Re: spellchecker problem

2006-05-19 Thread Stephen Harris
Liu Feng wrote: Dir Sir when I want to activate the spellchecker via TOOL-Preference, but 'Spellchecker executable' is grey out. No chance do it. Could you please tell me to fix this problem. Thanks BTW I am using lyx-1.4 English version in Win XP Feng I assume you meant lyx1.4.1 since

Re: mixing portrait and landscape in one document - solved!

2006-05-18 Thread Stephen Harris
in the preamble solved the problem! (the sara package is just some homemade latex macros, I should have removed it from the sample file, but it slipped my mind...) /Sara Stephen Harris wrote: #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass scrartcl

Re: mixing portrait and landscape in one document - solved!

2006-05-18 Thread Stephen Harris
in the preamble solved the problem! (the sara package is just some homemade latex macros, I should have removed it from the sample file, but it slipped my mind...) /Sara Stephen Harris wrote: #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass scrartcl

Re: mixing portrait and landscape in one document - solved!

2006-05-18 Thread Stephen Harris
in the preamble solved the problem! (the sara package is just some homemade latex macros, I should have removed it from the sample file, but it slipped my mind...) /Sara Stephen Harris wrote: #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass scrartcl

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears to be DVI. (I already had

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
Stephen Harris wrote: Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears to be DVI. (I already had

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
Stephen Harris wrote: Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears to be DVI. (I already had

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
Stephen Harris wrote: Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears

Re: Typing Copyright (C) and Trademark (tm) symbols

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
Patton, Eric wrote: Can anyone tell me how to do this? Is there some special key combination that must be typed? Using Lyx 1.4.1 binary on Windows PC. Thanks, ~~~ Eric Patton Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)

slightly OT: windows email/news client workaround misc. urls

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
I used to use Outlook Express for composing emails for the LyX user group. I got some complaints about the formatting of messages. I switched to Thunderbird which goes with Firefox and it worked well except for one problem. When I read news next, the Subject: would get opened fully expanded for

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: I have a figure that is imported and rotated 90 degrees (so it reads down to up), but the caption remains left to right. Is there a way to make a caption (in a float) read down to up? Eric http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~tex/manual/node37.html If a figure or table is too

Re: Typing Copyright (C) and Trademark (tm) symbols

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
Patton, Eric wrote: Can anyone tell me how to do this? Is there some special key combination that must be typed? Using Lyx 1.4.1 binary on Windows PC. Thanks, ~~~ Eric Patton Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)

slightly OT: windows email/news client workaround misc. urls

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
I used to use Outlook Express for composing emails for the LyX user group. I got some complaints about the formatting of messages. I switched to Thunderbird which goes with Firefox and it worked well except for one problem. When I read news next, the Subject: would get opened fully expanded for

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: I have a figure that is imported and rotated 90 degrees (so it reads down to up), but the caption remains left to right. Is there a way to make a caption (in a float) read down to up? Eric http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~tex/manual/node37.html If a figure or table is too

Re: Typing Copyright (C) and Trademark (tm) symbols

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
Patton, Eric wrote: Can anyone tell me how to do this? Is there some special key combination that must be typed? Using Lyx 1.4.1 binary on Windows PC. Thanks, ~~~ Eric Patton Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)

slightly OT: windows email/news client workaround misc. urls

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
I used to use Outlook Express for composing emails for the LyX user group. I got some complaints about the formatting of messages. I switched to Thunderbird which goes with Firefox and it worked well except for one problem. When I read news next, the Subject: would get opened fully expanded for

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: I have a figure that is imported and rotated 90 degrees (so it reads down to up), but the caption remains left to right. Is there a way to make a caption (in a float) read down to up? Eric http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~tex/manual/node37.html "If a figure or table is too

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-05-14 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Wojcik wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: So my nonadmin user was able to use linkd and it does not appear that linkd requires admin rights like some of the dos commands. This worked on XP pro, I am not sure about XP home. Your idea appears cleaner/easier. linkd, if it's available

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-05-14 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Wojcik wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: So my nonadmin user was able to use linkd and it does not appear that linkd requires admin rights like some of the dos commands. This worked on XP pro, I am not sure about XP home. Your idea appears cleaner/easier. linkd, if it's available

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-05-14 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Wojcik wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: So my nonadmin user was able to use linkd and it does not appear that linkd requires admin rights like some of the dos commands. This worked on XP pro, I am not sure about XP home. Your idea appears cleaner/easier. linkd, if it's available

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric Yes, iirc it is done with forward slashes, {C:/lyxtemp/foo.pdf} I think this applies from the user list thread Paths in

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. -- Enrico Forestieri suggested for

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric Yes, iirc it is done with forward slashes, {C:/lyxtemp/foo.pdf} I think this applies from the user list thread Paths in

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. -- Enrico Forestieri suggested for

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric Yes, iirc it is done with forward slashes, {C:/lyxtemp/foo.pdf} I think this applies from the user list thread "Paths in

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. -- Enrico Forestieri suggested

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Wojcik wrote: [This is a rather late followup - I'm catching up on personal email - but may still be of interest.] Stephen Harris wrote: Regarding the C:\Aspell limitation to portability, perhaps the dos subst or label command would serve as a workaround. Suppose your USB drive was J

Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Harris
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI:

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Wojcik wrote: [This is a rather late followup - I'm catching up on personal email - but may still be of interest.] Stephen Harris wrote: Regarding the C:\Aspell limitation to portability, perhaps the dos subst or label command would serve as a workaround. Suppose your USB drive was J

Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Harris
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI:

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Wojcik wrote: [This is a rather late followup - I'm catching up on personal email - but may still be of interest.] Stephen Harris wrote: Regarding the C:\Aspell limitation to portability, perhaps the dos subst or label command would serve as a workaround. Suppose your USB drive

Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Harris
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI:

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Maria Gouskova wrote: I have the same exact problem, also on Mac OS 10.4.6--upgrading from 1.3x to 1.4 broke image support. I used JPEG images, and LyX says it cannot find a converter. Reconfiguring LyX didn't fix it. What is the converter for JPEG images, just so I can manually define it

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Maria Gouskova wrote: Well, I am no pro at this, but it appears that ImageMagick was in fact installed on my machine, because deleting the preferences file (as per Bennett Helm's suggestion) fixed the problem. That was all I had to do. My guess is that the installer script somehow messed up

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Maria Gouskova wrote: I have the same exact problem, also on Mac OS 10.4.6--upgrading from 1.3x to 1.4 broke image support. I used JPEG images, and LyX says it cannot find a converter. Reconfiguring LyX didn't fix it. What is the converter for JPEG images, just so I can manually define it

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Maria Gouskova wrote: Well, I am no pro at this, but it appears that ImageMagick was in fact installed on my machine, because deleting the preferences file (as per Bennett Helm's suggestion) fixed the problem. That was all I had to do. My guess is that the installer script somehow messed up

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Maria Gouskova wrote: I have the same exact problem, also on Mac OS 10.4.6--upgrading from 1.3x to 1.4 broke image support. I used JPEG images, and LyX says it cannot find a converter. Reconfiguring LyX didn't fix it. What is the converter for JPEG images, just so I can manually define it

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Maria Gouskova wrote: Well, I am no pro at this, but it appears that ImageMagick was in fact installed on my machine, because deleting the preferences file (as per Bennett Helm's suggestion) fixed the problem. That was all I had to do. My guess is that the installer script somehow messed up

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an

Re: Mistake

2006-05-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Carlos Knauer schrieb: There is amistake in LyX 1.3.7. I use it on WinXP. I'll send three files. A LyX file, a tex file and a PDF file. LyX converts wrong the code to TeX. This tex file is correct. But try to compile the LyX file. You will see the mistake. Could you

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Angus Wallace wrote: Howdy all, Sorry to join the list with a question.. I've just upgraded LyX from 1.3.4 to 1.4.1. I ran the installer script, and all appeared well. However, I seem to have lost support for my figures. I have a document with a mixture of eps and png figures, that

Re: Mistake

2006-05-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Carlos Knauer schrieb: There is amistake in LyX 1.3.7. I use it on WinXP. I'll send three files. A LyX file, a tex file and a PDF file. LyX converts wrong the code to TeX. This tex file is correct. But try to compile the LyX file. You will see the mistake. Could you

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Angus Wallace wrote: Howdy all, Sorry to join the list with a question.. I've just upgraded LyX from 1.3.4 to 1.4.1. I ran the installer script, and all appeared well. However, I seem to have lost support for my figures. I have a document with a mixture of eps and png figures, that

Re: Mistake

2006-05-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Carlos Knauer schrieb: There is amistake in LyX 1.3.7. I use it on WinXP. I'll send three files. A LyX file, a tex file and a PDF file. LyX converts wrong the code to TeX. This tex file is correct. But try to compile the LyX file. You will see the mistake. Could you

Re: LyX png and eps

2006-05-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Angus Wallace wrote: Howdy all, Sorry to join the list with a question.. I've just upgraded LyX from 1.3.4 to 1.4.1. I ran the installer script, and all appeared well. However, I seem to have lost support for my figures. I have a document with a mixture of eps and png figures, that

Re: [Windows] Installation: Failed attempting to execute the configure script

2006-05-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Andreas Nauerz wrote: During installation I receive the above mentioned error message. This happens if I use the Lxy installer which expects that all other stuff has already been installed (Miktex, GS, etc.), as well as if I use the installer that installs the whole bunch of dependencies. I

Re: pdfpages \includepdf not working

2006-05-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Marc Vinyals wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Error: pdflatex (file Questionnaire.pdf): cannot find image file == Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! My LyX document and the PDF are saved in the same folder, and I'm using the following in an ERT:

Re: [Windows] Installation: Failed attempting to execute the configure script

2006-05-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Andreas Nauerz wrote: During installation I receive the above mentioned error message. This happens if I use the Lxy installer which expects that all other stuff has already been installed (Miktex, GS, etc.), as well as if I use the installer that installs the whole bunch of dependencies. I

Re: pdfpages \includepdf not working

2006-05-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Marc Vinyals wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Error: pdflatex (file Questionnaire.pdf): cannot find image file == Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! My LyX document and the PDF are saved in the same folder, and I'm using the following in an ERT:

Re: [Windows] Installation: Failed attempting to execute the configure script

2006-05-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Andreas Nauerz wrote: During installation I receive the above mentioned error message. This happens if I use the Lxy installer which expects that all other stuff has already been installed (Miktex, GS, etc.), as well as if I use the installer that installs the whole bunch of dependencies. I

Re: pdfpages \includepdf not working

2006-05-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Marc Vinyals wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Error: pdflatex (file Questionnaire.pdf): cannot find image file ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! My LyX document and the PDF are saved in the same folder, and I'm using the following in an ERT:

Re: AW: lys installation on Windows Xp

2006-05-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Thanks for your answer! OK, so I will go through the procedure as described by you. Another question: Do I need ghostscript even if I am planning to view the documents in a PDF-viewer. I thought ghostscript is required to view postscript files. I still could

Re: AW: lys installation on Windows Xp

2006-05-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Thanks for your answer! OK, so I will go through the procedure as described by you. Another question: Do I need ghostscript even if I am planning to view the documents in a PDF-viewer. I thought ghostscript is required to view postscript files. I still could

Re: AW: lys installation on Windows Xp

2006-05-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Thanks for your answer! OK, so I will go through the procedure as described by you. Another question: Do I need ghostscript even if I am planning to view the documents in a PDF-viewer. I thought ghostscript is required to view postscript files. I still could

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Abshoff wrote: Hello, It works fine under LyX on Linux. Great, actually. The problem here is that there are no named pipes under Windows, I disagree with you on that one. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/named_pipes.asp Windows

Re: lys installation on Windows Xp

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Harris
Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Hello, is it possible to install LyX on my Notebook wihout having administrator rights? I would like to install it within my My-Documents Folder - if possible with the complete functionality. At home I have it installed on my Mac which runs fine but at work I have a

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Abshoff wrote: Hello, It works fine under LyX on Linux. Great, actually. The problem here is that there are no named pipes under Windows, I disagree with you on that one. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/named_pipes.asp Windows

Re: lys installation on Windows Xp

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Harris
Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Hello, is it possible to install LyX on my Notebook wihout having administrator rights? I would like to install it within my My-Documents Folder - if possible with the complete functionality. At home I have it installed on my Mac which runs fine but at work I have a

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Harris
Michael Abshoff wrote: Hello, It works fine under LyX on Linux. Great, actually. The problem here is that there are no "named pipes" under Windows, I disagree with you on that one. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/named_pipes.asp "Windows

Re: lys installation on Windows Xp

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Harris
Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Hello, is it possible to install LyX on my Notebook wihout having administrator rights? I would like to install it within my My-Documents Folder - if possible with the complete functionality. At home I have it installed on my Mac which runs fine but at work I have a

Re: poor resolution for svg

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: Because svg is not defined as a format yet. Do that, and then it will also be available for converters. How could I do this? If this needs a change in LyX's source code I would ask you if you could do this please (and also apply this to the 1.4.x

Re: poor resolution for svg

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: I would like to add something that isn't obvious. When you add this converter, it only works if the PATH variable is updated so that the executable is recognized from the command line. So, if you add a converter, make sure to update your PATH environment

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Sam Lewis wrote: I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data files in a predefined location portability has been lost. ... Are there considerations about

Re: poor resolution for svg

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: Because svg is not defined as a format yet. Do that, and then it will also be available for converters. How could I do this? If this needs a change in LyX's source code I would ask you if you could do this please (and also apply this to the 1.4.x

Re: poor resolution for svg

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: I would like to add something that isn't obvious. When you add this converter, it only works if the PATH variable is updated so that the executable is recognized from the command line. So, if you add a converter, make sure to update your PATH environment

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Sam Lewis wrote: I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data files in a predefined location portability has been lost. ... Are there considerations about

Re: poor resolution for svg

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: Because svg is not defined as a format yet. Do that, and then it will also be available for converters. How could I do this? If this needs a change in LyX's source code I would ask you if you could do this please (and also apply this to the 1.4.x

Re: poor resolution for svg

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: I would like to add something that isn't obvious. When you add this converter, it only works if the PATH variable is updated so that the executable is recognized from the command line. So, if you add a converter, make sure to update your PATH environment

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Sam Lewis wrote: > I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't > be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a > and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data files in a > predefined location portability has been lost. ... Are there considerations

Re: Win2003 - LyX1.3.7 crashes/LyX1.4.1 language problem

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Harris
Mike wrote: locales are availible in C:\Programme\LyX141\Resources\locale, so that should be fine. I searched in the mailing list archive, but I couldn't find an answer or a tip how to fix that problem. Maybe one of you know the solution. Best regards Mike If you mean the menus are in

Re: Win2003 - LyX1.3.7 crashes/LyX1.4.1 language problem

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Harris
Mike wrote: locales are availible in C:\Programme\LyX141\Resources\locale, so that should be fine. I searched in the mailing list archive, but I couldn't find an answer or a tip how to fix that problem. Maybe one of you know the solution. Best regards Mike If you mean the menus are in

Re: Win2003 - LyX1.3.7 crashes/LyX1.4.1 language problem

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Harris
Mike wrote: locales are availible in C:\Programme\LyX141\Resources\locale, so that should be fine. I searched in the mailing list archive, but I couldn't find an answer or a tip how to fix that problem. Maybe one of you know the solution. Best regards Mike If you mean the menus are in

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Paul Smith wrote: On 4/24/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest another enhancement: the ability to remove the older LyX, in case one is previously installed. Why that? You can remove the old installed LyX version easily by its uninstaller. There is no uninstaller for the

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stephen Harris schrieb: Next, the Win1.4.x installer is still beta and there is a list of potential problems at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x so it is prudent/competent to install the LyX1.3.7 version. It's not beta! LyXWIninstaller is now very stable: I have

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Paul Smith wrote: On 4/24/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest another enhancement: the ability to remove the older LyX, in case one is previously installed. Why that? You can remove the old installed LyX version easily by its uninstaller. There is no uninstaller for the

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stephen Harris schrieb: Next, the Win1.4.x installer is still beta and there is a list of potential problems at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x so it is prudent/competent to install the LyX1.3.7 version. It's not beta! LyXWIninstaller is now very stable: I have

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Paul Smith wrote: On 4/24/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would suggest another enhancement: the ability to remove the older LyX, in case one is previously installed. Why that? You can remove the old installed LyX version easily by its uninstaller. There is no uninstaller for the

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stephen Harris schrieb: Next, the Win1.4.x installer is still beta and there is a list of potential problems at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x so it is prudent/competent to install the LyX1.3.7 version. It's not beta! LyXWIninstaller is now very stable: I have

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-25 Thread Stephen Harris
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Bo Peng wrote: you can find the windows installer for LyX 1.4.1. This comes a week later after all my troubles with the official installer (see my another email), still this installer should be celebrated! Uwe, I have asked before what has prevented us to make your installer the official one.

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Bo Peng wrote: Hi, all, Both the 1.4.x installer versions have flaws and it is to be expected that the newer release (Uwe) would incorporate more fixes. The Angus installer is not going to reflect bug improvements without an active maintainer and Uwe has stated he doesn't have time to

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Bo Peng wrote: you can find the windows installer for LyX 1.4.1. This comes a week later after all my troubles with the official installer (see my another email), still this installer should be celebrated! Uwe, I have asked before what has prevented us to make your installer the official one.

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Bo Peng wrote: Hi, all, Both the 1.4.x installer versions have flaws and it is to be expected that the newer release (Uwe) would incorporate more fixes. The Angus installer is not going to reflect bug improvements without an active maintainer and Uwe has stated he doesn't have time to

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Bo Peng wrote: you can find the windows installer for LyX 1.4.1. This comes a week later after all my troubles with the official installer (see my another email), still this installer should be celebrated! Uwe, I have asked before what has prevented us to make your installer the official one.

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Bo Peng wrote: Hi, all, Both the 1.4.x installer versions have flaws and it is to be expected that the newer release (Uwe) would incorporate more fixes. The Angus installer is not going to reflect bug improvements without an active maintainer and Uwe has stated he doesn't have time to

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