Re: Does Sweave work for LyX 2.13 on Windows 7

2011-09-22 Thread christiaan pauw
cs, Iowa State University > 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA > > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:48 AM, christiaan pauw wrote: > > Hallo Everybody > > Has anyone had success with Sweave of Lyx 2.14 on Windows 7 . I have > tried > > twice on two computers without success. Most

Does Sweave work for LyX 2.13 on Windows 7

2011-09-21 Thread christiaan pauw
Hallo Everybody Has anyone had success with Sweave of Lyx 2.14 on Windows 7 . I have tried twice on two computers without success. Most recently I have installed R (2.13.1 i386-PC-mingw32/i386 (32-bit), LyX (2.13) and Miktex (none is paths with spaces - as I have gathered that that may cause a pro

Cannot display document pdf but dvi works

2009-06-18 Thread Christiaan Pauw
Hallo everybody I use LyX 1.6.1 on Mac OS X Leopard Since yesterday I coundn't generate a pdf for a report that I am working on. The error message reads: /var/folders/ub/ubvWLUkKHf8WAywv5rmtcE+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.xJL136/ lyx_tmpbuf1/bsadan-090615-baselinreport-e.pdf "bsadan-090615-basel

Re: coloured background in header and margin

2009-06-09 Thread christiaan pauw
That sound promising. How does one make use of such a feature in a article or report class. Do I have to dig up the tex code in the beamer .sty files and work them into the article style? 2009/5/25 Paul A. Rubin > Christiaan Pauw wrote: > > >> Is it possible to use backgrou

Re: Including LaTeX code produced by Sweave in a LyX document

2009-06-09 Thread christiaan pauw
documents can be included as child documents Insert > File >Child Document Generate pdf and update the pdf directly afterwards. If you find a errors, update a few times before looking for something else 2009/2/27 christiaan pauw > Hi Everybody > I started using R with LyX (through Swea

Using named colors

2009-06-03 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi everybody dvips knows 68 standard colours (see then at h t t p :// en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors#The_68_standard_colors_known_to_dvips ) that have names. Some of them are quite beautiful. How can I use these named colours is Lyx - for example to define text colours or the shading colour. I

coloured background in header and margin

2009-05-21 Thread Christiaan Pauw
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Including LaTeX code produced by Sweave in a LyX document

2009-02-27 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I started using R with LyX (through Sweave) recently (earlier today actually) and can see from here that it has great potential. R has functions can generate latex tables which is highly cusomizable. When these functions are run using sweave in LyX the do exactly what they are suppose

SOLVED: LyX and R: Unable to import data

2009-02-27 Thread christiaan pauw
The answer was that it was a operator (me) problem. The library that enables get.csv is Hmisc and should have been loaded. thus: <>= library(Hmisc) x=csv.get(file="/Users/christiaanpauw/tmp/x.csv") mean(x) @ 2009/2/27 christiaan pauw > Hi Everybody > I use R2.8.0 on

LyX and R: Unable to import data

2009-02-27 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I use R2.8.0 on Mac OS X. I set up LyX 1.6.1 to use Sweave today following the instructions on the LyX wiki. It seems to work fine. I can compile the test file I found on CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/lyx/) without a problem and the output looks very nice. In the test f

Re: Rotating floats doesn't work after upgrade to 1.6.1 on MAC OS X

2009-02-20 Thread christiaan pauw
tried my LyX document and it worked. Thanks a lot for your help regards Christiaan 2009/2/20 Juergen Spitzmueller > christiaan pauw wrote: > > > It returns > > > > ./rotfloat.sty > > Does it help if you run "texhash" (in administrator mode)? > > Jürgen > >

Re: Rotating floats doesn't work after upgrade to 1.6.1 on MAC OS X

2009-02-20 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi It returns ./rotfloat.sty Does that mean anything? regards Christiaan 2009/2/18 Juergen Spitzmueller > christiaan pauw wrote: > > > I can see rotfloat.sty in the list of styles under Tool>Tex Information. > > what does "kpsewhich rotfloat.sty" return? >

Rotating floats doesn't work after upgrade to 1.6.1 on MAC OS X

2009-02-18 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I recently upgraded to 1.6.1. I have a document with a number of tables in floats rotated sideways. It used to work fine in LyX 1.5. Now I cannot produce pdf output anymore. The error message reads "LaTeX Error: File `rotfloat.sty' not found." I cannot find a way to update packages wi

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread christiaan pauw
2009/2/6 Uwe Stöhr > christiaan pauw schrieb: > >> >> \rhead{\resizebox{2cm}{!}{\includegraphics{/Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png}}} >> The error message reads: >> LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in >> /Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo

graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread christiaan pauw
Hallo Everybody I use LyX 1.6.1 on Mac OS X I have a report with fancy header and a logo in the header. It compiles very well with pdflatex but cannot compile with ps2pdf here is part of my preamble \usepackage{graphics} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \lhead{Report page heading} \ch

Full colour book

2008-09-12 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project sponsor wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about should be very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things like that. I have approached a publisher that wants to do it in

Re: Floating Table Objects Error

2008-08-21 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Nico I Think the reason is that you have inserted the float inside a subsection heading or something marked as such. You should cut is out and press enter, make use the format type is "standard" and insert it. I should work then. regards Christiaan 2008/8/21 Nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello,

Trouble importing latex file in Lyx

2008-08-21 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi everybody Lyx 1.5.4 on Mac OS X leopard, Texshop 2.14 I have a latex file which is an export from SAS which is basically huge collection of tables that I need to use in a report which i write in Lyx. I want to import the tables into the Lyx document. The TeX document compiles nicely in Texshop

Re: font problems on mac

2008-08-21 Thread christiaan pauw
> > > christiaan pauw wrote: > > > I have a tex file that i cannot import into lyx because of what seems to be >> a font problem. The error message is: >> Font T1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr8t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not >> found > > > >>

font problems on mac

2008-08-21 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi everybody Lyx 1.5.4 on Mac OS X leopard I have a tex file that i cannot import into lyx because of what seems to be a font problem. The error message is: Font T1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr8t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found Does anyone know how to fix than on Mac? regards Christiaan

Uncompilable output due to bibtex fault

2008-04-28 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I use Lyx 1.5.3 of Mac OS X leapard with TexShop 2.14 I have a problem with a document that has an bibtex bibliogoraphy that cannot compile in anything but plain.bst When I use plain.bst as the style it give (author?) for the author but at leasts gives a bibliography at the end When

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread christiaan pauw
Thanks Jürgen, it worked Incidentally, How does M-x work. Is "M" some special key that you hold down. I have a macbook, so I have fn,ctrl, alt and cmd -is it one of them? Thanks again for saving my day regard Christiaan On 01/04/2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Christiaan Pauw
Hallo Everybody I'm in deep trouble. I have a file (a report due yesterday) that I cannot compile. I use LyX 1.5.4 on Mac OS X with TeXlive-2007-basic . The problem seems to be related to a inline formula I exported the file to Latex and this is what the offending line looks like: more

Aspell broken

2007-11-14 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi everybody I use to have a working Aspell on LyX 1.5.1 of Win XP but I seem to have broken it. When I try F7 get the message: The spellchecker could not be started No word list could be found for language "en_US". Does anyone know what to do bar re-installing LyX? thanks Christiaan

Re: LyX cannot generate DVI - suspected bitex related problem

2007-11-01 Thread christiaan pauw
Thanks for the reply. See my comments below Richard Heck wrote: christiaan pauw wrote: Hi Everybody I use LyX 1.5.1 on Win XP. When I try to cite the reference below it generates an error message (see below) I chose jurabib as my Bibliography style. When I set it top plain it works again

LyX cannot generate DVI - suspected bitex related problem

2007-10-31 Thread christiaan pauw
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Aspell problems in Lyx 1.5.1

2007-10-04 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi All I installed 1.5.1 for windows yesterday . It is a vast improvement on the already good 1.4.1 I had previously. The only thing that doesn't work is the spellchecker. I have a working aspell installed under C:\Aspell . In the preferences > language settings > spellchecker the spellchecke

Article with seperate title page and TOC

2007-10-03 Thread christiaan pauw
Hallo Everybody I am writing a report using the article class but I want the title page and TOC on seperate pages like the report class does (but I don't want tot use Chapters like the report class). I used a manual page break after Title, author, date but sometimes I get errors when I compile

Adding longtables to List of Tables

2007-09-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi All I have a 100 page document with a lot of table floats in it. Thus have a List of Tables in the Table of Content. Everything works fine except for 4 longtables that I have. I could not place these tables in a float because they cover several pages. I have searched this list and found s

strange text alignment in tables

2006-06-20 Thread christiaan pauw
sometimes does not set the width of the column but the width of the text within . this is the case in multicolumns. The problem is that there is no control over the width of a column when one cell is also part of a multicolumn Can anyone help regards Christiaan . -- Dr Christiaan Pauw (tel) +27 12

lost border with v-space insite table

2006-06-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi all In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in a table. I attach an example. Regards Christiaan vspaceexample.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document vspaceexample.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Comment in Lyx .4.1 for windows results in space on DVI output

2006-05-08 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi See attachement for a whitespace footprint by a comment in lyx 1.4.1 for Win Paul A. Rubin wrote: christiaan pauw wrote: Hallo All I have installed 1.4.1 on my windows box at work. Everything works well. After some searching I found the comment format under INSERT>NOTE>Comment.

Comment in Lyx .4.1 for windows results in space on DVI output

2006-05-03 Thread christiaan pauw
Hallo All I have installed 1.4.1 on my windows box at work. Everything works well. After some searching I found the comment format under INSERT>NOTE>Comment. . This is weird but fine. I have had two problems. 1. It is now necessary to highlight an entire section to be commented. Once I got an