AW: Beginner's Problem

[Andreas Hegenbart]

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Ashok
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. November 2014 08:43
An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Betreff: Beginner's Problem

Hi,

I just heard about LyX and, with great enthusiasm, set out to use it. I
download the bundle 2.1.2 for Windows and installed it. MiKTeX also got
installed. It looked like everything went well, but ..

Each and every Document Class is "Unavailable. There're hundreds listed, but
none that can be used.

I open any of the included manuals and a window pops up saying Document
Class is missing and that I should look at section 3.1.2 of User's Guide. I
looked at it and it asks me to look at Customization manual! I looked at it,
but it is well beyond a beginner. (An early step says "Find it at CTAN or
whatever".)

Also, instructions don't cover Windows 8.1, which I use (that may or may not
matter, if they're the same as for Vista. It does matter that instructions
are inherently difficult and not explained with sympathy for newcomers.)

The manuals say that there are innumerable Latex additions, they can't all
be included/supported. Granted that, I was hoping that just a few
widely-used Document Classes (e.g., article, book) would come standard.

Document Class may not be the end of the problem for a beginner. In
addition, for some manuals, there's a second pop-up window that says that I
should install some module.

Should someone like me just give up and go back to Scientific Word?

TIA.

Hi,
you may try following: 
open Miktex - maintenance - package manager: 
probably you´ve to select the repository (i.e. CTAN) 
then: edit/select installable or all packages  (choose document classes you
need),
task/ install 
Afterwards you´ve to reconfigure lyx (tools) , then close lyx and start
again. 
Hope it works 

Andreas  

Re: Open File problem

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all,

My wife just told me that the problem is also present in 2.1.2.2. It
appears when a document is already open, ie, if a document is open and you
try to open another file from the menu, a new empty document window pops
up, then closes, with no dialog to open a file. Can someone check if this
is so?

Regards,

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Julio Rojas  wrote:

> Done. No bad news since this morning.Thx.
>
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Stephan Witt  wrote:
>
>> Am 23.11.2014 um 16:43 schrieb Julio Rojas :
>>
>> > Dear LyXers,
>> >
>> > My wife has LyX 2.1.1 under OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). When she tries to
>> open a file, LyX pops a new LyX document up, which is immediately closed.
>> No Open File dialog is shown. The same happens with New From Template. Is
>> there a way to diagnose (and fix) this problem? Is it related to the
>> Yosemite problems arising left and right? I wouldn't like to upgrade to
>> Yosemite and thus to 2.1.1.2, unless it would be totally unavoidably, as
>> remote user support is not my strong feature, and she would be left in dire
>> straits.
>>
>> I'd propose to make a copy of the 2.1.1 and try if it is better with
>> 2.1.2 or 2.1.2.2.
>> The fixes for Yosemite doesn't harm on Mavericks. The open file problem
>> is not related
>> to the Yosemite problems. I cannot remember what the reason was and how
>> it was fixed.
>>
>> Stephan
>
>
>

Re: about python3 and lyx

[Fabio Fiorelli]

Steve
Actually both of those (just installed Anaconda yesterday for somebody) 
had for at least an year a Python 3 version. I would not say that there 
is no need felt to move over to Python 3, there's rather _resistance_ to 
moving over due to manifold retro-compatibility issues in many packages 
(which however have mostly been adapted by now). And LyX is no different.

On 11/26/2014 06:12 PM, Steve Burnham wrote:



On Nov 26, 2014 10:42 AM, "José Matos" > wrote:

>
> On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:22:08 Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
> > My questions are exclusive (or not)
> >
> > 1.   Is there a plan to move everything to python3 so we can 
finally

> > forget the old python2?
>
>   There is consensus to go that way but we are not there yet. We 
need to identify which parts of the code are python2 specific and at 
least have the code supporting both versions of python.

>
> Any help is welcome. :-)
>
> > Or
> >
> > 2.   Is there a way to have both python3 and bundled python 
version in

> > lyx living together in windows? Any hints?
> >
> > Best Regards
>
> Regards,
> --
> José Abílio

Is there any real pressing need to move over to Python 3? I'm a pretty 
heavy python user and it just doesn't seem like the scientific 
community in general cares about it. I've actually never met anyone 
who runs anything in 3.  Two of the major python package managers 
(anaconda and canopy) either default to 2 or don't even support 3.


-Steve



--

*Fabio Fiorelli* (MEng Chemical Engineering)
PhD Candidate
University of Cambridge
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3RA, UK