Re: cover page?

2011-07-14 Thread Ignacio Martinez
That is perfect :-) thanks a lot On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ignacio Martinez > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this? > > > Does the attached fit the bill? Created with LyX 2.0.

Re: cover page?

2011-07-14 Thread Ignacio Martinez
That is perfect :-) thanks a lot On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ignacio Martinez > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this? > > > Does the attached fit the bill? Created with LyX 2.0.

epsdice package.

2011-07-14 Thread Michael Joyner
I am trying to use the epsdice package from inside LyX, and when I switch to using xelatex as the formatting engine, the package malfunctions. Instead of drawing a single die, it draws all 12 possible combinations of dice on two lines. :( Is there a working dice or dominoes or "grouped dots" pack

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples > folders shipped with LyX. They will often contain templates for the > various document classes available. Start with File > New from > template. Yes, I noticed that about the

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many >> other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list >> revealed in tools > tex informatio

Re: font question

2011-07-14 Thread Csikos Bela
Liviu Andronic írta: >2011/7/8 Csikos Bela :> > Hello:> >> > I have a question related to latex fonts, xetex and unicode.> >> > In lyx2 under document > settings > fonts I can set "Use non-TeX fonts (via > XeTeX/LuaTeX). If I want to use unicode encoding I have to set this option, I > guess. Doe

Re: Captionsetup in preamble

2011-07-14 Thread Karl Linek
Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2011, 13:55 -0400 schrieb Julien Rioux: > On 13/07/2011 5:23 AM, Karl Linek wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > I tried to use this captionsetup in the preamble: > > > > \captionsetup{figurename=Abb.,tablename=Tab.,font={footnotesize,sf},justification=RaggedRight,labelfont=bf,singlel

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > I think I'm gonna go with koma, Trevor. For one, the documentation strikes > me as excellent. Certainly compared to memoir. > Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples folders shipped with LyX. They will often contain temp

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many > other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list > revealed in tools > tex information > latex classes koma is still missing. > Some times Tool

Re: Centered text just under the part title

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 10/07/2011 5:46 PM, Harold Mouras wrote: Dear List, writting a book under Lyx under the memoir class, I have part title in this document. For these part, I'd like to add a little descriptive text for the part centered on the page. I've read that this would possible with this memoir class, but

Re: Bibliography

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 07/07/2011 10:55 AM, Hamid Badi wrote: Hello, I'd like to have a bibliography at the end of each chapter of a report. What package must I use (chapterbib, bibunits...), how can I use it in LyX. Best regards. Have you tried Document > Settings > Bibliography > Sectioned bibliography ?? -

Re: Captionsetup in preamble

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 13/07/2011 5:23 AM, Karl Linek wrote: Hallo, I tried to use this captionsetup in the preamble: \captionsetup{figurename=Abb.,tablename=Tab.,font={footnotesize,sf},justification=RaggedRight,labelfont=bf,singlelinecheck=false,labelsep=colonenskip} It didn't do its job. Using the same line in

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 5:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mariano Llamedo Soria wrote: The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as "Configuración Local" (local co

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 7:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is q

Re: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives "(author?)" error

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 7:37 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before.. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those with

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:23:36 PM Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so > : > >> important. It assumes few prerequisites. > > > > I do reca

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:19:31 PM you wrote: > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: > >> Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if > >> it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so >> important. It assumes few prerequisites. >> > > I do recall there being significant content at your site related to LaTeX, >

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: >> >> Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it >> even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author >> themselves. Other users especially those

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many >> other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list >> revealed in tools > tex information > latex classes koma is still missing. >> > > The

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > n 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> >> I'm intrigued by both memoir and koma. And maybe the standard classes are as >> good a place to start? >> >> The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] >> much l

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much > less so. > > Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even > exists, is targete

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir > wrote: > > The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma > [scrguien] > > > much less so. > > Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it > even exis

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 11:42 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > >>> Through documents > settings > document class I see a collection of >>> document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools > tex >>> information > latex classes I see a huge list of classes. Are these >>> available for use in LyX? I

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: > >> I've found the LyX layouts folder. In >> /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. > > Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. Thanks, Stephan. I was careless

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] > much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author themselves. Other users

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> The sort of thing >> you want to do would probably be quite easy with the memoir class, or >> perhaps with one of the koma-script classes (probably the article one, >> since it looks as if you do not need chapters here), all of which >> provide "hooks"

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Most of your questions should already be answered in either of these > three documents in Help: Intro, Tutorial and User's Guide. (For > example, User's Guide > Section 3.1.2.2 explains why some classes > would be tagged as 'unavailable'.) If

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: > > I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. > How do I make use of them? Through documents > settings? If so, where exactly? > > Through

Re: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives "(author?)" error

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 07:37 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: > Hello Richard, > > thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I > generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked > before. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even > t

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > I've found the LyX layouts folder. In > /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through > documents > settings? If so, where exactly? > > Through documents > settings > document class I see a collection of d

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 07:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: > Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: > >> On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. >>> >>> I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted re

Re: Chapter numbers disappear

2011-07-14 Thread Louis Turk
On 07/13/2011 09:36 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/13/2011 05:49 AM, Louis Turk wrote: >> Hi fellow Lyxers, >> >> We are using Lyx 2.0, the book (Memoir) document class, and the >> >> bianchi chapter >> style. All was well until we finished the body of the book, and >> inserted the frontmatter. N

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents > settings? If so, where exactly? Through documents > settings > document class I see a collection of document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools >

RE: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives "(author?)" error

2011-07-14 Thread Matthias Hunstig
Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those with special characters such as "ï". Any other ideas?

Re: File -> control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Thanks Stephan. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: > > > Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the > file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. > > Please read the "Addit

Re: File -> control version

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: > Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file > menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. Please read the "Additional" manual - Section "7.2 Version Control in LyX". > I am interesting in

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Sebastian Rockel
Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: > On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. >> >> I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is >> quite convenient to have automat

File -> control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. I am interesting in usgin SVN with my documents but I dont know if Lyx has some feature integrated. Now I am doing it with TortoiseSVN outside Lyx. Some recomme

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mariano Llamedo Soria wrote: > The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign  Lyx in > spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, > as "Configuración Local" (local configuration). I think this should be > hand

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 14/07/2011 02:08, Stephen George wrote: On 13/07/2011 12:31 PM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Is their some

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Finally I solved this problem when trying to fix another problem related to SVG graphics. The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as "Configuración Local" (local configuration). I think

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Livingstone wrote: On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > Alternatively you might want to consider using LifeLifes (open source so >> provided you have a C compiler can be run pretty much on many machine). It >> has a powerful report language and

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: > So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the > converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. > > I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. > Possibly an old profile folder that didn't g

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Livingstone
I think you meant LifeLines at http://lifelines.sourceforge.net ? On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Stephen George > wrote: > > GEDCOM? There's an example in an early edition of Michael Kay's book on > using XSLT (Wrox Press) taking GEDCOM data an