On 2003-09-19, 23:11 GMT, James Frye wrote:
> I can't work with anything but a black background for more than a few
> minutes at most. Second, I'd like to be able to draw in native units,
> not have to scale everything by hand to paper units. If I'm drawing
> house plans, I want to work in feet &
Peter Wilson has extended the 'book' class with all sorts of nifty tweaks.
He calls his package collection the 'memoir' class. In the first section of
the book he describes the contents of \frontmatter{}, in which the copyright
page (also including the publisher, CIP, ISBN and other goodies) is o
The answer was in front of us all the time, but I take full responsibility
for not seeing it for a couple of days. I was taking the long -- and
incorrect -- route to a distributable pdf file.
Instead of Viewing the pdflatex output, printing that, and running the
postscript file through ps2pdf,
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
> >>I too would like to know if there's some source of information on xfig (or
> >>any other usable drawing program for Linux). I need to do some simple
> >>diagrams, but can't seem to find anything that works. I'm about ready to
> >>hunt out my o
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> OK, then LyX does not find the layout file. Are you shure you have put it in
> the /layouts directory of your lyx user directory (normally ~/.lyx)?
Juergen,
Mea culpa! I moved it there, but my flying fingers gave it the wrong name.
No wonder L
On 2003-09-19, 18:05 GMT, Rich Shepard wrote:
> No .sty files created. only .clo and .cls.
Which is all right, because memoir is class (used with \documentclass in
the begining of LaTeX file, extension .cls), not style package (used
with \usepackage, extension .sty).
Matej
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> > start lyx from the console, run edit->reconfigure and send the output of
> > the console, please. It is especially important if there is a line like
> > +checking for document class memoir [memoir]... yes
>
> Nope. Not there. The output log file is attached.
Rich,
OK, th
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Hmm... I have mempatch.sty and memhfixc.sty. Dunno if they are important, I
> guess it should work only with clo and cls (depends on the version probably).
Juergen,
Oh! I have those, too. But, they came from a memoir.zip file I had sitting
in
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote:
> I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a
> directory that has spaces in its name.
>
> Not that this is a huge deal, I'm just curious... why is this?
There's an obvious answer: file and directory names should NEVER contain
spaces. I
Rich Shepard wrote:
> No .sty files created. only .clo and .cls.
Hmm... I have mempatch.sty and memhfixc.sty. Dunno if they are important, I
guess it should work only with clo and cls (depends on the version probably).
> Might it be worthwhile to have whomever maintains the documentation
> cor
Angus Leeming schrieb:
see what improvements could be made. I'm trying to get the external inset
to output this...
am I right, that it then has only to run without
errors and the tex code is not important, it is
invisible to the outside LyX world??
Herbert
Am Freitag, 19. September 2003 18:48 schrieb Paul Jahshan:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
> >Accents schould work out-of-the-box. I.e. for é press Compose, ', e.
> >(Compose is someetimes 'right ctrl', or Ctrl-. or one of these funny
> >Windows keys)
>
> Nope, none of this works, neither the two Ctrls, no
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> the procedure is, unfortunately, slightly more complicated.
Juergen,
Of course. :-)
> First, you have to "extract" the package. That is, run "latex memoir.ins" and
> "latex memoir.dtx" in the memoir directory. The former will extract the
> ac
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> > Not everything LyX provides is accessible via keybindings and menus. Apart
> > from that, some things are faster typed in in the minibuffer than typed in
> > some dialog.
>
> Andre',
>
> OK. I've not ye
Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm trying to install the memoir class package for use within LyX. I've
> missed a turn somewhere and am now lost. Here's what I did:
Rich,
the procedure is, unfortunately, slightly more complicated.
> Went to CTAN and downloaded memoir.dtx and memoir.ins (and the huge pdf
Thanks, Rich;
Rich Shepard wrote:
Paul,
No. Only Microsoft OSes permit spaces, no others do. LyX started as a
linux front end to LaTeX which are unix tools. The ports to Winduhs are a
convenience.
What I find ironic is how many Microserfs eagerly adopt all the open
source applications ported f
Thanks, Andre.
Andre Poenitz wrote:
Accents schould work out-of-the-box. I.e. for é press Compose, ', e.
(Compose is someetimes 'right ctrl', or Ctrl-. or one of these funny
Windows keys)
Nope, none of this works, neither the two Ctrls, nor the two shifts (obviously), nor the Alt keys; tried a
On 2003-09-19, 13:13 GMT, Angus Leeming wrote:
> I'm trying slowly to encapsulate these strings inside a FileName class
> so that we only have to write code once to handle this sort of mess.
I am afraid, that even that doesn't work -- I heard somewhere that TeX
itself is not able to work with file
On 2003-09-19, 11:50 GMT, Paul Jahshan wrote:
> 2. A weird limitation doesn't allow LyX to open files in directories
> containing spaces for DVI/PDF viewing "Cannot run LaTeX: The path to the
> lyx file cannot contain spaces." Why? Isn't this slightly ridiculous?
This is actually limitation of T
Angus Leeming wrote:
> Herbert Voß wrote:
>> Angus Leeming schrieb:
>>> Guys, the attached file works well enough, but it's rather inelegant. I
>>> have defined a macro, so:
>>>
>>> \newcommand*{\verbatiminputOrWarn}[1]{%
>>> \IfFileExists{#1}{\verbatiminput{#1}}{\warnNotFound{#1}}
>>> }
Jean Gosset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I copied the "lyxrc.defaults" from a previous lyx installation to
> "~/.lyx/preferences".
This may be part of your problem. Try deleting ~/.lyx/preferences and
following the howto instructions for LyX/Mac and the procedures
suggested in various replies t
Jean Gosset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One problem is that the file "~/.lyx/preferences" does not
> exist. Also, I am working under "csh" and not "bash".
As I wrote previously, you could/should save your preferences in LyX,
which would create the ~/.lyx/preferences file. To test why your
Star
I'm trying to install the memoir class package for use within LyX. I've
missed a turn somewhere and am now lost. Here's what I did:
Went to CTAN and downloaded memoir.dtx and memoir.ins (and the huge pdf
manual).
Fired up the "configuration" document under LyX's Help menu and went to
sectio
Herbert Voß wrote:
> Angus Leeming schrieb:
>> Guys, the attached file works well enough, but it's rather inelegant. I
>> have defined a macro, so:
>>
>> \newcommand*{\verbatiminputOrWarn}[1]{%
>> \IfFileExists{#1}{\verbatiminput{#1}}{\warnNotFound{#1}}
>> }
> > [...]
>
> I would use the
Angus Leeming schrieb:
Guys, the attached file works well enough, but it's rather inelegant. I have
defined a macro, so:
\newcommand*{\verbatiminputOrWarn}[1]{%
\IfFileExists{#1}{\verbatiminput{#1}}{\warnNotFound{#1}}
}
> [...]
I would use the internal stuff.
\usepackage{verbatim}
\ma
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:39:17PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Guys, the attached file works well enough, but it's rather inelegant.
> I have defined a macro, so:
>
> \newcommand*{\verbatiminputOrWarn}[1]{%
> \IfFileExists{#1}{\verbatiminput{#1}}{\warnNotFound{#1}} }
>
> using it within the doc
Jean Gosset wrote:
>> The system wide settings are found in
>> ${PREFIX}/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults
>> where ${PREFIX} is the base of the path to your lyx installation.
>
> I copied the "lyxrc.defaults" from a previous lyx installation to
> "~/.lyx/preferences".
Don't do that. Your preferen
Le vendredi, 19 sep 2003, à 16:26 Europe/Paris, Angus Leeming a écrit :
Jean Gosset wrote:
On a working LyX/Mac installation, the value of $bogus should be --
in
M. Gosset's case -- /Users/gosset/.lyx/.lyxpipe . If it doesn't
work, I would suspect a broken perl installation or a permissions
prob
Jean Gosset wrote:
>> On a working LyX/Mac installation, the value of $bogus should be --
>> in
>> M. Gosset's case -- /Users/gosset/.lyx/.lyxpipe . If it doesn't
>> work, I would suspect a broken perl installation or a permissions
>> problem.
>
> One problem is that the file "~/.lyx/preferences
Thanks again to Angus and Ronald.
Le vendredi, 19 sep 2003, à 14:12 Europe/Paris, Ronald Florence a écrit
:
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Then I'm afraid that LyX's use of pipes is incompatible with now your
mac uses
pipes. This is definitely possible.
Actually, LyX pipes work fine
Herbert Voß schrieb:
Look at http://www.perce.de/hvfloat/hvfloat.pdf
sorry, ahould be http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/hvfloat/hvfloat.pdf
Herbert
Angus Leeming schrieb:
Michael Logies wrote:
At 00:00 19.09.2003 +0200, Herbert Voß wrote:
pdflatex has _no_ bugs!
Herbert,
this big distance between caption and graphic in floats is a bug for me.
How would you call it? An option? How to change this?
I would call that a bug in LyX which outp
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb:
As I understand it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] can only be used in preamble, so the check
has to be outside the macro definition.
Anyway, this works for me:
\makeatletter
\newif\ifdraft
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother
\def\myNote#1{\ifdraft\footnote{#1}\fi}
in most cases grap
Michael Logies wrote:
> Hey, you are writing to a silly Windows-User (Lyx 1.3.2 for Qt). I
> will not touch my configuration. I`m happy that dvipdfm is working
> out of the box as it should and that`s enough for me.
Then why the noise?
--
Michael Logies schrieb:
this big distance between caption and graphic in floats is a bug for me.
How would you call it? An option? How to change this?
it is your fault. Look at http://www.perce.de/hvfloat/hvfloat.pdf
and you'll see that _all_ works well with pdflatex.
I have hyphenated links in m
At 14:29 19.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
You should _not_ put your text explicitly in a footnote. The macro takes
care of that.
Jürgen, Andre,
thanks. Works perfectly now.
Regards
Michael
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:53:45PM +0200, Michael Logies wrote:
>
> \begin_inset ERT
> status Collapsed
>
> \layout Standard
>
> \backslash
> myNote{
> \end_inset
>
>
> \begin_inset Foot
> collapsed true
>
> \layout Standard
>
> Testfußnote
> \end_inset
You should _not_ put your text explic
Andre Poenitz wrote:
>> 2. A weird limitation doesn't allow LyX to open files in
>> directories containing spaces for DVI/PDF viewing "Cannot run
>> LaTeX: The path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces." Why? Isn't
>> this slightly ridiculous?
>
> Well, spaces have a long standing tradition as a
At 09:33 19.09.2003 +, Angus Leeming wrote:
>I would call that a bug in LyX which outputs the wrong latex in this case. A
>fix was committed to the 1.4.x tree this morning by Jürgen Spitzmüller.
Angus,
but dvipdfm gives the right result, pdflatex the wrong. Isn`t this an argument against
w
At 11:52 19.09.2003 +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
Anyway, this works for me:
\makeatletter
\newif\ifdraft
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother
\def\myNote#1{\ifdraft\footnote{#1}\fi}
Jürgen,
I copied this into my preamble. In the text I find, what you see below. But
the result is, that I see not
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then I'm afraid that LyX's use of pipes is incompatible with now your mac uses
> pipes. This is definitely possible.
Actually, LyX pipes work fine on the Mac, and are used by Start-LyX to
open files from the finder in LyX/Mac. I would guess that the p
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:50:11PM +0300, Paul Jahshan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using LyX for a couple of months now and reading the list's
> messages with interest.
>
> I've had no major problems using LyX yet (and I'm writing a book!) but I
> wonder if the following can either be solved
Hi all,
I've been using LyX for a couple of months now and reading the list's
messages with interest.
I've had no major problems using LyX yet (and I'm writing a book!) but I
wonder if the following can either be solved here and in this version
(1.3.2) or if they can be easily added to the upc
Hey List,
Am Freitag, 19. September 2003 00:20 schrieb Matej Cepl:
> On 2003-09-18, 15:55 GMT, Bruce wrote:
> > One thing I have often thought LyX would be ideal for would be for
> > preparing court documents, or other legal documents for that matter, that
> > have a set structure and elements.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:52:28AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> As I understand it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] can only be used in preamble, so the check
> has to be outside the macro definition.
> Anyway, this works for me:
>
> \makeatletter
> \newif\ifdraft
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \makeatother
> \
Dear LyX experts,
for a brouchure I want to use coloured boxes wrapped with the normal text as
design elemet to summarize the main points of a chapter.
To that extent I defined in the Preamble
a new float type (using float.sty)
__
\newfloat {floatBox}{htb}{mp}
__
Michael Logies wrote:
> >What about
> >
> > \newcommand{\myNote}[1]{%
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > \footnote{#1}}%
> > }
>
> Andre',
>
> no, that`s even worse.
As I understand it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] can only be used in preamble, so the check
has to be outside the macro definition.
Anyway,
Jean Gosset wrote:
> I tried the following:
>
> [dphmcl:~] gosset% setenv FICHIERLYX
> /Users/gosset/LinuxHomeGosset/gosset/DOCUMENTS/Kalman.PhenixNote/
> Kalman.PhenixNote.lyx
> [dphmcl:~] gosset% /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/LyX -dbg
> lyxserver &[2] 454
> [dphmcl:~] gosset% Niveau
Michael Logies wrote:
> At 00:00 19.09.2003 +0200, Herbert Voß wrote:
>
>>pdflatex has _no_ bugs!
>
> Herbert,
>
> this big distance between caption and graphic in floats is a bug for me.
> How would you call it? An option? How to change this?
I would call that a bug in LyX which outputs the w
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:20:21PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
> new counter is created with \newcounter and commands for dealing with it
> are very well described in info file for LaTeX2e (if you are on Linux)
> or in LaTeX2e Help file (on Windows).
>
> > which I couldn't figure out how to do with n
>>X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>From: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: Figure printing sideways
>>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:53:13 +
>>X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is a problem with epstop
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