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]]> By: Administrator http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-169364 Administrator Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:02:55 +0000 #comment-169364 The mess in my comment was due to the fact that the commenting system in Wordpress uses completely different escaping rules than the posts do. So I went in and manually edited the comment to use proper escaping. But I don't believe you will find similar problems in any of my blog entries. I also cleaned up a bunch of other annoying problems. For example, Wordpress likes to drop "\" when you upload articles to SQL and there is a bug in Wordpress that if you have a <br></br> in a <pre> then it turns the <br></br> into </br> which caused a lot of formating errors. Both are now fixed. As for the screwed up nav menu, I'm too wimpy to take that one on. That is a bug in the theme I'm using and the code for the theme is more complex than my brain can grok. So for now I'll just have to live with it. Some day I'll probably just switch themes. The mess in my comment was due to the fact that the commenting system in WordPress uses completely different escaping rules than the posts do. So I went in and manually edited the comment to use proper escaping. But I don’t believe you will find similar problems in any of my blog entries.

I also cleaned up a bunch of other annoying problems. For example, WordPress likes to drop “\” when you upload articles to SQL and there is a bug in WordPress that if you have a <br></br> in a <pre> then it turns the <br></br> into </br> which caused a lot of formating errors. Both are now fixed.

As for the screwed up nav menu, I’m too wimpy to take that one on. That is a bug in the theme I’m using and the code for the theme is more complex than my brain can grok. So for now I’ll just have to live with it. Some day I’ll probably just switch themes.

]]> By: Carl Turner http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-169084 Carl Turner Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:13:02 +0000 #comment-169084 You also forgot to use "<" / ">" for < and >! Irritating, isn't it? And yes, there is an improvement! The nav menu on the side's still wonky though - as I mentioned above, the <li> tags appear to have no <ul> You also forgot to use “&lt;” / “&gt;” for < and >! Irritating, isn’t it? And yes, there is an improvement! The nav menu on the side’s still wonky though – as I mentioned above, the <li> tags appear to have no <ul>

]]> By: Administrator http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-169058 Administrator Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:40:18 +0000 #comment-169058 So the bug in my blog was in some code I wrote to output HTML. The code translates from XML and it was outputting tags with no child as <foo/> instead of <foo></foo>. In XML <foo/> == <foo></foo> but HTML processors treat the anchor tag in particular differently. They see <a/> == <a>. In other words they don't honor the closing / and just see an open anchor. That's what caused all the ugliness. I fixed the code so I now always output the <foo></foo> form and that seems to have fixed things. So the bug in my blog was in some code I wrote to output HTML. The code translates from XML and it was outputting tags with no child as <foo/> instead of <foo></foo>.

In XML <foo/> == <foo></foo> but HTML processors treat the anchor tag in particular differently. They see <a/> == <a>. In other words they don’t honor the closing / and just see an open anchor. That’s what caused all the ugliness.

I fixed the code so I now always output the <foo></foo> form and that seems to have fixed things.

]]> By: Administrator http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-165007 Administrator Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:40:32 +0000 #comment-165007 Carl - The problem started when I fixed another bug in the software that runs my blog. I just haven't had time yet to find out where the new bug was introduced and fix it. :( Carl – The problem started when I fixed another bug in the software that runs my blog. I just haven’t had time yet to find out where the new bug was introduced and fix it. :(

]]> By: Carl Turner http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-163377 Carl Turner Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:50:04 +0000 #comment-163377 Oh s**t :D sorry, I typed the tags with the <> bits... damn. Anyway, the point is that the <li>'s aren't in a <ul>. Oh s**t :D sorry, I typed the tags with the <> bits… damn. Anyway, the point is that the <li>’s aren’t in a <ul>.

]]> By: Carl Turner http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-163376 Carl Turner Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:48:43 +0000 #comment-163376 Sorry, but this page is so messed up in appearance that I can only hope it wasn't written this badly by hand - the anchor tags started to mark sections aren't closed, so great big wads of text think they're links, when they're not. And as for the "It validates in XHTML and CSS minus plugins."... heh. For starters, #sidebox2 contains 's, but there's no previous , which is presumably why the bullet points are so weird. Anyway, do check WordPress/your tools/your HTML because something went wrong here, and on a page about HTML generation - indeed, links - it's sort of unforgivable ;-) Sorry, but this page is so messed up in appearance that I can only hope it wasn’t written this badly by hand – the anchor tags started to mark sections aren’t closed, so great big wads of text think they’re links, when they’re not. And as for the “It validates in XHTML and CSS minus plugins.”… heh. For starters, #sidebox2 contains ‘s, but there’s no previous , which is presumably why the bullet points are so weird.

Anyway, do check WordPress/your tools/your HTML because something went wrong here, and on a page about HTML generation – indeed, links – it’s sort of unforgivable ;-)

]]> By: Administrator http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-124231 Administrator Sat, 19 May 2007 18:26:50 +0000 #comment-124231 Hum... that is odd. I'm honestly not sure but I do know who can help. http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php gives the contact data to join the lyx-users mailing list. They are incredibly active and extremely good about answering questions. Hum… that is odd. I’m honestly not sure but I do know who can help. http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php gives the contact data to join the lyx-users mailing list. They are incredibly active and extremely good about answering questions.

]]> By: greg http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-123796 greg Thu, 17 May 2007 04:44:58 +0000 #comment-123796 Can you please help me? I've looked everywhere for the answer but can't find it. I am also having the same problem with URLs. I've tried electronic, url, and webpage as the citation types, and none of these show the url when I click preview in Bibdesk (and of course the citation doesn't have the url in lyx). You used proceedings to solve this problem, but this still didn't show me any urls. Any ideas? Thanks, Greg Can you please help me? I’ve looked everywhere for the answer but can’t find it.

I am also having the same problem with URLs. I’ve tried electronic, url, and webpage as the citation types, and none of these show the url when I click preview in Bibdesk (and of course the citation doesn’t have the url in lyx). You used proceedings to solve this problem, but this still didn’t show me any urls.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Greg

]]> By: Joe GArsia http://www.goland.org/lyx/comment-page-1/#comment-27639 Joe GArsia Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:22:22 +0000 #comment-27639 LyX is a nice frontend to LaTeX. There are several packages for LaTeX hyperlinked PDFs, like Prosper and hyperref. You should be able to do pretty well with a combination of those. The LaTeX that LyX creates is neat and readable, so it shouldn't be a problem to hand tweak it if you need to. LyX is a nice frontend to LaTeX. There are several packages for LaTeX hyperlinked PDFs, like Prosper and hyperref. You should be able to do pretty well with a combination of those.

The LaTeX that LyX creates is neat and readable, so it shouldn’t be a problem to hand tweak it if you need to.

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