Re: lyx command-line

2011-06-13 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Thanks rh. My OS is Windows 7 64bit professional. On 13/06/2011 16:52, Richard Heck wrote: On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Dear Lyx developers, I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt in windows: 1) Typing LyX -help or LyX --help displays nothing. I ca

Re: lyx command-line

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: > Dear Lyx developers, > I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt > in windows: > 1) Typing > LyX -help > or > LyX --help > displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth. > But if I forget the switches

lyx command-line

2011-06-13 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Dear Lyx developers, I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt in windows: 1) Typing LyX -help or LyX --help displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth. But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help. 2) Lyx does not return/display an

Re: Lyx-Command for inserting Tex-Code

2009-03-24 Thread Florian Rubach
I don't know this special case, but what TeX commands do you frequently need? Well, in my case, these are some really specific commands. For example, as a chemist, I want the Substances in my Texts to have a number orderered by appearance, and at the same time I want to define a short name. S

Re: Lyx-Command for inserting Tex-Code

2009-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
arne12345 schrieb: I wondered if there is a Lyx-Command to insert a specific TEX-Code > (e.g. "\newline"). But LyX already support \newline via the Insert->Formatting menu its shortcut is Strg+Return as described in the LyX UserGuide. The "ert-insert"-command on

Re: Lyx-Command for inserting Tex-Code

2009-03-24 Thread Florian Rubach
arne12345 schrieb: Hi, I wondered if there is a Lyx-Command to insert a specific TEX-Code (e.g. "\newline"). The "ert-insert"-command only opens an input box, but I would like to create a toolbar for inserting frequently used tex-codes. Can I specify an argument for "

Lyx-Command for inserting Tex-Code

2009-03-24 Thread arne12345
Hi, I wondered if there is a Lyx-Command to insert a specific TEX-Code (e.g. "\newline"). The "ert-insert"-command only opens an input box, but I would like to create a toolbar for inserting frequently used tex-codes. Can I specify an argument for "ert-insert&quo

Re: lyx command

2007-03-23 Thread Manoj Joseph
David L. Johnson wrote: You seem to have not one, but two versions of lyx, both the xforms interface (old and bad) and the new and better qt one. Try entering lyx-qt at the command line, rather than just lyx. I presume that will work. Then, to save your fingers, create a symbolic link from

Re: lyx command

2007-03-23 Thread David L. Johnson
Manoj Joseph wrote: Hi, I am trying to install lyx 1.3.7 on my Ubuntu desktop. I have installed the following packages. lyx_1.3.7-0.lyx.org.1_all.deb lyx-common_1.3.7-0.lyx.org.1_all.deb lyx-qt_1.3.7-0.lyx.org.1_i386.deb lyx-xforms_1.3.7-0.lyx.org.1_i386.deb I still do not see the command ly

lyx command

2007-03-23 Thread Manoj Joseph
-xforms are there.) I am trying to make some lyx documents. BUt make is failing like this: /bin/sh: lyx: command not found *** Warning: not creating LaTeX docs; install lyx to rectify this Can anyone help? Regards Manoj

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/20/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and > >> then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list > >> via gmane). For example, I press L in kmail when I want to answer to the > >> list. > >

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-20 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Wed 19 Oct 2005 19:42:31 BST, [Paul] wrote : \_ PS: Please always reply to the list I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using > > | whitespace... > > > > find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \; > > then (ha!) > > Thanks. I've just

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using > | whitespace... > > find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \; > then (ha!) Thanks. I've just learnt something. Don't you have to quote the args passed to convert? Bet you s

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: >> I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and >> then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list >> via gmane). For example, I press L in kmail when I want to answer to the >> list. > > I ignored all those details (discussed at t

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using | whitespace... find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \; then (ha!) | > (and you forgot a '$') | | Right :) (And restricted the search to the foo directory ra

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
[drifting off-topic] In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using > whitespace... > > Perhaps the bigger problem is that you can overrun the internal array size > used by "for" to store the list of returne

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/19/05, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's > address. > > I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and > then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list via > gmane). For e

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2005 20:51 schrieb Paul Smith: > I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's address. I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list via gmane). For exa

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming writes: > | find foo -name '*.gif' | while read file > | do > | pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png > | convert "$file" "pngfile" > | done > Hmm... I thought thiw was usually written as a for-loop. > for file in `find foo -name \*.gif` ; do >

Re: [OT Mail List header rewriting ] Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:32:06PM +0100, Paul wrote: > My experience of lists is that 99% of the time I want to reply to the > whole list, so it makes sense to me to have that as the default. > > > If someone really decides to make the change, please set the rewriter to put > > both the originato

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 10/19/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > >>> PS: Please always reply to the list | > > | > > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves | > > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list | > > subscribers.

Re: [OT Mail List header rewriting ] Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Paul
Todd Denniston wrote: >>I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's address. > > I could agree ... if I had not seen the problems it can cause. > example: the MUSCLE list (smart cards) > http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle > > First: to me this breaks the rule

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | find foo -name '*.gif' | while read file | do | pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png | convert "$file" "pngfile" | done Hmm... I thought thiw was usually written as a for-loop. for file in `find foo -name \*.gif` ; do pngfile=`basename "

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >>> PS: Please always reply to the list | > | > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves | > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list | > subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different | > habit

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Maybe it's just my mail client, but this list seems to default for a > reply to the sender instead of to the list, unlike all the other lists > I've ever been on. I accidently sent a reply intended for the list to > the sender and didn't rea

[OT Mail List header rewriting ] Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Todd Denniston
Paul Smith wrote: > > On 10/19/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> PS: Please always reply to the list > > > > > > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves > > > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list > > > subscribers. css-discuss, on the

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/19/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> PS: Please always reply to the list > > > > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves > > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list > > subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Paul
>>> PS: Please always reply to the list > > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list > subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different > habits. The main question to ask is "would the grou

RE: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Mike Meyer wrote: >> 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like >> for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | >> sed 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done > > basename is safer: > > for file in $(find . -name *.gif) > do > convert $file $(basename $file .gif).png > done

RE: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like > for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | sed > 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done basename is safer: for file in $(find . -name *.gif) do conv

RE: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
aum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:56 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: Lyx command line question > > > Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > > > Yes it should but you must note that Export->Pdflatex is > different to > > Export-&

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 06:04, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > That said, I can't understand why people steer away from encapsulated > PostScript, which in most cases ought to be used as it preserves and > incorporates vectors rather than pixels. If used properly, it is also far > smaller in terms of

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Yes it should but you must note that Export->Pdflatex is different to > Export->latex followed by running pdflatex on the file. > > In the second case the only Export that Lyx is performing is Lyx->tex. > This will not convert any graphics file formats. This is true for 1

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Roy Schestowitz
PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Lyx command line question Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 16:09 schrieb Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.): Georg/Angus, From within the GUI things work fine. It is just the conversion on the commandline that does not do the part w

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Lyx

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 16:09 schrieb Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.): > Georg/Angus, > > From within the GUI things work fine. It is just the conversion on the > commandline that does not do the part where the gif file is converted to > some format pdflatex understands. Convert is present on my sy

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: > I try to use lyx from the command line. > > In lyx 1.4pre2 preview pdflatex goes fine. > > On the commandline I get: > > $ lyx --export latex myfile.lyx > ... lot of messages but OK > $ pdflatex myfile.tex > ... goes fine except for an gif image. I can

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: > I try to use lyx from the command line. > > In lyx 1.4pre2 preview pdflatex goes fine. > > On the commandline I get: > > $ lyx --export latex myfile.lyx > ... lot of messages but OK > $ pdflatex myfile.tex > ... goes fine except for an gif image. I can

Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
I try to use lyx from the command line. In lyx 1.4pre2 preview pdflatex goes fine. On the commandline I get: $ lyx --export latex myfile.lyx ... lot of messages but OK $ pdflatex myfile.tex ... goes fine except for an gif image. I can the latex question about an image not being found and

Re: lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-06-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
G. Milde writes: > On 29.05.05, Paul Smith wrote: > > On 5/20/05, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there a way to bind a key combination to an ERT box > > > > containing \noindent? (I've never tried to create a key > > > > binding to produce ERT -- that I can recall, at least.) > > >

Re: lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-06-08 Thread G. Milde
On 29.05.05, Paul Smith wrote: > On 5/20/05, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way to bind a key combination to an ERT box containing > > > \noindent? (I've never tried to create a key binding to produce ERT -- > > > that I can recall, at least.) > > > > "command-sequence ert-i

Re: lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-05-29 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/20/05, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to bind a key combination to an ERT box containing > > \noindent? (I've never tried to create a key binding to produce ERT -- > > that I can recall, at least.) > > "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent; inset-toggle;

Re: lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-05-20 Thread G. Milde
On 19.05.05, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > Is there a way to bind a key combination to an ERT box containing > \noindent? (I've never tried to create a key binding to produce ERT -- > that I can recall, at least.) "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent; inset-tog

Re: lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-05-19 Thread Johan Ingvast
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > Is there a way to bind a key combination to an ERT box containing > \noindent? (I've never tried to create a key binding to produce ERT -- > that I can recall, at least.) Sure, I do that alot. This comes from my my.bind \bind

Re: lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
les in LYXDIR. Can anyone help? No, 'fraid not. The lyx command in this case is too coarse for you. It applies the entire contents of the dialog. Angus Is there a way to bind a key combination to an ERT box containing \noindent? (I've never tried to create a key binding to produce ERT --

Re: lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
yone help? No, 'fraid not. The lyx command in this case is too coarse for you. It applies the entire contents of the dialog. Angus

lyx command for "do not indent paragraph"?

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I spent some time on the train yesterday trying to set up a shortcut for this option (the checkbox under "Layout --> Paragraph") but could not steal-- or _find_ a name for this command in any of the keybindings or any other files in LYXDIR. Can anyone help? -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMA

Re: Problems with lyx command line in WIN32/Cygwin environment

2004-08-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:38, Angus Leeming wrote: > If I remember rightly, Ruurd provided a stripped down subset of python > with his Win32 lyx package. Such a strategy has proved to be fragile as > lyx2lyx's capabilities and requirements have increased with subsequent > releases of lyx 1.3.x

Re: Problems with lyx command line in WIN32/Cygwin environment

2004-08-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote: >> It sounds like the installation of LyX win32 lacked some module named >> "getopt" but I found getopt.py and getopt.pyc in >> the e:/lyx/lyx/bin/lib/ directory. > > getopt belongs to the standard python library so it should be there. > > What version of python are you usi

Re: Problems with lyx command line in WIN32/Cygwin environment

2004-08-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:00, He Jin wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I found a very strange problem in win32/cygwin environment using lyx > commandline. > > When I try to translate a lyx file into .tex format using command line > "lyx --export latex YYY.lyx", it reported as following: > >

Re: Problems with lyx command line in WIN32/Cygwin environment

2004-08-17 Thread Colin J. Williams
Paul A. Rubin wrote: He Jin wrote: Hi everybody, I found a very strange problem in win32/cygwin environment using lyx commandline. When I try to translate a lyx file into .tex format using command line "lyx --export latex YYY.lyx", it reported as following: *

Re: Problems with lyx command line in WIN32/Cygwin environment

2004-08-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
He Jin wrote: Hi everybody, I found a very strange problem in win32/cygwin environment using lyx commandline. When I try to translate a lyx file into .tex format using command line "lyx --export latex YYY.lyx", it reported as following: ** Tra

Problems with lyx command line in WIN32/Cygwin environment

2004-08-09 Thread He Jin
Hi everybody, I found a very strange problem in win32/cygwin environment using lyx commandline. When I try to translate a lyx file into .tex format using command line "lyx --export latex YYY.lyx", it reported as following: ** Traceback (most r

Re: How do I make a new LyX command?

2001-09-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:53:20PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > How do I make an ultra-simple LyX command. By that I mean something I can > type into the minibuffer area. Like font-bold, font-code, font-default and > the like. This is not a LaTeX command (though I spoze it woul

How do I make a new LyX command?

2001-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, How do I make an ultra-simple LyX command. By that I mean something I can type into the minibuffer area. Like font-bold, font-code, font-default and the like. This is not a LaTeX command (though I spoze it would need to interface with LaTeX commmands to be rendered correctly in