I'm out of office, and read e-mail on a smartphone, so it is a little difficult to see the image. However, the Listing options menu with its 10-20 choices clearly illustrate the problem of creating totally inconsistent documents wrt style of listing. And the need for optionally defining named styles.
Is there a package for this? I think it is so important that it should be built-in. Best regards Bernt Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Bernt Lie Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:00:46 AM To: Joel Kulesza Cc: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: LyX & feature wishes On Jupyter & LyX: See presentation by noted researcher Randall J LeVeque (numerics of hyperbolic PDEs) on how to produce a LaTeX book from Jupyter Notebook; I find this very interesting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_RERKi56c I currently develop examples partly in Jupyter, and need to integrate them in LyX documents. Best regards Bernt Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:00:41 AM To: Bernt Lie Cc: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: LyX & feature wishes On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:51 AM, Bernt Lie <bernt....@usn.no<mailto:bernt....@usn.no>> wrote: 1. I have spent tens of hours trying to get a consistent look for Program Listing. It would be really, really helpful if I can assign a Program Listing to a “program listing group”, where I define computer language, possible numbering of lines, location of line numbering, fonts for line numbering, fonts for code, line breaks, tabs, etc.,etc. Thus, I’d like to be able to define groups such as “Displayed-MATLAB”, “InLine-MATLAB”, “Displayed-Python”, etc., etc. Such a possibility would be priceless for getting a consistent look. I'm not sure about in-line use; however, I've defined a style for the "listings" package that colors language keywords, strings, etc. consistently across languages. See this gist: https://gist.github.com/jkulesza/d76be674d902d4e65f1fbc5c9d3d56fe and the attached screenshot. Note that when I use a program listing I only need to specify the language to obtain highlighting. 2. Similarly: styles for Floats would be useful. By default, all floats seem to be left adjusted. I tend to use center adjustment of figures/tables and caption. If I could set a default, or define a group – that would be useful. This is a mechanism I'd also like to have. You might be interested in the discussion here: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8665. In particular, and in the meantime, you might be interested in using JMarc's snippet from that conversation: \g@addto@macro\@floatboxreset{\centering} in your preamble to achieve the desired effect. However, floats aren't reflected as centered in the LyX interface. Some integration of Jupyter Notebook/Lab with LyX?? 5. I tend to more and more use Jupyter Notebooks when I develop examples in courses, etc. (and soon: Jupyter Lab). Jupyter Notebooks are notebooks that are opened and run in a web browser, and currently supports some 40 computer languages (Jupyter originally referred to Julia, Python and R). In a Jupyter Notebook, I can download the document as LaTeX. Such notebooks have a simple markdown system for defining document structure. I've used Jupyter (and before that IPython) somewhat extensively. However, I'm not sure I see a use case for combining both pieces of software. Maybe you can describe how you would integrate Jupyter and LyX together in your workflow (maybe I can improve my own workflow)? Because of Jupyter's simple markdown and ability to export integrated documentation, code, and results, I don't see what part LyX plays. In this instance, I keep both tools available and select the one that will suit my task better: interactive documentation/investigative coding or archival documentation. b. I will use such Notebooks more and more in the future, and it would be extremely useful if I could import then in an easy way into LyX. Here I've used the pdfpages package<http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/pdfpages.pdf> to include PDFs from Jupyter (or other tools) embedded in the containing LyX-produced PDF. c. It would also be useful if there was a simple way to copy math from LyX, and insert it into Jupyter Notebooks. Currently, multiline math doesn’t fare well. If you use View -> Source Pane (in 2.2.3), you can see the LaTeX equation code that can be copied/pasted into Jupyter. See attached screenshot (sorry for economizing two very different responses into the same PNG). Sorry also for a response full of hacks, but I've had similar types of needs and these are the expedient albeit inelegant solutions I've used. Regards, Joel
