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1.6.0 on Os X 10.5.5 Woes

Eberhard Lisse — 2008-12-02T05:02:52

Hi, I have installed 1.6.0 on my iMinis at my practice (Obstetrics and Gynaecologist) and at home, both are 10.5.5 updated to current. Whenever I open a document (new or previously saved), LyX doesn't remember the previous window state, it's always small(ish) and there are three toolbars, one in each line. I can move the third one onto the second one (to the right), but whenever I open the or another document there are three toolbars again. I also like to move toolbar (table) below the text to the top right (it only appears when the table button is clicked) but it doesn't remain there. Whenever I open more than one documents a new window is opened (small, as above) instead of the previous behavior, as a second tab into the first window (which 1.5.7 does). CMD-Return does not do anything for me, when it used to insert the "red" newline. There was an even weirder issue within a table the other day which I can't reproduce at the moment, I'll report if and when I can :-)-O. All in all it makes work at the

Re: All Authors in citation

Sam Russell — 2008-12-02T03:53:26

I also use OS X + biblatex. I'm using BibDesk.app to edit and manage my biblatex files, and have a "christmas tree" Typeinfo.plist for BibDesk.app. I'm not touching output at the moment, but if you have problems with Endnote => biblatex, then BibDesk.app. Does anyone else in the Humanities have anything to report about biblatex + lyx? thanks, Sam Russell.

Breaking long URL?

Peter Baumgartner — 2008-12-02T02:06:50

Hi, How to break URL at non-letters without hyphen? I've turned on HyperRef Support on and also checked the box "break link over lines" but still the URLs do not break. Breaking of URLs works for me in the bibliography with biblatex but not with the normal bibtex bibliography. And in both cases it does not work within normal paragraphs. I've tried "breaklinks=true" in the option line of the PDF feature dialog but without success. What's wrong? ( OSX 10.4.11, LyX 1.6.0., TeXLive 2008) Peter

Re: Fast typing - LyX follows slowly only [solved - not yet]

rgheck — 2008-12-02T01:30:27

So with 1.5.6 on the same system, everything is OK? rh

Re: Building LyX layout for Copernicus Journals, class definition and estimate of time span?

Uwe Stöhr — 2008-12-01T23:37:42

Maarten Smoorenburg schrieb: Because you don't use babel. The infinite loop is caused by a bug in copernicus regarding the babel package. babel is one of the very basic packages and every other package must be able to handle it. I'll inform the authors of copernicus. Then it seems that you have another copernicus.layout file on your computer. To test this out, copy my layout file to the same folder where you have stored my copernicus.lyx example file. Then reconfigure LyX again and try to process the copernicus.lyx. Now it must work as LyX then use the right layout file. regards Uwe

Re: Fast typing - LyX follows slowly only [solved - not yet]

2008-12-01T22:51:13

Am Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:43:29 +0100 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes public.gmane.org>: Thanks for your comments. Here are further system details: Xubuntu 8.10 with xserver-common version: 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3 Usually, I use XFCE4 version: 4.4.2.1, I tried it now also with openbox after Richard Hecks's tip. It was a little bit faster though, but still not usable. Graphics card is coming with the mainboard 865G chipset (integrated graphic). The problem is only happening for LyX 1.6.0. LyX 1.5.6 works as expected on the same system. FYI, I filed a bug report: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5582 A similar faulty situation seems to occur at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5524 Anything else to check? Thanks for helping me narrow down this problem.

Re: Changing the color of notes in pdf output

Matts Lindström — 2008-12-01T20:18:28

Thanks a lot! On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Ignacio García public.gmane.org>wrote:

RE: using ACM SIGGRAPH layout

Brian Guenter — 2008-12-01T19:34:35

I followed the instructions on http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSiggraph: downloaded the latest acmsiggraph latex files and installed them in Miktex, and copied the acmsiggraph.layout file into the lyx layouts direct, ran reconfigure. Now a new document class shows up "article (ACM SIGGRAPH"). When I set this as my document type and try to view the output, using either pdf or dvi, I get the following latex error messages: Errors: Undefined control sequence. You can't use '\relax' after \the Undefined control sequence. You can't use '\relax' after \the Description: \bibitem{Goldstein} The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., '\hobx'), type 'I' and the correct speelling (e.g., 'I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was defined. No pdf or dvi file ever gets generated. If I use the article document class then everything works fine, including the bibliography. Of course then it's not in the form

Re: [correction] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.0

Joost Verburg — 2008-12-01T19:31:05

The standard installer doesn't change this setting. MiKTeX's default is "Ask me first" and it provides an option to change this on the window that is displayed when the first package is installed. Joost

Re: Macros and Parent/Child Documents in 1.6

James Sutherland — 2008-12-01T18:18:32

Attached is a simple example to demonstrate the problem.

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

Jürgen Spitzmüller — 2008-12-01T18:09:16

These are known bugs (reported at bugzilla), and we hope to sort them out for 1.6.1. Jürgen

Re: Macros and Parent/Child Documents in 1.6

James Sutherland — 2008-12-01T18:02:38

On Dec 1, 2008, at 10:59 AM, James Sutherland wrote: A point of clarification: when I click on an equation, the math-mode preview is correct (the macro is properly expanded). It is the displayed equation in LyX, after exiting math mode, that is incorrect (the macro is not expanded). James

frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

Erez Yerushalmi — 2008-12-01T18:00:55

Dear all, I don't know how to report this as a bug. I get very frequent crashes in lyx 1.6. (I use win-xp). Output says LyX SIGSEGV signal caught. LyX shuts down on its own, without saving my work. Happens when: Many times when I write in math equations. And also happened a few times when I shift the tool bars to different positions. Do others have this problem? Thanks, Erez

Macros and Parent/Child Documents in 1.6

James Sutherland — 2008-12-01T17:59:28

I have a parent document where I have defined macros. In the child document, I have used the macro. The compiled output (either from the child, or the parent), is fine. However, the LyX preview for the equations using macros is not correct. The macros are not expanded when the preview is generated. I thought that this was supported in LyX 1.6 (macros defined in parent, used in child). Am I mistaken? James

Re: Building LyX layout for Copernicus Journals, class definition and estimate of time span?

Uwe Stöhr — 2008-12-01T17:41:15

Maarten Smoorenburg schrieb: Then you have not installed the LaTeX-package copernicus. It should work when you exactly follow the steps in http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Copernicus I fixed this now. But as it is a Wiki, every fix is welcome, so you are invited to add or correct informations in our Wiki. Can you please send me the LaTeX and BibTeX file you used for this? For me this doesn't work, also not with the template.tex file that is bundled in the copernicus LaTeX package using plain TeX (not LyX). regards Uwe

Re: Fast typing - LyX follows slowly only [solved - not yet]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes — 2008-12-01T15:43:29

It could be interesting also to know more about the graphics card and the current X server. JMarc

Re: Fast typing - LyX follows slowly only [solved - not yet]

Richard Heck — 2008-12-01T14:28:17

I've used LyX on much lower powered machines, without the sort of slowness you're reporting. It may be, though, that there's something else that's straining your graphics subsystem, and this is making LyX slow. What desktop are you using? Have you tried a different one, to see if that solves the problem? Or just run LyX inside some totally minimal X session. rh

Re: Building LyX layout for Copernicus Journals, class definition and estimate of time span?

Maarten Smoorenburg — 2008-12-01T12:34:35

Hi Uwe, Great work! But unfortunately for me, it does not work. I have copied your .layout file and template file into my own template and layout directories and reconfigured a couple of times (all following you instructions in the wiki). But the layout still does not work; error message when starting up the copernicus.lyx layout: * "the copernicus class could not be loaded"* And still, no sign of any copernicus stuff in my 'configure.log' file. So... there's something wrong in my LyX version (WindowsXP with MiKTeX 2.7 and LyX 1.6)? One more comment: I figure you reference to the 'acmsiggraph.zip' in the wiki is incorrect, as it referres to " http://publications.copernicus.org/Copernicus_LaTeX_Package.zip". And one other thing: I have used BiBTeX with a document with the copernicus.cls class in TeXniCenter and it worked alright... so I am guessing the bibtex error is not in the copernicus.cls, but has to do with the LyX call to the class..

Re: LyX can’t find sprachwerker.bst

Max Nabble — 2008-12-01T09:49:24

Max Nabble wrote: I will simply answer myself :) Running reconfigure is not enough, I should have read http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/German this page first to learn that I have to go to Tools -> TeX Information and search for the desired bibliography style there. This also works for LaTeX classes and other custom additions to the TeX tree. Now everything is fine.

Re: Photos for offset printing

Manveru — 2008-12-01T09:36:51

2008/11/30 Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] bytesforall.org>: I don't think your photos need special preparation. They should be in high-resolution. The problem here is colour separation done properly with correct raster angles on particular colour plate. In professional application such as InDesign or PageMaker you can select colour separation to Postscript and you configure raster angle for every colour. I think this could be done in Ghostscript, but I do not know the procedure. Applications driving phototypesetter should be able to prepare such separation from any colour PDF prepared for printing. If your print service do not have phototypesetter and they try to prepare film in laser printer it could be a large problem. Laser printers always have 0 angle raster, and if they are 1200 dpi they may poorly simulate raster angles for 300 dpi and about 150 lpi I think. -- Manveru jabber: manveru< at >manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl

Re: [correction] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.0

Abdelrazak Younes — 2008-12-01T08:09:19

I hope that the installer informs you before doing this change and that the old config is restored back. Abdel.