Testing version of Lyz (1.6.8.1.testing)

Several people have troubles using Lyz, mostly, as it appears, due to a miscommunication with lyxserver. Please follow these tips to find out the source of your problem:

1. Run Lyx in debugging mode from commandline by (Linux and Mac users change accordingly)
   

   lyx.exe -dbg lyxserver

   Useful messages should appear whenever you send some command from Lyz. A useful message will contain words like ERROR, undefined etc.

2. To send a command from Lyz, you simply use one of the functions, e.g. “Cite in Lyx” or use command line, viz. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXServer.
3. Also you can use a variant of the last version of Lyz, which has additional menu item “Test…”. This will allow you to send single commands to Lyx. Currently Lyz uses the following commands (code in the parentheses indicates usage):
   

   • server-get-filename (server-get-filename)
   • citation-insert (citation-insert:LYZ:author2010title)
   • buffer-next (buffer-next)
   • server-get-xy (server-get-xy)
   • buffer-write (buffer-write)
   • buffer-close (buffer-close)
   • file-open (file-open:path, where path is the response from server-get-filename)

   All functions Lyz has are patched together using these commands. The most trouble some seems to be the server-get-filename.

4. Extract useful information from Firefox’s Error Console and from commandline where you ran lyx.exe -dbg lyxserver and send it to me or even better file a bug, ask a question or submit a request at Launchpad:
   • If you have encountered a problem: Submit a bug.
   • If you have a question: Ask here.
   • If you have an idea: Submit a request.