align and gather.
Hello everybody! I use Scientific Word and want to change to LyX, because SW is too expensive and buggy. I'm trying the latest version 1.1.6fix6 at Debian (Linux) OS, and although lyx interface isn't too rich as in SW, I can work in lyx as well as in SW. I found lyx superior to SW in many respects, for example it shows the title, abstract, etc, and shows also tex code! The problem is that I must work (physicist's work: lots of math) with people that use SW, and I noticed that although my lyx can import SW latex, it displays align, align*, gather, and gather* environments (that we use a lot) as tex, that is the WYSIWYM interface does not work for these environments. I want to know: 1) Is this is normal? I mean, are these features really missing and planned to be put in some next version? 2) Will I find other similar limitations in lyx? BTW, I know perl and my native language is portugese, so I could contribute in reLyX and internationalization. How can I start contributing in these fields? Thanks! Joao Luis M. Assirati.
Re: Problems reimporting exported documents
Hello, I guess nobody knows about this problem cause it's been a few days and got no replies. It is a pitty, I really liked lyx but this is a show stopper. My boss uses latex so I need to go back and forth and if I can't then that's it, I'll have to write my Ph.D. thesis in latex. Thank you, -Mario
Lyx and Docbook
Hello all, Is there somebody who succesfully uses Lyx to build Docbook documents? And with documents I mean not only following the template included in Lyx, but the whole thing: prefaces, appendices, FAQ's, etc. Maybe someome can point me to some examples? Thanks, Peter
Re: Lyx and Docbook
--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:46:22 PM +0100 Peter Termaten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there somebody who succesfully uses Lyx to build Docbook > documents? Yes, me, the Linux+IPv6-HOWTO. Hint: use fix4, there are some bugs in previous version regarding the generated SGML code (e.g. "colspec" tag and "<" chars in code-formatted lines). > And with documents I mean not only following the > template included in Lyx, but the whole thing: prefaces, > appendices, FAQ's, etc. Maybe someome can point me to some examples? LyX file is available at (there are also some Perl tools there): http://cvsview.linuxdoc.org/index.cgi/users/Peter-Bieringer/ and the exported SGML: http://cvsview.linuxdoc.org/index.cgi/howto/docbook/Linux%2bIPv6-HOWT O.sgml and the LDP generated HTTP: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html Current pitfalls: * left/right quoutes must be converted to normal quotes in SGML (Perl tool available) * URL encoding do not handle "&" chars proper, see posting to LyX maillist yesterday. -> has to be fixed manually. Peter
Re: Tex capacity exceeded
> > I've set a document class for a paper to the llncs (Springer) > > class. Everything seems fine except for that error I get when trying > > to view it: > > TeX capacity exceeded, sorry[save size=4000] > > ... > > If you really absolutely need more capacity > > you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Okay, what wizard and what > > does this error means? > > in most cases the problem is in the preamble, a forgotten > > closing parenthesis or an endless loop, if a command > calls itself. > Thanks. I had a subparagraph without a paragraph! It worked under another document class but not this one. myriam
Re: myclass.layout not found
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:59:22PM +1030, Simon G Hill wrote:
> Have you done the following.
> placed the files in a place where they can be found?
> ie
> usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
> Run texhash from the command line?
> Reconfigured LyX?
> Restarted LyX?
Sorry to have been too terse in my original note.
By "[reconfigure, etc...]" I meant the process of doing
Options->Reconfigure then exiting LyX and restarting it.
The docs are quite clear about that process.
When I ran lyx -dbg 2, the reconfigure produced these lines:
checking LaTeX configuration... auto
+Inspecting your LaTeX configuration.
+checking for LaTeX version... 1998/12/01
+checking for default encoding (this may take a long time)
+ checking for ec fonts... yes
+ checking for ec support in LaTeX format... yes
+checking for document class myclass [report, myclass.sty]... no
So it clearly was not finding "myclass" but just as clearly it
knew that it should be looking for it.
I was trying to take the smallest first step at customization,
creating a new "document class" derived from an existing one.
It turns out I took a bigger step than I realized---I was in
effect trying to introduce a new .sty, thinking I could
simply work with a .layout.
When I change the declaration line in myclass.layout to:
\DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{myclass}
I see "myclass" in the list of document classes in the
Layout->Document popup.
Now I can proceed, with all the great examples on the web page
and elsewhere. I hope this bit of info helps some other clown
who may be taking first steps at customization.
Jim
Re: Problems reimporting exported documents
Mario Parra wrote: > I guess nobody knows about this problem cause it's been a few days > and got no replies. It is a pitty, I really liked lyx but this is a show > stopper. > My boss uses latex so I need to go back and forth and if I can't then > that's > it, I'll have to write my Ph.D. thesis in latex. if you can write it in latex, you can write it in LyX, that makes no difference. If you have some problem with relyx, than copy the latex-part and insert it as real tex (in red) HErbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: align and gather.
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > The problem is that I must work (physicist's work: lots of math) with > people that use SW, and I noticed that although my lyx can import > SW latex, it displays align, align*, gather, and gather* environments > (that we use a lot) as tex, that is the WYSIWYM interface does not work > for these environments. > > I want to know: > > 1) Is this is normal? I mean, are these features really missing and > planned to be put in some next version? the upcoming 1.2.0 supports all of these amsmath stuff > 2) Will I find other similar limitations in lyx? lyx has no limitations! The only question is, can you write it in lyx or do you have to switch into the latex mode. Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
