[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>A side remark before: I don't know \leftheader and \rightheader, but
>your commands seem to reinsert eps code at each slide.
They are built-in commands in the FoilTeX class. My impression is that they
do more or less what you suggested I should do by hand, avoid reinserting code
into each slide.
>As for finding a figure/graphics file, have a look at pages 26-27 of
>the "Using EPS graphics in LaTeX2e" document which comes with teTeX:
Unfortunately, I was unable to find any file installed as part of teTeX whose
name suggested "Using EPS graphics in LaTeX2e" and documentation.
Fortunately, there was other documentation (the Kpathsea library
documentation, for example) that supported and explained your suggestion:
>... use:
>setenv TEXINPUTS /home/.lyx/clipart:
>(for a single user implementation), don't miss the :
Based upon your suggestion, I put
setenv TEXINPUTS=.:$HOME/.lyx/clipart:/usr/local/share/lyx/clipart:
export TEXINPUTS
into my ~/.xsession file, and it worked. That this should be necessary at all
implies the existance of a LyX bug, though.
Why would the LyX distribution (as installed by the FreeBSD Ports system)
create a global /usr/local/share/lyx/clipart directory (containing a copy of
platypus.eps) and not insert that directory into the appropriate Kpathsea file
search path(s)? I would argue that the ~/.lyx/clipart directory should also
be inserted, since LyX creates it as part of the ~/.lyx tree, but at least the
global directory ought to be supported without the user having to muck with
environment variables.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>1) Try running
>kpsepath pict
>then put your pictures to any directory which is said by kpsepath to
>be searched by kpsearch library (i.e., which has three / characters in
>the end);
This suggests one way for LyX itself and for the Ports LyX installation to
have avoided the problem, by making /usr/local/share/lyx/clipart and
~/.lyx/clipart be links to directories that are already on the correct
Kpathsea search paths.
I'm still exploring Jean-Pierre's suggestion to remove the ".eps" suffix from
each file name in the .layout file, for the benefit of PDF rendering. As
things stand, xdvi and gv do the best job with the .eps logos, by far.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get xdvi to do centered full-screen
rendering or color text, and I haven't been able to get gv to do full-screen
rendering at all. Perhaps hand-converted versions of the logos in other
formats would work acceptably with acroread4, which does full-screen centered
rendering quite nicely otherwise.
<grumble mode>
Amazing! Here are three different potential ways of rendering slides for a
laptop-run slide presentation, and each fails in a different way. It
shouldn't be this hard.
</grumble mode>
Time passes though, and a thank-you is in order, even before I finish
exploring all suggestions. Thanks to both of you.
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