Re: My LyX seems broken
Elver, I'm not knowledgeable enough to solve your problem, but I'm using 1.4.3 (running Xandros) and did a little editing of your file (selecting text with shift-arrow keys) and then Ctrl-S saving it, and that worked fine. There's a slight chance this information may be useful to you. Very slight... but here it is. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: My LyX seems broken
Elver, I'm not knowledgeable enough to solve your problem, but I'm using 1.4.3 (running Xandros) and did a little editing of your file (selecting text with shift-arrow keys) and then Ctrl-S saving it, and that worked fine. There's a slight chance this information may be useful to you. Very slight... but here it is. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: My LyX seems broken
Elver, I'm not knowledgeable enough to solve your problem, but I'm using 1.4.3 (running Xandros) and did a little editing of your file (selecting text with shift-arrow keys) and then Ctrl-S saving it, and that worked fine. There's a slight chance this information may be useful to you. Very slight... but here it is. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Changes to defaults
This is a really newbie-type question, so feel free to point me to the proper place in the User's Guide or elsewhere. I've looked through it without finding the answer. I'm using 1.4.3 in Linux and Document Class: Book, and would like to change the chapter title and page header formats from those that book automatically creates. The defaults aren't bad; they just aren't my preference. So far, I haven't figured out how to change them. --John Registered Linux User #291592
Changes to defaults
This is a really newbie-type question, so feel free to point me to the proper place in the User's Guide or elsewhere. I've looked through it without finding the answer. I'm using 1.4.3 in Linux and Document Class: Book, and would like to change the chapter title and page header formats from those that book automatically creates. The defaults aren't bad; they just aren't my preference. So far, I haven't figured out how to change them. --John Registered Linux User #291592
Changes to defaults
This is a really newbie-type question, so feel free to point me to the proper place in the User's Guide or elsewhere. I've looked through it without finding the answer. I'm using 1.4.3 in Linux and Document Class: Book, and would like to change the chapter title and page header formats from those that "book" automatically creates. The defaults aren't bad; they just aren't my preference. So far, I haven't figured out how to change them. --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a package. Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or .3 in your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their were minor or major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help those people like me who use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable distr and not fiddle around with the current one. I for instance try so far unsuccessfully to implement Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 2006. There are dependencies on other packages which I with my low PC-IQ am not able to solve so far. Wolfgang I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., and view in dvi and pdf) has worked. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a package. Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or .3 in your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their were minor or major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help those people like me who use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable distr and not fiddle around with the current one. I for instance try so far unsuccessfully to implement Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 2006. There are dependencies on other packages which I with my low PC-IQ am not able to solve so far. Wolfgang I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., and view in dvi and pdf) has worked. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a package. Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or .3 in your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their were minor or major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help those people like me who use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable distr and not fiddle around with the current one. I for instance try so far unsuccessfully to implement Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix 2006. There are dependencies on other packages which I with my low PC-IQ am not able to solve so far. Wolfgang I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros 4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc., and view in dvi and pdf) has worked. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
zlib and 1.4.3
I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and ./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib is installed properly. Although I went ahead with make anyway, and LyX 1.4.3 is running, what should I do about this zlib issue? (/usr/lib and /usr/local/lib show libz files; just to be sure, I DL'd zlib from zlib.net and installed it.) I guess I've created kind of a mess here, but should I reinstall zlib in the same directory as LyX, or create a path to it? Or reinstall LyX to /usr/share or wherever it's supposed to go? [I'm using Xandros Linux (a debian-based distribution).] --John Registered Linux User #291592
zlib and 1.4.3
I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and ./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib is installed properly. Although I went ahead with make anyway, and LyX 1.4.3 is running, what should I do about this zlib issue? (/usr/lib and /usr/local/lib show libz files; just to be sure, I DL'd zlib from zlib.net and installed it.) I guess I've created kind of a mess here, but should I reinstall zlib in the same directory as LyX, or create a path to it? Or reinstall LyX to /usr/share or wherever it's supposed to go? [I'm using Xandros Linux (a debian-based distribution).] --John Registered Linux User #291592
zlib and 1.4.3
I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and ./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib is installed properly. Although I went ahead with "make" anyway, and LyX 1.4.3 is running, what should I do about this zlib issue? (/usr/lib and /usr/local/lib show libz files; just to be sure, I DL'd zlib from zlib.net and installed it.) I guess I've created kind of a mess here, but should I reinstall zlib in the same directory as LyX, or create a path to it? Or reinstall LyX to /usr/share or wherever it's supposed to go? [I'm using Xandros Linux (a debian-based distribution).] --John Registered Linux User #291592
wrap:Figure
Using 1.3.4 from the Xandros Linux repository (I know it's old but I
don't have 1.4.3 successfully installed yet):
I'm trying to insert a graphic (.eps) into the text, with text wrapping
on its left. When I choose Insert|Floats|Floatflt Figure, I can paste
Ascii text into the resulting box and my main text wraps around it just
fine. When I insert a graphic, though, it appears in the document but
when I try to view it (dvi) I get two error boxes:
Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete.
}
\end{floatingfigure}%
I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this
control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?
My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.
...and...
Argument of [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an extra }.
}
\end{floatingfigure}%
I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
I'm a total novice with LyX. If I could view the commands referred to in
the error boxes I might be able to fix these problems but can't even
figure out how to do that.
--
--John
Registered Linux User #291592
Re: wrap:Figure
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I had never used the wrap figure function, so I played around with it a little. I couldn't reproduce your error message, but I had trouble with inserting a picture and it actually didn't show up (although text would show up) in the pdf file until .. I set the picture size to match the wrap figure size. The default was 50 col% on my machine. Give that a try and it may just work. Bob Thanks, Bob... that didn't work for me, though. But since I could get a bunch of text to behave properly inside the wrap:Figure box, I tried inserting the graphic into the middle of that text and it worked! I then began to delete the text until nothing was left except the graphic... and still no errors when DVI-viewed! I presume an invisible character (maybe a brace) remains that took care of the errors, but anyway it seems to be working. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
wrap:Figure
Using 1.3.4 from the Xandros Linux repository (I know it's old but I
don't have 1.4.3 successfully installed yet):
I'm trying to insert a graphic (.eps) into the text, with text wrapping
on its left. When I choose Insert|Floats|Floatflt Figure, I can paste
Ascii text into the resulting box and my main text wraps around it just
fine. When I insert a graphic, though, it appears in the document but
when I try to view it (dvi) I get two error boxes:
Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete.
}
\end{floatingfigure}%
I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this
control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?
My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.
...and...
Argument of [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an extra }.
}
\end{floatingfigure}%
I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
I'm a total novice with LyX. If I could view the commands referred to in
the error boxes I might be able to fix these problems but can't even
figure out how to do that.
--
--John
Registered Linux User #291592
Re: wrap:Figure
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I had never used the wrap figure function, so I played around with it a little. I couldn't reproduce your error message, but I had trouble with inserting a picture and it actually didn't show up (although text would show up) in the pdf file until .. I set the picture size to match the wrap figure size. The default was 50 col% on my machine. Give that a try and it may just work. Bob Thanks, Bob... that didn't work for me, though. But since I could get a bunch of text to behave properly inside the wrap:Figure box, I tried inserting the graphic into the middle of that text and it worked! I then began to delete the text until nothing was left except the graphic... and still no errors when DVI-viewed! I presume an invisible character (maybe a brace) remains that took care of the errors, but anyway it seems to be working. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
wrap:Figure
Using 1.3.4 from the Xandros Linux repository (I know it's old but I
don't have 1.4.3 successfully installed yet):
I'm trying to insert a graphic (.eps) into the text, with text wrapping
on its left. When I choose Insert|Floats|Floatflt Figure, I can paste
Ascii text into the resulting box and my main text wraps around it just
fine. When I insert a graphic, though, it appears in the document but
when I try to view it (dvi) I get two error boxes:
Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete.
}
\end{floatingfigure}%
I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this
control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?
My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best.
...and...
Argument of [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an extra }.
}
\end{floatingfigure}%
I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
I'm a total novice with LyX. If I could view the commands referred to in
the error boxes I might be able to fix these problems but can't even
figure out how to do that.
--
--John
Registered Linux User #291592
Re: wrap:Figure
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I had never used the wrap figure function, so I played around with it a little. I couldn't reproduce your error message, but I had trouble with inserting a picture and it actually didn't show up (although text would show up) in the pdf file until .. I set the picture size to match the wrap figure size. The default was 50 col% on my machine. Give that a try and it may just work. Bob Thanks, Bob... that didn't work for me, though. But since I could get a bunch of text to behave properly inside the wrap:Figure box, I tried inserting the graphic into the middle of that text and it worked! I then began to delete the text until nothing was left except the graphic... and still no errors when DVI-viewed! I presume an invisible character (maybe a brace) remains that took care of the errors, but anyway it seems to be working. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3 and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: Ah! My apologies, John. I provided generic instructions, but not the lyx-specific one. checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: Please select a frontend using --with-frontend Do this: ./configure --with-frontend=qt It should find your qt install directory without problem, but the configuration step needs to know if you want the qt front end or the xforms front end. Personally, I was glad to get rid of xforms. Rich Rich, I'm now happily opening 1.4.1... thanks to your patience and some help from one of my Xandros Forum friends. What I hadn't understood was that pointing LyX to the qt directory requires BOTH the --with-frontend=qt statement AND a separate --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 statement (if I'm remembering the format correctly). So it was: ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 that finally worked. A make and make install put my new LyX in /usr/local/bin and a quick edit of my desktop icon has that opening instead of 1.3.4 (which remains in /usr/bin). I apologize to the list for taking up this space on an issue most of you already understood... but a quick look at the INSTALL file should make it easy to understand my confusion. A simple example, added to that file, would have made everything clear. Thanks again, Rich, for your patience. I think I finally have it, and the Tutorial and Introduction look great without any additional font fiddling.
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3 and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: Ah! My apologies, John. I provided generic instructions, but not the lyx-specific one. checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: Please select a frontend using --with-frontend Do this: ./configure --with-frontend=qt It should find your qt install directory without problem, but the configuration step needs to know if you want the qt front end or the xforms front end. Personally, I was glad to get rid of xforms. Rich Rich, I'm now happily opening 1.4.1... thanks to your patience and some help from one of my Xandros Forum friends. What I hadn't understood was that pointing LyX to the qt directory requires BOTH the --with-frontend=qt statement AND a separate --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 statement (if I'm remembering the format correctly). So it was: ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 that finally worked. A make and make install put my new LyX in /usr/local/bin and a quick edit of my desktop icon has that opening instead of 1.3.4 (which remains in /usr/bin). I apologize to the list for taking up this space on an issue most of you already understood... but a quick look at the INSTALL file should make it easy to understand my confusion. A simple example, added to that file, would have made everything clear. Thanks again, Rich, for your patience. I think I finally have it, and the Tutorial and Introduction look great without any additional font fiddling.
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running "./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3" and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: Ah! My apologies, John. I provided generic instructions, but not the lyx-specific one. checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: "Please select a frontend using --with-frontend" Do this: ./configure --with-frontend=qt It should find your qt install directory without problem, but the configuration step needs to know if you want the qt front end or the xforms front end. Personally, I was glad to get rid of xforms. Rich Rich, I'm now happily opening 1.4.1... thanks to your patience and some help from one of my Xandros Forum friends. What I hadn't understood was that pointing LyX to the qt directory requires BOTH the --with-frontend=qt statement AND a separate --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 statement (if I'm remembering the format correctly). So it was: ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 that finally worked. A "make" and "make install" put my new LyX in /usr/local/bin and a quick edit of my desktop icon has that opening instead of 1.3.4 (which remains in /usr/bin). I apologize to the list for taking up this space on an issue most of you already understood... but a quick look at the INSTALL file should make it easy to understand my confusion. A simple example, added to that file, would have made everything clear. Thanks again, Rich, for your patience. I think I finally have it, and the Tutorial and Introduction look great without any additional font fiddling.
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf filename-a.b.c.tar.gz 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3.) ./configure (You can check options and the default install directory by running './configure --help | less' first.) 4.) make 5.) make install (as root). If you use Slackware, Debian, or Red Hat, you can replace this step with 'checkinstall' (might need to find and build it first). That will let you build a package for these distributions. You can preceed each of the above commands with 'time ' and it will tell you how much time it took for the command to complete. Happy building, Rich Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3 and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: Please select a frontend using --with-frontend --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Michael Abshoff wrote: SNIP Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3 and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: Please select a frontend using --with-frontend Err, did you use --with-frontend=qt? Cheers, Michael --John Registered Linux User #291592 No; I used what I described in my post, Michael. I assumed I was to replace the word frontend with qt. Thanks... it's back to the console. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf filename-a.b.c.tar.gz 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3.) ./configure (You can check options and the default install directory by running './configure --help | less' first.) 4.) make 5.) make install (as root). If you use Slackware, Debian, or Red Hat, you can replace this step with 'checkinstall' (might need to find and build it first). That will let you build a package for these distributions. You can preceed each of the above commands with 'time ' and it will tell you how much time it took for the command to complete. Happy building, Rich Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3 and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: Please select a frontend using --with-frontend --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Michael Abshoff wrote: SNIP Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3 and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: Please select a frontend using --with-frontend Err, did you use --with-frontend=qt? Cheers, Michael --John Registered Linux User #291592 No; I used what I described in my post, Michael. I assumed I was to replace the word frontend with qt. Thanks... it's back to the console. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3.) ./configure (You can check options and the default install directory by running './configure --help | less' first.) 4.) make 5.) make install (as root). If you use Slackware, Debian, or Red Hat, you can replace this step with 'checkinstall' (might need to find and build it first). That will let you build a package for these distributions. You can preceed each of the above commands with 'time ' and it will tell you how much time it took for the command to complete. Happy building, Rich Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running "./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3" and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: "Please select a frontend using --with-frontend" --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Michael Abshoff wrote: Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running "./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3" and other variants of that (I have a Qt under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need), but continue to get these last two lines of my console output: checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: "Please select a frontend using --with-frontend" Err, did you use --with-frontend=qt? Cheers, Michael --John Registered Linux User #291592 No; I used what I described in my post, Michael. I assumed I was to replace the word "frontend" with qt. Thanks... it's back to the console. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Getting started... What's missing?
My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? (except that the ? is an omega, and so forth). When I view it with the DVI viewer it looks OK. In the screenshots on lyx.org, the text being entered looks normal (Times-style font, spaces between words, etc.). What have I failed to install, or am otherwise missing? --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? If you press the space bar you should see spaces between words. If you press the punctuation key (period, comma, question mark, semi-colon, etc.) you should see that, too. I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? What do you have set in preferences for the display font? Rich Thanks, Rich... yes, it's my LyX that is 1.3.4. I was using the default fonts (Times, Helvetica, and Courier; the first two displayed as italicized in Preferences). Not only my new tutorial file, but the Introduction, Tutorial, and Users Guide also appeared in this italicized font with symbols and Greek letters for punctuation and no spaces between words. After your question I changed the Roman font to New Century Schoolbook, and the display was perfect. The space bar produces visible spaces, and punctuation marks are displayed properly instead of as Greek letters. Maybe there's a problem with my Times font. I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. Anyway, thanks for suggesting the font. That problem seems solved! -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Getting started... What's missing?
My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? (except that the ? is an omega, and so forth). When I view it with the DVI viewer it looks OK. In the screenshots on lyx.org, the text being entered looks normal (Times-style font, spaces between words, etc.). What have I failed to install, or am otherwise missing? --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? If you press the space bar you should see spaces between words. If you press the punctuation key (period, comma, question mark, semi-colon, etc.) you should see that, too. I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? What do you have set in preferences for the display font? Rich Thanks, Rich... yes, it's my LyX that is 1.3.4. I was using the default fonts (Times, Helvetica, and Courier; the first two displayed as italicized in Preferences). Not only my new tutorial file, but the Introduction, Tutorial, and Users Guide also appeared in this italicized font with symbols and Greek letters for punctuation and no spaces between words. After your question I changed the Roman font to New Century Schoolbook, and the display was perfect. The space bar produces visible spaces, and punctuation marks are displayed properly instead of as Greek letters. Maybe there's a problem with my Times font. I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. Anyway, thanks for suggesting the font. That problem seems solved! -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
Getting started... What's missing?
My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? (except that the ? is an omega, and so forth). When I view it with the DVI viewer it looks OK. In the screenshots on lyx.org, the text being entered looks normal (Times-style font, spaces between words, etc.). What have I failed to install, or am otherwise missing? --John Registered Linux User #291592
Re: Getting started... What's missing?
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? If you press the space bar you should see spaces between words. If you press the punctuation key (period, comma, question mark, semi-colon, etc.) you should see that, too. I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? What do you have set in preferences for the display font? Rich Thanks, Rich... yes, it's my LyX that is 1.3.4. I was using the default fonts (Times, Helvetica, and Courier; the first two displayed as italicized in Preferences). Not only my new tutorial file, but the Introduction, Tutorial, and Users Guide also appeared in this italicized font with symbols and Greek letters for punctuation and no spaces between words. After your question I changed the Roman font to New Century Schoolbook, and the display was perfect. The space bar produces visible spaces, and punctuation marks are displayed properly instead of as Greek letters. Maybe there's a problem with my Times font. I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. Anyway, thanks for suggesting the font. That problem seems solved! -- --John Registered Linux User #291592
