On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Kathryn Andersen schrieb:
> >Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
>
> it is easier to print the cover with the
> artist and an optional (if present) picture
> in the fly:
>
> ht
Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
So if they exist, I'll ask this question: does anyone know if there are
any Business-card classes and LyX layouts to go with them? (And where
they are, naturally)
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optional]{required}%
Will there ever be a day when one doesn't have to hardcode the
arguments, but actually be able to have lyx give you some sort of pop-up
window so one can alter them? Or is that too hard to do?
Kathryn Andersen
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Chenie: They say he was one of the first in
#x27;t it been fixed between
1.2.1 and 1.2.2?
Kathryn Andersen
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Kravitz: What the hell is happening?
Sydney: I don't know!
Kravitz: Where am I?
Sydney: I don't know!
Kravitz: Bloom! Is that you?
Sydney: I DON'T KNOW! (VR.5: VR.5)
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esulted in an error
> message)?
You might try cropping the .eps file in gimp...
Image->Transform->Autocrop should get rid of all the whitespace borders.
(I know gimp can write .eps, can it read them?)
Kathryn Andersen
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Twelve of one, 0xC of the other.
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omeone can point me towards a resource describing LyX-file syntax
so that I can write my own direct HTML->LyX converter (though this may
be a pointless exersize since the LyX syntax has probably changed in 1.2
anyway...)
I am not a LaTeX person, but I do know how to write Perl scripts... 8-)
Kath
3.2)
> >In short: You have to go via RTF
>
> I installed wvWare software but I don't find anything to convert .tex or
> .lyx INTO .doc :o((
You don't *need* to go as far as .DOC format, you just need to convert
into .RTF format, because M$-Word reads RTF.
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et it to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>
> And it does exactly what it is supposed to do in this respect.
Amen!
As for the reply-all problem, I use mutt's "reply-to-list" feature.
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work, though, and I can understand if the list-admin doesn't want to do
that.
Kathryn Andersen
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"I am not TRYING to tell you anything. I am simply not interested
in attempting to compensate for your amazing lack of observation."
-- Orac (B
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:56:31AM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote:
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 00:26, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:05:33PM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote:
> > > On Saturday 20 April 2002 20:06, Roberto Hernandez wrote:
> > > > Is t
ne with pdfcrypt. See
> http://www.sanface.com/pdfcrypt.html
At $790 US a pop? You gotta be joking! That's more expensive than
getting the full Acrobat software from Adobe!
Kathryn Andersen
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Avon: The Federation is investing two hundred billion credits on
the p
nstallation isn't as easy as some of the other
distributions, and the number of packages available (huge number) can be
rather bewildering for someone who has never used Linux before.
Kathryn Andersen
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"Duct tape is like the force: it has a light side, and a dark si
s that I
doubt that many people would have the time to keep up with both.
And anyway, I would not subscribe to a newsgroup. I haven't read
newsgroups for quite a few years.
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Folks may remember a while back that I posted my experiences trying to
use LyX to create my fanzine. Well, I've finally gotten around to
putting that up on the web. The URL is <http://www.katspace.com/lyx>
Kathryn Andersen
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"Nothing at all really - a bit li
df)
Export => PDF (pdflatex) just uses one step:
Latex -> PDF (pdflatex)
And one does get slightly different results depending on which one you
use. Whether one works better than the other usually depends on the
particular document.
Kathryn Andersen
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Berg
choose multiple units very
easily, you can even mix them...)
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| Melbourne -> Victoria -> A
es
> > You can then view the resultant postscript file with gv, or print it
> > out. It's usually three pages long, shows every character in the font.
> Could you send the complete script?
Okay, here 'tis. (Attached)
Kathryn Andersen
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How many Borg d
ale relative to page size. Thus you must use your judgement
> if relative dimensions are to be maintained.
I don't follow this. Yes, you scale relative to the page size, but you
can still maintain the relative dimensions -- if by this you mean the
aspect ratio of the figure -- by specifyin
ders
ugly fonts in PDF because they're all bitmapped instead of outlined).
That worked fine, because the font was embedded, so it rendered the same
on both machines.
Kathryn Andersen
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"So you got a merit badge in tracking when you were a Boy Scout..."
ont-name
as input.
You can then view the resultant postscript file with gv, or print it
out. It's usually three pages long, shows every character in the font.
Kathryn Andersen
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Timothy: I can't do anything right.
Data: You are making an unwarranted extra
e time...
> But if you want it, copy article.layout (or the layout you use) to
> your ~/.lyx/layouts/ and then add to it
>
> Style Standard
> Align Left
> End
>
> Preamble
> \raggedright
> EndPreamble
Thanks for your ever-helpful info!
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sider is whether your version of Ghostscript is
too old -- version 5.5 and earlier always makes the fonts in the PDF
file bitmapped instead of outline -- which means they look ugly.
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:49:21PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:23:15PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>
> > My system is a RedHat 7.1, using a binary RPM I downloaded from the
> > site. Maybe that it was a binary RPM is the problem -- expecting
> &
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:16:13AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> >
> > I've now actually upgraded from 1.1.6fix2 to fix3...
> > and now the documents I created with fix2, the pictures no longer
> > display in LyX. They show up fine when
l sequence.
> >\bigdrop ...vance \wantedheight by \ht 1\findsize
> > {#3}{#4}\hangindent=\wd 0...
> >l.109 \dropping{3}{D}
> >
> > Is there a way, to overcome this problem?
>
> Why do you want to use pdflatex instead of using lat
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:03:08PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2001 18:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> >
> > LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX
> > book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued u
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because
>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:51:33PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
> > >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000
> > >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
&g
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>
> >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000
> >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: Why Lyx?
> >>
> >>On Wed, Sep 05,
One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because
of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to
improve?
Kathryn Andersen
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Cally: No joyous multitude?
Vila: No joyous anybody. I've seen more life in a prison
LyX and Postscript, and the
PDF/PNG/JPG file for pdflatex.
Hope this helps.
Kathryn Andersen
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The Swedish Chef has been assimilated. Borg Borg Borg!
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type one more line than before.
rpm -rebuild .rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/.rpm
(Lyx rocks... but I'm afraid I still haven't upgraded yet to 1.1.6fix3;
other things to do...)
Kathryn Andersen
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"A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but on
, you could just insert the image as a "figure" without
putting it inside a float. That will put it exactly where you place it.
Unfortunately I expect that isn't what you're looking for.
Kathryn Andersen
(who used that method with some of the illustrations for her zine)
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h sense)!
I believe, if you check the website <http://www.lyx.org> (or maybe
it's in the FAQ included in the documentation) the Official
Pronounciation is
"licks"
Me, I have to remember not to type lynx when I want lyx, or lyx when I
want lynx...
(-8
Kathryn Andersen
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myself) -- you have to put the units in as well as the
numbers. The price of flexibility. That is, you have to say 1cm or
0.25in or 50pt (or whatever).
Kathryn Andersen
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Peri: Now what do we do?
Doctor: Surrender. (Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani)
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ick or netpbm...
>
> ImageMagick provides the program convert
> convert in_file EPS:out_file.eps
>
> netpbm is a bit more complicated, read the man pages.
It may also be worthwhile to use Gimp, if you want to do any
manipulation of the image (including resizing etc) before you
t
; fails when it tries to
> write to /usr/X11R6/lib. I dont like the thought of building as root.
> So now I'm stuck again :-/
Well, I'm kinda astonished if there *is* a way to do it without building
as root...
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re. I
didn't really want to have to buy it online from overseas if I could get
it locally. (sigh)
Kathryn Andersen
(who invested $72 to use LyX... (darn reference book prices!))
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Blair: You been eating anything weird lately?
Jim: Well, I have had these cravings.
Blair: Ye
ke that as your binary rpm file and install in the
usual way.
Happy LyXing!
Kathryn Andersen
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Jim: The perp was apprehended and taken off the street, sir.
Simon: Yeah? At what cost?! Do you ever think about what you do?!
Jim: Normally, sir, I just do it.
e the style "text-align: center;" then that
just centres the text inside the table (as one might expect))
If Ronny has found a way to make opera obey, then I'd like to know how!
Kathryn Andersen
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Blake: And even if I'm
t will
be translated into an outline, which looks nicer than a bitmap.
Kathryn Andersen
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Travis: You wouldn't do it.
Blake: What have I got to lose?
Travis: It's not a pleasant death, Blake.
Blake: So I gather, but it would have its compensations: I'
k
>
> boring plain blue background is not...
What he said.
I don't really mind what colour the LyX logo is... I just like the LyX
logo. Green was nice, I did like the green. But blue is okay, and if
you really want blue then make everything blue!
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st should look closest to identical.
>
> Lars, Juergen, JMarc, Kathryn and whoever else, is this satisfactory?
Thank you, we have the logo back!
I have looked at it in Netscape 4.7 and in Opera 5... naturally there
are no hover link things in Netscape because it doesn't know about them.
l it: last century edition ;-)
LOL!
Kathryn Andersen
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Mel: I thought they liked you.
Doctor: They liked my clothes - clearly not enough.
(Doctor Who: Paradise Towers)
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?
I seem to recall that the HTML export doesn't deal very well with
included files, I think it just ignores them. 8-(
> About the html export, is it possible to produce a different html file
> for each part of my lyx document ?
Yes, I believe there's an option to latex2html,
l Red Text).
The "scalefnt" package is nice for scaling fonts.
> and how can I do a page break?
Layout -> Paragraph
and click on Above or Below in the Pagebreaks box.
That will put a page break either above or below the current paragraph.
Kathryn Andersen
(a recent LyX convert)
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:26:12PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
>
> This email originally went only to lyx-devel but I figure I better make
> sure it gets to lyx-users also...
>
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > This may sound silly, but I miss the emb
F file produced by pdflatex, but I can't
remember if it always works with a PDF file produced via
dvi -> ps -> PDF
Kathryn Andersen
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"I shouldn't drink so much wine. I'll be seeing pink asteroids next."
-- Vila Restal (Blak
e more work but at least it looks really pretty
> now. For the first time in a long time (ever?) the LyX website conforms
> to recognised standards for web publishing.
This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the
background... can you bring it back? (-8
Kathryn Andersen
to the table of contents -- so if you only want Sections and
SubSections in the table of contents, then make the depth 2.
The starred versions (eg Section*) are there to make headings that
aren't "counted" -- they don't have numbers, and they aren't added to
the t
F file too big. I reduced my PDF file size
quite significantly by doing that. For plain black & white pictures,
you should make the resolution larger, or they'll be full of jaggies.
(Though I noticed Acroread has a "smooth edges" option which is on by
default, which makes things l
I ended up making my "fanzine" class based
on the "article" class instead.
This is the start of my fanzine.cls file:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{fanzine}[2001/06/03
Fanzine customization package
: Kathryn Andersen]
%%
%% based on Article
%% I chose Article because C
P ]
> I do, and publish it for everyone else too... (TeXLive)
Which you have to be a member of TUG to get, don't you?
> > Ack, maybe it's time I left my "LyX crutch" and move to full-up TeX
> > editing (via GViM or other syntax highlighting editor). I always
&
s correctly when you leave out the extension.
I did it this way myself, because the generated PDF file, if it was a
greyscale image, looked like a dog's breakfast if I used tex2pdf. But,
what they didn't tell one, is that you can use jpg and png files as
well... and since my greyscale i
ogle.com>)
But all of this could be completely irrelevant, since you are using a
different operating system (NT4 rather than Linux) and a different
version of TeX (MiKTeX rather than teTeX).
Kathryn Andersen
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Things are gradually falling into place -
the command
kcmshell kfontinst
after you've installed it.
Kathryn Andersen
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"Well, at least we've got the advantage of surprise."
-- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4])
(funny how they always say that precisely when they do
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:09:17PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:22:33PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > There's a feature in latex (I assume, rather than lyx) which I find
> > very irritating: if I have a Chapter in my document, then in the table
&
.2
Rather than
The Title ..2
which is what I want... (sigh)
Kathryn Andersen
(having spent many hours battling with fonts, and finally giving up and
converting TrueTypes to Type1 (grr))
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Duncan to Richie: What hav
7;t yet learnt how to script for GIMP, but it's far more
likely now, because I don't have to learn a whole new language as well
as learning the GIMP-specific things needed to script GIMP.
So as for languages that people are likely to know, you've got Lisp (for
all those emacs-L
;t do any transformations on it,
such as scaling it to the width of the page, like you can do with .eps
files. And of course, you can't see it inside LyX either, only when you
view the result.
Kathryn Andersen
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The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.)
--
and I rememeber) include Icon,
> Lisp, Scheme and Python.
So I guess that means that Perl is out of the question?
Kathryn Andersen
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Jadie Crane: Eddison! An off-switch!
Metro Cop: She'll get years for that. Off-switches are illegal.
(M
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:49:30AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>
> > I have now also hacked the tex2pdf script to convert the eps files to
> > PNG rather than PDF, using the convert program which is part of
> > ImageMagick.
input filename and $$o for the output
filename if you need one.
- HTML -> LaTeX
For the converter, put html2latex $$i
When you restart LyX, there should be two more entries on the Import
menu -- ASCII(formatted) and HTML.
I like LyX!
Kathryn Andersen
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Tron: How'd yo
same colour
> background as the text.
I noticed that myself with v1.1.6fix1 -- I have the default coloured
background (not having bothered to change it) and all the greyscale EPS
pictures have a white background. I just assumed it was because they
were greyscale, and not a bug at all!
K
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:56:51AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>
> > in the resultant PDF file, the monochrome pictures are fine, but the
> > greyscale ones are scrambled nonsense. But when I look at the actual
> > grey
e lyx2pdf (or
tex2pdf) script (I think you can find it via http://www.ctan.org or on
http://www.sourceforge.net) which will do all that for you.
Kathryn Andersen
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Blake: And even if I'm wrong we still have a slim chance.
Vila: A slim chance - what more c
PDF file, the monochrome pictures are fine, but the
greyscale ones are scrambled nonsense. But when I look at the actual
greyscale PDF files of those pictures, they are fine.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Kathryn Andersen
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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:35:49PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:15:24AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > > Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> [...]
> > No, I'm afraid I wasn't clear -
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:15:24AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone!
> > I am investigating LyX as a possible replacement to my former desktop
> > publishing software (die, Microsoft, die!) (ahem) It has many nifty
> > fea
lso included the dblfloatpagefraction one, and it seemed to work!
Both with twocolumn and multicols environments!
Thank you!
Kathryn Andersen
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Soldier: What the hell happened?
Ray: Bad plumbing. (Stingray: Playback)
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:23:36AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2001 05:53:18 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> >
> > > Hello again!
> > > I am trying to include EPS graphics in my docum
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:53:18AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>
> > Hello again!
> > I am trying to include EPS graphics in my document, and as soon as the
> > graphic is more than 50% of the page height, it is put on a separate
> > page.
(after reading about it in the fancyhdr documentation) but it doesn't
make a bit of difference!
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.05}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.95}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.95}
(I am using version 1.1.6fix1 on RedHat Linux 7.1)
Kathryn And
needs to be
two-column, but the table of contents and the editorial need to be
one-column. And the poetry needs to be one-column too.
advTHANKSance
Kathryn Andersen
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"Stephen? Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd
like to have a word
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