from:"mike"

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> I am new to this forum, but have used lyx a little bit over a
> longish period of time. I now run on OS X tiger and installed the
> Tex bundle with fink (which appears to include a bunch of
> sgml/docbook stuff) and the Aqua version of lxy and everything seems
> to be working ... except that all the dockbook and sgml stuff is
> marked as unavailable. In addition none of the templates work. They
> all complain about a missing Tex class. So... I need some help
> here. What pieces am I missing?

the configure script walks your $PATH looking for sgmltools and/or
db2dvi to decide whether or not to configure docbook support. Fink
probably put those in /sw/bin.

If that's the case, you need to add /sw/bin the path used by LyX. On
tiger (sorry, I'm a Mac newbie and haven't dealt with anything else)
you edit ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. There's a GUI plist editor
available, but the file is just XML text, so you can use your favorite
text editor on it as well.

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Re: Cannot get docbook on a mac

[Apologies to those of you who are seeing this twice.]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > the configure script walks your $PATH looking for sgmltools and/or
> > db2dvi to decide whether or not to configure docbook support. Fink
> > probably put those in /sw/bin.
> > If that's the case, you need to add /sw/bin the path used by LyX. On
> > tiger (sorry, I'm a Mac newbie and haven't dealt with anything else)
> > you edit ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. There's a GUI plist editor
> > available, but the file is just XML text, so you can use your favorite
> > text editor on it as well.
> Actually, if all you want is to add /sw/bin to the path that LyX  
> uses, you should do it from within LyX itself: LyX > Preferences >  
> PATH > PATH Prefix. (For LyX/Mac-1.3.6, the default settings already  
> have /sw/bin there.) If you add something to the PATH setting in  
> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, that will apply to *every* OS X  
> application, which is probably overkill and potentially a security risk.

Whether or not it's overkill depends on how many applications you have
that want to use programs from fink (or, in my case, darwinports). I
have a couple, so doing things this way is easier for me.

I found this method while trying to figure out why LyX wasn't finding
my darwinports software. That I didn't find the LyX > Preferences >
PATH > PATH Prefix methods suggests a doc bug. This appears to be a
Mac issue - I don't find the PATH entries in preferences in 1.3.5 on
my Unix box. Might just be my not having taken time to read the docs
properly, though.

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Command Control

I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous
job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my
not-very-mac-enabled-eyes), but it does so by mapping the control key
bindings to the command key. This means I can't use the non-Mac
bindings - especially the emacs bindings - an get the behavior I
want. This means it's a pain for me to move back and forth between the
two.

Can someone suggest a way to make the control key in MacLyX be the
control key, instead of the command key?

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Re: Command Control

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous
> > job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my
> > not-very-mac-enabled-eyes), but it does so by mapping the control key
> > bindings to the command key. This means I can't use the non-Mac
> > bindings - especially the emacs bindings - an get the behavior I
> > want. This means it's a pain for me to move back and forth between the
> > two.
> > Can someone suggest a way to make the control key in MacLyX be the
> > control key, instead of the command key?
> I believe it's a Qt/Mac issue: only  and  are  
> available for key bindings. (If I recall, it's possible to patch Qt  
> to substitute  for one of these, but I think it's a  
> substitution rather than an addition. Can anyone correct me on this?)

It's definitely a substitution. If I use one of the other bindings,
Command-Key does what I expect Control-Key to do, and Control-Key does
nothing. If it had been an addition, I probably would have never
noticed.

Anyone got a pointer to the patch?

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Re: lyx/windows installation

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > * sh for the configure script. It would be nice to rewrite it in
> >   python, but nobody is brave enough to do it
> It is not terribly long (1600 lines) and most of the code are simple
> test/if/else that can
> be replaced by equivalent Python code. I am not saying that I can do
> the translation
> any time soon, but will you (lyx-devel) test and accept such a
> translated code once
> it is completed? Also, do you have any improvement in mind so that I can add 
> it
> in?

Which configure script are you talking about? There's one that builds
the make files, etc. That's actually generated automatically by
autoconf and automake and maybe others. See autogen.sh for details on
how it gets built. Rewriting that configure script means the
developers have to maintain the script, rather than the files used to
generate it. That may not be met a net win.

There's also lib/configure, which is used to build the preferences
file from the environment. I have issues with that script, and
wouldn't mind rewriting it. It's a hand-maintained shells script
originally built with the autofoo commands. Replacing it with Python
is probably a win.

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Re: lyx/windows installation

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> >>  Open file by extension is a very common practice
> >> under windows. Under linux/unix, we also only need to keep track of
> >> command names, not their pathes.
> > 
> > BTW, it is very un-windows when someone has to set
> > c:\progra~1\acrobat\reader\ to let lyx view pdf files.
> > 
> > Bo
> 
> Sure. The Windows way would be to define a viewer in lyxrc.defaults as
> 
> \viewer pdf "open $$i"
> 
> because the user will already have associated a .pdf extension with
> something like AcroRd32.exe.

I thought the command on windows was "start". Then again, I use
windows only under great duress, and charge extra for it.

The same thing works for OS X.

It also works for Unix if you've got the "open" utility.

With Unix and Mac OS X, open can be found on the path. Is the same
true for Windows?

Of course, that only deals with opening files for viewing. LyX also
needs to deal with commands that convert files between types, like
pdflatex, latex2html, dvipdf2m, gif2pdf, etc. The unix open will deal
with this (well, the CVS version will). The OS X open won't.  Will the
Windows open?

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Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-15 Thread Mike Meyer

I've got a project that requires exchanging documents with others
using StarOffice Writer (or one of it's children). Part of the
requirement is to get change bars as the document moves back and
forth.

1.4.0 apparently has change bar support - I haven't tried it
yet. That's excellent, and I have no problem running CVS versions of
software.

Howver, getting the things to/from Writer format is another matter
entirely.

I've turned up Writer2Latex, which would seem to handle the "from"
part of the problem. I have no idea how well it will handle change
bars.

I haven't been able to find anything to handle the "to" part. Can
someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc
files in Writer.

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Re: Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I haven't been able to find anything to handle the "to" part. Can
> > someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc
> > files in Writer.
> Try tex4ht. It has a mode to output OpenOffice files.

That was fun. I've obviosly gotten spoiled by package systems.

Anyway, the two conversion commands suggested here (thanks to you
both!) give the same resul: all structural (and hence formating)
information is lost. All the paragraphs are either "Text body" or
"First line indent". Paragaph and Subpagraph enviroments show up as
empty.

I suspect it has something to do with using a home-grown
class. Copying article.ht4 to neodoc.ht4 - nedoc is a tweaked version
of article - doesn't change anything.

I think I've spent enough time on this today. Suggestions on where to
look for clues would be appreciated.

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Ok, I know this is a strange place to announce a new Unix tool. But
LyX is the inspiration for this, and workinng well with LyX is a high
priority. I'd like to get feedback from LyX users early, so please
bear with me. To provide some motivation for looking at this, here's
an excerpt from my .lyx/preferences:

bhuda% cd ~/.lyx
bhuda% grep open preferences
\viewer "dvi" "open"
\viewer "eps" "open"
\viewer "html" "open"
\viewer "pdf" "open"
\viewer "ps" "open"
\viewer "rtf" "open"
bhuda% grep convert preferences
\converter "latex" "dvi" "convert -f dvi $$i" ""
\converter "latex" "html" "convert -f html $$i" "originaldir,needaux"
\converter "ps" "pdf" "convert -f pdf $$i" ""
\converter "latex" "rtf" "convert -f rtf $$i" ""

Note that this does require Python 2.4. Depending on feedback, that
may change.

Here's the announcement as used elsewhere

"open" is designed to provide Unix users with a single tool for
dealing with the multitude of applications that deal with data files.
Without open - or something like it - every time a user wants to look
at a file, they have to figure out what type the file is and which
application on their path can open that file, and then invoke that
application with the appropriate arguments. Likewise, every
application that uses external applications has it's own database of
file types and applications. Applications developers have to choose a
format for the database, write code to parse it, and provide a GUI for
editing it. This not only represents a duplication of effort, but
requires the user to tell every application how to deal with each type
of file, meaning they have to learn multiple different tools for
dealing with this information.

"open" was designed to solve these problems. If the user wants to open
a file, they just invoke "open" on it. To edit it, they just invoke
"open -c edit" (or "edit" if they've installed it that way). Open will
figure out which application they want to use for this, and arrange
that it gets called appropriately. If open can't find an application,
it'll ask the user to choose one, and save that choice for future
reference. For applications, open provides an API that takes care of
the entire problem. There's no need to parse a configuration file,
provide facilities for editing the configuration file, ensure the
consistency of the configuration file, or any such thing. The
application merely hands the file name to "open", and "open" does the
rest. Further, the API is one that any program that has to deal with
external applications already deals with - launching an external
application on a file. So users can start getting the benefit of using
"open" even if none of the applications they have installed know about
it - all they have to do is tell each application to use "open" for
everything. Hopefully, applications will start checking for and using
"open" as an external viewer by default, removing even that burden
from the user.

The benefits to the user are multifold. They only have to learn one
interface for configuring the invocation of external programs. If they
install a new foo viewer, and decide they want to use that for viewing
foos everywhere, they only have to change it in one place - the "open"
database. Users can quit worrying about "What application opens this
file" at the command line. Well, most of the time. Instead, they just
do "open ", and let open sort it out.

It's not got it's own web page yet. The tarball can be found at http://www.mired.org/downloads/open-0.2.tar.gz >. Discussionn shold
take place off-list.

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Re: Open, take two

2005-09-18 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > "open" is designed to provide Unix users with a single tool for
> > dealing with the multitude of applications that deal with data files.
> > Without open - or something like it 
> Under windows/dos, this is called start. Anyway, how do you determine
> the application to use? Are you using something like MIME types?

And under OS X, it's called open, but it's not as powerful as what
I've written.

Nope - I don't have a mime type handy. I use the files extension. I do
know those aren't unique, and have already located tools for doing
more sophisticated determination of a files type. But that's for
later.

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Re: Open, take two

2005-09-18 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> * Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-09-19 06:40 +0200:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> [...]
> > And under OS X, it's called open, but it's not as powerful as what
> > I've written.
> Give it a different name to avoid unnecessary confusion.

Got any suggestions? "Launch" is less accurate and also already taken
by an OSS replacement for open on OSX. I don't like "start" - it's
less accurate as well. "display" might work, but it's also already
taken, by something comletely different. Likewise, the two alternative
names that open already supports - "edit" and "convert" exist as
commands. "edit" is a hard link to ee, and "convert" is an image
conversion program that comes with ImageMagick.

The names are important. The default action is the basename of the
name the program was invoked as. So where "open foo.gif" might use
xloadimage, "edit foo.gif" might invoke the gimp. Of course, you can
install it as whatever you want and alias them to
"mwms-magic-file-opener -c open" and "mwms-magic-file-opener -c
edit". But the longer it waits, the harder it is to change them.

I'm waiting for the python crowd to object to using "open" as
well. It's builtin in the language, and they frown on using those as
variable names.

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Re: lyx to OO conversion tool?

2005-09-23 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Can someone please point me to a tool that will convert a LyX document
> to a soffice document, no matter how rough the tool is?

When I asked this earli this month, the only thing that came up was
tex4ht. I tried it, but it didn't do a very good job for me.

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Re: lyx to OO conversion tool?

2005-09-23 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > 
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > > Can someone please point me to a tool that will convert a LyX document
> > > to a soffice document, no matter how rough the tool is?
> > 
> > When I asked this earli this month, the only thing that came up was
> > tex4ht. I tried it, but it didn't do a very good job for me.
> I tried it, and it worked for me... sort of.

That's about the most that you can say for what it did for me as well.

> So, first, export your LyX file into LaTeX.  Then install a recent tex4ht
> system, and run `oolatex >yourfile<'.

I tried that. It turned all my paragraphs and subparagraphs into
empty environments. Not very useful. I haven't had time to chase it
since then.

One thing you might consider that got sent to me:

From: Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> For an "easy" conversion, put these into your LyX preferences file:
>
> \converter "latex" "sxw" "oolatex $$i" "latex"
> \format "sxw" "sxw" "OpenOffice" ""
> \viewer "sxw" "open"

The viewer may need to be something other than "open", depending on
your environment.

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Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
>One of the biggest hurdles for users to pass is the compulsion to tweak
> minor appearance details.

My explanation of the LaTeX/LyX philosphy is:

Word processors make it easy to get the pages that look exactly like
you want them to. LaTeX/LyX makes it easy to get professional looking
pages. Unless you're a professional designer of such, the two will be
unrelated. Decide which you want, and use the right tool for the job.

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Re: Defining paragraph styles

2005-10-16 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx?
> 
> I'm new to LyX and TeX, and I'm just trying to use it to typeset a book.
> It's going well, I'm using the "book" document class, I get a nice
> output, but now I want to change the chapter headings to a different
> size and font, say. Or give the body text paragraphs a different first
> line indent.
> 
> In Word, for example, I would just go to the paragraph styles and either
> add my own or override an existing one.
> 
> I've done some RTFM but I want to make sure I'm on the right track and I
> haven't overlooked something stupid.

Well, you have sort of overlooked what I think is the point of
LyX/LaTeX. But we'll skip that.

> Is it right that Word's paragraph styles are analogous to "environments"
> in LaTeX?

Roughly.

> >From various places it suggests creating .layout, .sty or .cls files but
> I'm not sure which - it seems a bit complicated for something so basic
> which makes me think I might be doing something wrong. Or do I just add
> some code to the LaTeX Preamble section in the Document Settings? Should
> I be creating my own class from scratch? Or just overriding parts of the
> basic "book" class? Could someone give me a basic example of changing
> the font used for the chapter headings?

The first thing to understand is that there are two completely
separate renderings in LyX. There's the rendering you get in the LyX
window, and the rendering you get when you export to TeX.

The former is controlled by the layout files. For each environment,
you set the fonts, sizes, etc, and that sets how it's displayed in LyX.

The look when it's renderd by LaTeX is controlled by the .sty and .cls
files. In your case, you need to look into the book.cls file. You'll
want to copy it into a private part of the search path and change the
name so you don't screw up other documents that want to use the
original book class. Ditto for the layout file. You'll want to edit
those to change the names as appopriate.

> It's only the output I'm worried about - it doesn't matter how it looks
> in LyX.

So the only changes you need to make to the layout file are to get it
to use the correct class file for the output.

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Re: Defining paragraph styles

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >>Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx?
> ...
> > Well, you have sort of overlooked what I think is the point of
> > LyX/LaTeX. But we'll skip that.
> The point being that authors should concentrate on content and logical
> markup, and typesetters/publishers should worry about how the final
> thing looks? Kind of (but not exactly) like the separation between HTML
> and CSS?

Yeah, except that LaTeX predates the desktop publishing experiment,
and didn't get polluted with by a phase of people trying to make it
into a desktop publishing system.

> I'm wearing my typesetting hat at the moment, so does that mean that Lyx
> isn't really suitable for me - it's more designed for content creators?

Sort of. LaTeX (which is what does the typesetting of the output)
helps typesetters make it easy for content creators to create
professional looking documents. Once you get into it, you'll find that
it's provides more control than most WP systems (at least the ones I'm
familiar with). If you're just not happy with what's available, and
want to create a new style that you'll then use for many documents,
that's pretty much normal.

On the other hand, if you're going to be tweaking the output for every
document you create, then you might be better off with something
else. For one thing, getting just the look you want is harder in LaTeX
than in a convention WP. For another, the style information isn't
stored in the document, so you wind up having to create new style
sheet for each deocument if you want to be able to recreate the ouput
later on.

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RE: Lyx command line question: summarized

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like
> for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | sed
> 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done

basename is safer:

for file in $(find . -name *.gif)
do
convert $file $(basename $file .gif).png
done

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Re: Lyx command line question

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Maybe it's just my mail client, but this list seems to default for a
> reply to the sender instead of to the list, unlike all the other lists
> I've ever been on. I accidently sent a reply intended for the list to
> the sender and didn't realise until a few days later. So maybe other
> people have the same problem.

Thoe other lists are (probably) in violation of RFC-2822. You should
get into the habit of hitting "Reply All" to reply to the list.

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Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

[drifting off-topic]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
> whitespace...
> 
> Perhaps the bigger problem is that you can overrun the internal array size
> used by "for" to store the list of returned list of files.

"Running out of argument space" always triggers my xargs detector:

find foo -name '*.gif' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 convert -f gif

Which has the advantage that it will work properly on files with
newlines in the name.

Note that this uses my "open" utility symlinked as "convert", not the
"convert" command that comes with Imagemagick. That just happens to
do the right thing in this case.

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Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> > | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
> > | whitespace...
> > 
> > find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \;
> > then (ha!)
> 
> Thanks. I've just learnt something.
> 
> Don't you have to quote the args passed to convert? Bet you still do.

Depends on the shell. { and } are magic to csh and zsh, and need
quoting if you're using those. They aren't magic to sh, so they don't
need quoting if you're using that. I don't keep bash installed, so I
don't know if you need them with bash. As an ex-csh user, I quote them
out of habit.

But the basename invocation used by lars is wrong. It needs to be
$(basename {} .gif).png (I always use $(...); you have to to nest
command substitutions, and I find it a bit more readable). If you
leave out the .gif, you get the full filename.

> Ain't scripting fun ;)

Your scripts work much better if you start them with #!/usr/bin/env python
:-).

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Re: Clever quotes

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
> 
> > Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
> > most areas that could be problematic?
> 
> Paul
> 
>sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g. I 
> didn't look
> at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single backqotes when there's
> a plain double quote followed by a single character; do this globally." You
> want to test that it's not a period, but a letter.

You want 's/"\([A-Za-z]\)/``\1/g'.

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Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> (I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list)

Bad assumption. The list isn't broken.

> Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for
> typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style.

So can they get a slanted face out of an MM font?

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indent + raggedright

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Leahy

Hello list,

I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX.  I'm just
wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text
to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges
(since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on).  Every time I
enable raggedright (e.g., in the preamble), I lose all indents for text
in the 'standard' class.  I don't have much luck doing inline in an ERT
section.  I've been digging around the net for a couple days now, but no
working solution has revealed itself to me.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

Re: indent + raggedright

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Leahy

Nevermind - I missed this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg15610.html

That solution worked for me.

Mike Leahy wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX.  I'm just
> wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text
> to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges
> (since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on).  Every time I
> enable raggedright (e.g., in the preamble), I lose all indents for text
> in the 'standard' class.  I don't have much luck doing inline in an ERT
> section.  I've been digging around the net for a couple days now, but no
> working solution has revealed itself to me.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
> 
> 
>

Raggedright text in list of figures

2006-02-12 Thread Mike Barnsley

This is really a LaTeX question, I guess, so apologies in advance to 
everyone for prevailing on this list, but.


Does anyone know what ERT I should use so that the text in my list of 
figures and list of tables (i.e. the figure and table captions) is 
typeset in raggedright format? I am using the 'book' documentclass and 
several of my figure and table captions are quite long, leading to a lot 
of hyphenation in the lists of figures and tables, as well as some 
overfull lines in the same. I need to leave the captions fully justified 
in the main body of the text (requirement of the publisher), and have 
kept the captions as short as possible (requirement of the reader's sanity).


I have played with the \addtocontents command in my preamble without 
success, and have tried putting \raggedright in the main document before 
the List of Tables and List of Figures entries but I suspect that this 
is the wrong approach and, in any case, it yields the following error:


   LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.
\\

Short of exporting my LyX file to LaTeX and manually editing the 
resulting .lof and .lot files, can anyone enlighten me as to how I might 
proceed?


Very many thanks,

Mike Barnsley

Images can't load

2006-04-20 Thread Mike Mellor



I am trying to use LyX on a Mac.  I have installed everything that  
the web site suggests.


I am having trouble getting images to display in views.  When I try  
to view a file, I see the following error in the console (log file):


/private/tmp/lyx_tmpdir15737RDBp8/lyx_tmpbuf0/slideDemo2.dvi ->  
slideDemo2.pdf
[1][2][3][4][5zcat: /private/tmp/lyx_tmpdir15737RDBp8/ 
lyx_tmpbuf0/2_Users_mike_Login_Photos_maria.eps.Z: No such file or  
directory

]

This was with the Foils template, but I get the same response with  
any other template.  If I manually create the .Z file, it does show  
the image.


What do I need to do to get images to display in views?

Thanks.

Mike

Re: Images can't load

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Mellor



On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:58 PM, Georg Baum wrote:


Mike Mellor wrote:


/private/tmp/lyx_tmpdir15737RDBp8/lyx_tmpbuf0/slideDemo2.dvi ->
slideDemo2.pdf
[1][2][3][4][5zcat: /private/tmp/lyx_tmpdir15737RDBp8/
lyx_tmpbuf0/2_Users_mike_Login_Photos_maria.eps.Z: No such file or
directory
]

This was with the Foils template, but I get the same response with
any other template.  If I manually create the .Z file, it does show
the image.

What do I need to do to get images to display in views?


This is a known bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2231.
Unfortunately it is not reproducible on Linux. Is you original  
image file

that you inserted in the .lyx file compressed or not?


Georg



No, they are regular .jpg, .png and .tif files (I tried a couple of  
different pictures).   The viewed file has space for the image, but  
no image.


Mike

Indenting Paragraphs with Letter Template

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Mellor



I am new to LyX and am trying out the letter template.  I am having a  
problem with the paragraphs not indenting in previews, even though  
that is the formatting that I have selected for the letter.  When I  
open the code up in a LaTeX viewer, there is no indication that it  
should indent.  Any idea what I need to do?  The paragraphs look  
indented in LyX, just not in any output.  Thanks.


Mike

Re: LyX and 10.4

2006-04-25 Thread Mike Mellor



On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:56 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

I am currently running LyX 1.3.4 on Mac OS 10.2.8. If I update the OS
to 10.4, should I expect to have problems running LyX 1.3.4?


I'm not sure about LyX 1.3.4, but 1.3.7 works well on Mac OS X 10.4.
Just make sure you run the installer that comes with the LyX
application.

(If you have a fast machine, I'd recommend upgrading to LyX 1.4.1.)

Bennett


Other than the issues I've had learning LyX, it works fine on 10.4.6.

Mike

Word appears twice

2007-07-13 Thread Mike Stevens



Using LyX 1.5 rc2 on OSX, while editing text I have twice noticed that the 
display on the screen incorrectly showed two copies of a word, one at the end 
of a line and one at the start of the next line. I have not been able to 
reproduce this at will, so I'm not quite sure what I did - I think it was 
deleting something, making room for a word to move up a line. I had changed the 
default size of the window on the screen.

Michael


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spell check problem

2007-08-02 Thread Mike Stevens



This problem occurs with 1.5.rc2 and the latest 1.5.0.

I am working under OS X, and using aspell.

When I run a spell check, it correctly locates the first questionable word (it 
happens to have accents above a couple of letters). I ask it to add the word to 
the dictionary. I proceed to spell-check the rest of the document and every 
time from then on it highlights the word following the questionable word 
instead of the word itself. The suggested replacement is obviously related to 
the misspelled word, not the highlighted one.  

Is this a known bug, or have I done something wrong?

Michael


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Feature Request: Show the title in closed floats

2007-11-30 Thread mike c

Hi all (I'm new to this list),
It'd be nice if closed floats showed a little more than just "Float: Figure"
or "Float: Table".  Is there an option (or the possibility of an option) to
show the title of the figure or table as well? e.g. "Float: Figure - The
Fabulous Machine"

Mike.

Bug?: "Here definitely" produces page of floats.

2007-11-30 Thread mike c

Hi there,
I'm running MacTeX with LyX 1.5.2.

If I set the Document / Settings / Float Placement to "Here Definitely", and
leave all the individual float settings at "Use default placement" I
actually get all the floats on one page.

However, if the Global Settings are "Here Definitely" and just one single
float is individually set to "Here Definitely", then it works as you'd
expect (with every float forced to the correct position).


Anyone else get this problem?
Mike.

Feature Request: Show the title in closed floats

2007-11-29 Thread mike c

Hi all (I'm new to this list),
It'd be nice if closed floats showed a little more than just "Float: Figure"
or "Float: Table".  Is there an option (or the possibility of an option) to
show the title of the figure or table as well?

Mike.

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c

I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent
half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo.

On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look
>support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect the LyX document to
>show formatting.

Currently, without any special plugins installed, Leopard treats the LyX
file as a text file and shows it as such. So I didn't have to change
anything in Leopard at all to get that functionality. The display of the raw
lyx is slightly helpful, but not really.

I am considering diving in and making a quicklook plugin in that does
something/anything more helpful, and was really asking if anyone had
bothered hacking themselves something before I started.

Really, all I'd desire is a plugin that:
* "lyx -e pdf "
* quicklook points to that file.

However, this brings in the overhead of having the entire file processed
lyx->pdf.  And I have no idea on how QuickLook info is cached.

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c

On Dec 14, 2007 5:28 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You could try 'lyx -e text' instead as this is processed by LyX only
> should be very fast.
>

That's going to be my first attempt.  If I can get quicklook to see the
output text file, then it's only a short step (i hope) to get it to see an
output pdf file.

Formatting is important for me, so text-only is an interim measure.

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-14 Thread mike c

On Dec 14, 2007 5:57 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> mike c wrote:
> > output text file, then it's only a short step (i hope) to get it to see
> an
> > output pdf file.
> That would be best indeed but I fear that it will be a bit heavy.

That's what I'm afraid of.  I'll aim to get a text only one working first
and see where that takes me.

If 'pdf' is too costly, another solution would be to let LyX output a
> screenshot of the first page. This would be easy to implement.

Is there a current option to do this? Or are you thinking of adding one in?
something like "lyx -e png file.lyx" ?

Also, how do you get lyx to export (with the -e switch) to a particular
file. Presently it seems to just  export  filename.lyx to filename.fmt with
no  options for anything else.

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-14 Thread mike c

On Dec 15, 2007 8:59 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >
> > Also, how do you get lyx to export (with the -e switch) to a particular
> > file.
>
> Not possible I think...

Hmm. Being able to specify an output file seems like a pretty natural
function (with filename.fmt being a good fallback).  However, I've only just
grabbed source from SVN, so don't expect any code from me just yet.

Equation numbering

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Reeks

Any idea how to change Eqn numbering from numbering by section to absolute 
numbering?
Mike

RE: Equation numbering

2006-08-08 Thread Mike Reeks

Dear Uwe
Nearly there. The command in preamble numbers the equation in each section 
.without the section number. I want the equation number in ascending order 
irrespective of section number e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc for section n (before they were 
numbered n.1, n.2 etc.  I need to turn of a section counter maybe.
Any help
I should say I am using a J. Fluid Mech cls layout file which should do the 
trick since this is the journal  eqn number style.
Mike

From: Uwe Stöhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 07/08/2006 21:23
To: Mike Reeks
Cc: Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Equation numbering

Mike Reeks wrote:

> Any idea how to change Eqn numbering from numbering by section to absolute 
> numbering?

Add this line to your preamble or at the beginning of your document in
ERT (assure that you use amsmath explicitely in the document preferences):

\renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}}

regards Uwe

RE: Equation numbering

Thanks Jens.



From: Jens Noeckel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 08/08/2006 19:00
To: Mike Reeks
Cc: Uwe Stöhr; Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Equation numbering




On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Mike Reeks wrote:

> Dear Uwe
> Nearly there. The command in preamble numbers the equation in each 
> section .without the section number. I want the equation number in 
> ascending order irrespective of section number e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc for 
> section n (before they were numbered n.1, n.2 etc.  I need to turn 
> of a section counter maybe.
> Any help
> I should say I am using a J. Fluid Mech cls layout file which 
> should do the trick since this is the journal  eqn number style.
> Mike
>
> 
>
> From: Uwe Stöhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 07/08/2006 21:23
> To: Mike Reeks
> Cc: Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Equation numbering
>
>
>
> Mike Reeks wrote:
>
>> Any idea how to change Eqn numbering from numbering by section to 
>> absolute numbering?
>
> Add this line to your preamble or at the beginning of your document in
> ERT (assure that you use amsmath explicitely in the document 
> preferences):
>
> \renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}}
>
> regards Uwe
>
>

Try the following (one additional line):

renewcommand\theequation{\arabic{equation}}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Regards,
Jens

RE: Equation numbering

Dear Jens
In my preamble after the line
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}}
I added the line 
@addtoreset{equation}{section}
which had nor effect. Have  I followed your suggestion correcty, have I mispelt 
it. What next?
Mike




From: Jens Noeckel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 08/08/2006 19:00
To: Mike Reeks
Cc: Uwe Stöhr; Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Equation numbering




On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Mike Reeks wrote:

> Dear Uwe
> Nearly there. The command in preamble numbers the equation in each 
> section .without the section number. I want the equation number in 
> ascending order irrespective of section number e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc for 
> section n (before they were numbered n.1, n.2 etc.  I need to turn 
> of a section counter maybe.
> Any help
> I should say I am using a J. Fluid Mech cls layout file which 
> should do the trick since this is the journal  eqn number style.
> Mike
>
> 
>
> From: Uwe Stöhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 07/08/2006 21:23
> To: Mike Reeks
> Cc: Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Equation numbering
>
>
>
> Mike Reeks wrote:
>
>> Any idea how to change Eqn numbering from numbering by section to 
>> absolute numbering?
>
> Add this line to your preamble or at the beginning of your document in
> ERT (assure that you use amsmath explicitely in the document 
> preferences):
>
> \renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}}
>
> regards Uwe
>
>

Try the following (one additional line):

renewcommand\theequation{\arabic{equation}}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Regards,
Jens

RE: Equation numbering

Thanks. Yes I do want equations to be numbered consecutively. So I need to 
remove reset command.
I'll follow your instructions. What's the best place to find the remreset 
package.
Mike 

From: Richard Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 09/08/2006 15:51
To: Mike Reeks
Cc: Jens Noeckel; Uwe Stöhr; Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Equation numbering

I'm confused about what you want. Do you want the equations to be
numbered consecutively throughout the document and NOT to be reset in
each section? If so, then the only way to do this, short of modifying
the document class directly, is to use the remreset (or removefr)
package, since there is no "remove reset" command in standard LaTeX.
Once remreset is downloaded and installed, you should need just this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You'll still need this line:
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}}
to control how equation numbers are displayed.

If you DO want equation numbers to be reset in each section, so that you
have 1, 2, 3 in section 1, and then 1, 2, 3 again in section 2, etc., then
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
should do the trick. But then a reference to equation 3 is ambiguous.

Richard

Mike Reeks wrote:
> Dear Jens
> In my preamble after the line
> \renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}}
> I added the line
> @addtoreset{equation}{section}
> which had nor effect. Have  I followed your suggestion correcty, have I 
> mispelt it. What next?
> Mike
>
>
> 
>
> From: Jens Noeckel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tue 08/08/2006 19:00
> To: Mike Reeks
> Cc: Uwe Stöhr; Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Equation numbering
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Mike Reeks wrote:
>
>  
>> Dear Uwe
>> Nearly there. The command in preamble numbers the equation in each
>> section .without the section number. I want the equation number in
>> ascending order irrespective of section number e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc for
>> section n (before they were numbered n.1, n.2 etc.  I need to turn
>> of a section counter maybe.
>> Any help
>> I should say I am using a J. Fluid Mech cls layout file which
>> should do the trick since this is the journal  eqn number style.
>> Mike
>>
>> 
>>
>> From: Uwe Stöhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Mon 07/08/2006 21:23
>> To: Mike Reeks
>> Cc: Lyx-users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Equation numbering
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Reeks wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Any idea how to change Eqn numbering from numbering by section to
>>> absolute numbering?
>>>  
>> Add this line to your preamble or at the beginning of your document in
>> ERT (assure that you use amsmath explicitely in the document
>> preferences):
>>
>> \renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}}
>>
>> regards Uwe
>>
>>
>>
>
> Try the following (one additional line):
>
> renewcommand\theequation{\arabic{equation}}
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Regards,
> Jens
>
>
>
>

RE: Equation numbering