SH: I'm not quite sure why your idea worked. When Angus mentored
> me on this I must have flunked. I thought that LyX copied
> the Windows PATH and then appended the Path_prefix string
> to it internally... maybe it used to work that way.
Paul:
That was my impression as well (except that I th
Hello,
I'm writing to you from the perspective of a LyX user.
This notion of a meritocracy jeopardizes LyX development.
The fact of the matter is that not all of the developers
are equal in ability. The project needs a director to
set a common denominator standard. Most can't know as much
about
Stephen Harris wrote:
> There is good gnus and bad news. The Aspell execution has been
> disconnected from C:\Aspell, rather cleverly, IMHO. But, the
> Dictionary still seems to be tied to C:\Aspell, so spellchecking
> doesn't work.
--
Stephen Harris wrote:
"A new Windows installer for LyX 1.4.2svn is available for testing:
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-142svn-20060617.exe
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-142svn-20060617-bundle.exe
Again there are a number of improvements: English thesaurus
(Aiks
Angus Leeming wrote:
> Ok, Joost. Now done. Files are currently uploading to the usual place.
> Rather nicely, because I'm overwriting existing files with apache:wiki
> ownership, the new versions of these files also have this ownership ;-)
Thanks!
> I modified the aspell_dict.sh script a littl
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:02:38PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:16:15PM -0700, Stephen Harris wrote:
> I wanted to put links on my Windows Desktop that would automatically
> start LyX up.
It should suffice creating a shortcut to
C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\l
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
"Notice that if you make a shortcut to lyx-x11.exe, you don't need to
manually start the X server. If needed, lyx-x11.exe will start the X
server using the /usr/local/bin/startxserver script which performs the
same exact actions as the /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.{sh,bat} sc
Stephen Harris wrote:
Nico wrote:
At the end, LyX started, but with the error message "This is not a LyX
document", in a tiny, non-resizable window, and the error "bddraw = 0"
in the dos box, seemingly repeating itself whenever the mouse moves over
the LyX window. [Trying W
"By the way, I noticed a couple of things when I uninstalled 1.4svn.
First, the installer creates only a program menu entry for LyX itself --
no entry for the uninstall command. (Angus's installers created a
folder for LyX, with links to both LyX and the uninstall executable).
So I used Add/Remov
Original Message
Subject: Re: New Windows Installer
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 15:05:54 -0700
From: Stephen Harris
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LyX Developers List
Am Sonntag, 28. Mai 2006 21:51 schrieb Stephen Harris
Am Sonntag, 28. Mai 2006 21:51 schrieb Stephen Harris:
> I sometimes use Foxit Reader.exe to view pdf files because it
> loads quicker. By default is is located in
> C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit reader.exe
SH: There always seems to be lingering path with spaces
Stephen Harris wrote:
I will logon to the non-admin account and see how well the
install proceeds for 'this user only'.
I liked how this was handled, warning that some functions
would probably be lost but allowing the install to proceed.
It works well maybe due to the fact t
I also tested the 8mb installer and it works quite well.
The spellchecker still doesn't check the first misspelled word.
No desktop icon was automatically created and I'm used to that.
Easy to fix of course.
I sometimes use Foxit Reader.exe to view pdf files because it
loads quicker. By defaul
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> That's the same as for SVG-images. But the bitmap looks readable.
> Nervertheless the Imagemagick people are working on a vector graphics
> rendering engine but this is at the moment "far from beeing complete".
> Also Acrobat can't handle WMF. Do you know a program that could
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Georg Baum schrieb:
No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need
to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick.
??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this
problem, so setting a global PATH is no
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Georg Baum schrieb:
No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need
to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick.
??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this
problem, so setting a global PATH is no
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Stephen Harris schrieb:
Next, the Win1.4.x installer is still beta and there is a list
of potential problems at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x
so it is prudent/competent to install the LyX1.3.7 version.
It's not beta! LyXWIninstaller is now very stable: I
Bo Peng wrote:
Hi, all,
Both the 1.4.x installer versions have flaws and it is to be expected
that the newer release (Uwe) would incorporate more fixes.
The Angus installer
is not going to reflect bug improvements without an active
maintainer and Uwe has stated he doesn't have time to maintain
Bo Peng wrote:
you can find the windows installer for LyX 1.4.1.
This comes a week later after all my troubles with the official
installer (see my another email), still this installer should be
celebrated!
Uwe, I have asked before what has prevented us to make your installer
the official one.
SH: A new winlyx user should have 1.3.7 installed.
I think that will avoid most of the problems
you mentioned at least it does for me.
Bo: I did not experience these problems with Uwe's
1.3.7 installer, but that was for user accounts with
administrative privilege. Maybe this made a big difference
Bo Peng wrote: Hi,
Just helped another guy to install lyx/win on his windows machine,
again frustrated. Briefly,
1. download everything, install, until we are told that miktex can not
be installed without adminstrative priveledge.
---
SH: An expe
Printing worked for me with Enrico's batfile.
I named the printer LP, and reconfigured. I
have gs* in the Windows Path. Older versions
of gs* had problems with spaces but that
should be fixed if you are using 8.51. I use
no spaces, anyway.
Regards,
Stephen
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:27:50PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
I am more radical than Abdel and use all cygwin tools to build
a native win32 version of LyX.
I may well join you in the revolution Enrico ;-) And I may go even
further, ju
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel&m=114457031207621&w=2
Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 09:40 schrieb Andre Poenitz:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 09:45:21PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> > I don't like the hardcoded "/cygdrive/", because that would fail for
> > people who changed that name.
>
> Have
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel&m=114381524012218&w=2
Enrico wrote:
Why miktex is outputting non-text characters is beyond me, though.
---
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.editors/browse_thread/thread/1b8a2d71bce3eb33
/99fc8b9a55bf799f?lnk=st&q=%22%5EM%22++EOL&rnum=1&hl=en#
When I read the following email from lyx-user, I feel the urge to
complete my local .cls/.layout patch. :-) Lars, I am waiting for your
comment about my pre-Patch.
Bo
"I know perfectly that, if I am getting a zip file with .lyx, .cls,
and .layout, I am supposed to
1. create localtexmf, modi
Am Samstag, 25. März 2006 12:17 schrieb Stephen Harris:
Lyx failed to convert sigproc-sp.tex with Cygwin1.4.0 and Win1.4.1svn
The error message was:
LyX: Cannot convert file
An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f "sigproc-sp.tex"
"sigproc-sp-template.
Does anyone have an
Hello José,
There seems to be a problem with tex2lyx converting
ACM template .tex files. I downloaded acm.zip from
http://www.idt.mdh.se/kurser/ct3340/ht05/pcinstructions.html
"1. Unfortunately, there is an error in the ACM template found on
the web (the ACM knows about it...). Get a correct ver
Works good! I have only one entry for LyX under Add/Remove programs.
Perhaps it would be better to have separate uninstalls for LyX137, LyX14x?
I was able to change my viewers by modifying the File format->Viewer field.
Path prefix was generated properly though I use paths without spaces.
The U
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> One further question: unless something has changed recently,
Angus> LyX 1.3.x and LyX 1.4.x won't live together peacefully unless I
Angus> run configure --with-version-suffix when
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit :
Moving on to LyX/Win 1.4, what should I compile? The release tar ball or
a
snapshot of the 1.4.x tree including the bug fixes that have gone in
since
1.4.0 was announced?
Personnally I'd prefer the plain 1.4.0
tarball, unless there are some very bad windows bug
Everything seems to work. I started with a clean C:\aspell
and installed the new Aspell data files first, as customary.
The *.cmap/cset etc. were installed to C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60
as I think they are supposed to be. But the default on the installer
reads C:\Aspell. Should this default read C
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: "Stephen Harris" <>
Gesendet: 16.03.06 06:38:58
An:
Betreff: LyX 1.4.0 and DocBook SGML
Stephen Harris wrote:
Hello Chris,
I found your document interesting. When I opened
your mySGML.lyx, I got that missing docbook-book
TeX cla
- Original Message -
From: "Joost Verburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LyX Developers List"
; "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Window
- Original Message -
From: "Joost Verburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LyX Developers List"
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Windows installers for Aspell 0.6 dictionaries
Stephen Harris
I put this file and explanation on the LyX Wiki so there would
be no hurry to finish the Aspell project for .60.4 and also LyX
has a spellchecking bug that won't be fixed until 1.4.1 so users
could go on using spellchecking in LyX137 if they so choose.
I won't advertise it on the User list in case
- Original Message -
From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: LyX/Win 1.4.0
Angus wrote:
Hi, Paul. Hi, Stephen.
Does it really "bomb" or are
Angus wrote:
Hi, Paul. Hi, Stephen.
Does it really "bomb" or are you just missing a dictionary? If so, try
grabbing one from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6
-
SH: The problem I experienced was that C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60>
was not creat
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SH: I this packaging scheme adaptable?
Angus: I don't think that it's any better than the 'official' aspell 0.5
installer at http://aspell.net/win32/files/testing/dictgen/setup.iss.in
SH: The dict files went to C:\Aspe
Joost Verburg wrote:
Angus Leeming wrote:
Try it out and supply me with the details of what you did and
I'll write you a shell script to automate the process
My idea is:
PART 1 (SHELL SCRIPT)
[snip instructions...]
Now you end up with a large set of zip files in your output directory.
Angus wrote:
Hi, Stephen.
This problem with the path_prefix stuff should now be fixed. Perhaps you'd
like to test it out?
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX137/lyx-1.3.7_win32_setup_v4.exe
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX140pre/lyx-1.4.0pre_win32_setup_v2.exe
I'm still mulling over
Angus wrote:
I anticipate that the installer will have the same bugs as the 1.3.x
version since the installer code is little different to the previous
version. (The one real change being that I've removed all tests for
Perl in the installer.)
---
Angus wrote:
Ok, you can grab this iconv-aware version of LyX 1.3.7 here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX137/lyx-1.3.7_win32_setup_v3.exe
I've no idea how to go about testing it. Jean-Marc?
--
This is probably not wh
Joost wrote:
There should be instructions for end-users how to install the aspell-0.60
dictionaries. The dictionaries with installer from the old aspell Windows
binaries are outdated and the 0.50 English dictionary is not compatible
with 0.60.
Can you test whether they work if you just extrac
- Original Message -
From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:02 PM
Subject: New Latex Reference Resouce
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?
Welcome to the UK List of [locally searchable plus Google]
TeX Frequently As
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"So, what is the situation wrt windows?
Who is planning to provide binaries? How?"
-
Michael Gerz wrote:
"I can have a look at Angus' scripts and see if
they still work (with the exception of automake)."
Hello cyber benbob,
I notice others have asked for your feature request or a variation
of it. Here is a script that you could run from your end, probably
better used from its own directory without spaces, that could be sent
to your friend as a workaround until this feature is added to LyX.
He wo
>>>>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:26:33 -0800, "Stephen Harris"
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:06:15 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:
> Hello Enrico,
>
> I am interested in your Cygwin Howto. Someone just asked
> about this on the User list, and mig
Hello Professor Gumm,
I noticed that the url you posted is incorrect,
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/xypic.pdf
you left out the xypic directory in the url.
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/xypic/xypic.pdf
Also I noticed that in LyX1.4.0pre3 compiled with Mingw for
Georg> The ability to use image formats that LyX does not know is
Georg> really useful IMHO (of course this is only possible if our default
Georg> converter can handle them, but imagemagick knows a lot of formats)
SH> I hope this is on topic and perhaps is just a feature which has not
SH> bee
- Original Message -
From: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ; "LyX Devel"
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller
I would also like to leave this thread with some final remarks.
The root of this problem is of course from latex/bibtex
- Original Message -
From: "Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Michael Gerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bo Peng"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ;
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 12:00 PM
Su
- Original Message -
From: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Cc:
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller
Dear all,
It is confirmed that if the .bst file is in a path without space, the
bibliography will be generated correctly,
- Original Message -
From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Cc:
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller
Michael Gerz wrote:
Bo Peng wrote:
The mistake is making C:\Program files the default for LyX and
friends.
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Gerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ;
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInsta
- Original Message -
From: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ;
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller
> My best guess, and it's just a guess, is that bibtex's being handed a
> path with
- Original Message -
From: ""Lars Gullik Bjønnes"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ;
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:40 AM
Subject: [prerelease] LyX 1.4.0pre3
This is the third pre-release of LyX 1.4.0.
This is getting close to what will be in the final release, only some
speed issues
- Original Message -
From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LyX-Users" ; "LyX-Devel"
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 9:54 AM
Subject: [announce] fifth release of the LyXWinInstaller
Hello LyXers,
I'm proud to announce the new version 0.5 of the LyX installer for
Windows.
Yo
- Original Message -
From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LyX-Users"
Cc: "LyX-Devel"
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:25 AM
Subject: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller
Hello LyXers,
with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4
of
- Original Message -
From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084}"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx 1.3.6
Wow, at last some light at the end of the tunnel. I had lyx installed in
c:\program files\ and msys was in c
Re: Lyx 1.3.6
Paul A. Rubin
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:27:14 -0700
Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084} wrote:
Hi,
Sh.exe is in the path for me. I am not sure whether this is the problem,
but when I first installed lyx 1.3.6, I had 1.3.5 already installed. But
subsequently, I uninstalled everything and s
Now for the problem (bug). If you look in your preferences file
C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Application Data\lyx\preferences
you'll see that your modification is saved as:
\viewer "pdf" ""C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe" $$i"
I upgraded to 1.3.6.pre ver.21 because I thought
perhaps my earlier version was causing the
unexpected (to me) behavior. No change.
However, I did get a fail to install message about
couldn't find textclass.lst. I had uninstalled and
reinstalled. It was necessary to go to C:\documents
and settin
I was reading a discussion about assigning acrord32.exe
as the the pdf file format viewer in WinLyx 1.3.5, using
the full path in quotes if just placing acrord32 in the pdf
viewer field didn't work [so this next line was the fix to this]:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe"
U
s* work for Stephen Harris (from a private post), I'm checking
with him and I'll keep devel-list posted."
Paul responded:
"Works for me with 1.3.6pre17. What happens if you open a DOS console,
cd to C:\Aspell and do the following:
bin\aspell -c readme
(assuming that the Asp
> C:\Aspell\dict
> C:\Aspell\data
> directories and that these should be populated.
Right here.
Aspell *does* work for Stephen Harris (from a private post),I'm checking with
him and I'll keep devel-list posted.Stephen Harris commented: I've just tested
Aspell on
Re: tex2lyx.exe not working
Angus Leeming
Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:48:59 -0700
Stephen Harris wrote:
> Hello from a tester,
Hello, Stephen.
> I did not meet with success in setting up tex2lyx.exe
> and tex2lyx.cmd. I received the error message: "Cannot
> open specified file. Cr
Hello from a tester,
I did not meet with success in setting up tex2lyx.exe
and tex2lyx.cmd. I received the error message: "Cannot
open specified file. Create new document with this name?"
Originally, I had a C:\python24 not under Tools. So I made
a directory c:\tools and moved python24 underne
The installation of the helper programs went very
smoothly with the 1.3.6cvs October, 2004 release.
However, under "New From Template" the templates
mostly produce the missing TeX class * error, which
is similar to 1.3.5. Also under File-->Open-->Examples
-->chessgame.lyx produces the same type
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