Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I would try running the reconfigure script by hand, as Paul A. Rubin suggests: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg52019.html If this does not work, you may find some other workarounds here: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org&q=LyXTextClassList

rotated eps figures using different pdf views

2007-01-22 Thread Gregor Goldbach
Hi list, I have an interesting problem which is hopefully not a FAQ. I use eps figures in my document. The resulting PDF contains these figures rotated by 90 degrees... sometimes. ;) Using pdflatex gives rotated figures (90 degress), using dvipdfm does *not* rotate them. The figures are generate

Re: Font mystery

2007-01-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Paul" == Paul A Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Hi all, I've got a recurring issue with LyX 1.4.3-4 (and -5, I Paul> think). It manifests as LyX displaying the wrong glyphs for some Paul> symbols in math insets (although math preview converts them Paul> correctly). For instance, the

OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I was considering switching to OpenOffice because of the excessive effort in creating/modifying styles in LyX. So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, in OpenOffice, of a book I originally wrote using MS Word. WHAT A MESS! Styles I created in OpenOffice wouldn't stay created.

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-22 Thread John M. Linebarger
I just downloaded LyX for Windows 1.4.3-5 and I get this persistent error that makes the program completely unusable. It says that no textclasses are found. So I look at the mailing list archives, which state that I should blow away my Application Data LyX directory and regenerate it. I do so

Re: Altering spaces before and behind a formula created with C-M

2007-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Diehl wrote: Thanks, that helped a lot. It's much more narrow now. But through that came another problem: I had written nearly everything as a list to have some more horizontal space before the lines. Even with C-M-formulas I did this and that caused a lot of vertical space. You ca

Re: Altering spaces before and behind a formula created with C-M

2007-01-22 Thread Matthias Diehl
Thanks, that helped a lot. It's much more narrow now. But through that came another problem: I had written nearly everything as a list to have some more horizontal space before the lines. Even with C-M-formulas I did this and that caused a lot of vertical space. Now I changed those into "standa

strange insert graphics behavior

2007-01-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
1) Open a new file in LyX 1.4. 2) Press the insert graphics button on the toolbar 3) Select a graphics file (anything will do) 4) Press Apply and wait for the preview to appear in the LyX window. Don't close the graphics window or bring the main LyX window to the foreground. 5) Now change the

Fwd: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-22 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:57 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class > scrbook is unknown" > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John Kane w

Re: Hello!

2007-01-22 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Steve, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for sharing so much information about LyX AND to have prepared so suggestive persentations of the info you offer. Thank you! Greetings from Munich Hellmut Dr. Hellmut Weber Degenfeldstraße 2, D - 80803 München-Schwabing tel (+49 89) 3

Re: Altering spaces before and behind a formula created with C-M

2007-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Diehl wrote: Sorry, I mean vertikal space, not horizontal space (I forgot to mention it). The place of the numbering is ok. But I would like to have the document more narrow vertically. Formulas created with C-M (C-H) don't fit with this idea. Thanks, Matthias Diehl You need to

Font mystery

2007-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, I've got a recurring issue with LyX 1.4.3-4 (and -5, I think). It manifests as LyX displaying the wrong glyphs for some symbols in math insets (although math preview converts them correctly). For instance, the integral sign displays as a capital R. Uninstalling and reinstalling the

Re: cv class

2007-01-22 Thread Mihai Nica
Newer mind, I solved the issue! After installing the packages in MIKTeX I needed to run "Refresh FNDB" AND "Update Formats" from MIKTeX Options! Thanks, Mihai Nica 170 East Griffith St. G5 Jackson, MS 39201 601-914-0361 - Original Message From: Mihai Nica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-u

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Hughes wrote: Thanks - so I should expect pdflatex to work with EPS graphics. I have tried re-installing ghostscript, but it's still not working as I described. May I suggest the following experiment? Open a DOS prompt in the home of an EPS file and run 'convert -verbose whatever.eps w

Re: lyx fails to start

2007-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Francesco wrote: Hi Paul, thanks a lot for your reply. I tried all of what you said and everything seems to work perfectly but still I'm not able to start LyX, that is, I get still the same error message I had before. Do you have any other suggestion? Thanks again Francesco You can try the

Re: Bullets menu on LyX/Mac

2007-01-22 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:23:20AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Enrico" == Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > "Bob" == Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Bob> Alan is using LyX as a t

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread John Hughes
Thanks - so I should expect pdflatex to work with EPS graphics. I have tried re-installing ghostscript, but it's still not working as I described. From: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: EPS problem Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:08:59 +0100 Nicolás wrote: >

cv class

2007-01-22 Thread Mihai Nica
Greetings: I am very new with both Lyx and Tex... I installed everything (including the cv package for miktex) on XP, but when I try to use CV, it tells me the class is missing. It seems like a common problem, but were unable to find any solution on the web... Thanks for any help, m Mihai N

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread Georg Baum
Nicolás wrote: > According to the bug's explanation, .ps and .eps are converted to .pdf, > not .png. I am using v1.4.3 with Miktex 2.5 and ImageMagic 2.6.7, and my > LyX behaves as expected by John. That is, I insert .eps graphics in my LyX > document and when invoking the pdflatex-view, the graph

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolás
According to the bug's explanation, .ps and .eps are converted to .pdf, not .png. I am using v1.4.3 with Miktex 2.5 and ImageMagic 2.6.7, and my LyX behaves as expected by John. That is, I insert .eps graphics in my LyX document and when invoking the pdflatex-view, the graphics are converted to

Re: Altering spaces before and behind a formula created with C-M

2007-01-22 Thread Matthias Diehl
Sorry, I mean vertikal space, not horizontal space (I forgot to mention it). The place of the numbering is ok. But I would like to have the document more narrow vertically. Formulas created with C-M (C-H) don't fit with this idea. Thanks, Matthias Diehl

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread Georg Baum
John Hughes wrote: > So am I to understand that the following sequence of events should work: > > 1. Export an EPS vector graphic > 2. Insert the EPS vector graphic into a LyX document > 3. Export the LyX document to PDF using pdflatex > 4. Get a PDF file with a nice vector graphic in it? No, th

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread John Hughes
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: EPS problem Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:13:48 -0500 John Hughes wrote: 1. ImageMagick is in the command path and LyX's path prefix. 2. When I convert the EPS file to PDF using the "convert" command, it cha

Re: Bullets menu on LyX/Mac

2007-01-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Enrico" == Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrico> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > "Bob" == Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Bob> Alan is using LyX as a teaching tool so he wanted to zoom his Bob> screen for easier viewing, but when this