lyx-users Digest, Vol 164, Issue 11
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
lasgouttes at lyx.org
Tue Jan 3 13:17:01 UTC 2023
Le 03/01/2023 à 13:43, bond at maths.ox.ac.uk a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> As per your suggestion, I would like to create a ticket, but I cannot seem
> to register with the LyX Trac system. The link
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/register is invalid.
>
> Could you please suggest a workaround?
Please send me a message to lasgouttes at lyx.org, along with your chosen
username and email.
Best,
JMarc
>
> Best regards,
> - Oliver.
>
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> 1. Re: Copying and pasting equations from LyX into other
> packages? (Jean-Marc Lasgouttes)
> 2. Can you reproduce this bug? (Scott Kostyshak)
> 3. Re: Un-spanning multicolumns [RESOLVED] (Jean-Marc Lasgouttes)
> 4. older lyx file will not open (Ivan Werning)
> 5. Re: Can you reproduce this bug? (Joel Kulesza)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 13:56:21 +0100
> From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>
> To: lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: Copying and pasting equations from LyX into other
> packages?
> Message-ID: <28638e8e-bcf1-7001-edad-17f27808ebe8 at lyx.org>
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> Le 04/12/2022 ? 12:43, oliver.bond at maths.ox.ac.uk a ?crit?:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does LyX have an option to copy and paste a piece of LaTeX code in raw
>> format, i.e. removing any trace of macros that were used to generate
>> the code?
>
> Hello,
>
> This functionality does not exist yet, but indeed it would be doable (either
> pasting, or transforming an expression in place).
>
>> I would like to be able to use a command to copy and paste the LaTeX
>> code for the equation /as it is formatted/, so that any traces of the
>> macros in the source code are removed in doing so.? I use LyX all the
>> time for my mathematical typesetting work and I have found macros to
>> be extremely useful, but the downside of this is that the equations
>> cannot be pasted into other software without some way of defining the
>> macros or creating preambles in those packages. The other software
>> packages I have in mind are ones that have a plugin to support LaTeX
>> but aren?t designed with it in mind (e.g. GeoGebra, Blender, InkScape
> etc.).
>>
>> Are there any plans to implement such a feature (and how much would it
>> cost to implement such a feature if not)?
>
> There are no current plans for that, that I know of. Indeed, paying someone
> to do it may help to materialize it sooner. I suggest that you create a
> ticket on www.lyx.org/trac. I will forward it to the developers list to try
> to find someone willing to implement it.
>
> JMarc
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 15:38:59 -0500
> From: Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org>
> To: LyX Users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>
> Subject: Can you reproduce this bug?
> Message-ID: <20221204203859.civiqsyr3zukbu3f at gary>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Dear all,
>
> Can you reproduce this bug on your system?
>
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12435
>
> It's helpful to know the type of systems on which it can be reproduced.
> Specifically, it will be helpful to figure out whether the bug only surfaces
> on certain operating systems, and only with certain configurations.
>
> Here is the recipe to reproduce the bug:
>
> 1. Maximize (non-fullscreen) the window
> 2. Enter Full screen mode
> 3. Exit Full screen.
>
> After step 3, does the LyX window return to the state after step (1)?
> i.e., is the window maximized?
>
> If you try to reproduce it, please state:
>
> 1. Can you reproduce the bug?
> 2. Your operating system and version number (version number is
> especially helpful for macOS users).
> 3. Copy/paste the info from Help > About.
>
>
> Here's my own responses to the 3 questions:
>
> 1. No. (the window is correctly restored as maximized after 3 for me).
> 2. Ubuntu 22.04.
> 3. Pasted info is below:
>
> Version 2.4.0dev
> (Sunday, December 4, 2022)
>
> Built from git commit hash abd69b06
> Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.3 on platform xcb
> Qt Version (compile-time): 5.15.3
> Python detected: python3 -tt
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 22:16:13 +0100
> From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>
> To: lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: Un-spanning multicolumns [RESOLVED]
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> Le 03/12/2022 ? 01:09, Joel Kulesza a ?crit?:
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 9:41 AM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>> <lasgouttes at lyx.org <mailto:lasgouttes at lyx.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Le 01/12/2022 ? 17:35, Rich Shepard a ?crit?:
>> > On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> >
>> >> Note that Undo is not supposed to do something after you close the
>> >> file (there is a ticket asking for permanent undo, but this does
>> not
>> >> exist now).
>> >
>> > JMarc,
>> >
>> > I assumed that was the case; it's certainly reasonable, IMO.
>>
>> Do you know of programs that do store undo information, BTW?
>>
>>
>> My submission: vim.
>
> Good to know, thanks.
>
> JMarc
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 17:56:32 -0500
> From: Ivan Werning <iwerning at gmail.com>
> To: lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
> Subject: older lyx file will not open
> Message-ID:
> <CAKyytSj+jY0LjL85quWdQkcMMcb3ydiB5oG3jwSz1OrgLp6FSA at mail.gmail.com>
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> Hi
>
> Help! I'm having trouble with an important older LyX file not opening in
> LyX.
>
> I'm a long time LyX user here. I am having trouble with an old file from
> 2014 that was created by LyX 2.1. I'm on a 2017 intel mac running OS 13.0.1
> (Ventura).
>
> When I try to open it in 2.3.6.2 I get filename.lyx is from an older
> version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.
>
> #LyX 2.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat
> 474 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article
>
>
> I tried downloading earlier versions of Lyx to no avail. I completely failed
> with 2.1.5. Here when I run LyX I am asked to reconfigure. I do, but I'm
> not sure it works.
>
> The error messages I get are different:
>
> The module basic has been requested by
>
> this document but has not been found in the list of
>
> available modules. If you recently installed it, you
>
> probably need to reconfigure LyX.
>
>
> Hit OK then...
>
>
> The module theorems-ams has been requested by
>
> this document but has not been found in the list of
>
> available modules. If you recently installed it, you
>
> probably need to reconfigure LyX.
>
>
> The module natbib has been requested by
>
> this document but has not been found in the list of
>
> available modules. If you recently installed it, you
>
> probably need to reconfigure LyX.
>
>
> And it finally opens the file with a Parse error box complaining "Layout
> `Proposition' was not found."
>
>
> At this point I have the file fully open, but it will not compile. Nor do I
> know what to do with it to take it to a newer version. I get no Export
> options and I tried copy pasting into the newer LyX and that did not work (I
> get again "[filname] is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script
> failed to convert it.")
>
>
> Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.
>
>
> -Ivan
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 16:03:11 -0700
> From: Joel Kulesza <jkulesza at gmail.com>
> To: LyX Users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>
> Subject: Re: Can you reproduce this bug?
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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 1:39 PM Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Can you reproduce this bug on your system?
>>
>> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12435
>>
>> It's helpful to know the type of systems on which it can be reproduced.
>> Specifically, it will be helpful to figure out whether the bug only
>> surfaces on certain operating systems, and only with certain
>> configurations.
>>
>> Here is the recipe to reproduce the bug:
>>
>> 1. Maximize (non-fullscreen) the window
>> 2. Enter Full screen mode
>> 3. Exit Full screen.
>>
>> After step 3, does the LyX window return to the state after step (1)?
>> i.e., is the window maximized?
>>
>> If you try to reproduce it, please state:
>>
>> 1. Can you reproduce the bug?
>> 2. Your operating system and version number (version number is
>> especially helpful for macOS users).
>> 3. Copy/paste the info from Help > About.
>>
>>
>> Here's my own responses to the 3 questions:
>>
>
> 1. Somewhat. When I go "full screen" from half-width, I restore correctly.
> When I go "full screen" from full width, it returns to something like half
> width (not the previous full width). This is observed with BetterTouchTool
> running. If I quit it, then both approaches appear to restore correctly.
> 2. macOS 12.5
> 3. Version 2.4.0-alpha3
> (February 14, 2021)
>
> Qt Version (run-time): 5.12.9
> Qt Version (compile-time): 5.12.9
> Python detected: python3 -tt
>
> Hope this helps,
> Joel
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