Re: preview environment doesn't render in the document in 2.4.0?

[Christopher Menzel]

I’ve found over the years that it pays to install the complete TeX package on 
any platform I’m working on. Tons of stuff gets installed that I won’t ever 
need, but it guarantees that everything I will need is there. And disk space is 
cheap and plentiful these days. :-)

-chris

> On Jun 21, 2024, at 6:47 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> 
> On 6/21/24 11:20, matan guedj wrote:
>> hello,
>> I've just updated from 2.3.7 to 2.4.0 and everything went smoothly but the 
>> preview environments I have in my files don't render anymore, I used to have 
>> TeX code in an ERT environment (for plots and graphs) and that ERT, inside a 
>> preview environment, would render that code inside the lyx file itself, but 
>> now it doesn't work anymore for the old files (any file that I created 
>> before 2.4.0 the preview environment doesn't work) the output still works as 
>> intended.
>> just to make it clear that means that the preview environment doesn't work 
>> for me in all of my older files, even if I write something new.
>> it's a minor inconvenience:
> 
> There have been reports of similar problems, and it has turned out that 
> people did not have certain LaTeX packages installed. I think suffix.sty has 
> been a common culprit. LyX 2.4.0 has some new requirements...
> 
> Riki

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Re: Please help me

[Christopher Menzel]

> On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:55 PM, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users 
>  wrote:
> 
>> 11 juni 2024 kl. 15:51 skrev Christopher Menzel :
>> 
>>> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH 
>>> LyX 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac computer with a Silicon chip and Mac 
>>> OS 14.5. No luck finding any useful information about this issue.
>>> Is this possible?
>> 
>> ...
>> If all you want to do is install both versions of LyX, then, assuming you 
>> currently have LyX 2.3.8 installed, just open the Applications folder on 
>> your machine and rename LyX.app to “LyX 2.3.8.app” and then install LyX 2.4. 
>> I think the only issue is that LyX 2.3.8 will look in ~/Library/Application 
>> Support/LyX-2.3 for its support files (personal bind files, personal 
>> spellcheck files, etc) and LyX 2.4 will look in ~/Library/Application 
>> Support/LyX-2.4 so those could get out of sync. (You could probably create 
>> symlinks in your LyX-2.3 folder to keep things in sync but you can kick that 
>> can down the road for now.)
> 
> I have used a setup like that for over a year with no problem. No Symlinks or 
> anything, just calling one app LyX, and the other LyX-23 (or whatever).

You’d need symlinks if you wanted to keep user files (e.g., the personal 
spelling dictionary files pwl_english.dict) for LyX 2.3.x and LyX 2.4.y in 
sync, as they are in separate directories under ~/Library/Application Support.

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Re: Please help me

[Christopher Menzel]

> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH LyX 
> 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac computer with a Silicon chip and Mac OS 
> 14.5. No luck finding any useful information about this issue.
> Is this possible?

It’s not clear what you are asking. There should be no problem installing both 
versions on your machine. But it is usually the case that you can’t smoothly 
edit the same document with different versions of LyX, as there are usually 
changes in the .lyx file format from version to version. (There’s usually no 
problem importing documents created from older versions of LyX into newer 
versions but vice versa is usually (always?) problematic.)

If all you want to do is install both versions of LyX, then, assuming you 
currently have LyX 2.3.8 installed, just open the Applications folder on your 
machine and rename LyX.app to “LyX 2.3.8.app” and then install LyX 2.4. I think 
the only issue is that LyX 2.3.8 will look in ~/Library/Application 
Support/LyX-2.3 for its support files (personal bind files, personal spellcheck 
files, etc) and LyX 2.4 will look in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4 so 
those could get out of sync. (You could probably create symlinks in your 
LyX-2.3 folder to keep things in sync but you can kick that can down the road 
for now.)

LyX wizards might be appalled at something I’ve said here...

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Re: Headline is massively indented

[Christopher Menzel]

> I have selected my font in the settings. I don't know how else to do it. A 
> package called texlive-full does not exist on my MikTex console. I don't know 
> how to install this package without using manual installation. Maybe with 
> \usepackage? That doesn't work.

Ah, I didn’t realize you were on Windows; TeX Live is a completely different 
implementation of TeX. As a recent thread indicated, MikTeX is not recommended 
for use with LyX — maybe this is Yet Another MikTeX Issue? So maybe try 
removing it and installing TeX Live  
instead. That’s all I can think of, as your documents seem to compile just fine 
under both MacOS and Linux for me (on both of which I have versions of TeX 
Live).

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Re: LyX 2.4 & MikTeX problem

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jun 2, 2024, at 9:12 AM, markhsalmon  wrote:
> 
>> It's because of this sort of problem, which seems to arise constantly, that 
>> we stopped recommending MiKTeX.
> 
> [S]o what do you recommend please? If not MikTek?

TeX Live 

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Re: LyX 2.4 - Emph keyboard shortcut not working in OS X 14.4.1

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jun 1, 2024, at 8:14 PM, Artemy Kolchinsky  wrote:
> I didn't know about ctlr-c e -- that works, thanks.
> 
> cmd-i doesn't work for me.

You should be able to set it in Preferences → Editing → Shortcuts.

-chris

> On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 7:34 PM Christopher Menzel  <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Jun 1, 2024, at 6:51 PM, Artemy Kolchinsky > > <mailto:arte...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Thank you for releasing this amazing piece of software!
>> > 
>> > However, I am running into an annoying bug in Lyx 2.4 on OS X 14.4.1 (I 
>> > cannot post to the bug tracker due to lack of privileges). The cmd+e 
>> > command no longer works to turn emphasis on/off. cmd+b (bold) and cmd+u 
>> > (underline) still work as expected.
>> 
>> Cmd-i (“italic”) has always done the trick for me. ("Ctrl-c e” as well, 
>> FWIW!)
>> 
>> -chris

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Re: LyX 2.4.0 Released!

[Christopher Menzel]

I compiled 2.4.0 on Kali LInux 2024.2 with Qt6 (in a Parallels VM), no issues. 
Under MacOS I renamed RC4 just in case and then just copied 2.4.0 into the 
Applications folder as usual. Again, smooth sailing.

I can’t begin to express my gratitude to the LyX developers for this fabulous 
program. It’s been my constant companion for over 15 years now! :-)

Chris Menzel

> On Jun 1, 2024, at 6:20 PM, Rich Shepard  wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2024, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
> 
>> On OSX, I have copied it over the RC4 as proposed by the OS and it seems
>> to work without any problem.
> 
> On Slackware linux upgrading the existing version to a new one has no
> issues.
> 
> Rich
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Re: LyX 2.4 - Emph keyboard shortcut not working in OS X 14.4.1

[Christopher Menzel]

> On Jun 1, 2024, at 6:51 PM, Artemy Kolchinsky  wrote:
> 
> Thank you for releasing this amazing piece of software!
> 
> However, I am running into an annoying bug in Lyx 2.4 on OS X 14.4.1 (I 
> cannot post to the bug tracker due to lack of privileges). The cmd+e command 
> no longer works to turn emphasis on/off. cmd+b (bold) and cmd+u (underline) 
> still work as expected.

Cmd-i (“italic”) has always done the trick for me. ("Ctrl-c e” as well, FWIW!)

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UPDATE: Pasted text from another document underlined in blue

[Christopher Menzel]

I just figured this out. For some reason, LyX thinks the languages of the two 
documents are different. (They are both set to the system Default.) 
Fortunately, the underlining can be turned off in Preferences → Language 
Settings. Seems like a bug?.

-chris

> On May 29, 2024, at 4:59 PM, Christopher Menzel  
> wrote:
> 
> LyX folk:
> 
> I am working up a Beamer presentation for a talk based on a paper I’m working 
> on (in LyX, of course). For some reason, whenever I try to paste text from 
> the paper into the Beamer document, the pasted text is underlined in blue 
> (see bottom bullet point in the attached screenshot). I am not using Track 
> Changes. It does not happen when I copy and paste text from within the Beamer 
> document itself. Can anyone explain this and, more importantly, tell me how 
> to get rid of it? It is driving me a bit batty.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Chris Menzel
> 
> ps: And, actually, I just noticed that the same thing happens when I copy and 
> paste from the Beamer document into the paper.
> 
> 

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Re: Calibri Font

[Christopher Menzel]

> I am a newbie to Lyx and I am using the Manchester PhD template on the LyX 
> website. Before LyX all my figures and text used Calibri font, it would be 
> great if I could use this in my LyX rendering. I have been on the web and 
> found several options however the solutions are dependant on several modules 
> being present - what is required for Lyx please?

You don’t mention what platform you are on (MacOS? Windows? Linux?) so it makes 
it difficult to answer your question precisely. If you are on Windows, then I 
believe all you need to do in LyX (as Eberhard notes in his reply) is go into 
Document → Settings → Fonts and select “Use non-TeX fonts (via XeTeX/LuaTeX)". 
That should then make all of your Windows system fonts available to you, which 
should include all of Microsoft's “Clear Type” fonts — Calibri, Cambria, etc. 
The same procedure should work under MacOS as long as you have Microsoft Office 
(or, at least, Word) installed. Under Linux, you can find detailed instructions 
for snagging these fonts →HERE 
←. (As I 
understand it, the script used in the Linux process extracts these fonts from a 
free Microsoft application (PowerPoint Viewer 2007) and hence that it is legal 
to install them for personal use.)

Chris Menzel

ps: I would agree with Eberhard in recommending a serif font for your text. :-) 
I am using Cambria (and its associated math font) for a large document and I 
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Re: LyX and MacOS upgrade to M3?

[Christopher Menzel]

On Apr 24, 2024, at 4:10 PM, eprb--- via lyx-users  
wrote:
> I am happily using LyX Version 2.3.6.2 (7 January 2021) with MacOS High 
> Sierra, version 10.13.6.
> 
> I need to upgrade my Mac, and I want to ensure continuity with LyX.
> 
> Please: What is the best LyX and new MacOS combination for me?
> 
> PS: I am looking at an iMac with MacOS M3.

Just get your nice new Mac (running Sonoma presumably), install the latest 
release version of LyX (2.3.7) and upgrade when 2.4 is released, which should 
be quite soon. Both should install and run flawlessly on most any Mac running 
most any reasonably recent version of MacOS.
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Re: Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

[Christopher Menzel]

> Le 18/04/2024 à 16:59, Christopher Menzel a écrit :
>>> Maybe you need enchant (default on debian), it uses different spell 
>>> checkers.
>>> 
>> Thank you for the suggestion. I finally got the bright idea of looking 
>> through the configure script for relevant flags and found 
>> “--with-included-hunspell”. Apparently, by default the script looks for an 
>> installed version of hunspell instead of using the version that’s included 
>> in the distribution and, for some reason, it wasn’t able to find my 
>> installed version of hunspell. But configuring with the above flag did the 
>> trick. My document is now nicely littered with wavy red underlines (as 
>> desired!). :-)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To compile with support for the installed hunspell, you need to install the 
> libhunspell-dev package.

Hm, I don’t have libhunspell-dev installed but I definitely have spellchecking 
support and Hunspell now shows up as the spellchecker in Preferences.

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Re: Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

[Christopher Menzel]

> Maybe you need enchant (default on debian), it uses different spell checkers.
> 
Thank you for the suggestion. I finally got the bright idea of looking through 
the configure script for relevant flags and found “--with-included-hunspell”. 
Apparently, by default the script looks for an installed version of hunspell 
instead of using the version that’s included in the distribution and, for some 
reason, it wasn’t able to find my installed version of hunspell. But 
configuring with the above flag did the trick. My document is now nicely 
littered with wavy red underlines (as desired!). :-)

-chris
> Am 17.04.24 um 5:41 PM schrieb Christopher Menzel:
>> I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am
>>  unable to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees 
>> no spellchecker engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. Hunspell and 
>> the English dictionary are of course installed. I found an old thread 
>> saying that Hunspell support had to be explicitly included at configure 
>> time, but I believe Hunspell is now built in. At any rate, the old 
>> “—use-hunspell” option is not recognized. Spellchecking via Hunspell 
>> works fine in the MacOS version of RC4.

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Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

[Christopher Menzel]

Gentle LyX folk:

I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am unable 
to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees no spellchecker 
engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. Hunspell and the English dictionary 
are of course installed. I found an old thread saying that Hunspell support had 
to be explicitly included at configure time, but I believe Hunspell is now 
built in. At any rate, the old “—use-hunspell” option is not recognized. 
Spellchecking via Hunspell works fine in the MacOS version of RC4.

Help/explanations much appreciated! Apologies if I’ve missed a relevant 
discussion.

Chris Menzel

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Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 15, 2024, at 2:40 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> The LyX team is happy (and relieved) to announce the publication of the first 
> 'release candidate' for the long awaited 2.4.0. 


Just compiled it under Linux and was very happy to see that y’all fixed the 
chonky (specifically, overly wide) toolbars you’d get under beta5 when you 
affixed them to the left edge of the window! They're svelte now, just as they 
are under MacOS.

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Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

[Christopher Menzel]

Try the Palatino font with \usepackage{mathpazo}. That’s an attractive, classic 
TeX font combo.

-chris

> On Jan 13, 2024, at 9:50 AM, Neal Becker  wrote:
> 
> 
> I have tried kpfonts.  Surprisingly, it also has the same problem with 
> authormark misplaced!
> 
> 
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Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 12, 2024, at 3:25 PM, Neal Becker  wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM Christopher Menzel  <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker > <mailto:ndbeck...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference.  I'm using lualatex to 
>>> produce pdf.
>>> 
>>> In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If I don't 
>>> check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do check 'use 
>>> non-TeX fonts', the fonts look much thinner and to my eye not very 
>>> pleasing.  Again I have not changed any font settings from defaults.
>> 
>> And that’s why they don’t look good. You need to choose one from the 
>> drop-down list. The problem with using non-TeX fonts is that there might not 
>> be a corresponding math font. One that does have a math font and that looks 
>> quite nice is Cambria. If you are using MacOS or Windows you should have it 
>> on your machine if you’ve installed Office 365 or a standalone of any of the 
>> usual Microsoft applications. To get the corresponding math font once you’ve 
>> selected Cambria from the drop-down, add the following to the preamble:
>> 
>> \usepackage{unicode-math}
>> \setmathfont{Cambria Math}
>> 
>> If you’re using Linux, there are instructions to be found on the interwebs 
>> for installing the Microsoft fonts Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas. They are 
>> extracted from the old PowerPoint Viewer, which Microsoft released for free 
>> and hence (so I recall gathering from discussions in various forums) can be 
>> extracted and used legally.
>> 
> Thanks!  I am on linux (fedora).  I found instructions to install msfonts.  
> Now I have Cambria, but it seems not Cambria math?
>  
> Package fontspec Error: The font "CambriaMath" cannot be found.

Note there’s a space in the \setmathfont{Cambria Math} declaration, in case 
that’s relevant.

> Any hints?
> In /usr/share/fonts/mscorefonts I have
>   -r--r--r--. 1 root root 331916 Sep 26  2006 cambriab.ttf
>   -r--r--r--. 1 root root 336812 Aug  9  2006 cambriai.ttf
>   -r--r--r--. 1 root root 326024 Aug  9  2006 cambriaz.ttf
> (along with others not starting with 'cambrai’)

Hm, here’s everything I’ve got on my Kali Linux installation:

╭─cmenzel@kali-linux-2022-2 ~  
╰─$ locate cambria
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambria.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriab.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriai.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriamath.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriaz.ttf
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/cambria-math.lfg
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/cambria.lfg
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-cambria.mkiv

In case you didn’t use the instructions I followed, give →THESE 
<https://kodejava.org/how-do-i-install-calibri-font-in-ubuntu/>← a try.

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Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

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On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker  wrote:
> I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference.  I'm using lualatex to 
> produce pdf.
> 
> In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If I don't 
> check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do check 'use 
> non-TeX fonts', the fonts look much thinner and to my eye not very 
> pleasing.  Again I have not changed any font settings from defaults.

And that’s why they don’t look good. You need to choose one from the drop-down 
list. The problem with using non-TeX fonts is that there might not be a 
corresponding math font. One that does have a math font and that looks quite 
nice is Cambria. If you are using MacOS or Windows you should have it on your 
machine if you’ve installed Office 365 or a standalone of any of the usual 
Microsoft applications. To get the corresponding math font once you’ve selected 
Cambria from the drop-down, add the following to the preamble:

\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{Cambria Math}

If you’re using Linux, there are instructions to be found on the interwebs for 
installing the Microsoft fonts Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas. They are 
extracted from the old PowerPoint Viewer, which Microsoft released for free and 
hence (so I recall gathering from discussions in various forums) can be 
extracted and used legally.

> Is there a recommended alternative set of fonts?

For TeX fonts, I really like New PX , a 
descendent of Palatino with a very nice math font. Add the following to your 
preamble (and select “Default” from the drop-down font list):

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath}

Vastly superior aesthetically to the long outdated (but still, sadly, oft-used) 
Computer Modern default.

Chris Menzel

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Re: Suggestion

[Christopher Menzel]

On Dec 6, 2023, at 10:28 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> 
> On 12/6/23 15:55, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>>> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck  
>>> wrote:
>>> On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out?
>>>> It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors like ctl -, and
>>>> ctl + or Up ctl +
>>> Those shortcuts work here. You're on Fedora, right? Me, too.
>>> 
>>> Riki
>> They work under MacOS as well (2.4.0~beta5). And you can add those options 
>> yourself to the “View” menu by making a copy of stdmenus.inc (found in the 
>> “ui” subdirectory of your LyX hierarchy — probably /usr/local/share in 
>> LInux?), sticking it in a directory called “ui" your local .lyx directory 
>> (~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4 under MacOS) and adding the lines
>> 
>> Separator
>> Item "Zoom In|+" "buffer-zoom-in"
>> Item "Zoom Out|-" "buffer-zoom-out"
> 
> LyX will complain that the accelerator is not in the menu text. But maybe one 
> could do:
> 
> Item "Zoom In (+)|+" "buffer-zoom-in"
> 
>> to the section of the file containing the View menu items.

Ah, yes, I didn’t see the complaint because I wasn’t firing up LyX from the 
command line. But the code I suggested still works just fine under both MacOS 
and Linux, for me anyway.

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Re: Suggestion

[Christopher Menzel]

> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out?
>> It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors like ctl -, and
>> ctl + or Up ctl +
> 
> Those shortcuts work here. You're on Fedora, right? Me, too.
> 
> Riki

They work under MacOS as well (2.4.0~beta5). And you can add those options 
yourself to the “View” menu by making a copy of stdmenus.inc (found in the “ui” 
subdirectory of your LyX hierarchy — probably /usr/local/share in LInux?), 
sticking it in a directory called “ui" your local .lyx directory 
(~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4 under MacOS) and adding the lines

Separator
Item "Zoom In|+" "buffer-zoom-in"
Item "Zoom Out|-" "buffer-zoom-out"

to the section of the file containing the View menu items.

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Re: Can't open 2.4.0-beta5 doc in 2.4.0-beta3

[Christopher Menzel]

On 5 Sep 2023, at 5:01 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> On 9/5/23 16:45, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> LyX folk,
>> 
>> I recently compiled Lyx 2.4.0-beta5 under Linux and find that I am unable to 
>> open the file in Lyx 2.4.0-beta3 under MacOS and the conversion script is 
>> failing to export to 2.3.x. By changing "\lyxformat 618” to "\lyxformat 616” 
>> I was able to load the document in 2.4.0-beta3 although I got two "Document 
>> header” errors: "Unknown token: \use_formatted_ref \use_formatted_ref” and 
>> "Unknown token: 0 0”. After saving the file, it opened without any errors in 
>> beta3 and the contents appear to be OK. But I’d prefer a more elegant 
>> solution if one exists.
> 
> You can run the lyx2lyx script manually, with option: -t 616, to export to 
> that format.

Hm, I'm getting a "format not supported" with that option.

> What error are you getting from the 2.3.x export? That's a serious bug.

Error message below, generated inside the terminal when I started lyx from the 
command line and tried to export my longish (614k) document to 2.3.x.

-chris

*
lyx2lyx warning: An error occurred in 604,  
Traceback (most recent call last): 
 File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 97, in  
   main() 
 File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 91, in main 
   doc.convert() 
 File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", line 702, in convert 
   conv(self) 
 File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_4.py", line 4154, in revert_vcolumns2 
   elif count_pars_in_inset(document.body, begcell + 2) > 1: 
^^^ 
 File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/parser_tools.py", line 692, in 
count_pars_in_inset 
   if m and get_containing_inset(lines, j)[1] == ins[1]: 
~~^^^ 
TypeError: 'bool' object is not subscriptable 
Systemcall.cpp (306): Systemcall: 'python3 -tt 
"/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx" -V 2.3 -o 
"Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existenc
e.23.lyx" "Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existence.lyx"' finished with exit 
code 1 
Error: Cannot convert file 
 
An error occurred while running: 
python3 -tt $$s/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -V 2.3 -o 
"Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existence.23.lyx" 
"Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existence.lyx"


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Can't open 2.4.0-beta5 doc in 2.4.0-beta3

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk,

I recently compiled Lyx 2.4.0-beta5 under Linux and find that I am unable to 
open the file in Lyx 2.4.0-beta3 under MacOS and the conversion script is 
failing to export to 2.3.x. By changing "\lyxformat 618” to "\lyxformat 616” I 
was able to load the document in 2.4.0-beta3 although I got two "Document 
header” errors: "Unknown token: \use_formatted_ref \use_formatted_ref” and 
"Unknown token: 0 0”. After saving the file, it opened without any errors in 
beta3 and the contents appear to be OK. But I’d prefer a more elegant solution 
if one exists.

Thanks.

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Icon "padding"

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk:

There is a significant difference in the "padding" around the icons in 
2.4.0-beta3 compared to 2.3.7. The difference is particularly stark when 
comparing 2.3.7 under MacOS 

 and 2.4.0-beta3 under Linux 

 (although there is still a pronounced difference between the MacOS versions); 
click the preceding links for screenshots — in both cases the icon size is set 
to "Normal". To my eye, there is way too much padding in the beta, and the 
2.3.7 MacOS version gets it about right and I can't help but think that most 
folks would agree, at least with regard to the excessiveness of the padding in 
the beta. Is this something that might be addressed before the public release?

Thanks.

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Re: Shortcut to switch panes?

[Christopher Menzel]

> On Jul 7, 2023, at 10:58 AM, Kornel Benko  wrote:
> 
> Am Fri, 7 Jul 2023 09:45:11 +0200
> schrieb Christopher Menzel  <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>>:
> 
>>> On Jul 6, 2023, at 1:35 PM, Kornel Benko  wrote:
>>> Am Thu, 6 Jul 2023 12:51:11 +0200
>>> schrieb Christopher Menzel :
>>> 
>>>> Estimable LyX folk,
>>>> 
>>>> The answer seems to be “no” but: is it possible to set up a keyboard 
>>>> shortcut that,
>>>> when one has split a window into two panes (“views” in LyX-speak), will 
>>>> make the
>>>> inactive pane active so that one can easily switch from one pane to the 
>>>> other?
>>>> "Ctrl-X O" does this in emacs and it’s a real timesaver, as one doesn’t 
>>>> have to lift
>>>> one’s hand off the keyboard, move the mouse cursor to the inactive pane, 
>>>> click, and
>>>> move one’s hand back to the keyboard. I am almost always working with a 
>>>> split window
>>>> and I jump between panes frequently, so this would really be a huge 
>>>> convenience.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Chris Menzel  
>>> 
>>> How about to add a shortcut containing 'tab-group-next'?
>>> Should be working for you.  
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, in LyX 2.3.7, at least, 
>> “tab-group-next” is
>> not listed among the LyX functions when I search the key bindings, and if I 
>> simply try
>> to define a new shortcut for that function I’m told that it is "unknown or 
>> invalid”.
>> The only function starting with “tab-group” is “tab-group-close”. (Same 
>> result under
>> both MacOS and Linux versions of LyX 2.3.7.)
>> 
>> -chris
> 
> Yes, I was referring to lyx2.4, sorry. Since it will be available shortly, 
> you may want
> to wait a little?

Couldn’t wait! I downloaded the latest MacOS beta and have already bound 
shortcuts to tab-group-next and tab-group-previous, thanks! (I expect that, as 
usual, Kali Linux will be updated promptly to 2.4 once it is out of beta.)

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Shortcut to switch panes?

[Christopher Menzel]

Estimable LyX folk,

The answer seems to be “no” but: is it possible to set up a keyboard shortcut 
that, when one has split a window into two panes (“views” in LyX-speak), will 
make the inactive pane active so that one can easily switch from one pane to 
the other? "Ctrl-X O" does this in emacs and it’s a real timesaver, as one 
doesn’t have to lift one’s hand off the keyboard, move the mouse cursor to the 
inactive pane, click, and move one’s hand back to the keyboard. I am almost 
always working with a split window and I jump between panes frequently, so this 
would really be a huge convenience.

Thanks!

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Re: Advanced text editing commands

[Christopher Menzel]

On Apr 30, 2023, at 1:20 PM, John Beattie  wrote:
> On 2023-04-27 12:41 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 
>> Out of curiosity, do the emacs users on this list actually use emacs.bind?
> 
> Yes. Linux Mint 20.1, also on Windows 10.

Absolutely, under both MacOS Ventura and Kali Linux 2023.1 (both running Lyx 
2.3 7). I do add a number of tweaks of my own, but the default is pretty good.

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Alt/Option key question

[Christopher Menzel]

Gentle LyX folk:

I use the Emacs UI for LyX, which means the Option key (or Alt key, for PC 
users) gets a good workout — e.g., Opt-D deletes word-forward, Opt-F moves the 
cursor forward by word, etc. (In the standard LyX UI, those keys bring up the 
File and Document menus, respectively, so I disable that behavior with a custom 
stdmenus.inc file.) My issue is this. If I just depress the Option key and 
release it without having hit another key, it steals the cursor — it’s 
apparently waiting for an F or a D or one of the other keys (which I’ve 
deactivated) that bring up a menu — and I have to depress the Option key and 
let it up again to get the cursor back. This is a bit irritating: I often find 
myself depressing the Option key absent-mindedly when I’m thinking and it’s 
annoying to start typing and have nothing happen. Thus my question: Is there a 
way to prevent this, so that depressing/releasing the Option key simply has no 
effect on the cursor? Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks.

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Re: Lyx 2.3.7 on Linux Mint

[Christopher Menzel]

> I have seen that a new version (2.3.7) has been released.
> Trying to upgrade to this new version, I tried to install lyx PPA but I get 
> the error
> "This PPA does not support jammy".
> 
> My PC runs Linux Mint 21 Vanessa (which is the LTR based on Ubuntu 22.04).
> 
> How can I upgrade Lyx on my PC?

Hello Mario,

As Paul Rubin notes, compiling from source is an option and I will add that it 
is super easy — the only trick is having all the necessary packages installed. 
I have compiled it recently under Ubuntu 22.10 and I’d be happy to send you my 
notes and answer any questions you might have.

Chris Menzel

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Re: Ventura graphics Mac

[Christopher Menzel]

I stand corrected!

I confess I never used it and — obviously! — never learned what “WINE” stood 
for. (And kudos for a very nice self-referential acronym!)

-chris

> On Jan 23, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Lorenzo Bertini  
> wrote:
> 
> On 23/01/23 15:01, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> Virtualization is not emulation. An emulator (like WINE) makes use of a 
>> software bridge to simulate a different hardware environment, with a high 
>> cost in performance; software running on an emulator interacts with the 
>> bridge, not directly with the hardware.
> Completely off-topic, but from wikipedia:
>> Wine (formerly a recursive backronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" [...]) is 
>> a free and open-source compatibility layer [...]
>> Wine provides its compatibility layer for Windows runtime system which 
>> translates Windows API calls into POSIX API calls, recreating the directory 
>> structure of Windows, and providing alternative implementations of Windows 
>> system libraries, system services through wineserver and various other 
>> components [...].
> 
> Wine can, and often will, run at higher than native speeds, compared to a 
> same machine with Windows.

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Re: Ventura graphics Mac

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 23, 2023, at 7:09 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse  wrote:
> Why would I try and install a VM on an M1 (ie an EMULATOR for a
> different processor)

Virtualization is not emulation. An emulator (like WINE) makes use of a 
software bridge to simulate a different hardware environment, with a high cost 
in performance; software running on an emulator interacts with the bridge, not 
directly with the hardware. Software running in a Parallels VM runs directly on 
the native hardware at native, or near native, speeds. On a Mac running Apple 
Silicon, you create an native Arm VM with Parallels and you install an Arm 
version of Linux in the VM. There is no emulation.

> and install Linux, of which most distributions do
> not have the latest and greatest LyX and or TeX(live)

So you find one that does (e.g., Kali and, soon, Fedora), easy-peasy. It’s also 
super easy to compile the latest and greatest source yourself under Linux (not 
that that’s everyone’s cup o’ tea).

> to fix a bug that
> is almost certainly going to be fixed soon and can be reasonably easily
> circumvented until then?

Well, I admit that I didn’t say so explicitly, but I wasn’t really suggesting 
that one purchase and install Parallels just to fix the bug (which hopefully is 
going to be fixed soon — though if it isn’t, it won’t be Stephan’s fault, it 
will be due to some deeper problem with MacOS). I was assuming that one might 
have Parallels installed already or have independent reasons for purchasing it. 
For such folks, the VM solution (even if temporary) seems to me to be a 
reasonable one.

> Makes no sense to me, whatsoever.

Hope it makes at least a bit of sense to you now. ;-)

-chris

> On 22/01/2023 20:21, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> [...]
>>> The alternative proposed here makes not sense whatsoever to me,
>>> especially on an M1. The (speed) limiting factor is LaTeX (in
>>> particular LuLaTeX).
>> 
>> I /guess/ you are talking about my suggested alternative of running
>> LyX in a Linux VM under Parallels? How does it "make no sense
>> whatever" to you to have a fast, fully-functional version of LyX that
>> does not exhibit the bug in question? (Just to note, I’ve also had LyX
>> 2.3.7 simply crash on me a couple of times under Ventura in random
>> situations, so there are apparently further problems and, hence,
>> reasons independent of this bug to run LyX in a VM.)
> [...]
>>> Universal binary in any case means that on the M1 the M1 binary runs
>>> and on the Intel the Intel binary. However, even running the Intel
>>> binary on the M1 under Rosetta makes no real difference, other than
>>> that it loads slower. But since LyX is set up to open at login I
>>> would not even care.
>> 
>> Are you saying that the bug doesn’t occur if you use a LyX Intel
>> (i.e., non-universal) binary under Ventura via Rosetta? That is not
>> the case, for either version 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7. You can’t insert a
>> graphic via the file browser in either one.
> [...]

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Re: Problems with LyX on Mac computers

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 22, 2023, at 10:48 AM, mark salmon  wrote:
> Marcus in your reply to Ed Burmeister you said there are 2 installers for Lyx 
> 2.3.7- for macs- one for old and one for new versions of MacOS .I don't 
> think I saw this when installing 2.3.7 I just chose the one option I saw in 
> front of me-

The two installers are not for older and newer versions of MacOS, they are for 
older and newer Macs — older machines have Intel chips while newer machines 
have Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 chips). The installer for the universal LyX 
binary, which will run on either platform, includes the string “x86_64-arm64”; 
the installer for the Intel-only binary only includes the substring “x86_64”. 
In fact, both installers and both binaries will run on both older and newer 
machines (although, of course, the Intel binary requires the mediation of 
Rosetta on Apple Silicon machines). I suppose the Intel-only binary is a bit 
smaller and perhaps runs a bit faster on an Intel Mac, but would think the 
differences would be negligible (but I could be wrong).

> could this be the source of the graphics problem?

No. The problem arises under Ventura no matter which LyX binary you use.

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Re: Ventura graphics Mac

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 21, 2023, at 5:23 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse  wrote:
> On 2.3.7 and Intel 13.1, I can also not use the File Browser to insert
> graphics.  But then I haven't inserted graphics for a while.  On the
> 2.3.7 on an intel 12.6.2 I don't see that behavior.

Right, because 12.6.2 is Monterey, and what we’re dealing with appears to be a 
Ventura bug.

> The alternative proposed here makes not sense whatsoever to me,
> especially on an M1. The (speed) limiting factor is LaTeX (in
> particular LuLaTeX).

I guess you are talking about my suggested alternative of running LyX in a 
Linux VM under Parallels? How does it "make no sense whatever" to you to have a 
fast, fully-functional version of LyX that does not exhibit the bug in 
question? (Just to note, I’ve also had LyX 2.3.7 simply crash on me a couple of 
times under Ventura in random situations, so there are apparently further 
problems and, hence, reasons independent of this bug to run LyX in a VM.)

> Universal binary in any case means that on the M1 the M1 binary runs and
> on the Intel the Intel binary.  However, even running the Intel binary
> on the M1 under Rosetta makes no real difference, other than that it
> loads slower.  But since LyX is set up to open at login I would not even
> care.

Are you saying that the bug doesn’t occur if you use a LyX Intel (i.e., 
non-universal) binary under Ventura via Rosetta? That is not the case, for 
either version 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7. You can’t insert a graphic via the file 
browser in either one.

-cm

> On 21/01/2023 23:02, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> This definitely appears to be a Ventura thing.  I can’t insert
>> graphics on my 2021 MacBook Pro using either 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7 but both
>> versions work just fine on my old iMac under Big Sur.  
>> 
>> You can mitigate the pain of the kludgy workaround a little bit by
>> locating your desired graphic in the Finder, right clicking and
>> selecting “Get Info”.  This will bring up an info window that contains
>> the full Unix path to the containing directory that you can copy and
>> paste into the “file:” field in the LyX pop-up for inserting graphics.
>> You’ll still have to type in the file name, but the process is still
>> easier than typing in the whole path, especially if you use cloud
>> storage, which buries your files pretty deeply under your home
>> directory.
>> 
>> Alternatively, run LyX under Linux in a Parallels VM — it’s quite a bit
>> faster than the MacOS universal binary and doesn’t suffer from this bug.
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Re: Ventura graphics Mac

[Christopher Menzel]

Udi wrote:
> I think this bug is already reported here 
> , it seems that you can enter the Unix 
> file path into the "File:" field manually. 
> 
> It's not a perfect solution, but it might solve your problem in the meantime.

Can confirm.

This definitely appears to be a Ventura thing. I can’t insert graphics on my 
2021 MacBook Pro using either 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7 but both versions work just fine 
on my old iMac under Big Sur. You can mitigate the pain of the kludgy 
workaround a little bit by locating your desired graphic in the Finder, right 
clicking and selecting “Get Info”. This will bring up an info window that 
contains the full Unix path to the containing directory that you can copy and 
paste into the “file:” field in the LyX pop-up for inserting graphics. You’ll 
still have to type in the file name, but the process is still easier than 
typing in the whole path, especially if you use cloud storage, which buries 
your files pretty deeply under your home directory.

Alternatively, run LyX under Linux in a Parallels VM — it’s quite a bit faster 
than the MacOS universal binary and doesn’t suffer from this bug.

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Re: Update of Ubuntu PPA for version 2.3.7?

[Christopher Menzel]

Whoever is in charge of the Kali distro is on the ball. I got a 2.3.7 update 
the day after it went live. Since that’s a Debian-based system, I should think 
you‘d be able to install the package on Ubuntu. (?)

-chris

> On Jan 16, 2023, at 7:02 AM, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 02:12:06AM +, Donald Churche wrote:
>> If anyone have the contact information for whoever handles the Ubuntu PPA 
>> for Lyx-devel, could you reach out to them to see if they might be able to 
>> update it for Ubuntu Jammy (22.04)? Liviu Andronic is the name mentioned on 
>> the Download page as the maintainer but I've not seen any contact 
>> information for this person.
> 
> I asked privately, we'll see if he's still around... Pavel
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Re: Testing

[Christopher Menzel]

> Il 12/12/22 20:47, Christopher Menzel ha scritto:
>> On Dec 12, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Rich Shepard  wrote:
>>> I've not seen any posts on this list other than the two I sent last Friday.
>>> Is there an issue with the list or has everyone gone away for the holidays?
>> Or maybe has a pile of papers to grade. :-)
> 
> Or maybe has a pile of papers to write :-(
> 
> Be generous with the grades! 8-)

I am fortunate to have been on research leave this semester so I am able to 
vacuously satisfy your request! :-)

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Re: Testing

[Christopher Menzel]

On Dec 12, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Rich Shepard  wrote:
> I've not seen any posts on this list other than the two I sent last Friday.
> Is there an issue with the list or has everyone gone away for the holidays?

Or maybe has a pile of papers to grade. :-)
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Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

[Christopher Menzel]

Hi Daniel,

I have used LyX 2.3.6.2 under Ventura and did find that it crashed regularly. 
Since the version on LyX.org is still only compiled for Intel, perhaps Rosetta 
is the problem.

And just to note, in case it is helpful: if you are familiar with Linux and 
have, or don’t mind purchasing, a Parallels 18 subscription, LyX 2.3.6.2 
(together with the Okular PDF viewer) is wonderfully snappy and stable running 
in a Linux VM under Ventura.

-chris

On Dec 7, 2022, at 2:08 PM, Daniel CLEMENT via lyx-users 
 wrote:
> ...
> I conclude that there is a risk, however little, that something _can_ go 
> wrong.
> 
> Since I cannot afford to break anything for the next months, I think I’ll 
> play it safe and delay the upgrade. 
> 
> I need to learn MacOS better first. (Marcus: I didn’t even know that the 
> downgrade relied on Time Machine…)
> 
> In the meantime, there’s a couple of very minor annoyances that I cannot 
> solve alone; I’ll ask about them in another thread.
> 
> BR - Daniel

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Re: Rebinding ESC to \

[Christopher Menzel]

I can only report that I have had no problems using Karabiner-Elements with LyX 
on three Macs — an M1 air, an M1 Macbook Pro (both running Monterey), and a 
2014 iMac running Big Sur. I use emacs keybindings, in case that’s relevant.

-chris

> On 19 Oct 2022, at 10:21 , Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 08:13:24AM -0500, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> You don’t identify your OS. Pavel gives you the answer for Linux. If you are 
>> on MacOS, Karabiner-Elements can do that sort of remapping in a jiffy via a 
>> convenient graphical interface. On Windows it’s a bit more work. You can 
>> either edit the registry (instructions are easy to find), use the Microsoft 
>> Powertoys program, or use the much more powerful AutoHotkey scripting app. 
>> AutoHotkey requires you to create a text file with some quirky syntax but 
>> it’s a super powerful program that can do way more than  keys remapping. 
>> Again, exact instructions are easy to google.
>> 
>> -chris
> 
> I don't know if it's still relevant, but at some point there was a problem 
> with karabiner and LyX I think that caused crashes:
> 
>  https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9992
> 
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Re: Rebinding ESC to \

[Christopher Menzel]

You don’t identify your OS. Pavel gives you the answer for Linux. If you are on 
MacOS, Karabiner-Elements can do that sort of remapping in a jiffy via a 
convenient graphical interface. On Windows it’s a bit more work. You can either 
edit the registry (instructions are easy to find), use the Microsoft Powertoys 
program, or use the much more powerful AutoHotkey scripting app. AutoHotkey 
requires you to create a text file with some quirky syntax but it’s a super 
powerful program that can do way more than  keys remapping. Again, exact 
instructions are easy to google.

-chris

> On 19 Oct 2022, at 7:51 , Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:28:47PM +0200, Lorenzo Bertini wrote:
>> Hi LyX users!
>> 
>> I have a keyboard that doesn't have the function keys, so the ESC button
>> also contains the \ key. You can probably see where this is going: every
>> time i want to type \ I have to press FN and then ESC.
>> 
>> How could I make it so ESC is not "escape" (which I don't really need) but
>> instead "input \"? I figured I have to edit keybinds, but what would the
>> correct command be?
> 
> One can approach this on different levels:
> 1) systems-wise via xmodmap (if you are on linux)
> 2) lyx-wise via keyboard maps in prefs (no guarantee how much maps still work)
> 2) lyx-wise via keybinding esc to "unicode-insert 005c"
> 
> It might be better idea to bind to different key than getting rid of escape 
> though :)
> 
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Compile fail

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk:

I’ve successfully compiled LyX from sources under Linux but my attempts to do 
so under MacOS for my M1 Macs (since I don’t want to use Rosetta 2). I 
installed QT5 using homebrew and I’m using what seem to me to be the right 
flags for the configure script, viz.,

  % ./configure --enable-qt5 --with-version-suffix=-2.3 --with-x=no 
--with-qt-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/qt5/

but I keep getting the following error:

> checking for Qt library name... failed

> configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the 
> right $QTDIR.

I’ve tried adding both “bin” and “lib” to the QT5 path but to no avail. I can’t 
afford to spend a ton of time on this but if there is something easy and 
obvious I’m missing that might solve the problem I’d appreciate hearing about 
it!

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Re: Shortcut for cropped PDF?

[Christopher Menzel]

Yo, works like a charm! I gave “pdf6” a try (can’t remember what my 
justification was!) but didn’t try “7”! Is this documented somewhere? And what 
determines the relevant number after “pdf”?

Thanks!!

-c

> On 29 Aug 2022, at 4:44 PM, Paul A. Rubin  wrote:
> 
> On 8/29/22 17:28, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> Howdy LyX folk,
>> 
>> Simple question. When I’m working on my laptop (or frankly anything short of 
>> a 27” monitor) I display my documents use PDF (cropped) to strip away 
>> unneeded marginal whitespace. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut 
>> to update my cropped PDFs? Something that will trigger the action I get by 
>> selecting “Update PDF (cropped)” from the little “recycle” icon? The only 
>> shortcut function that seems to work for updating is “pdf2” and that 
>> produces a full-size PDF. I’ve looked through all the documentation I could 
>> find and did a bunch of googling but to no avail.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Chris Menzel
>> 
> You can bind a key combo to "buffer-update pdf7". If you want another 
> shortcut for generating the initial cropped PDF file, bind that one to 
> "buffer-view pdf7". If that doesn't work, go to Tools > Preferences... > File 
> Handling > File Formats, selected "PDF (cropped)" in the "Format:" drop-down 
> list, and make sure the "Short name:" field on your system reads "pdf7".
> 
> Paul
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Shortcut for cropped PDF?

[Christopher Menzel]

Howdy LyX folk,

Simple question. When I’m working on my laptop (or frankly anything short of a 
27” monitor) I display my documents use PDF (cropped) to strip away unneeded 
marginal whitespace. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut to update my 
cropped PDFs? Something that will trigger the action I get by selecting “Update 
PDF (cropped)” from the little “recycle” icon? The only shortcut function that 
seems to work for updating is “pdf2” and that produces a full-size PDF. I’ve 
looked through all the documentation I could find and did a bunch of googling 
but to no avail.

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Re: LyX for Mac

[Christopher Menzel via lyx-users]

> Le 18/02/2022 à 23:46, Christopher Menzel via lyx-users a écrit :
>> On 18 Feb 2022, at 1:46 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users 
>>  wrote:
>>> I have version 2.3.6.2 on my MacBook Pro. I consider it a poor substitute 
>>> for the Windows version. I can't turn off the blinking cursor (extremely 
>>> annoying!), I can't change the background color (white background gives me 
>>> a headache), hotkeys don't work, etc. Is there an alternative binary that I 
>>> could download?
>> Not sure what the problems are there but, for the record, I use the LyX 
>> 2.3.6.2 binaries from lyx.org on both my MacBook Pro (M1 chip) and a Windows 
>> laptop and the functionality is pretty much identical. It does appear that 
>> you are stuck with a blinking cursor (since that’s an OS level thing), but I 
>> have no problem changing the background color (did you uncheck “Use system 
>> colors”?), and cursor movement keys and other shortcuts work identically in 
>> both versions. (Maybe you mean something more by “hotkeys”?)
> 
> Hints:
> * hotkeys are somewhat different since one uses the Command key instead of 
> Ctrl at least

Ah, well, I wasn’t aware of that distinction but, as a decades-long emacs user, 
I’ve re-mapped everything in such a way that I only ever use the Ctrl key — by 
which, of course, I mean my remapped CapsLock key, as that is where God 
intended Ctrl to be! :-)

> * cursor movement is slightly different to match what is expected on a mac, 
> but this is controllable through "Preferences>Editing>Use mac-style cursor 
> movement".

Right, but alas no non-blinking cursor option.

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Re: LyX for Mac

[Christopher Menzel via lyx-users]

On 18 Feb 2022, at 1:46 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users  
wrote:
> I have version 2.3.6.2 on my MacBook Pro. I consider it a poor substitute for 
> the Windows version. I can't turn off the blinking cursor (extremely 
> annoying!), I can't change the background color (white background gives me a 
> headache), hotkeys don't work, etc. Is there an alternative binary that I 
> could download?

Not sure what the problems are there but, for the record, I use the LyX 2.3.6.2 
binaries from lyx.org on both my MacBook Pro (M1 chip) and a Windows laptop and 
the functionality is pretty much identical. It does appear that you are stuck 
with a blinking cursor (since that’s an OS level thing), but I have no problem 
changing the background color (did you uncheck “Use system colors”?), and 
cursor movement keys and other shortcuts work identically in both versions. 
(Maybe you mean something more by “hotkeys”?)

I doubt another MacOS binary would solve your problem but one thing you could 
try is to install Parallels or VMWare Fusion and run Linux in a VM. I installed 
the ARM version of Ubuntu on my MBP (kind of for kicks) and compiled LyX 
2.3.6.2 on it and found that it is actually significantly faster than the MacOS 
version (presumably because the latter is not compiled for Apple Silicon and 
hence uses Rosetta 2).

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LyX on Apple Silicon (in a VM)

[Christopher Menzel via lyx-users]

LyX folk,

I haven’t seen any reports about running LyX on Apple Silicon so I thought I’d 
post a datapoint. I compiled LyX (with QT 5) from the latest source under 
Kubuntu 20.04 for ARM in a Parallels VM running on a 14” MacBook Pro with a 
10-core M1 Pro chip. The compile ran flawlessly (once I got the package 
dependencies and configure flags right). Unsurprisingly, even though running in 
a VM, the Linux version is much faster than the current MacOS version which, 
because it is an Intel app, requires Rosetta 2 to run on the M1. Compiling a 
technical 135 page document with a large associated BiBTeX file as a PDF with 
the Mac version takes about 50 seconds; the Linux version takes 15 (most of 
that being biber processing the bibliography info). And updating a change with 
the Mac version takes about 10 seconds, whereas it takes about 4 seconds with 
the Linux version.

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Re: shortcut for going to edge of ERT frame?

[Christopher Menzel]

On 8 Aug 2021, at 1:36 PM, David Pesetsky  wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Chris Menzel  > wrote:
>> 
>> For me, Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e move the cursor in an ERT frame to the first and 
>> last characters of the frame, respectively. However, I'm not sure if this is 
>> because I'm using Emacs keybindings or because I'm using a Mac, which also 
>> uses those keybindings in text areas. 
> 
> Thanks for the reply!  Unfortunately, no luck.
> 
> I have been using the mac keybindings, plus some customizations.  
> Unfortunately, neither with the mac keybindings nor when I change to the 
> emacs keybindings (I was hoping to get the code that way) do I see these 
> actions.  

Huh, weird. I just checked this out on my Linux laptop and selecting the Emacs 
keybindings (Tools → Preferences → Shortcuts → Bind file) gives me the 
Ctrl-a/Ctrl-e behavior noted inside an ERT frame.

> Ctrl-a alone seems to do nothing except display "^a options" on the status 
> bar at the bottom.  With the emacs keybindings, both ctrl-a and ctrl-e yield 
> "unknown function".

Ah, you know what? Ctrl and Cmd are all turned around for me on the Mac. Try 
using Cmd-a and Cmd-e instead! (I had to go into the Shortcuts and explicitly 
assign the functions in question to Ctrl- characters instead of Cmd- 
to get Emacs bindings to work correctly.) I suspect there was a more global way 
to do this in one fell swoop, but I couldn't figure out any other way to do it; 
and it works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But if all you want is some keystroke to get the cursor 
movement you want, you can just use the Cmd- bindings noted.

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Re: lyx-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 2

[Christopher Menzel]

MacTeX is not itself an application. It is a package that installs the TeX 
binaries and configuration files, none of which will show up in your 
Applications directory. (They are mostly in /Library/TeX.) LyX should know 
where they are and call them (with no input from you) when you try to view or 
export a document. Try creating and viewing a simple document in LyX.

Chris Menzel

> On Jan 4, 2021, at 9:37 AM, heba said  wrote:
> 
> Thanks Dr I downloaded and installed the MacTex basic but it does not appear 
> in the applications so cant opens it. It just the yellow box on desktop. I 
> think that is why all the classes in the document are unavailable. 
> Heba Hussein (何芭  侯赛因) BDS, MDSc, PhD, NBDEBDS, MDSc, Ph
> Faculty, Wright College, Chicago, IL, USA
> Research Volunteer, UIC, Chicago, IL, USA
> Lecturer, Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
> 
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> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:43:26 +0200
> From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse 
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
> Subject: Re: help with error message
> Message-ID: mailto:1...@ciao.gmane.io>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> Heba,
> 
> download BasicTeX from the MacTex site. And then use tlmgr from the
> command line to install missing packages individually. Before an update
> it is trivial to save the list of installed packages so that one can
> re-install them afterwards.
> 
> I bought me a 32Gig 4TB MacBoc 13" Pro (BtO) the other day and a 16Gig
> 2TB 12" Air for travel.
> 
> If you can wait a year of two I would wait a year or two :-)-O
> and then get the biggest M1 13 inch you can then afford (BtO).
> 
> greetings, el
> 
> On 2021-01-04 03:34 , heba said wrote:
> > Thanks download 4 G then installation around 7 so it is very hard to
> > download. Any alternative? If I need to buy a new Mac/ laptop for
> > programming, what will be the best ?
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > /Heba Hussein (/??  ???) BDS, MDSc, PhD, NBDE
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Re: help with error message

[Christopher Menzel]

Dear Heba,

Delete MiKTeX, install MacTeX-2020: https://www.tug.org/mactex/

> On Jan 3, 2021, at 3:59 PM, heba said  wrote:
> 
> Hi, I need to download Lyx, and as I know, I need MikTex first. I get the 
> following error message. I am MacBook Air high sierra. 
> 
> Process:   MiKTeX Console [2489]
> Path:  /Volumes/VOLUME/MiKTeX 
> Console.app/Contents/MacOS/MiKTeX Console
> Identifier:org.miktex.console
> Version:   20.12.0 (???)
> Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
> 
> Thanks 
> Heba Hussein (何芭  侯赛因) BDS, MDSc, PhD, NBDEBDS, MDSc, Ph
> Faculty, Wright College, Chicago, IL, USA
> Research Volunteer, UIC, Chicago, IL, USA
> Lecturer, Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

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Re: Missing lyxeditor.cmd?

[Christopher Menzel]

On 22 Aug 2019, at 10:39 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> On 8/22/19 10:48 AM, Chris Menzel wrote:
>> Gentle LyX folk,
>> 
>> I have installed LyX 2.3.3 on a Dell XPS laptop and, Lo, the installation's 
>> bin directory appears to be missing lyxeditor.cmd, which is of course 
>> crucial for inverse search. Is this an oversight? Or is it now in some other 
>> directory?
> We don't distribute this file.

Huh. Unlike the macOS version, apparently. Why the difference with the Windows 
distribution?

> According to this page of the wiki:
> 
> https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX
> 
> it's something you need to create yourself.

The need to create lyxeditor.cmd is only mentioned in the section on Okular for 
Windows. That one needs to create it oneself is as far as I can see not 
mentioned in the section on configuring SumatraPDF, which is the PDF viewer I'm 
using. Might the Keepers of the Wiki consider mentioning the need to create 
this script right at the top of the section on SumatraPDF.

Thanks for the info!

-chris

Re: TeX in LyX ?

[Christopher Menzel]

Why not simply enter it inline in math mode?

> On Jun 13, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Carlos Knauer  wrote:
> 
> Hello. How do I enter a TeX command in LyX? I want to write lim_ {x-> 0} f 
> (x) in the middle of the text. Does the \ displaystyle enter before the 
> equation? That is: I write \ displaystyle from there I enter the mathematical 
> mode and write the equation? Thanks and sorry for this basic question.
> 
> Carlos Fernando Knauer
> 

Re: LyX on iPad

[Christopher Menzel]

> BTW, LaTeX predates .PDFs.

Well aware — I started writing in (a much earlier version of) LaTeX in Emacs at 
Stanford in the mid-1980s, while Knuth was still actively developing the TeX 
code. :-) The usual process back then was .tex → .dvi → .ps via the latex and 
dvips binaries. And when PDF came on the scene, before pdflatex there was a 
further step of .ps → .pdf via ps2pdf. Ah, memories! :-)

-chris

Re: LyX on iPad

[Christopher Menzel]

I might well just be naive but I'm not getting this line of criticism at all. 
LyX has always been a frontend to LaTeX, right? That's it's raison d'etre. It's 
still the only game in town to that end, and it's fabulous at it. LaTeX creates 
PDFs. So you use LyX to create PDFs. Seems to me if you're using LyX with the 
intention of getting an ePub or mobi doc, you're expecting it to do something 
it wasn't — by its nature — designed for. You want ePub or mobi, use something 
else.

-chris

> On 5 Nov 2018, at 3:45 , Steve Litt  wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 00:36:13 +0200
> Dr Eberhard Lisse  wrote:
> 
>> Steve,
>> 
>> I fundamentally disagree about the relevance.
>> 
>> LyX is a front end for LaTeX, not a document format. And it is a
>> FANTASTIC front end, which can be twsited to do a lot of things :-)-O
> 
> Sure, but LaTeX isn't the only game in town the way it was 10 years ago
> (unless you took Docbook seriously a decade ago). Most new books are
> ePubs or derivative mobis or whatever.
> 
> 
>> 
>> pandoc can produce an epub from (reasonable) LaTeX (exported from
>> LyX), which kindlegen can translate into mobi.
> 
> Yeah. I've had hundreds of people recommend pandoc and XSLT and the
> like. Have *you* ever successfully used pandoc to create HTML or ePub
> or mobi formatted to your desires? If you have, you're one in five
> hundred. Everyone recommends Pandoc, but finding people who have used
> it is like finding a needle in a haystack, and when you find such
> people and ask them how to do the conversion, they point you to
> Internet sites with procedures that make installing Gentoo or Arch a one
> click process.
> 
> By the way, same thing goes for Asciidoc, Asciidoctor, Markdown, and
> Multimarkdown. Evvverybody recommends it, but few have used it to make
> books in which the author declares and uses styles.
> 
>> For LaTeX there is lwarp at
>> 
>>  https://ctan.org/pkg/lwarp
>> 
>> which also looks interesting.
> 
> I wish I had a dime for every hour I spent, on solutions to this
> problems, that "look interesting". 99% of them turn out to be
> converters whose first step is to convert your styles into appearance,
> guaranteeing garbaged up output.
> 
> 
>> 
>> XML would be a great step, and not only for epub. But that would be a
>> fundamental change, and who's going to do it?
> 
> And that's where the rubber meets the road. Look back to the thread,
> starting on 7/22/2008, subject "Progress on the MS Word to LyX
> conversion". In that thread, against my warnings, by the way, several
> top Lyx developers promised an XML native format for LyX 1.7x. Not
> pidgeon XML. Not almost XML. Not halfassed XML. They promised XML. With
> a DTD, no less.
> 
> Now my position was that XML is much harder to parse with Unix core
> utilities, so I was against it. But at least I figured that if it went
> XML, I could find an XML parser to do what I had been doing. With much
> more difficulty. But doable. 
> 
> But they went only half way, harming the inherent coreutils parsability
> without enabling the file to be processed by an XML parser.
> 
> If memory serves me, 1.6 already had some XML-ish changes to the native
> format, I don't remember a 1.7, and 2.0 introduced the pidgeon XML we
> know today. Over 7 years have elapsed since 2.0's introduction, over a
> decade has elapsed since it was decided to have a well formed XML
> native format validated with a DTD.
> 
> Retina display and iOS and all this Apple compatibility is nice, but
> I'll repeat, it's not 2008 and PDF is no longer the only game in town,
> and I think priority should be placed on finishing what was started in
> July of 2008.
> 
> SteveT

RE: Shortcuts for symbols in text

[Christopher Menzel]

See, I was wrong. :-)

-chris

From: Richard Kimberly Heck
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2018 5:47 PM
To: Tank Panzer; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Shortcuts for symbols in text

On 07/21/2018 09:56 AM, Tank Panzer wrote:
> In LyX one can cunfigure the shortcuts and even add new ones under
> preferences.
> Like I was able to add a new shortcut by typing "math-insert \bullet"
> and passing a shortcut to it
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to add shortcuts to normal
> symbols in text, like "\textbullet" which i am able to add through the
> UI with mouse.
> I tryed to type "insert \textbullet" and few others, but it said
> "wrong LyX function".
> Do you know what i need to type?

Try self-insert. But you will have to do something special with the
backslash, I think?

See Help> LyX Functions for a list of all the options.

Riki

Re: Attaching References

[Christopher Menzel]

Hi Bill,

What platform? Mac? Windows? Linux? Also, what sorts of messages are you 
getting? And, just to make sure, did you insert a pointer to your .bib file at 
the end of your document by selecting Insert → List/TOC → BibTeX bibliography? 
All you say is that you stuck the file somewhere but LaTeX needs to know where 
to find it.

In my experience with all three platforms, if you install the latest version of 
TeX for your platform and then the latest version of LyX, things generally 
should Just Work. So if you haven't upgraded your TeX installation in a while 
I'd consider doing that and then installing Lyx 2.2.2. (You should rename your 
copy of LyX 2.0.5.1 first to avoid having it overwritten; it'll still work.)

-chris

> On 25 Jan 2017, at 3:16 PM, William Hanson  wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I've created a BibTeX (.bib) file in Mendeley Desktop and used the Import 
> option in Mendeley to get this file into a folder in my main collection of 
> folders (outside Mendeley Desktop).  But I can't get LyX to access this file 
> and create citations in documents I'm working on. When I try to insert a 
> citation into a document I'm given access only to an old list of citations, 
> not to those in the new file just mentioned.  And I can't get LyX to let me 
> add the citations in the new file to the old list.
> 
> I'm using LyX 2.0.5.1, which I've used for years.  I've downloaded 2.2.2.2, 
> but but I can barely get started with it.  It keeps telling me that I have to 
> add new files to make things work, but I'm unable to do so, and the Users 
> Manual doesn't help.
> 
> What should I do?
> 
> Bill Hanson

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.2 Released

[Christopher Menzel]

> Public release of LyX version 2.2.2
> ===
> We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the 
> secondmaintenance release in the 2.2.x series

I've said it before but it bears regular repeating: thanks (again) Richard and 
the whole LyX development team for this wonderful, incredibly useful piece of 
software. It is an absolute joy to use, and a marvel of collaborative, open 
source software design and engineering.

-chris

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Re: macOS Sierra

[Christopher Menzel]

On 20 Sep 2016, at 2:16 PM, Anders Host-Madsen  wrote:
> Has anyone tried LyX on MacOS Sierra? Any issues?

LyX (currently 2.2) with MacTeX 2015 is rock solid for me under Sierra, and has 
been since the early public betas. Will upgrade to MacTeX 2016 one of these 
days but don't expect any problems at all.

-chris

Re: LyX and Sierra beta

[Christopher Menzel]

> On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 05:01:02PM -0400, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> Hello LyX folk,
>> 
>> Has anyone tried out LyX 2.2 on the public beta of OS X Sierra?
> 
> We have not heard of anyone who has tried it. There were many problems
> in LyX when Capitan made its debut, but hopefully that is not the common
> upgrade experience.
> 
> If you do bravely try it out, please let us know.

I did so (perhaps more rashly than bravely). Upgrade was smooth. Absolutely no 
problems for me with LyX 2.2, MacTeX 2015, and Skim.

-chris

LyX and Sierra beta

[Christopher Menzel]

Hello LyX folk,

Has anyone tried out LyX 2.2 on the public beta of OS X Sierra?

-chris

RE: log file location - move from temporary directory to .lyx file location

[Christopher Bilder]

Thank you all for your suggestions. With the additional help of Tim Arnold (SAS 
Institute; author of the StatRep package for LaTeX), here's a somewhat 
hardcoded way to move the log file on a Windows 7 system with LyX 2.1.1: 

1) Select Preferences > File Handling > File Formats and then choose a format 
of PDF (pdflatex)
2) In the Copier field, enter 
  
 python "C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.1"\\Resources\\scripts\\ext_copy.py 
-e log -t. $$i c:\\myfolder

   where myfolder would be the location where your LyX file is located 
3) Select Save
4) Reconfigure (Select Tools > Reconfigure) and exit LyX
5) Re-open the LyX file and select File > Export > PDF (pdflatex)

This works but it is not necessarily idea. Does anyone have ideas for 
improvement? For example, is there a way to get around hard coding the path to 
ext_copy.py or myfolder? Also, is there a way to do this by selecting the 
document viewer icon on the View/Update toolbar (equivalent to Document > View 
[PDF (pdflatex)] or Ctrl-R) rather than File > Export > PDF (pdflatex)?

The main reason again for my original question is to actually do this moving 
with .sas files that are created automatically by the StatRep package when a 
LyX/LaTeX file is compiled. Not everyone necessarily knows what a SAS file is 
or has access to SAS to run a SAS file, so that's why I chose to phrase the 
question in terms of the LaTeX log file. I have not tried yet the previous 
suggestion of using the LyX Converter to automatically run these SAS files. The 
potential for doing it is very interesting and would be a nice addition to the 
reproducibility of research area, like knitr is for R programs. 

Thanks,

Chris

-Original Message-
From: Bert Lloyd [mailto:bert.lloyd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 9:15 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Cc: Christopher Bilder <bil...@unl.edu>; Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org>
Subject: Re: log file location - move from temporary directory to .lyx file 
location

Chris, I've faced a somewhat similar situation in the past and I handled it by 
writing a script to do the following

1. export lyx to tex (in cygwin, lyx -e tex mylyxfile.lyx) 2. Use latex or 
pdflatex to process the resulting mylyxfile.tex 3. now the ancillary files (in 
your case, .log) should be created in the same directory, so you can do your 
task 4. clean up the ancillary files using rm

I am really terrible at writing scripts so I'll allow someone more adept to 
code up an example, but this is the basic idea and it works for me, albeit in a 
fairly hacky way.

Hope this helps and good luck,
BL

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 04/22/2016 12:36 PM, Christopher Bilder wrote:
>
> Hello, I would like to have the LaTeX .log file be automatically put 
> into the folder where I have my .lyx file once the LyX file is 
> compiled. This behavior would be similar to what occurs with LaTeX 
> already when compiling a .tex file. Currently, the .log file is put 
> into a temporary directory by LyX. I understand how to change the path 
> for the temporary directory (Preferences > Paths) which sort of works, 
> but I would also like to remove the set of randomly generated folders 
> that come with it, like “lyx_tmpdir.WrDLwXBld464\lyx_tmpbuf2”, before I can 
> get to my .log file.
>
>
>
> I understand how to see the .log file from within LyX itself (Document 
> > LaTeX Log), so this request my seem odd! The real reason that I want 
> to be able to better control this LyX behavior is because I am using a 
> LaTeX package (StatRep – SAS’s “equivalent” to knitr for R) which 
> generates some additional files (SAS program) that I need to easily access.
>
>
> This should be possible by creating a specialized "copier". See 
> section 3.2 of the Customization manual for information on how to do 
> this. There's a very simple example there, but you can also have a 
> look at the ext_copy.py file, which is mostly used as a copier for html files.
>
> I don't totally understand how StatRep works or what kinds of files it 
> generates where, but you if it is putting them in the temporary 
> directory, you should be able to define a copier to extract them, too. 
> Alternatively, if it's something you are running by hand after export, 
> you should be able to define a "Converter" that will run the SAS 
> program for you, in the temporary directory. This is how kntir works 
> in LyX, I think. See section
> 3.3 of the Customization manual for info on that.
>
> Richard
>

log file location - move from temporary directory to .lyx file location

[Christopher Bilder]

Hello, I would like to have the LaTeX .log file be automatically put into the 
folder where I have my .lyx file once the LyX file is compiled. This behavior 
would be similar to what occurs with LaTeX already when compiling a .tex file. 
Currently, the .log file is put into a temporary directory by LyX. I understand 
how to change the path for the temporary directory (Preferences > Paths) which 
sort of works, but I would also like to remove the set of randomly generated 
folders that come with it, like "lyx_tmpdir.WrDLwXBld464\lyx_tmpbuf2", before I 
can get to my .log file.

I understand how to see the .log file from within LyX itself (Document > LaTeX 
Log), so this request my seem odd! The real reason that I want to be able to 
better control this LyX behavior is because I am using a LaTeX package (StatRep 
- SAS's "equivalent" to knitr for R) which generates some additional files (SAS 
program) that I need to easily access.

Thank you in advance for any help that you can provide! Note that I am using 
LyX 2.1.1 in Windows 7.

Chris Bilder
bilder "at" unl "dot" edu

Re: Looking for an automatic way of shuffling the items of enumerate

[Christopher Menzel]

On 20 Jan 2016, at 11:17 AM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Is there some automatic or semi-automatic way of shuffling the items
> of an enumerate environment?

If I'm understanding you, under OS X, Cmd- and Cmd- allow you move 
enumerated items up or down in an enumerated list. I reckon Ctrl- and 
Ctrl- do the same thing under Windows and Linux.

Chris Menzel

Re: Looking for an automatic way of shuffling the items of enumerate

[Christopher Menzel]

Ah, gotcha. I'm sure this could be done with ERT but doubt it is a feature 
baked into LyX.

-chris

> On 20 Jan 2016, at 12:04 PM, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Christopher Menzel
> <chris.men...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is there some automatic or semi-automatic way of shuffling the items
>>> of an enumerate environment?
>> 
>> If I'm understanding you, under OS X, Cmd- and Cmd- allow you move 
>> enumerated items up or down in an enumerated list. I reckon Ctrl- and 
>> Ctrl- do the same thing under Windows and Linux.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Chris, but that is not exactly what I am looking for.
> 
> I am lookign for something like this:
> 
> ---
> \starttext
> \startitemize[n,random]
>  \startitem One \stopitem
>  \startitem Two \stopitem
>  \startitem Three \stopitem
>  \startitem Four \stopitem
>  \startitem Five \stopitem
>  \startitem Six \stopitem
> \stopitemize
> \stoptext
> ---
> 
> Please, see:
> 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/96645/random-shuffle-itemize
> 
> Paul

RE: error creating pdf

[Christopher Menzel]

Sounds like a TeX installation problem. Have you installed MikTeX (Windows) or 
MacTeX (OS X)?
-chris
 Original message From: Laura Schröder 
 Date: 1/10/2016  2:57 AM  (GMT-06:00) To: 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: error creating pdf 
Hello! I'm a very beginner in lyx. I started to write a document, and after 
some time, I wanted to get the PDF preview, but I got the error message: LaTex 
error: \eqdistribution undefined

    LaTex error: \pagedeclaration undefined

    LaTex error: \nomname undefined

(Changing the document class: I can get a HTML file, but anyway no PDF)

I'm really not a programmer..I've no idea how to find out.

Please, I need help

Lower case mathcal

[Christopher Menzel]

Dear LyX folk,

Quick question — what would it take to get display support for lower case 
calligraphic letters, which you can get in your rendered PDF via a package like 
BOONDOX-cal. Currently, typing lower case letters inside a \mathcal tag in math 
mode generates a seemingly random selection of symbols. Even just being able to 
see ordinary lower case letters, even if not calligraphic, would be preferable. 
A reasonably good workaround here is to use instant preview mode, but that's 
still less than ideal.

Just wondering; this is obviously not a major problem but it would be cool if 
there was a reasonably easy fix.

Chris Menzel

ps: LyX 2.2alpha with its support for retina displays is amazingly great! Many 
thanks to Stephan Witt and the other developers for their talent and their 
commitment this truly wonderful and extraordinarily useful software.

Re: El Capitan

[Christopher Menzel]

You can almost surely solve your El Capitan problems if you disable the new 
System Integrity Protection feature (a.k.a. rootless mode), which among other 
things prevents the creation of symlinks in /usr. Note that there are some good 
security reasons for SIP — in particular it makes it much harder for malware to 
be installed on your system (though that can still be avoided simply by taking 
the usual precautions about clicking on unknown links, installing software from 
unknown or unproven sources, etc). So I'm not recommending that anyone do this 
but just putting the information and the option out there so folks can make an 
informed choice: http://goo.gl/W5AZpe . (I failed to note 
that I had disabled SIP when I reported the other day that I'd had no problems 
running LyX under El Capitan ever since the first public beta.)

-chris


On 1 Oct 2015, at 2:54 PM, Paola Manzini  wrote:
> After updating to El Capitan earlier today, I am also having problems. First, 
> the same that Robert Dolan specified: the document would not compile. After 
> reconfiguring, I get "AMS Class article"... not found when opening a document 
> created in Lyx 2.4
> 
> Interesting, same thing happens if I try to create a new document.
> 
> I tried unistalling Lyx and re-installing it from scratch, but the problem 
> persists.
> 
> Very grateful for any pointers!
> paola
> 
> 
> On 01/10/2015 20:10, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Am 01.10.2015 um 20:28 schrieb Robert Dolan :
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am using the latest version of Lyx with MacTex 2015 on OX El Capitan. 
>>> Since I installed El Capitan I have not been able to preview the pdf using 
>>> the “view” icon on the Lyx toolbar. I changed the path as instructed
>> Can you be a bit more specific? What did you change?
>> 
>>> and I am able to export the lyx file as a pdf. However, I just cannot 
>>> view/update/preview it without exporting it.
>> Please, try the reconfiguration of LyX.
>> 
>> Stephan
>>  
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thank you!
> 

Re: El Capitain

[Christopher Menzel]

I've been running LyX unproblematically on my retina 5k iMac since the first 
public beta of El Capitan. I'm currently running El Cap GM on both my iMac and 
my rMBP and have had no issues. 

-chris

On 28 Sep 2015, at 7:45 PM, Stephan Witt  wrote:
> 
> Am 28.09.2015 um 22:20 schrieb Anders Host-Madsen :
> 
>> Has anyone tested out LyX with OSX El Capitain? Any issues?
> 
> Yes, my installation failed to update to El Capitan GM. 
> I tried it with an external drive and it never completed
> the final (?) step after rebooting the system.
> 
> So, I couldn't test LyX with it.
> 
> Stephan

Missing convert utility

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk:

In the past, in the course of installing MacTeX and LyX on a Mac, the 
ImageMagick utilities — in particular, convert (which is essential for 
viewing inserted PDFs in LyX) — would also be installed. (I'm not sure 
which of the two, MacTeX or LyX, was responsible for this.) I am 
currently running the latest El Capitan beta, MacTeX 2015, and LyX 2.1.4 
on an iMac, but convert is nowhere to be found. Note this isn't simply a 
path problem — the program isn't in the locate database, so it's nowhere 
on the machine. On my Macbook, which is running Yosemite and MacTeX 
2014, it resides contentedly in /usr/local/bin. Can anyone explain 
what's happened to convert?


Thanks much in advance.

Chris Menzel

Missing convert utility

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk:

In the past, in the course of installing MacTeX and LyX on a Mac, the 
ImageMagick utilities — in particular, convert (which is essential for 
viewing inserted PDFs in LyX) — would also be installed. (I'm not sure 
which of the two, MacTeX or LyX, was responsible for this.) I am 
currently running the latest El Capitan beta, MacTeX 2015, and LyX 2.1.4 
on an iMac, but convert is nowhere to be found. Note this isn't simply a 
path problem — the program isn't in the locate database, so it's nowhere 
on the machine. On my Macbook, which is running Yosemite and MacTeX 
2014, it resides contentedly in /usr/local/bin. Can anyone explain 
what's happened to convert?


Thanks much in advance.

Chris Menzel

Re: Can't preview under OS X beta

[Christopher Menzel]

Ah, thanks for this. Briefly, the problem is that OS X's new System 
Integrity Protection (SIP) feature in El Capitan (OS X 10.11) does not 
allow one to use admin privileges to write to certain system 
directories, notably /usr. Currently, however, MacTeX distributions 
create a symbolic link texbin in /usr that points (rather indirectly, 
via other symlinks) to the TeX binaries of one's preferred distribution 
and GUI applications like LyX use that link to find the relevant 
binaries. With SIP in place, however, that symlink can't be written to 
/usr and stuff breaks.


Fortunately, this (from my perspective) annoyingly paternalistic feature 
can be turned off: You can reboot into recovery mode (Cmd-r at startup) 
and select Security Configuration from the Utilities menu option. This 
brings up a box that lets you uncheck an Enforce System Integrity 
Protection option. Upon rebooting, you can once again write to /usr 
with admin privileges. Somewhat curiously, I reinstalled MacTeX 2015 
expecting it to create the symlink in question, but it didn't. So I 
created it manually (from inside the /usr directory with the terminal 
command sudo ln -s /Library/TeX/texbin texbin) and now everything 
works once again.


I'm planning to leave SIP off for the time being but, if I were to turn 
it back on, the symlink I created would surely remain in place. So it's 
not like one has to choose between a working TeX distribution and SIP. 
Hopefully, Apple will not decide to be *so* paternalistic that they take 
away the option of turning SIP off, though, ideally I suppose, future 
versions of GUI apps will be reconfigured so they look at 
/Library/TeX/texbin instead of /usr/texbin for the TeX binaries.


-chris

Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Chris Menzelchris.men...@gmail.com  wrote:

Kindly LyX folk,


So, unable to resist the siren call of the latest and greatest software, I
just installed OS X 10.11 Beta and, as has happened in the past in similar
situations, it broke LyX such that it couldn't find any .cls files or fonts.
Fortunately, also as in the past, the fix was to start LyX from the command
line and select Tools -  Reconfigure, and then restart LyX as usual.
However, I'm still having a problem — I'm unable to preview. I'm editing a
file called Florianopolis.lyx and I get the message


/var/folders/t5/fp07n4n507d_ymgd5syhywhwgn/T/lyx_tmpdir.fIZQQyjm4829/lyx_tmpbuf0/Florianopolis.pdf


Going into that dir, I do see there is only Forianopolis.tex, no pdf. If I
compile the .tex file, I don't get the error message anymore but that file
remains static — editing Florianopolis.lyx and trying to update the preview
has no effect; the old PDF is not replaced by a new one reflecting the edits
to the LyX source file. I've tried removing the LyX tmp folders so they'd be
recreated, which they were upon a restgart, but they are empty, and
attempting to preview once again brings up the above error message.


Ideas, solutions, suggestions (other than Don't install beta software! :-)
appreciated.


Related post:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/254562/lyx-cannot-recognize-my-mactex-2015
and link regarding El Capitan:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx/47074

Scott

Re: Can't preview under OS X beta

[Christopher Menzel]

Ah, thanks for this. Briefly, the problem is that OS X's new System 
Integrity Protection (SIP) feature in El Capitan (OS X 10.11) does not 
allow one to use admin privileges to write to certain system 
directories, notably /usr. Currently, however, MacTeX distributions 
create a symbolic link texbin in /usr that points (rather indirectly, 
via other symlinks) to the TeX binaries of one's preferred distribution 
and GUI applications like LyX use that link to find the relevant 
binaries. With SIP in place, however, that symlink can't be written to 
/usr and stuff breaks.


Fortunately, this (from my perspective) annoyingly paternalistic feature 
can be turned off: You can reboot into recovery mode (Cmd-r at startup) 
and select Security Configuration from the Utilities menu option. This 
brings up a box that lets you uncheck an Enforce System Integrity 
Protection option. Upon rebooting, you can once again write to /usr 
with admin privileges. Somewhat curiously, I reinstalled MacTeX 2015 
expecting it to create the symlink in question, but it didn't. So I 
created it manually (from inside the /usr directory with the terminal 
command sudo ln -s /Library/TeX/texbin texbin) and now everything 
works once again.


I'm planning to leave SIP off for the time being but, if I were to turn 
it back on, the symlink I created would surely remain in place. So it's 
not like one has to choose between a working TeX distribution and SIP. 
Hopefully, Apple will not decide to be *so* paternalistic that they take 
away the option of turning SIP off, though, ideally I suppose, future 
versions of GUI apps will be reconfigured so they look at 
/Library/TeX/texbin instead of /usr/texbin for the TeX binaries.


-chris

Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Chris Menzelchris.men...@gmail.com  wrote:

Kindly LyX folk,


So, unable to resist the siren call of the latest and greatest software, I
just installed OS X 10.11 Beta and, as has happened in the past in similar
situations, it broke LyX such that it couldn't find any .cls files or fonts.
Fortunately, also as in the past, the fix was to start LyX from the command
line and select Tools -  Reconfigure, and then restart LyX as usual.
However, I'm still having a problem — I'm unable to preview. I'm editing a
file called Florianopolis.lyx and I get the message


/var/folders/t5/fp07n4n507d_ymgd5syhywhwgn/T/lyx_tmpdir.fIZQQyjm4829/lyx_tmpbuf0/Florianopolis.pdf


Going into that dir, I do see there is only Forianopolis.tex, no pdf. If I
compile the .tex file, I don't get the error message anymore but that file
remains static — editing Florianopolis.lyx and trying to update the preview
has no effect; the old PDF is not replaced by a new one reflecting the edits
to the LyX source file. I've tried removing the LyX tmp folders so they'd be
recreated, which they were upon a restgart, but they are empty, and
attempting to preview once again brings up the above error message.


Ideas, solutions, suggestions (other than Don't install beta software! :-)
appreciated.


Related post:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/254562/lyx-cannot-recognize-my-mactex-2015
and link regarding El Capitan:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx/47074

Scott

Re: Can't preview under OS X beta

[Christopher Menzel]

Ah, thanks for this. Briefly, the problem is that OS X's new "System 
Integrity Protection (SIP)" feature in El Capitan (OS X 10.11) does not 
allow one to use admin privileges to write to certain system 
directories, notably /usr. Currently, however, MacTeX distributions 
create a symbolic link "texbin" in /usr that points (rather indirectly, 
via other symlinks) to the TeX binaries of one's preferred distribution 
and GUI applications like LyX use that link to find the relevant 
binaries. With SIP in place, however, that symlink can't be written to 
/usr and stuff breaks.


Fortunately, this (from my perspective) annoyingly paternalistic feature 
can be turned off: You can reboot into recovery mode (Cmd-r at startup) 
and select "Security Configuration" from the Utilities menu option. This 
brings up a box that lets you uncheck an "Enforce System Integrity 
Protection" option. Upon rebooting, you can once again write to /usr 
with admin privileges. Somewhat curiously, I reinstalled MacTeX 2015 
expecting it to create the symlink in question, but it didn't. So I 
created it manually (from inside the /usr directory with the terminal 
command "sudo ln -s /Library/TeX/texbin texbin") and now everything 
works once again.


I'm planning to leave SIP off for the time being but, if I were to turn 
it back on, the symlink I created would surely remain in place. So it's 
not like one has to choose between a working TeX distribution and SIP. 
Hopefully, Apple will not decide to be *so* paternalistic that they take 
away the option of turning SIP off, though, ideally I suppose, future 
versions of GUI apps will be reconfigured so they look at 
/Library/TeX/texbin instead of /usr/texbin for the TeX binaries.


-chris

Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Chris Menzel  wrote:

Kindly LyX folk,


So, unable to resist the siren call of the latest and greatest software, I
just installed OS X 10.11 Beta and, as has happened in the past in similar
situations, it broke LyX such that it couldn't find any .cls files or fonts.
Fortunately, also as in the past, the fix was to start LyX from the command
line and select Tools ->  Reconfigure, and then restart LyX as usual.
However, I'm still having a problem — I'm unable to preview. I'm editing a
file called "Florianopolis.lyx" and I get the message


/var/folders/t5/fp07n4n507d_ymgd5syhywhwgn/T/lyx_tmpdir.fIZQQyjm4829/lyx_tmpbuf0/Florianopolis.pdf


Going into that dir, I do see there is only Forianopolis.tex, no pdf. If I
compile the .tex file, I don't get the error message anymore but that file
remains static — editing Florianopolis.lyx and trying to update the preview
has no effect; the old PDF is not replaced by a new one reflecting the edits
to the LyX source file. I've tried removing the LyX tmp folders so they'd be
recreated, which they were upon a restgart, but they are empty, and
attempting to preview once again brings up the above error message.


Ideas, solutions, suggestions (other than "Don't install beta software!" :-)
appreciated.


Related post:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/254562/lyx-cannot-recognize-my-mactex-2015
and link regarding El Capitan:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx/47074

Scott

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

[Christopher Menzel]

Hi Ricardo,

Can you provide an example of a situation where the feature in question 
would be useful? I composed in raw LaTeX for 20 years but since 
switching pretty much full-time to LyX several years ago I have yet to 
find a situation that LyX (plus perhaps a little ERT 
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ERT)  couldn't handle with aplomb.


-chris

Ricardo Gaspar wrote:

Hi there,

I am a new user of Lyx, but a not a beginner in LaTEX.
I couldn’t find in the internet why Lyx doesn’t allow to edit the source LaTEX 
file. It would be an awesome feature and could make Lyx a great rival against 
the other LaTEX editors.
I like the simplicity of Lyx and the features it provides, but sometimes I 
would like to change or add code directly to the source file.

Can you please answer this question? Or at least redirect me to a site where I 
can find it?

Keep the good work!

Best regards,
Ricardo Gaspar

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

[Christopher Menzel]

Hi Ricardo,

Can you provide an example of a situation where the feature in question 
would be useful? I composed in raw LaTeX for 20 years but since 
switching pretty much full-time to LyX several years ago I have yet to 
find a situation that LyX (plus perhaps a little ERT 
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ERT)  couldn't handle with aplomb.


-chris

Ricardo Gaspar wrote:

Hi there,

I am a new user of Lyx, but a not a beginner in LaTEX.
I couldn’t find in the internet why Lyx doesn’t allow to edit the source LaTEX 
file. It would be an awesome feature and could make Lyx a great rival against 
the other LaTEX editors.
I like the simplicity of Lyx and the features it provides, but sometimes I 
would like to change or add code directly to the source file.

Can you please answer this question? Or at least redirect me to a site where I 
can find it?

Keep the good work!

Best regards,
Ricardo Gaspar

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

[Christopher Menzel]

Hi Ricardo,

Can you provide an example of a situation where the feature in question 
would be useful? I composed in raw LaTeX for 20 years but since 
switching pretty much full-time to LyX several years ago I have yet to 
find a situation that LyX (plus perhaps a little ERT 
)  couldn't handle with aplomb.


-chris

Ricardo Gaspar wrote:

Hi there,

I am a new user of Lyx, but a not a beginner in LaTEX.
I couldn’t find in the internet why Lyx doesn’t allow to edit the source LaTEX 
file. It would be an awesome feature and could make Lyx a great rival against 
the other LaTEX editors.
I like the simplicity of Lyx and the features it provides, but sometimes I 
would like to change or add code directly to the source file.

Can you please answer this question? Or at least redirect me to a site where I 
can find it?

Keep the good work!

Best regards,
Ricardo Gaspar

Re: Math Symbols

[Christopher Menzel]

LaTeX (and LyX) just use the standard ASCII keyboard characters for  
and  and they print just fine to PDF. Are you saying they do not print 
properly for you?


-chris


Gordon Cooper mailto:gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz
March 3, 2015 at 5:54 PM
Greetings.

The great list of Lyx symbols has a couple of omissions.
 and  the basic 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols. These
shapes do appear in the Latin list, but do not convert when a
pdf output is sought.

The Maths symbols do contain symbols for not less than,
less than or equal to, and their greater than equivalents,
but the two simple symbols using straight lines in the arrow
heads are missing.

Yes, there are alternatives using curved lines in the arrows, but
these do not convert very well to pdf.


Thanks,
Gordon.
Tauranga N.Z.


--
Sent with Postbox http://www.getpostbox.com

Re: Math Symbols

[Christopher Menzel]

LaTeX (and LyX) just use the standard ASCII keyboard characters for  
and  and they print just fine to PDF. Are you saying they do not print 
properly for you?


-chris


Gordon Cooper mailto:gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz
March 3, 2015 at 5:54 PM
Greetings.

The great list of Lyx symbols has a couple of omissions.
 and  the basic 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols. These
shapes do appear in the Latin list, but do not convert when a
pdf output is sought.

The Maths symbols do contain symbols for not less than,
less than or equal to, and their greater than equivalents,
but the two simple symbols using straight lines in the arrow
heads are missing.

Yes, there are alternatives using curved lines in the arrows, but
these do not convert very well to pdf.


Thanks,
Gordon.
Tauranga N.Z.


--
Sent with Postbox http://www.getpostbox.com

Re: Math Symbols

[Christopher Menzel]

LaTeX (and LyX) just use the standard ASCII keyboard characters for < 
and > and they print just fine to PDF. Are you saying they do not print 
properly for you?


-chris


Gordon Cooper 
March 3, 2015 at 5:54 PM
Greetings.

The great list of Lyx symbols has a couple of omissions.
< and > the basic 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols. These
shapes do appear in the Latin list, but do not convert when a
pdf output is sought.

The Maths symbols do contain symbols for "not less than",
"less than or equal to", and their greater than equivalents,
but the two simple symbols using straight lines in the arrow
heads are missing.

Yes, there are alternatives using curved lines in the arrows, but
these do not convert very well to pdf.


Thanks,
Gordon.
Tauranga N.Z.


--
Sent with Postbox 

Re: Possessive author names in citations

[Christopher Menzel]

Just curious: Under what sort of scenario would this be useful? I'm 
asking because LyX allows you to cite individual references by date 
only. Hence, you can write Knuth's by hand and add the bib reference 
without the author name so that only (1984) prints. If that's all 
you're after, it seems to deliver what you want without requiring you to 
mess with layouts or use ERT.


-chris


Marsh mailto:ma...@uri.edu
February 25, 2015 at 4:41 PM
The web page below shows how to modify standard BibLaTeX
to allow possessive author names in citations (use all three lines in 
the URL) :


https://tex.stackexchange.com/
questions/22273/
author-name-of-textcite-as-possessive

For example, suppose a bib file has the following entry:

@book{knuth,
author = {Donald E. Knuth},
title = {The {{\TeX}book}},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
date = {1984}
}

Ordinary usage might include \textcite{knuth}.

The line above would look like:

Ordinary usage might include Knuth (1984).


But with the code shown on the web page, the following would hold.

Modified usage might include \posscite{knuth}.

This would appear as:

Ordinary usage might include Knuth's (1984).

OK. I can get this to work in plain LaTeX and perhaps in LyX by using ERT.
But how can I add the possessive style as a Citation style in
LyX's Citation dialog window for citations so that all citations
can be done though the same interface and without ERT?

Re: Possessive author names in citations

[Christopher Menzel]

Just curious: Under what sort of scenario would this be useful? I'm 
asking because LyX allows you to cite individual references by date 
only. Hence, you can write Knuth's by hand and add the bib reference 
without the author name so that only (1984) prints. If that's all 
you're after, it seems to deliver what you want without requiring you to 
mess with layouts or use ERT.


-chris


Marsh mailto:ma...@uri.edu
February 25, 2015 at 4:41 PM
The web page below shows how to modify standard BibLaTeX
to allow possessive author names in citations (use all three lines in 
the URL) :


https://tex.stackexchange.com/
questions/22273/
author-name-of-textcite-as-possessive

For example, suppose a bib file has the following entry:

@book{knuth,
author = {Donald E. Knuth},
title = {The {{\TeX}book}},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
date = {1984}
}

Ordinary usage might include \textcite{knuth}.

The line above would look like:

Ordinary usage might include Knuth (1984).


But with the code shown on the web page, the following would hold.

Modified usage might include \posscite{knuth}.

This would appear as:

Ordinary usage might include Knuth's (1984).

OK. I can get this to work in plain LaTeX and perhaps in LyX by using ERT.
But how can I add the possessive style as a Citation style in
LyX's Citation dialog window for citations so that all citations
can be done though the same interface and without ERT?

Re: Possessive author names in citations

[Christopher Menzel]

Just curious: Under what sort of scenario would this be useful? I'm 
asking because LyX allows you to cite individual references by date 
only. Hence, you can write "Knuth's" by hand and add the bib reference 
without the author name so that only "(1984)" prints. If that's all 
you're after, it seems to deliver what you want without requiring you to 
mess with layouts or use ERT.


-chris


Marsh 
February 25, 2015 at 4:41 PM
The web page below shows how to modify standard BibLaTeX
to allow possessive author names in citations (use all three lines in 
the URL) :


https://tex.stackexchange.com/
questions/22273/
author-name-of-textcite-as-possessive

For example, suppose a bib file has the following entry:

@book{knuth,
author = {Donald E. Knuth},
title = {The {{\TeX}book}},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
date = {1984}
}

Ordinary usage might include \textcite{knuth}.

The line above would look like:

Ordinary usage might include Knuth (1984).


But with the code shown on the web page, the following would hold.

Modified usage might include \posscite{knuth}.

This would appear as:

Ordinary usage might include Knuth's (1984).

OK. I can get this to work in plain LaTeX and perhaps in LyX by using ERT.
But how can I add the possessive style as a Citation style in
LyX's Citation dialog window for citations so that all citations
can be done though the same interface and without ERT?

Re: Retina support

[Christopher Menzel]

Having installed LyX on a 5k iMac I can report that, even without retina 
support, LyX screen fonts still look quite good, especially if you crank 
the resolution up a notch from the default 2560x1440 to the next fixed 
option of 2880x1620 (ironic quotes because the number of actual pixels 
per resolution point at 2560x1440 is 4 to 1, making for incredibly 
sharp text). Sitting a reasonable distance from the screen and using 
Minion Pro as the screen font (major props to Kieran Healy 
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/11/10/installing-minion-pro/) there 
is virtually no perception of the slight fuzziness and pixelation 
visible at very close range.


-chris

Christopher Menzel mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com
December 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM
LyX folk:

I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac.

1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in 
development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA 
for such support in an OS X binary?


2. Despite some screen font blurriness up close, I find LyX to be 
quite usable on my rMBP. My thought is that the appearance should be 
pretty much the same on the iMac given that iMac's pixel density is 
almost identical to the rMBP — indeed, the latter's is slightly higher 
(226 vs 216 ppi). Does that reasoning seem correct? Has anyone 
confirmed/disconfirmed this empirically?


Any info or other comments appreciated.

-chris

Re: Retina support

[Christopher Menzel]

Having installed LyX on a 5k iMac I can report that, even without retina 
support, LyX screen fonts still look quite good, especially if you crank 
the resolution up a notch from the default 2560x1440 to the next fixed 
option of 2880x1620 (ironic quotes because the number of actual pixels 
per resolution point at 2560x1440 is 4 to 1, making for incredibly 
sharp text). Sitting a reasonable distance from the screen and using 
Minion Pro as the screen font (major props to Kieran Healy 
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/11/10/installing-minion-pro/) there 
is virtually no perception of the slight fuzziness and pixelation 
visible at very close range.


-chris

Christopher Menzel mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com
December 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM
LyX folk:

I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac.

1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in 
development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA 
for such support in an OS X binary?


2. Despite some screen font blurriness up close, I find LyX to be 
quite usable on my rMBP. My thought is that the appearance should be 
pretty much the same on the iMac given that iMac's pixel density is 
almost identical to the rMBP — indeed, the latter's is slightly higher 
(226 vs 216 ppi). Does that reasoning seem correct? Has anyone 
confirmed/disconfirmed this empirically?


Any info or other comments appreciated.

-chris

Re: Retina support

[Christopher Menzel]

Having installed LyX on a 5k iMac I can report that, even without retina 
support, LyX screen fonts still look quite good, especially if you crank 
the resolution up a notch from the default "2560x1440" to the next fixed 
option of "2880x1620" (ironic quotes because the number of actual pixels 
per resolution point at "2560x1440" is 4 to 1, making for incredibly 
sharp text). Sitting a reasonable distance from the screen and using 
Minion Pro as the screen font (major props to Kieran Healy 
<http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/11/10/installing-minion-pro/>) there 
is virtually no perception of the slight fuzziness and pixelation 
visible at very close range.


-chris

Christopher Menzel <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>
December 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM
LyX folk:

I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac.

1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in 
development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA 
for such support in an OS X binary?


2. Despite some screen font blurriness up close, I find LyX to be 
quite usable on my rMBP. My thought is that the appearance should be 
pretty much the same on the iMac given that iMac's pixel density is 
almost identical to the rMBP — indeed, the latter's is slightly higher 
(226 vs 216 ppi). Does that reasoning seem correct? Has anyone 
confirmed/disconfirmed this empirically?


Any info or other comments appreciated.

-chris

Retina support

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk:

I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac.

1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in 
development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA for 
such support in an OS X binary?


2. Despite some screen font blurriness up close, I find LyX to be quite 
usable on my rMBP. My thought is that the appearance should be pretty 
much the same on the iMac given that iMac's pixel density is almost 
identical to the rMBP — indeed, the latter's is slightly higher (226 vs 
216 ppi). Does that reasoning seem correct? Has anyone 
confirmed/disconfirmed this empirically?


Any info or other comments appreciated.

-chris

Retina support

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk:

I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac.

1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in 
development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA for 
such support in an OS X binary?


2. Despite some screen font blurriness up close, I find LyX to be quite 
usable on my rMBP. My thought is that the appearance should be pretty 
much the same on the iMac given that iMac's pixel density is almost 
identical to the rMBP — indeed, the latter's is slightly higher (226 vs 
216 ppi). Does that reasoning seem correct? Has anyone 
confirmed/disconfirmed this empirically?


Any info or other comments appreciated.

-chris

Retina support

[Christopher Menzel]

LyX folk:

I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac.

1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in 
development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA for 
such support in an OS X binary?


2. Despite some screen font blurriness up close, I find LyX to be quite 
usable on my rMBP. My thought is that the appearance should be pretty 
much the same on the iMac given that iMac's pixel density is almost 
identical to the rMBP — indeed, the latter's is slightly higher (226 vs 
216 ppi). Does that reasoning seem correct? Has anyone 
confirmed/disconfirmed this empirically?


Any info or other comments appreciated.

-chris

Re: Fwd: Help with Lyx

[Christopher Menzel]

Trisha Lawrence wrote:

Hi Scott

I've currently uninstalled Lyx from my laptop. I've noticed on the 
lyx-users platform a suggestion to do that as well as downloading the 
following link below

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
Should this work? Would I still need to make any changes after 
downloading Lyx from the link above, like coping the layout packages 
from MiKTeX to LyX?

Trisha,

The link above takes you to an installer for a very old version (2.0.5) 
of LyX. You shouldn't use it.


In your email to me this morning you told me that LyX (well, more 
exactly, the LaTeX engine that it was calling) wasn't even finding 
article.cls, which is the most basic class file, which suggests to me 
that your problem (or, at least, one very basic problem) doesn't have 
anything to do with the problem of finding missing layouts discussed in 
the link in your original message. I think your best bet, short of a 
complete reinstall of Windows, is to reinstall the latest versions of 
MikTeX and LyX. MikTeX is found here http://miktex.org/download. You 
can download the latest version (2.1.2) of LyX for Windows by clicking 
here ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.1.2/LyX-2.1.2-Installer-1.exe.


You noted that you did some sort of migration from your old laptop to 
your new one, and those are notorious (on both Macs and Windows 
machines) for screwing things up. If you have the time and the patience, 
I suspect doing a fresh install of Windows on a clean drive, followed by 
fresh installs of MikTeX and LyX would solve your problems. If that 
isn't possible, once again, give the latest versions of MikTeX and LyX a 
shot.


 Also I can't seem to post any questions on Lyx-users platform.

You seem able to now. :-)

-chris


-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org mailto:skost...@lyx.org
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Lyx
To: Trisha Lawrence trishalaw...@gmail.com 
mailto:trishalaw...@gmail.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, LyX 
Documentation Team lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org 
mailto:lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org



On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Trisha Lawrence 
trishalaw...@gmail.com mailto:trishalaw...@gmail.com wrote:

 HI

 I have recently obtained a new laptop and I am unable to obtain the 
document
 classes that were available in the Lyx docment processor of my old 
Laptop.
 I've followed the steps included in the link below which suggested 
copying
 the layout types to users then reconfiguring Lyx, however it still 
doesn't

 seem to work.

 http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts#toc1

 I remember getting tremendous help from someone@ Lyx-doc upon 
completing my

 thesis for my MSc. I am currently pursuing my PhD and this will help me
 immensely. Can anyone help in anyway?

Hi Trisha,

I think you meant to send this email to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org . I

will forward it to there. All future responses to this email should
not reply to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org.

Best of luck,

Scott

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Christopher Menzel]

I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 
2.1.1. (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from 
the CL.)


-chris

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hi,
I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version 
(2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure 
LyX after having launched it from the command line.
But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not 
loaded in LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable 
format. I have both ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via MacPorts 
(that I have also updated), and, when I launch LyX from the terminal, 
it can convert the graphics and show them on the screen.


Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting back 
the functionality of LyX?


An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that 
KnitR files compile without any problem.


Any idea about the solution?

Best regards,

Murat

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Christopher Menzel]

(Sorry for top-posting, but) Does everything work if you launch
LyX from the command line?



I think he affirmed this: ...when I launch LyX from the terminal, it 
can convert the [PDF] graphics and show them on the screen. This is my 
experience as well.


-chris



On 11/12/2014 07:41 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:


Hi,
I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version
(2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure
LyX after having launched it from the command line.
But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not
loaded in LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable
format. I have both ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via
MacPorts (that I have also updated), and, when I launch LyX from the
terminal, it can convert the graphics and show them on the screen.

Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting
back the functionality of LyX?

An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that
KnitR files compile without any problem.

Any idea about the solution?

Best regards,

Murat

--


*Prof. Murat Yildizoglu*

Note: Please use the following address as such

UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
MURAT YILDIZOGLU
16 AVENUE LEON DUGUIT
CS 50057
33608 PESSAC CEDEX
FRANCE

Bureau : E-331

mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr http://yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr

web: yildizoglu.info http://yildizoglu.info

Re: Fwd: Help with Lyx

[Christopher Menzel]

Trisha Lawrence wrote:

Hi Scott

I've currently uninstalled Lyx from my laptop. I've noticed on the 
lyx-users platform a suggestion to do that as well as downloading the 
following link below

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
Should this work? Would I still need to make any changes after 
downloading Lyx from the link above, like coping the layout packages 
from MiKTeX to LyX?

Trisha,

The link above takes you to an installer for a very old version (2.0.5) 
of LyX. You shouldn't use it.


In your email to me this morning you told me that LyX (well, more 
exactly, the LaTeX engine that it was calling) wasn't even finding 
article.cls, which is the most basic class file, which suggests to me 
that your problem (or, at least, one very basic problem) doesn't have 
anything to do with the problem of finding missing layouts discussed in 
the link in your original message. I think your best bet, short of a 
complete reinstall of Windows, is to reinstall the latest versions of 
MikTeX and LyX. MikTeX is found here http://miktex.org/download. You 
can download the latest version (2.1.2) of LyX for Windows by clicking 
here ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.1.2/LyX-2.1.2-Installer-1.exe.


You noted that you did some sort of migration from your old laptop to 
your new one, and those are notorious (on both Macs and Windows 
machines) for screwing things up. If you have the time and the patience, 
I suspect doing a fresh install of Windows on a clean drive, followed by 
fresh installs of MikTeX and LyX would solve your problems. If that 
isn't possible, once again, give the latest versions of MikTeX and LyX a 
shot.


 Also I can't seem to post any questions on Lyx-users platform.

You seem able to now. :-)

-chris


-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org mailto:skost...@lyx.org
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Lyx
To: Trisha Lawrence trishalaw...@gmail.com 
mailto:trishalaw...@gmail.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, LyX 
Documentation Team lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org 
mailto:lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org



On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Trisha Lawrence 
trishalaw...@gmail.com mailto:trishalaw...@gmail.com wrote:

 HI

 I have recently obtained a new laptop and I am unable to obtain the 
document
 classes that were available in the Lyx docment processor of my old 
Laptop.
 I've followed the steps included in the link below which suggested 
copying
 the layout types to users then reconfiguring Lyx, however it still 
doesn't

 seem to work.

 http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts#toc1

 I remember getting tremendous help from someone@ Lyx-doc upon 
completing my

 thesis for my MSc. I am currently pursuing my PhD and this will help me
 immensely. Can anyone help in anyway?

Hi Trisha,

I think you meant to send this email to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org . I

will forward it to there. All future responses to this email should
not reply to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org.

Best of luck,

Scott

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Christopher Menzel]

I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 
2.1.1. (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from 
the CL.)


-chris

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hi,
I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version 
(2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure 
LyX after having launched it from the command line.
But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not 
loaded in LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable 
format. I have both ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via MacPorts 
(that I have also updated), and, when I launch LyX from the terminal, 
it can convert the graphics and show them on the screen.


Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting back 
the functionality of LyX?


An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that 
KnitR files compile without any problem.


Any idea about the solution?

Best regards,

Murat

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Christopher Menzel]

(Sorry for top-posting, but) Does everything work if you launch
LyX from the command line?



I think he affirmed this: ...when I launch LyX from the terminal, it 
can convert the [PDF] graphics and show them on the screen. This is my 
experience as well.


-chris



On 11/12/2014 07:41 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:


Hi,
I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version
(2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure
LyX after having launched it from the command line.
But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not
loaded in LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable
format. I have both ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via
MacPorts (that I have also updated), and, when I launch LyX from the
terminal, it can convert the graphics and show them on the screen.

Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting
back the functionality of LyX?

An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that
KnitR files compile without any problem.

Any idea about the solution?

Best regards,

Murat

--


*Prof. Murat Yildizoglu*

Note: Please use the following address as such

UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
MURAT YILDIZOGLU
16 AVENUE LEON DUGUIT
CS 50057
33608 PESSAC CEDEX
FRANCE

Bureau : E-331

mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr http://yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr

web: yildizoglu.info http://yildizoglu.info

Re: Fwd: Help with Lyx

[Christopher Menzel]

Trisha Lawrence wrote:

Hi Scott

I've currently uninstalled Lyx from my laptop. I've noticed on the 
lyx-users platform a suggestion to do that as well as downloading the 
following link below

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
Should this work? Would I still need to make any changes after 
downloading Lyx from the link above, like coping the layout packages 
from MiKTeX to LyX?

Trisha,

The link above takes you to an installer for a very old version (2.0.5) 
of LyX. You shouldn't use it.


In your email to me this morning you told me that LyX (well, more 
exactly, the LaTeX engine that it was calling) wasn't even finding 
article.cls, which is the most basic class file, which suggests to me 
that your problem (or, at least, one very basic problem) doesn't have 
anything to do with the problem of finding missing layouts discussed in 
the link in your original message. I think your best bet, short of a 
complete reinstall of Windows, is to reinstall the latest versions of 
MikTeX and LyX. MikTeX is found here . You 
can download the latest version (2.1.2) of LyX for Windows by clicking 
here .


You noted that you did some sort of "migration" from your old laptop to 
your new one, and those are notorious (on both Macs and Windows 
machines) for screwing things up. If you have the time and the patience, 
I suspect doing a fresh install of Windows on a clean drive, followed by 
fresh installs of MikTeX and LyX would solve your problems. If that 
isn't possible, once again, give the latest versions of MikTeX and LyX a 
shot.


> Also I can't seem to post any questions on Lyx-users platform.

You seem able to now. :-)

-chris


-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Kostyshak >
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Lyx
To: Trisha Lawrence >
Cc: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org " 
>, LyX 
Documentation Team >



On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Trisha Lawrence 
> wrote:

> HI
>
> I have recently obtained a new laptop and I am unable to obtain the 
document
> classes that were available in the Lyx docment processor of my old 
Laptop.
> I've followed the steps included in the link below which suggested 
copying
> the layout types to users then reconfiguring Lyx, however it still 
doesn't

> seem to work.
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts#toc1
>
> I remember getting tremendous help from someone@ Lyx-doc upon 
completing my

> thesis for my MSc. I am currently pursuing my PhD and this will help me
> immensely. Can anyone help in anyway?

Hi Trisha,

I think you meant to send this email to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
 . I

will forward it to there. All future responses to this email should
not reply to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org .

Best of luck,

Scott

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Christopher Menzel]

I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 
2.1.1. (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from 
the CL.)


-chris

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hi,
I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version 
(2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure 
LyX after having launched it from the command line.
But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not 
loaded in LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable 
format. I have both ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via MacPorts 
(that I have also updated), and, when I launch LyX from the terminal, 
it can convert the graphics and show them on the screen.


Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting back 
the functionality of LyX?


An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that 
KnitR files compile without any problem.


Any idea about the solution?

Best regards,

Murat

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Christopher Menzel]

(Sorry for top-posting, but) Does everything work if you launch
LyX from the command line?



I think he affirmed this: "...when I launch LyX from the terminal, it 
can convert the [PDF] graphics and show them on the screen." This is my 
experience as well.


-chris



On 11/12/2014 07:41 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:


Hi,
I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version
(2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure
LyX after having launched it from the command line.
But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not
loaded in LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable
format. I have both ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via
MacPorts (that I have also updated), and, when I launch LyX from the
terminal, it can convert the graphics and show them on the screen.

Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting
back the functionality of LyX?

An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that
KnitR files compile without any problem.

Any idea about the solution?

Best regards,

Murat

--


*Prof. Murat Yildizoglu*

Note: Please use the following address as such

UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
MURAT YILDIZOGLU
16 AVENUE LEON DUGUIT
CS 50057
33608 PESSAC CEDEX
FRANCE

Bureau : E-331

mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr 

web: yildizoglu.info 

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.2.1 Released

[Christopher Menzel]

I did a clean network install of Mountain Lion on a 2013 iMac last 
night, upgraded immediately to Yosemite, and then installed MacTeX 2014 
and LyX 2.1.2.1 first thing. After starting LyX from the GUI I still got 
the previewing bug where none of my .cls files could be found during the 
compile. As in earlier versions, I had to start LyX from the command 
line and reconfigure to fix the problem. Starting LyX from with the GUI 
now works normally.


No such problems with an installation of 2.1.2.1 on an established 
install of Yosemite on a rMBP (on which I'd done the command line trick 
with an earlier version).


Chris Menzel

Hal Kierstead wrote:

Many thanks---it is working great.

Hal


On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Richard Heckrgh...@lyx.org  wrote:


Public release of LyX version 2.1.2.1
=

We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.2.1.

This is an emergency release for OSX only. It resolves problems that affect
LyX on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and, indeed, any program that depends upon the
passing of environment variables to sub-processes. Only users of OSX 10.10
should upgrade to this version.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.2.1 Released

[Christopher Menzel]

I did a clean network install of Mountain Lion on a 2013 iMac last 
night, upgraded immediately to Yosemite, and then installed MacTeX 2014 
and LyX 2.1.2.1 first thing. After starting LyX from the GUI I still got 
the previewing bug where none of my .cls files could be found during the 
compile. As in earlier versions, I had to start LyX from the command 
line and reconfigure to fix the problem. Starting LyX from with the GUI 
now works normally.


No such problems with an installation of 2.1.2.1 on an established 
install of Yosemite on a rMBP (on which I'd done the command line trick 
with an earlier version).


Chris Menzel

Hal Kierstead wrote:

Many thanks---it is working great.

Hal


On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Richard Heckrgh...@lyx.org  wrote:


Public release of LyX version 2.1.2.1
=

We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.2.1.

This is an emergency release for OSX only. It resolves problems that affect
LyX on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and, indeed, any program that depends upon the
passing of environment variables to sub-processes. Only users of OSX 10.10
should upgrade to this version.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.2.1 Released

[Christopher Menzel]

I did a clean network install of Mountain Lion on a 2013 iMac last 
night, upgraded immediately to Yosemite, and then installed MacTeX 2014 
and LyX 2.1.2.1 first thing. After starting LyX from the GUI I still got 
the previewing bug where none of my .cls files could be found during the 
compile. As in earlier versions, I had to start LyX from the command 
line and reconfigure to fix the problem. Starting LyX from with the GUI 
now works normally.


No such problems with an installation of 2.1.2.1 on an established 
install of Yosemite on a rMBP (on which I'd done the command line trick 
with an earlier version).


Chris Menzel

Hal Kierstead wrote:

Many thanks---it is working great.

Hal


On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Richard Heck  wrote:


Public release of LyX version 2.1.2.1
=

We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.2.1.

This is an emergency release for OSX only. It resolves problems that affect
LyX on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and, indeed, any program that depends upon the
passing of environment variables to sub-processes. Only users of OSX 10.10
should upgrade to this version.

Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts

[Christopher Menzel]

On Oct 20, 2014 7:46 AM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com 
mailto:jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Unfortunately, it is so. My wife has both versions and Lyx on Retina 
is not a useless application, but a very difficult one to work with.


My experience is quite different (though of course YMMV). There is no 
doubt that the screen fonts in LyX ≤2.1.2 look much better on a 
non-Retina display when examined close up; on a rMBP, the edges of font 
characters and most icons are blurred and pixelated. But I find that, 
with the right choice of screen fonts (notably, in my case, Georgia for 
the main text font), if I am working at a comfortable distance from the 
screen (including with the laptop in my lap), the blurred/pixelated 
edges of the fonts are not noticeable. (For the record, my (corrected) 
vision is very good.)


That said, there is little doubt that the LyX user experience on the 
rMBP will be much better still when the version with Retina support 
comes out, and I eagerly await it. (IIRC Stephan thinks that might be 
around Christmas.)


Stephan (or anyone), quick question: Is there any reason to think screen 
fonts in LyX 2.1.2 will look appreciably better or worse on a new 
5k-Retina iMac than on a rMBP?


-chris

   On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net
   mailto:lancebo...@qwest.net wrote:


   On Oct 5, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net
   mailto:st.w...@gmx.net wrote:

 Am 05.10.2014 um 21:47 schrieb Tino Langer
   tino.lan...@gmx.net mailto:tino.lan...@gmx.net:

 Hi all,

 I just installed lyx 2.1.2 on OSX 10.9.5, using MacTeX in
   background.

 I’m a little bit confused because the font in the editor
   area and also the icons at the toolbar are very blurred. Are
   there any options I have to change to get antialiased fonts and
   clear icons?

 Thanks a lot! - Tino


 Hi Tino,

 you're using a display with very high resolution, the so
   called Retina-display.
 LyX isn't ready to display the contents of the work area and
   the icons on
 a Mac with Retina display.  So, no, there is no option to
   enable the display
 with full screen resolution on your Mac.  You have to wait
   for a new version
 of LyX.

 Stephan

   Surely LyX on a Retina display is no worse than on a
   normal-resolution display, right?
   Jerry

Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts

[Christopher Menzel]

Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 20.10.2014 um 17:44 schrieb Christopher Menzelchris.men...@gmail.com:


On Oct 20, 2014 7:46 AM, Julio Rojasjcredbe...@gmail.com  wrote:

Unfortunately, it is so. My wife has both versions and Lyx on Retina is not a 
useless application, but a very difficult one to work with.

My experience is quite different (though of course YMMV). There is no doubt 
that the screen fonts in LyX ≤2.1.2 look much better on a non-Retina display 
when examined close up; on a rMBP, the edges of font characters and most icons 
are blurred and pixelated. But I find that, with the right choice of screen 
fonts (notably, in my case, Georgia for the main text font), if I am working at 
a comfortable distance from the screen (including with the laptop in my lap), 
the blurred/pixelated edges of the fonts are not noticeable. (For the record, 
my (corrected) vision is very good.)
That said, there is little doubt that the LyX user experience on the rMBP will 
be much better still when the version with Retina support comes out, and I 
eagerly await it. (IIRC Stephan thinks that might be around Christmas.)
Stephan (or anyone), quick question: Is there any reason to think screen fonts 
in LyX 2.1.2 will look appreciably better or worse on a new 5k-Retina iMac than 
on a rMBP?


Chris, frankly, I wasn't sure I understood Jerry's comment.
Perhaps he's talking about speed and not about crisp fonts.


Ah, yes, that could be (subject of the thread notwithstanding). Typing 
is a bit laggy on a rMBP (assuming that's the sort of thing you have in 
mind by speed). Since I mostly use LyX for writing papers and I tend 
to write rather haltingly, the lag is not usually noticeable. But if I 
were using it for tasks where I wanted to type full speed, especially if 
I were a really fast typist, I can see that lag could be pretty annoying.



To answer your question: I have to check it first.


Thanks!

-chris