Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries
On 2018-05-14 19:22, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: refused, and has refused again in the last couple days. His view is that this kind of warning will confuse some users and that those same users are at risk of having broken installations if we do not do the upgrade for them. So his view is that we should do the upgrade silently. I find Silent updates of software that is not maintained/released by the LyX team would be a betrayal of user trust. I think you made the right call. Regards, Walter
Re: Google Analytics (or other)
On 2017-06-20 12:54, Trevor Jenkins wrote: Link to Google Analytics and this user will delete all traces of LyX from their systems never to re-install. Same here. Massive violation of user trust. Just put up a Piwik install on a VPS someplace and you can achieve the same. Besides, you'll be in violation of EU legislation. Regards, Walter
Re: Koma-script letter error
On 29/05/2016 15:25, Michael Berger wrote: > Ron, the information you provide is too general; that Latex Error may > also be generated in hundreds of other cases. > Please, be more specific. The name is Walter. Anyway, as a user this is the error that gets presented to you. If that is not specific enough, it might be worthwhile to have more specific error message. Either way, it was a PEBCAK, I had been using the Adress field twice and omitted to use "end of letter" (which I do not remember being part of KOMA-Script Letter v2 earlier). Regards, Walter
Koma-script letter error
Hi all, When trying to use the Koma-script Letter template I get this error:\ ! LaTeX Error: \begin{letter} on input line 27 ended by \end{document}. \end{document} Your command was ignored. Type Ito replace it with another command, orto continue without it. Suggestions on how to deal with this would be most welcome. Regards, Walter
Re: why people give up on open source software
On 24/10/2013 07:32, Richard Talley wrote: > I've read good things about Scrivener. It's more a 'book project > management' program than a word processor. I know some people use it for > everything until it's time to print, then they export to LaTeX. Good > luck with it. A somewhat close analog to Scrivener is CeltX. I prefer Scrivener over CeltX, but if FOSS is a principle, I'd recommend looking into CeltX. Regards, Walter
Re: Disable copy and paste
On 8 aug. 2013, at 10:17, Rilke Rainer Michael wrote: > Hi List, > > I want to export a lyx document to a pdf. However, I want also that once > reading the document it is impossible to copy and paste text from this pdf. > Do you have any idea, whether there is a workaround for lyx? > Basically you want DRM. Which is silly at best.
Re: feature request: ribbon menus
On 2013-04-05 16:49, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: As I said this is my personal opinion so I migth be wrong, but I haven´t received any useful opinion (besides M$ patent) of why not doing such a thing just a few user complaining they will affect some how what they feel is comfortable. Regarding the patent believe me that if they patent 0s and 1s then we are definitively lost.:) Several people have responded that ribbon menus have limited use to them, to say the least. I don't think that is a useless opinion. As someone who spends most of his working hours in Microsoft's ribbon menus, allow me to add to the chorus that ribbon menus tend to be spiteful and useless. And no, they don't really grow on you. I have no idea what flavour of LSD Microsoft's usability experts have been consuming, but I hope it is widely available so that if I ever contract a terminal disease I'd like to spend my final hours tripping on that stuff. I'd much rather have people spend time on a concurrent user web front-end. Or a curses front-end to LyX. Either of these two are more likely to serve users well than the bloody ribbon menus. Regards, Walter
Re: Lion
On 7/20/11 6:24 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can run under Lion. Lyx 2.0.0 beta 2 runs fine on Lion. However, lots of other applications behave wonky on Lion, so I would not necessarily recommend upgrading now. Regards, Walter
Re: A basic requested feature
On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: > Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search > your files, e. g. by content. > Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it should give you > quick answer to > arbitrary questions. Proposing a filename is not such an importing > feature, IMHO. > And it is not easy to get it right. I' always expect different points > of view, how this should work. It definitely is not easy to get 100% right, 80% would be interesting enough. I disagree on the desktop search bit, that is mostly helpful if you know a lot about the document you are looking for. I would find a name-suggester that would take: The current date, e.g. 20110414, an abbreviation of the style you are using, for example 'LTR' for letters and the subject of the document plus a version number useful. The most work is probably expanding the various document styles to include a field that refers to another field that is the most suitable source for the subject and an abbreviation scheme. And this assumes of course that people rarely use their own document styles. Regards, Walter
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 (alpha 6)
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:33:08 -0700 (PDT), Marcelo Acuña wrote: >> Tarballs can be found at >> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.0/ > > What is LyX-2.0.0alpha6+qt4.dmg? That is for those among us who sacrifice loads of money on their translucent white altars of Steve, the demi-god with the Reality Distortion Field, cultists of OS X. Regards, Walter
Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:15:08 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote: > Yup, this is what I think, but when you have several coworkers working > on collaborative papers in several different LaTeX classes, they > finally have the last laugh. This is why a layout editor would do > wonders to convert our main target, people that already uses LaTeX > directly who wants to speed up their writing and track changes on the > document. I would love to have a layout editor in LyX. There is still lots of untapped potential for LyX. I'm a legal professional and none in that profession doesn't have a visceral hate for Word's abilities to destroy a contract's structure. Regards, Walter
Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx
Original Message Subject: Re: things that I miss in lyx Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:51:24 +0100 From: Walter van Holst To: Jose Quesada On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:23:34 +0100, Jose Quesada wrote: > Hi all, > > In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... > > 1. incremental search > > 2. sentence autocapitalization As others have written, NO! IN THE NAME OF EVERYTHING THAT IS HOLY, DON'T! > 3. grammar check (not crucial) Grammar checks are non-trivial, it would be nice to have this in a modular way so we can share this with other open source efforts in this field. > 4. search highlight occurences Even nicer, the search implemented by Apple's Preview document viewer provides a side bar with frequency bars of the search term's occurence on each page. > 7. the rest of the world operates on rich text/html. LyX doesn't (clipboard > integration is poor, copy-pasting from/to web loses formatting) Actuall, I prefer the current default of losing formatting. The whole point of LyX is that you focus on structure and content and have LaTeX take care of formatting. The rest of the world operates on a fundamentally braindead paradigm and if I wanted to use that paradigm I'd be a happy OOo camper. Which I am not. > 8. 'pasted from' and url for every paste from the web (onenote uses this > and > it's damn inspired) That sounds good. Some Zotero-like stuff might be helpful too. Regards, Walter
Re: Unavailable document classes [OSX]
BH schreef: I really have no idea. We check all the standard locations for LaTeX installations, and I don't remember other reports of such problems. (Does anyone else experience this? If so, please give some details about your system and LaTeX installation ... and anything unusual you might have done.) It turns out to be a somewhat outdated LaTeX installation. And me overlooking the red tick in the LyX installer. :-( Regards, Walter
Unavailable document classes
Hello, I'm a somewhat infrequent user of LyX on Mac OS X. About every other update (my current version is 1.6.1), most of the document classes become unavailable. That is LyX can edit documents in them, but not produce output. How do I prevent this from happening? This is an exceedingly annoying 'feature' of LyX. Regards, Walter
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Typhoon wrote: I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier. Could you, and others with problems, download it from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results? It now looks much better on my system. Thanks! Regards, Walter
Re: Self-publishing with LyX
Typhoon wrote: Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Thanks for that. The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too nicely. I guess it suffers from the same font problem that others have mentioned. Regards, Walter
Re: lyx 1.3.6 on mac os tiger
Bennett Helm wrote: The installer has been fixed; the trouble is that those who used the 1st version of the installer have to implement the fix manually. (Sorry.) Well, it works now, so never mind. Putting a message on the Wiki regarding this particular issue might be helpful though. What I stil don't get is that several document classes that used to work in 1.3.4 are now gone, such as curriculum vitae and several article document klasses (Kluwer, Elsevier, Springer). Support for these classes should be there. Look in LyX.app/Contents/ Resources/lyx/layouts for the .layout files LyX uses. You'll need to be sure your TeX installation includes the relevant .cls files, though. The .layout files are there and I am using the TeX i-packages, how do I check whether those .cls files are included or not? Regards, Walter
Re: lyx 1.3.6 on mac os tiger
Bennett Helm wrote: This was a bug in the 1st version of the installer file. The fix for those who have already run the installer is: In Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix, enter "/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin- current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin" (without the quotes). Now try reconfiguring LyX; restart; reconfigure LyX; restart again. That should fix it. (I'm not sure why 2 reconfigures and restarts are needed, but I don't have 10.4 to experiment on.) This did the trick for me, are there any plans to fix this in the installer? Or at least to mention it on the Wiki? What I stil don't get is that several document classes that used to work in 1.3.4 are now gone, such as curriculum vitae and several article document klasses (Kluwer, Elsevier, Springer). Regards, Walter