Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> John,
>
> John Pye wrote:
>>> Works fine for me here. Keep in mind that there are at least three
>>> PDF file formats defined within LyX, because different compilation
>>> methods (ps2pdf, pdflatex, dvipdfm) have different requirements.
Hi Paul
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>
>>
>> If I make a DOT->PNG converter and use that, it works fine. So there
>> is nothing wrong with LyX's ability to make some form of file
>> conversion here. It fails when I attempt to configure a conversion
Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
John Pye wrote:
HOWEVER, it doesn't fix the problem. When I switch DOT to a vector
format, I get a blank two page document, with page numbers but
nothing else, instead of the expected PDF with one page and diagram.
Could it be that now the actual DOT->PDF co
Hi Konrad,
Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
John Pye wrote:
I have a simple problem with setting up converters in LyX. I want to
be able to embed Graphviz DOT files (http://www.graphviz.org) into my
LyX document. I have added the DOT file type via the preferences, and
I have added a DOT->
Hi all
I have a simple problem with setting up converters in LyX. I want to be
able to embed Graphviz DOT files (http://www.graphviz.org) into my LyX
document. I have added the DOT file type via the preferences, and I have
added a DOT->PDF (pdflatex) file format converter as well, and then I
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> James Mansion wrote:
>> Is it possible to get LyX to use my Subversion system for version
>> control?
>
> If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably
> ditch). But the LyX format is perfectly diff-able as it is a plain
> text format and that is all y
Bo Peng wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 1:44 PM, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Ken wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two
>>> LyX documents?
>>>
>> http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/
>>
>
> Quite interesting,
x27;recommended' package, meaning that you don't get it by default.
Without this package your greek letters will show up as red text 'mu' or
'Delta' instead of as blue greek letters.
Hope that helps someone.
Cheers
JP
PS: bug link is https://bugs.launchpad.n
Hi all
I have a software manual composed of about 15 files using LyX. When read
using LyX, the chapter are correctly numbered eg Chapter 1, Chapter 2,
Chapter 3, etc, and the sub-sections and so on take the correct
numbering as well.
However, when I then create output using PDFLatex, I find that
Hi Jeremy
I suspect that your problem will be coming from the fact that
screenshots are ~75-90 dpi, but that you are then printing them on a
page at something like 300 dpi. Normally this means that the images are
scaled up so that they have the right number of pixels on the page. This
means adding
Hi all
I have a number of large figures in my document that are placed in
floats with the 'rotate sideways' option selected via the GUI (LyX
1.4.4. on FC6).
The problem is that on left pages, the figures are rotated so that the
bottom of the figure (and its caption) is on the left, but on the rig
These issues relating to single-file installers just keep coming up
repeatedly across different unix/linux originated projects that are
being ported to Windows. Off the top of my head: GIMP, Inkscape, MinGW,
LyX,GAIM, K-3D, and scipy.
The problem is that each project tackles the problem in isolati
Hi all
I just wanted to pass this on in case noone knew. Mediawiki, the
software behind Wikipedia, comes with a little program called 'texvc'
that just might be of some use in LyX. This program AFAICT includes a
latex math parser and can give useful feedback about syntax errors. It
also deals with
b][\color{darkgreen}]",
morecomment=[s][\color{darkgreen}]{\{}{\}},
}
\lstnewenvironment{ascend}
{\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily\small, keywordstyle=\color{darkred}}}
{}
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Helge Hafting wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or
>> 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using
>> pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my do
t;
I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that
contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by
calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to
split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdf
Hi all
I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or
'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using
pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my
PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some
too-high resolution
ckage[bookmarks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{lmodern}
*
*Does that mean I am using hyperref already?
> BibLaTeX will handle this much better.
Will BibLaTex work with my current tools like Jabref etc, or is it a
whole separate thing?
Cheers
JP
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't managed to work it out so far, and I don't know if it's a lack
in Jabref or LyX or what.
Cheers
JP
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FAICT.
I can send a sample file if you wish.
JP
Paul Smith wrote:
> On 3/31/07, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Any time I export a 'Draw' page from OpenOffice as a PDF, and then try
>> to import it with LyX, LyX fails to correctly fin
unding box? Have other people seen this?
I'm using LyX 1.4.3 on Ubuntu 6.10.
FWIW I saw this thread and it seems it might also be a problem with 1.4.4.
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg54249.html
Cheers
JP
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Do both of these approaches work OK with producing sane-looking HTML as
well as PDFs?
Are then any examples of output from your 'highlight' approach, Gunnar?
Cheers
JP
Gunnar Lindholm wrote:
>> I know that this has 'been done' but I'm not sure how to go about it
>> myself. I would like to link t
Hi Daniel Where and how do I get this 'listings' package? I looked on
the LyX homepage and on the Wiki but couldn't find it.
The 'highlight' approach from Gunnar Lindholm is quite separate though,
right -- no connection at all?
Cheers
JP
Daniel Lohmann wrote:
> Jo
Gunnar Lindholm wrote:
>> I know that this has 'been done' but I'm not sure how to go about it
>> myself. I would like to link to an external source code file and 'pull
>> it in' to my compiled document when I use pdflatex. I would like to
>> apply source code highlighting, although that's not esse
ot essential (the
language I'm using is not one that is supported by any of the tools).
I worked out how to import external code, but not how to maintain a
link. Do I need to use ERT? Can LyX be set to use 'highlight' on-the-fly
as for graphics formats, or must I prepare the latex by
Hi Ignacio
You are right -- thanks! (The sequence Compose o o worked for me; the
other one didn't -- I don't have an AltGr key).
But any thoughts on why this compose sequence is different from that
required in GNOME programs like gnome-terminal and gedit, etc?
If I have to learn different compo
Helge Hafting wrote:
> Are you sure you're getting a degree symbol and not a zero exponent?
> Those two are different - degree is a perfect circle while the zero
> exponent
> is a tiny "0".
>
> When I type ^0 I get a zero exponent: ⁰
> Typing ALT 0 (in an xterm) gives me the degree: °
>
> The degre
Hi Michael,
I'm still trying to work out what's stopping my degree symbol from
showing up..
Michael Wojcik wrote:
> You could probably suppress that by filtering the LyX output through
> something to strip out the control characters. For example:
>
> lyx -dbg key 2>&1 | tr -dc '[:print:]\n'
>
>
␊1.┌≤│ ▒⎽ ┤┼⎽▒┴␊␍ ␌▒┼±␊⎽.
D⎺ ≤⎺┤ ┬▒┼├ ├⎺ ⎽▒┴␊ ├␊ ␍⎺␌┤└␊┼├ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎽␌▒⎼␍ ├␊ ␌▒┼±␊⎽?
A⎽⎽┤└␋┼± ▒┼⎽┬␊⎼ ␋⎽ &S▒┴␊
&D␋⎽␌▒⎼␍
&C▒┼␌␊┌
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Michael Wojcik wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>>
>> Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up a 'Compose'
>> key (I chose 'r
cter directly in
LyX.
This is ubuntu 6.10 running standard deb package LyX 1.4.3.
Has anyone using Ubuntu been able to make this work correctly?
Cheers
JP
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st for this one
file -- a file that I already have.
Cheers
JP
TechTonics wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>> Hi Stephen
>>
>> Surely there's a better way, right? Is there not like an index file or
>> something like that that I need to put into the local folder to make
>
Hi Stephen
Surely there's a better way, right? Is there not like an index file or
something like that that I need to put into the local folder to make
Miktex happy? I guess this is a question for the Miktex list instead.
Cheers
JP
TechTonics wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>
>> Hi a
it:
http://www.andre-simon.de/index.html
This would be a bit like using the 'conversion filters' used for
graphics, but it would need to apply somehow to text. I'd be quite happy
with an ERT way of doing this -- anything really.
Cheers
JP
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ought would
do the trick, however when I point MikTex at this folder, it says that
the folder "does not seem to be a local package repository".
What's the right way to get around this, does anyone know?
Cheers
JP
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nter, database storage, etc.
Does anyone know of any such library of pre-built images that can be
incorporated into a larger figure?
TIA,
Rich
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Belated thanks to you both. The ERT "\scriptsize" ... "\normalsize"
around the table was good, and I combined it with the rotated table
float, and got just what I needed.
Thanks a lot!
JP
José Matos wrote:
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 06:54, John Pye wrote:
Hi all,
I
s, so if I must use ERT for this, please
specify what it is that must do. Any tips would be much appreciated.
Cheers
JP
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Hi all,
I'd like to say congratulations to all on the re-inauguration of the LyX
documentation team ;-) ! The scattered documentation of LyX has
frustrated me too. I have some thoughts and ideas to mention...
First, I think that the shining example of the *delivery* of software
documentation is t
also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine,
without the brackets chopped.
So I guess the conclusion is that I have a crazy local problem perhaps
with Acrobat or with my printer driver, or with FinePrint (which is from
fineprint.com, btw).
If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know.
Cheers
JP
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Subject: Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:57:10 +1000
From: John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: SVGs
hen Harris wrote:
John Pye wrote:
Hi Uwe,
This approach (save as PDF from Inkscape) did not give me alpha
channel transparency in my PDF. For example:
On the left is a PNG exported from Inkscape (or alternatively,
generated using 'rsvg-convert'. On the right is the PDF exported by
re Chretien wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:24:22 +1000
From: John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org"
Subject: SVGs with alpha channel transparency
Hi all
What's the right string of tools to embed an SVG with alpha-channel
transparency into a LyX document s
o get in the way for some reason).
Cheers
JP
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
John Pye
wrote:
What's the right string of tools to embed an
SVG with alpha-channel transparency into a LyX document so that I get
the alpha channel appearing right in the end-product PDF file?
Transform your S
generated from Matplotlib and hand-edited a little with Inkscape.
Has anyone had some experience with this that they could pass on?
Cheers
JP
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ou
were looking for.
Cheers
JP
Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
Is there some tool to convert from LaTex equations to SVG? I have
tried pstoedit, but it does not apparently work here.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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, or the PDF itself, if anyone wants it.
Please let me know if there's a better place to raise this issue, too.
Cheers
JP
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Hi Uwe,
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>
>> I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01)
>
>
> the installer version ships LyX 1.4.1.
Yes, you're right. I got confused between the 1.4.1 and the 2-01.
> But anyway:
>
>> I&#
or how to fix this? How can I check that
LyX has its necessary maths fonts?
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JP
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I understand that. I do really like the look of the GTK interface though
-- really nice, so I wanted to report this in case it was unknown. At
what point will we be able to assume that the developers *don't* know
about crashes in the GTK interface?
Cheers
JP
Georg Baum wrote:
> John P
Just checked this -- it's a GTK-only bug. Ling Li's lyx-qt package
doesn't have the same crash.
Cheers
JP
John Pye wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a reproducible crash in LyX 1.4.1 (Ling Li's lyx-gtk RPM on FC5).
> I have a document with some graphics and formulae.
instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if
> necessary. Thanks !
Since the feedback page http://www.lyx.org/feedback.php says to mail you
I haven't filed a bug.
I can send the source documents to someone who wants to investigate, if
desired.
Cheers
JP
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still happens the same.
Is this issue known about? Do I need to investigate further, or wait for
a patch? :-)
I'm happy to send the problem document to anyone who wants to look.
Cheers
JP
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I've used Jabref for my thesis bibliography, and it's mostly been fine.
I've used it from both Windows and Fedora Core 4. The sorting and
searching work well, and I like the way it makes your DOIs and PDFs
click-through-able with icons in the main list. I like how it integrates
with LyX via th
If so, how?
Cheers
JP
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comes out in that first cell, rather than
distributed through the table cells as I believe it was previously.
Can anyone else confirm this?
Is there another way of (easily) importing tabular data into a LyX document?
Cheers
JP
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Hi Todd
I think you should be able to add an 'exclude' line to your yum.conf.
Type 'man yum.conf' for all the details.
Cheers
JP
Todd Denniston wrote:
John Pye wrote:
In case people hadn't noticed, Lyx 1.4 was recently added to the Fedora
Core 4 Extras repositor
doraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras
Cheers
JP
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I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple
>> pages or b) make the columns narrower?
>>
>
> How can you make the columns narrower without reducing the font size?
I had this problem as well. It's covered in the User's Manual under
section 4.4.4 (the ch
Hi again,
Georg Baum wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>
>
>> The drawing showed up in lyx, but only approximately the left two-thirds
>> and the top two-thirds were showing. The rest was chopped off. This was
>> the same in both the Lyx edit view and the DVI view (ctrl-D).
in both the Lyx edit view and the DVI view (ctrl-D).
This seems like a bug -- is that correct? Or am I doing something illegal?
Could this be related to the fact that I have the 'Zoom %' set to 150%
in my view preferences?
Cheers
JP
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Just on this... I'd like to vote that the 'typewriter' style be added to
the default menus along with 'noun style', 'bold style', etc, under the
Layout menu. Most new users use the menus as their first source for
learning keyboard shortcuts, so the menu option should be there with its
keyboard
This might be useful as well -- I seem to remember that it's possible to
get out a WMF file of the chart somehow. If so, you could convert using
this (I haven't tried it though):
http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/Packages/libwmf.html
Talking of PDF printers, I use "PDF Factory" and also "FinePrint"
x' if I am
working on a docbook-lyx document. I need to use docbook-lyx format in
order to support GNOME help ('yelp') output.
Cheers
JP
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Jose' Matos a écrit :
>
>> On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote:
>>
>>> Hi th
What version was it that you tried with? I think (am hoping) that 1.3.7
and then 1.4 should be better...
Cheers
JP
Bo Peng wrote:
Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using
Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals?
Personally I am using python/manua
that
other people on the list are doing?
I found this but it's 5 years old, and hopefully things have become
easier...
http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/
If such a HOWTO /doesn't/ exist, maybe there'd be someone willing to
collaborate on putting it together?
Cheers
JP
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Did you try
http://apt.ling.li/rpms/lyx/
Works for me, although I use the Qt version. But the xforms file is
there as well.
JP
Tom Poe wrote:
I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate
the proper file. The Redhat link for rpm, for example, gave me an
error messa
interesting project though.
Cheers
JP
Stephen Harris wrote:
- Original Message - From: "John Pye"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safes
Hi Georg,
Georg Baum wrote:
John Pye wrote:
Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for
converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
You know http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/ ? It is somewhat
limited, but it might be possible to
need to pursue that angle carefully) (no experience with
> framemaker)
>
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, John Pye wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for
>> converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
>&
Hi all,
Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for
converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
I have the exported 'MIF' and 'XML' files from Framemaker version 5. I
also have the original .fm5 files, and I have the PDFs that were
generated by Framemaker. Th
Hi Paul
Just to specify a bit, you should take a look at the 'spy' and 'spy2'
commands from matplotlib
JP
Paul Smith wrote:
On 2/3/06, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You should try Matplotlib under python. You've got a lot of the MATLAB
functionality
he ones
>would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does
>somebody know of a program (for Linux) to create my picture?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Paul
>
>
>
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Hellmut Weber wrote:
> For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in
> Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be
> considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete.
>
I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly exists on Linux,
but it s
Mistakenly sent off-list by Dr. Hellmut Weber:
> Hi list,
>
>>> If other users are also concerned about the copy&paste-situation,
>>> please
>>> make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of
>>> course)
>>
>
> I've been a LaTeX user for many years until I found LyX which i
Sven Schreiber wrote:
>If other users are also concerned about the copy&paste-situation, please
>make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of
>course)
>
>
This has been an issue for me too. Other programs like ms office,
mozilla/thunderbird and openoffice do a great job
t;
>>on OSX and just transferred to LyX137
>>so i changed my JabRef lyxpipe entry to..
>>
>>~/Library/Application Support/LyX/.lyxpipe
>>
>>gave me an error that i ought to verify that lxypipe is valid
>>
>>
>
>have you checked that /.lyx
ery common problem with PDFs produced on Linux which
are then used by Windows people. Is there a known solution? I've tried
to find information on this but haven't seen anything relevant. I can
send screenshots if you need.
Cheers
JP
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