Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge
From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:25 AM Subject: Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 19:55 schrieb samar j. singh: It was a dream doing so and running src/lyx brought up lyx 1.3.6. After make install, which appeared to run without errors, I got the following error message when trying to run lyx from the command line. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified lyx: cannot connect to X server :0 Calling up an existing lyx document invokes lyx 1.3.4 Anything that I can do about this? I don't know. Probably something went wrong with the install :-( Georg Actually there is not much value in 1.3.5 for unix users so it may not be worth the trouble. However I though make install was supposed to do all the configuration but I dont have much experience of that side of linux with synaptic in debian doing such a great job of installing and uininstalling. I thought of uninstalled lyx 1.3.4 and then trying make install for 1.3.6 but I would not want to risk any mods I have made in configuration. So it seems there is no easy answer. I would like to thank both stephen and yourself for your responses samar
Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge
- Original Message - From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge samar wrote: Actually there is not much value in 1.3.5 for unix users so it may not be worth the trouble. Both 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 fix a number of bugs, so it is certainly worth it to install them also for unix users. Normally that does go smooth ithout the trouble you are having. Georg Yes, of course I am in agreement with you. I am just surprised no body is prepared to generate a deb file since Lyx1.3.4 Its all voluntary of course and Lyx is a great gift so I am not really complaining. Just surprised that debian users seem unconcerned about 1.3.6. I thought 1.4 does have a lot of new features so maybe that is worth a bash. regards samar samar
Re: weird table problems in Lyx
- Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:33 PM Subject: Re: weird table problems in Lyx - Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:42 PM Subject: Re: weird table problems in Lyx Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:18 PM Subject: weird table problems in Lyx I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but most times when I make a table, the first row of the table is seperate than the others. I can get around this by deleting and inserting more rows, but it's a pain. What am I doing wrong? Also, is there an easy way to set the lines of the table to not show up? I can do it per row or cell but I don't know if there's an easy way to fix the whole table. You aren't doing anything wrong that is just the way Lyx draws tables on the screen and annoyingly in the output. As for the cell borders, you have to do them one by one. really nonsense. - Mark all cells of the table - right mouseclick with cursor inside the table - in the tab menu option border - clear all This is not something I was aware of and apologise for incorrect information. Basically table support in Lyx is one of its failings. read the docs, then it is easier ... ;-) I have and even in the docs it is admitted that Lyx support of tables is not very good. This is a well known fact and many people on this list have spent hours trying to get tables the way they want them to look in Lyx with little success. Latex itself is not 'naturally' good at tabular stuff and needs many extra packages to do things properly. Sorry not to be anymore help - that said if you use Windows, you can always make pretty tables in Excel and import them into lyx. a crazy way of creating tables ... This is not crazy if it gets what you want quickly. I can do all my data analysis in Excel and then export the table into Lyx. Firstly I can have great control over borders and centring and mulitcolumns etc and secondly I don't have to labouriously re-enter my data. I don't usually react to such open criticism of an idea but we aren't all experts and surely the point of software is to produce what you want in the best possible way for you. I could spend all day mastering tables in Lyx (or more like a few weeks!) but instead I use something I know that produces output that looks good in a fraction of the time - where is the crazy in that. It maybe that Stacia would find my method quick and acceptable yet you have now dismissed it out of hand. Geoff Just to get a different perspective into this argument, I use tables quite a lot in Lyx on Linux, and actually find this is one of the more attractive points of Lyx. One of the ancillary benefits is that I sometimes tend to use it as a general purpose tool for formatting tabular content by removing all the boxes and letting the text stand by itself after it has been properly set up in Lyx. I would say that one of the reasons one does not tend to look at the documentation in Lyx is because most things are pretty self evident. In some cases, perhaps one should, but the Lyx list is often an easier alternative. All in all, most peoplen probably have their own particular mix of helpful alternatives which are tailored to their requirement. In summary, users such as myself would not really like to see much change in the ease with which Lyx allows tables to be created. However, enhancement is always welcome. regards samar
Re: Questions.
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi It is becoming apparent that many questions on this list are being repeated and some are quite sraightforward for want of a better phrase. Could I suggest that before a question is posted the following things are done 1) Read the wiki 2) Search the mailing list archives 3) Try google to see if there is already an answer on the web Also I recommend every user to get a good handbook on Latex as most queries are more Tex than Lyx. Please don't get me wrong, I am not forgetting what it was like to be puzzled by Lyx/Latex, and I am as guilty as the next man when it comes to asking 'obvious' questions. All I am saying is that in my experience I have learnt more by playing about and finding the answer by research, and using the list as a last resort. Mainly as it opens upo things I never knew about extending my perception of Latex's power. However if you do have questions post away as I am happy to help out as best I can (as many people may already be aware) as are others on the list with vastly better knowledge than me. And sometimes when the thesis deadline is looming spending hours trying to find out how to move a title or include a footnote is not condusive to the stress levels and the list is a useful 'quick fix' source!!! I hope this is read in the manner intended. Geoff Now the trick is to get people to read this. We may need someone to repost this once a month as a reminder to newbies. Paul A very well considered invocation to good sense. However, to adopt another perspective, just imagine what a compliment it is to the quality of service rendered by this list that people come HERE to seek enlightenment, while the intuitive thing would be to google or whatever. Just take a bow - all those who contribute so graciously to this list. regards samar
Re: Copying A Table Float Across Documents
I want to copy a table -- as a table -- from one document to another, but my attempts so far have failed. I've opened the table in the source document, highlighted the entire table, used ctrl-c to copy it to the clipboard, switched focus to the destination document, and used the Edit->External paste feature. I get a solid paragraph, not a table, with this approach. I've also tried to copy the grey "table" from the source to the destination, but get the same non-table results with this. I've also searched on the TeXnik.de and wiki pages without seeing an answer. Is there a way to copy the table from one document to another? I have used this for some time but have just checked it out to see if it also works on 1.3.6 You first need to create a blank table with the same number of columns and rows as the original in your destination document. Ideally the same structure Copy the source into the destination but make sure you have the cursor in the top left hand cell. Sometimes, just sometimes, doing this copies the whole table as it is, ignoring your blank table. samar
Re: Neither Linux nor windows! Please help me! I tested your file
Subject: Re: Neither Linux nor windows! Please help me! I tested your file
Ok, I saw:
Part 1
...
Chapter I
...
Figure 1
:(
Well, Let's check then what can be wrong: At both
my Windows and Linux preferences I have:
Default language: Portuguese
Language package: \usepackage{ae,aecompl}
Command start: \selectlanguage{portuguese}
Command end: (empty)
(all chackbox are checked)
Does it match with yours? Is it correct? The
Command end is really empty at both Windows and Linux
OS?
Thanks a lot for take care of my problem...
--
Abraços!
Douglas
Hi
I am not sure you got what you want but this has nothing to do with
language selection.
When you type something out and make it a date field latex/lyx does not
check that it looks like a date. It just formats it in a way that it would
do for a date AFAIK.
I did not have anything in Lyx set to any language other than English. I
dont know how to use Lyx for other languages.
best regards
samar
Installing Lyx1.6rc2
I am using Mepis 6.5 on a Lenovo Y300. I have been using lyx for several years. I tried to download and install Lyx1.6rc2 but the attempt failed after typing make. The compiler indicated this was the inability to find a file called qdebug.h I tried reloading qt4 but it did not work. Eventually I had to download qdebug.h from: http://www.koders.com/cpp/fidF0FBD314843A70AD403A0EE39C397872CD3FF485.aspx?s=mdef%3Ainsert Once loaded, of course Lyx compiled and 1.6rc2 is magnificent. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Installing-Lyx1.6rc2-tp1101545p1101545.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Lyx1.6rc2: problems: sudden death and tables
Sudden death: When exporting to Plain Text from Lyx1.6rc2 the program immediately closes. This seems to apply across multiple documents so it would be good to know if anyone else can replicate this or whether it is a feature of my Linux distribtion (Mepis 6.5 on a Lenovo Y300 laptop) Tables When a document is first opened the width of the tables appears to be so wide that it covers the entire page. Setting the column width to any value including the existing value causes the problem to disappear though it has to be done for each column. Regrettably, if the file is saved and then opened again the problem recurs. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Lyx1.6rc2%3A-problems%3A-sudden-death-and-tables-tp1107787p1107787.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Problems with spelling checker
Hi I have recently got a new machine with windows xp pro. Lyx ( Ruurd's port) installed and is working flawlessly with Miktex. However, I then decided to install the spell checker and did so according to the instructions on the lyx wiki and ensured that aspell and the language file are installed in c:\aspell. F7 when pushed gives a window box with the message "Spell Checker has failed" and then there are three accented letters which vary from attempt to attempt below the message. Any ideas on what can be done to install spell check. Spell check works automatically in linux every time. TIA samar
Re: Problems with spelling checker
Geoff I did do that and set up aspell including loading up the latest aspell. No luck however. samar Angus >Hello, Samar. Please don't start a new thread by replying to a message >about something else. Those of us who's mail readers are sophisticated >enough to group messages by thread are likely to miss your posts. I thought I had gone to some lengths this time to put in the correct subject and remove the contents of the previous thread. I have made this mistake before so I was trying to be careful. How did you know it was an old thread? That would be nice to know. I have started lyx with the -dbg gui option but the message says "created pspell" and then a little later "killed pspell" I have set up lyx for aspell. samar - Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "samar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Problems with spelling checker > The defaut checker is ispell. > > In the preferences section change the checker to aspell and reconfigure. > It should work without a problem. I have just set up lyx on win xp pro > and it spell checks fine with this small addition to the wiki > instructions. > > Let me know if this works for you > > > Geoff > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, samar wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have recently got a new machine with windows xp pro. Lyx ( Ruurd's port) > > installed and is working flawlessly with Miktex. > > > > However, I then decided to install the spell checker and did so according to > > the instructions on the lyx wiki and ensured that aspell and the language > > file are installed in c:\aspell. > > > > F7 when pushed gives a window box with the message "Spell Checker has > > failed" and then there are three accented letters which vary from attempt to > > attempt below the message. > > > > Any ideas on what can be done to install spell check. Spell check works > > automatically in linux every time. > > > > TIA > > > > samar > > > > >
Spell checking
Hi I am running lyx 1.3.4 on the mepis distribution. The problem is that invoking the spellcheck gives the message "Lyx failed to start ispell" This is confusing as I have selected aspell in the preferences menu and have also reconfigured and restarted Lyx. Appreciate any advice on where I could have erred. best regards samar
Re: Line numbering
Hi I think what you need is ulineno.sty which I have found quite versatile and very useful samar - Original Message - >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent : Mar 29 11:05:59 IST 2005 Subject : Line numbering I would like to add a number in the margin of each line in a manuscript >(either sequential, or re-starting on each page), but I have been unable >to find anything on the topic in the User Guide or Extended help (or in >Google "line number" and LyX). > >I would be grateful for any and all leads. >Cheers! >Hank > >-- > >Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor >338 Pearson Hall >Botany Department >Miami University >Oxford, OH 45056 > >Office: (513) 529-4206 >Lab: (513) 529-4262 >FAX: (513) 529-4243 >http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html >http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ >http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ >"E Pluribus Unum" > >
Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files
Thanks Thats very useful. Have been using lyx for years but never figured out what update did. best regards samar - Original Message - From: "Johan Ingvast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:44 PM Subject: Tip for viewing pdf-files Hi list I found this very useful The standard viewer for pdf files is acrobat but, there seem to be no way of making it update the view automatically. Here is a way of viewing pdf-files using xpdf. Put this as your viewer for pdf (instead of acroread) xpdf -remote $$i $$p$$i It features: * if the file is not already open it will start a new window * if there is a window with the file open it will reload it. So there is no need to distinguish the view and update procedure. /johan -- Johan Ingvast, PhD student http://www.md.kth.se/~ingvast Department of Machine Design, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden http://www.md.kth.se, http://www.md.kth.se/~cas <--- Walking robot proj tel +46 (0)8 790 95 36 mob. +46 (0)70 34 34 498
Re: new document class
Is it possible one could update the texmf tree with the necessary files, texhash, and then import an existing thesis into lyx. If one can view that, then surely one only needs to change the content of that file to get one's own thesis. Some ERT may be needed for some things. Else creating ones own layout file may not be that difficulty if you look at the lyx wiki. Is it worth a try? samar - Original Message - From: "Marc J.Driftmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trinh Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 3:58 PM Subject: Re: new document class Trinh, The help section shows in detail the use of the texhash command and how to add class and style packages to your list that is recognizable by LaTeX. Here is the catch. LyX being a WYSIWYM claim of an editor doesn't include LyXified support for the enormous archive of options TeX/LaTeX offers. So this is where the embedded LaTeX command to add such code comes to use. Assumption: you are on a 'nix style operating system. Let's take Linux for example: I use Debian for my LaTeX needs. If I go to CTAN.org and discover say the beamer or memoir package and want to utilize it I create the following under /usr/local/lib/ /texmf /texmf/tex /texmf/tex/latex What you are doing is mirroring a structure underneath /usr/local/lib/texmf that texhash will then index and build a meta file to list where latex and say pdftex or other tex engines to look that will archive your particular .cls and .sty files, so on an so forth. Most if not all class packages include instructions on how to install. Say I have memoir.tar.gz. underneath $cd /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex $ tar xvzf memoir.tar.gz resulting in: $/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/memoir Inside there I run the subsequent latex command on the .ins file and .dtx files to generate class and style as well as documentation, usually in dvi. Most packages already include a pdf copy of their class package and what it can do. How does LyX work with class packages that aren't "natively" supported? By inserting direct LaTeX code. Now if you happen to use KDE and get tired of waiting for LyX to include your favorite class packages I suggest Kile. http://kile.sourceforge.net I still enjoy and respect LyX but I haven't spent more than ten minutes using in since I started using Kile. The drawback is learning more LaTeX which LyX attempts to remove the user from knowing, but ultimately its a solid but still work-in-progress. Hope this helps, Marc On Apr 15, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Trinh Pham wrote: I'm a grad student at a UC school, and we have access to .cls and corresponding .sty files for Latex. Since I really like using Lyx, I wanted to write my dissertation in Lyx instead, but it does not recognize this document class or style files. I don't understand how to write a layout file from just reading the Lyx customization help section. Does anyone know an easy way to implement an existing Latex document class in Lyx? Or has anyone already been successful in doing so with a similar document? Thanks. Trinh
Re: Background image in Beamer
Hi Eugenio
I have been looking for an answer to this myself so I waited hoping someone
would answer your query.
The nearest I have got is putting a grid in according to the manual on page
59 which also mentions that one can put a picture in using the
\setbeamertemplate{background}
For putting a grid in one just goes:
\setbeamertemplate{background}[grid]
according to the manual one can put in a background picture the same way but
it gives no example how and all my attempts have not been very successful.
Perhaps someone more adroit at interpreting the manual will be kind enough
to explain.
samar
- Original Message -
From: "Eugenio Guevara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Background image in Beamer
I am using Beamer with Lyx 1.3.5 on a Windows XP platform. I am preparing
a
presentation and can't find a way to put a background image on any frame
and
change it as needed.
Can anyone give some light on this matter?
Thanks in advance
Eugenio Guevara
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
Hi I have less success with ctrl C ctrl V and more success with Ctrl C followed by pushing the middle button in the other lyx document instead of Ctrl V. Cant hurt to give it a try rgds samar - Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 1:04 PM Subject: Should this behavior be expected? Dear All When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a bug? (I am running LyX 1.3.5 on a Mandrake 10.1 machine.) Thanks in advance, Paul
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
Paul Smith wrote: On 4/18/05, Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a PS>bug? Yes it is normal, cut&paste is very primitive in LyX. Also, you cannot cut a piece a LyX text with ctrl-C and paste it in another application like your mailer with ctrl-V. Cut&paste is a sad example of the results of the over-engineered and under-staffed toolkit independent LyX Sonderweg. Well, I'm running on my hobby horse here ;-) Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org Hmm! That does not seem to be the case on my linux lyx 1.3.4 where the procedure I follow relatively routinely is as follows: 1. Go to the first text document and highlight the text to be copied by highlighting and ctrl C. 2. Click outside the highlighted text to get rid of the highlight. This for some reason is fairly important. 3,.Go to the other lyx document, opened by a separate lyx command. 4. Push the middle mouse button where you want to place the copied text. I have just done this again to ensure that it does work.Maybe it does not work on all configurations. samar
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello, I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the layout - hehe). But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school. They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with WORD2000... I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word? Saying "you can solve any problem you're approaching with WORD2000" is a theoretical assumption, which does not validate in the real life. Word is not good when the number of pages increases and there are cross references. Here are for me the 2 key features LyX has and Word does not have: - No corruption of data : the way LyX saves data and saves in cases of emergency makes it very good at avoiding corruption. Additionally, LyX itself is quite stable compared to Word. When Word crashes, you can loose days or weeks of work. With LyX, when LyX has to exit in emergency (LyX crash, but much more often XWindow crash), you loose nothing. - Correct cross-referencing and numbering: Word is extremely bad at this. I read last week a scientific article with wrong cross referencing (figures had been inserted, and the numbering of the references had not been updated). It was written in Word. So if you are writing a letter or a small report, Word is fine. If you want to make your layout yourself, Word is fine. But if you are writing a Thesis or a Dissertation, Word is a no go. I hope this can help. Best regards, Olivier. PS: This is my personal opinion based on my personal experience. Anyone is entitled to disagree. PPS: Anyway, the best tool is often the tool one is confortable with. Martin Hansen some time ago initiated a similar sort of discussion. He summarized the findings so the following link may be worth a look http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg38064.html samar
Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files
Hi Paul I find that if you do update as opposed to view, the page stays at the same place but you have to "redraw" the screen. This you can do by a quick page up/down. I dont know if that fits your bill. samar - Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:05 PM Subject: Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files On 4/14/05, Johan Ingvast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The standard viewer for pdf files is acrobat but, there seem to be no way of making it update the view automatically. Here is a way of viewing pdf-files using xpdf. Put this as your viewer for pdf (instead of acroread) xpdf -remote $$i $$p$$i It features: * if the file is not already open it will start a new window * if there is a window with the file open it will reload it. Indeed, if there is a window with the file open it will reload it, but the xpdf will show the first page and not the current one. Is there some way of getting the current page automatically shown up after reloading the file? Paul
Re: Background image in Beamer
Eugenio wrote:
After some help from Till Tantau, and consulting every related document I
could find, including de Lyx page, I developed an approach that works (?)
for me including the following commands in the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and using the command
\BackgroundPicture{image}
before the slide I need the background in.
I did the image processing with ImageMagick 1.6.9 tools, in order to
"reduce" the intensity of the image in the background (dissolving an image
onto a white background of the same size)
Any more contributions are accepted
Thanks
Eugenio Guevara
- Original Message -
From: "samar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eugenio Guevara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: Background image in Beamer
Hi Eugenio
I have been looking for an answer to this myself so I waited hoping
someone would answer your query.
The nearest I have got is putting a grid in according to the manual on
page 59 which also mentions that one can put a picture in using the
\setbeamertemplate{background}
For putting a grid in one just goes:
\setbeamertemplate{background}[grid]
according to the manual one can put in a background picture the same way
but it gives no example how and all my attempts have not been very
successful.
Perhaps someone more adroit at interpreting the manual will be kind
enough to explain.
samar
- Original Message -
From: "Eugenio Guevara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Background image in Beamer
I am using Beamer with Lyx 1.3.5 on a Windows XP platform. I am
preparing
a
presentation and can't find a way to put a background image on any frame
and
change it as needed.
Can anyone give some light on this matter?
Thanks in advance
Eugenio Guevara
Eugenio
Thanks for the persistence. That was great. Works like a dream.
A few thoughts:
1. Depending on the size of your background bitmap you may need to adjust
the 0.8 factor in the preamble.
2. if like me you are using a dark background and find your
text becoming invisible the simple solution I use is to put in the preamble:
\usecolortheme{albatross}
Gives a great effect with a nearly black background
3. Is there any chance you or someone else can explain the logic of the
preamble code?
4. As a beamer user I am indebted to Till Tantau and his team for a great
product that really fills a void
and for documentation which is probably as good as it ever gets. For me, its
goodbye powerpoint which I abhorred
and mostly used Flash instead. That was hard work. Beamer is a dream by
contrast.
samar
Re: How to insert a new line into an array cell?
Patrick Gelin wrote: Hi, I can't use a CTRL + return into an array cell in order to add a new line. Could you tell me if it's possible to get much more one line into an array cell? Thanks. Not entirely sure what you mean. If you're trying to get something like this | b a | | c - d | e in an array, you can just insert a 2x1 array in the upper right cell of a 2x2 array. -- Paul Another possibility is to make the tabular array of fixed dimension, then you can use your return key. samar
Re: What is beamer?
Thanks Paul Subject: Re: What is beamer? On 5/4/05, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is beamer? If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. I have used both ways (LaTeX directly and LyX) for writing my presentions and I have no doubt that it is easier (at least to me) to do it with LyX. Paul I am enclosing a sample file. which uses Lyx with a lot of ERT. Even then it saves a lot of typing using Lyx. I have not used Harvard Graphics so one cant really compare but Beamer does give a very nice, slightly unusual presentation, very quickly and easily for the average Lyx user. To use this sample file as some sort of template one would need to have a background Jpeg which is called samartv05.jpg in this file, which becomes the background for each slide. Have had to exclude this from this posting due to size of file. It should be pretty dark else change the color scheme to something else in the preamble. Of course, using the Acrobat viewer is pretty important in this case. samar BeamerPrsntn.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: lyx in spanish?
Hi see if the enclosed lyx file is of any use. Made it for someone else with a similar question some time ago samar - Original Message - From: "Christopher Winkler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 3:16 PM Subject: lyx in spanish? Hello, My system: SuSE 9.3., KDE 3.4, teTeX 3.0, Lyx 1.3.5 I am using LyX to write my dissertation. Until now my girlfriend didn't give a damn about it and preferred OpenOffice, but when I showed her the first chapter printed out she nearly fainted, especially when she understood the possibilities of BibTeX. Well, I thought, this is my chance, and gave her a brief introduction into LyX (it's always better to wait until people ask you than to agitate them, but that is another topic...). Well, the presentation started off quite well but ended in an embarassing disaster. She is Spanish and I could not convince LyX to write vowels with accents, neither with Spanish nor with English or German keyboard, with and without keymaps, with and without the KDE keyboard switcher. What the hell is that? Sorry, I know it has been on the list, but I still cannot find a solution. I cannot believe that the Spanish speaking world using the qt-version is unable to use LyX. Is there an easy workaround or am I simply too stupid? Hoping that the second assumption is the wrong one - Thank you for your help Christopher Template.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Issues with Table of Contents
Subject: Re: Issues with Table of Contents I'm currently heading for a last minute deadline and have found a couple of small hitches with my document in LyX. I was hoping I might get some help (one can but try). If people would like to see the document before commenting please just ask and I'll be willing to send it asap. Hope the deadline hasn't passed and so this is still useful! Firstly and foremost. I'm having difficulties with ToC. I have my document in "book" environment and have set out 4 or 5 chapters using solely description, enumerate, itemize, section, subsection, subsection*, chapter, and chapter*. I included the TOC button just below my title and when I hit view DVIblank..CONTENTS and then an empty page...Any ideas (I have checked the document settings>numbering>ToC = 5)? I dont know if you have the choice of book (koma script) In that case instead of using chapter* you should use addchap. This will permit the entry to be seen in the TOC. There are other ways of showing entriesin the TOC but this is one of the simpler ones. That sounds strange. Have you definitely got your chapters and things selected as the versions sans asterisk? I think only the numbered entries will show up in your TOC. Also, have you definitely got a title page in? I had a problem before where my TOC field had ended up in the author field, causing all sorts of problems. Might be worthing deleting it and adding it in again a little later in the document, just to see if something along those lines is the problem Secondly. I guess I'm trying to have my cake and eat it. (I expect the 'proof' environment doesn't work within 'Book' ) I would like to add some nice proof symbols at the end of my proofs...I have found a likely contender for the box but cannot get the \hspace command working. Sorry, no ideas here I'm a complete LaTeX newbie so could any responses be as comprehensive in LaTeX (and LyX) input as possible. Thanks in advance Me too, but hopefully that helped anyway! If you would like to send your document I would be willing to look through the problems you are having. samar
Re: Re[2]: reallly long titles in page headings
Hello Kevin, Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 3:44:13 PM, you wrote: Does anyone know of a way to enable line breaks in chapter-dependant headings? I would really like to keep the default book class page layout. A perhaps wrong answer to the wrong question, but what about the "Short Title" option under the Insert menu? This is not an option, unfortunately. I NEED to keep the titles as is (i.e. long). I am able to insert a line break in a chapter title, and allow line breaks in TOC. I'm really hoping it's also possible for the headers. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.4 on Linux Does that not mean that you have little choice other than to reduce the size of text in the headings which is possible. samar
Re: Beamer troubles
Hi
I also had problems using Lyx with Beamer. Eventually I went for a mix of
ERT and Lyx. Some things are just done much more easily in ERT.
I have put a sample file on the wiki under the beamer window. If that works
for you, you may care to use it as a template. Looking at Beamers
documentation in association with this will provide the necessary pointers.
If you use it and have problems you may want to ventilate that on this list.
samar
- Original Message -
From: "John O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lyx"
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: Beamer troubles
I really like beamer but
Even when I run the supplied example: The Complexity of Finding Paths in
Tournaments, I get the following error messages:
The new counter already exists (this repeated 5 times)
step: Counter does not exist: lyxframend{}\subsection
(repeated 10 times).
Sumilarly with my own presentations. They work fine, but something minor
is obviously going wrong with the counters which close frames when you
start sections or subsections.
I had these problems before but did not complain because I was using an
older version of LaTeX (from SuSE 9.1).
But now I have SuSE 9.3 which comes with LyX 1.3.5 and LaTeX 3, and the
problems persist.
The SuSE distro, however did not install the beamer.layout file anywhere.
So I put this in myself (from CTAN). Beamer now works from LyX (unlike on
the earlier SuSEs where I had to install a lot of other dependent sty
files and reconfigure LyX before it would run).
I expect that the beamer.layout file is the problem. Does anyone know
where to get the kosher version of this file for beamer?
regards
John O'Gorman
Re: usetheme beamer question
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 6:03 PM
Subject: usetheme beamer question
Hi!
What are the options for usetheme[options]{theme}? I couldn't find
anything in the manual. I am particularly interested in the options
that suppress the outline to appear at the top or the side in a
theme to indicate status as that takes a lot of real estate.
--
myriam
Hi
Dont know if this is precisely what you want but Section 16 on page 145 of
themanual explains inner themes, outer themes and templates.
samar
Re: Beamer: Columns of Items Within a Block
Hi Not sure I have figured out exactly what you want, but I think you may want to look at the following file on the lyx wiki. http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/Beamer/Samar/Prsntn.pdf If you feel it has something for you the beamer lyx file is on the same page. samar - Original Message - From: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:07 PM Subject: Beamer: Columns of Items Within a Block I've read the Beamer class doc and did a lot of experimenting, but have not yet stumbled upon the algorithm for putting two colums of items (six items total in two cases, seven items in the third case) within a block environment. What I have is either a block header with the itemized list outside that environment or a non-itemized list within the block environment. And, no matter the sequence of steps, I cannot get two columns within an block environment. This is what I have: Several Examples of Something: Number 1 Number 2 Number 3 Number 4 Number 5 Number 6 and what I'd like to have is: Several Examples of Something: - Number 1 - Number 4 - Number 2 - Number 5 - Number 3 - Number 6 I've tried increasing environment depth (of various parts), creating a block within a columns environment, creating a columns environment within a block environment, etc. Has anyone successfully done this? Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: Beamer: Columns of Items Within a Block
Rich Again not quite sure this will work for you but one way around it is to create the lists in minipages in lyx. These minipages can of course be aligned top bottom or middle. This does mean of course that they are separate blocks. I suppose you could get multiple columns in one block using the multicol package. That means marginally more ERT samar - Original Message - From: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:39 PM Subject: Re: Beamer: Columns of Items Within a Block On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, samar wrote: Not sure I have figured out exactly what you want, but I think you may want to look at the following file on the lyx wiki. http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/Beamer/Samar/Prsntn.pdf Thanks, Samar. It's close; perhaps close enough. You have an itemized list within a block that is in one column. I'm trying to get two columns of an itemized list within a block. If you feel it has something for you the beamer lyx file is on the same page. I'll take a look. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: Beamer: Columns of Items Within a Block
Rich I use multicol quite a lot. Its very good at balancing columns but never needed to use it inside beamer. Let me know how it goes. samar - Original Message - From: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:28 AM Subject: Re: Beamer: Columns of Items Within a Block On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, samar wrote: I suppose you could get multiple columns in one block using the multicol package. That means marginally more ERT samar, Now, that's a thought. I've no objection to writing LaTeX within a LyX document; that's how I'm producing my PSTricks figures and plots. Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: help]
Hi In linux you can use the acrobat reader - free version - to capture all the text and ksnapshot for the graphics.. Recreating the lyx file should not be too difficult after that. samar - Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX Users" Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: help] On 6/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am using LYX vestion 1.2.3. Unfortunatly is lost my lyx fie. I have PDF of it. Can you plaes help me in convertin *.pdf to *.lyx If your pdf file, Prasad, is only (or almost only) text, you may be able of recovering an important piece of your document; otherwise, it is an impossible mission, I am afraid to say, at least at my best knowledge. Paul
Problem:insert>include file - cross reference
I edited a small book recently which had cross references to labelled sections in each chapter. The chapters were written as individual lyx files and then included in a master document. However, it seems all the crossreferences pointed to the same section - which incidentally was not correct for any chapter. Any ideas? samar
Re: NSF proposals
1. I need to add descriptive page numbers (e.g., Project Description p.1
or C-1).
if you mean page numbers at the bottom like c-1 then a bit of ERT as follows
would do it:
\cfoot{\textbf{YourChoice\ -\ \thepage}}
this basically means page numbers come out at the center of the footer space
with something like YourChoice - 3 for page number 3 in section YourChoice.
You have to ask for package fancyhdr in this case.
2. I cannot separate my references cited (using BibTeX) from the document,
so I have to open it in Acrobat and delete, the body of the proposal, but
then I am stuck with screwy page numbers.
Cant work out what you mean here. Is it that you want the references to be
a separate document?
In that case you may want to open the sort of document you want and add in
ERT \:
\nocite{*}
That will print out everything in your bibtex file and whatever text you
have put into this document.
You will of course have to put in the Bibtex generated references in the
usual way.
Hope this help to sustain you in the world of Lyx and that you find its
worth it.
samar
Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows
samar j. singh wrote: In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for pdflatex which lies within Program Files, the View > PDFlatex option comes up with an error message saying that it could not find the viewer in C:/Program. Hence, the file name appears to stop at the blank space. Am I doing something wrong, and is there a workaround, if I am not? Have already tried to put a shortcut to the C directory but it does not have the intended effect. TIA Is Acrobat Reader your viewer? If so, you should be able to fill in Edit | Preferences | File formats | PDF | Viewer with just 'acrord32' and click Modify, then do the same for PDF (dvipdfm) and PDF (pdflatex). If, for some reason, that doesn't work, then try typing in the full path surrounded by double quotes, e.g. "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" -- Paul Hi Paul Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly this sort of change does not require reconfiguring. Do you think this is something obvious for most people - other than yours truly - or should we have it in the section on the wiki that deals with installing this version of LyxWin? samar
Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows
samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly this sort of change does not require reconfiguring. Do you think this is something obvious for most people - other than yours truly - or should we have it in the section on the wiki that deals with installing this version of LyxWin? It seems to me that questions about viewing PDFs come up periodically, but usually from people who don't know they need to go to the file formats section and fill in the viewer entries. I don't recall the business of the space in the path coming up much, but then my memory's not trustworthy. In any case, it's liable to come up more often when versions 1.3.6 and then 1.4 hatch, because they will allow users to work directly from source documents under My Documents, which I suspect will desensitize Windows users to the general issue of spaces in the path. I've added a blurb near the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup describing this. Feel free to edit it if you find it less than clear (or, worse, inaccurate). -- Paul I changed this pdf format viewer with "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe" EDit --> Preferences --> modify -->apply -->save and it fails to stick using 1.3.6pre (I think 18 or 19) when I reopen Lyx it is blank. However it does seem to save acrobat or acrobat.exe without quotes. I did not change the folling two at all, is it required? "Then do the same for PDF (dvipdfm) and PDF (pdflatex)." I thought the instructions (LyX/WindowsSetup) were quite clear, Stephen Just a guess but I seem to remember that after you press modify another file format jumps into place. This means that we might not be saving or applying the filename entered. I would recommend checking that after you have pressed modify, the Pdflatex entry is brought back in the File Formats window. After that the save button should be pressed. If you dont need to use anything other than pdflatex for View, then you dont need to fill in the other boxes. Hope this helps samar
Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows
I've added a blurb near the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup describing this. Feel free to edit it if you find it less than clear (or, worse, inaccurate). -- Paul This works a bit curiously in 1.3.6pre. Pdf = acrobat will bring up the doc at half-page size. Pdflatex will also bring up the document in half-page size. If the full path to acrobat.exe is entered in quotes, "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe" The save will not take effect and next time one opens Lyx the viewer field is blank. But then pdflatex defualts to acrobat as long as acrobat was in the pdf field. There is the pdfview.cmd bat file: START /max Acrobat.exe %1 exit This works to open the pdf file full-page size. In the pdf (dvipdfm) field both pdfview.cmd and c:\LyX\bin\pdfview.com are equivalent and bring up the pdf doc in full-page size. At the same time pdflatex using acrobat will bring up the same doc in half-page size. And finally, if "c:\lyx\bin\pdfview.cmd" is put in quotes, modified, applied, saved, closed and re-opened the field is blank and reverts to acrobat in half-page size. I don't think pdfview.cmd can be located in a Path which contains a space. Regards, Stephen Yes, I agree that the full file path spec is not saved. I am not entirely sure that this is not a bug that needs to be sorted out, and Angus may have views on that. In point of fact, the process of reconfiguring kills that entry. samar
Re: export to HTML
I understand that my supervisor would not be able to see the images if I didn't send them to him, but the trouble is that I can't even see them immediately after I tell lyx to export to HTML. The images seem to be linked to /var somewhere, but there are no images there. I was hoping I could create an HTML file with links to the pictures that could be in a a subdirectory. If all else fails, I will send HTMLfor the text and a pdf for the images. Dean I dont know if this helps but when I have to produce a word document for those who have yet to be inculcated into the higher logic of latex, I export the lyx as a latex file and then latex it a couple of time and then go latex2html -split 0 filename. My experience is that if your piccie is a jpeg it will show up. May be worth a try. You tend to get the blurb at the beginning of the first page and at the end of the last page about the latex2html authors and all that. and it tends not to be able to deal with unusual sty files etc. samar On July 11, 2005 12:47 pm, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:42 PM Subject: export to HTML > Hi Everyone, > > I'm having trouble exporting my thesis to HTML, so that my supervisor > can > read > it in an editable format (he uses MS Word). Exporting to HTML seems to > do a > pretty good job except that the images aren't displayed. There are no > images > in the locations that are linked to from the HTML file. Any ideas what > is going on? The images won't be incorporated into the html in the same wqay they are a pdf or ps file. The html will merely include links to where the image files are on your pc. If you haven't sent him the image files then he won't be able to see them. As an aside, one way to send him editable text is to send him the latex source. Admittedly this won't have images in either but he will be able to open the plain text on any text editor - WordPad on Windows for example. Then you can simply convert his revised tex file to lyx using relyx or tex2lyx. If he really needs to see the figures too send him a pdf and he can read that along side. Just a thought. Geoff
Re: Ongoing problems with 1.3.6pre on windows
samar j. singh wrote: Actually, the beamer.layout file is already there under C:\WINDOWS\lyx\share\lyx\layouts\beamer.layout with all the other layout files. Still no luck It seems that you mixed up the directories for LyXWin 1.3.5 and LyXWin 1.3.6pre. I also found an empty layout directory at : C:\Documents and Settings\Laptop\.lyx\layouts and put Beamer.layout there too. The ".lyx" directory is not used by LyXWin1.3.6pre. You should copy the layout to "C:\Documents and Settings" and then to the folder "lyx" which should be in the folder "Application Data" (or similar name). And don't forget to reconfigure LyX after this. regards Uwe You are absolutely right. I got the right directory and its fine now. Thanks for the advice and the help. regards samar
Fw: Mathcad?
I am afraid this did not get copied to Lyx-Users last time Hi I wonder if you could elaborate on what you want to do. Transferring text is a cut and paste operation. Have just tried it out. It would however, end up as a text field in Mathcad 2000. Transferring formulae is unlikely to work if you want them to be part of the maths in mathcad. That would appear to be a very different protocol from the Lyx math protocol, but someone else may have better ideas. samar - Original Message - From: "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:35 PM Subject: Mathcad? Hi, has anyone successfully transferred information between LyX / LaTeX and Mathcad 2000i? Best regards, Brian Williams - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
Error in getting output
Hi, I have installel lyx.x86_64 with 'yum install' command on my fedora 16. The problem is that I can not get any kind of output, even print! it writes "There were some errors during the LaTex run", "You should try to fix them" Could you please help me to fix this problem? Samar
Re: Heretical question?
On Thursday 21 July 2005 06:59, Herbert Voss wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > Angus Leeming wrote: > >>Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ > > > > or (if you're on win) > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ > > works also with wine under *nix and has an own homepage and > is a _real_ wysiwyg TeX > > http://www.microimp.com > > Herbert Angus and Herbert, Thanks for that intro to texmacs though I dont see myself using it for a wysiwyg wordprocessor. Indeed one of the great things I see about Lyx is the assurance that I have that things will look right without my wasting my writing and thinking time on that. However, it did fill a different void as I was intrigued to see that it allowed import of html and export of latex to allow an effective conversion from word to Lyx. Have tried this out with one document which I converted from Word to html using OpenOffice and then imported into texmacs and exported into latex and then imported into Lyx. I found some valuable features which make me think this is the best way I have seen of getting a word document into lyx 1. The graphic appeared in the lyx document but with some ERT around it which was easily dispensed with 2. The sections and subsections which appeared in Word as 5.1) were not entered as subsections but did appear with appropriate bold text and were correctly represented. 3. The title did not appear as a title but as a subsection which had been "renew"ed in the preamble and therefore had to be removed 4. The itemised elements were identically replicated but using the right mixture of itemize and enumerate and indenting 5. It took me about 3 minutes to do all the changes to make it into a respectable pdf file from Lyx. I dont know how general these observations are, having been made on the basis of one conversion, but there certainly seems to be a case for looking into it. samar
Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge
On Monday 25 July 2005 03:00, Georg Baum wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2 (LyX 1.3.4 source) > > > > lyx_1.3.4-2.diff.gz (from Debian) > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.5.bz2 > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.6.bz2 > > > > and then build a Debian LyX 1.3.6 package by applying these patches in > > order to the unpacked lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2 sources. > > I was not suggesting that, but it should also work. In the meantime I have > created an updated diff file and a hopefully better description at > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Linux. Please try that instead. I would build > the .debs myself, but I have no clean sarge install and nobody would be > able to install them. > > > Georg I am running Simply Mepis - a debian distribution - on an intel machine. I tried installing 1.3.6 from the tar.gz version while leaving undisturbed, the 1.3.4 version installed from the .deb file some time ago. It was a dream doing so and running src/lyx brought up lyx 1.3.6. After make install, which appeared to run without errors, I got the following error message when trying to run lyx from the command line. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified lyx: cannot connect to X server :0 Calling up an existing lyx document invokes lyx 1.3.4 Anything that I can do about this? samar
Background image at the top of each page
Hi I am trying to add a background image to appear at the top of each page of the document - like a sort of masthead. I have tried pagestyle fancy but it does not let me insert a graphic at the head of the page even though I can insert text. There is mention of the eso-pic.sty package but no documentation on how to use it to do this. Would appreciate any advice samar
Re: Excel data sheets
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:39, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "lyx" > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:36 PM > Subject: Re: Excel data sheets > > > William, > > > > have you actually managed to make this work with LyX? If so, what is the > > trick? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian Williams > > > > "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > >> Has anyone had any experience or success in importing MS Excel data > >> sheets into lyx? Ideally they would appear as a table but I am not > >> averse to importing them as a graphic. > > > > There's a tool for this here: > > > > http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml > > > > Excel2Latex V2.0 > > > > William > > > > -- > > William Adams, publishing specialist > > voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 > > www.atlis.com > > I have this working. What exactly are you struggling with? I will try and > help as much as is possible via email! You may find it useful to try what I do normally. 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. 2. Select the requisite number of columns and rows 3. Come back to your lyx document 4. Insert a table which has at least the selected number of rows and columns 5. Go to the cell on your lyx table where you want the top left corner of the section to be placed. 6. Click the middle button on your mouse. That should be it. The experts tell me this should not work but unfortunately for the theory, it does for me. samar -- samar j. singh bangalore
Re: Title page of thesis
On Thursday 04 August 2005 13:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > I have difficulties with the title page of my thesis. I already have: > > Title > Author > Date > Name of university (using "publishers") > > I would like to include the names of my super visors after the name of the > university. I have tried with different possibilities (Extratitle an > additional publisher etc) but I cannot get this line of text to appear an > reasonable place. > > Suggestions? > > Janus Hard to know what the specs are for this, but normally you would need a declaration something like "This thesis is submitted .. fulfillment of a ... etc " The names of the supervisors would normally come after that. However, you could just consider using a spacing and centering strategy like in the modified example included to get the effects you want. regards samar -- samar j. singh bangalore title_page-thesis_janus.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Neither Linux nor windows! Please help me!
On Sunday 16 October 2005 22:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please I want a simple thing: > > - Type asdkhjdfkh in a new Lyx file and > put this line line as 'title'; > > - Change both 'Layout->Document->Language' > and 'Edit->Preferences->Language' to > portuguese (or whatever tongue you want); > > - Export it to pdf or view it as dvi or > something like that; > > Then, what do you see? 'October, 16 2005' isn't > it? Well, I want to be written there '16 de outubro de > 2005'. Hi I am not sure I fully understand the problem, but the way you have explained it, you can do as follows to get the result you want: 1. Write your title text 2. On the next line write the text "16 de outubro de 2005" 3. with the cursor in the line above, select the date field in the pull down menu to the left which normally shows standard. 4. View pdflatex I am sure there are better ways of doing this by selecting appropriate languages but this specific solution gives the results you have said you want. best regards samar -- samar j. singh bangalore
Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:50, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> >>6. Click the middle button on your mouse.
> >>
> >>That should be it. The experts tell me this should not work but
> >>unfortunately for the theory, it does for me.
> >>
> >>samar
> >
> >Kenward
>
> I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I
> think it's really useful; so I have turned this into a page for the tips
> section of the Wiki. It should be saved on the Wiki
> ("CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets"), but I'm not sure how to correctly link
> this to the tips section, so maybe somebody else could help me out.
>
> Samar, Kenward, I hope you don't mind being mentioned on the page.
>
> And btw, while I'm a loyal, devoted, enthusiastic, spreading-the-word
> (etc., you get the feeling...) Lyx user, I have to say that the need to
> publish this workaround as a hint just means that basic copy&paste is
> essentially "kaputt" in Lyx. Can we users hope for better life with 1.4?
>
> (Developers, please don't get me wrong, Lyx is great software.)
> -sven
Its great that you are visualising putting this on the wiki.
Just a suggestion. Similar issues keep coming up on cut and paste problems.
For instance, recently there was this issue that you can't cut and paste
between lyx documents and the simple answer is they have to be documents on
the same instance of Lyx.
I just wonder if it might be a better idea to scan through the lists and
summarize all cut and paste tips and put them together on the wiki if you can
spare the time.
I have put someting on the wiki before. While the direct instructions are
fairly simple I found some derivatives more problematic like the .jpg file
being downloaded as .jpeg which creates problems for lyx.
Christian at chr "at" home.se is the man you need to contact. Very helpful
too.
Re your other comment, like every other beauty Lyx has areas it could improve
on, but the entire persona is what most of us go for. Lyx is an immensely
productive tool. When you match it with something like freemind, its a
powerful combination for thought and expression. To the developers of both, I
am personally deeply indebted.
best regards
samar
Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 13:13, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > Its great that you are visualising putting this on the wiki. > > > > > > I just wonder if it might be a better idea to scan through the lists and > > summarize all cut and paste tips and put them together on the wiki if you > > can spare the time. > > In principle I could do that, but with the (hopefully) imminent release of > version 1.4 I would rather start a new tips collection instead of spending > time on a (hopefully) soon obsolete version. > > Samar, feel free to remind me of this half-promise when 1.4 comes out... > > -sven Sven, a half promise is better than none and if you are inviting a reminder thats even better. Given the greater margin of time, I could look up a few things from a course I had put together for a small publishing house some time ago which you could consider adding to your work. I seem to recollect reading somewhere that 1.4 will not be addressing the issue of cut and paste. regards samar
Re: Figure and table side by side
On Monday 24 October 2005 02:04, Johan Ingvast wrote:
> Hi
> Since I don't want to spend too much space in my article, I'd like to
> have a table just next to a figure inside one float.
>
> I want a figure caption on the figure and a table caption on the table.
>
> I've tried different ways but not come up with a satisfying solution.
> I've scanned the archives but not found anything but how to put two
> figures/tables side by side, not the both kinds at the same time.
>
>
> The best I found was to use the nofloat package which has defined
> tabcaption and figcaption separately. This made it possible to make a
> one by two table inside a figure environmen, set a fixed width of each
> column and insert the table and figures inside the cells.
>
> Then manually creating the captions by placing
> ERT: \tabcaption{My table caption}
> in the first cell. And
> ERT: \figcaption{My figure caption}
> in the second cell.
> This is ok, however, I'm not convinced that the nofloat package screws
> other things up.
>
> Any clues?
>
> T.I.A.
> /johan
How about
1. insert minipage right click inside and reduce width to less than 50% column
width when the cue pops up
2. Insert Hfill
3. Insert another minipage as in 1
4. Put your figure in one minipage and your table in the other.
regards
samar
Re: Figure and table side by side
On Monday 24 October 2005 15:37, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Johan Ingvast wrote:
> > Yes, that's an alternative from using the 1 x 2 table. But my problem
> > is with the captions. I want a table caption for the table and a
> > figure caption for the figure. If I put everything in a figure float
> > both captions will become "Figure" and vice versa.
> > /johan
>
> This works for me:
>
> 1. In the preamble: \usepackage{multicol}
>
> 2. Before your figures, in ERT: \begin{multicols}{2}
>
> 3. Then the figure float with the figure, followed by the table
> float with the table. In both floats, check the "Here definitely"
> placement options. They should otherwise be normal floats.
>
> 4. After your floats: \end{multicols}
>
>
> Now your two floats will be placed side by side because that section of the
> document is set with two columns. You will get a table caption and a
> figure caption, as you really have two ordinary floats.
>
> Example attached. I don't know what happens if the floats appear
> near the bottom of a page, you may have to tweak placement
> yourself instead of relying on auto placement.
>
> Helge Hafting
Thats an elegant solution.
Is it possible we can have this on the wiki?
best regards
samar
Re: How to cross reference a float
Personally, I use cross referencing fairly regularly. As a result one tends to add in labels anytime something may need to be cross referenced , hence it appears to be less of a problem. The bigger issue is whether having something like a table of contents against which you cross reference is going to be more work or less work. Not clear if I understand the problem with referencing figures. As long as you use a float it should be alright or am I missing out because of not reading the prior material on this. samar - Original Message - From: "Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Litt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 2:10 AM Subject: Re: How to cross reference a float > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:41:56AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Seriously, there's got to be some way to make it easier. Your method > > of "fig:" is a start, and makes things tolerable (THANKS!), but I'm > > wondering if something could be done with automatic labels or maybe > > local labels. > > I think one thing that could and should be offered is to add the > possibility to create a label in the 'insert reference' dialog. I > usually write someting, notice that I need to refere to some place, then > need ages to scroll up to that place, insert the label, go down again, > insert the reference. Having a box where all unlabled chapters and > figures are listed ready for labeling would simplify that task > enourmously. > > Andre' >
Re: missing a file, can someone help me
seems you are in lyx 1.3.5 which allows lyx to accept a file that has a document class file, such as article.sty, which you dont have on your machine or which lyx is not aware of. You may want to run texhash at the command line before doing anything else. Then restart lyx and see if there is any success. If not go to the menu item Layout and follow it through to document. When the Document Settings window opens the first item is Document class. Read the name, go to ctan, load it and put it in some suitable directory in texmf and run texhash. If you then reopen lyx it should be alright. good luck samar - Original Message - From: "Rowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:00 PM Subject: missing a file, can someone help me > When i try to open up a few different templates, lyx keeps informing me of a > Textclass error. "The document uses a missing Tex class (name of template). > Lyx will not be able to produce output." > > could anyone tell me what file i am missing > > cheers > rowan >
Re: thanks to LyX team
Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux days.There is a world of difference when you have to do bibliographies and an index apart from all the other productivity. Coming to latex was a wonderful leap. Taking to Lyx is a whole new world. The only problem is when one has to talk to the rest of the world in .doc The lyx team has done a grand job and its nice to be able to say thank you now that we have been reminded not to take it for granted. samar - Original Message - From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Olivier Ripoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: Re: thanks to LyX team > >>>>> "Olivier" == Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Olivier> Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work they > Olivier> do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and it > Olivier> never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month > Olivier> period), LyX managed not to loose a single letter of my work. > > Thanks for your kind words. > > And congratualtions for your thesis, although I am of course 2 years > late... > > JMarc > >
Re: thanks to LyX team
On 02/02/2005 05:15:11 PM, samar j. singh wrote: > Hi > > I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was > not > around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing > proposals > and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex > before > my > linux days.There is a world of difference when you have to do > bibliographies and an index apart from all the other productivity. > Coming > to latex was a wonderful leap. Taking to Lyx is a whole new world. > > The only problem is when one has to talk to the rest of the world in > .doc Please do not talk to the rest of world in *.doc. Instead use pdf. In that way your document cannot be modified by anybody and it cannot be affected by any macro virus. Anand There are times when there is no choice, for instance when someone wants to add or edit what you have written. In practice in such cases, I used lineno.sty which prints line numbers on each line and allows people to suggest changes by line number. However, there are many times when one would like to be able to produce a word doc for others, but I do realize that word does not have the wealth of formatting that we have in latex so its an impossible dream in all probability. > The lyx team has done a grand job and its nice to be able to say > thank > you > now that we have been reminded not to take it for granted. > > samar > > - Original Message - > From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Olivier Ripoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:17 PM > Subject: Re: thanks to LyX team > > > > >>>>> "Olivier" == Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > > Olivier> Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work > they > > Olivier> do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and > it > > Olivier> never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month > > Olivier> period), LyX managed not to loose a single letter of my > work. > > > > Thanks for your kind words. > > > > And congratualtions for your thesis, although I am of course 2 > years > > late... > > > > JMarc > > > > > > > >
Re: layout for a PhD thesis
> Hi everybody, > I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. > Could someone suggest me a nice layout including > chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments? > > Thanks, > Paolo Valente > > > Many US universities have latex formats on the website. Take the one you like, import it into lyx and start writing. You may want to try MIT to start with. samar
Re: network printing on Windows from LyX
However, most other print dialog boxes in Windows applications have some way to bring up the print settings dialog box to access/change specific printer/driver options right before printing. Any way to achieve this in LyX? Also, have I configured printing correctly? A thought The basic idea of Lyx is to produce some form of output file - e.g. through export to pdf, dvi or whatever. Would it not be easier to print these output files using normal windows methods? samar
Re: How to print crop marks?
Hi Always been confused by a couple of things in Lyx on the Linux platform,. and I wonder if others have managed to overcome these confounds. 1. In the "Insert Graphics" is it possible to change the defaults in the fields that come up. For instance, I invariably prefer to have the "Output Width" occupy 100 per cent of the "col%". At the moment it comes up with "scale%". 2. In beamer is it possible to create macros that insert ERT with a specific keypress? Joining this list has been a rewarding experience and I am beginning to see there is no need to put up with the small inconveniences of the Lyx experience any more. samar
Re: How to create crop marks
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, samar j. singh wrote:
> > 1. In the "Insert Graphics" is it possible to change the defaults in the
> > fields that come up. For instance,
> > I invariably prefer to have the "Output Width" occupy 100 per cent of
the
> > "col%". At the moment it comes up with "scale%".
>
> I rarely scale my figures and instead tries to make them the right size
> from beginning, so I don't think col% should be default.
> But I agree there should be a possibility to change the default values by
> some settings.
I agree that in the perfect world of a graduate school setting this is a
good philosophy.
Regrettably the world outside forces compromises. Point taken about good
practice, though.
>
> > 2. In beamer is it possible to create macros that insert ERT with a
specific
> > keypress?
> I guess that you mean in the beamer class. Right?
> Lyx lacks the possibility to have class sensitive key-bindings. But you
> can always make a binding that inserts something, but then the binding
will be
> valid in all documents.
> This is what I have in my personal bind-file to create an ERT
> \bind M-r "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \\rb{} ;
inset-toggle"
> So by pressing M-r the macro creates a ERT put \rb{} into it and closes
it.
> Johan Ingvast, PhD student http://www.md.kth.se/~ingvast
> Department of Machine Design, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
> http://www.md.kth.se, http://www.md.kth.se/~cas <--- Walking robot proj
> tel +46 (0)8 790 95 36 mob. +46 (0)70 34 34 498
Thank you Johan. This is what I was looking for and its not a problem with
it being true of all documents.
The little example you have given is of great practical help. Never quite
figured out these bind files though
I understand the concept - I think.
samar
Re: How to create keybindings for ERT
> Johan Ingvast wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, samar j. singh wrote:
> >
>
> >>2. In beamer is it possible to create macros that insert ERT with a
specific
> >>keypress?
> >
> > I guess that you mean in the beamer class. Right?
> > Lyx lacks the possibility to have class sensitive key-bindings. But you
> > can always make a binding that inserts something, but then the binding
will be
> > valid in all documents.
> > This is what I have in my personal bind-file to create an ERT
> > \bind M-r "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \\rb{} ;
inset-toggle"
> > So by pressing M-r the macro creates a ERT put \rb{} into it and closes
it.
> >
>
> There's a work-around if you want, for instance, bindings unique to the
> beamer class. Create a separated document home directory for beamer
> presentations. The first time you start LyX in that directory, it
> should create another copy of the local file tree. (If you've edited
> preferences, you'll either need to do so again here, or copy the
> preferences file from your usual document home.) Now copy your key
> bindings file into the ./bind folder of the new directory and edit that
> copy to contain beamer-specific bindings.
Hi Paul
Yes, that sounds neat. However, as beamer has become my default presentaiton
maker
these documents are all over the place, so it may have a lot of value for
someone who
actually has a presentations directory. However, I appreciate the
suggestion.
samar
Re: Graphics that takes up a whole page
Hi I have been working with beamer on a project proposal and having seen the wonderful illustration with pstricks from Herbert Voss, decided to try pstricks to do a tree diagram. To start with I put in the simple example on Goosens graphics companion on page 126 but it was rejected by Lyx 1.3.4 and the latex error message was NonPDF special. A quick look on the net led me to a rather nice publication on latex presentations at http://latex.perseguers.ch/contrib/presentations/guidelines-book.pdf which indicated that pdflatex cannot handle pstricks! I wonder if anyone has any advice on how to make it do this and therefore work with a beamer presentation. TIA samar
Windows equivalent of texhash?
Hi all I have installed a nex tex tree and lyx-qt on my windows laptop. Now lyx cannot see the executables like pdf latex. I cant remember the equivalent for texhash on the windows platform. I also have miktek installed but it can seem to see the binaries either. They also had a facility for texhashing but cant seem to find that either. would appreciate some early help. Am travelling early morning and would need this samar
Re: Windows equivalent of texhash?
> samar j. singh wrote: > > > Now lyx cannot see the executables like pdf latex. > > reconfigure LyX I have managed to make it export a pdflatex document. However in the View->pdflatex I have been able to make acrobat come up but the error mesage when I try to view a pdflatex file though this medium says, "No such file" Also it seems to open up a black dos window which incidentally says, not a dibseciton bddraw=0 firstly, does this act as a pointer to the problem and secondly if it does not how do I get rid of it. > > I cant remember the equivalent for texhash on the windows platform. > > MikTeX options -> General -> Refresh filename database. > re I have Miktek 5 licensed and that is rather old so I do not actually find the Option > General tab there. It was always a pain trying to find the refresh filenamedatabase and now I cant seem to remember where it is on my version. I appreciate the helpUwe. regards samar
installing ps4pdf
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:40:51 +0530, samar j. singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > which indicated that pdflatex cannot handle pstricks! > > That's true, Samar. However, you can use PSTricks with beamer, as long > as you use ps4pdf (please, notice that I wrote ps4pdf and not ps2pdf). > > Please, have a look at: > > http://www.pstricks.de/pdf/pdfoutput.phtml#ps4pdf > > I have successfully produced my beamer pdf presentations within LyX > and using PSTricks. PSTricks are really powerful tools. > > Paul Thanks Paul. Have been away for a few daysl. Could you tell me what to do with the script file ps4pdf which is part of the package to integrate into lyx.. Strangely enough, texhash does not allow me to recognize ps4pdf.sty whether I put it in the root texmf tree or the local texmf tree. Any advice on that? thanks and regards samar >
Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED
>Well, I've resolved this one, too, by decreasing the ToC depth by one
> level. Takes two pages off the total count, has no widow item on the last
> page and actually looks better without all the clutter.
>
>For future reference, is there a way to manipulate page layout within
the
> ToC?
>
Not quite sure what you mean by manipulating page layout, but if you want to
add to a particular entry
in the toc, you can go as follows for instance where all the stuff in the
last set of curly braces will be added to your table of contents. There is a
historical tendency to have such tables of contents in philosophical works.
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Adding your own text to Table of Contents -
Normal method of generating Table of Contents - Doing a bit more work to
insert extra text - Similarity with other structures such as chapters}
Understandably this would have to go in as an ERT directly after the
particular section (in this case) entry that you would want to modify.
The other way is to edit the toc file. I am not sure you can do that while
using lyx but I believe I have done that in my latex days.
samar
Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED
Eric Fraga wrote > I have a related question that maybe you can help with. I often find I was > to manipulate slightly the inter-item spacing for bibliography entries > generated by the "BibTeX Generated References" LyX directive. Unfortunately, > any reference to itemsep before or after this gray box has no effect and the > only way I can get things the way I want them is to edit the latex (well, > the bibtex generated) code itself. Is there any way to pass options to the > LyX bibtex generation entry? > I think you may need to look at Section 13.8 of Goosen's The Latex Companion which has stuff about making small changes in a bibtex style file. Good luck samar
Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?
Hi Interesting question. Just throwing in an opinion and I am sure there will be many. For graduate students, I would favour starting with tightly controlled lyx templates for specific tasks e..g providing a lyxfile with all sections already written out, and explanatory details inserted as comments. As they extend their knowledge and as you extend your demands on their expertise, they will be forced to review the latex log file when lyx fails to compile because some rule of latex has been broken, then it will be natural to provide them assistance with latex. I personally started with latex in the mid 90's when there was no Lyx around so there really was no choice. ;I still find knowing latex to be an advantage but one does not have to start with that. For people who have been programming even a little, the latex approach may be very welcome. For others it may not. I am looking forward to the arguments on the debate you have undoubtedly started. Best regards samar - Original Message - From: "Nicolas Ferré" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:55 PM Subject: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ? > Hi, > > Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to > write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I > found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. > > Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share > my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very > little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? > > Any opinion or experience is welcomed. > > -- > Dr. Nicolas Ferre' > Laboratoire de Chimie Theorique et de Modelisation Moleculaire > UMR 6517 - CNRS Universite' de Provence > Case 521 - Faculte' de Saint-Jerome > Av. Esc. Normandie Niemen > 13397 MARSEILLE Cedex 20 (FRANCE) > Tel : (+33)4.91.28.27.33 Fax : (+33)4.91.28.87.58 >
Problems with Lyx1.3.5 (Ruurd's port) on Windows98SE
Hi I have installed Lyx on my windows98SE laptop. Seems to work fine generally. I have setup the latest version of Miktex. Primary problem. It does not recognize beamer. I have gone into Mikteks package manager and Beamer is very much there. Have reconfigured lyx several times in the hope it will see the beamer class. However, whenever I load a file using the beamer class, lyx complains as follows: "textclass error. The document uses an unknown textclass beamer." It also changes the textclass to apa. Any Help would be very valuable in easing the frustration. TIA samar
Re: Problems with Lyx1.3.5 (Ruurd's port) on Windows98SE
> samar j. singh wrote: > > > Primary problem. It does not recognize beamer. > > However, whenever I load a file using the beamer class, lyx complains as > > follows: > > > > "textclass error. > > The document uses an unknown textclass beamer." > > Assure that the file beamer.layout is in the folder > /lyx/share/lyx/layouts and the reconfigure LyX. > > (Copy the files from miktex/tex/latex/beamer/lyx to the corresponding > folders of LyX.) > > regards Uwe Uwe, Have done this but there is no change in the final result. Same error message. Have also restarted the machine and checked the files are in there. Beamer seems to work fine under latex using WinEdt, but not with Lyx. Beamer is great with Lyx but a pain with latex. Is there anything else I could do. samar >
Re: selling lyx
Martin wrote: > i am about to give an informal talk internally in our bioscience > research group. everybody uses word, and i am the sole lyx user hoping > to win some followers. > > does anyone have a 30 min presentation show on lyx i can use? Not for a science audience. > > i am also interested in strong pro/con arguments i can use (i am aware of the feature list > etc). please fill in below :o) > My ha'penny bit 1. Encourages structured thinking with putting in the section and subsection when one starts writing. 2. Beamer makes great presentations. 3. I use cross referencing a lot. Great help 4. Actually enjoy doing references with tkbibtex 5. Tables are easy in Word but with the capacity to put a table within a table or put graphics in a cell, or to format text with a table and then remove the lines. Just somehow actually gets used in lyx. 6. Things like minitoc really make a set of proceedings a cinch to make and easier to read. 7. Use ulineno a lot - better than trackchange for discursive work with remote collaborators. 8. Quite easy to create a word doc with the latex2html utility. > > pros: > > free > well written and intelligent docs > superb bibliographies using bibtex > > > cons: > > lyx/word exchange is horrible > Some of the problems I find. 1. People get a little overwhelmed when even a casual draft proposal looks like some sort of finished book. 2. Get very frustrated when one has to use Word for any reason occasionally. 3. A latex error can drive one nuts trying to work out what has happened. 4. Although one can do anything providing one knows about the appropriate sty file, working out which one to use can be trying. 5. lyx on windows is still a bit of a challenge. 6. When you are travelling and cant access your laptop for any reason, it does not help to have the lyx file for editing on a cdrom or a keychain drive. Hope this helps samar
Re: selling lyx
"Jean-Pierre Chretien" wrote > >>3. A latex error can drive one nuts trying to work out what has happened. > > Cannot happen in ERT-free lyx, and is not generally a showstopper > if you export to latex and compile in nonstopmode (when the deadline is for > yesterday I mean, I've produced a *lot* of documents with remaining errors since > I use LaTeX). As in everything else its a matter of experience. In this case we are talking about first time users. One of the things that gets one is when you end with a list and lyx seems to complain but there is no useful feedback. Its the sort of thing that would drive some back to windows (Heaven alone knows why). I agree that one can compile under latex but here we are talking about people who dont know latex. > > In the pros list, you may add > -- works in batch processing > Other applications generally require a human behind the screen. > Use of LyX/LaTeX in an intranet framework gives spectacular results, as the > source is prone to export to a variety of formats. > > -- > Jean-Pierre > Not clear what sort of batch processing you are referring to in the context of a group of people in a bioscience department. Talking of exporting a latex format to people who are just being seduced into lyx may be a little overwhelming for some. However, I agree its worth a mention.
Re: selling lyx part 2
nd ask the collaborator to choose track change. Then it is easy to manuallly paste the corrections into your original lyx document. > > > > > now for the layout of the slideshow (first the thinking/brainstorming part - your help is ugently needed!). > > i will suggest something around 20 slides and if possible examplify all of the above pros. and of couse, one > should also mention the cons ... > > > 1 cover slide > > 1 slide with introduction > > 1 slide with tex/latex/lyx history and use > > some slides giving a graphical tour just like on lyx.org > > a couple of slides showing how to insert citation references (this really seem to win peoples hearts) > > a couple of slides on how to install lyx > > 1 final slide with pros and cons > > > > suggestions to the composition of this slideshow is welcome - and if anyone have ideas to any particular slide, dont hesitate. > I would tend to have one slide explaining how lyx handles document generation as a system. In other words, one starts with expounding what you would ideally like your document to be i.e. desiderata, and then you show how using lyx in a systematic way helps you to achieve that. I think one has to explain the roles of latex and lyx as computer programs that do the work that is uninteresting and boring and they do it reliably to publishing standards. This may best be done by showing the development of an actual document although a small one . One of the things I would tend to include is the use of an appropriate bibtex tool like tkbibtex which can be used during the litsearch so that you can at that same time, write to the notes section - in your own words avoiding plagiarism - the sort of input you may want to insert in your text when you have just read up your reference. When one starts writing one can create the section / subsection structure in there and one of the first things one can do is to put in these citations. One can then cut and paste the notes to form the first element of the bone structure of your document. It then becomes a lot easier to fill in the remaining text as one goes along. In terms of representing all this I would tend to first demonstrate the creation of a simple document showing the features the department considers important. After that I would tend to take an actual paper written in lyx and show the more esoteric features and how easily they can be handled. For instance in a long document I find the navigate table of contents very useful as it shows you the structure of your document and allows you to easily go into a part that you want to have another look at. Towards the end, one could put in some of the fancy stuff that lyx can do with the appropriate sty files. Things like picinpar bring an interesting element to close with. As I see it, you would need to have a small presentation and a two part demonstration. Anyway thats my two cents. It was a good idea to bring this up. This sort of presentation would be really useful to a lot of people. best regards samar
Re: NSF proposals
On Friday 01 July 2005 17:37, Todd Denniston wrote:
> "Martin Henry H. Stevens" wrote:
> > I don't understand. I have already built one huge .bib file that
> > contains ALL of my references for ALL of my research. I link to that
> > with Insert->Lists & TOC->BibTeX Reference, and then LyX very nicely
> > generates a formatted References Cited section. My problem is that I
> > need that section numbered from 1 - n, with "References Cited, p. #".
> > I tried
> >
> > \cfoot{References Cited - \thepage-15}
Martin the \ followed by a space creates a space in this format.
So What you need is \cfoot{References\ Cited\ -\ thepage}
Putting it simply, if you want a space put in \space as above.
As Todd has said you need to handle the subtraction of 15 by the setcounter
method, though I will be pleasantly surprised if it works in this context.
Its hard to recommend a process unless on know which of the various
alternatives you are taking up for creating this file of references.
>
> Ah,
> the dash is literaly put in, not a math thing.
> What you want, is on the page you want to restart the page counting.
> insert an ERT, on the page you want to be numbered 1, and in the ERT put:
> \setcounter{page}{1}
>
> > but it didn't subtract 15 from the document page number Well, I
> > tried!
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > Hank
> >
> > On Jul 1, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Todd Denniston wrote:
> > > Todd Denniston wrote:
> > >> "Martin Henry H. Stevens" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>> I think I need the .bib file, a separate file that contains the
> > >>> (formatted) references cited in the document, and which has it's own
> > >>> page numbering
> > >>> Is that better?
> > >
> > >
> > > Ack... on re-reading your question, I see a different light.
> > > if you make a separate LyX (not bib) file, you will definitely need to
> > > use
> > > samar's trick of putting in ERT \:
> > > \nocite{*}
> > >
> > > ... after having built the .bib and pulled it in to the LyX file with
> > > Insert->Lists & TOC->BibTeX Reference .
>
>
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samar j. singh
bangalore
Re: Bibiliography order
Hi I think you only need the option "unsrt" for the bibliography style. samar On Wednesday 06 July 2005 03:27, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > you need a .bst file which supports this. > > try make your own by running: > > latex makebst > > > > martin > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:09:48PM -0600, Dean wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm using Lyx with Bibtex (manipulated with jabref), and I want the > > bibliography to be compiled in the order that the references appear in my > > thesis. Is there a way to tell Lyx to do this? > > > > Dean -- samar j. singh bangalore
Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows
On Friday 08 July 2005 17:33, Angus Leeming wrote: > That's why I say on the wiki: > ...LyX 1.3.6 cannot really be classified as a minor bug fix release, > especially for Windows users. Large chunks of the code base have been > touched in an attempt to resolve those problems that Windows users have > found with Ruurd’s original ports. We feel confident that LyX 1.3.6 will be > the best ever version of LyX on Windows. We are not confident, however, > that we haven’t introduced any new bugs. > > Regards, > Angus In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for pdflatex which lies within Program Files, the View > PDFlatex option comes up with an error message saying that it could not find the viewer in C:/Program. Hence, the file name appears to stop at the blank space. Am I doing something wrong, and is there a workaround, if I am not? Have already tried to put a shortcut to the C directory but it does not have the intended effect. TIA samar
Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows
On Saturday 09 July 2005 15:23, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > samar wrote: > > However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. > > Interestingly this sort of change does not require reconfiguring. > > > > Do you think this is something obvious for most people - other than > > yours truly - or should we have it in the section on the wiki > > that deals with installing this version of LyxWin? > > It seems to me that questions about viewing PDFs come up periodically, > but usually from people who don't know they need to go to the file > formats section and fill in the viewer entries. I don't recall the > business of the space in the path coming up much, but then my memory's > not trustworthy. In any case, it's liable to come up more often when > versions 1.3.6 and then 1.4 hatch, because they will allow users to work > directly from source documents under My Documents, which I suspect will > desensitize Windows users to the general issue of spaces in the path. > > I've added a blurb near the bottom of > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup > > describing this. Feel free to edit it if you find it less than clear > (or, worse, inaccurate). > > -- Paul I have had a look through it and its seems fine to me. samar
Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows
On Sunday 10 July 2005 06:15, Angus Leeming wrote: > samar j. singh wrote: > > I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for pdflatex which > > lies within Program Files, the View > PDFlatex option comes up with an > > error message saying that it could not find the viewer in C:/Program. > > Hence, the file name appears to stop at the blank space. > > > > Am I doing something wrong, and is there a workaround, if I am not? > > You're doing nothing wrong, but you have discovered a bug. See > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel:46643 for both the > workaround and for the description of the bug. > > I suspect that the bug will not be squashed for LyX 1.3.6 (too much > potential to break too many other things) but the workaround is the better > solution anyway. Angus Thanks for that. Yes, I have implemented the path option and that seems to be an adequate workaround. I only use windows as a fall back as it is on my laptop so personally, this is adequate. I have no such problems on my linux desktop. samar
Ongoing problems with 1.3.6pre on windows
I have recently loaded Lyx/Win 1.3.6pre on a WinXP Prof OS on my laptop. The specific problem now appears to be the failure to deploy the beamer class in lyx. Miktex package manager shows that beamer.sty has been loaded. In Miktex options, filename database has been refreshed. In lyx, the Edit Reconfigure option has been exercised When loading a lyx file which works fine on the linux version of lyx, the error message is: The document uses an unknown textclass "beamer" - substituting default. When the file is loaded it shows the APA Style on the Document Class entry in the Document Style tab. In the dropdown on the Document Class there is no mention of Beamer. Incidentally beamer.cls is very much there under texmf. Anyone with any ideas? samar
Re: Ongoing problems with 1.3.6pre on windows
On Monday 11 July 2005 14:22, Angus Leeming wrote:
> samar j. singh wrote:
> > When the file is loaded it shows the APA Style on the Document Class
> > entry in the Document Style tab. In the dropdown on the Document Class
> > there is no mention of Beamer.
> >
> > Incidentally beamer.cls is very much there under texmf.
> >
> > Anyone with any ideas?
>
> LyX doesn't know anything about LaTeX .cls files. You need to make the
> beamer.layout file available to LyX by copying it to
>
> ${USER_LYX_DIR}/layouts/beamer.layout
>
> and reconfiguring LyX.
>
> USER_LYX_DIR is presumably C:\Documents and Settings\Samar\Application
> Data\lyx or something similar.
>
> On my linux machine (runs teTeX), this file is to be found at
> /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout
>
> It'll be somewhere equivalent under MiKTeX. If not, you can grab it from
> the latex-beamer.sf.net viewcvs tree:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/latex-beamer/latex-beamer/lyx/layouts
>/beamer.layout?view=markup
thanks, Paul and Angus for the rapid response.
Actually, the beamer.layout file is already there under
C:\WINDOWS\lyx\share\lyx\layouts\beamer.layout with all the other layout
files.
I also found an empty layout directory at :
C:\Documents and Settings\Laptop\.lyx\layouts and put Beamer.layout there too.
Still no luck
Am still intrigued.
regards
samar
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samar j. singh
bangalore
