FW: help/cannot open after emergency stop...

From: Wu, Yan Sent: 16 May 2014 08:29 To: lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org Subject: help/cannot open after emergency stop... Dear Sir/madam, I am lyx user of version 2.1.0 Today when I am writing with LyX. Suddenly the document c

Re: is it possible to create a lyx file as flat ASCII file?

Sooo ... the answer is: yes it is possible I just had no idea how sensitive LyX is for whitespace when loading a file. I found an extra space at the end of a sentence can create the wobble of not loading the document settings properly. Anyway, the python script below works for me - it loads all th

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > > On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: > > but I am not sure RCS > (which is described on that wiki page) could not be corrupted as well by > this bug. Other version control options are described in Help

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at using LyX, things go

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: > It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL. A minor annoyance > though compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting > better at using LyX, things go faster now. I am going to start using > version control. I found this

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed for backups. Ouch. I didn’t even know that was an option.  I’m still learning LyX, but it only ta

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 20:08 GMT+02:00 Scott Kostyshak: > Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's > going on, maybe with a few more reports we can get lucky and pick out > a pattern. > I was hit myself again by this some days ago while I pasted in a table. After I restored the l

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

On May 15, 2014 at 12:08:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost...@lyx.org) wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:  > We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-(  Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's  going on, maybe with a few

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-( Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's going on, maybe with a few more reports we can get lucky and pick out a pattern. Scott

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: > I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory > listed for backups. > Ouch. > I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or \end_document > anywhere in the file. The document ends with “\begin_inset Tabular”. > So

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

Hi Steve, Sorry to hear about all this. It sounds like a really frustrating experience and even though it's 6 hours, it would be 6 painful hours to do something you've already done. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot even get to the point where I am

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

On May 15, 2014 at 03:40:54 AM, aparsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) wrote: On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:  In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the  .lyx.emergency file do not end with  \end_body  \end_document  you can check if you have a workin

fourier font

Hello, It appears that lyx (in fac probably texlive, does not like the fourier font. Typically in math mode and specially when it in \bm mode and absolutely not in a title, same issue when using color. See attached file. ===

Re: problems recognising existing git repo

Thanks Richard, problem solved - it was a path issue. This may help someone...if you want to use version control from within Lyx, you need to ensure that git is on the path. This can be set from within LyX at Tools - Preferences - Paths - PATH prefix. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Richard He

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the .lyx.emergency file do not end with \end_body \end_document you can check if you have a working backup in your backups directory (see Tools > Preferences > Paths). HTH