Re: summary

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 21:31:20 0 wrote: > Liviu Andronic and Vincent van Ravesteijn refuse to solve the problem and > says it's "external tools". Liviu Andronic says "it's problematic". > Vincent van Ravesteijn says "it is certainly not a LyX problem". This is an all time first. For the fi

worked! one note about y' -Does it happen with anybody else in this list?

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > From: Enrico Forestieri > Subject: Re: summary > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 12:14 PM > 0 writes: > > > Sounds like that the "view - opendocument" command is > really not in > > its proper place in Windows ins

Re: summary

2010-02-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
0 writes: > Sounds like that the "view - opendocument" command is really not in > its proper place in Windows installation of LyX - it fails to work > and should be absent A quick search in the archives would have revealed the solution to your problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40list

Conversion to odt - Summary

2010-02-02 Thread Typhoon
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:39:41 -0500 William Seager wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 at 21:09, 0 wrote: > > Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning > > me against it. As you can see from previous replies to my original > > request, this is a problem of MikTeX "ext

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread Typhoon
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500 William Seager wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 at 20:19, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > > I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to > > OpenDocument easily (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates > > *,odt. > > > > I apolog

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread William Seager
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 at 21:09, 0 wrote: > Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning me > against it. As you can see from previous replies to my original request, > this is a problem of MikTeX "external tools" and somebody said that this > list can't do anythi

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread Typhoon
tex4ht is availablel for Windows. I have no idea how well it works or what it takes to install it. One set of instructions are here: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn-mswin.html As Vincent said, installation of some of these programs is not the responsibility of LyX developers. A

summary

2010-02-02 Thread 0
Liviu Andronic and Vincent van Ravesteijn refuse to solve the problem and says it's "external tools". Liviu Andronic says "it's problematic". Vincent van Ravesteijn says "it is certainly not a LyX problem". William Seager uses Gentoo and has no such menu in "view". Tommaso Cucinotta offers to a

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread Typhoon
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500 William Seager wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 at 20:19, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > > I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to > > OpenDocument easily (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates > > *,odt. > > > > I apolog

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
0 wrote: I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... Then, I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I see that opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for expert users. Then, I have to (I unfortunately have no other ch

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, William Seager wrote: > From: William Seager > Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. > Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry > unfortunately I have no other choice > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread William Seager
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 at 20:19, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to > OpenDocument easily (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates > *,odt. > I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to OpenDocument opti

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > From: Waluyo Adi Siswanto > Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. > Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX > sorry unfortunately I have no other choice > To: the_herd_of_th

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > From: Waluyo Adi Siswanto > Subject: Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help! > To: "Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW" > Cc: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:35

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
On 2 February 2010 19:02, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >>[examples/splash.lyx] is the document which automatically opens when > user >>runs LyX first time after installation. The problem is that the "View - >>OpenDocument" command produces empty output for me. Please help! > > Don't use Ope

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
>> > >> >> We can't help that the third-party utilities are not >> correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the >> websites of these utilities and find out how you can >> properly install them. >> > > I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... > Then, I coul

LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > From: Vincent van Ravesteijn > Subject: Re: help! > To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 9:41 AM > > > Will I have to start using Linux to have this "View - > OpenDocument"

Re: help!

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Will I have to start using Linux to have this "View - OpenDocument" command work? Then, why don't LyX developers throw this command away from LyX Windows installation... We can't help that the third-party utilities are not correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the websites o

LyX relies on external tools... do I lack a miktex package?

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Liviu Andronic wrote: > From: Liviu Andronic > Subject: Re: help! > To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 8:42 AM > 0, PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPSLOCK > KEY. > > > On 2/2/10, 0 > wrote: > > I'LL TRY TO SEE W

htlatex scripts are HTML (but not ODT) aren't they?

2010-02-02 Thread 0
> Look in the wiki and in the lists archives for past > discussions. Here are some options I am familiar with: > > 1. convert Lyx to Html, and then read the html file into > word or openoffice. > This option uses the htlatex conversion scripts which rely > on the TeX4ht > package. The package mus

Re: help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Liviu Andronic wrote: > From: Liviu Andronic > Subject: Re: help! > To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 8:42 AM > > >  I am sure there are other routes. On my system > all the three options > >  successfull

Re: help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Liviu Andronic wrote: > From: Liviu Andronic > Subject: Re: help! > To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 8:42 AM > 0, PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPSLOCK > KEY. > I wasn't subscribed to the list. I had to copy

Re: help!

2010-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
0, PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPSLOCK KEY. On 2/2/10, 0 wrote: > I'LL TRY TO SEE WHAT HTLATEX SCRIPTS ARE. > BUT IF LYX HAS MENU "VIEW - OPENDOCUMENT", SHOULDN'T IT WORK RIGHT AFTER THE > INSTALLATION?! > No, not necessarily. LyX relies on external tools, and it is up to them to do the conversion j

Re: help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
I believe the question you're asking is: "How can I convert a Lyx file to Word or Word-like format?" The question has been asked several times and there is no single answer. It depends on what's in your document (text, math, images, etc.) , and on what you care to preserve in the transition Ly

Re: Lyx problem printing

2010-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dean Chandler schrieb: I am brand new to lyx/latex/tex. I installed lyx 1.61 under Ubuntu 8.04, using the Ubuntu backports repository. When I tried to print the tutorial, It should at least work when you export or view the file as PDF (pdflatex) and then print it using your PDF viewer prog

Re: Lyx problem printing

2010-02-02 Thread rgheck
On 02/02/2010 11:11 AM, Dean Chandler wrote: I am brand new to lyx/latex/tex. I installed lyx 1.61 under Ubuntu 8.04, using the Ubuntu backports repository. When I tried to print the tutorial, I got the following error: Lyx: Cannot convert file An error occurred whilst running python -tt '

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

2010-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: Fuzzy icons when they should be sharp, black lines that are not lines nor black any more. Don't tell me you don't see the problem with the table float image, it's obvious. I must admit that I never noticed this. As I now know where to look, I see that the lines in thi

Re: help!

2010-02-02 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 02/02/10, 0 wrote: >> From: 0 >> Subject: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help! >> To: lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:53 PM >> [examples/splash.lyx] is the document >> which automatically opens when user runs LyX fir

Lyx problem printing

2010-02-02 Thread Dean Chandler
I am brand new to lyx/latex/tex. I installed lyx 1.61 under Ubuntu 8.04, using the Ubuntu backports repository. When I tried to print the tutorial, I got the following error: Lyx: Cannot convert file An error occurred whilst running python -tt '/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx' -cbig After t

help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
> From: 0 > Subject: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help! > To: lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:53 PM > [examples/splash.lyx] is the document > which automatically opens when user runs LyX first time > after installatio

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-02, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >>This way, you can convert an equation to the source text > If you select the math contents and paste it in text, you'll see the > LaTeX code. This used to work with the mouse only in former versions, but it's fixed now to work also via keybind

Re: Parallel texts and LyX

2010-02-02 Thread Guido Milanese
On 30/01/2010 Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guido Milanese wrote: > > as many among you know, the package 'ledpar', written by Peter Wilson, > > not maintained anymore. > > > My questions are: > > (*) is there any support for this package in LyX? > > no. you might want to look at bug #4221. > > > (*) if

Re: Weird error LyX........solved....

2010-02-02 Thread M-L
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:44:05 +1100 M-L shared this with is all on the Lyx users list: >On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:36:24 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > shared this with is all on the Lyx users list: > >>Le 2 févr. 10 à 08:26, M-L a écrit : >>> %% THE CLASS OPTIONS >>> %% Remove preceeding '%' to uncomment

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Liviu Andronic wrote: > From: Liviu Andronic > Subject: Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help! > To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com > Cc: "Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW" , > lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Tuesday, Februar

Re:

2010-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
Maths is usually a problem. You need latex2rtf - I don't know if it is available for Windows. There you can specify, how you want your formulas to be converted. I am using the export to rtf, as it works much more reliable for me. Cheers, Rainer On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM, 0 wrote: > Expor

RE: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > From: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW > Subject: RE: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help! > To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 9:40 PM > > > > #yiv21

RE: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>>> Yes, dvi and pdf work fine for me. But I want OpenDocument because >>> I'm sending the file to another person and want him to be able to edit the file. >> >> I k now, but don't send your answer SEVEN times ?!? >> >> Vincent > > > The 1st email you could have received came to you only,while

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/2/10, 0 wrote: > I am a LyX user and still would appreciate any help on my problem. > Exporting LyX/LaTeX to .doc/.odt/.rtf and the like can be problematic. You can search the wiki and the archives for various experiences. Liviu

RE:

2010-02-02 Thread 0
Export doesn't work - still empty output. I don't have RTF exporter, and I am afraid RTF can't export math... This is the main thing I am going to use LyX for - to make math documents and to send them to other people who should be able to edit the formulas.

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
The 1st email you could have received came to you only,while I wanted it come to the lists. Then, my answer came to two lists (developers and users) three times because that server was slow to display them at the mailing lists' archives - I thought it failed to receive them and made further atte

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
Use the export functionality (might work), and possibly to RTF. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:51 PM, 0 wrote: > Yes, dvi and pdf work fine for me. But I want OpenDocument because I'm > sending the file to another person and want him to be able to edit the file. > > > > > _

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
Yes, dvi and pdf work fine for me. But I want OpenDocument because I'm sending the file to another person and want him to be able to edit the file. From: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW To: 0 ; lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tue, February

Re: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
I want to send [examples/splash.lyx] to Bob. Bob hasn't LyX. And I would like Bob to be able to edit this document. - Original Message From: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW To: 0 ; lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 8:02:15 PM Subject: RE: "View

RE: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
I want to send [examples/splash.lyx] to Bob. Bob hasn't LyX. And I would like Bob to be able to edit this document. --- On Tue, 2/2/10, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > From: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW > Subject: RE: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help! > To: the

RE: "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>[examples/splash.lyx] is the document which automatically opens when user >runs LyX first time after installation. The problem is that the "View - >OpenDocument" command produces empty output for me. Please help! Don't use OpenDocument. Use dvi or pdf to preview. Vincent

RE: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>This way, you can convert an equation to the source text >(which might be desirable for copying as well). > >The other way round is already implemented: Mark a valid >math expression (like \sin(x)) and press Ctrl-M. > If you select the math contents and paste it in text, you'll see the LaTeX code

"View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread 0
[examples/splash.lyx] is the document which automatically opens when user runs LyX first time after installation. The problem is that the "View - OpenDocument" command produces empty output for me. Please help! OS: Windows XP LyX: 1.6.5

Re: Character spacing in Lyx

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-01, Thomas Hedden wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.6.5 on Linux and want to apply, to some text, a character > attribute that is variously referred to as "character spacing", > "intercharacter spacing", "inter-character spacing", or merely "spacing", > and possibly other names as well. When use

Re: Weird error LyX........

2010-02-02 Thread M-L
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:36:24 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes shared this with is all on the Lyx users list: >Le 2 févr. 10 à 08:26, M-L a écrit : >> %% THE CLASS OPTIONS >> %% Remove preceeding '%' to uncomment an item >> \KOMAoptions{% >> ,headsepline=false%separate the header with a line

Re: unit package

2010-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:32:30 schrieb Guenter Milde: > On 2010-02-02, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am Saturday 30 January 2010 21:19:01 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> math menu--fractions button > > > > A few more questions re typography: Thanks again, Guenther, for the hints Wolfgang

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-01, rgheck wrote: > On 02/01/2010 02:29 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: >> On 1 February 2010 19:22, rgheck wrote: > ... All you have to do is have a special mode where LyX displays the > raw LaTeX, which it knows how to generate. This would be kind of like > the "preview" mode, where it displays

Re: unit package

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-02, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Saturday 30 January 2010 21:19:01 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >> math menu--fractions button > A few more questions re typography: > 1- how about 20 and 150g? This should be 20\,g and 150\,g. % \, is TeX for a small space > 2- In the (German) math L

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

2010-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Olivier Ripoll schrieb: When you have a look at the icons in the "images" folder, you see that there are icons with the size 24x24, 22x22 and 20x20; and all look OK for me in the toolbar. They don't for me: See attached picture, esp. the "table float" and the "save" icons.

Re: Weird error LyX........

2010-02-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 2 févr. 10 à 08:26, M-L a écrit : %% THE CLASS OPTIONS %% Remove preceeding '%' to uncomment an item \KOMAoptions{% ,headsepline=false%separate the header with a line on page What happens if you remove the comma in front of this line? I can't find it in the document any place a