>
> I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
> developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
> help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
> from being a developer.)
>
What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know? I
Hi,
following Richard's hint -- LaTeX export and then manually running latex --
I was able to see that all links to embedded objects were incomplete. No
idea what caused this, though ...
After a bit of experimenting, I moved my LyX file to the LyX working
directory, along with all source files for
Hi,
I have a LyX document that compiled just fine three days ago (pdflatex), but
now I keep getting an error message with the description:
basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error
and no PDF output is produced. Only minor changes have been made since the
last printing. I can not loc
Hi,
>
> sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these
> characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't
> understand..
You will need to install the hep package just as you would with any
additional TeX package on your system, i.e. by downloading it from CTAN,
Works like a charm, many thanks!
Am 31.08.2009 um 15:36 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:
Christian Liesen schrieb:
I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more
distinguishable by formatting them in a typewriter font
(\ttfamily). How do I do that?
See the attached LyX file. Look in its
Hi LyX users,
I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more distinguishable
by formatting them in a typewriter font (\ttfamily). How do I do that?
I could't find anything about it in the hyperref-documentation, the
wiki or this list's archives.
I'm on LyX 1.6.3 for Mac OS X. My do
Cool, comes in very handy. Many thanks for sharing this.
-- Christian
Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt:
Hi all,
I just created a new web page called "Steve Litt's Sure Fire,
No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts". Most people won't need it, but some
people
(like me) have trouble getting l
Cool, comes in very useful. Many thanks for sharing this.
-- Christian
Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt:
Hi all,
I just created a new web page called "Steve Litt's Sure Fire,
No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts". Most people won't need it, but
some people
(like me) have trouble gett
-- Sorry, this message did not appear on the LyX user's list after I
sent it yesterday, don't know why. Resending it now. --
Hi,
did you check the Path Prefix in LyX --> Preferences? On my MacBook
Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did
not correctly specify t
Hi,
did you check the Path Prefix in LyX --> Preferences? On my MacBook
Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did
not correctly specify the paths to TeX Live 2008 in my /usr folder.
FYI, my path prefix entry reads:
/usr/texbin:/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/univers
de is already
in
Word.
I shall have a look at the links you have sent and see if it makes
more
sense to me than it did before.
Graham
Christian Liesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use LyX and R with Sweave and it works fine.
>
> If I get you correctly what you do is produce some outp
Maybe you will also find the following link helpful:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=interruptlist
As Günter said, enumlist is clearly to be recommended for interrupted
list.
-- Christian
Am 30.11.2008 um 22:34 schrieb Guenter Milde:
On 2008-11-30, stefano franchi wrote:
\cleardoublepage in ERT should do the trick. If not, did you try
\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty} \cleardoublepage}?
-- Christian
Am 29.11.2008 um 00:52 schrieb Jonathan Kroner:
How can I change a single page's header?
The last page of a chapter is an odd numbered (right) page.
The next page (
Hi Norbert,
I see. What style are you using? And in the LyX: Citation dialogue,
can you select a citation style (in the Formatting section)? If not,
make sure to select Document --> Settings --> Bibliography --> Natbib
with Natbib style "Author-year".
Best,
-- Christian
Am 24.11.2008 u
Hi,
could you briefly explain why you would want the citation to show up
as a/b although you seem to include only a single reference in your
text? After all, a unique letter would be required only if you had two
or more citations in your article that would otherwise look the same
when usi
Thanks, it works finally. But for someone else who also might want
to change the pdf viewer I add: it it not sufficient to give in the
path to the application package but to the application EXECutable
itself, at least on Mac-OSX, in my case:
/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim
N
Hi,
would it be possible for you to provide an example file? I'm not sure
what it is you're trying to do with the longtable.
Cheers,
-- Christian
Am 13.06.2008 um 09:20 schrieb Stefan Buchholz:
Hi Guys,
i tried to scale a normal table, and that worked quiet well.
i tried also to scale
Hi,
Just another stupid question: how do I call it
from LyX? I tried to change the "Viewer" field in Preferences/File
Formats/pdflatex to "skim" but that doesn't seem to work. Do I need
to add
any command options?
that is by no means a stupid question, and besides, you're almost
there: Go
Hi,
yes there is: The KOMA-script specific command is
\renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty}
Hope this helps,
-- Christian
Am 21.12.2007 um 19:16 schrieb Tobias Krause:
Hi,
in a document using report (KOMA-Script) I'd like to delete the page
numbers on the page containing the titel of a
Hi,
you need to nest the bulleted list into the LyX List. The M-Return won't
work, because LyX will then of course change the entire paragraph to
itemise -- just as you experienced.
Instead, make the sentences that you want to appear bulleted an itemised
list as usual, then click the "Increa
Steve Litt wrote:
I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here
it is:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm
Many thanks for sharing this!
-- Christian
Indeed,
It's enough to put "\usepackage{hyperref}" in the preamble.
and if you wish to add color, for example:
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,citecolor=blue}
yields nice results.
I've added something about this to the Wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc6
With many
Hi,
does anyone know how to make citations appear as clickable links in the
pdf output?
I'm using the Natbib numerical style with pdflatex and want something like
... the moon is made of cheese [1] ...
to appear in the body text with the citation [1] being clickable and
refering to the bibl
I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10.
Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1 for the
time being.
By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My LyX GUI
is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in English :-).
Hi Steve,
What I've come up with so far is that \parsep operates only within lists,
while \parskip operates only outside of lists.
Yes I think that's exactly it. \parskip refers to the spacing between
paragraphs, \parsep to the spacing in lists.
Cheers,
-- Christian
ce maybe) for interesting layouts.
Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way
to go, but I don't want that kind of pain!
\d
--
____
Christian Liesen
Universität Zürich
Institut für Sonderpädagogik
Sonderforschungsbereich
Hirschengraben
Yes it should, but I continue to experience problems with widows and
orphans, too. I think that in many cases manually fine-tuning the
document is inevitable.
Tweaking the layout is always the very last thing I do to a document
once the content is settled. Then -- if at all necessary -- I star
en why not simply
insert a page break before the poem's title?
-- Christian
Donn Ingle wrote:
On 02/10/2007, Christian Liesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble?
Don't know. I would think that if it was expected then
Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble?
-- Christian
Donn Ingle wrote:
Hi,
(I post with trepidation; having searched the wiki -- I promise.)
I am setting poems with this kind of approach (using memoir class.)
---
\poemtitle{Blah}
\settowidth{\versewi
... well, well ...
I found it. I had several citations with the ampersand '&' in the
journal's title. Replacing this with '\&' did the trick: My document
output is fine now.
Silly me.
-- Christian
Christian Liesen wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing a scr
Hi,
I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac) and have a problem with Bibtex.
I have a lot of citations, and until yesterday evening, everything went
smoothly. Then all of a sudden LyX started complaining about a
"Misplaced alignment tab character &". Bibtex stopped formatting any
citation
Hi,
if the file is inside a float, you can mark the float or the image and
then choose Edit --> Paragraph Settings to set the alignment to "Centered".
Alternatively, you might consider to put the file in a \resizebox
similar to the steps described here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17.
Hi,
sorry to ask again, but I'm STILL experiencing weird behaviour of aspell
after updating from LyX 1.4.4 to 1.5.1 (Intel Mac).
aspell starts working but highlights all kinds of words it should surely
know, like "möglich", "für", "März" or "Ärmel" in German.
All these words contain Umlauts.
Hi,
I'm experiencing weird behaviour of aspell after updating from LyX 1.4.4
to 1.5.1 (Intel Mac).
aspell starts working but points out all kinds of words it should surely
know, like "das", "ein", "an" or "Kaffee" in Swiss German.
I checked my aspell installation and made sure that the path
l A. Rubin wrote:
Christian Liesen wrote:
Hi,
sorry if this is a silly question, but how can I use fonts other than
the newcent, bookman, times etc. that are available from Document -->
Settings --> Text Layout?
I'm on Mac OS X with LyX 1.4.4. I have a scrbook that uses newcent,
bu
Hi,
sorry if this is a silly question, but how can I use fonts other than
the newcent, bookman, times etc. that are available from Document -->
Settings --> Text Layout?
I'm on Mac OS X with LyX 1.4.4. I have a scrbook that uses newcent, but
I'd like to use the Sabon fontface instead. The KO
2-bit acrobat on a 64-bit machine.
Of course, not all documents contains lots of large floats,
acrobat might not be so awful then . . .
Helge Hafting
--
Christian Liesen
Universität Zürich
Institut für Sonderpädagogik
Sonderforschungsbereich
Hirschengr
There are other
reasons for staying away from acrobat though.
Really? What reasons? Just asking because I've been using Acrobat's Pro
versions for some time now without problems.
I¨ve updated the sample file here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17,
it shows you how it's done.
Regards,
-- Christian
Valter Filipe Silva wrote:
Hello,
To have a \resizebox command in a flot table is necessary to make the
implement the \begin{table}, the \end{table}, caption, etc in E
--
Christian Liesen
Universität Zürich
Institut für Sonderpädagogik
Sonderforschungsbereich
Hirschengraben 48
8001 Zürich
University of Zurich
Institute for Special Education
Research Unit
Hirschengraben 48
CH-8001 Zurich
Tel +41 44 634 3130
Fax +41 44 634 4941
E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks better indeed :-), and I'll note the markup hints, many thanks!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Christian Liesen wrote:
I've updated the part on formatting index entries with LyX on the Wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing#toc2
Nice! You seem to know your
Hi,
Winston Chang has published a handy reference sheet on frequently used
LaTeX commands. It can be found here:
http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/latexsheet.pdf
I've been using it for some time now and happen to like it a lot as a
supplement when working with LyX ... I thought it couldn'
I've updated the part on formatting index entries with LyX on the Wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing#toc2
Jürgen pointed me to an easy and elegant way for specifying the font for
the index entries. Many thanks!
-- Christian
If you change the document class to scrbook (book KOMA-script), it stops
working.
Must be because articles in most cases don't have indices. So it's
likely that scrarticle comes without index specifications and you can
set it any way you like.
-- Christian
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
with KOMA-script:
\setindexpreamble{\small}
Thanks for this hint, but it seems that it does not work. The
\setindexpreamble adds a preamble to the index entries, and the preamble
can be formatted, but this does not affect the index entries (at least
not in my docum
I've put something on formatting index entries with LyX on the Wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing#toc2
Hope it proves useful.
-- Christian
The solution for changing the font size of index entries in LyX is
ridiculously easy: Simply put the desired font size command before one
index entry in your document.
For example, if you want to index 'foo', you insert the index entry as
usual, and in the field that LyX opens for specifying t
Hi,
I am looking for an easy way such as
\renewcommand
to change the font size of index entries (scrbook). Does anyone know how
to do this?
I've read through all kinds of stuff now, including this:
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/urz/schriften/makeidx.pdf and the makeindex
and scrbook documen
Hi,
You can center scaled tables by enclosing them in
\begin{center}
\end{center}
See the included example file.
-- Christian
Robert Orr wrote:
This is very helpful to me. Thanks for posting this.
One thing I did find strange is that it would only
work when the table was left justified.
After experiencing tons of weird LaTeX errors, and reading this:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=erroradvice, I found that
the use of scrheadings was responsible for the weird behaviour.
I rewrote the preamble and fine-combed my ERT parts, and finally all
traces of scrheadings w
Hi,
I am experiencing a weird error message and would be extremely grateful
for any hints.
I'm writing a book using the scrbook class, and after manually adding
scrheadings, I suddenly get the error message
> Improper \prevdepth.
> You can't use '\prevdepth' in horizontal mode.
and
> \end
Hi,
until recently, I did not know that it was possible to scale tables in
LyX with the graphicx package. I've added something on how to do it to
the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17
I got the idea from an excellent article on tables by Lapo Filippo Mori
in the PracTeX Journal 2007
Hi,
I'm stuck again with a booktabs problem:
When I set the width of the last column of a table in the LyX Table
Settings dialogue, the booktabs command "\\\bottomrule%" produces an error.
Whatever the value, the error message shows up. I've included an example
file.
I have no idea what to
I filed the bug and added some hints on the use of booktabs in the Wiki
at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc16. The uploaded example file is
the file provided by Jürgen.
Many thanks again,
-- Christian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Christian Liesen wrote:
Many thanks
Many thanks!
The manuals should be corrected. For LyX 1.4.x
(http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXDevelDocumentation/EmbeddedObjects.pdf),
the manual states on page 25 that the \bottomrule command needs a
separate, empty row.
The manual for Lyx 1.5.x says nothing on this.
I'll add something a
Hi,
I am using the booktabs package to create booktabs with LyX, as
described in the Embedded Objects manual and the Booktabs description.
However, the \bottomrule command has to be inserted in the last row of a
table, and the cells of this last row need to be empty. As a
consequence, there
... wow, that was fast, works like a charm, many thanks! I can't believe
I've overlooked that ...
Bob Lounsbury wrote:
Christian Liesen wrote:
Hi,
I'm stuck again and can not find any help in this list's archive or
the manuals.
I want to have all table captions aligne
Hi,
I'm stuck again and can not find any help in this list's archive or the
manuals.
I want to have all table captions aligned left. However, I'm using the
KOMA report class, which means that by default, all captions that have
only one line are centered. Changing the paragraph settings has n
Many thanks!
Putting
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\thesubsection~\alph{table}}
in the preamble worked like a charm. Great if this goes into the manual,
too.
Best wishes,
-- Christian
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Christian Liesen schrieb:
sorry for asking, but I could not find any hints on this list or
Hi,
sorry for asking, but I could not find any hints on this list or in the
Embedded Objects-Manual on how to change table numbering to a mixed mode
of arabic and alph.
I have several tables in a subsection, and I want the caption to look like
Table 1.3 a: foo
Table 1.3 b: foo
and so on, wi
Hi,
this has been discussed several times on this list. You might simply
want to look around a bit in te archives, or refer to this site:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=interruptlist
Hope this helps :-),
Christian
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
Sorry about the confusing title of t
Hi,
I had the same problem on a Mac.
See http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc10 for useful hints. They are meant
for Mac, but might be applicable for Windows, too.
A likely source of error are blanks in the path name. For example,
"C:\Documents and Settings\..." might not be a good option. Did yo
ow I'm fully operational again.
--Christian
Bennett Helm wrote:
On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:50 PM, Christian Liesen wrote:
Hi,
I've just got myself a new MacBook Pro, which feautures the Intel
Core 2 CPUs. I had a PPC Mac before and transfered all data using the
Apple standard featu
Hi,
I've just got myself a new MacBook Pro, which feautures the Intel Core 2
CPUs. I had a PPC Mac before and transfered all data using the Apple
standard feature, i.e. connecting both machines with a firewire cable
during setup of the new machine and voila!, everything's there. Both
machines
ith the
"Title", "Author", "Date", etc, but I want to remove "Date".
Does somebody how to do this in LyX ?
Thanks.
Horacio.
--
Dr. Christian Liesen
Universität Zürich
Institut für Sonderpädagogik
Sonderforschungsbereich
Hi
Hi,
you can see why the error occurs on page 59 of the Lyx User's Guide. It
has to do with the figure being in eps format -- I had the same problem
somtimes, and substituting the eps by a pdf file worked well. If that is
not possible, try to install ImageMagick and/or follow the hints in the
... well that's simple. In Lyx, choose Insert --> Special Formatting -->
Inter-word Space after the abbreviation's full stop.
There is also a keyboard shortcut: On a Mac, it is Ctrl + alt + Cmd +
Space. Check with your keybindings doc.
Cheers,
Christian
Martin A. Hansen wrote:
I noted a t
t; and got the
according results. So everything works fine now.
So there's no need for fink now, but I may give a try next time :-).
Cheers,
Christian
Bennett Helm wrote:
On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Christian Liesen wrote:
Hello,
I'm experiencing a problem with insta
e? Did I miss something?
Thanks ever so much for your help,
Christian
--
Dr. des. CHRISTIAN LIESEN
Universität Zürich
Institut für Sonderpädagogik
Hirschengraben 48
CH-8001 Zürich
Tel. +41 44 634 31 30
Fax +41 44 634 49 41
eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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