RE: A4 - A3 graphics

2025-02-14 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV USN NSWC CD CRANE IN (USA)
e comments I have received on my thesis, prepared using LyX, > is the legibility of some of the A4 diagrams which by neccessity are > detailed. The document has been presented in PDF format with a default > of A4. The request was made for some diagrams to be in A3. I am not > sure how the

apostrophe, quote, double quote, back tick with copy paste

2025-02-14 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV USN NSWC CD CRANE IN (USA) via lyx-users
info lyx | grep Packager | \ awk -F\: '{print $2}' for i in `ls *.lyx`; \ do echo "$i is a wonderful file"; done rpm -q --qf '%{NAME} %{INSTALLTIME}' lyx Note: also insert a ctrl-enter after the \ on the end of the line, so they copy together out of the PDF. Also see att

Re: Column width

2025-01-31 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear Paul Thank you for your kindness and going the extra mile to include an example as well. I really appreciate your help. Best regards. A-Imam On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM Paul Rubin wrote: > > > > On 1/31/25 12:04, A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > > HI > Sorry for the

Re: Column width

2025-01-31 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
HI Sorry for the missing table, I just found that the document was not saved in its latest form. Attached is the latest one. Best regards. A-imam On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > Hi Eberhard > I have a table that has one of the columns entries that has

Re: Column width

2025-01-31 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Hi Eberhard I have a table that has one of the columns entries that has a long sentence. With default settings the table expands outside the page margin. I want to be able to fix column width such that the entry vacancy spans over vertically. An example table is attached. Best regards. A-Imam

Column width

2025-01-31 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Hi How to fix the column width in LyX? Best regards. A-Imam -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Math symbol

2024-12-14 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Daniel It works. I really appreciate your quick response. A-Imam On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 11:28 AM Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > Hello, > > What about enclosing the fraction vf/if between delimiters, the left one > being “none” and the right one a vertical bar? > >

Re: Math symbol

2024-12-14 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Tobias for your support and going the extra mile by providing an example. I really appreciate your quick response. A-Imam On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 2:31 PM Tobias Hilbricht wrote: > Like this? > > Tobias > > Am Samstag, dem 14.12.2024 um 09:27 +0100 schrieb Daniel CL

Math symbol

2024-12-14 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all I would like to produce the following math symbol but could not find it. [image: image.png] What i could find is: [image: image.png] Whose Latex code is R_{x}=\dfrac{v_{f}}{i_{f}}\mid_{v_{o}=0} Best regards. A-Imam -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org https

Re: Upgrade 2.3->2.4 on MS-Windows

2024-10-24 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Actually, in Windows, you when you install LyX 2.4 it will be kept as a new app and LyX 2.3 will be kept so you can use both. I suggest that you keep both formats initially till you get used to LyX 2.4. Note that you can read files created by 2.3 using 2.4 but not vice versa. I am using 2.4 now

Re: Need help creating a Kindle document

2024-10-21 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Actually this is simple if you know it (it took me a while to figure out). You simply use (Kindle Create) to export your pdf file to kindle format (.kpf). While creating your kpf file you are given three options - choose the third one (print replica). This option will ask you for your pdf file

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-10 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Pavel for your support. Imam On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 at 16:00 Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 08:21:27AM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > I seem to recallat some stage there was an option ozipping up all > > required files into one archive from within LyX, but can't find

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-09 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Dr. Eberbard A-Imam On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 at 09:21 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > A-Imam > > I seem to recallat some stage there was an option ozipping up all > required files into one archive from within LyX, but can't find it any > longer or am mistaken. > > Th

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-09 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear Eberhard Thank you for your comment. On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 1:33 PM Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Nice writeup, even though the images are missing. > Images are included in the pdf file (I just checked). I am including a G-Drive link to the Lyx file as well as image directory for you

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-07 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Pavel. Imam On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 12:09 AM Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 02:58:05PM +0300, A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > > Imam > > This is a great idea. As the file is large, I have uploaded the LyX and > pdf > > file on my G Drive, as I cannot

Referencing sub- figures.

2024-10-07 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all I have two issues which I could not solve so far: • Sub-figures cannot be referenced separately if they are inserted using the Table method. • How to reference sub-figures as 1.23(x) instead of 1.23(x). Best regards. A-Imam -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-05 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you JMarc. A-Imam On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes < lasgouttes.lyx@free.fr> wrote: > Le 05/10/2024 à 17:29, A-Imam Al-Sammak a écrit : > > Thank you again for your sincere efforts. Actually I found an easier one > > which is built in LyX. >

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-05 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear Jean-Marc Thank you for your support. On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 2:15 PM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes < lasgouttes.lyx@free.fr> wrote: > Le 05/10/2024 à 11:24, A-Imam Al-Sammak a écrit : > > Dear Neal > > Thank you for your prompt response which I highly appreciate. > >

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-05 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Daer Neal Just an update on my previous email. Neal * “Therefore sign does not convert well”: what is the “therefore sign”? Is this a version of this ticket: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/13083 A-Imam My previous answer did not really address this question correctly. As a matter of fact, I

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-05 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear Neal Thank you for your prompt response which I highly appreciate. Neal: * “Need space between Table and its title”: What title are you mentioning here? Is that the caption? On screen or in PDF output? A-Imam: Actually, this I think was in an older version of LyX. I meant the space between

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-04 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all Following is a G-Drive link for images used in the above file + the LyX file as well. Best regards. A-Imam https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zvn9FLcimi2yViAu_9i3BmAx6UcDxQFU?usp=sharing On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 10:17 AM A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > Dear all > > I woul

Re: Error message

2024-09-25 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Maria for your email. Actually, ehn I compiled the Embedded Objects manual , it was fine. I don't know how to move the texmf directory. Best regards. A-Imam On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 1:44 PM Maria Gouskova wrote: > That looks like a version of the errors I've been encou

Error message

2024-09-24 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all I have a file which was working fine. Recently, it gave me the following error. I searched for '$' and deleted it but the error persists. I even copied the text containing '$' and it was working fine. Any suggestions? Best regards. A-Imam [image: image.png] -- ly

Re: Loading 'expl3.sty' aborted!

2024-09-19 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
When installing TexLive be patient as it takes a long time as it about 8 gb! (but it is worth the wait). I used MikTex but stopped updating (and it could not download anymore)!! On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 at 17:55 Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 9/19/24 4:26 AM, Andreas Plihal via lyx-users wr

Re: Background color

2024-09-16 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Hi Hope this answers your question Lyx 2.4 comes with "dark theme" as default, which I did not like as it is not nice as it does not display graphs clearly. I like the LyX 2.3 theme, so to change it, in the preferences > Look and feel > user interface > user interface style &

Re: Fonts for Insert -> Special Character -> Symbols

2024-08-05 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
If you just want to view the output on a different computer, you need to embed fonts in your pdf output before sharin. A way to get around it is to print your file using the 'Cute Pdf' program with fonts embedded. Best regards. A-Imam On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 at 02:32 Michael Dean P

Colored boxes 2

2024-08-04 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all I am writing a book and I need colored examples contained in colored boxes. I get the boxes but do not know how to number them (and reference them) automatically for each chapter separately as Fig. 1.1 and Fig. 1.2, .. Best regards. A-Imam Fancy color boxes issue - Low storage.lyx

Re: Text within Equation

2024-08-02 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear Richard Thank you for your help. The first option does not work, but the choice (Edit> Math> Text Properties) is excellent, and I prefer it as it is menu driven. Thanks again Richard, Alexander and everybody for your support. Best regards. A-Imam On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 4:18 PM R

Re: Text within Equation

2024-08-02 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Alexander for your reply. I could not figure it out. Can you show me how to change (bits/symbol) to text?? [image: image.png] Best regards. A-Imam On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 2:31 PM Alexander Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 1:47 AM, A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > > Dea

Text within Equation

2024-08-01 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all I need to type something like the following formula in LyX where I have a mixture between normal text and math [image: image.png] I know we can use normal ALL math symbols in an equation and also we can use ALL text fraction, but I don't know how to use a mixture of them as illust

Sub-figures (images)

2024-07-29 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all I am trying to produce several sub-figures for use in my book (size 8 x 10 inches). The trouble is that because the figure is spread over two pages, it displays the whole figure. Furthermore, if I include it in the chapter it does not show at all. I am attaching a file containing the

Re: Cross referencing

2024-07-22 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you for your effort. I really appreciate it. Imam On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 23:36 Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 7/22/24 1:38 AM, A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > > Thank you Richard > I went through the two manuals, but could not figure out how to solve this > issue. > &g

Re: Cross referencing

2024-07-21 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Richard I went through the two manuals, but could not figure out how to solve this issue. This is what I have in my LyX installation. [image: image.png] Any suggestions on how to solve this issue. Best regards. A-Imam On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >

Cross referencing

2024-07-21 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Hello everyone How to refer to sub-figures with parentheses as Fig. 1(a) instead of Fig. 1a? Best regards. A-Imam -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Lyx 2.4 dark theme

2024-07-12 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Thank you Yu Jin. This worked beautifully. A-Imam On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 10:35 PM Yu Jin wrote: > Am Fr., 12. Juli 2024 um 12:00 Uhr schrieb A-Imam Al-Sammak: > >> Dear all >> I have been using Lyx 2.3 for a while, which I enjoy. Recently, I >> downloaded Lyx 2.4.1

Lyx 2.4 dark theme

2024-07-12 Thread A-Imam Al-Sammak
Dear all I have been using Lyx 2.3 for a while, which I enjoy. Recently, I downloaded Lyx 2.4.1 which is fine except for having the dark theme as mandatory. How can I use the 2.3 theme for 2.4? Best regards. A-Imam Al-Sammak -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org

Re: [lyx-announce] LyX 2.4.0 RC2

2024-02-15 Thread Cruz A . Echevarría
Dear Richard, First of all, thanks for your invaluable help to the scientific community. I was a user of LyX in my previous life as an active professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country. Now, to the point. I have not tested yet your RCs. But please let me tell you what

Re: pdflatex build error: Mismatched LaTeX support files detected

2023-06-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/19/23 13:52, Rich Shepard wrote: The problem seems to be a biblatex/utf8 issue. The whole error log is attached and the error starts at line 500. Please teach me how to fix this and avoid future occurrences. TIA, Rich I think the stuff about UTF-8 right above the error message has

Re: centering frame titles in beamer

2023-04-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/24/23 21:04, Tom Goldring wrote: My apologies, somehow I missed seeing your answer. Could you please resend? Thanks, Tom Try adding the following to the preamble (Document > Settings... > LaTeX Preamble): \setbeamertemplate{frametitle}[default][center]. Paul -- lyx-users mailing li

Re: centering frame titles in beamer

2023-04-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/24/23 15:18, Tom Goldring wrote: I am able to create a slide presentation in LyX using beamer. Is there an easy way to center the frame titles without going through trial and error adjustments (depending on the length of the frame title) for each frame? You asked this and I answered

Re: Screen font question-inline

2023-04-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
t; to small. Mine is 1150px high (attached). A couple of things you might try with the dialog: 1. if the dialog is opening maximized (full screen), try clicking the middle button in the upper right corner to toggle it from full screen to windowed; and 2. if it is windowed (not maximized) an

Re: Screen font question

2023-04-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/18/23 12:19, John White wrote: Thanks Paul, I don't see a  "Apply to current session only" warning. However I can write to the preferences file. However, I learned that while the lyx doc is open, ALT + or Alt - works great, so I will just do that until I figure

Re: Screen font question

2023-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I suspect it's the same on Debian, but if in doubt check Help > About LyX for the user directory. If LyX can't write to that file due to a permissions issue, the changes would not get saved. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: centering frame titles in beamer

2023-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/16/23 21:32, Tom Goldring wrote: I am able to create a file containing a slide presentation, using beamer, in LyX and from there, create the slides as a pdf. Is there an easy way to center the frame titles without going through trial and error adjustments for each frame? Try adding the

Re: preview of tikz pictures

2023-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
can a comment in preamble affect preview? Any ideas? thank you Paolo M. -- --- Paolo M. Pumilia - 347 231 54 96. I'm not exactly sure why it happens, but when LyX tries to render the picture into a graphic image, the Python script fails because both epstopdf and pdflatex choke o

Re: Create a shortcut to insert the frames separator for beamer documents

2023-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
pose. I have the attached default.def file parked in ~/.lyx/commands (on my Linux Mint system). If you already have a customized default.def file under your home directory, you can just add the lines in mine to your file. Paul \define "newframe" "command-sequence paragraph-break inve

Re: Create a shortcut to insert the frames separator for beamer documents

2023-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 3/15/23 11:49, Ehud Behar wrote: I want to create a shortcut to insert the short thin red line that separates frames when the document class is Beamer. I know how to create shortcuts, I just don't know the name of the "function" that actually inserts this red line. In th

Re: Shell-escape enabled but not working

2023-02-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 2/23/23 12:15, Mario D wrote: A few months ago I posted about this problem: sadly I got no reply. :( Even more sadly, I have not been to solve the issue! So I am still forced to export my lyx file to a tex file and compile it running "pdflatex -shell-escape" to update pictur

Re: Lyx 2.3.7 on Linux Mint

2023-02-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 2/23/23 10:22, Mario D wrote: Hi, I have seen that a new version (2.3.7) has been released. Trying to upgrade to this new version, I tried to install lyx PPA but I get the error "This PPA does not support jammy". My PC runs Linux Mint 21 Vanessa (which is the LTR based on Ub

Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

2023-02-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 2/10/23 11:32, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Udicoudco wrote: Right click on the table and select "settings..." to open the tabular settings dialog. Put the cursor in a cell inside the column you want to change, and in the settings dialog in Table settings->Column se

Re: Why does lyx not find an installed .sty?

2023-01-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
texlive-2021.210418-x86_64-1slint texlive-extra-2020.200608-x86_64-1_SBo and LyX has been working as it should ... except for this scrpage2.sty issue. Searching the web for a solution I tried running (as root) 'tlmgr update --all' only to be shown, 'bash: tlmgr: command not found'

Re: Why does lyx not find an installed .sty?

2023-01-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ell of the track. The log reports that letter class option 'DIN' is loaded on input line 6, but I don't see that anywhere in the Settings. Helps appreciated. Regards, Rich If you run "kpsewhich scrpage2.sty" in a terminal, is it found? If not, you may need to update th

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/22/22 16:34, John White wrote: Paul, I hope this bottom posted email goes.  If not perhaps I am somehow maxing out memory. alt+T gives nothing, but perhaps something here might give you a clue as to my problem: johwhi@whitelaw:~$ cd /usr/share/lyx/ui johwhi@whitelaw:/usr/share

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/21/22 15:29, John White wrote: On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 12:16:22 PM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 12/21/22 14:29, John White wrote: > > Thank you Paul very much for the suggestion.  It caused me to think > > that something might be wrong with permissions.  So

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/21/22 14:29, John White wrote: Thank you Paul very much for the suggestion.  It caused me to think that something might be wrong with permissions.  So I opened lyx in root and the top tool bar shows.  It only doesn't show when I open it on a regular, non-root command line or fro

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/19/22 14:44, John White wrote: So I removed lyx and lyx common and reinstalled on my debian bullfrog system.  This is what I get now when trying to open Lyx: /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop is not a readable LYX document. Any suggestions? John Are you launching LyX from a

Re: Method for Not Input \tag Everytime

2022-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/16/22 11:41, yang.hao@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote: Dear LyX, I am trying to using the software for writing master thesis. Now a question is how to use shortcut to enter \tag for equations in LyX. I searched Internet. But there seems no shortcut for it. I have to input \tag for every

Re: closing a named buffer?

2022-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/14/22 10:52, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Hi, I can easily close the current buffer with a command like (on the mac) LYXPIPE=$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support ~/.lyx \ -name .lyxpipe.in 2>/dev/null | head -1) echo "LYXCMD:P2:buffer-close" > "$LYX

Re: which texlive uses my lyx?

2022-12-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ers and select one of the converters you use most often. For me, that is LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex). * Now check the command listed in the "Converter" field. For me, that is "pdflatex $$i". * In a terminal, run that command with the "--version" opti

Re: Can you reproduce this bug?

2022-12-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/4/22 15:38, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Dear all, Can you reproduce this bug on your system? https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12435 It's helpful to know the type of systems on which it can be reproduced. Specifically, it will be helpful to figure out whether the bug only surfaces on certain

Re: Wrong subscript size in small text

2022-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/9/22 15:28, Csikos Bela wrote: Hello: Inserting subscript into small text results in wrong subscript font size. The subscript size is equal to the font size (that is, small). Lyx incorrectly insert \small before the subscript text. An example: {\small{}aa A}\textsubscript{{\small{}B

Re: Restoring display

2022-10-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Table of Contents and the other items available are Citations, Figures, Footnotes, Graphics, Labels and References. I don't know what I did to get this display so I've no idea how to return it to return it to what it's been before. A clue stick is needed. Rich Rich, The

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/20/22 14:44, ahostmadsen--- via lyx-users wrote: And to add. When I run the following command, which I think emulates the converter as run from LyX: python -tt /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx  -o abc.lyx  testfile.lyx the conversion works perfectly. Yet, from

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/4/22 21:03, ahostmadsen--- via lyx-users wrote: I have a problem with LyX on one of my Macs (OS 12.5.1). 1. Equations are not typeset inside lyx (compiling the document works fine). 2. When I try to open older files I get: “…. is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx

Re: old lyx document in lyx 2.3.6 doesn't compile

2022-09-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
but on my system "magyar" is not recognized by babel as a language name. 2. I deleted the "enumerate options" inset. 3. I put the cursor at the start of item 1 and hit enter, temporarily changing the text to item 2. 4. In the new (empty) item 1 (which has reverted to English)

Re: old lyx document in lyx 2.3.6 doesn't compile

2022-09-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/15/22 09:59, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: Asking for help on a document with Disabled Editing is (thoughtlessly) rude. el I opened the file and disable editing was /not/ checked. I'm not sure why it was for you, but castigating someone for something they did not do is (thoughtlessly)

Re: Adjust contents page text area height

2022-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/13/22 13:02, Rich Shepard wrote: In this KOMA-Script report document the table of contents has a single entry (for Appendix B) on the following page. Is there a command that will allow that single line to be at the bottom of the page with the rest of the contents? Rich Maybe set

Re: Finding source of pdflatex build error

2022-09-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/9/22 17:58, Rich Shepard wrote: I've a large report, six large chapters, bibliography, two appendices. When I try to compile it I get an error. Trying to find where that error is created, I made a new, empty mwe.lyx file. Starting at the bottom of my report, I copied the appendice

Re: Importing multipage table from .csv

2022-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/9/22 10:23, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Please point me to the way to 1) move to the top so I can resize column widths and 2) make this a stand-alone document with a title that I can append to a document. By trial-and-error I changed the width of the

Re: I don't see my error

2022-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/9/22 13:23, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Paul A. Rubin wrote: What is the error? All three work for me with pdflatex. For \degree, I need to load the gensymb package in the preamble and put it in ERT. For \circ and \textdegree, I just put them in math insets and LyX takes care

Re: I don't see my error

2022-09-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
em in math insets and LyX takes care of loading the packages. A MWE is attached (where "W" here actually does mean "working"). Paul degree.lyx Description: application/lyx -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/30/22 11:28, sovhist wrote: On rgp 30 2022, at 6:15 pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 8/30/22 06:33, Daniel wrote: On 2022-08-30 01:28, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 8/29/22 17:48, Christopher Menzel wrote: Yo, works like a charm! I gave “pdf6” a try (can’t remember what my justification was

Re: Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/30/22 06:33, Daniel wrote: On 2022-08-30 01:28, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 8/29/22 17:48, Christopher Menzel wrote: Yo, works like a charm! I gave “pdf6” a try (can’t remember what my justification was!) but didn’t try “7”! Is this documented somewhere? And what determines the relevant

Re: Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/29/22 17:48, Christopher Menzel wrote: Yo, works like a charm! I gave “pdf6” a try (can’t remember what my justification was!) but didn’t try “7”! Is this documented somewhere? And what determines the relevant number after “pdf”? Thanks!! -c On 29 Aug 2022, at 4:44 PM, Paul A. Rubin

Re: Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/29/22 17:28, Christopher Menzel wrote: Howdy LyX folk, Simple question. When I’m working on my laptop (or frankly anything short of a 27” monitor) I display my documents use PDF (cropped) to strip away unneeded marginal whitespace. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut to update

Re: Missing character

2022-08-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
hat to do? Wolfgang It might display as a single character (possibly ~) in your text editor. One possibility is a bisection search. Make a copy of the LyX file, delete half and try to compile. If you get the error, it's in the half you kept; if not, it's in the half you deleted. Iterat

Re: Where to report a lyx error

2022-08-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/25/22 02:38, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I use lyx 2.4.0.dev (Debian) and got a lyx crash. I started with a terminal and saved the terminal output in a txt file. Where should I send it to? Wolfgang There is a bug tracker (https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome). It requires creating

Re: Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/20/22 17:16, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Okay. I'll post results. Paul, What's displayed on screen is the first few lines (\put ...) between \begin and \end document. The preamble has the entire .tex file. Sigh, I've not worked b

Re: Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/20/22 14:06, Rich Shepard wrote: I have a .tex file designed for a4 paper and a font family I don't have (and don't want) that I want to convert to letterpaper (done) and my lyx default typeface. Or, another appropriate typeface found in a .lyx file. Looking at one of my .lyx f

Re: tmp/lyx_tmpdir. can't be opened

2022-08-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/19/22 02:37, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I get this message: „file:///tmp/lyx_tmpdir.YXomcmJypLKa/lyx_tmpbuf0/xxx.pdf“ kann nicht geöffnet werden () I have reinstalled texlive, now at my home, and not in /usr/local/texlive/2022 any more. What should I do? Wolfgang Did you reconfigure

Re: lyx2lyx fails to convert

2022-08-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
a developer, so step-by-step would be appreciated. I have tried installing old versions of lyx but without success. Below is the lyx preamble Thanks Tim #LyX 2.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 474 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article

Re: Voice Recognition Accessibility

2022-08-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/3/22 19:29, Jodin Morey wrote: Hello Lyx Developers, My name is Jodin, and I recently graduated with my doctorate in mathematics.  I have a disability which requires me to use voice recognition to input mathematics into my computer.  For the last 10 years or so, I have used three pieces

Re: Inserting graphics located in directory from which lyx is executed

2022-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 7/25/22 13:01, David Halpern wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 11:15 AM Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 7/25/22 11:55, David Halpern wrote: > Paul, > Thanks for the response. The problem seems to be that the working > directory is permanently set as my home directo

Re: Inserting graphics located in directory from which lyx is executed

2022-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
should be the directory from which one starts lyx. However, I've tried starting lyx from different directories, and the working directory does not change. It's always set as the home directory. Is this a bug?  The way around seems to be to change the working directory while working on a

Re: Inserting graphics located in directory from which lyx is executed

2022-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 7/24/22 17:32, David Halpern wrote: I am having the following problem in linux (fedora 36). I have a a directory called Docs that contains a lyx file together with eps files that I would like to insert in the lyx file. To insert a figure, I select Insert, choose Float and then select Figure

Re: Adding footnote to table cell

2022-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 7/7/22 15:36, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: When I add a footnote to a table cell the compiled page has the footnote number in the cell, but the text is not at the bottom of the page. Now the problem is an error in the ERT \today just under the title. A MWE

Re: Table row shading throws compile error

2022-07-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 7/5/22 18:14, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2022, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I tried this in a fresh document (KomaScript Report class) by adding \usepackage{xcolor, colortbl} to the preamble, and my table with your ERT and column name in row 1, column 1 compiled just fine. You didn&#

Re: Table row shading throws compile error

2022-07-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 7/5/22 17:37, Rich Shepard wrote: I suspect this is another outdated module issue but I've not seen the reason. The first column in row 1 of a table contains the ERT \rowcolor{lightgray} Species Common Name. TeX doesn't like it; see attached error log. It is ignored but I'd

Re: Entering special charcter with keyboard shortcut

2022-06-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/28/22 16:37, tush via lyx-users wrote: I want to insert with a keyboard shortcut a special character that I use a lot in my document. Until now it was saved in my system clipboard and I would just paste it wherever I wanted, but I want to use a keyboard shortcut for that. For example, I

Re: beamer

2022-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/16/22 07:22, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Can I create a slide entirely blank? Thanks === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

Re: Conversion failure for older format

2022-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/15/22 13:19, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'm trying to open a LyX file with an older format: \lyxformat 508 But I got the error message: LyX: Conversion script failed It says that the lyx2lyx script failed to convert the document. What should I do in this case? You can try running lyx2lyx o

Re: Meaning of PageStyle as a class parameter

2022-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
only page style "plain" and the latter only "Headers". But opening a new file from the File->New.. menu and changing the new file's document class into either of these, keeps the full general list of the default article class just as it was before and doesn't mak

Re: Meaning of PageStyle as a class parameter

2022-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
art a new document (article layout) and switch the layout to memoir, I get the full list of page style choices. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Settings file for lyx

2022-06-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/2/22 09:03, tush via lyx-users wrote: Thank you very much once again, Riki. I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes in the preferences menu inside LyX. Where can I choose which preferences file to use? I want to save a copy of such a file and save it in

Re: Formatting Python code

2022-05-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/27/22 18:44, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2022, Paul A. Rubin wrote: AFAIK, \lstset{} is the correct command. In order to use it in the preamble, you have to precede it with \usepackage{listings}. Paul, I overlooked that. The correct syntax for setting the tabulator size is

Re: Formatting Python code

2022-05-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/27/22 17:39, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: \lset{language=Python, Tabulator size=4} Paul, A more recent thread on program listings shows the command as \lstset{} but this also fails to set the default and throws an error when I try to compile the

Re: Formatting Python code

2022-05-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/27/22 15:01, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm trying to format Python code in a document, but cannot properly set indentation and long lines without them breaking. The document class is KOMA Article. I've set the code environment to LyX-Code. Reading the User Guide, I don't find a

Re: Curious compile error, easily fixed

2022-05-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/23/22 13:54, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2022, Paul A. Rubin wrote: After the initial compilation attempt, you can open the generated .tex file (lurking in the buffer directory) in a text editor and search for any mention of verbatim. It could be that some module or funky

Re: Curious compile error, easily fixed

2022-05-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/20/22 18:32, Rich Shepard wrote: Attempting to compile a document using pdflatex halts with an error referencing a verbatim@ environment. Since I've not explicitly used that environment, and a search of the .lyx file doesn't find that word present, I wonder why it suddenly decid

Re: Change lyx use of tex system

2022-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
menu)? I haven't seen any menu in LyX that lets the user to choose such a thing, so I tend to think that you can only make such decisions from the system's control panel. But I would like to be sure about it. I'm not sure this will work, so consider it an experiment. Not kn

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