end{center}

 Try typing return to proceed.

If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.

ETC.

I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
document which I can successfully convert.

I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.

Many Thanks
Martin

Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Martin Vlk mar...@vlkk.cz wrote:
 Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
 LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

 When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:

 \par

 \end{center}

 I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this

 control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?

 My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.


 \par\end{center}

 Try typing return to proceed.

 If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.


 ETC.

 I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
 document which I can successfully convert.

 I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.

 Many Thanks
 Martin

Hi Martin, indeed something strange might be happening here. I don't
have access to LyX 2.1 right now but on LyX 2.2dev it exports fine for
me on Ubuntu 14.04. Note however that I'm using TeX Live 2014 (which I
installed with https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu).
Either the LyX version of the TeX Live version could explain the
difference. Can you install LyX 2.2dev by using the daily PPA? see
instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3

If after that, it doesn't work, I would be happy to take a look at it
(not right now though) *if* you provide a script that will allow me to
reproduce your error from a fresh Ubuntu installation. Perhaps the
script would just contain the following line?
sudo apt-get install lyx texlive-full
Actually I think you'll need to put adding the PPA (and a sudo apt-get
update and then install of the package name).

Best,

Scott

Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Martin Vlk mar...@vlkk.cz wrote:
 Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
 LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

Here LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 previews the UserGuide as expected.

Liviu


 When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:

 \par

 \end{center}

 I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this

 control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?

 My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.


 \par\end{center}

 Try typing return to proceed.

 If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.


 ETC.

 I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
 document which I can successfully convert.

 I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.

 Many Thanks
 Martin



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

Re: Lyx, Kindle, epub

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Really grateful to Les for his advice below. This works very well!
Gracias... from India. FN


On 14 July 2014 04:30, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:

 On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:08:47 +0530
  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
 fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:

  * What is the easiest way to convert a Lyx file (with images) to epub?
  * How can one ensure this will be consistent with epub standards?
  * Any site to test the resultant epub?
  * Can Lyx developers help to develop some tools that make it easy to
  create epub and other formats of ebooks?

 Frederick,

 I've done this for several books. From my experience the answer to your
 questions are:

 * Conversion
 1. Export your file to LyXHTML
 2. Using your favorite text editor (I use vi), delete the first line of
 the file (something like ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?) and
 save as type HTML.
 3. The file can now be imported into Sigil
   (http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/files/OEBPS/Text/introduction.html
 ),
   which saves files in epub format.

 * Epub standards
 Sigil includes the FlightCrew validator, and also a link to validate
 stylesheets with W3C.

 * Testing the epub
 I don't know of any site for testing, other than
   http://validator.idpf.org/, which as far as I know does exactly the
   same as the Sigil validator. The real problem is that no e-reader
   supports the standards completely and exactly, so you need to test
   your epub on several readers. I use Nook, Calibre and FBreader.

 * LyX development
 I'll leave this to developers.

 Without images, the conversion is straightforward, with the main
 problem being how to handle footnotes: as epub is reflowable, the
 concept of footnote does not exist, so you will have to decide how to
 handle them. Sigil gives you the tools to implement any solution you
 decide on, but it may involve a lot of detailed editing.

 Images complicate the conversion. Do you want small images in a fixed
 location in the text? That is fairly easy. So is putting all the images
 at the end of a chapter (or at the end of the book). But if you want
 clickable links to images, and a clickable link to return you to the
 page you were on, it can become very complicated, and involve a lot of
 hand editing. But again, Sigil has all the tools you need for this.

 I hope this helps,

 Les




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Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Martin Vlk mar...@vlkk.cz wrote:
 Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
 LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

 Here LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 previews the UserGuide as expected.

With which version of TeX Live?

Scott

Re: Coexist of LyX 2.1.1 w Miktex 2.9 and Lyx 2.0.5 w Miktex 2.8?

[Paul A . Rubin]

I can't say anything useful about fonts (other than that a friend of mine
will hunt you down and hurt you if you use Comic Sans).

Two versions of LyX sharing the same version of MiKTeX is no problem. Having
two versions of MiKTeX coexist is slightly tricky. Bear in mind that when
any program (including LyX) calls any TeX executable, such as pdflatex, you
will typically run the first matching program found in the command path. So
if MiKTeX 2.9 precedes MiKTeX 2.8, calling "pdflatex" without a full path
specification will always run the 2.9 version.

I *think* you can circumvent this by specifying the path to whichever
version of MiKTeX is not default in the configuration of the version of LyX
that needs it (in Tools > Preferences > Paths > PATH prefix. A simpler (?),
cleaner (?) solution might be to create a new user account on the machine.
Let's say your normal login is configured with the older versions of MiKTeX
and LyX. Install the newer versions using the alternate login, and specify
that you are installing them just for that user and not for all users. Then
you just have to switch to the right account for whichever version you want.

Paul

PDF output on mac suddenly became very slow

[Michael Bay]

Hello dear LyX community,

I'm quite new with LyX and probably just have been looking at the 
wrong places for answers to my following question, so please, 
if that should be the case, be so kind to tell me a link to the answer ;-)

If not, I'll be happy to learn about what I've been doing wrong.

I've been writing on LyX for one week now, after having been fed up 
with the programming of LaTeX as a novice with a few weeks 
experience in TeX and some knowledge in programming.

The system:
Mac (10.9.4, Mavericks)
LyX version 2.1.1
BibDesk version 1.6.3 (3296)

The problem:
Everything was fine till two days ago, when LyX suddenly decided 
to take two minutes for each output to pdf-preview. 
I'm working on my bachelor's thesis, so the document is 
about 40 pages of text with about 20 graphics, 
probably nothing out of the ordinary.

If my memory is correct, the problem occured after inserting and 
removing some bigger JPG & PNG graphics, in the process of 
finding the best graphics-format. Now none of these graphics are 
still inserted, the floating objects are removed as well. 

What I also did was changing some directories where I stored 
these files in my project-folder, but LyX should warn me, 
if it doesn't find any external files anymore, shouldn't it? 

Well, it doesn't. What it does is stated in the 
(very basic and to some extend german) 
log at the end of this message.

The first thing to catch my eye is the unnamed process 
from (16:31:02.323) to (16:31:29.225), which occurs three times 
and obviously causes the problem with almost 30s of duration.

Any suggestions?

What I've also been trying is enabling the glossary with no 
success to this point. But I've removed all my attempts, 
including the glossary macro at the end of LyX. 
So that - theoretically - should have no influence and is not 
part of my question.

I hope you have some ideas for the further process of problem solving...

With best regards,
Michael


16:30:59.719: Generiere Vorschau ...
16:30:59.761: (buffer-view: ⌘R)Buffer.cpp (408): Buffer::Buffer()
Buffer.cpp (1650): lyx document header finished
Buffer.cpp (1762): preamble finished, now the body.
Buffer.cpp (1791): Finished making LaTeX file.
Buffer.cpp (1792): Row count was 3000.
16:31:01.544: pdflatex  "bachelorLYX.tex"support/Systemcall.cpp (243): 
Running: pdflatex  "bachelorLYX.tex" > /dev/null
16:31:02.284: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 
(TeX Live 2013)
16:31:02.284:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:02.307: entering extended mode
16:31:02.308: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:02.308: LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
16:31:02.310: Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 78 
languages loaded.
16:31:02.323: 
16:31:29.225: bibtex "bachelorLYX"support/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: bibtex "bachelorLYX"
16:31:30.240: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:30.241: The top-level auxiliary file: bachelorLYX.aux
16:31:30.241: The style file: plain.bst
16:31:30.242: Database file #1:  Bachelor-
Arbeit_BA_LaTeX_bib_bachelor_bib.bib
16:31:30.243: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for 
"smallsignal2010"
16:31:30.247: Warning--need editor, key, or series for 
dickreiter97b2 to crossref dickreiter97b1
16:31:30.251: Warning--can't use both author and editor 
fields in zwicker07
16:31:30.252: Warning--empty note in muenster
16:31:30.252: Warning--empty note in saarland12
16:31:30.253: (There were 5 warnings)
16:31:30.259: pdflatex  "bachelorLYX.tex"support/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: pdflatex  
"bachelorLYX.tex" > /dev/null
16:31:30.975: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 
(TeX Live 2013)
16:31:30.976:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:31.008: entering extended mode
16:31:31.011: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:31.011: LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
16:31:31.012: Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 78 
languages loaded.
16:31:31.012: 
16:31:57.364: bibtex "bachelorLYX"support/Systemcall.cpp (243): 
Running: bibtex "bachelorLYX"
16:31:58.122: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:58.123: The top-level auxiliary file: bachelorLYX.aux
16:31:58.124: The style file: plain.bst
16:31:58.125: Database file #1:  Bachelor-
Arbeit_BA_LaTeX_bib_bachelor_bib.bib
16:31:58.126: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for 
"smallsignal2010"
16:31:58.129: Warning--need editor, key, or series for 
dickreiter97b2 to crossref dickreiter97b1
16:31:58.134: Warning--can't use both author and editor 
fields in zwicker07
16:31:58.135: Warning--empty note in muenster
16:31:58.136: Warning--empty note in saarland12
16:31:58.136: (There were 5 warnings)
16:31:58.141: pdflatex  "bachelorLYX.tex"support/Systemcall.cpp 
(243): Running: pdflatex  "bachelorLYX.tex" > /dev/null
16:31:58.872: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14
 (TeX Live 2013)
16:31:58.873:  restricted \write18 enabled.
16:31:58.898: entering extended mode
16:31:58.900: (./bachelorLYX.tex
16:31:58.900: LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
16:31:58.901: Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 
78 languages loaded.

LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Martin Vlk]

Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.

When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:

 \par

\end{center}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this

control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?

My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.


 \par\end{center}

 Try typing  to proceed.

If that doesn't work, type X  to quit.

ETC.

I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
document which I can successfully convert.

I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.

Many Thanks
Martin

Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Martin Vlk  wrote:
> Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
> LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.
>
> When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:
>
> \par
>
> \end{center}
>
> I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this
>
> control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?
>
> My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.
>
>
> \par\end{center}
>
> Try typing  to proceed.
>
> If that doesn't work, type X  to quit.
>
>
> ETC.
>
> I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
> document which I can successfully convert.
>
> I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.
>
> Many Thanks
> Martin

Hi Martin, indeed something strange might be happening here. I don't
have access to LyX 2.1 right now but on LyX 2.2dev it exports fine for
me on Ubuntu 14.04. Note however that I'm using TeX Live 2014 (which I
installed with https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu).
Either the LyX version of the TeX Live version could explain the
difference. Can you install LyX 2.2dev by using the daily PPA? see
instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3

If after that, it doesn't work, I would be happy to take a look at it
(not right now though) *if* you provide a script that will allow me to
reproduce your error from a fresh Ubuntu installation. Perhaps the
script would just contain the following line?
sudo apt-get install lyx texlive-full
Actually I think you'll need to put adding the PPA (and a sudo apt-get
update and then install of the package name).

Best,

Scott

Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Martin Vlk  wrote:
> Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
> LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.
>
Here LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 previews the UserGuide as expected.

Liviu


> When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output:
>
> \par
>
> \end{center}
>
> I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this
>
> control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?
>
> My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.
>
>
> \par\end{center}
>
> Try typing  to proceed.
>
> If that doesn't work, type X  to quit.
>
>
> ETC.
>
> I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another
> document which I can successfully convert.
>
> I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong.
>
> Many Thanks
> Martin



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Re: Lyx, Kindle, epub

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Really grateful to Les for his advice below. This works very well!
Gracias... from India. FN


On 14 July 2014 04:30, Les Denham  wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:08:47 +0530
>  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
>  wrote:
>
> > * What is the easiest way to convert a Lyx file (with images) to epub?
> > * How can one ensure this will be consistent with epub standards?
> > * Any site to test the resultant epub?
> > * Can Lyx developers help to develop some tools that make it easy to
> > create epub and other formats of ebooks?
>
> Frederick,
>
> I've done this for several books. From my experience the answer to your
> questions are:
>
> * Conversion
> 1. Export your file to LyXHTML
> 2. Using your favorite text editor (I use vi), delete the first line of
> the file (something like ) and
> save as type HTML.
> 3. The file can now be imported into Sigil
>   (http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/files/OEBPS/Text/introduction.html
> ),
>   which saves files in epub format.
>
> * Epub standards
> Sigil includes the FlightCrew validator, and also a link to validate
> stylesheets with W3C.
>
> * Testing the epub
> I don't know of any site for testing, other than
>   http://validator.idpf.org/, which as far as I know does exactly the
>   same as the Sigil validator. The real problem is that no e-reader
>   supports the standards completely and exactly, so you need to test
>   your epub on several readers. I use Nook, Calibre and FBreader.
>
> * LyX development
> I'll leave this to developers.
>
> Without images, the conversion is straightforward, with the main
> problem being how to handle footnotes: as epub is reflowable, the
> concept of footnote does not exist, so you will have to decide how to
> handle them. Sigil gives you the tools to implement any solution you
> decide on, but it may involve a lot of detailed editing.
>
> Images complicate the conversion. Do you want small images in a fixed
> location in the text? That is fairly easy. So is putting all the images
> at the end of a chapter (or at the end of the book). But if you want
> clickable links to images, and a clickable link to return you to the
> page you were on, it can become very complicated, and involve a lot of
> hand editing. But again, Sigil has all the tools you need for this.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Les
>



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Re: LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 can't preview UserGuide.lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Liviu Andronic  wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Martin Vlk  wrote:
>> Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from
>> LyX Help into PDF for easy reading.
>>
> Here LyX 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 previews the UserGuide as expected.

With which version of TeX Live?

Scott