Re: Palatino linotype in Lyx
I suspect that the Palatino that appears in the font list is NOT the same as Palatino Linotype, especially in terms of spacing-- it takes less space than Georgia, which uses less space than Helvetica or Arial. When I try to use the URW Palladino that appears in the list, I get the error message: Font-not-found, even though I have TeX gyre and other packages installed that say they use URW Palladino. I had solved my immediate problem using Georgia, but I like the appearance of Palatino, and would love to use it in the future, if I could persuade Lyx to let me. Ehud On 03/05/2013 10:42 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2013-03-05, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Since NIH now wants us to use Palatino Linotype (among several other, uglier fonts), I tried to find it in the Lyx font list, but could only find Palatino, which is apparently different from Palatino Linotype. Where can I find Palatino Linotype so I could add it to the Lyx font list? If you have Palatino Linotype installed on your machine and available in other editors, it should be available as "non-TeX font" (i.e. with XeTeX or LuaTeX), too. If not, you may try the "other" Palatino and almost noone will realize (unless they look up the font list in the PDF metadata). Günter -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Ichan school of medicine at Mount Sinai One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029
Re: No pdflatex view in 2.0.5.1 under XP with Texlive
I finally got around the problem (did not solve it!) by assigning the default pdf output format to pdf(xetex) in the preferences/fileHandling/fileformats dialog. So I now have a functioning Lyx system on XP, although it functions differently from the way it used to. Ehud On 1/17/2013 3:14 PM, EK wrote: Here is what I tried, following Uwe's response: 1. I removed all Lyx installations from the XP machine 2. I downloaded the Windows bundle installer 3. I installed Lyx and JabRef with that installer 4. I tested it-- got the very same error (!pdfTeX error: pdflatex.exe (file c:/texlive/2012/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/up) when I tried to view a pdf output by clicking on the ViewPdf icon (pdflatex) 5. Tried other formats-- luapdf failed, but others (xetex, pdf via dvi or PS) all worked. So I am exactly where I was initially. I rarely use the XP machine these days, but when I need it, I usually need Lyx to function on it, which it did until this latest version. Any idea what is going on? Ehud On 01/15/2013 08:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 09.01.2013 19:00, schrieb EK: I have installed Lyx 2.05.1 on a Windows XP machine (I still have one of those), with TexLive. Everything works fine, but when I click the VIEW icon (to get a pdf) I get an error about pdflatex and/or pdftex.exe. If I select View PDF (lua or Xetex) or DVI from the menu everything works just fine-- just the most useful pdflatex fails (naturally..;-). I have compared the file converters and paths to a previous (Lyx 2.04) installation that works perfectly, and I do not see a difference. Can anyone shed light on this mystery? There was a bug in the installer that the LaTeX distribution was not correctly or even not recognized on Windows 7 and 8 in the 64bit versions. If that is your OS, please reinstall LyX using the fixed installer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/LyXWinInstaller/2.0.5.1/LyX-2051-Installer-2.exe/download (will be soon on ftp.lyx.org too) Can you please report back if the installer found the correct path to TeXLive? if not, what version of TeXLive are you using? Note that the installer can only support TeXLive 2012 and no older versions because of technical limitations in the old versions. If you have a older TeXLive, please try to update it before you reinstall LyX. If this is not possible, please reinstall LyX anyway and then go to the LyX preferences and adapt the paths so that the path list contains the folder of TeXLive where the latex.exe is located. If the problem persists anyway for you, can you please tell me your program versions (Windows, TeXLive) and provide a _minimal_ LyX file you are using. thanks and regards Uwe -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Ichan school of medicine at Mount Sinai One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029 -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029
Re: Help Formatting and fonts... Beggining Thesis! Critical...
Kenedy, You are clearly in the hands of experts here, so I shall not try to muddle the water. However, after several years of using Miktex on Windows, I have switched to TexLive, which seems to be the general trend. I use Texlive on Linux, and wanted to have the same Latex system on both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu). In my experience, TexLive is easier to maintain (upgrade). In addition, after you install it (on Windows), you can click Start/Run: tlmgr gui and see a list of all the Latex packages with a short description of what each one does, plus some other information about the package. You can double click on the package name and get a longer description. You might consider trying that. Unlike the Republicans and Democrats in Congress, TexLive and MikTex can coexist and function in the same system, and Lyx can use either. I hope this is helpful-- Ehud Kaplan On 10/29/2011 10:18 AM, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: Hello... Where can I find a description for every MiKTEX package Tht's is been using inside hte LyX file preamble?. I need to do an inventory of them to simplifyand ilustrate it's use. /kenedy/ -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029
Feature request
Every time Latex is updated, Lyx must be reconfigured. Is there a way for Lyx to check whether Latex has been updated since the last time it was reconfigured, and if so, to reconfigure itself? Thanks- Ehud Kaplan
Re: problem with xetex-option
I have this same problem on one XP machine, but not on another. So far I was unable to find what the difference between the installations is-- they were installed at the same time from the same batch file. I do not have this problem on an Ubuntu (11.04, 64 bit) machine. EK On 9/26/2011 4:59 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller lyx.org> writes: Tao Cumplido wrote: ! Undefined control sequence. l.52 \char_make_active:n Make sure you have fairly recent LaTeX3 packages (l3kernel, l3packages etc.) installed. \char_make_active:n is defined by LaTeX3 and the fontspec package (which loads non-TeX fonts) relies on it. HTH, Jürgen Ok, I installed now every package found when I enter l3 and fontspec but I still get the same errors. I reconfigured lyx after installing the packages of course. Is there any other specific package I need that is part of latex3 and doesn't start with 'l3'? When I filter the packages for latex3 the package manager finds nothing. Thanks for the help so far. -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/ *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: Problem with cross references
I had similar problems with references, which were solved by placing the
offending character in the .bib file (usually something with an accent)
with a \?{c} where ? is the appropriate marker, such as ` or ' or " and
c is the accented character, usually a, o, e, u or i.It is also
possible that including the relevant language package (French, Czech,
German or whatever) in the Latex system will accomplish the same thing.
Ehud Kaplan
On 9/18/2011 6:07 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote:
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De: "Paul A. Rubin"
À: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Envoyé: Dimanche 18 Septembre 2011 03:58:29
Objet: Re: Problem with cross references
Alain Didierjean free.fr> writes:
Any other suggestions ? What's this "active character" problem
about ?
It's a mess as I need this documents printed on monday !
Do you have Unicode characters (or something other than basic latin)
in the
reference labels? Could this be an encoding issue?
Under the heading "desperate times call for desperate measures", you
might try
making a copy of the .lyx files and using a plain text editor to
globally search
and replace the labels with something that uses only ASCII
characters. Then see
if LyX does any better.
The problem is a known bug, specific to french and solved in texlive-2011. I
have found a work around and I'll have my docs in time. Some discussions about
it are in the french mailing list (in french of course).
Thanks all for the help,
--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor
*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029
Re: LyX 2.0.1 Released
No Windows installer yet?
On 09/05/2011 12:03 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
Public release of LyX version 2.0.1
===
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.1. This is the first
maintenance release in the 2.0.x series.
LyX 2.0.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We encourage all
LyX users to upgrade to this version.
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
You can download LyX 2.0.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
If you think you found a bug in LyX 2.0.1, either e-mail the LyX
developers' mailing list (lyx-devel lists.lyx.org), or open a bug
report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX
users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.0.1.
The LyX team.
http://www.lyx.org
What's new in LyX 2.0.1
===
The support for using external files in ERT has been improved by the
introduction of a prefix for the TEXINPUTS environment variable.
This prefix can be set in preferences and by default includes the
document directory (represented by a single '.'). The prefix can
be set to any list of paths separated by the default separator for
a given platform (':' on unix like systems and ';' on windows).
When a file should be included by LaTeX, the paths listed in TEXINPUTS
will be searched in turn for finding it. Note that any non-absolute
path listed in the TEXINPUTS prefix is considered to be relative to the
document directory, i.e., the directory where the LyX file lives.
Users are advised to always include '.' (the document dir) as one of
the path components, otherwise compilation may fail for some documents.
This is because the previous (undocumented) mechanism based on the use
of the \input@path macro has been dropped. The old mechanism did not
work in all cases and was kind of a hack. Old documents using that
undocumented hack for obtaining the path of the LyX file will have to
be revised. A clean way for obtaining the document path is using the
info inset through the "info-insert buffer path" LyX function.
** Updates:
***
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Allow for a maximum of 3 minutes for the completion of a spawned command
except on Windows, where 30 minutes are allowed. This is because the
Windows installer may trigger MiKTeX updates that suffer from network
latencies.
- Improved XHTML output of various fractions.
- A prefix for the TEXINPUTS environment variable can be specified in the
preferences. The directory of a LyX document is represented by a single
dot '.' or by the prefix "./". Also, any non-absolute path will be
prepended with the LyX document directory.
- Updated templates to current LyX format, so no conversion will be
needed.
- Allow LaTeX import of \uline (bug 7640).
- Fix compilation error occurring when a LyX document resides in a directory
whose name contains characters that are special to LaTeX (bug 6170).
* USER INTERFACE
- Updated Czech, French, German, Japanese, Interlingua, Italian, Polish,
Portuguese, Serbian (Latin), Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian User
Interface Localization.
- Now it is not necessary to restart LyX after changing the default
document directory and/or the PATH prefix in the preferences for them
to take effect.
- Menu View->Source for documents with XHTML default output format now
displays
only the current paragraph, except when complete source is requested
(bug 7463).
- Size tab now enables and disables correctly depending on the capabilities
configured for the current external template (selected via the combo).
- Sort entries in the "More Formats and Options" dialog (bug 7714).
- Enable "Accept compound" preference setting for Aspell backend only.
Reconfigure the aspell backend when "Accept compound" preference is
changed immediately.
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- UserGuide:
- new section how to define custom header/footer lines
(bug 7196).
- new section about customized lists
- new section about comparison of LyX documents
- new section about the document's colors settings
- revised Appendix A and B
- EnbeddedObjects manual:
- describe that LyX supports now the changing of the color of the
greyed-out box text
- new chapter about objects surrounded by text
- Math manual: add a note about column limit for decorated matrices.
- Updated French documentation files.
- updated template file for the latest version of the ACM siggraph
LaTeX-package.
- up
Re: submitting paper in latex (tex) format
This can be confusing to the uninitiated, and it could use some automation.
Having been through this a few times, I prefer to do it this way:
1. Export to latex (plain) from Lyx
2. pdflatex filenm
3. bibtex filenm (if you use a latex-aware editor like WinEdt under
Windows, or Kile under Linux they will run bibtex for you
automatically) to produce a .bbl file in your working directory
4. Using an editor (WinEdt or Kile) add the .bbl file to the end of the
latex document just before \end{document}.
5. Just before the place where you inserted the .bbl file, insert the
latex command: \begin{thebibliography}{}
6. Just before \end{document} insert: \end{thebibliography}
7. Comment out the \bibliography{bibfilename} latex statement.
8. Compile the latex file.
The advantage is this approach is that now you can send the journal only
one latex file for them to compile.
In addition, in the (unlikely) event that your paper is rejected, you
can import the latex file into Lyx, and at the end of the Lyx document
you now have all the references, which you can edit if the reviewers
noticed that you did not quote their work...
HTH
Ehud Kaplan
On 8/24/2011 7:37 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
On 24/08/11 13:08, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
Actually, I believe they prefer to have the *.tex and *.bbl (not the
*.bib),
as well as files containing figures etc. But you'll see all that in the
detailed instructions.
I think you are correct. My files could been processed by elsevier
electronic system, the generated pdf prints the tex sources.
How can I get bbl. I always use bib file (from JabRef). Any link
information to learn this?
Hi!
The *.bbl should be automatically created by bibtex, so after doing
"pdflatex; bibtex; pdflatex; pdflatex", you should have the required
*.bbl file in your working directory, if you look carefully ;-)
Btw, recently I also had problems submitting to Elsevier. For some
reason they couldn't process my manuscript using pdflatex. However, it
worked fine on arxiv.org... I notified them about the problem, and
they ended up asking me for a PDF instead. :-)
Torquil
--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor
*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029
Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus
I agree about UNITY-- I find gnome to be a much better interface, but I wanted to try it before I decide, and discovered the menu bug, which affects other programs, not only Lyx. Ehud Kaplan On 8/11/2011 6:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday, August 11, 2011 04:03:20 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity? Thanks, EK This response is non-responsive to your question, but... Unity! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch! Never has a worse user interface been conceived or deployed. It even beats out Windows 7 for lameness. I have no idea how to fix Unity induced problems in any app, sorry. I went back to classic when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. If a future Ubuntu ever forces me to go Unity, I'll move away from Ubuntu. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus
I have tried gnome and KDE, but wanted to try Unity. The developers know of the bug, and it has nothing to do with Lyx-- it has to do (apparently) with qt4 and it affects other programs as well. EK On 8/11/2011 9:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: On 11. aug. 2011 10:03, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity? Thanks, If unity has a bug, contact the unity developers. If they are slow in fixing it - consider using other software. Gnome is not the only other alternative to unity. Use google or apt-cache search window manager to find the many window manager alternatives. Try them out, see if you like one that works. I use icewm, and like it because it starts in a second or so. (I don't want to wait 5s after logging in...) Helge Hafting -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/ *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus
I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity? Thanks, EK --
Re: A period after section number
To add packages to Lyx do the following:
1. Get the package you need from CTAN or by Googling it and copying the
text file packagename.sty to the appropriate place (depending on
your operating system: on my WINDOWS XP it is in:
C:\texlive\2010\texmf-dist\tex\latex\titlesec and on Linux:
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/titlesec
2. Update you Latex (on WINDOWS use the package manager of your Latex
distribution with your Latex package manager (mpm for Miktex and
tlmgr for Texlive); on Linux use: sudo texhash
3. Reconfigure Lyx: Tools/reconfigure
Enjoy!
EK
On 7/24/2011 11:57 PM, Eisa Ayed wrote:
Oops,
It seems I got an additional dot in the figures.
I can't use titlesec package simply because I don't know how to compile and add
packages to Lyx.
I have looked to some links about adding packages but for some reasons It was
not working for me.
I don't want to mess-up with my thesis that's why i'm trying to find a solution
without installing packages.
Cheers,
On 2011-07-24, at 2:00 PM, Eisa Ayed wrote:
Perfect.. It works now,
Thank you so much Waluyo.
On 2011-07-24, at 4:18 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
This works great for sections.
However, this will add an extra dot for the subsections.
I ended up having something like this:
1. Introduction
1..1 Problem Definition
instead of
1. Introduction
1.1 Problem Definition
Then I would the following commands to redefine the dots for
subsection and subsubsection
\renewcommand \thesection {\@arabic\c@section.}
\renewcommand\thesubsection {\thesection\@arabic\c@subsection}
\renewcommand\thesubsubsection{\thesubsection.\@arabic\c@subsubsection}
the commands will give you
1.
1.1
1.1.1
regards
waluyo
--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor
*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029
Re: LyX causes Acrobat Reader Freeze (?)
I find Okular (under ubuntu) to be a better pdf viewer-- it updates itself each time you compile the Lyx file, is fast and just works great. EK On 07/21/2011 05:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi all, I just ran into a bug, but I'm not sure who the culprit is. The setup is LyX 2.0.0 and Acrobat Reader 9 (specifically 9.4.2-0natty1 on Mint 11 Katya (forked from Ubuntu Natty). If I create a document of more than one page in LyX (I've tested both article and beamer classes, both new and old documents) and preview it using pdflatex, Acrobat Reader freezes on the first page (no scroll bars, no reaction to any inputs) until I force-quit it. I assume that this is on 2nd and subsequent compilations. When it is on the first compilation, acroread doesn't freeze, right? If this is the case, then it's a bug in acroread: it doesn't automatically reload a PDF document when it has been resaved to disk. Try File> Reload (or similar) to see if it solves the problem. Otherwise, consider using Evince, and try acroread only before submitting. Regards Liviu This happens whether using xdg-open or telling LyX directly to use acroread. Previewing does not freeze Evince. Once I force-quit Reader, I can open the PDF sitting in the temporary directory in Reader and no freeze occurs, so the document itself is not defective. (Acrobat Reader appears to be configured to allow only one instance at a time, so I can't open the PDF in a second instance while the first is frozen.) I didn't see anything about this in Trac or on the list. FWIW, the system is 64-bit and the PC is quad core (AMD). Any clues what's going on? Thanks, Paul -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029
No menus in Lyx 2
How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04 (32 bits)? All the icons are there, but not the usual menus. EK
Re: Icons
I had just discovered that-- are there icons that will not be shown if I use the CLASSIC set? On 07/04/2011 12:52 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-07-03, Andrew Parsloe wrote: (1) The open-save-print group: in each case there's a white square/rectangle above a darker square/rectangle. In the old (classic) icon set, the icons for open and print are on the diagonal. Could that be done here to make a clearer distinction? (2) The emphasis-noun-apply last group: in each case the major part of the icon is the letter A with a smaller distinguishing part. Perhaps that should be reversed -- the distinguishing part enlarged and the A reduced? I agree that the icons should be distinctive even at first glace -- not only for older eyes but also for small screens. As a quick workaround, you can customize LyX to use the classic iconset. Günter -- EhudKaplan, Ph.D. JulesandDorisSteinResearchtoPreventBlindnessProfessor Director, ThelaboratoryofVisual& ComputationalNeuroscience Director, CenterforExcellenceinComputational& SystemsNeuroscience FriedmanBrainInstitute DepartmentsofNeuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural& ChemicalBiology, TheMountSinaiSchoolofMedicine OneGustaveLevyPlace, NY, NY, 10029
Re: Can't convert
Actually, I have switched away from Miktex on Windows to TexLive, to
make my Windows and Linux Latexs more similar to each other.
EK
On 06/25/2011 10:05 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote:
I have a folder named "MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm
using MiKTeX.
You are. Pretty much everyone on Windows is.
But I know very little about how LyX works. Also, I don't know
what you mean when you say, "open a command prompt and run 'kpsewhich
article.cls' ".
Click Start > Run (or hold down the Windows key and hit R) and type
'cmd', then click the button to do it (I forget what the button says,
probably "Ok" or "Run"). That should open a window with a DOS
prompt. At the prompt, type 'kpsewhich article.cls' and see what
happens. Don't type the single quotes (') either place.
Paul
Re: paths in Fedora
I agree that UNITY is junk, so I simply restarted in "ubuntu classic" (AKA gnome...) and all is fine. EK On 05/02/2011 02:32 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: Natty crashed spectacularly twice -- the kind of crash that calls for a reinstall. Even if it had been rock-solid, which for me it has not been, I don't care much for Unity, as it is now. Manolo El lun, 02-05-2011 a las 14:20 -0400, Steve Litt escribió: On Monday 02 May 2011 09:14:32 Manolo Martínez wrote: Dear all, I've recently moved from Ubuntu to Fedora, Just curious: Why? This is the second time in two days hearing of people migrating away from Ubuntu. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent BlindnessProfessor Director, Center of Excellence for Computational & System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: RC3 installers for windows available on ftp (Re: Lyx 2 binary installer)
Great! How about Linux/Debian? EK On 04/21/2011 09:39 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Where is the Lyx 2 binary installer (for Windows)? it should be available on ftp later today. pavel its there. p -
Re: PNAS reference style?
It turns out that naturemag (with \usepackage{cite} in the preamble does
ALMOST what I need, but the citations have square brackets around them,
rather than the round one I need. Putting round in the package options
does not help, and the cite package does not accept round as an option
E
On 04/18/2011 06:06 PM, Ehud Kaplan wrote:
How do I get the PNAS reference style (numeric, references numbered in
the order they appear in the text, compressed so 1,2,3,4 --> 1-4, etc?
I have tried various .bst styles but none worked correctly.
Thanks,
EK
Re: LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 2 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Is it for Windows only? EK On 4/2/2011 12:02 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: Hello. For those who want binaries for LyX 2.0 RC2. I've compiled them again. Here is the link. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARUDZI5K Regards. --- Diego Queiroz -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent BlindnessProfessor Director, Center of Excellence for Computational & System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: A "slash o" ?? Cannot get it...
When I type Bro{\o}sted I get the right character. The {..} is ERT, of
course.
On 02/03/2011 03:12 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Also sprach Kenward Vaughan:
The space worked fine. Should that always be done with ERT?
To terminate a command, if no other termination is done. In your case, LaTeX
thought you meant the command \onsted (which could very well be meant), and
failed, because no such command existed. If another command follows (Br\o\ss),
not termination is needed. You can also terminate by braces (Br{\o}nsted or
Br\o{}nsted), but this affects the kerning, so the space is suggested.
Jürgen
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*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Re: Instalation error
I have installed Lyx 1.6.8 on several machines with TexLive 2010 without
any problem. You might want to try that.
Ehud Kaplan
On 01/12/2011 07:14 AM, Xabier Abasolo wrote:
Hello,
<<...>>
I'm trying to install LyX with "LyX-1.6.8-2-Installer.exe" in a
Windows XP computer. I also install MIKTeX 9.2 because LyX recomend to
do so. At the end of the installing process of MiKTeX an error occurs
("Unexpected condition"). I downloaded several times new installers,
with the same final results.
I installed LyX in an other computer with no problems. The only
different thing in this installation is that I don´t use the default
instalation folder (my C: drive is full and I want to install in my
second hard disk.)
You can see attached the instalation log. Can anyone see de cause of
the error in the log? What can I do?
Thanks.
Xabier.
Testing again
Test post. -- Ehud Kaplan
Re: Footnotes
test submission. On 1/8/2011 7:04 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 01/08/2011 01:02 AM, Charles wrote: I'm having a hard time finding how to install footnotes in the User Guides, could you give me a little guidance here...I'm new with this. Insert>Footnote? rh -- Ehud Kaplan,
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
This advice will mean nothing to Windows users. EK On 12/28/2010 1:08 AM, Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio wrote: ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated by any one of the collaborators. Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. Use symlinks -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated by any one of the collaborators. Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. Ehud On 12/27/2010 01:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I collaborate with various people, some of whom (sadly) still use Windows. Because of the difference in path designation between Linux and Windows, we constantly have to tweak the path reference to the .bib files that are used by a document we are working on: for Windows it is C:/.../share/file.bib , and for Linux is it /home/...share/file.bib It would be nice to be able to set the header of the path in Document Settings. In Preferences I see such things for various thinks, but not for the bibliography files. How do other people deal with that? Put it in the TEXMF tree (/TEXMF/bibtex/bib/), then LaTeX/BibTeX will find it just by the file name. Jürgen -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
A path for the Bibliography files
I collaborate with various people, some of whom (sadly) still use Windows. Because of the difference in path designation between Linux and Windows, we constantly have to tweak the path reference to the .bib files that are used by a document we are working on: for Windows it is C:/.../share/file.bib , and for Linux is it /home/...share/file.bib It would be nice to be able to set the header of the path in Document Settings. In Preferences I see such things for various thinks, but not for the bibliography files. How do other people deal with that? Thanks Ehud
Re: LyX and editors?
I also tried the todonotesalternate. Here I found that the test area of
the note is solid blue, preventing me from seeing what I am typing. I
am still missing something.
EK
On 12/17/2010 04:02 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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On 12/17/2010 03:43 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Ehud Kaplan wrote:
I am afraid that this answer is a bit too terse for me.
I included \usepackage{pdfcomment} in the preamble,
but that made no difference. I suspect I need to use Jurgen's layout
(module?) file, but I
could not find it on my system.
So I followed the Wiki, and copied Jurgen's pdfcomment.module into
my /usr/share/lyx/layouts folder, reconfigured Lyx and... nothing changed.
The inserted notes or comments were still not visible in the pdf output.
What am I doing wrong?
You probably do not load the module in Document> Settings> Module
and do not Insert> Custom insets. Regards
Likely. Attached please find an example with the resulting pdf.
Cheers,
Rainer
Liviu
Thanks,
EK
On 12/15/2010 07:12 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 12/15/2010 12:34 PM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I
often want to
use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to
pdf, the notes do not appear.
If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf output that would be
a great help.
Check out http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules#toc2 .
Cheers,
Rainer
EK
On 12/15/2010 5:37 AM, Gilles Mioni wrote:
Hi Steve,
My own experience with editors is :
1/ I send an abstract and a complete document written with lyx
and exported in PDF format.
2/ I send, if necessary, the whole text for lecture in epub format
From Lyx, I exported in HTLM format then I use XHTML software
Amaya and Calibre software to prepare an e-book usable with any
epub reader.
Hi all,
Perhaps some of you author in LyX but have editors go over your
material. My experience is most editors don't have LyX and don't have
the technical chops to use LyX. So how do you interface with your
editors when writing a book in LyX?
Thanks
SteveT
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*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029
Re: LyX and editors?
Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf output that would be a great help. EK On 12/15/2010 5:37 AM, Gilles Mioni wrote: Hi Steve, My own experience with editors is : 1/ I send an abstract and a complete document written with lyx and exported in PDF format. 2/ I send, if necessary, the whole text for lecture in epub format From Lyx, I exported in HTLM format then I use XHTML software Amaya and Calibre software to prepare an e-book usable with any epub reader. Hi all, Perhaps some of you author in LyX but have editors go over your material. My experience is most editors don't have LyX and don't have the technical chops to use LyX. So how do you interface with your editors when writing a book in LyX? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: LyX 1.6.8 / 2.0beta without admin rights
No backups? On 12/13/2010 12:49 AM, Joost Verburg wrote: On 12/12/2010 5:24 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: someone == joost at lyx.org (the only one who is mastering this installer). you can try to contact him. The 1.6.8 Windows release was delayed because of an external library which suddenly disappeared from SourceForge (project + git repository was completely deleted). It took a lot of time to rewrite most of the missing code. The installer has now been finished and will be available shortly. Joost
Re: Can't get XeTeX to work
Just a comment to those still using Miktex as their Latex after-Lyx engine:
After many years of using Miktex, I have recently switched to TexLive
(which I use on both Linux-Ubuntu and Windows-XP), mostly because of its
superior updating facilities.
Now I update/upgrade Latex with a single click that runs a batch file
that does everything.
If Lyx could be Reconfigured from the command line I could even add that
to the batch file and Reconfigure Lyx after each Latex update.
EK
On 12/11/2010 6:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX
2.9.
I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it
looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package "expl3") are not up to
date.
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fontspec\fontspec.cfg"))
! Undefined control sequence.
\int_compare_p:nNn
l.7 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Cambria}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
This command (\int_compare_p:nNn) comes from l3int.sty. I have v2077
(2010/10/17) here (TeXLive 2010), you seem to have v1933 (2010/05/25). This
might explain the error.
See below my file list. You can insert \listfiles into your preamble and
compare the versions with mine.
Jürgen
*File List*
article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
expl3.sty2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
l3names.sty2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX
Primitiv
es
etex.sty1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
l3expan.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists
l3int.sty2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
l3quark.sty2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
l3seq.sty2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
l3toks.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
l3prg.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
l3clist.sty2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
l3token.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and
manipu
lation
l3prop.sty2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
l3msg.sty2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
l3io.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
l3skip.sty2010/11/23 v2088 L3 Experimental skip registers
l3box.sty2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
l3keys.sty2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
l3xref.sty2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
l3file.sty2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
calc.sty2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
xparse.sty2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
xkeyval.sty2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
xkeyval.tex2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for
XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
fontenc.sty
eu1enc.def2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many
othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
url.sty2006/04/12 ver 3.3 Verb mode for urls, etc.
polyglossia.sty2010/07/27 v1.2.0a Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
etoolbox.sty2010/09/12 v2.0a e-TeX tools for LaTeX
makecmds.sty2009/09/03 v1.0a extra command making commands
gloss-english.ldfpolyglossia: module for english
eu1lmtt.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
***
Jürgen
Re: Very strange behavior in LyX 1.6.7/Ubuntu 10.10/Evince 2.32
Whenever I have something strange with my PDF under Ubuntu, I first look at it with another pdf viewer. My favorite is Okular, but the Adobe Acro-reader is very good too. EK On 11/16/2010 1:14 PM, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: In one way it's good to hear that others have the same problem as I. Late last night while working on my book I thought I was going crazy. I have never seen so strange pdf:s. I also have an updated Ubuntu 10.10 installation. I guess this basically means that my LyX files are OK and I could continue work on the project. I also suppose that the final pdf output should be done in another program than Evince just to be on the safe side. Regards PÃ¥vel Den 2010-11-16 15:29:30 skrev Jean-Marc Lasgouttes : Le 16/11/2010 15:07, Julien Rioux a écrit : On 16/11/2010 8:53 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I think this is fixed in a recent (2 days?) ubuntu evince update. Doesn't seem so. I'm up to date on the updates. Evince version: 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 Sorry, it was on another package actually (don't remember which one, but the log mentioned the evince problem explicitly). It might have been on maverick-proposed, in fact. JMarc -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: Reconfiguring Lyx from a command line
As usual, now I am slightly more confused than I was before I asked. On Windows, I update TexLive periodically from a batch file, and wanted to have that same batch file also reconfigure Lyx (I assume it is necessary or at least a good idea to do so after updating Latex). My simple minded question was whether there was a command (like: Lyx --reconfigure) that I could insert into the batch file after the TexLive updating finished. My question was about WINDOWS, since on Linux I prefer to update using the internal updating system (Update Manager on Ubuntu 10.10), even though they are /far /behind on their package updating. EK On 11/19/2010 9:21 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19 nov. 10 à 14:39, Pavel Sanda a écrit : Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: In lyx 2.0, the right command line is lyx -batch -x reconfigure For whatever reason -batch did not exist in 1.6 (BTW, shouldn't it be --batch?) it would trigger avelanche of changes, because then it must be --batch= and so on. What would you put after the = ?? ok in this case no, but if you want to be consistent many things should be changed then, like all -string switches -> --string switches; switches like -dbg -export have argument and should have '=' if we want to work in the same vein as most of nowadays linux commandline works. A 2.0 version might an excuse for this kind of annoying changes. JMarc -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Reconfiguring Lyx from a command line
Can Lyx be reconfigured from the command line (from a batch file)? It would be convenient to do it since I update TexLive from a batch file, so I could reconfigure Lyx automatically after each update. EK -
Re: Fonts in LyX (and LaTeX and TeX)
When is the Lyx 2 release party? On 11/9/2010 4:49 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: There is preliminary XeTeX support in the development version. Not ready for the masses. On this point, I have to disagree. Preliminary as it might be, I've found it very stable. I've been using LyX 2 for nearly a year, and have transitioned to using XeTeX for everything. And quite frankly, I have fewer problems with LyX 2 than I do with LyX 1.6. The entire text for my book and innumerable articles and reports have come out of LyX 2, and while development versions some four or five months ago left much to be desired, the most recent codebase is very stable. I quite literally cannot tell you the last time it crashed on me. I so much prefer it that I will never go back to LyX 1.6. (And the copy I use has my outline bits in it, which presumably destabilize it even more.) I'm not trying to be disagreeable here, but I think you underestimate the quality of your own work. When LyX 2 is finally released, you deserve a party. LyX has gone from being a good program to being an exceptional one and I, for one, applaud you for that. Cheers, Rob -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Reconfigure
Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was run? That way we will not have to remember to "reconfigure" Lyx after each time we update or install new Latex packages. -- Ehud Kaplan
Re: Windows setup/directory structure
After years of using Miktex, I have installed TexLive on my Windows machines, in order to be using the same TeX environment on both my Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows machines. On Windows the Texlive installer takes care of all the path and directory requirements, so the user needs do nothing special. The Tex system ends up being much larger than it was under MixTex, but one can choose a smaller set of packages, rather than the Complete set that I chose. Texlive has been working without a hitch on my (XP) machines, as it has on the Ubuntu machines. Just a thought. Ehud Kaplan On 9/18/2010 11:22 AM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Thank you kindly! This is most educational. I have shared a link to this discussion with my Windows-using colleagues. Maria On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: Paul is right. You did ask, though, if there was a standard location for the directory in Windows. I believe there is, but it's different between xp and vista/w7. Mine on Windows 7 is: C:\Users\Jacob\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.8\... I'm not on my xp machine right now, but it's something like C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\MikTeX\2.8\... MikTeX created those directories for local settings when I originally installed it. You can, of course set up a custom location via the MikTeX "settings" interface, which you have to use anyway to run "Refresh FNDB" as Paul explained. I hope this adds a bit of information. Jacob On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 9/14/2010 7:41 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: I should add that they all used MikTeX, and we tried putting texmf in C:\ and also in the Program Files folder (I think basically as C:\Program Files\texmf). What confuses me is that in Mac OS, LyX finds all the stuff inside the texmf folder automaticallly after reconfiguring. Does this happen in Windows? If not, is there something that needs to be done inside LyX to help it find the correct texmf path? I am sure we missed something really obvious. If they are using MiKTeX: 1. They can run the MiKTeX "Settings" application (from the Start menu) and go to the "Roots" tab. That lists the directories on the search path MiKTeX uses. They can create their local texmf folder anywhere they want, then just add it to that tab (Add... button) and move it up to the top of the search chain. 2. After adding anything to their local texmf directory, they should run the Settings application, and on the General tab click "Refresh FNDB" (which runs texhash to update the LaTeX file databases). /Paul -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *The laboratory of Visual& Computational Neuroscience* Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical& Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu
I have had the same question about the TexLive package manager (tlmgr) for a while now. When you install tl2009 on Windows you get tlmgr. In Linux you don't (unless you install from sources, apparently). Ehud Kaplan On 8/20/2010 6:23 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Julien Rioux wrote: FYI> Although this is true, you cannot use the texlive 2009 package manager when texlive 2009 is installed from the ubuntu repository. That's very strange. Why would they block this? Liviu -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *The laboratory of Visual& Computational Neuroscience* Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical& Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP
When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation (using Lyx), it works fine under Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: "undefined control sequence, missing number treated as zero, etc." The Linux Lyx version is 1.6.7.1 from getdeb. I actually suspect that it is a beamer problem, since I get similar errors in Windows after exporting the Lyx file to Latex, but I am not sure. Can anyone help? What is going on? -- Ehud Kaplan
re: Change tracking and the fate of deleted text
Although I applauded the suggested additions to the preamble, which made Lyx place deleted text in the margin, I have now discovered that Lyx will fail to compile (pdflatex) /if the change is made to a figure caption/. Is there a quick fix to this fix? Thanks, EK --
