LyX presentation editing-
LyX does fairly well editing traditional article / book type documents, but I think it could be improved for presentations using beamer or powerdot. Maybe these things can be done currently from LyX: Single frame view. Now LyX continuously puts the text in slide after slide. When I hit PgDn I want to see the next slide with the title at the top and just the stuff for that slide, not the next. Slide sorter view. You often need to easily cut and paste sections of a talk or move slides around. Seeing all your slides rendered at 33% or 50% size where you can drag them around would be great. Currently, you have to be very careful to cut and past w whole slide due to the way LyX handles sections (losing frame type, changing text to some other type, etc) Animation editor. Beamer and powerdot require a goodly amount of ERT or hacks to get animations. There has to be a better way than ERT for this. Maybe just a special section type like Itemize (Animate)? Additional graphics overlay. Maybe you want to add a circle around something important. Or have text appear and an arrow to highlight something. You can do this with lots of ERT, but presentations for most people are not a coding exercise. Outline / section editing. The sectioning is great for beamer and powerdot to have organized presentations, but you get these odball section and subsection titles hanging out between frames. I have thought about trying to hack something together that would emulate this. Maybe crop the lyx file into individual slides per page and put each one in a tab, export each slide and convert to jpg for a slide sorter window, use that jpg for some simple graphics editor to help get code for drawing simple shapes or text or arrows at arbitrary positions? Am I nuts? I have used LyX for years and finally I think am starting to move to using it for presentations. I have templates for both beamer and powerdot working (but not eps movie animations, waiting on a animate fix). I can deal with limitations, but some of these things would make it a better package. Or maybe I should try out OO Impress? I am moving away from ppt since they still can't support eps properly and the new interface is horrendous. All I really need is vector graphics, decent equations, simple animations and a decent editor. -- Ed Gatzke, Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina Swearingen Engineering Center, Office 3C19, Columbia, SC 29208 NOTE: On sabbatical in Germany until July, 2009
LyX presentation editing-
LyX does fairly well editing traditional article / book type documents, but I think it could be improved for presentations using beamer or powerdot. Maybe these things can be done currently from LyX: Single frame view. Now LyX continuously puts the text in slide after slide. When I hit PgDn I want to see the next slide with the title at the top and just the stuff for that slide, not the next. Slide sorter view. You often need to easily cut and paste sections of a talk or move slides around. Seeing all your slides rendered at 33% or 50% size where you can drag them around would be great. Currently, you have to be very careful to cut and past w whole slide due to the way LyX handles sections (losing frame type, changing text to some other type, etc) Animation editor. Beamer and powerdot require a goodly amount of ERT or hacks to get animations. There has to be a better way than ERT for this. Maybe just a special section type like Itemize (Animate)? Additional graphics overlay. Maybe you want to add a circle around something important. Or have text appear and an arrow to highlight something. You can do this with lots of ERT, but presentations for most people are not a coding exercise. Outline / section editing. The sectioning is great for beamer and powerdot to have organized presentations, but you get these odball section and subsection titles hanging out between frames. I have thought about trying to hack something together that would emulate this. Maybe crop the lyx file into individual slides per page and put each one in a tab, export each slide and convert to jpg for a slide sorter window, use that jpg for some simple graphics editor to help get code for drawing simple shapes or text or arrows at arbitrary positions? Am I nuts? I have used LyX for years and finally I think am starting to move to using it for presentations. I have templates for both beamer and powerdot working (but not eps movie animations, waiting on a animate fix). I can deal with limitations, but some of these things would make it a better package. Or maybe I should try out OO Impress? I am moving away from ppt since they still can't support eps properly and the new interface is horrendous. All I really need is vector graphics, decent equations, simple animations and a decent editor. -- Ed Gatzke, Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina Swearingen Engineering Center, Office 3C19, Columbia, SC 29208 NOTE: On sabbatical in Germany until July, 2009
LyX presentation editing-
LyX does fairly well editing traditional article / book type documents, but I think it could be improved for presentations using beamer or powerdot. Maybe these things can be done currently from LyX: Single frame view. Now LyX continuously puts the text in slide after slide. When I hit PgDn I want to see the next slide with the title at the top and just the stuff for that slide, not the next. Slide sorter view. You often need to easily cut and paste sections of a talk or move slides around. Seeing all your slides rendered at 33% or 50% size where you can drag them around would be great. Currently, you have to be very careful to cut and past w whole slide due to the way LyX handles sections (losing frame type, changing text to some other type, etc) Animation editor. Beamer and powerdot require a goodly amount of ERT or hacks to get animations. There has to be a better way than ERT for this. Maybe just a special section type like "Itemize (Animate)"? Additional graphics overlay. Maybe you want to add a circle around something important. Or have text appear and an arrow to highlight something. You can do this with lots of ERT, but presentations for most people are not a coding exercise. Outline / section editing. The sectioning is great for beamer and powerdot to have organized presentations, but you get these odball section and subsection titles hanging out between frames. I have thought about trying to hack something together that would emulate this. Maybe crop the lyx file into individual slides per page and put each one in a tab, export each slide and convert to jpg for a slide sorter window, use that jpg for some simple graphics editor to help get code for drawing simple shapes or text or arrows at arbitrary positions? Am I nuts? I have used LyX for years and finally I think am starting to move to using it for presentations. I have templates for both beamer and powerdot working (but not eps movie animations, waiting on a animate fix). I can deal with limitations, but some of these things would make it a better package. Or maybe I should try out OO Impress? I am moving away from ppt since they still can't support eps properly and the new interface is horrendous. All I really need is vector graphics, decent equations, simple animations and a decent editor. -- Ed Gatzke, Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina Swearingen Engineering Center, Office 3C19, Columbia, SC 29208 NOTE: On sabbatical in Germany until July, 2009
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased
Terrrifc! Thanks to all the developers. Easy access on windows will be huge. Anybody report success installing over a 1.4.2 system on Windows? Any known issues? I assume you should back up your Documents and Setting/userid/Application Data/LyX1.4.x directory, just to make sure... Ed
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased
Terrrifc! Thanks to all the developers. Easy access on windows will be huge. Anybody report success installing over a 1.4.2 system on Windows? Any known issues? I assume you should back up your Documents and Setting/userid/Application Data/LyX1.4.x directory, just to make sure... Ed
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased
Terrrifc! Thanks to all the developers. Easy access on windows will be huge. Anybody report success installing over a 1.4.2 system on Windows? Any known issues? I assume you should back up your "Documents and Setting/userid/Application Data/LyX1.4.x directory, just to make sure... Ed
Re: Anyone with experience in pdf2rtf conversion?
Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am still so disappointed by lyx-word conversion so I was looking at pdf2rtf converters. There appear to be several commercial ones and some open source ones. Have you tried tex2word? It works great for math and citations and labels, not so much for figures and tables. It costs like $40 and you need mathtype, but it has saved me hours and hours. Ed
Re: Anyone with experience in pdf2rtf conversion?
Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am still so disappointed by lyx-word conversion so I was looking at pdf2rtf converters. There appear to be several commercial ones and some open source ones. Have you tried tex2word? It works great for math and citations and labels, not so much for figures and tables. It costs like $40 and you need mathtype, but it has saved me hours and hours. Ed
Re: Anyone with experience in pdf2rtf conversion?
Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am still so disappointed by lyx->word conversion so I was looking at > pdf2rtf converters. There appear to be several commercial ones and some open > source ones. > Have you tried tex2word? It works great for math and citations and labels, not so much for figures and tables. It costs like $40 and you need mathtype, but it has saved me hours and hours. Ed
Re: Continuous numbering of list items
is there any possibilities to prevent lyx from resetting the counter of
enumerated lists when several enumerated lists appear in different
sections? What I am looking for is the possibility to have a
continuously numerated list separated with section titles, i.e.:
a) Section a
1. List item #1
2. List item #2
3. List item #3
b) Section b
4. List item #4
5. List item #5
c) Section c
6. List item #6
7. List item #7
8. List item #8
...
If you just have a few items, you can use ERT LaTeX commands.
Put the following in ERT right after each enumeration and it will
overwrite the current number and keep the correct formatting: [4.]
No curly braces {}, just square brackets and the number in ERT.
Ed
Re: Wish, suggestion about templates
Lyx preferences allow to modify the default templates directory. Problem: I use 2 templates directories (zs I guess some people) 1 system wide (/usr/share/lyx/templates/) The whole template thing is a problem for me. I wish lyx had a nice way of adding class files and templates. I know latex has to do some magic for cls files, but it can be a pain, especially if you have multiple latex installs (as may be common on an XP box running lyx bundle and cygwin). A wizard or something to help with the overall template cls install may be nice, something more user friendly than the help files...
Re: Continuous numbering of list items
is there any possibilities to prevent lyx from resetting the counter of
enumerated lists when several enumerated lists appear in different
sections? What I am looking for is the possibility to have a
continuously numerated list separated with section titles, i.e.:
a) Section a
1. List item #1
2. List item #2
3. List item #3
b) Section b
4. List item #4
5. List item #5
c) Section c
6. List item #6
7. List item #7
8. List item #8
...
If you just have a few items, you can use ERT LaTeX commands.
Put the following in ERT right after each enumeration and it will
overwrite the current number and keep the correct formatting: [4.]
No curly braces {}, just square brackets and the number in ERT.
Ed
Re: Wish, suggestion about templates
Lyx preferences allow to modify the default templates directory. Problem: I use 2 templates directories (zs I guess some people) 1 system wide (/usr/share/lyx/templates/) The whole template thing is a problem for me. I wish lyx had a nice way of adding class files and templates. I know latex has to do some magic for cls files, but it can be a pain, especially if you have multiple latex installs (as may be common on an XP box running lyx bundle and cygwin). A wizard or something to help with the overall template cls install may be nice, something more user friendly than the help files...
Re: Continuous numbering of list items
> is there any possibilities to prevent lyx from resetting the counter of
> enumerated lists when several enumerated lists appear in different
> sections? What I am looking for is the possibility to have a
> continuously numerated list separated with section titles, i.e.:
>
> a) Section a
> 1. List item #1
> 2. List item #2
> 3. List item #3
> b) Section b
> 4. List item #4
> 5. List item #5
> c) Section c
> 6. List item #6
> 7. List item #7
> 8. List item #8
> ...
>
If you just have a few items, you can use ERT LaTeX commands.
Put the following in ERT right after each enumeration and it will
overwrite the current number and keep the correct formatting: [4.]
No curly braces {}, just square brackets and the number in ERT.
Ed
Re: Wish, suggestion about templates
> Lyx preferences allow to modify the default templates directory. > Problem: I use 2 templates directories (zs I guess some people) > 1 system wide (/usr/share/lyx/templates/) The whole template thing is a problem for me. I wish lyx had a nice way of adding class files and templates. I know latex has to do some magic for cls files, but it can be a pain, especially if you have multiple latex installs (as may be common on an XP box running lyx bundle and cygwin). A wizard or something to help with the overall template cls install may be nice, something more user friendly than the help files...
Re: Overwrite existing files
Can you click the Show Desktop icon (or type Win-D, where Win is the Windows key) to minimize everything, then click the LyX button in the task bar and get to the dialog? I can just as easily Alt-Tab to the Lyx window or click on the taskbar. It is an odd behavior to lose the error dialog under a window. It gets buried because I tell Lyx to export pdf then switch to another application. The error dialog takes a while to pop up and ends up under the other application. I tried putting something like rm -f $$o; ps2pdf $$i $$o in my lyxrc.defaults for ps conversion to pdf. This does not get executed like a normal bash command for me so it does not act like two separate commands. I tried writing a single shell script that would remove the pdf before calling ps2pdf but I now realize lyx is calling stuff in a sandbox /tmp directory and then movinig the file to the working directory. I see my script executing, but the pdf in the working directory never gets erased and I get the silly error dialog.
Re: Overwrite existing files
Can you click the Show Desktop icon (or type Win-D, where Win is the Windows key) to minimize everything, then click the LyX button in the task bar and get to the dialog? I can just as easily Alt-Tab to the Lyx window or click on the taskbar. It is an odd behavior to lose the error dialog under a window. It gets buried because I tell Lyx to export pdf then switch to another application. The error dialog takes a while to pop up and ends up under the other application. I tried putting something like rm -f $$o; ps2pdf $$i $$o in my lyxrc.defaults for ps conversion to pdf. This does not get executed like a normal bash command for me so it does not act like two separate commands. I tried writing a single shell script that would remove the pdf before calling ps2pdf but I now realize lyx is calling stuff in a sandbox /tmp directory and then movinig the file to the working directory. I see my script executing, but the pdf in the working directory never gets erased and I get the silly error dialog.
Re: Overwrite existing files
> Can you click the "Show Desktop" icon (or type Win-D, where Win is the > Windows key) to minimize everything, then click the LyX button in the > task bar and get to the dialog? > I can just as easily Alt-Tab to the Lyx window or click on the taskbar. It is an odd behavior to lose the error dialog under a window. It gets buried because I tell Lyx to export pdf then switch to another application. The error dialog takes a while to pop up and ends up under the other application. I tried putting something like "rm -f $$o; ps2pdf $$i $$o" in my lyxrc.defaults for ps conversion to pdf. This does not get executed like a normal bash command for me so it does not act like two separate commands. I tried writing a single shell script that would remove the pdf before calling ps2pdf but I now realize lyx is calling stuff in a sandbox /tmp directory and then movinig the file to the working directory. I see my script executing, but the pdf in the working directory never gets erased and I get the silly error dialog.
Overwrite existing files
Is there any way to turn off the dialog for export errors, for The file already exists, Overwrite? I select export and switch to another application, a few second later the error dialog get buried (on XP), and I can't even click the LyX window to get back to the application (you have to click the dialog or click in explorer.) Thanks! Ed
Overwrite existing files
Is there any way to turn off the dialog for export errors, for The file already exists, Overwrite? I select export and switch to another application, a few second later the error dialog get buried (on XP), and I can't even click the LyX window to get back to the application (you have to click the dialog or click in explorer.) Thanks! Ed
Overwrite existing files
Is there any way to turn off the dialog for export errors, for "The file already exists, Overwrite?" I select export and switch to another application, a few second later the error dialog get buried (on XP), and I can't even click the LyX window to get back to the application (you have to click the dialog or click in explorer.) Thanks! Ed
More class files by default
I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and getting them to work with lyx. (I know, install, run something to reconfigure latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me) It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option. Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others). 1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using). Why not have a install option for extended latex. I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost us...
Re: More class files by default
You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or anything to the /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run the texhash program. The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating. One time dvis and fonts got fouled up as well. There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex, one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well. There are two or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a bit screwy having option. There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB, especially if you zip the text files initially. Give the user an option to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from a contrib site if you want. It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...
More class files by default
I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and getting them to work with lyx. (I know, install, run something to reconfigure latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me) It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option. Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others). 1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using). Why not have a install option for extended latex. I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost us...
Re: More class files by default
You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or anything to the /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run the texhash program. The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating. One time dvis and fonts got fouled up as well. There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex, one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well. There are two or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a bit screwy having option. There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB, especially if you zip the text files initially. Give the user an option to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from a contrib site if you want. It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...
More class files by default
I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and getting them to work with lyx. (I know, install, run something to reconfigure latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me) It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option. Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others). 1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using). Why not have a install option for "extended latex". I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost us...
Re: More class files by default
> You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or > anything to the /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run the texhash > program. > The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating. One time dvis and fonts got fouled up as well. There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex, one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well. There are two or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a bit screwy having option. There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB, especially if you zip the text files initially. Give the user an option to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from a contrib site if you want. It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
I figured that would be a configurable parameter since you can modify anything else in lyx... No, it is not. 10 lines is simply the qt default for combo boxes. Do Since QComboBox is not resizable (with the mouse) you'd have to subclass it. I don't think it's worth the effort. If anything then I'd make the setting changeable by editting some config file. (Changing the number That sounds like the best way. Put some obscure parameter deep in a ui file somewhere, and those of us that care will use it. UI does not need to be configurable on the fly. LyX will probably never replace Word, so LyX will stay as a great front end for technical stuff, so the users will generally be savvy enough to modify things in the ui config files. Thanks!
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
I figured that would be a configurable parameter since you can modify anything else in lyx... No, it is not. 10 lines is simply the qt default for combo boxes. Do Since QComboBox is not resizable (with the mouse) you'd have to subclass it. I don't think it's worth the effort. If anything then I'd make the setting changeable by editting some config file. (Changing the number That sounds like the best way. Put some obscure parameter deep in a ui file somewhere, and those of us that care will use it. UI does not need to be configurable on the fly. LyX will probably never replace Word, so LyX will stay as a great front end for technical stuff, so the users will generally be savvy enough to modify things in the ui config files. Thanks!
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
> > > I figured that would be a configurable parameter since you can > > > modify anything else in lyx... > > > > No, it is not. 10 lines is simply the qt default for combo boxes. Do > > Since QComboBox is not resizable (with the mouse) you'd have to subclass > it. I don't think it's worth the effort. If anything then I'd make the > setting changeable by editting some config file. (Changing the number That sounds like the best way. Put some obscure parameter deep in a ui file somewhere, and those of us that care will use it. UI does not need to be configurable on the fly. LyX will probably never replace Word, so LyX will stay as a great front end for technical stuff, so the users will generally be savvy enough to modify things in the ui config files. Thanks!
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu? guess it is more convinent. Michael Here is a question along the same lines: How can I modify the number of environments shown by default? By default, it shows 10 different types and you have to scroll up or down. Ideally, I would like all the environments shown with the current one highlighted. This has always bugged me, as I find myself scrolling up and down for some environments. Thanks! Ed
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
Note that M-p 1,2,3,4,5 etc are already assigned to chapter, section, subsection etc. Bo Or M-p space to drop the list down, then repeatedly hit the first letter of the environment you want (for instance, 'A' to get author) until you get it. /Paul The keyboard shortcuts are still nice, but some people still use a mouse on occasion. The limited drop down is similar to those context sensitve menus on MS Office where you have to navigate to expand a menu. Click-Click is better than Click-scroll-click. People have plenty of screen real estate, with 1600x1200 and bigger screens coming out. Limiting to ten selections is silly. I figured that would be a configurable parameter since you can modify anything else in lyx... Thanks again!
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu? guess it is more convinent. Michael Here is a question along the same lines: How can I modify the number of environments shown by default? By default, it shows 10 different types and you have to scroll up or down. Ideally, I would like all the environments shown with the current one highlighted. This has always bugged me, as I find myself scrolling up and down for some environments. Thanks! Ed
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
Note that M-p 1,2,3,4,5 etc are already assigned to chapter, section, subsection etc. Bo Or M-p space to drop the list down, then repeatedly hit the first letter of the environment you want (for instance, 'A' to get author) until you get it. /Paul The keyboard shortcuts are still nice, but some people still use a mouse on occasion. The limited drop down is similar to those context sensitve menus on MS Office where you have to navigate to expand a menu. Click-Click is better than Click-scroll-click. People have plenty of screen real estate, with 1600x1200 and bigger screens coming out. Limiting to ten selections is silly. I figured that would be a configurable parameter since you can modify anything else in lyx... Thanks again!
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
> how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu? > guess it is more convinent. > > Michael Here is a question along the same lines: How can I modify the number of environments shown by default? By default, it shows 10 different types and you have to scroll up or down. Ideally, I would like all the environments shown with the current one highlighted. This has always bugged me, as I find myself scrolling up and down for some environments. Thanks! Ed
Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?
> > > > Note that M-p 1,2,3,4,5 etc are already assigned to chapter, section, > > subsection etc. > > > > Bo > > > > Or M-p to drop the list down, then repeatedly hit the first > letter of the environment you want (for instance, 'A' to get author) > until you get it. > > /Paul > > The keyboard shortcuts are still nice, but some people still use a mouse on occasion. The limited drop down is similar to those "context sensitve" menus on MS Office where you have to navigate to expand a menu. Click-Click is better than Click-scroll-click. People have plenty of screen real estate, with 1600x1200 and bigger screens coming out. Limiting to ten selections is silly. I figured that would be a configurable parameter since you can modify anything else in lyx... Thanks again!
Re: bib to bbl
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make sure labels take as well. I usually run something like: latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex bibtex file bibtex file !!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex dvips -t letter -Ppdf -o file.ps file.dvi ps2pdf file.ps LyX is such a godsend, people don't know how terrible the old school ways are.
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right? I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough. I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP to 127.0.0.1:0.0 You need X running in the background, but that is always running for me. I kept working until tgif fired up normally from a cmd.exe window. It works perfectly for me. I can include .obj files in the graphics inset and they get displayed in LyX. Remember to start the X server as tgif needs it even for simply converting .obj files to other formats. If tgif is in your PATH, after reconfiguring you should see converters from TGIF to EPS, PPM, PNG and PDF in Preferences-Coverters. I had trouble with the tgif png converter, but once I removed that line from lyxrc.defaults, it was fairly smooth sailing. Editing and using obj files works great. It might be nice to have an option to bundle everything into a single tar file, all your obj, eps, bib files into a single tgz file, but it is not much for me to do that myself when needed. My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not work, but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like /usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. Thanks!
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not work, but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like /usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. I straightened out some of the path problems, adding c:\cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin and the path to lyx.exe in my XP path. Now lyx opens tgif just fine for editing and converting. Tgif can be started from cmd.exe, and it will even correctly call lyx to write equations and convert the ps to eps for insertion back into the tgif file. The commands it executes are: xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e /usr/bin/lyx $(file_name).tex;)]) xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e /usr/bin/lyx $(file_name).tex --export ps;)]) xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e pstoepsi $(file_name).ps $(file_name).eps)]) My current problem is now that when lyx opens tgif to edit an obj, then tgif calls lyx to edit an equation in the figure the paths are munged and pstoepsi does not correctly convert the resulting eps and you get a big bounding box around the eps, but it is close enough for now...
Re: bib to bbl
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make sure labels take as well. I usually run something like: latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex bibtex file bibtex file !!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex dvips -t letter -Ppdf -o file.ps file.dvi ps2pdf file.ps LyX is such a godsend, people don't know how terrible the old school ways are.
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right? I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough. I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP to 127.0.0.1:0.0 You need X running in the background, but that is always running for me. I kept working until tgif fired up normally from a cmd.exe window. It works perfectly for me. I can include .obj files in the graphics inset and they get displayed in LyX. Remember to start the X server as tgif needs it even for simply converting .obj files to other formats. If tgif is in your PATH, after reconfiguring you should see converters from TGIF to EPS, PPM, PNG and PDF in Preferences-Coverters. I had trouble with the tgif png converter, but once I removed that line from lyxrc.defaults, it was fairly smooth sailing. Editing and using obj files works great. It might be nice to have an option to bundle everything into a single tar file, all your obj, eps, bib files into a single tgz file, but it is not much for me to do that myself when needed. My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not work, but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like /usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. Thanks!
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not work, but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like /usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. I straightened out some of the path problems, adding c:\cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin and the path to lyx.exe in my XP path. Now lyx opens tgif just fine for editing and converting. Tgif can be started from cmd.exe, and it will even correctly call lyx to write equations and convert the ps to eps for insertion back into the tgif file. The commands it executes are: xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e /usr/bin/lyx $(file_name).tex;)]) xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e /usr/bin/lyx $(file_name).tex --export ps;)]) xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e pstoepsi $(file_name).ps $(file_name).eps)]) My current problem is now that when lyx opens tgif to edit an obj, then tgif calls lyx to edit an equation in the figure the paths are munged and pstoepsi does not correctly convert the resulting eps and you get a big bounding box around the eps, but it is close enough for now...
Re: bib to bbl
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make sure labels take as well. I usually run something like: latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex bibtex file bibtex file !!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex dvips -t letter -Ppdf -o file.ps file.dvi ps2pdf file.ps LyX is such a godsend, people don't know how terrible the old school ways are.
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
> > But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right? > I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough. I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP to 127.0.0.1:0.0 You need X running in the background, but that is always running for me. I kept working until tgif fired up normally from a cmd.exe window. > > > It works perfectly for me. I can include .obj files in the graphics inset > and they get displayed in LyX. Remember to start the X server as tgif needs > it even for simply converting .obj files to other formats. > > If tgif is in your PATH, after reconfiguring you should see converters > from TGIF to EPS, PPM, PNG and PDF in Preferences->Coverters. > I had trouble with the tgif png converter, but once I removed that line from lyxrc.defaults, it was fairly smooth sailing. Editing and using obj files works great. It might be nice to have an option to bundle everything into a single tar file, all your obj, eps, bib files into a single tgz file, but it is not much for me to do that myself when needed. My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not work, but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like /usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. Thanks!
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
>My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not >work, >but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like >/usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. I straightened out some of the path problems, adding c:\cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin and the path to lyx.exe in my XP path. Now lyx opens tgif just fine for editing and converting. Tgif can be started from cmd.exe, and it will even correctly call lyx to write equations and convert the ps to eps for insertion back into the tgif file. The commands it executes are: "xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e /usr/bin/lyx $(file_name).tex;")]) "xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e /usr/bin/lyx $(file_name).tex --export ps;")]) "xterm -geom 40x8+200+400 -e pstoepsi $(file_name).ps $(file_name).eps")]) My current problem is now that when lyx opens tgif to edit an obj, then tgif calls lyx to edit an equation in the figure the paths are munged and pstoepsi does not correctly convert the resulting eps and you get a big bounding box around the eps, but it is close enough for now...
Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed Gatzke wrote: Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! Another thing to add to the mystery of alt-F4. I did not see alt-F4 listed as a bug fix in the release notes, but who cares! My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation instant preview files loaded. Works out of the box for me. I wish I had a clean box to test the new installer on. I never installed all the tools, it seemed to detect the current installs, but everything works amazingly. Besides the LaTeX-package preview you need these two files in LyX's installation subfolder \bin: libnetpbm10.dll pnmcrop.exe That's slightly dated. LyX 1.4.2 (the small installer) installs them automatically in the latextools folder under the LyX root folder. Do you not have them there? It may have been a previous install problem, or some other problem. The preview works great now. They also fixed some annoying navigation bugs (at least on XP) where you could get stuck in a view and never navigate to a new window. Should we post thank-yous on the dev list? Do they read over here?
Tgif with lyx as equation editor
I have been using tgif to do vector graphics for a few years and I have been happy with it for simple things. I hacked their equation object code to call lyx for equation editing. You double click an equation image in tgif and it should open a lyx editor with the equation in it. You can modify the equation in lyx (and preview it in pdf or ps) then save and close the lyx file. Tgif should then automatically convert the .lyx file to ps then convert the ps to eps and load it with a preview back into tgif. You can see your equations and edit them in a nice lyx environment! Example file available at: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/tgif.obj You may need pstoepsi somewhere in your path: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/pstoepsi I had to modify my previous version for use on XP, since I had the scripts copy everything into /tmp but that gets horked on XP. Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image converter. I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My ImageMagick / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I am fine with the eps right now and I don't have a 1.4.2 install on linux to try out yet.
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image converter. I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My ImageMagick / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I am fine with the eps right now and I don't have a 1.4.2 install on linux to try out yet. The imagemagick problem was the reason to include an explicit converter. If you include the .obj instead of the .eps files in LyX you will be able to fire up tgif from within LyX (the edit button of the graphics dialog). On my XP box, I get garbage. Output at console from lyx: convert.exe: unable to open image `tgif:c:/gatzke/test.obj': Invalid argument. convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:c:/Documents and Settings/gatzke/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir2724a03164/test2724a03164.ppm'. c:/Program Files/LyX142/Resources/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. And when I try to convert an obj file to ppm: convert test.obj test.ppm convert: unable to open module file `/usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.0.4/modules-Q16/coders/obj.la'. convert: missing an image filename `test.ppm'. Maybe it is due to me not reinstalling all the peripheral software with the new version update?
Re: interactive viewing of math symbols
feature extensively. In the windows version, this doesn't work. So, in LyX 1.4.2, is it a feature or a bug? Any ideas or work arounds ? Strange. It works fine here. Repeat after me slowly 1. insert-math-whatever 2. type \alpha followed by blank Do you see the real alpha? Bo Works for me on XP. I love the equation image preview, but the equation image is not nearly centered when you have a numbered (labeled) equation. Instead of: math stuff text text numbered eqn 1 You get math stuff text text numbered eqn 1 Any ideas on how to get a little white space on the RHS?
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? I am using the new 1.4.2 version on Windows. I am not sure how they compiled it, but I assume they used cygwin. I am running lyx.exe from a cygwin shell (which has tgif in the path). Same error occurs if I use the desktop shortcut, but I don't get the error message in the terminal: convert.exe: unable to open image `tgif:c:/gatzke/test.obj': Invalid argument. convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:c:/Documents and Settings/gatzke/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir2752a01764/test2752a01764.ppm'. c:/Program Files/LyX142/Resources/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. So it looks like it is calling the convertDefaul.sh in the new Lyx 1.4.2 /Resources/scripts directory. That convert script appears to just call convert.exe, not tgif. tgif itself generates ppm etc called from my command line just fine. tgif is never getting called.
Re: please consolidate the documentation
agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to combine them all. It does not take much to convert the documentation to one lyx file. Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. With some minor mods you should be good to go. Not to bad, easy to do. Gotta copy preambles too... Here you go! http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/overall.lyx http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/overall.pdf Ed
Re: please consolidate the documentation
Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. Use Insert-Insert File-LyX file. Rich I think you miss out on some formatting, and you may have trouble with multiple titles/authors and different preambles. To make one super document, the title of the individual files should be a Part. I just tried the insert method to combine a couple of files (tutorial and user guide) and nothing came out due to a preamble problem. You probably could pull some latex magick with if and include, but it would not be very clean in lyx.
Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed Gatzke wrote: Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! Another thing to add to the mystery of alt-F4. I did not see alt-F4 listed as a bug fix in the release notes, but who cares! My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation instant preview files loaded. Works out of the box for me. I wish I had a clean box to test the new installer on. I never installed all the tools, it seemed to detect the current installs, but everything works amazingly. Besides the LaTeX-package preview you need these two files in LyX's installation subfolder \bin: libnetpbm10.dll pnmcrop.exe That's slightly dated. LyX 1.4.2 (the small installer) installs them automatically in the latextools folder under the LyX root folder. Do you not have them there? It may have been a previous install problem, or some other problem. The preview works great now. They also fixed some annoying navigation bugs (at least on XP) where you could get stuck in a view and never navigate to a new window. Should we post thank-yous on the dev list? Do they read over here?
Tgif with lyx as equation editor
I have been using tgif to do vector graphics for a few years and I have been happy with it for simple things. I hacked their equation object code to call lyx for equation editing. You double click an equation image in tgif and it should open a lyx editor with the equation in it. You can modify the equation in lyx (and preview it in pdf or ps) then save and close the lyx file. Tgif should then automatically convert the .lyx file to ps then convert the ps to eps and load it with a preview back into tgif. You can see your equations and edit them in a nice lyx environment! Example file available at: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/tgif.obj You may need pstoepsi somewhere in your path: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/pstoepsi I had to modify my previous version for use on XP, since I had the scripts copy everything into /tmp but that gets horked on XP. Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image converter. I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My ImageMagick / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I am fine with the eps right now and I don't have a 1.4.2 install on linux to try out yet.
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image converter. I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My ImageMagick / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I am fine with the eps right now and I don't have a 1.4.2 install on linux to try out yet. The imagemagick problem was the reason to include an explicit converter. If you include the .obj instead of the .eps files in LyX you will be able to fire up tgif from within LyX (the edit button of the graphics dialog). On my XP box, I get garbage. Output at console from lyx: convert.exe: unable to open image `tgif:c:/gatzke/test.obj': Invalid argument. convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:c:/Documents and Settings/gatzke/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir2724a03164/test2724a03164.ppm'. c:/Program Files/LyX142/Resources/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. And when I try to convert an obj file to ppm: convert test.obj test.ppm convert: unable to open module file `/usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.0.4/modules-Q16/coders/obj.la'. convert: missing an image filename `test.ppm'. Maybe it is due to me not reinstalling all the peripheral software with the new version update?
Re: interactive viewing of math symbols
feature extensively. In the windows version, this doesn't work. So, in LyX 1.4.2, is it a feature or a bug? Any ideas or work arounds ? Strange. It works fine here. Repeat after me slowly 1. insert-math-whatever 2. type \alpha followed by blank Do you see the real alpha? Bo Works for me on XP. I love the equation image preview, but the equation image is not nearly centered when you have a numbered (labeled) equation. Instead of: math stuff text text numbered eqn 1 You get math stuff text text numbered eqn 1 Any ideas on how to get a little white space on the RHS?
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? I am using the new 1.4.2 version on Windows. I am not sure how they compiled it, but I assume they used cygwin. I am running lyx.exe from a cygwin shell (which has tgif in the path). Same error occurs if I use the desktop shortcut, but I don't get the error message in the terminal: convert.exe: unable to open image `tgif:c:/gatzke/test.obj': Invalid argument. convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:c:/Documents and Settings/gatzke/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir2752a01764/test2752a01764.ppm'. c:/Program Files/LyX142/Resources/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. So it looks like it is calling the convertDefaul.sh in the new Lyx 1.4.2 /Resources/scripts directory. That convert script appears to just call convert.exe, not tgif. tgif itself generates ppm etc called from my command line just fine. tgif is never getting called.
Re: please consolidate the documentation
agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to combine them all. It does not take much to convert the documentation to one lyx file. Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. With some minor mods you should be good to go. Not to bad, easy to do. Gotta copy preambles too... Here you go! http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/overall.lyx http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/overall.pdf Ed
Re: please consolidate the documentation
Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. Use Insert-Insert File-LyX file. Rich I think you miss out on some formatting, and you may have trouble with multiple titles/authors and different preambles. To make one super document, the title of the individual files should be a Part. I just tried the insert method to combine a couple of files (tutorial and user guide) and nothing came out due to a preamble problem. You probably could pull some latex magick with if and include, but it would not be very clean in lyx.
Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ed Gatzke wrote: > > Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. > > my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! > Another thing to add to the "mystery of alt-F4". I did not see alt-F4 listed as a bug fix in the release notes, but who cares! > > My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation > > instant preview files loaded. > > Works out of the box for me. I wish I had a clean box to test the new installer on. I never installed all the tools, it seemed to detect the current installs, but everything works amazingly. > >> Besides the LaTeX-package "preview" you need these two files in LyX's > >> installation subfolder "\bin": libnetpbm10.dll pnmcrop.exe > That's slightly dated. LyX 1.4.2 (the small installer) installs them > automatically in the "latextools" folder under the LyX root folder. Do > you not have them there? It may have been a previous install problem, or some other problem. The preview works great now. They also fixed some annoying navigation bugs (at least on XP) where you could get stuck in a view and never navigate to a new window. Should we post thank-yous on the dev list? Do they read over here?
Tgif with lyx as equation editor
I have been using tgif to do vector graphics for a few years and I have been happy with it for simple things. I hacked their equation object code to call lyx for equation editing. You double click an equation image in tgif and it should open a lyx editor with the equation in it. You can modify the equation in lyx (and preview it in pdf or ps) then save and close the lyx file. Tgif should then automatically convert the .lyx file to ps then convert the ps to eps and load it with a preview back into tgif. You can see your equations and edit them in a nice lyx environment! Example file available at: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/tgif.obj You may need pstoepsi somewhere in your path: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/pstoepsi I had to modify my previous version for use on XP, since I had the scripts copy everything into /tmp but that gets horked on XP. Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image converter. I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My ImageMagick / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I am fine with the eps right now and I don't have a 1.4.2 install on linux to try out yet.
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
> > Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image > > converter. > > I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My > > ImageMagick > > / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif > > .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I am fine with the eps right now and I > > don't have a 1.4.2 install on linux to try out yet. > > The imagemagick problem was the reason to include an explicit converter. > If you include the .obj instead of the .eps files in LyX you will be able to > fire up tgif from within LyX (the edit button of the graphics dialog). On my XP box, I get garbage. Output at console from lyx: convert.exe: unable to open image `tgif:c:/gatzke/test.obj': Invalid argument. convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:c:/Documents and Settings/gatzke/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir2724a03164/test2724a03164.ppm'. c:/Program Files/LyX142/Resources/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of "convert" failed. And when I try to convert an obj file to ppm: convert test.obj test.ppm convert: unable to open module file `/usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.0.4/modules-Q16/coders/obj.la'. convert: missing an image filename `test.ppm'. Maybe it is due to me not reinstalling all the peripheral software with the new version update?
Re: interactive viewing of math symbols
> > feature extensively. In the windows version, this doesn't work. So, in > > LyX 1.4.2, is it a feature or a bug? Any ideas or work arounds ? > > Strange. It works fine here. Repeat after me slowly > 1. insert->math->whatever > 2. type \alpha followed by blank > > Do you see the real alpha? > > Bo > Works for me on XP. I love the equation image preview, but the equation image is not nearly centered when you have a numbered (labeled) equation. Instead of: math stuff text text numbered eqn 1 You get math stuff text text numbered eqn 1 Any ideas on how to get a little white space on the RHS?
Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor
> Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? > Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? I am using the new 1.4.2 version on Windows. I am not sure how they compiled it, but I assume they used cygwin. I am running lyx.exe from a cygwin shell (which has tgif in the path). Same error occurs if I use the desktop shortcut, but I don't get the error message in the terminal: convert.exe: unable to open image `tgif:c:/gatzke/test.obj': Invalid argument. convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:c:/Documents and Settings/gatzke/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir2752a01764/test2752a01764.ppm'. c:/Program Files/LyX142/Resources/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of "convert" failed. So it looks like it is calling the convertDefaul.sh in the new Lyx 1.4.2 /Resources/scripts directory. That convert script appears to just call convert.exe, not tgif. tgif itself generates ppm etc called from my command line just fine. tgif is never getting called.
Re: please consolidate the documentation
> agreed! > > one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular > keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help > files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight > forward to combine them all. > It does not take much to convert the documentation to one lyx file. Change the "titles" to "Parts" and copy paste the rest in. With some minor mods you should be good to go. Not to bad, easy to do. Gotta copy preambles too... Here you go! http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/overall.lyx http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gatzke/overall.pdf Ed
Re: please consolidate the documentation
> > Change the "titles" to "Parts" and copy paste the rest in. > >Use Insert->Insert File->LyX file. > > Rich I think you miss out on some formatting, and you may have trouble with multiple titles/authors and different preambles. To make one super document, the title of the individual files should be a "Part". I just tried the insert method to combine a couple of files (tutorial and user guide) and nothing came out due to a preamble problem. You probably could pull some latex magick with if and include, but it would not be very clean in lyx.
Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex
Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. Even my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation instant preview files loaded. From a wiki: Besides the LaTeX-package preview you need these two files in LyX's installation subfolder \bin: libnetpbm10.dll pnmcrop.exe Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, First, thanks to the developers for another fine update. The Windows 1.4.2 installer ran error-free for me. However, subsequent to installing it, I lost View-PDF (pdflatex) in 1.4.1 (and presumably 1.4.2, but I'm keeping 1.4.1 as my production version for the moment). I have seen this here as well. You may want to keep separate folders for each version of lyx. I have seen oddness when running both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on XP. C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Lyx1.4.x is the working directory on XP, so make a /Lyx1.4.1 and a /Lyx1.4.2 directory you copy over to /Lyx1.4.x everytime you start. You won't be able to run both side by side I think, but it may help until you swap over to the new version.
Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex
Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. Even my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation instant preview files loaded. From a wiki: Besides the LaTeX-package preview you need these two files in LyX's installation subfolder \bin: libnetpbm10.dll pnmcrop.exe Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, First, thanks to the developers for another fine update. The Windows 1.4.2 installer ran error-free for me. However, subsequent to installing it, I lost View-PDF (pdflatex) in 1.4.1 (and presumably 1.4.2, but I'm keeping 1.4.1 as my production version for the moment). I have seen this here as well. You may want to keep separate folders for each version of lyx. I have seen oddness when running both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on XP. C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Lyx1.4.x is the working directory on XP, so make a /Lyx1.4.1 and a /Lyx1.4.2 directory you copy over to /Lyx1.4.x everytime you start. You won't be able to run both side by side I think, but it may help until you swap over to the new version.
Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex
> Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. Even my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation instant preview files loaded. From a wiki: >Besides the LaTeX-package "preview" you need these two files in LyX's >installation subfolder "\bin": libnetpbm10.dll pnmcrop.exe Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > First, thanks to the developers for another fine update. The Windows > 1.4.2 installer ran error-free for me. However, subsequent to > installing it, I lost View->PDF (pdflatex) in 1.4.1 (and presumably > 1.4.2, but I'm keeping 1.4.1 as my production version for the moment). > I have seen this here as well. You may want to keep separate folders for each version of lyx. I have seen oddness when running both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on XP. C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Lyx1.4.x is the working directory on XP, so make a /Lyx1.4.1 and a /Lyx1.4.2 directory you copy over to /Lyx1.4.x everytime you start. You won't be able to run both side by side I think, but it may help until you swap over to the new version.
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start-Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygwin shell, but everything closes on Alt-F4 except cmd.exe and lyx.exe. Even when I start lyx from the desktop shortcut, it does not respond to Alt-F4. Even when I double click on the cmd.exe in windows/system32 it does not respond to F4. I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. The exact lyx installer is the most recent, the 2.0 installer for 1.41 lyxwininstall/LyxWin141Complete-2.01.exe Even just running lyx.exe (not lyx.bat) appears to open a shell for a second before the application launches... Very odd, I wonder what is up. Maybe the shell is the root of all problems with Alt-F4. That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different versions of installers and the original port might not have had a hook(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98 machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled, which would produce a different result. I'll look into it. This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS help pages, and the MS experts suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X.
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start-Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygwin shell, but everything closes on Alt-F4 except cmd.exe and lyx.exe. Even when I start lyx from the desktop shortcut, it does not respond to Alt-F4. Even when I double click on the cmd.exe in windows/system32 it does not respond to F4. I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. The exact lyx installer is the most recent, the 2.0 installer for 1.41 lyxwininstall/LyxWin141Complete-2.01.exe Even just running lyx.exe (not lyx.bat) appears to open a shell for a second before the application launches... Very odd, I wonder what is up. Maybe the shell is the root of all problems with Alt-F4. That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different versions of installers and the original port might not have had a hook(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98 machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled, which would produce a different result. I'll look into it. This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS help pages, and the MS experts suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X.
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Steve Harris wrote: > > > >> > >> I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe > >> My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. > >> > > > > Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other > > than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows > > apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was > > that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything > > running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start->Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygwin shell, but everything closes on Alt-F4 except cmd.exe and lyx.exe. Even when I start lyx from the desktop shortcut, it does not respond to Alt-F4. Even when I double click on the cmd.exe in windows/system32 it does not respond to F4. I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. The exact lyx installer is the most recent, the 2.0 installer for 1.41 lyxwininstall/LyxWin141Complete-2.01.exe Even just running lyx.exe (not lyx.bat) appears to open a shell for a second before the application launches... Very odd, I wonder what is up. Maybe the shell is the root of all problems with Alt-F4. > > That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different > versions of installers and the original port might not have had a > "hook"(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in > behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98 > machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps > your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled, > which would produce a different result. I'll look into it. > This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS "help" pages, and the "MS experts" suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X.
Re: aspell on XP
Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be remapped). Could you have one installed? ( /Paul Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Ed
Re: aspell on XP
Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be remapped). Could you have one installed? ( /Paul Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Ed
Re: aspell on XP
> > Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something > going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that > can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be > remapped). Could you have one installed? ( > > /Paul > > Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Ed
aspell on XP
I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out. I have tried to muck around with the preferences file to point directly to the aspell.exe file. I keep getting the error dialog, The spellchecker could not be started. No word lists can be found for the language en_US. Any help would be appreciated On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in my cua.bind but M-F4 binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me... Thanks! Ed Gatzke
aspell on XP
I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out. I have tried to muck around with the preferences file to point directly to the aspell.exe file. I keep getting the error dialog, The spellchecker could not be started. No word lists can be found for the language en_US. Any help would be appreciated On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in my cua.bind but M-F4 binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me... Thanks! Ed Gatzke
aspell on XP
I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out. I have tried to muck around with the preferences file to point directly to the aspell.exe file. I keep getting the error dialog, "The spellchecker could not be started. No word lists can be found for the language "en_US"." Any help would be appreciated On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in my cua.bind but M-F4 binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me... Thanks! Ed Gatzke
Mandrake 8.1
I saw in the archives that people are having problems with rendering in LyX on new Mandrake 8.1 installs. Has anyone found a reasonable fix? Thanks for your help. Ed Gatzke
Mandrake 8.1
I saw in the archives that people are having problems with rendering in LyX on new Mandrake 8.1 installs. Has anyone found a reasonable fix? Thanks for your help. Ed Gatzke
Mandrake 8.1
I saw in the archives that people are having problems with rendering in LyX on new Mandrake 8.1 installs. Has anyone found a reasonable fix? Thanks for your help. Ed Gatzke
