On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 8:30:59AM -0500, William F. Adams wrote:
> My guess here is that lmr and lmr10 are getting used in an
> unsupported encoding.
Examining my TEXMF tree, I find in .../fonts/tfm/public/lm/:
cork-lm*.tfm
qx-lm*.tfm
texnansi-lm*.tfm
ts1-lm*.tfm
where "*" represents the
I installed teTeX-3.0 some time after building LyX-1.3.5 (Qt). I had
been running teTeX-1.0.7. The Latin Modern fonts are installed as
part of the teTeX-3.0 installation, and I can use them in the normal
text of a LyX document via the FAQ instructions \usepackage{lmodern}.
However, the dropped c
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 6:22:51PM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Fortunately, options can be set with \geometry{}, and invocations
> of that macro are cumulative. So try \geometry{dvips} in your
> preamble and see if that works.
It does indeed.
Thanks, Paul!
Jim
I'd like to take advantage of xdvik's ability to sense the paper size
from the dvi file, as recommended in the xdvi man page, by putting
the subject line in the latex source. It works fine in a custom
class file, but when I put that line in the Preamble of an ordinary
Article class I get this erro
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:11:39AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> This is easy in lyx-1.4... Correct spacing is added as needed, at
> least that happened for me with this sort of quoting style:
> «The word was » he said.
>
> It is also possible (but cumbersome) in lyx 1.3:
> Set quoting style to
I can't seem to find a way to typeset the following text correctly:
"The word was `foo,'" he said.
The default result is:
...foo,
I'll include the entire lyx file at the end of this note, but the
bit corresponding to the quote marks is:
The word was `foo,'
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\en
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 8:52:15AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> So the segmentation fault happens when running uic. This should be
> reported to trolltech, because it seems to be a bug in uic.
Just to follow up, I submitted a bug report on the Trolltech site,
and got this response:
> /konstruct/ap
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 8:52:15AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> So the segmentation fault happens when running uic. This should be
> reported to trolltech, because it seems to be a bug in uic.
> Meanwhile, changing the variable UICFLAGS
>
> UICFLAGS=-tr qt_ -nounload
>
> in src/frontends/qt2/ui/Ma
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 9:00:21PM -0700, Jim Osborn wrote:
> My config: gcc 3.4.3, QT 3.3.4, Linux kernel 2.4.23, PII.
> the QT was compiled with this same compiler, fwiw.
> and of course it all worked fine with LyX 1.3.5, same QT.
Just a followup: I tried building LyX 1.3.5 with KDE
In the process of upgrading from KDE 3.4.0 to 3.4.2, I'm trying to
upgrade from LyX 1.3.5 to 1.3.6. The compile fails with these messages:
Making all in qt2
make[5]: Entering directory
`.../konstruct/apps/office/lyx/work/lyx-1.3.6/src/frontends/qt2'
Making all in ui
make[6]: Entering directory
`
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:16:36PM -0700, I wrote:
> I just installed LyX 1.3.5 as part of an upgrade of KDE...
> [it's] as though the Meta key wasn't there.
> ...
> Is there something else I need to configure?
It turns out the answer is Yes, KDE 3.4.0 has a Keyboard Layout
setting in its Control
I just installed LyX 1.3.5 as part of an upgrade of KDE; the LyX was
actually listed in the KDE installer tool, Konstruct, which downloads
various bits of source and configs and compiles them.
I had been using LyX 1.3.2 with Qt 2.x successfully, and so far the
new LyX seems to work, except for th
Is there any way to mangle an ascii file to tell LyX that the three
periods it finds in the imported text should be treated as ldots?
The best I've come up with is a post-importation treatment, binding
the following to a key:
"command-sequence word-find-forward ...; cut; dots-insert"
and then
How embarassing.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 5:51:55PM -0800, I wrote:
> following a hint from Andre...
I meant Angus, of course.
Sorry,
Jim
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 1:40:49AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> Furthermore, if you are searching for the same word (let's say gargoyle),
> then try typing this the first time:
>
> M-x word-find-forward gargoyle
>
> which will find you the firs ouccurence. Now, in order to find i
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:21:05PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Jim Osborn wrote:
> > Entering "word-find-forward" (without the quotes) directly into the
> > minibuffer produces a message: "(word-find-forward)" below the
> > minibuffer. After about
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:07:05PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
> "M-x word-find-forward"
> "M-x word-find-backward"
>
> should work. "M-x" activates the minibuffer at the bottom of the LtX
> window, allowing you to type "word-find-forward". posts this
> request off...
>
> Bind it the key of yo
Is there a way to invoke the function of the Search->"Find_Next"
button from the LyX keyboard? The "N" in the Search popup is
underlined, and if the focus is in that popup, pressing M-n does
indeed Find_Next, but I haven't found a way to do it from within the
LyX edit screen. I'd like to jump fro
The Customization help for LyX 1.3.2 says, "3.9: There are many other
configuration options... Please ask on the mailing lists if you need
some more information..."
So, is there a line I can put in my lyxrc file to tell LyX to
start in the upper left corner of the screen, with size 800x860,
that
Is it possible for two LyX Styles (defined in .layout file)
to share a counter? I have a special "section" style that
adds a few things in the latex .cls file, and its counter
cooperates fully with the normal section type in the dvi.
But it'd be much nicer to see the real section numbers on
the Ly
Is there a way to center my Section headers in LyX 1.3.2?
The Layout->Paragraph gives a "centered" Alignment, but it seems to
have no effect, at least in an Article doc class.
I also tried using a custom layout, as I had done in LyX 1.1.5, with:
Style Section
MarginDynamic
LatexType
Is it possible to set the default paragraph separation to indent for a
LyX layout? I've tried every permutation of those words that I can
think of, tried \paragraph_separation indent in the preamble section.
Everything either produces an error (with the .lyx file containing
the line \paragraph_sep
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> Is there a reason you do not use 1.3.2?
Hi Andre',
Sorry, I should have referenced my other note in this one;
I'm using a SuSE 7.3 installation, by now apparently too old.
Its gcc is gcc-2.95.3-124, with qt-2.3.1-60.
When I tried to
I've just reinstalled LyX 1.1.5, after using Lyx 1.1.6 on a few
documents, and now when I try to open those documents, I get a
box saying "Tabular format < 5 is not supported anymore/
Get an older version of LyX (< 1.1.x) for conversion!" My only
option at that point is [Dismiss] at which point Ly
After verifying that 1.1.6fix4 has the same Apply bug as 1.1.6fix2,
I've pursued more recent versions of LyX, and have a question. It
seems 1.3.2, which John Levon says is free of this bug, needs way too
many libraries to be installable in my SuSE 7.3 distro (see below),
but the rpm for 1.2 compla
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:21:24AM -0700, James Frye wrote:
> If spam - even spam without worms & viruses - is getting spread by
> the list server, it's far more likely to get read by people who see
> "Lyx" in the title, and so think it's good stuff.
Since so many seem confused by these things, f
In LyX 1.1.5 if I opened the Layout->Paragraph popup with the cursor
in paragraph A, and then moved the cursor to paragraph B, I could then
click Apply, and have paragraph A's characteristics (vertical spaces, etc)
applied to paragraph B. When I do this in LyX 1.1.6fix2, nothing happens;
that is,
In lyxrc there's a section for Export with this example:
#\custom_export_command "ps2pdf '$$FName' `basename '$$FName' .ps_tmp`.pdf"
I want to make a pdf file, and having epstopdf on my system, I've been
printing to ps, then doing:
epstopdf --filter xxx.pdf
Following the lyxrc example, I tri
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:05:42AM +, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> Try http://www.lyx.org/help/ and there search for logo. There you will find
> several tips how to do it [image in fixed position].
I took the simplest example on the logo page, where it says:
\begin{picture}(0,0)(-150
I need to place an EPS image in the upper-left corner of my
document, and I need the text of that document to write over
that image as necessary. That is, the text should be unaware
that the image is there at all. I need to place the image
right where I want it, say .25 inch from both the top an
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:59:22PM +1030, Simon G Hill wrote:
> Have you done the following.
> placed the files in a place where they can be found?
> ie
> usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
> Run texhash from the command line?
> Reconfigured LyX?
> Restarted LyX?
Sorry to have been too terse in my or
I'm trying to make a new document class, following the docs
from LyX 1.1.5, where in 6.2.2 it says:
"For the sake of example we'll assume that the style file is
called myclass.sty and it is meant to be used with report.cls
which is a standard class.
cp report.layout ~/.lyx/layouts/myclass.lay
I get much better font rendering, especially when I make
a pdf, when I set Document->Layout->Fonts: to "pslatex"
instead of "default." I don't see a line in .lyxrc that
controls this setting. Is there an entry I can make there
that'll make this setting my default?
TIA,
Jim
This seems like a silly question, but I've run up against the
problem frequently enough that I thought I'd better stop and
ask the experts. When I have a plain text document, let's
call it "foo.txt" that I want to convert to Lyx, say, "foo.lyx"
here's what I've been doing:
Create a new document,
I need to group some bits of text into little clumps,
each clump is two or three lines, and I need the clumps
to be placed two or three to a line. Per the example
at the top of pg 106 of Lamport's LaTeX 2nd ed, I thought
putting each clump in its own minipage should do the job.
But LyX always se
I've done everything I can think of to place my topmost line of text
within 0.25in of my paper, the closest my printer will allow.
All the relevant settings I know of are as follows:
Paper Layout:
Papersize: USletter, Special: None, Use Geometry Package,
Margins: Top: 0.25in, Bottom: 0.625
When I hit to add a paragraph in a minipage, LyX breaks
the minipage there, and I must then select all the paragraphs
of the minipage, call up Layout->Paragraph->ExtraOpt and hit
Apply, Cancel, Cancel to repair the rend in the minipage.
Is there a way to insert a paragraph in a minipage without
way back on Aug 08, 2001 I wrote:
[a bunch of stuff about LyX failing to produce any dvi, or error msgs]
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> > >Another problem can be that latex is not properly installed on your machine.
> > >What is the value of \latex_command in the lyxrc.defaults file ?
Erkko Airo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
>Are you using Linux? And if so, what flavor?
SuSE 6.3. I installed the lyx1.1.5fix2 rpm from a SuSE site,
if I remember correctly. SuSE 6.3 came with lyx1.1.0 or thereabouts.
>On Debian Woody (i.e. testing) there has been a similar happening for a
>whil
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
>Another problem can be that latex is not properly installed on your machine.
>What is the value of \latex_command in the lyxrc.defaults file ?
\latex_command "latex"
Thanks for the response,
Jim
When I select File->view dvi from the menu, lyx (1.1.5fix1)
says on the status line:
Executing command: xdvi -paper us 'xxx.dvi' & (buffer view [C-d] [M-f d])
or something close, but xdvi never appears. No error messages appear
either, no errors in the lyx window. Nothing.
Back on the console
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>write in Latex preamble for example
>
>\AtBeginDocument{\addtolength{\parskip}{15pt}}
Herbert, I really appreciate all the lucid and useful help you
provide to us LyX users. It seems that there are many variables
like \parskip, which are good to know abo
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
>> I can't seem to get the text to flow gracefully between columns
>> with spacing commands. Is there a way to do this?
>
>have you tried a \columnbreak in tex (red)?
I just tried it, and get an error:
Undefined control sequence
\columnbreak
Can someone help explain how to put some extra blank vertical
space in a column in a multicols environment? For example,
in a 3-column page, I can put \vspace*{10in} or whatever, and
push the subsequent text to the bottom of the first column.
But I can't seem to push it to the top of the second c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks:
>| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
>| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
>| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?
>|
>
>But I still want to know _why_ you need this.
My wife, who ha
Hi LyX experts,
Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?
I'm using 1.1.5 currently, but I'll upgrade if necessary.
TIA,
Jim
Is there a trick that will let me easily combine a set of paragraphs
into a single paragraph? I'd like to, say, select the lines (that
LyX thinks of as paragraphs) and invoke an Edit function saying:
"Remove the newlines at the ends of these lines, and put a space
between the words joined by that
I'm making lists of addresses in columns, and wondered if someone
knows of a convenient way to keep the address blocks from being
split at the bottoms of the columns. I've been typing C-
after the lines within the address block, so that each address
becomes a paragraph. The address blocks have b
Thanks for the further example, Herbert. I agree \arraystretch
is a better solution to this particular problem. My concern at
this point is whether I've correctly installed the upgrade to LyX.
I can View dvi on the whole Help->Extended file just fine. so the
problem must somehow be in the tiny
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jim Osborn wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to avoid this sort of failure? It's inconvenient to
>> have to kill LyX so abruptly from outside.
>
>can you send a short example-file?
Here's the Export->LaTeX:
%% Do n
In the lyx-1.1.5fix1-1, under Help->Extended,
Sec 5.5 Extra Space Between Table Rows, it says:
"LaTeX allows you to put a bit of extra space between rows in a table
by giving an optional argument to the end-of-row specifier (\\). LyX
has not yet implemented this in a formal way, so here are two d
Sorry to waste everyone's time---of course \mbox{} works as
expected in a Lyx-list. My problem seems to really be
one of inexplicable caching (or something) between LyX and Xdvi.
I seem to get in some state where quitting Xdvi, then invoking
File->View dvi from the LyX menu does not show the effe
I tried to prevent LyX/LaTeX/TeX from breaking a line in the "body"
part of a LyX-list. The problem is that the line gets stretched
out with extra inter-word space, only to leave a single-word widow
on the following line. I want to eliminate the widow, having it
poke out a bit into the right mar
I'd like to put a bit more vertical space between rows than LyX
provides. I've tried setting the space above or below in the
Layout->Paragraph box, but that seems to either have no effect, if a
single cell is selected, or to only set the space above or below the
whole table, not the stuff within t
John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
>Jim Osborn wrote:
>
>> I'd like to increase the left and right margins for a couple of
>> paragraphs, as for an abstract near the beginning of my article.
>> That is, I'd like those paragraphs narrower than nor
I'd like to increase the left and right margins for a couple of
paragraphs, as for an abstract near the beginning of my article.
That is, I'd like those paragraphs narrower than normal, and centered
on the page, and in block alignment, like the rest of the article.
Selecting the text and applying
Hi LyX experts,
I've tried a couple of attempts to use the letter document class
with "mixed" results. It seems the "My Address" and "Send To Address"
refuse to show up in the dvi output, as does the "signature." All
"Standard" paragraphs show up, as does the "closing" and a page
number at the b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes:
>LyX is moving towards gui independance and a KDE port
>is likely to be one of the first made.
Stupid GUI question (sorry :).
Are the scrollbars in LyX controlled by LyX itself, or by the
windowmanager, in my case KDE? I've looked for a control to
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