Re: Fwd: Can't launch Synaptic on Xandros [Was: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole]

2006-04-16 Thread Joe
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:50:25 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Andrei, I can launch it under system console if I login as a root , but the screen is not graphical though and the function would be no difference to apt-get under console terminal window

Re: Fwd: Can't launch Synaptic on Xandros [Was: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole]

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:50:25 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > I can launch it under system console if I login as a > root , but the screen is not graphical though and the > function would be no difference to apt-get under > console terminal window, I guess. >

Fwd: Can't launch Synaptic on Xandros [Was: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole]

2006-04-15 Thread formless void
Hi Andrei, I can launch it under system console if I login as a root , but the screen is not graphical though and the function would be no difference to apt-get under console terminal window, I guess. Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Y

Can't launch Synaptic on Xandros [Was: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole]

2006-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:52:39 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know how to get Synaptic work with KDE, Andrei? > > I installed it but am unable to launch it and don't > how to coporate with Xwindows [quote from Wikipedia] People in the computer trade commonly shorten

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-15 Thread formless void
Do you know how to get Synaptic work with KDE, Andrei? I installed it but am unable to launch it and don't how to coporate with Xwindows Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection a

Re: Fwd: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:10:58 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the help, Kevin > > I'm using Xandros Network to install the .deb file. > The beauty of the utility is that after each > installation, the program updates the detail of the > package database which is

Fwd: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-14 Thread formless void
Thanks for the help, Kevin I'm using Xandros Network to install the .deb file. The beauty of the utility is that after each installation, the program updates the detail of the package database which is extremely ordered. Can Synaptic, aptitude do the same thing? Are these two programs using the

Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
formless void wrote: > Has anyone noticed that this file is buggy? > > I'm using Xandros desktop and have tried to install it > onto my system. However, it asks for lyx-qt and > lyx-xforms. When I tried to install the lyx-qt and > lyx-xforms, they were asking for lyx-common. > > I have noticed

Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:24:39 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone noticed that this file is buggy? > > I'm using Xandros desktop and have tried to install it > onto my system. However, it asks for lyx-qt and > lyx-xforms. When I tried to install the lyx-qt

Re: lyx and k3b absent from testing: is this permanent?

2005-11-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:10:37AM +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Alright, I have searched through and through the mailing lists and cannot > find > why lyx, k3b and opera are not in testing. > > It seems like this transition away from kdelibs4 to kdelibs4c2 was done about > two months ago. So

Re: lyx-1.3.5 for debian

2004-11-19 Thread K-sPecial
belahcene wrote: Hi, every body I want to upgrade lyx to the latest version 1.3.5 I tried the rpm created for fedora, there was error, same thing with the source I need extra files, is there who created it for debian ? thanks a lot bela Install the QT development package, should be something li

Re: lyx/testing on woody

2004-07-19 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 09:42:15PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Matthias Czapla wrote: > > > [newer lyx on woody] > > first, look at backports.org and then apt-get.org Well, the package from backports.org installed without problems and seems to work like a charm. Thanks for the superquick an

Re: lyx/testing on woody

2004-07-19 Thread John Summerfield
Matthias Czapla wrote: Hi! I'd like to know if somebody has already had experience with installing LyX 1.3.4 from testing onto a Woody system. Woody has only version 1.1.6 and I've to proof read documents written by someone else with 1.3.3 on Windowz and while I can *read* them (ignoring errors abo

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting > > point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want. > > You can use the 'texdoc' tool to conveniently read a f

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread David Z Maze
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting > point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want. You can use the 'texdoc' tool to conveniently read a file in this tree. For a good beginner's reference, I'd recommend "The No

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:14:58PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache search sgml-tools > linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. > > > What distro are you using, I can't find the dummy package in either > testing or unstable so presumably it no long

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread Travis Crump
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude cann

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. > The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its > name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude > cannot find a packa

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread ronin2
The tutorial included with Lyx is about the best beginning reference I've found. Check out CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) at www.ctan.org. Leslie Lamport's book(s) on TeX/LaTeX are good. Kevin On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:59:39 -0800 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just downlo

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:16:25AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:33:41 -0700 (MST), > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > That's nice, but I'm really waiting for lyx 1.3 with the Qt front-end. > > > XForms is vile. > > > > Qt lyx-1.3.

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:33:41 -0700 (MST), > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > That's nice, but I'm really waiting for lyx 1.3 with the Qt front-end. > > > XForms is vile. > > > > Qt lyx-1.3.0cvs is worth trying out

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-13 Thread csj
At Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:33:41 -0700 (MST), Bruce Sass wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > > That's nice, but I'm really waiting for lyx 1.3 with the Qt front-end. > > XForms is vile. > > Qt lyx-1.3.0cvs is worth trying out, feature frozen even. What Qt version is it supposed to l

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > That's nice, but I'm really waiting for lyx 1.3 with the Qt front-end. > XForms is vile. Qt lyx-1.3.0cvs is worth trying out, feature frozen even. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-10 Thread Craig Dickson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > In other news XForms was accepted into main yesterday, so lyx will be > able to move to main too. That's nice, but I'm really waiting for lyx 1.3 with the Qt front-end. XForms is vile. Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kari Ruohonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a few lyx files prepared with version 1.2 and they are not > readable with the current debian version 1.1.6. I found the following > links from discussion groups to get unofficial debs fpr 1.2. > > /etc/apt/sources.list --

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-10 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Does anybody know any other links to install lyx 1.2? I've compiled a package some time ago that works with current unstable. http://zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su/debian/sid/lyx_1.2.1-0.1_i386.deb It works for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Lyx package

2002-09-19 Thread csj
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:14:11 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:58:45PM +0200, Josep Llaurad? Selvas > wrote: > > There is a lot of development for the upcoming release, because the > > Lyx people are creating new frontends of the package using Gnome >

Re: Lyx package

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:58:45PM +0200, Josep Llaurad? Selvas wrote: > There is a lot of development for the upcoming release, because the Lyx > people are creating new frontends of the package using Gnome and Kde, that > will give us the LyX in the debian main. :-) We should get it in main rel

Re: Lyx package

2002-09-19 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
There is a lot of development for the upcoming release, because the Lyx people are creating new frontends of the package using Gnome and Kde, that will give us the LyX in the debian main. :-) In the LyX web page you'll found the beta packages, but they aren't usable at the moment (or I'm not abl

Re: Lyx package

2002-09-18 Thread shaulka
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:30:38PM +0200, Riaan Rottier wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody know if the Lyx package are still being maintained, version > 1.2 has been out since May this year and 1.2.1 since August. Or are the > perhaps other problems that prevent the updated versions from being > packa

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

2001-11-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
David Teague wrote: Hi My system has recently installed Woody pre-beta on a 10 G IDE disk, 392 MB RAM, 350 K6-2 and a Windows 98 2nd on the other partition. I'm runing K6=2 optimized Woody from a CD snapshot. My desktop is Gnome 1.4 and the window manager is Enlightenment 0.16.5 2000/07/28 (A

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

2001-11-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:10:01PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > > Marc > > Removing ~/.lyx Worked like a charm! LyX appears to work and offer > import and export that it did not before. I think you don't really needed to delete that directory. There is a menu option to reconfigure your TeX-se

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

2001-11-17 Thread David Teague
Marc Removing ~/.lyx Worked like a charm! LyX appears to work and offer import and export that it did not before. Marc, where did you see the warning that I might need to remove this file? I need to be aware of where to look for this sort of thing. David On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Marc Wilson wro

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

2001-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:31:10AM -0500, David Teague wrote: > Lyx (version 1.1.6 fix 3 of Fri July 24 2001 starts with the > folloing messages. > I use LyX to prepare my lecture notes for my classes, and this > upgrade has made that impossible at home. Remove your ~/.lyx directory. The pac

Re: LyX not setting margins correctly

2001-11-06 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > LyX is not setting the margins to the values I specified. I tried the > hoffset/voffset trick in the preamble, but that just scooted everything. > Now my top and left margins are correct, but the bottom and right margins > are huge. I tried tweaking t

Re: LyX not setting margins correctly

2001-11-05 Thread Mike Brownlow
Benjamin Pharr wrote: > LyX is not setting the margins to the values I specified. I tried the > hoffset/voffset trick in the preamble, but that just scooted everything. > Now my top and left margins are correct, but the bottom and right margins > are huge. I tried tweaking the margins under Layo

Re: Lyx and ispell problems.

2001-09-17 Thread gerard robin
> I have recently installed the Lyx 1.1.6fix3 package from Debian/Unstable and > I am having some problems using the spellchecker feature. Whenever I try to > use the spellchecker from the "edit" menu I get an error message saying the > ispell-process has died and that I probably do not hav

Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:10PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses > > distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the > > URL above resolving a numeric I

Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses > distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the > URL above resolving a numeric IP for your local Google server? Try: http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:dc3d113b15c77caf:www

Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:20:52PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry about the last post... my fingers slipped on the 'send mail' kb > shortcut. That's what I get for using Netscape messenger... > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 40

Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Sorry about the last post... my fingers slipped on the 'send mail' kb shortcut. That's what I get for using Netscape messenger... "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404 > http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it > won't come back

Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel)

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404 > http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it > won't come back any time soon http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/ > (K'mon, people: > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html). Luc

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

2000-11-13 Thread H.C.Hsiang
> I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I > believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem? > Thanks > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. you need dvi2ps (or it might default to dviprint, i'm not sure), and of cours

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

2000-11-13 Thread Andre Berger
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I > > have (I believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to > > solve this problem? Thanks > > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. Good idea! > you need dvi2ps (or

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

2000-11-13 Thread Andre Berger
"A.E. Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I > believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem? > Thanks You have a working LaTeX and can use xdvi on its own, can't you? LyX needs it. -- Check the

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

2000-11-13 Thread Damien
> I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I > believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem? > Thanks > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. you need dvi2ps (or it might default to dviprint, i'm not sure), and of cours

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-20 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Joachim Trinkwitz writes: > OK, seems I should give some more informations: I use a recent woody > with XFree 3.3.6-11 and LyX 1.1.4-7, X server is SVGA (window manager: > sawfish-gnome 0.31.1-2 on the newest Debian-only Gnome -- not the > Helix distribution). Hardware: a Matrox card MGA G400 A

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
OK, seems I should give some more informations: I use a recent woody with XFree 3.3.6-11 and LyX 1.1.4-7, X server is SVGA (window manager: sawfish-gnome 0.31.1-2 on the newest Debian-only Gnome -- not the Helix distribution). Hardware: a Matrox card MGA G400 AGP with 16 MB RAM, the monitor is a fa

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > :: Joachim Trinkwitz writes: > > Hi, > > has anyone else tried LyX with a recent woody? It crashes X and puts > > me back to the login screen when loading fonts in the server, > > f.ex. when I open the user manual from the Help menu. > > Any though

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-19 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Joachim Trinkwitz writes: > Hi, > has anyone else tried LyX with a recent woody? It crashes X and puts > me back to the login screen when loading fonts in the server, > f.ex. when I open the user manual from the Help menu. > Any thoughts? I opened LyX and the Manual from the Help menu here...

Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work

2000-05-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
My problem with lyx and the Options/Reconfigure selection seems to have been caused by a bad environment variable. I had set TEXINPUTS in my .bashrc file to a set of paths I needed for a document at work over a year ago. When I commented out the TEXINPUTS= statement, Options/Reconfigure started wor

Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work

2000-04-25 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Thanks Pat. I think the full sequence that caused my problems was: Options/Reconfigure (but didn't restart) crash in Math Panel restart lyx, but article class no available because reconfigure didn't work properly After using Options/Reconfigure I have to cp /usr/X11R6/share/lyx/text

Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work

2000-04-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
Try deleting your $(HOME)/.lyx dir. It may have been corrupted during the crash. On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Hi, > > LyX crashed while I was playing with the Math Panel. Now it only sees > two available textclasses in layout/document/class. Both are SGML and I

Re: LyX in frozen linked with buggy xforms?

2000-03-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Short answer: Yes, it's safe. The Debian maintainer is aware of the issues involved. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-054

Re: lyx: Can not use AMS math.

1999-12-25 Thread Shaul Karl
I was able to open the yours attached unbenannt.lyx file with no problem. Yet when I tried to "View DVI" it I was getting a window saying that saying that \mathfrak, \mathbb and \mathds are allowed only in math mode. The alpha was not bold as well as it is in math mode. I then deleted every thin

Re: lyx: Can not use AMS math.

1999-12-25 Thread Herbert
> Although I have activated the radio button of AMS math at the Layout->Document > menu I can not been able to follow what the UserGuide.lyx suggets. > In particular, both \mathfrak{g} and \mathbb{R} give an error message. > \boldsymbol{\alpha}, which does not seem to require the AMS extentions is

Re: lyx 1.0.4 without xforms

1999-10-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> I have just dowloaded lyx-1.0.4 > I depends od libforms0.89 libs, but they cannot be > found on potato dist. Still in incoming: ftp://debian.midco.net/debian/Incoming/libforms0.89_0.89-1_i386.deb Other arches will have to wait.

Re: LyX + Postscript

1999-09-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: > Hi, > I'm having problems with LyX. When viewing a document created in LyX (either > via Postscript of DVI) LyX produces blank output; just a blank page. All the > components that are needed seem to be there (dvips, tex, etc.) > Has anybody h

Re: LyX not exporting PS

1999-07-09 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:03:56AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ooops, did I miss something? What new release do you mean? Lyx 1.03 is new, > but it's a bugfix and far from 'prone to be buggy' Mea culpa, I should have referred to LyX (the 0.12BETA version I'm using) as "early release" n

Re: LyX not exporting PS

1999-07-09 Thread Stefan . Ehlen
Hi, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to generate a Postscript file in LyX. From within LyX I can view . >dvi but view PS only shows the embedded graphic (not the text!). > >I can export a PS file, but it turns out missing the text as well. I know that > this is a n

Re: LyX & GhostView

1999-06-04 Thread Nuno Carvalho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a look for error or warning messages in the creation of the postscript. None error was echoed back. > Does viewing dvi work? It also doesn't work. > I can't remember for sure, but I had some problems with particular fonts in > LyX. Try installing tetex-extra

Re: LyX & GhostView

1999-06-04 Thread Robert . King
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > On LyX when I try to view a document as Postscript it shows GhostView > without > any text (nothing appears)! What could it be ? You're probably missing some fonts, or metafont is having trouble creating them. Have a look for error or warning

Re: LyX & GhostView

1999-06-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 03:28:16PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > . > P.S. Please reply to me since i'm not on this ML at the moment. > Please also reply to the list as I have a similar configuration and can't get LyX to view or export Postscript. Thank, Jon

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Tarballs end up working much better than > > binaries in the long run, > If this were so, I wouldn't use Debian. > > although they can become a mess. It's far to

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Sean: > > Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials > > that will break a working slink dist. dyer: > I have lyx 1.0 on my slink system. Lyx has a dependency on libc6. Not the > new one, _any_ one. It won't upgrade you to the new libc6. (Well, I guess > if you were runn

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink

1999-04-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"R. L. Kleeberger" wrote: > Quoting Jim Foltz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am more concerned about my growing dependence on apt and dpkg. In the > > past I would have first tried to compile the source myself and install > > it. Now I seem to go out of my way to find a .deb package of the software.

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Navindra Umanchioned, > > Personally I always found dpkg easier than RPM for building packages, > > but perhaps it's just me. > IIRC all it took to build SRPMS is one single rpm command. I've never used redhat (or anything else with rpms), but I kind of like the *bsd method, which gives you a s

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-13 Thread Navindra Umanee
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when building. It thinks it needs root to set the ownership of files to > root (among other things), but in actual fact dpkg will do the right thing Ahh, that actually makes sense. > What package building does is very much like installing using a tool > l

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
1. go to the source section of your favorite Debian mirror 2. for each package you want to recompile, download the *.orig.tar.gz, *.diff.gz and *.dsc NOTE: Not all source packages have the same name as the binary package they create. E.g. the c-client-dev package comes from imap. A

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 05:22:51PM -0400, Navindra Umanee wrote: > You know, I tried almost exactly this but bailed when one of the > commands wanted root priviledges and then started doing some > unexpected /usr/bin/install's (which failed because my > /usr/bin/install is atypical). I mean, all

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink

1999-04-12 Thread R. L. Kleeberger
Quoting Jim Foltz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am more concerned about my growing dependence on apt and dpkg. In the > past I would have first tried to compile the source myself and install > it. Now I seem to go out of my way to find a .deb package of the software. > > What's happening to me? It see

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Navindra Umanee
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg-source -x (or unpack yourself). Then cd into the top directory of > the package and say "dpkg-buildpackage". Specifying "-b" will stop a > source package being generated, which will speed things up a bit. "-us" > and "-uc" disable signing of the .dsc

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > > compile it myself. > > You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb > from them. Now I real

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb > from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as > to how to do this. Any one care to explain? I'm lost in a maze of > manpages all alike.

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread navindra
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > compile it myself. You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as to how to do this. Any one care

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Jim Foltz wrote: > > > Is there a LyX 1.0 for slink? If so, can I download it from > > > somewhere? > > > > It didn't make it in slink, but it's in potato. > > > > happy lyx-ing. > > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > compile it myself.

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Sean
I did not realize this . . . thanks for pointing it out :) Sean dyer wrote: > Sean wrote: > > > Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials that > > will break > > a working slink dist. > > I have lyx 1.0 on my slink system. Lyx has a dependency on libc6. Not the new

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread dyer
Sean wrote: > Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials that > will break > a working slink dist. I have lyx 1.0 on my slink system. Lyx has a dependency on libc6. Not the new one, _any_ one. It won't upgrade you to the new libc6. (Well, I guess if you were running

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Sean
Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials that will break a working slink dist. Good point, tho. Sean Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 06:34:03PM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > > > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > > compi

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 06:34:03PM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > compile it myself. You should be able to install just the packages required for it (often just the package itself) - there's no need to switch completely to unstabl

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-11 Thread Jim Foltz
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:29:58PM -0400, dyer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a LyX 1.0 for slink? If so, can I download it from > > somewhere? > > > > It didn't make it in slink, but it's in potato. > > happy lyx-ing. > I don't want to run the unstable tree at

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-11 Thread dyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a LyX 1.0 for slink? If so, can I download it from > somewhere? > It didn't make it in slink, but it's in potato. happy lyx-ing. > > -- >Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ACORN techie > AOL/IM Jim

Re: lyx and fonts

1999-03-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allo all, anyone know of a way to get lyx to use ttf fonts? One solution working okay her is this: Install a true type fontserver. I use xfstt but on the lyx mailing list someone recommended the freetype based font server whose name

Re: Lyx problems - of topic

1999-01-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Dear Debian user's > > I could not compile the source for lyx 1.0.0pre6. There were some linking > problems which I could not figure out you need libforms-dev and xpm4g-dev. Also, if you have previously had a debianized lyx, you need to use the --prefix=/usr/local or it gets confused tr

Re: Lyx ... and asian languages?

1999-01-12 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Have you read the Chinese-HOWTO?? It is in /usr/doc/HOWTO. On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, virtanen wrote: > > > I've been using Lyx as well for some time. I think it is quite good. > But does anybody know, how I could write sanskrit (devanagari and > diacritics), chinese and japanese

Re: Lyx ... and asian languages?

1999-01-12 Thread ragOO
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Re: Lyx with typein

1999-01-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Point well taken. I based my opinions on LyX 0.12, (which was in hamm and > slink). I'm glad to hear that there is a lot of progress there, hope to see > them propagating to debian eventually. somebody has an unnofficial .deb of pre5 or so. And I have a tarball that's (i think) current as

Re: Lyx with typein

1999-01-11 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
> > > This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, > > it does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite > > limited also.But more importantly thing that worries me is that there > > seems to be very little support behind LyX, project look

Re: Lyx ... and asian languages?

1999-01-11 Thread virtanen
I've been using Lyx as well for some time. I think it is quite good. But does anybody know, how I could write sanskrit (devanagari and diacritics), chinese and japanese with Lyx? I would greatly appreciate for getting help in this matter. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lyx with typein

1999-01-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it > does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited > also.But more importantly thing that worries me is that there seems to be > very little support behind LyX, project looks dying to

Re: Lyx with typein

1999-01-09 Thread Jameson Burt
> > Okay, everybody says lyx is great, but for the darnest, I can't get it > > to work with latex's \typein. > Hi, > > This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it > does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited > also.But more i

Re: Lyx with typein

1999-01-09 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
> Okay, everybody says lyx is great, but for the darnest, I can't get it > to work with latex's \typein. Hi, This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited also.But more importantly thi

Re: LyX and Page Numbering

1999-01-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > What should I do for page numbering start on other number instead of 1 > !? Try by putting the following latex command in your document: \setcounter{page}{the_page_number_you_want_to_start_with} Johann

Re: LyX and Page Numbering

1999-01-02 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > What should I do for page numbering start on other number instead of 1 > !? I already had resolved this "problem" thanks to Pedro Quaresma. \setcounter{page}{n} Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ¨¨ Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep

Re: LyX

1998-06-10 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS when you tell me where it is on your ftp site, and I find it, I'll know > I went temporally insane. I haven't checked the ftp site, but my copy of lyx is marked as coming from "contrib/text". I expect that the copyright doesn't let us distribute

Re: LyX

1998-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Look in contrib/text On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an old version of LyX on my bo system that I know I loaded off the > official 1.3.1 CD. I wanted to get the source package for LyX off the hamm > directory on the ftp site but I can't find it. If fact LyX doesn't seem to

Re: lyx Bus Error...hardware? -Reply

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:40:37AM -0500, Gregory Dickinson wrote: > Yes, it sounds very much like the drive is toasted. Which one, however, I'll > leave > to you to figure out :-) (look in the /etc/fstab to check the mount points, > etc. to > see exactly which drive is being referneced.) Ahh

re: Lyx 0.12.0 crashes X under bo when loading EPS graphics!

1998-05-04 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>I've just loaded Lyx0.12.0 sources from bo-unstable, compiled, and found >it working very good except of one weird behaviour: >Whenever I try to insert the EPS or PS graphics into my document, >lyx crashes causing the X-server to restart (I use XF86_S3 server). >Did anybody experience (and hopef

Re: lyx 0.12 final in hamm is actually bo ?

1998-02-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I'm running a lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb from hamm tree and this one is libc6 > dependant: > Which means the hamm tree is the right place for it... yes, but mark it with an = in deselect to hold it, so it doesn't get replaced with the bo version mentioned, which requires obsolete xforms packag

Re: lyx 0.12 final in hamm is actually bo ?

1998-02-28 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Oleg Krivosheev; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Hi, > > looks like lyx 0.12 binal bo version > live now in hamm tree. > > Is it known probelm ? > > regards I'm running a lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb from hamm tree and this one is libc6 dependant: ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/lyx libforms.

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