Re: Missing *.sty and/or *.cls files?
On 2010-02-04, Ignacio Garcia wrote: >> Uwe: The problem is that Ubuntu still installs by default an old >> version of the LaTeX distribution > Right, but it's still usable for the most document classes, and > installing manually texlive 2009 can be a bit hard for newbies in > linux/LyX. Debian/testing finally updated to TeXLive 2009, I suppose Ubuntu will follow soon (or already did in some repository). Installing missing LaTeX styles or packages is relatively easy: * Install apt-file (via the package manager, e.g. aptitude). * Run `apt-file find the-style-I-need.sty`. (Replace "the-style-I-need.sty" with a search pattern matching your needs.) * Install the Debian/Ubuntu package providing this style via the package manager. As apt-file searches on a cached database, run `apt-file update` periodically. Günter
Wrong path to LaTeX files
Useful system information: * Ubuntu 9.10 * LyX 1.6.4 There are many templates and examples that will not work, because the class files can not be found. The problem seems to be that the path to LaTeX is incorrect. I would like for it to look in: /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist where, the latest LaTeX files are stored. However, LyX uses the path, /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ I have tried a complete uninstall of LyX and then reinstall; but, this has no effect on the problem. How do I get LyX to use the correct LaTeX path? Thanks, --V -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Wrong-path-to-LaTeX-files-tp4519412p4519412.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
On 02/05/2010 12:43 AM, John Adams wrote: Hi, I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. I am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of the generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can someone please tell me how to achieve this? I'm not sure exactly what copyright information this involves, since I don't know the siggraph class. But that line is presumably generated by the acmsiggraph.cls file itself. To remove it, you'd have to edit that file. Richard
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
Great! Thank You very much. There was a very simple line in that class file: *copyrightwanted = @true* I changed it to false and got what I needed. Thanks John On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:21 AM, rgheck wrote: > On 02/05/2010 12:43 AM, John Adams wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. >> I >> am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of the >> generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can >> someone >> please tell me how to achieve this? >> >> >> > I'm not sure exactly what copyright information this involves, since I > don't know the siggraph class. But that line is presumably generated by the > acmsiggraph.cls file itself. To remove it, you'd have to edit that file. > > Richard > >
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
On Friday 05 February 2010 00:43:26 John Adams wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. I > am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of the > generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can someone > please tell me how to achieve this? > > Thanks, > John > This isn't a technical response, but I suggest you verify that it's legal for you to remove the copyright information. As an author who makes a significant amount of his income selling books, the idea of people removing copyright information makes me very nervous. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
No... I wasn't asking how to remove the copyright of Siggraph. It was more like, it was putting a copyright for a document that I am authoring which I don't really need for a class report. This is a one time document and that's it. In any case, the copyright that was being put goes something like this: *"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee."* Is it still a problem? Thanks, John On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2010 00:43:26 John Adams wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. > I > > am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of > the > > generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can > someone > > please tell me how to achieve this? > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > > This isn't a technical response, but I suggest you verify that it's legal > for > you to remove the copyright information. As an author who makes a > significant > amount of his income selling books, the idea of people removing copyright > information makes me very nervous. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > >
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
On Friday 05 February 2010 10:52:52 John Adams wrote: > No... I wasn't asking how to remove the copyright of Siggraph. It was more > like, it was putting a copyright for a document that I am authoring which I > don't really need for a class report. This is a one time document and > that's it. In any case, the copyright that was being put goes something > like this: > > *"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for > personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are > not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies > bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy > otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, > requires prior specific permission and/or a fee."* > > Is it still a problem? If I understand you correctly, no. As I understand the preceding, YOU authored all the content in this document. Siggraph wrote absolutely none of the document. As I understand the preceding, Siggraph simply, for some reason, added that copyright language in case YOU might want it, and they provided a switch (*copyrightwanted =) to remove it. If that's true, I personally would have no problem with your removing it, and although I'm not a lawyer I'd bet heavily that removing it is perfectly legal. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
Yes... Exactly... That is my situation. I am using a class file by siggraph just to get the layout of the document and the document in no way contains any information taken from information copyrighted by Siggraph. And yes, that copyright information was added by Siggraph to protect my document. The best analogy I can give perhaps is reusing a freely available template to structure your own document. Oh and by the way, thank you for your time, John On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2010 10:52:52 John Adams wrote: > > No... I wasn't asking how to remove the copyright of Siggraph. It was > more > > like, it was putting a copyright for a document that I am authoring which > I > > don't really need for a class report. This is a one time document and > > that's it. In any case, the copyright that was being put goes something > > like this: > > > > *"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work > for > > personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are > > not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that > copies > > bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy > > otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, > > requires prior specific permission and/or a fee."* > > > > Is it still a problem? > > If I understand you correctly, no. As I understand the preceding, YOU > authored > all the content in this document. Siggraph wrote absolutely none of the > document. As I understand the preceding, Siggraph simply, for some reason, > added that copyright language in case YOU might want it, and they provided > a > switch (*copyrightwanted =) to remove it. If that's true, I personally > would > have no problem with your removing it, and although I'm not a lawyer I'd > bet > heavily that removing it is perfectly legal. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > >
Re: Wrong path to LaTeX files
virsto writes: > > > Useful system information: > * Ubuntu 9.10 > * LyX 1.6.4 > > There are many templates and examples that will not work, because the class > files can not be found. > > The problem seems to be that the path to LaTeX is incorrect. I would like > for it to look in: > > /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist > > where, the latest LaTeX files are stored. However, LyX uses the path, > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ > > I have tried a complete uninstall of LyX and then reinstall; but, this has > no effect on the problem. > > How do I get LyX to use the correct LaTeX path? It seems you're installed texlive 2009 manually and still you have the old .deb 2007 packages. If the output in terminal of $ tex -v is the old tex-version, you must add the TeX Live binary directory (and man/info dirs if you want) to your PATH, adding the lines PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH; export PATH MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH in your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.profile) file, *check your real PATH, perhaps it's ../bin/i386-linux for you* (See you http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1- 350003.4.3) Then retry the 'tex -v' command and it's being right to texlive-2009 reconfigure and restart LyX. Alternative: as Guenter pointed out, (msg79206) you can try to install the texlive 2009 .deb packages availables for Karmic/Ubuntu in PPA launchpad repositoires https://launchpad.net/~aelmahmoudy/+archive/tl2009 Ignacio García
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
On 2010-02-05, John Adams wrote:
> --001485f453f09f0cd7047edc5164
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Great! Thank You very much. There was a very simple line in that class file:
> *copyrightwanted = @true*
> I changed it to false and got what I needed.
It is generally a bad idea to change anything in a LaTeX document class
file. Many class files have even a license that forbids this. The reason
is that the author(s) want to make sure the class works as documented.
The common method is to save a copy under a different name and configure
it.
If you are speaking about the \documentclass{siggraph},
The siggraph Document Class Users’ Guide
(found at www.cs.brown.edu/system/software/latex/doc/siggraph.pdf)
describes an alternative way:
4.4 Configuration file
Individual users or sites may wish to modify the behavior of this class
(for instance, to use a particular set of fonts.) Rather than having
people hack the .cls file, which can lead to various incompatible
versions at different sites, the class provides for a configuration
file. After the class has finished loading, it will check to see if a
siggraph.cfg file exists in the TEX search path. If so, it will be input.
Any user---or site---specific modifications should be placed
in this file. (See the copyright notice in the siggraph.dtx source file
for information on distribution of configuration files.)
Günter
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
Hi Gunter,
Thanks for the information about the configuration file. Its much more
useful because now I don't have to worry about version conflicts.. Really
appreciate it.
Thanks,
John
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2010-02-05, John Adams wrote:
> > --001485f453f09f0cd7047edc5164
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> > Great! Thank You very much. There was a very simple line in that class
> file:
>
> > *copyrightwanted = @true*
>
> > I changed it to false and got what I needed.
>
> It is generally a bad idea to change anything in a LaTeX document class
> file. Many class files have even a license that forbids this. The reason
> is that the author(s) want to make sure the class works as documented.
>
> The common method is to save a copy under a different name and configure
> it.
>
> If you are speaking about the \documentclass{siggraph},
> The siggraph Document Class Users’ Guide
> (found at www.cs.brown.edu/system/software/latex/doc/siggraph.pdf)
> describes an alternative way:
>
> 4.4 Configuration file
>
> Individual users or sites may wish to modify the behavior of this class
> (for instance, to use a particular set of fonts.) Rather than having
> people hack the .cls file, which can lead to various incompatible
> versions at different sites, the class provides for a configuration
> file. After the class has finished loading, it will check to see if a
> siggraph.cfg file exists in the TEX search path. If so, it will be input.
> Any user---or site---specific modifications should be placed
> in this file. (See the copyright notice in the siggraph.dtx source file
> for information on distribution of configuration files.)
>
>
> Günter
>
>
How to span a table to two columns?
Hi, I am using a two-column template. While reading a wiki page on tables, it said that in order to span a table into two columns, I had to insert a "Table Wrap Float" and gave a few options which I am not able to find in the latest version. Can someone tell me how to span the table into two columns? Also, is it possible to edit the source of the generated Latex? It shows me the source at the bottom but doesn't let me edit it... Any ideas? Thanks, John
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