Re: New XP installation of Lyx will not run

2009-06-09 Thread asm23
If all lyx 1.6.* version don't work for you, perhaps you can try the portable version---Lytex(a experimental portable Lyx which is developed by zoh...@yeah.net not by the official), what you have to do is just extracting them into your local disk and then run lyx, what 's more, u can edit the t

Problem with LyxLauncher

2009-06-09 Thread Robert Betz
Users/developers, I have recently installed version 1.6.3 of Lyx using the standard installer. The installation went smoothly. I have installed on a Windows XP machine, and on a Windows Vista (32 bit) machine. However, I seem to have one problem. If I open my files using the standard doubl

Re: How NOT to require chapters to start on odd pages?

2009-06-09 Thread slitt
On Monday 08 June 2009 05:58:46 pm you wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:29:45 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My latest book has a layout based on the book document class. Even > > when I uncheck "two sided document" it still prints a blank even page > > if the preceding chapter ende

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.3

2009-06-09 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Olivier, On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > Congratulations for fixing that so fast. So I could test the speed of > elyxer, and it is +/- instantaneous for a document of 11 pages with figures > and 58 equations (not counting the inline ones). Thanks! Happy users are what m

Re: Installing Lyx 1.6.3 under Windows... A spell problem

2009-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Murat Yildizoglu schrieb: So, I am a little bit lost at this stage. When you reinstall LyX using the alternative Windows installer. it should work, because this installer uses more mirror servers to assure that the Aspell dictionaries can be installed. I just tested that it works. regards

Re: New XP installation of Lyx will not run

2009-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jayluh schrieb: There are several issues as following: The Installation process of single Lyx 1.63(not Bundle version) freezes somehow almost in the end(seems pretty busy downloading Tex compile-dependencies and executing Python scripts), after restart, it can't work. What installer ar

Installing Lyx 1.6.3 under Windows... A spell problem

2009-06-09 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hello, Thanks to Jürgen, I have been able to download the standard installer for the last version but I am having problems during the installation of Aspell. The installer tells me that it can not connect to the server for downloading the dictionaries. By the way, I have tried to download them man

Re: LabelString problem in custom layout

2009-06-09 Thread Ryan Warner
I can't seem to resolve this by changing the SecNumDepth in the layout file, but by changing the \secnumdepth setting in the .lyx file that fixed it. -Ryan On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 9 juin 09 à 17:55, Ryan Warner a écrit : >> >> I'm having a problem with th

Re: New XP installation of Lyx will not run

2009-06-09 Thread funnyjay
Rob Wheeler wrote: > > > > funnyjay wrote: >> >> >> Rob Wheeler wrote: >>> >>> I have installed Lyx on a Win XP system using the >>> "LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Complete" installation package. In fact I >>> have installed and de-installed it 4 times but each time it fails to >>> run. I click

Re[2]: New XP installation of Lyx will not run

2009-06-09 Thread Jayluh
Hello, There are several issues as following: The Installation process of single Lyx 1.63(not Bundle version) freezes somehow almost in the end(seems pretty busy downloading Tex compile-dependencies and executing Python scripts), after restart, it can't work. If changing the interface lang

Re: New XP installation of Lyx will not run

2009-06-09 Thread Rob Wheeler
funnyjay wrote: > > > Rob Wheeler wrote: >> >> I have installed Lyx on a Win XP system using the >> "LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Complete" installation package. In fact I have >> installed and de-installed it 4 times but each time it fails to run. I >> click the desktop shortcut and the batcvh

Re: New XP installation of Lyx will not run

2009-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
funnyjay schrieb: There are several bugs in this new version such as installation and language setting problems, Could you please be more precise, what is not working for you? How should we fix things we don't know? regards Uwe

Re: LabelString problem in custom layout

2009-06-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 9 juin 09 à 17:55, Ryan Warner a écrit : I'm having a problem with the attached custom layout. If I set the TocLevel of any of my styles to be > 2 the LabelString does not show up. Currently I work around this by setting TocLevel on all my styles to 2. This makes the LabelString show up, bu

LabelString problem in custom layout

2009-06-09 Thread Ryan Warner
I'm having a problem with the attached custom layout. If I set the TocLevel of any of my styles to be > 2 the LabelString does not show up. Currently I work around this by setting TocLevel on all my styles to 2. This makes the LabelString show up, but the ToC preview window shows the style at th

Re: coloured background in header and margin

2009-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I suspect so, although it looks like a difficult slog. You might try e-mailing Till Tantau, the author of Beamer, and ask him if he can recommend a resource he used to learn how to do it (?). Anything written in English, German or for that matter Klingon is probably going to be easier to read

Re: New XP installation of Lyx will not run

2009-06-09 Thread funnyjay
Rob Wheeler wrote: > > I have installed Lyx on a Win XP system using the > "LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Complete" installation package. In fact I have > installed and de-installed it 4 times but each time it fails to run. I > click the desktop shortcut and the batcvh file runs, briefly opens a > t

Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package

2009-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Asm_gmail schrieb: I took hours to do the whole fresh installation steps, Why that? It takes not longer than 5 minutes here. I haven't said that you should also uninstall MiKTeX. MiKTeX is the LaTeX distribution LyX used and can be left as is. So when you update LyX no LaTeX-packages will be

Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package

2009-06-09 Thread Asm_gmail
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I tested the update installer now again on 3 different machines and cannot reproduce the problem. I guess what you see can only occur when you once have installed LyX using the standard installer and then used the update installer. So to avoid further problems, can you pleas

Re: Shortcuts

2009-06-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 8 juin 09 à 08:29, Thomas Løcke a écrit : I do though have one request for the coming versions of LyX: When you mouseover the various GUI buttons, how about adding the shortcut to the popup text, eg. CTRL + E for the Emphasis button? Your message (which was not the first asking for this) pro

Re: Including LaTeX code produced by Sweave in a LyX document

2009-06-09 Thread obregonmateo
Maybe I missed something ... you don't need to use an external file to do this. Just specify that the results of the sweave chunk is latex. Within ERT bits: ->< ERT ><--- \SweaveOpts{echo=FALSE, print=FALSE} <>= library(xtable) @

Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package

2009-06-09 Thread Asm_gmail
Uwe Stöhr wrote: asm23 schrieb: Hi, I use the alternative package ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.3/LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Update.exe to update my 1.6.2 version. After updating, I found that in "Lyx preference -> paths", it is still D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\bin;d:\Program Files\MiKTeX

Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package

2009-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
asm23 schrieb: Hi, I use the alternative package ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.3/LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Update.exe to update my 1.6.2 version. After updating, I found that in "Lyx preference -> paths", it is still D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\bin;d:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin;D:

Re: Including LaTeX code produced by Sweave in a LyX document

2009-06-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 9 juin 09 à 09:52, christiaan pauw a écrit : Answering my own question for the record To include latex code generated by R through Sweave one has to specify a filename with a .tex extension save the latex files there. In that way Sweave doesnt print the tex code in the pdf document by saves

Re: coloured background in header and margin

2009-06-09 Thread christiaan pauw
That sound promising. How does one make use of such a feature in a article or report class. Do I have to dig up the tex code in the beamer .sty files and work them into the article style? 2009/5/25 Paul A. Rubin > Christiaan Pauw wrote: > > >> Is it possible to use background colours in a header

Re: Including LaTeX code produced by Sweave in a LyX document

2009-06-09 Thread christiaan pauw
Answering my own question for the record To include latex code generated by R through Sweave one has to specify a filename with a .tex extension save the latex files there. In that way Sweave doesnt print the tex code in the pdf document by saves it in the specified place. In LyX these tex docume