Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-13 Thread peppergrower
I'm used to TeXnicCenter and MikTex on Windows, but I decided to give LyX (1.55) a try on my Ubuntu 8.10 system, and I'm having difficulty creating PDFs. When I run pdflatex from within LyX, it keeps saying I'm missing basic packages: like subfigure, and wrapfig, and nomencl. If I manually insta

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-13 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:02 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: I got a reply, that was me. but it seems to assume that I had the Outline view open. In my case, the crash has nothing to do with the Outline view, it's really easy to reproduce. but it's definitely independent f

bug: font status display not updated

2008-12-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, A minor thing I noticed in LyX 1.6.1: I observed that starting a LyX-Code section using Alt-P,C does not mention the new font in the statusbar -- it still says "Font: Default". Only after moving the cursor away and back on the lyxcode paragraph will it say "Font: Typewriter".

Re: LyX can't find local packages

2008-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Guy Rutenberg wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use a local LaTeX class (actually I'm writing it). I've put the .sty file in the same directory as the lyx file but when I add \usepackage{myclassname} it says it can't find myclassname.sty. IIRC in previous versions LyX would find files in the current dir

Re: Computer Algebra System

2008-12-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Amir Rachum wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to use the option "Use Computer Algebra System" under the Edit > menu. I did have partial success using Maxima, but it only works when the > expression I want to calculate is in it's own math box. I want it to > calc

Computer Algebra System

2008-12-13 Thread Amir Rachum
Hello, I'm trying to use the option "Use Computer Algebra System" under the Edit menu. I did have partial success using Maxima, but it only works when the expression I want to calculate is in it's own math box. I want it to calculate the latest part of my math calculations. like a = b*c = 6*7 but w

LyX can't find local packages

2008-12-13 Thread Guy Rutenberg
Hi, I'm trying to use a local LaTeX class (actually I'm writing it). I've put the .sty file in the same directory as the lyx file but when I add \usepackage{myclassname} it says it can't find myclassname.sty. IIRC in previous versions LyX would find files in the current directory too. I'm using

Re: Best advice on Fonts and PDF output from Lyx

2008-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I've run LyX on RedHat, Fedora, and Ubuntu Linux at various times for about 10 years. Until a year or so, the LaTeX distribution was TeTeX, but recently I've converted over to TeXLive. Like many other LyX users, I've bee

ispell: unrecognized formatter type 'latin9'

2008-12-13 Thread Kuo-Hsien Chang
Dear all, I already install ispell properly and check the settings is fine. Do you have any ideas why I still have the error message: "The spellchecker could not be started ispell: unrecognized formatter type 'latin9'"? Thanks Michael

Re: Empty \item

2008-12-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2008-12-12, rgheck wrote: > Máté Salát wrote: >> Hello, >> If you are in an enumerate environment what is the recommended way for >> creating an \item element with no content? You may need it to have a >> sub enumerate environment start at the same line as the previous \item >> element start

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jens Noeckel wrote: > I got a reply, that was me. > but it seems to assume that I had the Outline view   > open. In my case, the crash has nothing to do with the Outline view,   > it's really easy to reproduce. but it's definitely independent from bug 5540, which is about wrong math macro init