[announce] new Windows installer for LyX 2.2.2 available

[Uwe Stöhr]

Dear LyX on Windows users,

some of you might have recently encountered problems with the PDF output 
of your LyX files. documents that worked fine lead now to LaTeX errors. 
These problems were introduced by a major package refactoring of the 
LaTeX distribution MiKTeX that is used by default by LyX on Windows.


There are 2 ways to solve them:

1. run MiKTeX's update program _twice_

If this does not solve your problems and you still get LaTeX errors, the 
easiest way is to


2. uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ and subsequently install LyX 2.2.2 over 
your existing LyX installation using this new installer:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.2.2/LyX-222-Bundle-3.exe

It will automatically reinstall a new MiKTeX and set up everything for 
you. This might take some time depending on your Internet speed because 
LyX needs a lot LaTeX packages that will be downloaded.


regards Uwe

Re: How to suppress unwanted BibDesk fields in IEEE manuscript when using LyX

[Joel Kulesza]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 4:04 PM,  wrote:

>
> I am preparing an IEEE Transactions manuscript (IEEEtran LyX template)
> that references a bibtex database maintained by BibDesk. BibDesk shows
> filled-in fields for such things as DOI, URL, and ISSN. I do not want these
> fields to appear in the IEEE bibliography because IEEE formatting does not
> want them, but they do. Is this a bug in IEEEtran


This is perhaps an inconsistency where the IEEEtran.bst LyX is using is not
in line with current IEEE requirements.  This statement assumes you are
using BibDesk to generate a BibTeX file that LyX then uses with the
IEEEtran style.


> or can this be controlled by LyX or do I have to mess with something else?


I recommend adjusting your current IEEEtran.bst, searching for an
IEEE-compliant .bst to use, or creating your own with makebst.  A workflow
would be like:

First use latex makebst to be routed through a menu-driven interface to
define the various stylistic parameters for the bibliography entries. This
will create a .log and .dbj file. From there, run tex ...djb to create a
standard .bstfile.

Some guessing-and-testing will likely be necessary.


> Is this related to IEEEtran.cls?
>

I don't believe so.  The .cls file controls the document layout, the .bst
file defines the bibliography style.

How to suppress unwanted BibDesk fields in IEEE manuscript when using LyX

[list_email]

Sorry for cross-posting.

I am preparing an IEEE Transactions manuscript (IEEEtran LyX template) that 
references a bibtex database maintained by BibDesk. BibDesk shows filled-in 
fields for such things as DOI, URL, and ISSN. I do not want these fields to 
appear in the IEEE bibliography because IEEE formatting does not want them, but 
they do. Is this a bug in IEEEtran or can this be controlled by LyX or do I 
have to mess with something else? Is this related to IEEEtran.cls?

Thanks,
Jerry

TODO notes (double entries) in LyX 2.2.2 on Windows 10

[Cris Fuhrman]

I've recently noticed an odd behavior of TODO Notes in LyX 2.2.2. I enabled
the fancyline option, and I saw I was getting two lines. Upon further
debugging (using author= and size=\tiny), I can prove that it's actually
generating two TODO notes at the same place. Here's a screen grab:

[image: Inline image 1]
I'm attaching the minimal example (used in LyX 2.2.2 under Windows 10). I
updated my MikTeX yesterday to see if it would go away, but no luck. It's
reproducible on BOTH my Windows 10 machines with LyX.

I searched for todonotes modules (as I used it before prior to LyX 2.2
before it was part of the distribution), but I couldn't find anything in my
LyX path directories that looked like a duplicate. I'm not sure how this is
happening.

When I paste the LaTeX source from LyX (pasted below) into a TeXstudio
document, it works perfectly, so I don't think it's my TeX installation.

% Preview source code


%% LyX 2.2.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.

%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.

\documentclass[english]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

\usepackage{todonotes}

\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}

This is \todo[fancyline,size=\tiny,author=Me]{Here's a long comment that
wraps around in the margin}a

test

\end{document}


newfileTodo.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: short movie (html) in lyx produced pdf

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Protect the sucker :-)-O

el


On 2016-12-01 12:12, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> I would like to make several short movie clips such as
> 
> https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/49802
> 
> klickable in a pdf file. This file will be stored at the university of
> Tuebingen library publication service
> 
> https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/42126?locale-attribute=en
> 
> 
> and I would prefer to store it as a pdf file, not (or in addition to) a
> htm file.
> 
> The movie clips should be shown, if possible, by most of the viewers
> used by readers. I am using Dolphin.
> 
> Could this be done using lyx to produce the pdf file?
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> 

short movie (html) in lyx produced pdf

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I would like to make several short movie clips such as

https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/49802

klickable in a pdf file. This file will be stored at the university of 
Tuebingen library publication service


https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/42126?locale-attribute=en

and I would prefer to store it as a pdf file, not (or in addition to) a 
htm file.


The movie clips should be shown, if possible, by most of the viewers 
used by readers. I am using Dolphin.


Could this be done using lyx to produce the pdf file?

Wolfgang

Re: Jabref-3.7 > solved

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I would like to thank Paul A. Rubin and Richard Shepard for their 
suggestions and help re Jabref-3.7 installation (which I use as a 
reference manager under Lyx).


The problem was, that my Jabref 2.10 did recently not give any results 
under WEB search for references, e.g. by using medline (I am using 
debian jessie)


It turned out that the solution was quite simple:

Since Jabref 3.8 needs Java 8, I installed this first by using synaptic. 
In /search /I asked for java8 (not java 8 -this gives you more offers) 
and got


1- oracle-java8-installer

2- oracle-java8-set-default

3- oracle-java8-iunlimited-jce-policy

out of which I selected /1 and 2/, but NOT yet 3, for installing.

/3/ was installed AFTER 1 and 2 installation was finished

Since jabref of debian offers only version 2.10 as the newest version, I 
downloaded it from

 https://sourceforge.net/projects/jabref/
as JabRef-3.7.jar (35MiB) and put it as a starter on my desktop. Now I 
can start it by clicking at the icon and I am able to use the medline 
data bank again.

Wolfgang