Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-11 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Wolfgang, I'm glad they were helpful: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 10:36 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 21:31:25 schrieben Sie: > > Hi, Rob, > > has this been done already: > > TeXLive 2009 is included with Ubuntu 10.04, if you are able to update your > Linux di

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread Rob Oakes
If you're going to go the customization route, this might be of help: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih It talks about creating a custom layout for an existing document class. Related posts with more examples can be found at: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/1

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Oakes
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:36 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier wrote: > > I agree completely with Trevor. > > > I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full > stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets. This may make some >

LaTeX Question

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Group, This is more of a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, but I know there are many LaTeX experts here, too, so here goes. I'm currently working with a set of fluids equations which have both velocity and volume terms. Given how frequently the variable v appears in both (by convent

Re: SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Scott, On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 06:16 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I've been meaning to checkout SAGE + LyX so if no one comes along to > help you I might take a look. I appreciate the offer. After some quality time looking into how the module works and how SageTeX processes documents, I was

SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, I've just started playing around with SAGE (www.sagemath.org) and was very happy to see that there is a module which can be used with LyX. However, in trying to get the module to work, I've run into a snag. I have it installed, and I can even successfully compile the example docum

Re: Longtable captions

2012-05-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On 5/8/2012 8:45 AM, John Tapsell wrote: > At the moment adding captions to longtables requires manually adding lyx > code. Hi John, While the offer is much appreciated, in this case, it's unnecessary. You *can* add captions to longtables. It's available from the Table properties dialog. Right

Re: Spaces in the title of descriptions

2012-04-20 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Manolo, On 4/20/2012 9:34 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > This has probably been discussed before, although I don't quite recall the > suggestion I'm about to make. > > As most LyXers, I use a short space (C-Space) as a substitute for spaces in > the > title of descriptions in LyX. As many, I ta

Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

2012-04-03 Thread Rob Oakes
On 4/3/2012 10:01 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately & just now I was thinking of > using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download > of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I > recall that on 10.04 it requi

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/9/2012 7:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Can one import HTML, with its styles, into MSWord or Libreoffice? If > so, then it sounds to me like eLyXer has already accomplished this, > without any added work from you, Alex. You've already done the hard > part, and Rob's done the other end of the hard

word2lyx Fixes: Python Import Error

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users, If you were trying to test word2lyx and got an import error, I've fixed the underlying issue (I hope). You can download the updated sources from http://oak-tree.us/stuff/LyX/word2lyx-01.zip. I've also posted all of the source code and revision history to: https://code.launchpad.ne

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > I would love to agree, but round-trip is what is needed most of the > time. An import word2lyx is perfect, but in most cases only half the > story. I would use it extensively if the round trip is

Re: word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:56 AM, BH wrote: > I'm very interested in this -- thanks for undertaking the project. > However, I can't even get it started. On Mac (10.6.8), calling > word2lyx from the Terminal, I get the following: > >> ./word2lyx.py ./Example-Word2LyX.docx test.lyx > Traceback (most re

word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, First off, thank you to everyone who sent me documents over the weekend. I was able to make a lot of tweaks to word2lyx based on what you sent me. With that hurdle out of the way, I think it's ready to release it into the wild. If you'd like to download a copy of it, yo

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/5/2012 2:01 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Actualy one more question - it might have been mentioned, but are you > also looking into a lyx2word converter which would provide > round-trips with track changes and notes? I'd really like to provide for that, yes. However, there is something of a hang-

Import/Export Error Information (word2lyx)

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I'm getting ready to publish the source for Word2LyX, but ran into one last problem. I created an input filter/filetype to completely automate the conversion of Word documents. However, when run, I'm getting an error: An error occurred while running: python "inputfile.docx" "ou

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi James, On 3/2/2012 4:18 PM, James Sutherland wrote: > This sounds very nice! Thanks. I appreciate that. > Any ideas about whether you will be able to support cross references > and translate that into LyX/LaTeX labels/references? > James Short answer, yes. It's one of the three or four things

word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, I wanted to give everyone a quick status update on what I've been doing with the Word to LyX importer. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been working on it full steam and it's now pretty functional. It supports: 1. Translating Word paragraph and character styles to

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 2/9/2012 11:42 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Ah, OK. Always hated DOM. eLyXer's in-memory representation is for the > LyX document, not of the resulting HTML document. Much tighter this > way, IMHO. Is there an example of how I might be able to access the in-memory representation for the LyX docu

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Oakes
On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:04 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Strong suggestion: use LyX proper. I am quite sure you already know that > because I saw some patches from you in this area but I'll explain anyway: > LyX's html own export is so good and fast because it effectively knows the > in-memory r

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, > Not only possible but easy if you do things the Steve Litt way. eLyXer > quickly punches out HTML that's clean enough to read with an XML > parser, I think. So, eLyXer converts to HTML, and then your program's > DOMbuilder module converts that HTML to in-memory DOM. No muss, no > fuss,

eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear eLyXer Users and Developers, I'm still at work on the import/export module for Microsoft Word documents. I'm making pretty good progress. I've got a rough prototype that works pretty well and I'm now starting to refine it. My approach up to now has been to use regular expressions to match

Request for Feedback (OpenSource Materials)

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
In addition to the other request for feedback, I was wondering if I might pester the community for one other favor. I'm currently putting together materials for a workshop. It's meant to introduce students (math, science, graduate, medical) to open tools and how they can be used for writing. It'

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Les Denham wrote: > Supporting Styles and Figures is a major achievement as far as I am > concerned. I assume you don't do much in deciphering the fingerpainting > favored by most Word users. Such crass formatting is probably best left > as Standard in LyX anyway. Ri

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Thank you everyone for the comments so far. I really appreciate hearing from others as it helps me to build out a more detailed use-case. In addition to the earlier questions, I have one more: How important is support of .doc? I know that it is the standard upon which the publishing industry is

Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread Rob Oakes
es"? 5. Just how important do you consider "round-tripping" a document, e.g., going from LyX to Word and back to LyX. 6. Is there anyone who might be interested in collaborating on this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Updated Kindle Tools

2012-01-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Given the recent discussion about publishing to the Kindle format, I thought that this announcement might be of interest to you. Amazon just recently updated its suite of KindleGen tools to support HTML5 and CSS. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_357613402_1?ie=UT

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > I wonder if we'd be better just outputting footnotes as endnotes > all the time. The inline version we now use is cool, but maybe it's too > cool for it's own good. I actually think th

Re: Pass LyX comments through eLyXer?

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
I for one would like for the topic to remain here. I don't follow the discussion on the eLyXer list, but knowing what developments happen with this topic are useful for things I'm working on. Especially if whatever Steve and Alex create can be adapted to work with the native XHTML modifications

HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
I'd appreciate any comments. Cheers, Rob Oakes htmlendnotelist.diff Description: Binary data

Re: LyX and Kindle books

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Oakes
I am working on an ePub compatible module right now (document class at any rate). It's for a talk I'm giving at a publishing conference next week. I will try and post something about it next week. Does anyone know of a visual CSS editor that is open source? I'm trying to find something that can

Re: LyX-Produced Book

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Congratulations on finishing your book. It's beautifully produced and looks very interesting. While I was looking through it, I found myself with a couple of "craft" questions: Did you write the document class from scratch, or is it based on one of the larger classes (e.g., Koma-Script, Memoir, St

Subfigures in Memoir

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Does anyone know if it is possible to use memoir's subfloat environment inside of LyX for subfigures and sub-tables? Or if there is a way to override the loading of the subfig pacakge? There appears to be an incompatability between subfig and many of the font customization macros, and I'm not quite

Re: Lualatex and Lyx.

2011-11-18 Thread Rob Oakes
On Nov 18, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > I found it easier to have two latex distributions. I have lyx and texlive > from debian, as well as a direct install of texlive-2011. There is nothing to > manage - the direct install of texlive takes precedence because it is earlier > in my P

Re: Lualatex and Lyx.

2011-11-15 Thread Rob Oakes
On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, stefano franchi wrote: >> Could you point to some specific instructions? I've always wanted to >> try this, but never quite made the first step. I may first test it in >> a Virtual Machine. >> ... > 1. Uninstall all the tex-related packages from the system via syn

Re: Short Cuts to Document Preamble

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, > No, sorry. Shortcuts are global. I can see where it would be cool to be > able to do this, but it seems complicated to me. LyX would have to > reload the shortcuts every time you switched buffers. Good to know. And, now that you mention it, it would be complex thing to implement an

Re: Quotation / invoice in Lyx?

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Rainer, > I have seen the "invoice" LaTeX package, but didn't manage to get it to work > in LyX. The Invoice package looks (more or less) like it would be great for quotes. Could you elaborate on what you couldn't get to work? It looks like it makes extensive use of commands that require tw

Short Cuts to Document Preamble

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Oakes
I've been working on a custom of custom documents and wanted to check something. Does anyone know if you can add custom keyboard shortcuts to a LyX layout file (or the local layout)? I've created a custom character style inset and going to the Edit menu or right clicking and then selecting the s

Beginner Tutorials

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users, Sorry that I've been incommunicado for the past few months. I've been extraordinarily busy getting married, trying to wrap up a never-ending book project, and digging myself out of enormous holes at work. However, I wanted to raise something I saw on the list last week (I think that

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Oakes
> Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with > LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of sticking points that aren

Re: xetex CV

2011-06-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Mauro and Liviu, Sorry for being so quiet through the whole exchange, but I've been buried at work for the past month and I'm still trying to get on top of things. On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Mauro wrote: >> Hello every

Re: Most suitable image format

2011-05-31 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Sam, You can use the same version of the document, just place the print image in one branch and the web version in another. (Branches may be LyX's single most awesome, never heard-of feature.) When you want to compile for print, then activate that branch. When you want to compile for web, a

Re: Most suitable image format

2011-05-31 Thread Rob Oakes
It actually depends on how you intend to use the resulting document. If you will be printing the resulting PDF on a professional press, then you will want to use a lossless format (most likely tiff), or a high quality jpeg. If the PDF is to be put on your website, you will probably want to use

Re: OT: Typeface used in The Economist print edition

2011-05-01 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Liviu, > Completely off-topic, does anyone have an idea what typeface The > Economist uses in its print edition? I was curious, so I spent a little bit of time researching it. It's actually a proprietary font that they commissioned purely for the print magazine, called EcoType. This article

Re: LyXHTML image resolution

2011-04-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Ramin, > I'm using 2.0 to export html which I can then convert to epub format > with Calibre. I've been playing with the same export. So far I've been really happy. Rather than using Calibre to do the conversion, you might take a look at Sigil. It creates a much cleaner ePub (though Calibre

Re: Timeline generation

2011-04-18 Thread Rob Oakes
There are two latext packages that can be used for timelines: timeslins and chronology. This links discusses both of them, they seem pretty straightforward to use and chronology creates a nicely drawn figure. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/217834/how-to-create-a-timeline-with-latex If your'

Re: XeTeX (No Math!)

2011-04-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, There is a known bug in older versions of XeTeX which can cause problems with math symbols in some fonts. The bug report for Ubuntu can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/364627 I was able to fix the problem by editing a configuration file: /e

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, > I'm not quite sure what you guys mean by "semantic import/export", but if you > mean exporting the text marked up with (empty) styles and the (empty) style > definitions so all I have to do with the MSWord file is fill in the styles, > then I'm on it like a squirrel on a tree. Let m

LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today? I think it's very important that w

Re: Title placement and font size

2011-03-10 Thread Rob Oakes
> > This is just one man's opinion, but I never use the document class's features > for the front matter. I just use custom environments and ERT (embedded LaTeX) > to place all elements of the front matter -- the title, the author, the cover > image, the copyright page, the dedication and ackno

Epigraph for Memoir

2011-03-10 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX-Developers, So, after working on the Side Caption style, I got excited and thought that I would try and make an "epigraph" style for memoir and my custom class. The epigraph command allows the enterprising author to add a quotation to their document prior to the start of the chapter (s

Re: Side Caption Insets for Memoir

2011-03-10 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Developers and Users, > I'm trying to create custom insets and environments for the document class > features. One environment that has me stumped though, is how to create an > inset for the memoir "sidecaption" feature. > > The sidecaption environment allows you to typeset the caption

Side Caption Insets for Memoir

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Developers and Users, For the past couple of days, I've been working on a custom LaTeX document class for a non-profit. It is based on memoir, and while it is still a work in progress, I'd like to think that it is rather awesome. Because the final goal is to use this document class in

Re: .odt -> .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tommaso, Sorry to hear about the difficulties. I actually had better luck creating my own import path. ODF -> HTML -> Run tidy on HTML -> HTML2LaTeX-> LyX This made sure that the markup coming into LyX was as clean as possible with no strange ERT or other data that couldn't be converted. I

Re: .odt -> .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tomaso, You may be able to modify this to suit your purposes. http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import You obviously wouldn't need to mess about with the Word step, but the script might be useful for converting from ODF to LaTeX? There are links to the other tools as

Separate CSS stylesheet and HTML into separate files

2011-02-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users and Developers, Does anyone know if LyX's current XHTML export allows for the HTML to be output in one file and for the CSS to be output to another? If this isn't currently possible, does anyone know how hard it might be to implement? I've been working with a non-profit to create

Resizing Images During XHTML Export

2011-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Developers and Users, I've been playing with using LyX as a way to create both print PDFs and ePub documents from a single source document. So far, everything works very, very well. (The XHMTL is extremely clean and easy to modify by tweaking the CSS.) What is not easy, however, is the

Exporting to a Custom Path

2011-01-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Does anyone know how to export a document to a custom URL with LyX? I've been playing with the creation of e-books using the XHTML export in LyX 2.0 (and it works really well), but would like to export to a directory different than the one which holds my files. I can't seem to

Re: Problem

2011-01-05 Thread Rob Oakes
This is a stupid question, but I'll go ahead and ask it anyway. What happens when you to export to PDF? Is there any particular reason you need a DVI file? (It's an old format and not very well supported. PDF is a much better alternative.) Cheers, Rob

RE: Font choices.

2010-12-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi John, Are you looking to use them throughout the entire document, or as character styles? If you want to use them in the entire document, you can simply add the LaTeX code to the preamble (Document > Settings). If you want to create custom character styles, you can create insets which include

New Page Breaks

2010-12-10 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX-Users, Does anyone know if it is possible to create new types of breaks in LyX? I've just discovered the \clearoddpage and \cleareven page commands in the lhelp package. As I'm currently working on a project which uses illustrations on the even pages opposite chapter heads (e.g. Illu

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Rob Oakes
the same page. It will also use a different numbering scheme (a,b,c ... if using the standard classes) and not screw up your document footnote numbering. Cheers, Rob Oakes

RE: Custom Title Page in Articles

2010-11-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tim, <> Good for you! It wasn't until I started creating custom document classes and LyX modules that I really started to think, "Wow, this whole LyX thing is cool. With a little bit of effort, you can literally do anything." << Basically, I want something that goes (Nifty graphics with my

Re: Fonts in LyX (and LaTeX and TeX)

2010-11-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Stefano, > do you have any advice or pointers to sites explaining how to use margin > kerning in XeTeX? The notes posted by J Kew on the mailing list and on the > XeTeX wiki are way too cryptic for me. Short answer, yes. As far as I know, it hasn't yet been discussed much in the Interwebs,

Re: Fonts in LyX (and LaTeX and TeX)

2010-11-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: > There is preliminary XeTeX support in the development version. Not > ready for the masses. On this point, I have to disagree. Preliminary as it might be, I've found it very stable. I've been using LyX 2 for nearly a year, and have transitione

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Frederick, > My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content > person, not technical and hence the handicap. Please don't apologize. It would probably be a better world if content people forced technical people to explain themselves. > I know what I want the first pages

XeTeX Updates in TeX Live 2010/MacTeX

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago, I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and wanted to send a general report for Mac users.

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Thanks for the link. I was able to get LuaTeX working with normal pdfTeX documents via following the instructions on the wiki (using the MacTeX 2010 distribution and LyX 2.0). I'm running into problems using fontspec, though. I think that is due to the lack of a fontspec database. (Described

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Frederick, This is a very large question. To narrow the scope (and provide better references), what specifically are you looking to do? When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? What do you mean, "convert a design from the drawingboard

LyX and LuaTeX

2010-11-01 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, I am currently slogging my way through a book chapter on advanced methods in LyX/LaTeX and just had a quick question. Does anyone know if there is documentation on how to use LyX with luaTeX? I know that it isn't officially supported, and things would probably break terribl

Re: Linking

2010-10-21 Thread Rob Oakes
erting code with the TeX Code Inset (Insert > TeX Code). I've never really used this particular package, so I don't know how complicated it is. If it's somewhat ugly, I could possibly help create a module to simplify things. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Re: OT: should learning materials be hard to read?

2010-10-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Liviu, I can't help but weigh in on this one. I think it really depends on who the audience is, how much they are motivated, and the medium through which you are delivering the message. > My personal experience from the bench suggests something similar. > Whenever I spend too much time tryi

New PDF Conversions on Windows

2010-10-14 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, I've run into a bit of a problem and I am wondering if anyone else has seen it before. I'm trying to compile test documents on Windows with LyX 2.0 and MikTeX 2.8. The documents all compile without trouble, but I'm having a devil of a time with PDF images. The document converte

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

2010-10-13 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Uwe, Thanks for the response. My question doesn't really have much to do with LyX, but rather about the defaults selected by particular LaTeX distributions. I asked it on the users list mostly because it's where I know the most people and there are multiple TeX experts who hang out here.

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

2010-10-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Uwe, Thank you for getting back to me. I'm sorry if if my inquiry sounds stupid. (I will concede that it is mildly dense.) Even so, I'm trying to track down which fonts the different packages use without making any modifications. I know that it is very easy to change the font to an alter

Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

2010-10-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX-Users, Sorry for spamming the list, but I am scrambling to compile a table on the default formatting for the common LaTeX document classes and I can't seem to find a piece of information. I am hoping that someone on the list may know. What is the default font used for the KOMA-Script

Re: External Programs and Add-On Modules for LyX

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Rainer, Thank you for your comments. > > Nice - could you inform the list when it is available? Will it be > downloadable? Short answer, yes. Slightly longer answer: I'm not sure that it will be freely available, unfortunately. It is dependent on the publisher There will be several cha

External Programs and Add-On Modules for LyX

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users and Developers, I'm currently working on the book chapter that covers writing with LyX and LaTeX. While doing so, I've been trying to find a list of all of the external tools and modules that LyX works with. While many of these are alluded to in the manuals, is anyone aware of

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Les, > I had no idea people were asking for this kind of feature. Real-time > collaboration on a document seems to me to be a formula for a colossal waste > of time, extending the concept of endless meetings to an online equivalent. I'm not sure if ti's people in general or just people that

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Rob Oakes
o, if the feature doesn't fit within LyX, perhaps we could send the use case scenarios and discussion to another project where it did fit? The natural fit, at least to my mind, would be one of the IM clients. Perhaps Empathy? Anyone else have any thoughts? Cheers, Rob Oakes

Re: How to create a layout file?

2010-09-16 Thread Rob Oakes
Layout files are just simple text files that have been saved with the .layout extensions. You then place this file in the "layouts" subdirectory of your LyX user directory. (To see where your LyX user directory is located, simply click on Help > About, or if using Mac, Application Menu > About

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

2010-09-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Necati, I don't typically use LyX when working with Beamer. I think it's easier to just use plain LaTeX. However, attached you will find the source file for the example slides I included earlier. The theme commands are invoked with ERT insets. If you have any questions, please feel free t

Re: how to make fragile frames in beamer layout

2010-08-31 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Guenter, I'm probably missing something obvious, but can't you use a \protect command? In a few of the document classes I've written, this has allowed me to pass all kind of fragile commands (images, for examples in the texMemo class) while keeping the processor nice and happy. Cheers, Ro

Re: creating a custom layout from scratch

2010-08-21 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Boraz, Start by reading section 5.2 of Help > Customization. Then I would suggest looking at a couple of layout files, first something simple like the basic article class (article.layout) and then a thesis-type layout file. The layout files are located in a folder (cleverly named 'layout

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-20 Thread Rob Oakes
> This is how, after all, python packages are managed (through setup.py). But I > agree if you really need this, advanced users can figure it out by > themselves. I can only dream. I'm not sure that it's that simple. (Or if it is, I really need to learn more about packaging!) I maintain a py

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-20 Thread Rob Oakes
On Aug 20, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Sure. But you lose one of the most important features of TeXLive: immediate > update to the most recent packages from CTAN. I think it really depends on your needs. The question for the user becomes, how often do you really need to upda

LyX Presentation Notes and Slides

2010-08-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Because I got a couple of emails asking about the slides from my presentation yesterday, I thought I would pass along the following link: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/08/19/linux-typography From there, you can download a copy of the slides, or view the slides/speak

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Fareed, Does this new LyX package depend on the the TexLive in Ubuntu's repositories? Ubuntu's version of TexLive was out-of-date for a long time, so I installed TexLive 2009 directly from its net installer, to use its latex package manager. As a result I've had to install any latex related p

Pure Promotion - LyX Talk at University of Utah

2010-08-18 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, This is a pure piece of personal promotion, but ... here goes. Tonight, I will be giving a talk about LyX to the Salt Lake Linux Users Group. The meeting will be at the University of Utah in the Warnock Engineering building. (See below for directions.) It will start at jus

LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users and Developers, I wanted to provide a bit of an update to my adventures with Ubuntu packaging (insofar as they are related to LyX). I've spoken with the Ubuntu developers, and they have granted our request to include 1.6.7 in the next version of Ubuntu (Maverick Meerkat, 10.1

Re: texMemo layoutfile

2010-08-16 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Hellmut, Thanks for these recommendations. They are appreciated. > Permit some sort of textual logo (for people who know some LaTeX like > me using different fonts, sizes, color, etc.) > An elementary form could be an ERT block instead of the graphics inset > but I don't have any idea how t

Fwd: [Bug 618690] Re: Sync lyx 1.6.7-1 (universe) from Debian testing (main)

2010-08-16 Thread Rob Oakes
It appears that the request for Feature Freeze exception has been granted. I'm now trying to whittle down the list of Launchpad bugs. Is it just me, or are the LyX website and trac down? Also, were the problems with platex solved per LyX 1.6.7? I remember some of the discussion, but haven't

Re: texMemo layoutfile

2010-08-16 Thread Rob Oakes
errors are > shown the first time but after changing something (and thus probably > overwriting the cause of these errors) it is working fine. > > > Thanks a lot and happy LyXing > > Hellmut > > > On 15.08.2010 23:29, Rob Oakes wrote: >> Hi Helmut, >>

Re: How to convert to MS Word?

2010-08-16 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, I'd recommend that you first convert to HTML using eLyXer, and then use create an HTML to Word export filter. The ConvertDoc script described in this article (http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import) can be used to automate the command line OpenOffice conversio

Re: texMemo layoutfile

2010-08-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Helmut, My apologies. The article was cross-posted to two sites: blog.oak-tree.us and www.oak-tree.us. The error was corrected on the first and not on the second. I have since updated the download link: http://www.oak-tree.us/2010/08/02/texmemo/ Please let me know if you have any other

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Morten, << Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? >> Take care with calling Computer Modern dated. I personally don't like it, but a lot of people do. I'd u

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes
I also, couldn't agree more. I tend to hide my modifications as new document classes ... but front-matter should be finger painted. After that, though, I don't want to see or think about ERT. On 08/11/2010 12:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400 Steve Litt wrote:

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-08-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Jose, If you've been using the LyX-Outline branch, you may want to update to the most recent version. It's been a little over a week since I've merge LyX trunk. (I've been trying to fix a problem related to tabbing to the next entry in the expanded outline view.) I merged the source again th

Re: changeset/35060 - color regressions

2010-08-07 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Jean-Marc, > I'd like to have at least one good theme before looking at multiple > themes :) I'm not thinking multiple themes so much as a theming system. We could save the list out as a text/xml file and then load an entire list of colors in at once. > > Qt is supposed to help us here.

Re: appendices and numbering

2010-08-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Benjamin, I'm not sure that I follow the second question either. What are these PDF files? Are they multiple pages worth of material, or just a single page of material? If they are just a single page of material (any you've already sized them appropriately), I would just add them using th

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