Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:17 +, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Guenter Milde writes: > > Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The > > space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. > > Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. > I tr

Document Class

Hello, I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time figuring out how to change the document class for a single page. Please email me back at your earliest convenience. Mr. Davis

Re: Importing tables

Problem solved: There was an apostrophe (') that had been converted to a weird character when Excel saved the file (Excel for Mac, it seems, only has the options of Windows format or MS-DOS format, both incompatible with Mac). After removing that, it converted correctly. So, it was Excel's prob

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

Ehud Kaplan schrieb: The caption package does have some useful features, which allowed me to change the width of the caption (among other things). But the white space around the graphics itself persists. If I make the caption as wide as the graphics, the white space now surrounds the caption

Re: Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template

I cannot confirm this either. In my 1.6.1 Lyx, the save as location is my working directory. There must be something amiss in your installation.

Re: right hand margin when font:family=typewriter

It would appear that on Apr 6, Guenter Milde did say: > On 2009-04-05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Now I really don't understand why it's assumed that > > typewritten output doesn't need the same right hand margin > > as the rest of the document??? > I do not think it is. I rather assume

Re: Border table in footer possible?

John Mok wrote: > Hi, > > I am preparing a user manual with a table footer (repeating on each > page). The footer is a border table which contains a company logo, page > numbers and others. I checked the documentation and found no clue how to > do that. > > I hope someone could help and advise h

Re: Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: > Dear lyx users, > > The Lyx Bugzilla server seems to be down, so I am posting this here. > There seems to be a minor bug in Mac OS Lyx 1.6.1. The steps: > > Go to File>New From Template, which opens /User/Library/Application > Support/Lyx-1.6

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

The caption package does have some useful features, which allowed me to change the width of the caption (among other things). But the white space around the graphics itself persists. If I make the caption as wide as the graphics, the white space now surrounds the caption as well. What I really

Re: Thanks for LyX

Yury Davidouski schreef: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents, and all the minor issues were s

Re: Thanks for LyX

Once I got my assignment back from the university with some feedback from the tutor saying "Your papers are a pleasure to read" :) On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:14:05 +0100, Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine S

Re: Formatting marginal notes

Stefano Franchi schrieb: I have been trying to produce a format for marginal notes more suitable to my documents, but I am stuck with leading space. I can successfully change the font size of the margin note by using the marginnote package and then issuing: \let\marginpar\marginnote \renewco

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

Ehud Kaplan schrieb: Is there a way to control the width of a caption of a wrapped figure? You can insert a line break or use some special commands provided by the LaTeX package "caption". For more infos, see the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in the Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

Giovanni wrote: Hi list! I've tried to insert various .pdfs as external material, using the pdfpages package. Everything works fine, except that any imported pdf seems to start a new page. This is not the best looking result... I get something like: As you can see in the .pdf: It's possible

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

Ehud Kaplan schrieb: Is there a way to control the width of a caption of a wrapped figure? I think in Latex you can specify this independently of the width of the graphics in the wrppaed figure, but how do I do it in Lyx? The current Lyx leaves too much white space around the figure, because th

Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template

Dear lyx users, The Lyx Bugzilla server seems to be down, so I am posting this here. There seems to be a minor bug in Mac OS Lyx 1.6.1. The steps: Go to File>New From Template, which opens /User/Library/Application Support/Lyx-1.6/templates/ and prompts for a lyx template to be opened. Choose a

Caption width in wrapped figures

Is there a way to control the width of a caption of a wrapped figure? I think in Latex you can specify this independently of the width of the graphics in the wrppaed figure, but how do I do it in Lyx? The current Lyx leaves too much white space around the figure, because the caption is much wid

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

Giovanni writes: > It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph? Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic? Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until you posting. This solved my probl

Formatting marginal notes

Hi all, I have been trying to produce a format for marginal notes more suitable to my documents, but I am stuck with leading space. I can successfully change the font size of the margin note by using the marginnote package and then issuing: \let\marginpar\marginnote \renewcommand*{\marginfont}

Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

Yesterday I downloaded the latest memoir class to replace the 5-year-old version I had here. I placed all the .sty and .clo files in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/memoir/, and memoir.layout in ~/.lyx/layouts. Next, I ran /usr/share/texmf/bin/texhash, reconfigured LyX, killed the process, and sta

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

Niko Schwarz wrote: alright, i know what happened. I was adding page numbers to a citation, the page numbers were "pp.485–488", where the hyphen is some strange uni-code uber-thing that kills lyx it comes within 3 miles of lyx. once you do that, you need to delete it and restart lyx. Do not use f

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

alright, i know what happened. I was adding page numbers to a citation, the page numbers were "pp.485–488", where the hyphen is some strange uni-code uber-thing that kills lyx it comes within 3 miles of lyx. once you do that, you need to delete it and restart lyx. Do not use fancy characters in cit

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

> As a DVI file does not contain any fonts, it looks like a font problem. I think I've tracked the critical error to the following message: {C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/fonts/enc/dvips/fontname/8r.enc} !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file mtsy.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for readi ng ==> Fatal

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

Ok, I discovered something. Only the version I sent you is broken. Going one version back, QUITTING LYX and restarting lyx, then loading the older version – works fine. Apparantly the last save broke something that takes lyx with it. It is not just my machine, my other Mac cannot compile the last v

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

> Unfortunately, I have experience interpreting latex error messages. Er, that should read "no experience".

RE: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

>Niko Schwarz wrote: >> I'm going nuts. If I add the ERT \end{document} right as the first >> thing all at the top of the document, it still does not compile, with >> no error message. It doesn't even take time. It simply doesn't react. >> >> However, if I cut everything and write "hi" into the

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

Niko Schwarz wrote: I'm going nuts. If I add the ERT \end{document} right as the first thing all at the top of the document, it still does not compile, with no error message. It doesn't even take time. It simply doesn't react. However, if I cut everything and write "hi" into the document, it

Re: Keyboard Shortcut -- FOUND

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I've looked at all the lists under Edit->Preferences->Shortcuts and cannot find where I can assign ctrl-l to 'Insert TeX code'. Where is it hidden? Found it: 'ert-insert.' Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredi

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

Carnë Draug schrieb: Hmmm... it complains that the file you sent is from a different version and that it failed to open. That's probably why you're not having problems with my files. I'm using 1.5.6 in Ubuntu 8.10 Thanks anyway Carnë Draug Ok, that piece of information is of value... I'm s

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

> > #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this > > > # \DeclareLaTeXClass[bio, > > times.sty,modamsfonts.sty,modamssymb.sty,modamsthm.sty,modnatbib.sty,mod > > bm.sty,modlastpage.sty]{article (Biostatistics)} > > Do you really have a blank line below the first? I always thought th

Keyboard Shortcut

I've looked at all the lists under Edit->Preferences->Shortcuts and cannot find where I can assign ctrl-l to 'Insert TeX code'. Where is it hidden? In earlier versions, when all shortcuts were in the appropriate bind file, it was easy enough to add new ones to make my writing more efficient.

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 07:32:03 am Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > Am 05.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Steve Litt > : > > If it's longer > than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor). > > Sorry, Steve, do you mean > ÂģkompozerÂĢ http://www.kompozer.net/ <=THIS > or Nvu - HTML-Editor (fo

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

I'm going nuts. If I add the ERT \end{document} right as the first thing all at the top of the document, it still does not compile, with no error message. It doesn't even take time. It simply doesn't react. However, if I cut everything and write "hi" into the document, it compiles. On Tue, Apr 7,

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

If I go 7 hours back in time, I get this error: Paragraph ended before \...@setref@link was complete. I know that this file used to compile because I have the pdf. Something outside of my document is causing this failure, I think, however the only 2 things I changed were the bibliography and the do

problem inserting .pdf as external material

Hi list! I've tried to insert various .pdfs as external material, using the pdfpages package. Everything works fine, except that any imported pdf seems to start a new page. This is not the best looking result... I get something like: As you can see in the .pdf: It's possible to have the cont

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

I don't think so. Firstly, I am on OSX and secondly, I haven't changed anything about the graphics files recently. I think it's strange. I dropbox collect recent versions, and even after going 3 hours back in time, it won't compile, then with another strange error message: Paragraph ended before \

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

Niko Schwarz wrote: ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.326 ...ing"combinatorical explosion\string".eps} The error is right there, but why you're getting it I don't know. It looks as

RE: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

>! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. > >See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. >Type H for immediate help. > ... > >l.326 ...ing"combinatorical explosion\string".eps} > > >Now what does this mean? The references and graphics inclusions >worked just fine half an

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

Ok, I exported to .tex and ran pflatex file.tex. here is the result: Chapter 1 Package natbib Warning: Citation `Kemeny1959' on page 4 undefined on input line 112. [4] Package natbib Warning: Citation `Dwork2001' on page 5 undefined on input line 188. Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has occur

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

Carnë Draug schrieb: Sned me an example file if you can then. Thanks a lot for your help Carnë Draug The attached works fine for me. Ask again if you have any questions! Regards, Florian graphics_layout.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data

Guenter Milde writes: > Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The > space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous posting), but

my file does not compile to pdf anymore

Hello! a moment ago it worked fine. now it ust won't compile. no error message, nothing. is there a log somewhere? what can i do? niko

[Fwd: Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document]

--- Begin Message --- What I tried was make a document with two lines :- 你們好 私は Following the instruction from Jürgen Spitzmüller to add Unicode font, the results got a little better :- 1. Language=Chinese and Encoding=Chinese(EUC-TW) Result: Partial Chinese character missed out and Japanes

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Juergen Spitzm?ller wrote: > > > XeTeX does not support PostScript. > >However, all distributions should have pdf2ps. Indeed, I am (for perhaps the first time in my life) one step ahead of you. :) However, I

Re: Thanks for LyX

+1 SteveT On Tuesday 07 April 2009 06:14:05 am Ernesto Jardim wrote: > Dear developers, > > I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! > > I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the > final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had > problems, neve

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

Carnë Draug schrieb: Thanks Florian but that didn't work. It just gave me a bunch of errors. I attached the lyx file.I would be most thankful if you could give me a hand with this. Thanks, Carnë Draug Well, your file works fine at my place, apart from the fact that it looks ugly because of ov

Re: Re: Float with wrapped table inside

Thanks Florian but that didn't work. It just gave me a bunch of errors. I attached the lyx file.I would be most thankful if you could give me a hand with this. Thanks, Carnë Draug test_layout.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Juergen Spitzm?ller wrote: XeTeX does not support PostScript. However, all distributions should have pdf2ps. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

John Jason Jordan wrote: > I think the problem is that the export to pdflatex understands it needs > to use XeTeX, but the export to PostScript does not. Therefore, the > PostScript interpreter can't figure what font I want. XeTeX does not support PostScript. Jürgen

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > So I'm getting closer, but still not quite there. I guess this is a > > problem in XeLaTeX, but I don't know what to do next. > > It works for me with the DejaVu font. This is the corresponding LaTeX output

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

Carnë Draug schrieb: Hi I'm trying to get a float in LyX with a 3 figures and a table and some text. I made a image of the layout I want and uploaded it here http://picpaste.com/layout.png I also made it in ASCII since some people may not wish to follow a link 1 word +

Float with wrapped table inside

Hi I'm trying to get a float in LyX with a 3 figures and a table and some text. I made a image of the layout I want and uploaded it here http://picpaste.com/layout.png I also made it in ASCII since some people may not wish to follow a link 1 word +---+ |

Re: LyX -> rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

Piero Faustini schrieb: HTML quality is much better than I thought, but I can't open it with OOo 3.0 (I obtani only markup text) I tested yesterday some files and get relatively nice looking files (OOo 3.0.1). You could now alternatively look for HTML to RTF/ODT converters. regards Uwe

Re: No longer able to cross-reference between files?

Pavel Sanda wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rudi Gaelzer wrote: If you could enable again the use of the "document selection combo", I'd be very grateful. I'll see what I can do but it won't be soon. But I copy the devel list in case someone could do it before. no he coul

Rv: Re: lyx and gnome document viewer

> Using 1.5.6 > > I am trying to create an a5 document, I have selected > a5 in the right > place in lyx, however it seems that this is not being > passed on to gnome document viewer, > [...] > Paul With DVI viewer I have same problem, but with pdf viewer size of page is correctly passed.

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

Am 05.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Steve Litt : If it's longer than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor). Sorry, Steve, do you mean »kompozer« http://www.kompozer.net/ or Nvu - HTML-Editor (for Windows) or Nvu Composer (for several OSs) or something else? joachim -- MacTeXLive

Re: LyX vs Word processors

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: pastebin supports LaTex, so i what would be needed is some sort of website that people working on a paper can log in to, and paste bits of code, and then perhaps upload pdf, ps, or dvi files to link to the code, Or even better something like this http:

Re: No longer able to cross-reference between files?

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Rudi Gaelzer wrote: >> On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:09:05 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >>> Haha, now we know what this was about! >>> FYI we just hide the document selection combo since 1.6.0 because nobody >>> knew why this was needed. Maybe we can restore it back in 1.6.3 as

Re: Thanks for LyX

Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 Apr 2009, Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost doc

Re: No longer able to cross-reference between files?

Rudi Gaelzer wrote: On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:09:05 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Haha, now we know what this was about! FYI we just hide the document selection combo since 1.6.0 because nobody knew why this was needed. Maybe we can restore it back in 1.6.3 as we found a user :-) Abdel. Please do

Re: LyX -> rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

> Sure, but it is good to have a starting point. At least you don't have > to retype it all again. > > Thanks, > > Alex Fernández. > > HTML quality is much better than I thought, but I can't open it with OOo 3.0 (I obtani only markup text) Good work!

Re: Thanks for LyX

On 07 Apr 2009, Ernesto Jardim wrote: > Dear developers, > > I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! > > I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the > final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had > problems, never lost documents, and all th

Re: Thanks for LyX

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 11:14:05 Ernesto Jardim wrote: > Dear developers, > > I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! > > I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the > final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had > problems, never lost documen

lyx and gnome document viewer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using 1.5.6 I am trying to create an a5 document, I have selected a5 in the right place in lyx, however it seems that this is not being passed on to gnome document viewer, I thought it looked odd, as the text for title was not in the right place r

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

> > In fact in collaborative environments (e.g. companies), where several > > people work together on the same document, Word documents _always_ end up > > like that - A hopelessly tangled spaghetti mess. In fact I never managed > > to figure out how to copy and paste content from two different ver

Thanks for LyX

Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents, and all the minor issues were sorted out in a few hours with

Re: No longer able to cross-reference between files?

On 2009-04-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 05/04/2009 18:37, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > FYI we just hide the document selection combo since 1.6.0 because nobody > knew why this was needed. Maybe we can restore it back in 1.6.3 as we > found a user :-) At least two. Günter

LyX vs Word processors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I accidently sent this to Typhoon, so have now posted to the right place , (hopefully) Seems to be that ReST would yet another markup to learn, where as if we stick to say Latex or plain text, we use what we are familar with, and can go back to con

Re: My new environment

Hi again, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009 05:02:20 am Olivier Ripoll wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted it to be surrounded by lin

Re: Importing tables

On Monday 06 April 2009 21:58:24 Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Talking about tables. I'm trying to import a table from excel. > I get the error "this file is from an earlier version of LyX, > but LyX failed to convert it." If I try to open the file lyx created > from the CSV, LyX crashes. I tried to