Re: LyX 2.3.6 Windows Installer

[Bert Lloyd]

Thanks to all for your work on this update.

I have a few custom modules in my AppData, will these be affected by
uninstalling my previous release? If so, is there a recommended way to
back them up or restore them?

Many thanks,
BL

PS - LyX 2.3.5.2 with MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 10 Ed

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:32 PM Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
>
> As noted in the announcement of LyX 2.3.6, there is now an updated
> installer available for Windows, including a 64 bit version. In order to
> update to 2.3.6 on Windows using the new installer, you should uninstall
> the previous 2.3 releases using the uninstaller or from within the
> control panel/Windows settings beforehand. Make sure to not install LyX
> 2.3.6 into an existing LyX directory by choosing an empty folder for the
> installation.
>
> Riki
>
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Re: LyX-to-LyX export excluding inactive branches

[Bert Lloyd]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 7:02 PM Paul A. Rubin  wrote:
>
> Might be easier to "Save as" to create a copy under a new name. The
> document open in LyX is now the saved copy, not the original. Go to
> Document > Settings... > Branches. select the answers branch, click
> Remove and OK, Save and you're in business.
>
> Paul

I may be misunderstanding something, but for me when I Document >
Settings... > Branches -> Remove, the material in the branch remains
in the document, in an inset labeled "Branch (undefined): Solutions".

(LyX 2.3.2 on W10)

LyX-to-LyX export excluding inactive branches

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX Users,

When writing problem sets, I create a Solutions branch so that I can
maintain just a single LyX file. I like to give students .tex and .lyx
files so they can type up their solutions.

Creating a .tex file without the content of the Solutions branch is
very easy - I just toggle off the Solutions branch and export to .tex
in the usual way.

Is there a similar way to "export" (or just save-as) a .lyx file
without deactivated branches? At the moment, my workaround is to
export to tex and then import tex to lyx.

Many thanks,
BL

Re: Customizing biblatex beyond Citation Style - Options field

[Bert Lloyd]

Jürgen,

Including this in Document Settings - LaTeX Preamble solved the problem.

Many thanks.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 4:27 PM Jürgen Spitzmüller  wrote:
>
>
>
> Am Do., 8. Nov. 2018, 17:13 hat Bert Lloyd  
> geschrieben:
>>
>> However, there are some further tweaks I would like to make that as
>> far as I know cannot be done this way. For example, in plain LaTex, I
>> would add
>>
>> \AtEveryBibitem{%
>>   \clearlist{language}
>> }
>>
>> after \usepackage[...]{biblatex
>
>
> Use
>
> \AtBeginDocument{%
> \AtEveryBibitem{%
>   \clearlist{language}
> }
> }
>
> Jürgen
>
>>
>> I attempted to implement this via Document Settings - Preamble.
>> However, the problem I am having is that it appears that, by default,
>> LyX places
>> \usepackage[...]{biblatex}
>> \addbibresource{are-495.bib}
>> at the very end of the latex preamble.
>>
>> As a result, options I add via Document Settings - Preamble appear
>> before \usepackage[...]{biblatex}, leading to an error message:
>>
>> Undefined control sequence
>> \AtEveryBibitem
>> {%
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line...
>>
>> I tried including the \AtEveryBibitem{%... material in the body of the
>> document using ERT, but this also lead to an error:
>> ! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
>>
>> So, is there a way I can
>> A) Control where LyX puts \usepackage[...]{biblatex} in the latex preamble?
>> B) Add material to a specific part of the latex preamble (i.e., the
>> end, or at least after \usepackage[...]{biblatex})?
>> C) Pass options to biblatex a different way?
>> D) Other?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> BL

Re: Customizing biblatex beyond Citation Style - Options field

[Bert Lloyd]

I suppose it would, but I would prefer to load biblatex through LyX in
the standard way if possible.
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:04 PM Benedict Holland
 wrote:
>
> If you don't include biblatex in the UI (remove any bibliography settings in 
> Lyx), it shouldn't load anything. Of course, then it is on you to include 
> biblatex with all options and customizations you would like.
>
> Does that work?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Ben
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:13 AM Bert Lloyd  wrote:
>>
>> Dear LyX Users,
>>
>> I am using biblatex in LyX 2.3. I have added several options through
>> the standard approach (Document Settings - Bibliography - Citation
>> Style - Options; for example: hyperref=true), and this works fine.
>>
>> However, there are some further tweaks I would like to make that as
>> far as I know cannot be done this way. For example, in plain LaTex, I
>> would add
>>
>> \AtEveryBibitem{%
>>   \clearlist{language}
>> }
>>
>> after \usepackage[...]{biblatex}
>>
>> I attempted to implement this via Document Settings - Preamble.
>> However, the problem I am having is that it appears that, by default,
>> LyX places
>> \usepackage[...]{biblatex}
>> \addbibresource{are-495.bib}
>> at the very end of the latex preamble.
>>
>> As a result, options I add via Document Settings - Preamble appear
>> before \usepackage[...]{biblatex}, leading to an error message:
>>
>> Undefined control sequence
>> \AtEveryBibitem
>> {%
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line...
>>
>> I tried including the \AtEveryBibitem{%... material in the body of the
>> document using ERT, but this also lead to an error:
>> ! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
>>
>> So, is there a way I can
>> A) Control where LyX puts \usepackage[...]{biblatex} in the latex preamble?
>> B) Add material to a specific part of the latex preamble (i.e., the
>> end, or at least after \usepackage[...]{biblatex})?
>> C) Pass options to biblatex a different way?
>> D) Other?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> BL

Customizing biblatex beyond Citation Style - Options field

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX Users,

I am using biblatex in LyX 2.3. I have added several options through
the standard approach (Document Settings - Bibliography - Citation
Style - Options; for example: hyperref=true), and this works fine.

However, there are some further tweaks I would like to make that as
far as I know cannot be done this way. For example, in plain LaTex, I
would add

\AtEveryBibitem{%
  \clearlist{language}
}

after \usepackage[...]{biblatex}

I attempted to implement this via Document Settings - Preamble.
However, the problem I am having is that it appears that, by default,
LyX places
\usepackage[...]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{are-495.bib}
at the very end of the latex preamble.

As a result, options I add via Document Settings - Preamble appear
before \usepackage[...]{biblatex}, leading to an error message:

Undefined control sequence
\AtEveryBibitem
{%
The control sequence at the end of the top line...

I tried including the \AtEveryBibitem{%... material in the body of the
document using ERT, but this also lead to an error:
! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.

So, is there a way I can
A) Control where LyX puts \usepackage[...]{biblatex} in the latex preamble?
B) Add material to a specific part of the latex preamble (i.e., the
end, or at least after \usepackage[...]{biblatex})?
C) Pass options to biblatex a different way?
D) Other?

Many thanks,

BL

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear all,

Thanks for your comments. Just to follow up, as in Gordon's
experience, when the Compare process did conclude, the result was as
if every character had changed.

Unfortunately I can't share the document publicly.

Best,
BL

best practices for Compare feature?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX users,

I am attempting to compare two versions of a LyX document using Tools
- Compare. The document is roughly 60,000 characters including spaces,
and my rough estimate is that 5% of the document has been changed
between the two versions.

I suspect I am doing something wrong, because the tool has been
running for over an hour, reports 40,000+ differences, and that it is
0% complete.

Any advice?

Thanks,

BL

PS - LyX 2.1.4 with MikTeX 2.9 on W10 Pro 64-bit.

buffer-export and lyx-quit from command line

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX users:

(Related to http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9546 but posted here in
case there is a currently working method rather than a need for a bug
fix.)

Is it possible to write a command sequence such that LyX will wait
until one command is complete (or for some fixed amount of time)
before proceeding to the next command in the sequence? My situation is
the following:

I would like to write a simple .bat script to switch on show changes
in output and export to pdf.

It does not seem to be possible to send the changes-output command in
isolation, i.e.
lyx -x changes-output filename.lyx
lyx -e pdf2 filename.lyx -f

does produce filename.pdf, but without track changes shown.

I have had more success using a one-line command sequence:

lyx -x command-sequence changes-output; buffer-export pdf2; filename.lyx

This produces filename.pdf with track changes shown, but
inconveniently leaves the application window open.
(Batch mode does not work -- this and other unsuccessful variants are
described in greater detail in the ticket linked above.)

I attempted to add lyx-quit to the command sequence, but this

lyx -x command-sequence changes-output; buffer-export pdf2;
lyx-quit; filename.lyx

produces an error: LyX could not be closed because documents are
being processed by LyX.

I would like to write the command sequence so that LyX will wait until
-buffer-export pdf2- is complete before sending the -lyx-quit-
command. Alternatively, it would be fine to have LyX wait for some
fixed amount of time (e.g. 30 seconds).

Other suggestions for a workaround would be welcome as well.

Many thanks,

BL

PS: LyX 2.1.3 and MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. I would be happy
to use Cygwin if that makes a workaround feasible.

buffer-export and lyx-quit from command line

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX users:

(Related to http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9546 but posted here in
case there is a currently working method rather than a need for a bug
fix.)

Is it possible to write a command sequence such that LyX will wait
until one command is complete (or for some fixed amount of time)
before proceeding to the next command in the sequence? My situation is
the following:

I would like to write a simple .bat script to switch on show changes
in output and export to pdf.

It does not seem to be possible to send the changes-output command in
isolation, i.e.
lyx -x changes-output filename.lyx
lyx -e pdf2 filename.lyx -f

does produce filename.pdf, but without track changes shown.

I have had more success using a one-line command sequence:

lyx -x command-sequence changes-output; buffer-export pdf2; filename.lyx

This produces filename.pdf with track changes shown, but
inconveniently leaves the application window open.
(Batch mode does not work -- this and other unsuccessful variants are
described in greater detail in the ticket linked above.)

I attempted to add lyx-quit to the command sequence, but this

lyx -x command-sequence changes-output; buffer-export pdf2;
lyx-quit; filename.lyx

produces an error: LyX could not be closed because documents are
being processed by LyX.

I would like to write the command sequence so that LyX will wait until
-buffer-export pdf2- is complete before sending the -lyx-quit-
command. Alternatively, it would be fine to have LyX wait for some
fixed amount of time (e.g. 30 seconds).

Other suggestions for a workaround would be welcome as well.

Many thanks,

BL

PS: LyX 2.1.3 and MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. I would be happy
to use Cygwin if that makes a workaround feasible.

buffer-export and lyx-quit from command line

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX users:

(Related to http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9546 but posted here in
case there is a currently working method rather than a need for a bug
fix.)

Is it possible to write a command sequence such that LyX will wait
until one command is complete (or for some fixed amount of time)
before proceeding to the next command in the sequence? My situation is
the following:

I would like to write a simple .bat script to switch on show changes
in output and export to pdf.

It does not seem to be possible to send the changes-output command in
isolation, i.e.
lyx -x "changes-output" filename.lyx
lyx -e pdf2 filename.lyx -f

does produce filename.pdf, but without track changes shown.

I have had more success using a one-line command sequence:

lyx -x "command-sequence changes-output; buffer-export pdf2;" filename.lyx

This produces filename.pdf with track changes shown, but
inconveniently leaves the application window open.
(Batch mode does not work -- this and other unsuccessful variants are
described in greater detail in the ticket linked above.)

I attempted to add lyx-quit to the command sequence, but this

lyx -x "command-sequence changes-output; buffer-export pdf2;
lyx-quit;" filename.lyx

produces an error: "LyX could not be closed because documents are
being processed by LyX".

I would like to write the command sequence so that LyX will wait until
-buffer-export pdf2- is complete before sending the -lyx-quit-
command. Alternatively, it would be fine to have LyX wait for some
fixed amount of time (e.g. 30 seconds).

Other suggestions for a workaround would be welcome as well.

Many thanks,

BL

PS: LyX 2.1.3 and MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. I would be happy
to use Cygwin if that makes a workaround feasible.

Compiling main text and supplement as separate PDFs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear lyx-users,

I am writing a paper that consists of a primary text and a separate
supplement (e.g. a web appendix or supplementary online materials).
Because there are many cross-references between the two documents
(e.g. For details, see section S2 of the Supplement., Here, we
provide additional detail for the analysis presented in section 3 of
the main text), I have set up both as child documents of a common
master document, i.e.:

master.lyx
main.lyx
supplement.lyx

This has a number of nice features, especially: the cross-references
are available in the lyx pull-down menu, the cross-reference fields
present nicely on-screen.

The issue I'm having occurs when I try to compile the document.

If I compile the full document using master-lyx, the cross-references
compile nicely but a single PDF is produced. I can split this manually
in Acrobat or pdftk but this has some drawbacks, especially (a) both
PDFs contain the bookmarks for both the main text and the supplement,
so these have to be cleaned up manually; (b) hyperlinked
cross-references pointing to the other document now point to somewhere
that no longer exists.

If I compile the child documents separately, I do get separate PDFs
but the cross-references no longer work.

Ideally, I would be able to produce (i) two separate PDFs with (ii)
hyperlinked internal cross-references and (iii) non-hyperlinked
references to the other document (i.e. as produced by \ref*{label}
rather than \ref{label}). I would settle for (i) two separate PDFs
with (iv) no hyperlinked references.

I have experimented a bit with Inserting supplement.lyx into main.lyx
inside a LyX Note, but this was not entirely successful. The
references presented correctly onscreen in LyX (i.e. no BROKEN:) but
did not compile (??).

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Best,

Bert

Compiling main text and supplement as separate PDFs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear lyx-users,

I am writing a paper that consists of a primary text and a separate
supplement (e.g. a web appendix or supplementary online materials).
Because there are many cross-references between the two documents
(e.g. For details, see section S2 of the Supplement., Here, we
provide additional detail for the analysis presented in section 3 of
the main text), I have set up both as child documents of a common
master document, i.e.:

master.lyx
main.lyx
supplement.lyx

This has a number of nice features, especially: the cross-references
are available in the lyx pull-down menu, the cross-reference fields
present nicely on-screen.

The issue I'm having occurs when I try to compile the document.

If I compile the full document using master-lyx, the cross-references
compile nicely but a single PDF is produced. I can split this manually
in Acrobat or pdftk but this has some drawbacks, especially (a) both
PDFs contain the bookmarks for both the main text and the supplement,
so these have to be cleaned up manually; (b) hyperlinked
cross-references pointing to the other document now point to somewhere
that no longer exists.

If I compile the child documents separately, I do get separate PDFs
but the cross-references no longer work.

Ideally, I would be able to produce (i) two separate PDFs with (ii)
hyperlinked internal cross-references and (iii) non-hyperlinked
references to the other document (i.e. as produced by \ref*{label}
rather than \ref{label}). I would settle for (i) two separate PDFs
with (iv) no hyperlinked references.

I have experimented a bit with Inserting supplement.lyx into main.lyx
inside a LyX Note, but this was not entirely successful. The
references presented correctly onscreen in LyX (i.e. no BROKEN:) but
did not compile (??).

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Best,

Bert

Compiling main text and supplement as separate PDFs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear lyx-users,

I am writing a paper that consists of a primary text and a separate
supplement (e.g. a web appendix or supplementary online materials).
Because there are many cross-references between the two documents
(e.g. "For details, see section S2 of the Supplement.", "Here, we
provide additional detail for the analysis presented in section 3 of
the main text"), I have set up both as child documents of a common
master document, i.e.:

master.lyx
main.lyx
supplement.lyx

This has a number of nice features, especially: the cross-references
are available in the lyx pull-down menu, the cross-reference fields
present nicely on-screen.

The issue I'm having occurs when I try to compile the document.

If I compile the full document using master-lyx, the cross-references
compile nicely but a single PDF is produced. I can split this manually
in Acrobat or pdftk but this has some drawbacks, especially (a) both
PDFs contain the bookmarks for both the main text and the supplement,
so these have to be cleaned up manually; (b) hyperlinked
cross-references pointing to the other document now point to somewhere
that no longer exists.

If I compile the child documents separately, I do get separate PDFs
but the cross-references no longer work.

Ideally, I would be able to produce (i) two separate PDFs with (ii)
hyperlinked internal cross-references and (iii) non-hyperlinked
references to the other document (i.e. as produced by \ref*{label}
rather than \ref{label}). I would settle for (i) two separate PDFs
with (iv) no hyperlinked references.

I have experimented a bit with Inserting supplement.lyx into main.lyx
inside a LyX Note, but this was not entirely successful. The
references presented correctly onscreen in LyX (i.e. no "BROKEN:") but
did not compile ("??").

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Best,

Bert

Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?

I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.

Many thanks in advance,

BL

PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.

Re: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Liviu,

Thanks for suggesting SpiderOak. It looks like a nice service.

Aside from the particular service I use, though, would it be
sufficient to synchronize a certain folder or set of folders (if so,
which ones?) or should I have it sync all of LyX and MikTeX?

Best,
BL


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear LyX Users,

 I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
 work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?

 I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
 just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
 suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.

 I would certainly advise against this!

 If you wish to synchronize a config file across machines you could use
 SpiderOak. Unlike Dropbox, SpiderOak is more flexible and can backup
 and synchronize arbitrary files on a given machine, not only those put
 in a special folder. In addition to this, SpiderOak provides too
 privacy (they never have plain-data access to anything that you put on
 their servers). And SpiderOak Hive provides the exact same
 functionality as the My Dropbox folder. The downside of SpiderOak's
 flexibility is that it can be less intuitive than Dropbox, but this is
 very easy to work around.

 Regards,
 Liviu

 PS You can get an additional 1GB of free storage space (for at total
 of 3GB) if you created your account using my referral link:
 https://spideroak.com/download/referral/55f89bacc25641617a230e47766115ee
 . This is part of the traditional SpiderOak Refer-A-Friend program.


 Many thanks in advance,

 BL

 PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.



 --
 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: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Good point about MikTeX - I don't recall making too many direct edits
to MikTeX, so it's probably not necessary to sync.

For LyX: here is a rough outline of the procedure I had in mind. Does
it seem sensible?

1. Install LyX on machine A.

2. [?] Do something out of the ordinary for a LyX installation, e.g.
putting ~/.lyx somewhere other than the default?

3. Back up ~/.lyx to SpiderOak.

4. Install LyX on machine B.

5. [?] Repeat of 2?

6. Sync ~/.lyx with SpiderOak, doing [?] to ensure that settings made
on Machine A are carried over to Machine B rather than overwritten.

Many thanks again for your help.

BL


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear Liviu,

 Thanks for suggesting SpiderOak. It looks like a nice service.

 Aside from the particular service I use, though, would it be
 sufficient to synchronize a certain folder or set of folders (if so,
 which ones?) or should I have it sync all of LyX and MikTeX?

 I think for LyX it should suffice to backup: ~/.lyx

 But for MikTeX, it would be  a tall order. I guess as long as you have
 'Install packages on the fly' option enabled and run Tools 
 REconfigure in LyX, MikTeX should install all relevant packages that
 you might be using. This should take care of most sync issues, I
 think.

 Liviu


 Best,
 BL


 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear LyX Users,

 I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
 work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?

 I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
 just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
 suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.

 I would certainly advise against this!

 If you wish to synchronize a config file across machines you could use
 SpiderOak. Unlike Dropbox, SpiderOak is more flexible and can backup
 and synchronize arbitrary files on a given machine, not only those put
 in a special folder. In addition to this, SpiderOak provides too
 privacy (they never have plain-data access to anything that you put on
 their servers). And SpiderOak Hive provides the exact same
 functionality as the My Dropbox folder. The downside of SpiderOak's
 flexibility is that it can be less intuitive than Dropbox, but this is
 very easy to work around.

 Regards,
 Liviu

 PS You can get an additional 1GB of free storage space (for at total
 of 3GB) if you created your account using my referral link:
 https://spideroak.com/download/referral/55f89bacc25641617a230e47766115ee
 . This is part of the traditional SpiderOak Refer-A-Friend program.


 Many thanks in advance,

 BL

 PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.



 --
 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



 --
 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: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Great.

Just to clarify, by ~/.lyx and .lyx config dir, you mean the user
directory? (Listed on my W7 PC as ~\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.1\)

Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?

I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.

Many thanks in advance,

BL

PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.

Re: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Liviu,

Thanks for suggesting SpiderOak. It looks like a nice service.

Aside from the particular service I use, though, would it be
sufficient to synchronize a certain folder or set of folders (if so,
which ones?) or should I have it sync all of LyX and MikTeX?

Best,
BL


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear LyX Users,

 I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
 work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?

 I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
 just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
 suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.

 I would certainly advise against this!

 If you wish to synchronize a config file across machines you could use
 SpiderOak. Unlike Dropbox, SpiderOak is more flexible and can backup
 and synchronize arbitrary files on a given machine, not only those put
 in a special folder. In addition to this, SpiderOak provides too
 privacy (they never have plain-data access to anything that you put on
 their servers). And SpiderOak Hive provides the exact same
 functionality as the My Dropbox folder. The downside of SpiderOak's
 flexibility is that it can be less intuitive than Dropbox, but this is
 very easy to work around.

 Regards,
 Liviu

 PS You can get an additional 1GB of free storage space (for at total
 of 3GB) if you created your account using my referral link:
 https://spideroak.com/download/referral/55f89bacc25641617a230e47766115ee
 . This is part of the traditional SpiderOak Refer-A-Friend program.


 Many thanks in advance,

 BL

 PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.



 --
 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: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Good point about MikTeX - I don't recall making too many direct edits
to MikTeX, so it's probably not necessary to sync.

For LyX: here is a rough outline of the procedure I had in mind. Does
it seem sensible?

1. Install LyX on machine A.

2. [?] Do something out of the ordinary for a LyX installation, e.g.
putting ~/.lyx somewhere other than the default?

3. Back up ~/.lyx to SpiderOak.

4. Install LyX on machine B.

5. [?] Repeat of 2?

6. Sync ~/.lyx with SpiderOak, doing [?] to ensure that settings made
on Machine A are carried over to Machine B rather than overwritten.

Many thanks again for your help.

BL


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear Liviu,

 Thanks for suggesting SpiderOak. It looks like a nice service.

 Aside from the particular service I use, though, would it be
 sufficient to synchronize a certain folder or set of folders (if so,
 which ones?) or should I have it sync all of LyX and MikTeX?

 I think for LyX it should suffice to backup: ~/.lyx

 But for MikTeX, it would be  a tall order. I guess as long as you have
 'Install packages on the fly' option enabled and run Tools 
 REconfigure in LyX, MikTeX should install all relevant packages that
 you might be using. This should take care of most sync issues, I
 think.

 Liviu


 Best,
 BL


 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear LyX Users,

 I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
 work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?

 I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
 just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
 suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.

 I would certainly advise against this!

 If you wish to synchronize a config file across machines you could use
 SpiderOak. Unlike Dropbox, SpiderOak is more flexible and can backup
 and synchronize arbitrary files on a given machine, not only those put
 in a special folder. In addition to this, SpiderOak provides too
 privacy (they never have plain-data access to anything that you put on
 their servers). And SpiderOak Hive provides the exact same
 functionality as the My Dropbox folder. The downside of SpiderOak's
 flexibility is that it can be less intuitive than Dropbox, but this is
 very easy to work around.

 Regards,
 Liviu

 PS You can get an additional 1GB of free storage space (for at total
 of 3GB) if you created your account using my referral link:
 https://spideroak.com/download/referral/55f89bacc25641617a230e47766115ee
 . This is part of the traditional SpiderOak Refer-A-Friend program.


 Many thanks in advance,

 BL

 PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.



 --
 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



 --
 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: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Great.

Just to clarify, by ~/.lyx and .lyx config dir, you mean the user
directory? (Listed on my W7 PC as ~\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.1\)

Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?

I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.

Many thanks in advance,

BL

PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.

Re: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Liviu,

Thanks for suggesting SpiderOak. It looks like a nice service.

Aside from the particular service I use, though, would it be
sufficient to synchronize a certain folder or set of folders (if so,
which ones?) or should I have it sync all of LyX and MikTeX?

Best,
BL


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear LyX Users,
>>
>> I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
>> work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?
>>
>> I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
>> just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
>> suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.
>>
> I would certainly advise against this!
>
> If you wish to synchronize a config file across machines you could use
> SpiderOak. Unlike Dropbox, SpiderOak is more flexible and can backup
> and synchronize arbitrary files on a given machine, not only those put
> in a special folder. In addition to this, SpiderOak provides too
> privacy (they never have plain-data access to anything that you put on
> their servers). And SpiderOak Hive provides the exact same
> functionality as the My Dropbox folder. The downside of SpiderOak's
> flexibility is that it can be less intuitive than Dropbox, but this is
> very easy to work around.
>
> Regards,
> Liviu
>
> PS You can get an additional 1GB of free storage space (for at total
> of 3GB) if you created your account using my referral link:
> https://spideroak.com/download/referral/55f89bacc25641617a230e47766115ee
> . This is part of the traditional SpiderOak Refer-A-Friend program.
>
>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> BL
>>
>> PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.
>
>
>
> --
> 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: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Good point about MikTeX - I don't recall making too many direct edits
to MikTeX, so it's probably not necessary to sync.

For LyX: here is a rough outline of the procedure I had in mind. Does
it seem sensible?

1. Install LyX on machine A.

2. [?] Do something out of the ordinary for a LyX installation, e.g.
putting ~/.lyx somewhere other than the default?

3. Back up ~/.lyx to SpiderOak.

4. Install LyX on machine B.

5. [?] Repeat of 2?

6. Sync ~/.lyx with SpiderOak, doing [?] to ensure that settings made
on Machine A are carried over to Machine B rather than overwritten.

Many thanks again for your help.

BL


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Liviu,
>>
>> Thanks for suggesting SpiderOak. It looks like a nice service.
>>
>> Aside from the particular service I use, though, would it be
>> sufficient to synchronize a certain folder or set of folders (if so,
>> which ones?) or should I have it sync all of LyX and MikTeX?
>>
> I think for LyX it should suffice to backup: ~/.lyx
>
> But for MikTeX, it would be  a tall order. I guess as long as you have
> 'Install packages on the fly' option enabled and run Tools >
> REconfigure in LyX, MikTeX should install all relevant packages that
> you might be using. This should take care of most sync issues, I
> think.
>
> Liviu
>
>
>> Best,
>> BL
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear LyX Users,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and
>>>> work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this?
>>>>
>>>> I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about
>>>> just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I
>>>> suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this.
>>>>
>>> I would certainly advise against this!
>>>
>>> If you wish to synchronize a config file across machines you could use
>>> SpiderOak. Unlike Dropbox, SpiderOak is more flexible and can backup
>>> and synchronize arbitrary files on a given machine, not only those put
>>> in a special folder. In addition to this, SpiderOak provides too
>>> privacy (they never have plain-data access to anything that you put on
>>> their servers). And SpiderOak Hive provides the exact same
>>> functionality as the My Dropbox folder. The downside of SpiderOak's
>>> flexibility is that it can be less intuitive than Dropbox, but this is
>>> very easy to work around.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Liviu
>>>
>>> PS You can get an additional 1GB of free storage space (for at total
>>> of 3GB) if you created your account using my referral link:
>>> https://spideroak.com/download/referral/55f89bacc25641617a230e47766115ee
>>> . This is part of the traditional SpiderOak Refer-A-Friend program.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> BL
>>>>
>>>> PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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
>
>
>
> --
> 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: Synchronizing settings across PCs

[Bert Lloyd]

Great.

Just to clarify, by ~/.lyx and .lyx config dir, you mean the user
directory? (Listed on my W7 PC as "~\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.1\")

Re: LyX 2.1.1 and Cygwin64?

[Bert Lloyd]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote:
 On 09/14/2014 08:29 AM, Bert Lloyd wrote:

 Hi all,

 Will the current Cygwin binary (link below) work with Cygwin64? Any
 tweaks to the installation process?


 There was some sort of compatibility issue with 64-bit Cygwin that has been
 fixed for 2.1.2,
 which should be released in a few days.

 Enrico will know more, so I'll cc him.

 Richard


Thanks, this is great to hear. I can certainly wait for 2.1.2.

Best,

BL

Re: LyX 2.1.1 and Cygwin64?

[Bert Lloyd]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote:
 On 09/14/2014 08:29 AM, Bert Lloyd wrote:

 Hi all,

 Will the current Cygwin binary (link below) work with Cygwin64? Any
 tweaks to the installation process?


 There was some sort of compatibility issue with 64-bit Cygwin that has been
 fixed for 2.1.2,
 which should be released in a few days.

 Enrico will know more, so I'll cc him.

 Richard


Thanks, this is great to hear. I can certainly wait for 2.1.2.

Best,

BL

Re: LyX 2.1.1 and Cygwin64?

[Bert Lloyd]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 09/14/2014 08:29 AM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Will the current Cygwin binary (link below) work with Cygwin64? Any
>> tweaks to the installation process?
>
>
> There was some sort of compatibility issue with 64-bit Cygwin that has been
> fixed for 2.1.2,
> which should be released in a few days.
>
> Enrico will know more, so I'll cc him.
>
> Richard
>

Thanks, this is great to hear. I can certainly wait for 2.1.2.

Best,

BL

LyX 2.1.1 and Cygwin64?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi all,

Will the current Cygwin binary (link below) work with Cygwin64? Any
tweaks to the installation process?

Thanks,

BL

Cygwin binary found here
http://www.lyx.org/Download
with download here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.1.1/lyx-2.1.1-cygwin.tar.gz

Cygwin64 on W7 Pro 64-bit PC
$ help
GNU bash, version 4.1.11(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)

LyX 2.1.1 and Cygwin64?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi all,

Will the current Cygwin binary (link below) work with Cygwin64? Any
tweaks to the installation process?

Thanks,

BL

Cygwin binary found here
http://www.lyx.org/Download
with download here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.1.1/lyx-2.1.1-cygwin.tar.gz

Cygwin64 on W7 Pro 64-bit PC
$ help
GNU bash, version 4.1.11(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)

LyX 2.1.1 and Cygwin64?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi all,

Will the current Cygwin binary (link below) work with Cygwin64? Any
tweaks to the installation process?

Thanks,

BL

Cygwin binary found here
http://www.lyx.org/Download
with download here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.1.1/lyx-2.1.1-cygwin.tar.gz

Cygwin64 on W7 Pro 64-bit PC
$ help
GNU bash, version 4.1.11(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Thanks again for your advice.

I am having a few issues with installation:

In step 4 of the installation instructions (In the Select Packages
view...) I did not initially see lyx and related packages. After
clicking View a few times until Not Installed was displayed, the
relevant packages were displayed (lyx, lyxdict, etc, although not
LyXwin as stated in step 4).

When installing, I then got popup messages from Cygwin setup Can't
open (null) for reading: No such file while setup was installing
cygspawn-1.0.0-2-src, dtltools-0.6.2-src, dvipost-1.1-4-src,
latex2rtf-1.9.17-2.src, lyxsupport-2.0-src.

Finally, lyx still finds my windows installation rather than the new
cygwin version:
$ lyx -version
LyX 2.0.8 (2014-04-14)
Built on Apr 15 2014, 23:03:32
CMake Build


I'm assuming I need to edit the cygwin PATH variable, since this still includes
/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.0/bin
however, I can't find the right directory in cygwin, i.e.
/usr/local/share/lyx/ does not exist, nor can I find lyx.exe,
lyxwin.exe, or any lyx directory in my cygwin installation. I'm not
sure that I've looked everywhere, but I have looked everywhere I can
think of, including
C:\cygwin64\bin
C:\cygwin64\etc
C:\cygwin64\lib
C:\cygwin64\usr
C:\cygwin64\usr\local
C:\cygwin64\usr\share

which leads me to suspect my installation was not successful after all.

Any suggestions?

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Thanks, installing 32-bit Cygwin solved the problem.

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Enrico Forestieri for...@lyx.org wrote:
 On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:13:18AM -0400, Bert Lloyd wrote:

 Thanks again for your advice.

 I am having a few issues with installation:

 In step 4 of the installation instructions (In the Select Packages
 view...) I did not initially see lyx and related packages. After
 clicking View a few times until Not Installed was displayed, the
 relevant packages were displayed (lyx, lyxdict, etc, although not
 LyXwin as stated in step 4).

 When installing, I then got popup messages from Cygwin setup Can't
 open (null) for reading: No such file while setup was installing
 cygspawn-1.0.0-2-src, dtltools-0.6.2-src, dvipost-1.1-4-src,
 latex2rtf-1.9.17-2.src, lyxsupport-2.0-src.

 Finally, lyx still finds my windows installation rather than the new
 cygwin version:
 $ lyx -version
 LyX 2.0.8 (2014-04-14)
 Built on Apr 15 2014, 23:03:32
 CMake Build


 I'm assuming I need to edit the cygwin PATH variable, since this still 
 includes
 /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.0/bin
 however, I can't find the right directory in cygwin, i.e.
 /usr/local/share/lyx/ does not exist, nor can I find lyx.exe,
 lyxwin.exe, or any lyx directory in my cygwin installation. I'm not
 sure that I've looked everywhere, but I have looked everywhere I can
 think of, including
 C:\cygwin64\bin
 C:\cygwin64\etc
 C:\cygwin64\lib
 C:\cygwin64\usr
 C:\cygwin64\usr\local
 C:\cygwin64\usr\share

 which leads me to suspect my installation was not successful after all.

 Any suggestions?

 From what you write above, I suspect that you installed the 64 bit version
 of Cygwin, while that package was built for the 32 bit version.
 If you don't have a specific need for the 64 bit version, you can try
 installing the 32 bit version. I am sorry but I don't have cygwin64
 and can't build a 64 bit version of the package ATM, because I still
 use an old 32 bit laptop for working in Windows.

 --
 Enrico

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Thanks again for your advice.

I am having a few issues with installation:

In step 4 of the installation instructions (In the Select Packages
view...) I did not initially see lyx and related packages. After
clicking View a few times until Not Installed was displayed, the
relevant packages were displayed (lyx, lyxdict, etc, although not
LyXwin as stated in step 4).

When installing, I then got popup messages from Cygwin setup Can't
open (null) for reading: No such file while setup was installing
cygspawn-1.0.0-2-src, dtltools-0.6.2-src, dvipost-1.1-4-src,
latex2rtf-1.9.17-2.src, lyxsupport-2.0-src.

Finally, lyx still finds my windows installation rather than the new
cygwin version:
$ lyx -version
LyX 2.0.8 (2014-04-14)
Built on Apr 15 2014, 23:03:32
CMake Build


I'm assuming I need to edit the cygwin PATH variable, since this still includes
/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.0/bin
however, I can't find the right directory in cygwin, i.e.
/usr/local/share/lyx/ does not exist, nor can I find lyx.exe,
lyxwin.exe, or any lyx directory in my cygwin installation. I'm not
sure that I've looked everywhere, but I have looked everywhere I can
think of, including
C:\cygwin64\bin
C:\cygwin64\etc
C:\cygwin64\lib
C:\cygwin64\usr
C:\cygwin64\usr\local
C:\cygwin64\usr\share

which leads me to suspect my installation was not successful after all.

Any suggestions?

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Thanks, installing 32-bit Cygwin solved the problem.

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Enrico Forestieri for...@lyx.org wrote:
 On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:13:18AM -0400, Bert Lloyd wrote:

 Thanks again for your advice.

 I am having a few issues with installation:

 In step 4 of the installation instructions (In the Select Packages
 view...) I did not initially see lyx and related packages. After
 clicking View a few times until Not Installed was displayed, the
 relevant packages were displayed (lyx, lyxdict, etc, although not
 LyXwin as stated in step 4).

 When installing, I then got popup messages from Cygwin setup Can't
 open (null) for reading: No such file while setup was installing
 cygspawn-1.0.0-2-src, dtltools-0.6.2-src, dvipost-1.1-4-src,
 latex2rtf-1.9.17-2.src, lyxsupport-2.0-src.

 Finally, lyx still finds my windows installation rather than the new
 cygwin version:
 $ lyx -version
 LyX 2.0.8 (2014-04-14)
 Built on Apr 15 2014, 23:03:32
 CMake Build


 I'm assuming I need to edit the cygwin PATH variable, since this still 
 includes
 /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.0/bin
 however, I can't find the right directory in cygwin, i.e.
 /usr/local/share/lyx/ does not exist, nor can I find lyx.exe,
 lyxwin.exe, or any lyx directory in my cygwin installation. I'm not
 sure that I've looked everywhere, but I have looked everywhere I can
 think of, including
 C:\cygwin64\bin
 C:\cygwin64\etc
 C:\cygwin64\lib
 C:\cygwin64\usr
 C:\cygwin64\usr\local
 C:\cygwin64\usr\share

 which leads me to suspect my installation was not successful after all.

 Any suggestions?

 From what you write above, I suspect that you installed the 64 bit version
 of Cygwin, while that package was built for the 32 bit version.
 If you don't have a specific need for the 64 bit version, you can try
 installing the 32 bit version. I am sorry but I don't have cygwin64
 and can't build a 64 bit version of the package ATM, because I still
 use an old 32 bit laptop for working in Windows.

 --
 Enrico

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Thanks again for your advice.

I am having a few issues with installation:

In step 4 of the installation instructions ("In the "Select Packages"
view...") I did not initially see lyx and related packages. After
clicking "View" a few times until "Not Installed" was displayed, the
relevant packages were displayed (lyx, lyxdict, etc, although not
LyXwin as stated in step 4).

When installing, I then got popup messages from Cygwin setup "Can't
open (null) for reading: No such file" while setup was installing
cygspawn-1.0.0-2-src, dtltools-0.6.2-src, dvipost-1.1-4-src,
latex2rtf-1.9.17-2.src, lyxsupport-2.0-src.

Finally, lyx still finds my windows installation rather than the new
cygwin version:
$ lyx -version
LyX 2.0.8 (2014-04-14)
Built on Apr 15 2014, 23:03:32
CMake Build


I'm assuming I need to edit the cygwin PATH variable, since this still includes
/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.0/bin
however, I can't find the right directory in cygwin, i.e.
/usr/local/share/lyx/ does not exist, nor can I find lyx.exe,
lyxwin.exe, or any lyx directory in my cygwin installation. I'm not
sure that I've looked everywhere, but I have looked everywhere I can
think of, including
C:\cygwin64\bin
C:\cygwin64\etc
C:\cygwin64\lib
C:\cygwin64\usr
C:\cygwin64\usr\local
C:\cygwin64\usr\share

which leads me to suspect my installation was not successful after all.

Any suggestions?

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Thanks, installing 32-bit Cygwin solved the problem.

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:13:18AM -0400, Bert Lloyd wrote:
>
>> Thanks again for your advice.
>>
>> I am having a few issues with installation:
>>
>> In step 4 of the installation instructions ("In the "Select Packages"
>> view...") I did not initially see lyx and related packages. After
>> clicking "View" a few times until "Not Installed" was displayed, the
>> relevant packages were displayed (lyx, lyxdict, etc, although not
>> LyXwin as stated in step 4).
>>
>> When installing, I then got popup messages from Cygwin setup "Can't
>> open (null) for reading: No such file" while setup was installing
>> cygspawn-1.0.0-2-src, dtltools-0.6.2-src, dvipost-1.1-4-src,
>> latex2rtf-1.9.17-2.src, lyxsupport-2.0-src.
>>
>> Finally, lyx still finds my windows installation rather than the new
>> cygwin version:
>> $ lyx -version
>> LyX 2.0.8 (2014-04-14)
>> Built on Apr 15 2014, 23:03:32
>> CMake Build
>>
>>
>> I'm assuming I need to edit the cygwin PATH variable, since this still 
>> includes
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.0/bin
>> however, I can't find the right directory in cygwin, i.e.
>> /usr/local/share/lyx/ does not exist, nor can I find lyx.exe,
>> lyxwin.exe, or any lyx directory in my cygwin installation. I'm not
>> sure that I've looked everywhere, but I have looked everywhere I can
>> think of, including
>> C:\cygwin64\bin
>> C:\cygwin64\etc
>> C:\cygwin64\lib
>> C:\cygwin64\usr
>> C:\cygwin64\usr\local
>> C:\cygwin64\usr\share
>>
>> which leads me to suspect my installation was not successful after all.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> From what you write above, I suspect that you installed the 64 bit version
> of Cygwin, while that package was built for the 32 bit version.
> If you don't have a specific need for the 64 bit version, you can try
> installing the 32 bit version. I am sorry but I don't have cygwin64
> and can't build a 64 bit version of the package ATM, because I still
> use an old 32 bit laptop for working in Windows.
>
> --
> Enrico

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Enrico,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I have two clarifying questions,
interspersed below.

Best,
BL


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Enrico Forestieri for...@lyx.org wrote:
 Bert Lloyd writes:

 Dear LyX-users,

 I am writing some scripts to create PDFs from a number of LyX files. I
 use Windows, but to maximize cross-platform portability, I'm writing
 the scripts for Cygwin so that they can run on unix and MacOS. I would
 like to know whether one of the following three options is preferable:

 1. Add my current Windows installation of LyX and MikTeX to my Cygwin
 PATH variable, so cygwin can find lyx.exe, etc.

 This works provided that you take into account that a native version
 of LyX cannot use neither scripts nor commands that are symlinks.
 If you need one of such commands you have to write a wrapper batch
 file. Often, they can be one liners of the kind

 @bash -c 'script_or_symlink_name %*'


Do you mean

a native version of LyX (a) cannot use scripts and (b) cannot use
commands that are symlinks

or

a native version of LyX (a) cannot use scripts that are (contain?)
symlinks (but could use scripts that do not contain symlinks) and (b)
cannot use commands that are symlinks


 2. In Cygwin, install the most recent version of LyX (and, presumably,
 texlive or some other latex engine) and run the cygwin scripts using
 these.

 While there can be some issues using a Cygwin TeX engine with a native
 LyX version (but it can be done), a Cygwin version of LyX can use
 without problems a native TeX engine. So, if you install LyX/Cygwin
 and already have, say MikTeX, you don't need installing texlive in Cygwin.

 3. Download the tar.gz Cygwin binary directly from
 http://www.lyx.org/Download and [install? compile?] it. This is
 currently a bit beyond my ability, although I could learn.

 That tar.gz contains a Cygwin package to be installed through the
 setup.exe installation tool. Simply untar it (using the Cygwin tar
 version, not a native one) and follow the instructions in the README
 file. This version does not use an X server and is visually identical
 to the native version.

 Any other general tips for Cygwin and LyX are of course appreciated.

 If you already use Cygwin, then install the Cygwin version of LyX.
 If you only sporadically need Cygwin, then install the native version
 of LyX and use wrapper batch files to call the commands you need.
 If you need interoperability with unix and MacOS, then definitely
 install the Cygwin version of LyX.


I'm just doing very simple things in these script: lyx -e to export to
tex, ultra-simple sed commands to change a couple of lines in the
tex-file (e.g. notes=show to notes=hide in beamer), then pdflatex to
compile pdfs.

My belief was that these were simple enough to be consistent between
native LyX and Cygwin LyX (indeed, only the first is a lyx command).
Is this belief reasonable?

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Enrico,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I have two clarifying questions,
interspersed below.

Best,
BL


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Enrico Forestieri for...@lyx.org wrote:
 Bert Lloyd writes:

 Dear LyX-users,

 I am writing some scripts to create PDFs from a number of LyX files. I
 use Windows, but to maximize cross-platform portability, I'm writing
 the scripts for Cygwin so that they can run on unix and MacOS. I would
 like to know whether one of the following three options is preferable:

 1. Add my current Windows installation of LyX and MikTeX to my Cygwin
 PATH variable, so cygwin can find lyx.exe, etc.

 This works provided that you take into account that a native version
 of LyX cannot use neither scripts nor commands that are symlinks.
 If you need one of such commands you have to write a wrapper batch
 file. Often, they can be one liners of the kind

 @bash -c 'script_or_symlink_name %*'


Do you mean

a native version of LyX (a) cannot use scripts and (b) cannot use
commands that are symlinks

or

a native version of LyX (a) cannot use scripts that are (contain?)
symlinks (but could use scripts that do not contain symlinks) and (b)
cannot use commands that are symlinks


 2. In Cygwin, install the most recent version of LyX (and, presumably,
 texlive or some other latex engine) and run the cygwin scripts using
 these.

 While there can be some issues using a Cygwin TeX engine with a native
 LyX version (but it can be done), a Cygwin version of LyX can use
 without problems a native TeX engine. So, if you install LyX/Cygwin
 and already have, say MikTeX, you don't need installing texlive in Cygwin.

 3. Download the tar.gz Cygwin binary directly from
 http://www.lyx.org/Download and [install? compile?] it. This is
 currently a bit beyond my ability, although I could learn.

 That tar.gz contains a Cygwin package to be installed through the
 setup.exe installation tool. Simply untar it (using the Cygwin tar
 version, not a native one) and follow the instructions in the README
 file. This version does not use an X server and is visually identical
 to the native version.

 Any other general tips for Cygwin and LyX are of course appreciated.

 If you already use Cygwin, then install the Cygwin version of LyX.
 If you only sporadically need Cygwin, then install the native version
 of LyX and use wrapper batch files to call the commands you need.
 If you need interoperability with unix and MacOS, then definitely
 install the Cygwin version of LyX.


I'm just doing very simple things in these script: lyx -e to export to
tex, ultra-simple sed commands to change a couple of lines in the
tex-file (e.g. notes=show to notes=hide in beamer), then pdflatex to
compile pdfs.

My belief was that these were simple enough to be consistent between
native LyX and Cygwin LyX (indeed, only the first is a lyx command).
Is this belief reasonable?

Re: LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Enrico,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I have two clarifying questions,
interspersed below.

Best,
BL


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Bert Lloyd writes:
>>
>> Dear LyX-users,
>>
>> I am writing some scripts to create PDFs from a number of LyX files. I
>> use Windows, but to maximize cross-platform portability, I'm writing
>> the scripts for Cygwin so that they can run on unix and MacOS. I would
>> like to know whether one of the following three options is preferable:
>>
>> 1. Add my current Windows installation of LyX and MikTeX to my Cygwin
>> PATH variable, so cygwin can find lyx.exe, etc.
>
> This works provided that you take into account that a native version
> of LyX cannot use neither scripts nor commands that are symlinks.
> If you need one of such commands you have to write a wrapper batch
> file. Often, they can be one liners of the kind
>
> @bash -c 'script_or_symlink_name %*'
>

Do you mean

"a native version of LyX (a) cannot use scripts and (b) cannot use
commands that are symlinks"

or

"a native version of LyX (a) cannot use scripts that are (contain?)
symlinks (but could use scripts that do not contain symlinks) and (b)
cannot use commands that are symlinks"


>> 2. In Cygwin, install the most recent version of LyX (and, presumably,
>> texlive or some other latex engine) and run the cygwin scripts using
>> these.
>
> While there can be some issues using a Cygwin TeX engine with a native
> LyX version (but it can be done), a Cygwin version of LyX can use
> without problems a native TeX engine. So, if you install LyX/Cygwin
> and already have, say MikTeX, you don't need installing texlive in Cygwin.
>
>> 3. Download the tar.gz Cygwin binary directly from
>> http://www.lyx.org/Download and [install? compile?] it. This is
>> currently a bit beyond my ability, although I could learn.
>
> That tar.gz contains a Cygwin package to be installed through the
> setup.exe installation tool. Simply untar it (using the Cygwin tar
> version, not a native one) and follow the instructions in the README
> file. This version does not use an X server and is visually identical
> to the native version.
>
>> Any other general tips for Cygwin and LyX are of course appreciated.
>
> If you already use Cygwin, then install the Cygwin version of LyX.
> If you only sporadically need Cygwin, then install the native version
> of LyX and use wrapper batch files to call the commands you need.
> If you need interoperability with unix and MacOS, then definitely
> install the Cygwin version of LyX.
>

I'm just doing very simple things in these script: lyx -e to export to
tex, ultra-simple sed commands to change a couple of lines in the
tex-file (e.g. notes=show to notes=hide in beamer), then pdflatex to
compile pdfs.

My belief was that these were simple enough to be consistent between
native LyX and Cygwin LyX (indeed, only the first is a lyx command).
Is this belief reasonable?

LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX-users,

I am writing some scripts to create PDFs from a number of LyX files. I
use Windows, but to maximize cross-platform portability, I'm writing
the scripts for Cygwin so that they can run on unix and MacOS. I would
like to know whether one of the following three options is preferable:

1. Add my current Windows installation of LyX and MikTeX to my Cygwin
PATH variable, so cygwin can find lyx.exe, etc.

2. In Cygwin, install the most recent version of LyX (and, presumably,
texlive or some other latex engine) and run the cygwin scripts using
these.

3. Download the tar.gz Cygwin binary directly from
http://www.lyx.org/Download and [install? compile?] it. This is
currently a bit beyond my ability, although I could learn.

Any other general tips for Cygwin and LyX are of course appreciated.

Thanks,

BL

PS - W7-64, LyX 2.0.8, MikTeX 2.9.

LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX-users,

I am writing some scripts to create PDFs from a number of LyX files. I
use Windows, but to maximize cross-platform portability, I'm writing
the scripts for Cygwin so that they can run on unix and MacOS. I would
like to know whether one of the following three options is preferable:

1. Add my current Windows installation of LyX and MikTeX to my Cygwin
PATH variable, so cygwin can find lyx.exe, etc.

2. In Cygwin, install the most recent version of LyX (and, presumably,
texlive or some other latex engine) and run the cygwin scripts using
these.

3. Download the tar.gz Cygwin binary directly from
http://www.lyx.org/Download and [install? compile?] it. This is
currently a bit beyond my ability, although I could learn.

Any other general tips for Cygwin and LyX are of course appreciated.

Thanks,

BL

PS - W7-64, LyX 2.0.8, MikTeX 2.9.

LyX and Cygwin

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX-users,

I am writing some scripts to create PDFs from a number of LyX files. I
use Windows, but to maximize cross-platform portability, I'm writing
the scripts for Cygwin so that they can run on unix and MacOS. I would
like to know whether one of the following three options is preferable:

1. Add my current Windows installation of LyX and MikTeX to my Cygwin
PATH variable, so cygwin can find lyx.exe, etc.

2. In Cygwin, install the most recent version of LyX (and, presumably,
texlive or some other latex engine) and run the cygwin scripts using
these.

3. Download the tar.gz Cygwin binary directly from
http://www.lyx.org/Download and [install? compile?] it. This is
currently a bit beyond my ability, although I could learn.

Any other general tips for Cygwin and LyX are of course appreciated.

Thanks,

BL

PS - W7-64, LyX 2.0.8, MikTeX 2.9.

Re: Enabling cropped PDF support

[Bert Lloyd]

It appears that pdfcrop comes with MikTeX:
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfcrop.exe
(I am not entirely clear on whether there are any differences between
pdfcrop.pl and this pdfcrop.exe.)

However, in the command window:
 pdfcrop --version
pdfcrop: The Perl interpreter could not be found

in CygWin:
$ pdfcrop --version
pdfcrop 2012/11/02 v1.38
but
$ pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped.pdf
led to an error.

So, after some experimentation, I found that

1) installing
Strawberry Perl (64-bit) 5.18.2.1-64bit
to C:\strawberry\ (default)
and
Ghostscript 9.14 to C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.14 (default)

and

2) adding paths to both in the windows path and the cygwin path, as
well as uninstalling the older version of perl that comes with cygwin
_and_ removing it from the cygwin path

gets it to work.

In CygWin (note you have to specify gscmd since the default is gs):
$ pdfcrop --gscmd gswin64c table.pdf table_cropped.pdf
PDFCROP 1.38, 2012/11/02 - Copyright (c) 2002-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.
== 1 page written on `table_cropped.pdf'.

and in the command window (note here you do _not_ need to specify gswin64c):
 pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped_win.pdf
yielded the same outcome.


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there a for-dummies guide anywhere for installing and using pdfcrop
 on Windows? (If such a thing is possible, that is.) I have a very
 basic familiarity with cygwin, but after struggling with what I found
 at
 http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
 I fear I am overmatched.

 Have you tried installing pdfcrop via MiKTeX? That should work.

 Liviu


 W7-64bit, MikTeX 2.9 (which contains pdfcrop.exe and pdftex.exe, both
 in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64)
 Cygwin64 with perl v5.14.4, there does not appear to be an option to
 update perl when running Cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe update tool.

 Many thanks -- and apologies for incompetence -- in advance,

 BL


 On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:
 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com:

 If I select File - Export - Export as.., I can select PDF
 (cropped), but using it results in the popup message No information
 for exporting the format PDF (cropped). Is my system missing a
 particular program that is needed for cropped PDF export?


 You need pdfcrop:
 http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop

 HTH
 Jürgen



 Best regards
 Torquil Sørensen





 --
 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

Re: Enabling cropped PDF support

[Bert Lloyd]

It appears that pdfcrop comes with MikTeX:
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfcrop.exe
(I am not entirely clear on whether there are any differences between
pdfcrop.pl and this pdfcrop.exe.)

However, in the command window:
 pdfcrop --version
pdfcrop: The Perl interpreter could not be found

in CygWin:
$ pdfcrop --version
pdfcrop 2012/11/02 v1.38
but
$ pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped.pdf
led to an error.

So, after some experimentation, I found that

1) installing
Strawberry Perl (64-bit) 5.18.2.1-64bit
to C:\strawberry\ (default)
and
Ghostscript 9.14 to C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.14 (default)

and

2) adding paths to both in the windows path and the cygwin path, as
well as uninstalling the older version of perl that comes with cygwin
_and_ removing it from the cygwin path

gets it to work.

In CygWin (note you have to specify gscmd since the default is gs):
$ pdfcrop --gscmd gswin64c table.pdf table_cropped.pdf
PDFCROP 1.38, 2012/11/02 - Copyright (c) 2002-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.
== 1 page written on `table_cropped.pdf'.

and in the command window (note here you do _not_ need to specify gswin64c):
 pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped_win.pdf
yielded the same outcome.


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there a for-dummies guide anywhere for installing and using pdfcrop
 on Windows? (If such a thing is possible, that is.) I have a very
 basic familiarity with cygwin, but after struggling with what I found
 at
 http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
 I fear I am overmatched.

 Have you tried installing pdfcrop via MiKTeX? That should work.

 Liviu


 W7-64bit, MikTeX 2.9 (which contains pdfcrop.exe and pdftex.exe, both
 in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64)
 Cygwin64 with perl v5.14.4, there does not appear to be an option to
 update perl when running Cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe update tool.

 Many thanks -- and apologies for incompetence -- in advance,

 BL


 On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:
 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com:

 If I select File - Export - Export as.., I can select PDF
 (cropped), but using it results in the popup message No information
 for exporting the format PDF (cropped). Is my system missing a
 particular program that is needed for cropped PDF export?


 You need pdfcrop:
 http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop

 HTH
 Jürgen



 Best regards
 Torquil Sørensen





 --
 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

Re: Enabling cropped PDF support

[Bert Lloyd]

It appears that pdfcrop comes with MikTeX:
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfcrop.exe
(I am not entirely clear on whether there are any differences between
pdfcrop.pl and this pdfcrop.exe.)

However, in the command window:
> pdfcrop --version
pdfcrop: The Perl interpreter could not be found

in CygWin:
$ pdfcrop --version
pdfcrop 2012/11/02 v1.38
but
$ pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped.pdf
led to an error.

So, after some experimentation, I found that

1) installing
Strawberry Perl (64-bit) 5.18.2.1-64bit
to C:\strawberry\ (default)
and
Ghostscript 9.14 to C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.14 (default)

and

2) adding paths to both in the windows path and the cygwin path, as
well as uninstalling the older version of perl that comes with cygwin
_and_ removing it from the cygwin path

gets it to work.

In CygWin (note you have to specify gscmd since the default is gs):
$ pdfcrop --gscmd gswin64c table.pdf table_cropped.pdf
PDFCROP 1.38, 2012/11/02 - Copyright (c) 2002-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.
==> 1 page written on `table_cropped.pdf'.

and in the command window (note here you do _not_ need to specify gswin64c):
> pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped_win.pdf
yielded the same outcome.


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a for-dummies guide anywhere for installing and using pdfcrop
>> on Windows? (If such a thing is possible, that is.) I have a very
>> basic familiarity with cygwin, but after struggling with what I found
>> at
>> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
>> I fear I am overmatched.
>>
> Have you tried installing pdfcrop via MiKTeX? That should work.
>
> Liviu
>
>
>> W7-64bit, MikTeX 2.9 (which contains pdfcrop.exe and pdftex.exe, both
>> in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64)
>> Cygwin64 with perl v5.14.4, there does not appear to be an option to
>> update perl when running Cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe update tool.
>>
>> Many thanks -- and apologies for incompetence -- in advance,
>>
>> BL
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
>>> 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torq...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> If I select "File -> Export -> Export as..", I can select "PDF
>>>> (cropped)", but using it results in the popup message "No information
>>>> for exporting the format PDF (cropped)". Is my system missing a
>>>> particular program that is needed for cropped PDF export?
>>>
>>>
>>> You need "pdfcrop":
>>> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Jürgen
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Torquil Sørensen
>>>>
>>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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

Re: Enabling cropped PDF support

[Bert Lloyd]

Is there a for-dummies guide anywhere for installing and using pdfcrop
on Windows? (If such a thing is possible, that is.) I have a very
basic familiarity with cygwin, but after struggling with what I found
at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
I fear I am overmatched.

W7-64bit, MikTeX 2.9 (which contains pdfcrop.exe and pdftex.exe, both
in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64)
Cygwin64 with perl v5.14.4, there does not appear to be an option to
update perl when running Cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe update tool.

Many thanks -- and apologies for incompetence -- in advance,

BL


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:
 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com:

 If I select File - Export - Export as.., I can select PDF
 (cropped), but using it results in the popup message No information
 for exporting the format PDF (cropped). Is my system missing a
 particular program that is needed for cropped PDF export?


 You need pdfcrop:
 http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop

 HTH
 Jürgen



 Best regards
 Torquil Sørensen

Re: Enabling cropped PDF support

[Bert Lloyd]

Is there a for-dummies guide anywhere for installing and using pdfcrop
on Windows? (If such a thing is possible, that is.) I have a very
basic familiarity with cygwin, but after struggling with what I found
at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
I fear I am overmatched.

W7-64bit, MikTeX 2.9 (which contains pdfcrop.exe and pdftex.exe, both
in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64)
Cygwin64 with perl v5.14.4, there does not appear to be an option to
update perl when running Cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe update tool.

Many thanks -- and apologies for incompetence -- in advance,

BL


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:
 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com:

 If I select File - Export - Export as.., I can select PDF
 (cropped), but using it results in the popup message No information
 for exporting the format PDF (cropped). Is my system missing a
 particular program that is needed for cropped PDF export?


 You need pdfcrop:
 http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop

 HTH
 Jürgen



 Best regards
 Torquil Sørensen

Re: Enabling cropped PDF support

[Bert Lloyd]

Is there a for-dummies guide anywhere for installing and using pdfcrop
on Windows? (If such a thing is possible, that is.) I have a very
basic familiarity with cygwin, but after struggling with what I found
at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
I fear I am overmatched.

W7-64bit, MikTeX 2.9 (which contains pdfcrop.exe and pdftex.exe, both
in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64)
Cygwin64 with perl v5.14.4, there does not appear to be an option to
update perl when running Cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe update tool.

Many thanks -- and apologies for incompetence -- in advance,

BL


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller  wrote:
> 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen :
>
>> If I select "File -> Export -> Export as..", I can select "PDF
>> (cropped)", but using it results in the popup message "No information
>> for exporting the format PDF (cropped)". Is my system missing a
>> particular program that is needed for cropped PDF export?
>
>
> You need "pdfcrop":
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop
>
> HTH
> Jürgen
>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Torquil Sørensen
>>
>

Re: Endfloat: adding Tables and Figures bookmark(s) to ToC, pdf

[Bert Lloyd]

The following seems to have solved the problem:

[in LaTeX preamble]
\usepackage[heads,nolists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
\AtBeginTables{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables}}
\AtBeginFigures{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Figures}}

[in the body]
Choose [H] / Here definitely in the table settings


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear LyX users,

 I am using the endfloat package to move table and figure floats to the
 end of my document. I would like for separate Tables and Figures
 section headers to appear in the Table of Contents and for bookmarks
 to be generated in the PDF (using hyperref).

 However, this doesn't seem to happen, even though I am including the
 -heads- option when adding the endfloat package.

 I have tried a workaround via \addcontentsline, e.g.
 \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}
 but this ends up pointing to the page before the Tables. (endfloat
 starts on a newpage).

 Any suggestions?

 Thanks,
 BL

 PS: LyX 2.0.7 on Windows 7. Key bits of code:
 in preamble:
 \usepackage[heads,lists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
 \usepackage{hyperref}
 in body:
 \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}

 PPS - While I would prefer separate headers, I would be happy with a
 single Tables and Figures entry.

Re: Endfloat: adding Tables and Figures bookmark(s) to ToC, pdf

[Bert Lloyd]

The following seems to have solved the problem:

[in LaTeX preamble]
\usepackage[heads,nolists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
\AtBeginTables{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables}}
\AtBeginFigures{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Figures}}

[in the body]
Choose [H] / Here definitely in the table settings


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear LyX users,

 I am using the endfloat package to move table and figure floats to the
 end of my document. I would like for separate Tables and Figures
 section headers to appear in the Table of Contents and for bookmarks
 to be generated in the PDF (using hyperref).

 However, this doesn't seem to happen, even though I am including the
 -heads- option when adding the endfloat package.

 I have tried a workaround via \addcontentsline, e.g.
 \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}
 but this ends up pointing to the page before the Tables. (endfloat
 starts on a newpage).

 Any suggestions?

 Thanks,
 BL

 PS: LyX 2.0.7 on Windows 7. Key bits of code:
 in preamble:
 \usepackage[heads,lists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
 \usepackage{hyperref}
 in body:
 \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}

 PPS - While I would prefer separate headers, I would be happy with a
 single Tables and Figures entry.

Re: Endfloat: adding Tables and Figures bookmark(s) to ToC, pdf

[Bert Lloyd]

The following seems to have solved the problem:

[in LaTeX preamble]
\usepackage[heads,nolists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
\AtBeginTables{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables}}
\AtBeginFigures{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Figures}}

[in the body]
Choose [H] / "Here definitely" in the table settings


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear LyX users,
>
> I am using the endfloat package to move table and figure floats to the
> end of my document. I would like for separate "Tables" and "Figures"
> section headers to appear in the Table of Contents and for bookmarks
> to be generated in the PDF (using hyperref).
>
> However, this doesn't seem to happen, even though I am including the
> -heads- option when adding the endfloat package.
>
> I have tried a workaround via \addcontentsline, e.g.
> \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}
> but this ends up pointing to the page before the Tables. (endfloat
> starts on a newpage).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> BL
>
> PS: LyX 2.0.7 on Windows 7. Key bits of code:
> in preamble:
> \usepackage[heads,lists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> in body:
> \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}
>
> PPS - While I would prefer separate headers, I would be happy with a
> single "Tables and Figures" entry.

Endfloat: adding Tables and Figures bookmark(s) to ToC, pdf

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX users,

I am using the endfloat package to move table and figure floats to the
end of my document. I would like for separate Tables and Figures
section headers to appear in the Table of Contents and for bookmarks
to be generated in the PDF (using hyperref).

However, this doesn't seem to happen, even though I am including the
-heads- option when adding the endfloat package.

I have tried a workaround via \addcontentsline, e.g.
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}
but this ends up pointing to the page before the Tables. (endfloat
starts on a newpage).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
BL

PS: LyX 2.0.7 on Windows 7. Key bits of code:
in preamble:
\usepackage[heads,lists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
\usepackage{hyperref}
in body:
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}

PPS - While I would prefer separate headers, I would be happy with a
single Tables and Figures entry.

Endfloat: adding Tables and Figures bookmark(s) to ToC, pdf

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX users,

I am using the endfloat package to move table and figure floats to the
end of my document. I would like for separate Tables and Figures
section headers to appear in the Table of Contents and for bookmarks
to be generated in the PDF (using hyperref).

However, this doesn't seem to happen, even though I am including the
-heads- option when adding the endfloat package.

I have tried a workaround via \addcontentsline, e.g.
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}
but this ends up pointing to the page before the Tables. (endfloat
starts on a newpage).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
BL

PS: LyX 2.0.7 on Windows 7. Key bits of code:
in preamble:
\usepackage[heads,lists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
\usepackage{hyperref}
in body:
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}

PPS - While I would prefer separate headers, I would be happy with a
single Tables and Figures entry.

Endfloat: adding Tables and Figures bookmark(s) to ToC, pdf

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX users,

I am using the endfloat package to move table and figure floats to the
end of my document. I would like for separate "Tables" and "Figures"
section headers to appear in the Table of Contents and for bookmarks
to be generated in the PDF (using hyperref).

However, this doesn't seem to happen, even though I am including the
-heads- option when adding the endfloat package.

I have tried a workaround via \addcontentsline, e.g.
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}
but this ends up pointing to the page before the Tables. (endfloat
starts on a newpage).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
BL

PS: LyX 2.0.7 on Windows 7. Key bits of code:
in preamble:
\usepackage[heads,lists,tablesfirst,nomarkers]{endfloat}
\usepackage{hyperref}
in body:
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables and Figures}

PPS - While I would prefer separate headers, I would be happy with a
single "Tables and Figures" entry.

main text on left page, notes on right page?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX-Users,

I would like to create the following layout for exchanging comments on
drafts with collaborators:

Text on the left / verso page, right / recto page reserved for notes. When
you insert a note in the text, that note would appear on the opposite page,
at roughly the same height as the text into which it was inserted. I
suppose this is similar to margin notes, but allowing more space for easier
reading.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
BL

main text on left page, notes on right page?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX-Users,

I would like to create the following layout for exchanging comments on
drafts with collaborators:

Text on the left / verso page, right / recto page reserved for notes. When
you insert a note in the text, that note would appear on the opposite page,
at roughly the same height as the text into which it was inserted. I
suppose this is similar to margin notes, but allowing more space for easier
reading.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
BL

main text on left page, notes on right page?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear LyX-Users,

I would like to create the following layout for exchanging comments on
drafts with collaborators:

Text on the left / verso page, right / recto page reserved for notes. When
you insert a note in the text, that note would appear on the opposite page,
at roughly the same height as the text into which it was inserted. I
suppose this is similar to margin notes, but allowing more space for easier
reading.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
BL

Re: Is it possible to track changes without seeing the tracked changes?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Scott and Richard,

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try the Compare workaround, and
look forward to improvements in future versions of LyX.

- BL

Re: Is it possible to track changes without seeing the tracked changes?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Scott and Richard,

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try the Compare workaround, and
look forward to improvements in future versions of LyX.

- BL

Re: Is it possible to track changes without seeing the tracked changes?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear Scott and Richard,

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try the Compare workaround, and
look forward to improvements in future versions of LyX.

- BL

Is it possible to track changes without seeing the tracked changes?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi,

I would like to track changes as I make edits to a collaborative
document, but all the crossing out and red and blue text drives me
crazy when I am typing. (It's great for reading edits and for
accepting / rejecting them.)

Is it possible to track changes but not actually have the tracking be
apparent in the document while I am working?

Thanks,

BL

Is it possible to track changes without seeing the tracked changes?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi,

I would like to track changes as I make edits to a collaborative
document, but all the crossing out and red and blue text drives me
crazy when I am typing. (It's great for reading edits and for
accepting / rejecting them.)

Is it possible to track changes but not actually have the tracking be
apparent in the document while I am working?

Thanks,

BL

Is it possible to track changes without seeing the tracked changes?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi,

I would like to track changes as I make edits to a collaborative
document, but all the crossing out and red and blue text drives me
crazy when I am typing. (It's great for reading edits and for
accepting / rejecting them.)

Is it possible to track changes but not actually have the tracking be
apparent in the document while I am working?

Thanks,

BL

Special formatting for branches in exported PDF?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi LyXers,

I am finding the Branches function to be incredibly useful for adding
notes and questions to shared documents. I would like to know if there
is a way to have specific formats applied to certain branches when
exporting to PDF. In particular, I would like to have the text
highlighted, but it would also be useful if the text appeared in a
special color, emphasized, boldface, etc.

Many thanks in advance.

- BL

Special formatting for branches in exported PDF?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi LyXers,

I am finding the Branches function to be incredibly useful for adding
notes and questions to shared documents. I would like to know if there
is a way to have specific formats applied to certain branches when
exporting to PDF. In particular, I would like to have the text
highlighted, but it would also be useful if the text appeared in a
special color, emphasized, boldface, etc.

Many thanks in advance.

- BL

Special formatting for branches in exported PDF?

[Bert Lloyd]

Hi LyXers,

I am finding the Branches function to be incredibly useful for adding
notes and questions to shared documents. I would like to know if there
is a way to have specific formats applied to certain branches when
exporting to PDF. In particular, I would like to have the text
highlighted, but it would also be useful if the text appeared in a
special color, emphasized, boldface, etc.

Many thanks in advance.

- BL

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

 Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
 of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

I believe the answer to this question is yes, since the user directory is
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

 If not, then copy the
 old one over the new one.


So if the answer to the above is yes, what do you (or others) recommend?

Many thanks again.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

 Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
 of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

I believe the answer to this question is yes, since the user directory is
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

 If not, then copy the
 old one over the new one.


So if the answer to the above is yes, what do you (or others) recommend?

Many thanks again.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
>> Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.
>>
>> But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
>> appreciate advice as well.
>>
> Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
> of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
> 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

I believe the answer to this question is "yes", since the user directory is
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

> If not, then copy the
> old one over the new one.
>

So if the answer to the above is "yes", what do you (or others) recommend?

Many thanks again.


>

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.

Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
to retain if possible.

Many thanks in advance.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.

Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
to retain if possible.

Many thanks in advance.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.

Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
to retain if possible.

Many thanks in advance.

Re: Lyx and beamer again.

[Bert Lloyd]

I have never understood the purpose of \lyxframe and \lyxframeend when
the standard \begin{frame} and \end{frame} are available.

Conceding my almost complete ignorance on this topic, wouldn't it be
better to for LyX to use standard Beamer / LaTeX commands whenever
possible? This would seem to improve interoperability with users of
pure latex, as well as to adhere to the general principle of keeping
things simple and not introducing complications that are not needed.

Re: Lyx and beamer again.

[Bert Lloyd]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:

 The problem at the moment is that LyX does not yet support beamer's overlay
 arguments (...). At the time when the beamer layout was written (by the
 beamer author himself, BTW), we also did not yet support mandatory environment
 arguments. We do now, although the InsetArgument framework is not really
 suitable for submitting a frame title.

 \lyxframe works around these shortcomings by scanning for the diverse
 arguments.

 Jürgen


Thanks for the explanation.

Are these issues somewhat reduced by the incremental lists modules?
http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules#toc9
Perhaps these could be included in stock LyX in the future and make
the \lyxframe workaround unnecessary?

Re: Lyx and beamer again.

[Bert Lloyd]

I have never understood the purpose of \lyxframe and \lyxframeend when
the standard \begin{frame} and \end{frame} are available.

Conceding my almost complete ignorance on this topic, wouldn't it be
better to for LyX to use standard Beamer / LaTeX commands whenever
possible? This would seem to improve interoperability with users of
pure latex, as well as to adhere to the general principle of keeping
things simple and not introducing complications that are not needed.

Re: Lyx and beamer again.

[Bert Lloyd]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:

 The problem at the moment is that LyX does not yet support beamer's overlay
 arguments (...). At the time when the beamer layout was written (by the
 beamer author himself, BTW), we also did not yet support mandatory environment
 arguments. We do now, although the InsetArgument framework is not really
 suitable for submitting a frame title.

 \lyxframe works around these shortcomings by scanning for the diverse
 arguments.

 Jürgen


Thanks for the explanation.

Are these issues somewhat reduced by the incremental lists modules?
http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules#toc9
Perhaps these could be included in stock LyX in the future and make
the \lyxframe workaround unnecessary?

Re: Lyx and beamer again.

[Bert Lloyd]

I have never understood the purpose of \lyxframe and \lyxframeend when
the standard \begin{frame} and \end{frame} are available.

Conceding my almost complete ignorance on this topic, wouldn't it be
better to for LyX to use standard Beamer / LaTeX commands whenever
possible? This would seem to improve interoperability with users of
"pure" latex, as well as to adhere to the general principle of keeping
things simple and not introducing complications that are not needed.

Re: Lyx and beamer again.

[Bert Lloyd]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller  wrote:

> The problem at the moment is that LyX does not yet support beamer's overlay
> arguments (<...>). At the time when the beamer layout was written (by the
> beamer author himself, BTW), we also did not yet support mandatory environment
> arguments. We do now, although the InsetArgument framework is not really
> suitable for submitting a frame title.
>
> \lyxframe works around these shortcomings by scanning for the diverse
> arguments.
>
> Jürgen
>

Thanks for the explanation.

Are these issues somewhat reduced by the incremental lists modules?
http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules#toc9
Perhaps these could be included in "stock" LyX in the future and make
the \lyxframe workaround unnecessary?

Re: lyx 2.0.1 and relative paths to tex files

[Bert Lloyd]

I have found command line and shell scripts to be the best, though
admittedly imperfect, options:

$ cp filename.lyx filename-mytemp.lyx
$ lyx -e latex filename-mytemp.lyx
$ pdflatex filename-mytemp.tex
$ cp filename-mytemp.pdf filename.pdf
$ rm filename-mytemp*

I wish i knew of a way to put a shortcut into LyX that said, Do the
above, using the current file as -filename-

HTH

Re: lyx 2.0.1 and relative paths to tex files

[Bert Lloyd]

I have found command line and shell scripts to be the best, though
admittedly imperfect, options:

$ cp filename.lyx filename-mytemp.lyx
$ lyx -e latex filename-mytemp.lyx
$ pdflatex filename-mytemp.tex
$ cp filename-mytemp.pdf filename.pdf
$ rm filename-mytemp*

I wish i knew of a way to put a shortcut into LyX that said, Do the
above, using the current file as -filename-

HTH

Re: lyx 2.0.1 and relative paths to tex files

[Bert Lloyd]

I have found command line and shell scripts to be the best, though
admittedly imperfect, options:

$ cp filename.lyx filename-mytemp.lyx
$ lyx -e latex filename-mytemp.lyx
$ pdflatex filename-mytemp.tex
$ cp filename-mytemp.pdf filename.pdf
$ rm filename-mytemp*

I wish i knew of a way to put a shortcut into LyX that said, "Do the
above, using the current file as -filename-"

HTH

Re: Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

[Bert Lloyd]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello LyX users,

 Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears
 onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF?

 Have you tried File  Print? Normally it prints the document as seen
 in LyX, and usually people complain that the output is crap while we
 point them to the PDF preview.

 Regards
 Liviu



When I try File  Print, I get a popup menu titled LyX: Print
Document, with Print Destination options of Printer: and File:

The Printer field is blank, and when I choose this option, dvips
starts, saying that it's working with a .dvi file. I can't find this
dvi file or a .ps file created, so I'm not sure it is actually
created.

If I choose File, similarly dvips runs, and a ps file is created. When
I run Distiller on the .ps file, it creates a compiled pdf, which
looks just like what I get if I do File - Export - pdflatex.

Thanks.

Re: Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

[Bert Lloyd]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello LyX users,

 Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears
 onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF?

 Have you tried File  Print? Normally it prints the document as seen
 in LyX, and usually people complain that the output is crap while we
 point them to the PDF preview.

 Regards
 Liviu



When I try File  Print, I get a popup menu titled LyX: Print
Document, with Print Destination options of Printer: and File:

The Printer field is blank, and when I choose this option, dvips
starts, saying that it's working with a .dvi file. I can't find this
dvi file or a .ps file created, so I'm not sure it is actually
created.

If I choose File, similarly dvips runs, and a ps file is created. When
I run Distiller on the .ps file, it creates a compiled pdf, which
looks just like what I get if I do File - Export - pdflatex.

Thanks.

Re: Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

[Bert Lloyd]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello LyX users,
>>
>> Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears
>> onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF?
>>
> Have you tried File > Print? Normally it prints the document as seen
> in LyX, and usually people complain that the output is crap while we
> point them to the PDF preview.
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
>

When I try File > Print, I get a popup menu titled "LyX: Print
Document," with Print Destination options of Printer: and File:

The Printer field is blank, and when I choose this option, dvips
starts, saying that it's working with a .dvi file. I can't find this
dvi file or a .ps file created, so I'm not sure it is actually
created.

If I choose File, similarly dvips runs, and a ps file is created. When
I run Distiller on the .ps file, it creates a compiled pdf, which
looks just like what I get if I do File - Export - pdflatex.

Thanks.

Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

[Bert Lloyd]

Hello LyX users,

Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears
onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF?

I would like to read through a collaborative document with lots of
tracked changes, LyX notes, and other things that do not get exported
to PDF, and always find reading the printed page more conducive to
thinking than reading on-screen.

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

 - BL

Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

[Bert Lloyd]

Hello LyX users,

Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears
onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF?

I would like to read through a collaborative document with lots of
tracked changes, LyX notes, and other things that do not get exported
to PDF, and always find reading the printed page more conducive to
thinking than reading on-screen.

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

 - BL

Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

[Bert Lloyd]

Hello LyX users,

Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears
onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF?

I would like to read through a collaborative document with lots of
tracked changes, LyX notes, and other things that do not get exported
to PDF, and always find reading the printed page more conducive to
thinking than reading on-screen.

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

 - BL