| Subject | : | Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 21 Dec, 2005 on 19:51 |
| Supporting thread for the Port of LyX 1.3 bounty. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 27 Dec, 2005 on 14:57 |
| I use this program in linux and would like to use it under OS/2. But, I've got a question: Lyx uses Latex. ¿Is there an up to date Latex engine under OS/?. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Cris |
| Date | : | 29 Dec, 2005 on 09:27 |
| Hi aasdelat. Look here: http://www.micropress-inc.com/os2/ Bye Cris |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Warp5 |
| Date | : | 29 Dec, 2005 on 10:00 |
Yes, there is also TeTex: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/wp/tex/os2tetex-3.0.zip |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 29 Dec, 2005 on 14:50 |
| Thank you all of you to answer me. I will bounty on Lyx soon. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 10 Jan, 2006 on 07:01 |
| FWIW - I have LyX compiling with qt for OS/2 - however due to some features that are currently missing in the OS/2 qt port it fails to link. Once those features are added to qt on OS/2 - lyx should be real easy to build. Cheers, Paul. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 24 Feb, 2006 on 14:29 |
| Does that mean that the bounty on lyx is unnecessary?, or may be it useful for the porting of qt?. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 25 Feb, 2006 on 11:20 |
It means what it says... I spent some time trying to build lyx - partly because of the bounty as I'd never heard of Lyx. Currently it won't build due to missing features in the OS/2 build of qt3. Once those features are in, I'd expect it (ie Lyx) to be reasonably easy to build - but someone still needs to do it. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2006 on 12:59 |
| Ok. I understand now. Thank you for your interest. And now, i'll bounty again, because of your interest. But I have another question: Should be useful a bounty on qt port?. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 03 Mar, 2006 on 05:51 |
The ebst way to help the qt port is most likely to sponsor Netlabs - they're already healping fund the qt3 port. You can track progress of the qt port by looking at http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3 |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 10 Mar, 2006 on 18:20 |
| Ok. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 24 Jul, 2006 on 12:11 |
| OK I managed to build a lyx.exe this evening with latest qt from svn which includes some drag/drop support Now to debug it..... |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 26 Jul, 2006 on 13:39 |
Initial build now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 26 Jul, 2006 on 16:53 |
| Cool! I'm going to give it a try this weekend or so. The link on your page has a "p" to much and points to a ".zipp" file. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 26 Jul, 2006 on 17:01 |
| Well, the first test resulted in: [E:\lyx\bin]lyx -sysdir /lyx/share/lyx Killed by SIGSEGV FYI, this machine has on old AMD K6-III CPU. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Grimus andi710@web.de |
| Date | : | 26 Jul, 2006 on 17:12 |
| Hi Paul, great to hear that you are working on this (potentially) very useful program. I use LaTeX (VTeX) a lot and sometimes really miss an easy way of entering large quantities of text, correctly typeset without having to recompile every other second. However, the first build crahes here with Killed by SIGSEGV libc061.dll is installed and I played around with the -sysdir parameter, as I was not quite sure about the syntax of the path info (forward or backslashes etc.). Didn't change the error. My machine is a dual Opteron running eCS 1.2MR German. Cheers |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 26 Jul, 2006 on 22:55 |
Damn - the only positive about the above two reports is that the crash registers are the same. can you try starting lyx with debug enabled - ie add -d 9 to the command line? Cheers, Paul. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 27 Jul, 2006 on 09:05 |
| lyx.exe -d 9 returns: Killed by SIGSEGV Anything else I can do to help? BTW, in readme.os2 you wrote:
The part about python probably occurs because you don't have the Python scripting language installed. IIRC LyX uses Python for things like importing other file formats. The tmp part makes me think that LyX is unable to create a temporary file. Do you have a "tmp" directory on the drive that LyX resides on? Are TMP and TMPDIR defined in CONFIG.SYS? You may need to use forward slashes. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 27 Jul, 2006 on 14:24 |
OK I can reproduce this on my other machine. Will try and fix in the next few days. Cheers, Paul. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 28 Jul, 2006 on 05:32 |
Fixed in beta2 - available from http://smedley.info/os2ports |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 28 Jul, 2006 on 16:07 |
| Now it starts up OK, but when I select "Tools > Preferences", LyX crashes with not error message. If I start "lyx.exe -d 9", the program crashes immediately and the GUI does not come up. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Grimus andi710@web.de |
| Date | : | 28 Jul, 2006 on 19:09 |
| Beta 2 starts up here when there is a \tmp dir in the root of the partition lyx resides on (doesn't evaluate the config.sys entries for tmp or temp, but that's really minor). Crashes when trying to access preferences here as well. Otherwise, I need some time to figure out how useful it is compared to my usual VTeX environment using epm. Thanks a million times for your efforts Paul! |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 29 Jul, 2006 on 02:43 |
I'll take a look at the use of /tmp - should be easy to fix. Trying to debug the preferences now - I bound the b2 version as a PM app in my wisdom - hence no error/debug messages. I'd be very interested in feedback on how useful this is.... Cheers, Paul. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Isaac atomic_frogii@yahoo.ca |
| Date | : | 29 Jul, 2006 on 08:25 |
| Works here too, but also same results. Needs /tmp and crashes on selecting preferences. I also tried making new document from IEEETran template and it complains about object not existing, but then it loads up the template properly anyways. BTW, the /tmp problem seems to pop up with the old version of Lyx too. It is actually better now because as long as /tmp exists, it's happy. Old version of Lyx always complained about not finding /tmp, even if it did exist. A working Lyx would be a very useful thing IMHO! One thing about TeX/LaTex .... I HATE to use it, but the output was pretty much bug-free. Those of us doing very large documents would find this handy. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 29 Jul, 2006 on 12:03 |
Hi Isaac, Can you give me some details on the error with the IEEE template? I think I've found the hardcoded /tmp - trying to fix now and use the directory referenced by 'set TEMP' Cheers, Paul. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 29 Jul, 2006 on 12:40 |
OK lyx runs locally now without a /tmp directory - just need to try and find why tools->preferences is crashing |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 29 Jul, 2006 on 18:55 |
It's just my personal opinion, of course, but I'd say "tremendiously." Basically, you are not even *able* to fuss around with individual formatting parameters. Instead you are forced to define what you want once and then use the styles. Also, LyX simply does not allow certain bad layout practise, like using empty paragraphs. And you get all the goodies for large documents like table of contents, bibliography, etc. that TeX offers -- without the bugs of MS Word and the like. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Isaac atomic_frogii@yahoo.ca |
| Date | : | 29 Jul, 2006 on 20:23 |
| Regarding the IEEEtran problem, I'm not sure it is isolated to just iEEEtran. I get message "The document uses a missing TeX class "IEEEtran". LyX will not be able to produce output" Click "Ok" and it says it's using default document class because class IEEEtran couldn't be loaded. Then it shows up anyways and looks fine. I have VTeX/2, BiBtex installed, working (I've had to use it to submit a research paper). I don't think I have it set up properly to actually output with LyX. I'm guessing this is the problem...? Other things I have noticed. New from template works fine(?), but just a new document makes my system slow to a crawl. Unuseable. An aside, I've written a couple of big theses, one with Word and one with WordPro. It was _painful_!!, all of it due to bugs, not features. ! I hate how TeX/LaTeX/LyX stops you from having any flexibility, but for those who don't know how to truly use a word processor, it's probably a good thing. And it's great that it just usually works. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 26 Aug, 2006 on 12:31 |
| To fix the crash when clicking Tools->Preferences, unzip <a href="http://smedley.info/lyxhome.zip">http://smedley.info/lyxhome.zip</a> into %HOME%/.lyx. A better solution is under investigation. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 05 Sep, 2006 on 15:33 |
| IIRC you had to run a configuration script for the old LyX port that created such files in the home directory. You may want to have a look at that. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 05 Oct, 2006 on 00:13 |
| There is another important fix at http://smedley.info/lyxfix1.zip This fixes problems with LyX calling Python with invalid quoting around the script name - ie using ' instead of " |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 05 Oct, 2006 on 05:38 |
Based on comments in http://mantis.smedley.info/view.php?id=75 (registration to my bug tracker required to view this) - most problems seem to be revolved now. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | melf mikaelelf@os2ug.se |
| Date | : | 05 Oct, 2006 on 10:26 |
| I really would like to learn to use Lyx and there is a great "beginners tutorial". I can write, but I can't preview, neither print or export. "Cannot convert file. An error occurd whilst running...and so on" is the frequent message. Is there more packages required to make lyx print and preview?
--- /Mikael |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | ThL |
| Date | : | 05 Oct, 2006 on 14:27 |
The most difficult problem is to integrate the tex distribution into lyx. I did not figure out how to do it yet but I will continue trying it. If somebody has some hint please tell ![]() |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | melf mikaelelf@os2ug.se |
| Date | : | 05 Oct, 2006 on 14:48 |
So you mean that Lyx is not complete, but some sort of frontend or....? I didn't realize that.
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| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 05 Oct, 2006 on 23:01 |
I am working with a user who is having pretty good success with LyX (ie able to save documents as .ps and convert to pdf, etc) in order to come up with a document to help people configure LyX. At the very minimum, python is required to be in the path as it is used to run several scripts. With other helpers - it pretty much depends what output format you want from LyX to determine which helpers you need. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | melf mikaelelf@os2ug.se |
| Date | : | 06 Oct, 2006 on 11:18 |
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| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | QHand |
| Date | : | 06 Oct, 2006 on 12:23 |
| It doesn't support DBCS. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 10 Oct, 2006 on 14:27 |
| Paul, I've just taken a closer look at LyX and noticed the following: The TMP environment variable needs to be set using forward slashes in CONFIG.SYS. If it is not, configure.py and all kinds of "View" commands will fail with a message that the output file cannot be found. The problem with TMP is that all Mozilla applications require TMP to be set with backslashes. I have reported the issue in the Mozilla news group for OS/2. If TMP is set correctly, you also do not need to unzip the configuration file package lyx_home.zip to %HOME% anymore since LyX will successfully create the files itself. Another problem occurs when LyX creates output for viewing. With larger files, it hogs the CPU for a long time and eats up more and more CPU until even the XCenter widgets are not updated anymore. I guess this is a problem in the Qt library. Also, creating output via TeX will fail on all default eCS 1.2 installations. The process requires the GNU steam editor sed.exe to be installed, and apparently eCS 1.2 comes with an incompatible version that is located in \ecs\bin. It took me quite a while to find that out because you just get error messages about invalid regexp stuff. This is a general problem with ported software and I have reported it on the eCS developer mailing list. By default, LyX uses an addtional parameter "latex" for LaTeX processing. This causes the calls to fail here. I'm using the latest tetex 3.0 port by Jun Sawataishi from Hobbes. Also, one needs to change the DVI viewer somehow. By default, XDVI is called. This *is* available for OS/2 but requires XFree86/OS2 to be installed and running. Instructions how to use DVIPM from emTeX as a replacement would be nice. Well, enough complaining. I'm willing to help with further testing and compiling a suitable readme.os2. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 12 Oct, 2006 on 01:05 |
Thanks for the detailed report and also for the entries at http://mantis.smedley.info http://smedley.info/lyxfix2.zip (needs the dll from http://smedley.info/lyxfix1.zip) should address the issues with the TEMP environment variable. I'll look at the other issues hopefully soon. Cheers, Paul. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 17 Oct, 2006 on 18:18 |
| Hey!, a pair of issues: When I write an ecuation, I can't have the correct symbols on the screen (I don't know when printing because I didn't installed Latex yet). Yuo write an ecuation, for example, pressing ctrl-m. Then, you click with right mouse button to obtain a menu with simbols an click in the one you want. Also, I installed ispell with spanish dictionary, and changed the language in the configuration, but I get only an error when I try to check the spelling. And last (by now), I use Lyx in linux with spanish menus. So, what about versions of Lyx for OS/2 in non english languages?. Thank you to the people that is working on this port, and greetengs from Málaga (Spain). |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 19 Oct, 2006 on 13:06 |
Same here. Actually, *some* symbols are correct while others are not. Looks like some codepage problem.
I guess Paul's mind reading capabilities are less developed than his development ones. What was the error message? You should report it via the bug tracker at http://mantis.smedley.info.
Normally, LyX should detect the language from the LANG variable. I haven't managed to get it to use the German interface. Looks like a bug. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 19 Oct, 2006 on 23:13 |
| An update to 1.4.3 is available from http://download.smedley.info/lyx-1.4.3-os2-b0.zip This is a preview of 1.4.3 - I still need to work on fixing a couple of bugs, and updating the documentation. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 20 Oct, 2006 on 13:21 |
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| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 22 Oct, 2006 on 21:35 |
Hi Paul! With this release, the problem with configure.py not being found by the emx port of Python 2.4.3 occurs again:
Those are two single quotes before and after the file name. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 23 Oct, 2006 on 02:14 |
OK I see the problem. That part of the LyX code changed between 1.4.2 & 1.4.3 - I misread the changes and thought that it should now use the correct quoting on OS/2 - clearly not :/ This does work with my build of Python 2.5 built with libc - I must release that too - although it does have some quirks in it, at least it works with files >2gb. I should have a new build this evening my time along with updated qt libraries. Still not sure why the language stuff isn't working. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 23 Oct, 2006 on 22:47 |
| Sorry guys - when I updated qt from svn it stopped building - dmitry should be committing a fix soon. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 24 Oct, 2006 on 05:29 |
Good news - looks like the build problems should be fixed - http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/changeset/141 Will update code from svn when I get home tonight. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 24 Oct, 2006 on 11:43 |
OK python problem should be fixed in http://download.smedley.info/lyx-1.4.3-os2-b0a.zip |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 25 Oct, 2006 on 11:33 |
| Problems with insertion of graphics are fixed in http://download.smedley.info/lyx-1.4.3-os2-b0b.zip There were two problems here: |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Smedles |
| Date | : | 26 Oct, 2006 on 13:31 |
| http;//download.smedley.info/lyxexe.zip is a new lyx.exe that addresses the language problems |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 30 Oct, 2006 on 11:54 |
| Sorry, but I can't download this. My browser says that it doesn't find the url (I substituted the ";" with ":"). Also, there isn't a link for this file in your lyx page. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 30 Oct, 2006 on 14:58 |
| http://smedley.info/os2ports/index.html Is this the site? http://download.smedley.info/lyx-1.4.2-os2-b2a.zip Is this the file? ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip It says it needs this file. http://smedley.info/lyxhome.zip ? --- BigWarpGuy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OS/2-eCS.org Director of Communications - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - supporting the past OS/2 user and the future eCS user http://www.os2ecs.org |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | aasdelat |
| Date | : | 14 Nov, 2006 on 14:41 |
| Sorry, it isn't any of them, but thank you for your interest. |
| Subject | : | Re:Port of LyX 1.3 |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 21 May, 2007 on 10:02 |
| This thread has been closed and will continue in the new forum. |