Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:12:01 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > > Maybe one can take the time to look at one of the already existing > > converters from RCS (CVS?) to SVN/GIT or whatever else LyX can > > handle, but to be honest, why bother? >

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Maybe one can take the time to look at one of the already existing converters from RCS (CVS?) to SVN/GIT or whatever else LyX can handle, but to be honest, why bother? el, Even as a single user I've found git better suited to my needs than svn.

Re: Text output encodings

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Via Markedown export? el On 2018-02-19 20:44 , F M Salter wrote: > On 19/02/18 07:55, F M Salter wrote: >> Hi >> >>     When plain text is used as output, emphasised text loses emphasis. >> >>     Is there any way by which text output may be specified with utf-8 >> encoding?   Emphasis could then

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, half in jest :-)-O RCS on an an existing file is better than no version control, or starting a new version control with different software (on the same document, and loosing all previous version control). It also works for single users very well, I have a few documents with includes all un

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Well, I can look at my Time Machine backups tomorrow :-)-O el On 2018-02-20 18:57 , Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2018-02-20, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> I found masses of these when switching to 2.2 (I think) and I resolved >> this with a perl script if I remember correctly :-)-O > > Do you still

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-20 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 20.02.2018 um 17:57 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2018-02-20, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: I found masses of these when switching to 2.2 (I think) and I resolved this with a perl script if I remember correctly :-)-O Do you still have the originals? This could help us a lot to test whether the fix

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2018-02-20, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > I found masses of these when switching to 2.2 (I think) and I resolved > this with a perl script if I remember correctly :-)-O Do you still have the originals? This could help us a lot to test whether the fix is correct. Günter

Re: Text output encodings

2018-02-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2018-02-19, F M Salter wrote: >     To explain in more detail.    LyX uses utf-8.   utf-8 is standard on > most operating systems. >     RTF is obsolescent and is not a text file. >     If I insert utf-8 italic characters into a LyX file, the plain text > output contains italic characters. F

Re: Small poll - download speed of LyX installers

2018-02-20 Thread el
Ok, will do both and the speed test tonight. Can perhaps even get the 4G from my landline provider :-)-O el — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone X On 20 Feb 2018, 16:23 +0200, Pavel Sanda , wrote: > Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > I'll repeat this together with the speed test on the 12" tonight so you >

Re: Small poll - download speed of LyX installers

2018-02-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > $ time wget > 'ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0rc2/LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg' > > > Am 16.02.2018 um 21:32 schrieb Pavel Sanda: >> Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> Ok, updating >> US(CA); 1.88MB/s; academic network; M: UCSD(89.4MB/s), PL(6.83M/s)

Re: Small poll - download speed of LyX installers

2018-02-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > I'll repeat this together with the speed test on the 12" tonight so you > can see it for comparison. Interesting would be if you try to download from south african mirror - what would be the difference of your speed. ftp://mirror.ufs.ac.za/applications/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: can you quickly hack up a converter for existing documents? Eberhard, I don't understand what you're asking. When I want to track changes to a document I set up a git repository in that document's subdirectory, external to lyx. Within LyX I u

Re: AW: AW: Cannot determine size of graphic

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On review, you enclosed Dienstleistungsdyade.jpg, which my Thunderbird saved as .jpg file with the extension .jpeg on the Mac. So that was not the case. In the LyX file the image is referred to as Abbildungen/Dienstleistung/Dienstleistungsdyade.jpg ie as relative path, maybe put an abs

AW: Cannot determine size of graphic

2018-02-20 Thread ah
Thanks a lot, Scott and Wolfgang, in the near future I´ll have to transform my thesis-format into a format for a book publication at Springer-Verlag. I got some latex-submittals srl-vorl.dtx and srl-vorl.ins from Springer and still don´t know how to insert in lyx. First I´ll try for myself, but I

AW: AW: Cannot determine size of graphic

2018-02-20 Thread ah
Thanks a lot, el I only use jpg-format and the format ".jpeg" is nowhere to be found in my thesis and the referred graphic-files. Don´t know what happened. But it works now as noticed at the end of this mail. Best Andreas -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dr Eberhard Lisse [mailto:nos.

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, can you quickly hack up a converter for existing documents? :-)-O el On 17/02/2018 15:40, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> For the record, it turned out that High Sierra is no more compatible >> with old RCS binaries (if you manually run co -l file.lyx y

Re: Small poll - download speed of LyX installers

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Pavel, I live in Windhoek, Namibia and thought I also run a standard speed test for comparison This is via my leased line at home from the up and coming competitor, which is capped at 384 KBps (ethernet from the router to a MacPro) time ncftpget ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0

Re: Cannot determine size of graphic

2018-02-20 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 20.02.2018 um 09:54 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: I got the same error, but found that the file referred to was Dienstleistungsdyade.jpg wheras you enclosed Dienstleistungsdyade.jpeg could that be the cause? greetings, el On 19/02/2018 21:13, a...@andreashegenbart.de wr

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I found masses of these when switching to 2.2 (I think) and I resolved this with a perl script if I remember correctly :-)-O el On 19/02/2018 11:35, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Am 19.02.2018 um 09:42 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: >> Am Montag, den 19.02.2018, 09:28 +0100 schrieb Kornel Benko

Re: AW: Cannot determine size of graphic

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I got the same error, but found that the file referred to was Dienstleistungsdyade.jpg wheras you enclosed Dienstleistungsdyade.jpeg could that be the cause? greetings, el On 19/02/2018 21:13, a...@andreashegenbart.de wrote: > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: