Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread obregonmateo
Thanks Uwe for offering to review a layout for APA6. Others here are also interested in making this work, so I'm sure we'll have something soon for you to look at. Mateo. On Tuesday 11 December 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 11.12.2012 01:14, schrieb obregonma...@gmail.com: > > > Each APA-type jo

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread obregonmateo
Each APA-type journal has its own list of document types that it accepts; these journals are only guided by the APA _style_ conventions. All journals in psychology etc. that I have come across accept tex manuscripts, as long as the tex file contains everything the authors use (i.e., macros) and

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread obregonmateo
I think people are missing the point here ... Lyx is *great* for writing and getting references and labels right! This goes for APA journals as much as for math/engineering journals. I have co-authored several articles for APA journals and the pay-off of writing them in Lyx and then getting the

Re: Using sweave/knitr in master and child documents

2012-07-20 Thread obregonmateo
Thanks Yihui, for testing this on 2.0.4. You comment would mean that I would have to set my libraries and opts() in each child doc; this is manageable, as each chapter (child doc) has its own data sets. Perhaps its time to move my lyx docs to 2.0.4 (from 1.6.10). Cheers. Mateo. On Monday 16

Using sweave/knitr in master and child documents

2012-07-16 Thread obregonmateo
Hi all- Can Lyx (v.2) manage sweave or knitr code in a child document? I know that it could not in v.1.x and my document is made up of branches for each chapter. Mateo.

Re: Reading pdf/dvi and navigate to LyX source

2010-10-19 Thread obregonmateo
On Tuesday 19 October 2010, Richard Heck wrote: > On 10/19/2010 05:57 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I think I read some time back, that it is possible to preview a pdf/dvi in > > LyX > > and then jump from a location in the pdf/dvi into the LyX document back. > > > > Can anybody give

Re: Keeping text in sync at two locations in a document

2010-09-16 Thread obregonmateo
On Thursday 16 September 2010, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/16/2010 03:06 AM, Graham Smith wrote: > > I have two timetables within the same document. > > >< snip >< > > Is there some way of doing this in Lyx. > > > > > It can easily be done in LaTeX, by defining macros that contain the > date

Re: pdfpages in lyx not producing files

2010-09-13 Thread obregonmateo
On Monday 13 September 2010, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 13.09.2010 14:44, schrieb obregonma...@gmail.com: > > > I am using Linux (Debian squeeze) with texlive, with the most recent > > versions of pdfpages and pdftex.def installed into my local texmf tree. > > > >> What is the exact error message yo

Re: pdfpages in lyx not producing files

2010-09-13 Thread obregonmateo
On Sunday 12 September 2010, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 11.09.2010 02:21, schrieb obregonma...@gmail.com: > > > Thanks for your quick reply. I tried fully specifying the file name in the > > dpfpages dialogue box, but I get the same error message. I exported the lyx > > document to latex(pdflatex)

Re: pdfpages in lyx not producing files

2010-09-10 Thread obregonmateo
On Friday 10 September 2010, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 10.09.2010 16:20, schrieb obregonma...@gmail.com: > > > I used to be able to include PDF pages into my lyx with with > > Insert|File|ExternalMaterial|pdfpages. However, something has changed and > > when I generate pdflatex output, it cannot fin

pdfpages in lyx not producing files

2010-09-10 Thread obregonmateo
I used to be able to include PDF pages into my lyx with with Insert|File|ExternalMaterial|pdfpages. However, something has changed and when I generate pdflatex output, it cannot find the file, even though I can see the preview out the PDF document in lyx. I look around and I cannot find the file

typing slowness with large documents

2010-09-03 Thread obregonmateo
I know that this issue has come up several times in the recent past, and that its been off-loaded onto xorg/QT problems. I am experiencing very slow reaction times when typing and deleting, as well as scrolling the document window. I have the latest debian sid installation and everything else w

Re: Lyx 2.0 beta?

2010-09-02 Thread obregonmateo
I'm not sure what type of "tools" you are looking for, but the current LyX (1.6.7) manages very well with Sweave. Have you tried it? Mateo. On Thursday 02 September 2010, Julian Burgos wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Are there any news about the release of Lyx 2.0 beta? I need/want to use > Lyx w

Re: Bibliography and sitography

2010-08-10 Thread obregonmateo
Have you looked into the multibib package (CTAN multibib)? It allows you to have multiple reference sections, arranged in whatever manner you see fit. Mateo. On Tuesday 10 August 2010, RobyC. wrote: > Hi all. > I would to create 2 different bibliography files, one for the > bibliography and one

Re: LyX 2: So far so good, except outlines

2010-02-26 Thread obregonmateo
I also miss having a good outlining mode in LyX. At the moment I use Freemind mindmaps that I then pull into LyX via LaTeX. I cannot work on this project now however. Mateo. On Friday 26 February 2010, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 02/26/2010 05:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > In August I put in a

Buggy table cell options with graphics

2009-12-11 Thread obregonmateo
Hi all- Both lyx v.1.6.4 and v.1.6.5 have the same problem: the table cell options don't work correctly with graphics contents. I put together a beamer presentation with several graphics per slide, so I used the old HTML trick of ordering the images within a table. However, I found the followi

Re: Automatic repositioning of the text

2009-11-30 Thread obregonmateo
On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Pavel Sanda wrote: > obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday 30 November 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > > > I don't see a way, Uwe, to turn it off completely, at least on my > > > > system. I can turn it on, and then turn it off, but it always stays on > > > > "auto".

Automatic repositioning of the text

2009-11-30 Thread obregonmateo
On Monday 30 November 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I don't see a way, Uwe, to turn it off completely, at least on my > > system. I can turn it on, and then turn it off, but it always stays on > > "auto". > > It stays on auto, but does no longer pop up when clicking into a formula. > Thus it is tu

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-07 Thread obregonmateo
On Saturday 07 November 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Waluyo Adi Siswanto schrieb: > > > I have been searching a drawing tool that generate LaTeX code then > > implemented (pasted) somewhere in LyX so I can get simple > > pictures/diagrams. > > You now found Dia, but why do you need LaTeX code. Pers

Re: linebreak: URL in references

2009-10-30 Thread obregonmateo
On Friday 30 October 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Leo Gürtler schrieb: > > > url's are imbedded in bibtex via: > > note = {\url{http://www.lyx.org}}, > > Does it help when you replace "\url{link}" with "\href{link}{}"? To make > \href work, load "hyperref" > in the LyX document settings under "PDF

Re: UTF-8, Lyx, and Bibtex

2009-10-09 Thread obregonmateo
kbibtex manages bibtex files very nicely, including the recoding of UTF-8 characters typed in into their latex equivalents (e.g., ó becomes {\'o}). The new 2.3 version (in debian squeeze already) has updated routines to search google scholar and directly import the bibtex reference. Mateo. On

Re: Posters in LyX

2009-06-22 Thread obregonmateo
I have to disagree in this debate. I have found lyx a *superb* tool for making scientific posters! It gives a uniform look, as well as dealing with the proper formatting of legends and cross-references. Plus, it properly formats my bibtex references and places everything evenly distributed on an

Re: Including LaTeX code produced by Sweave in a LyX document

2009-06-09 Thread obregonmateo
Maybe I missed something ... you don't need to use an external file to do this. Just specify that the results of the sweave chunk is latex. Within ERT bits: ->< ERT ><--- \SweaveOpts{echo=FALSE, print=FALSE} <>= library(xtable) @

Re: Using counters

2009-05-19 Thread obregonmateo
Many thanks to all (especially Günter and Helge) for helping me solve this issue of having different counters throughout a document. This has also helped me understand how LyX behaviour has be coded to mirror the desired LaTeX behaviour, and how the LyX modules design is so useful for this. Per

Re: Using counters

2009-05-17 Thread obregonmateo
On Friday 15 May 2009, obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > We're getting close! > > On Friday 15 May 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: > > On 2009-05-15, obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday 15 May 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > > >> obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > >> > I want to have a counter

Re: Using counters

2009-05-15 Thread obregonmateo
We're getting close! On Friday 15 May 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-05-15, obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday 15 May 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > >> obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> > I want to have a counter (experiment) that uses roman numerals and > >> > is sequential throu

Re: Using counters

2009-05-15 Thread obregonmateo
On Friday 15 May 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > > I've gone through the docs, wikis and examples, and I need a helping hand. > > > > I want to have a counter (experiment) that uses roman numerals and is > > sequential throughout the chapters. I figure that a module

Using counters

2009-05-14 Thread obregonmateo
Hi everyone- I've gone through the docs, wikis and examples, and I need a helping hand. I want to have a counter (experiment) that uses roman numerals and is sequential throughout the chapters. I figure that a module is the right way about this, so I have a module with the following counter: C

Re: LyX 1.6.2: View/Update toolbar position problem still

2009-03-15 Thread obregonmateo
Thanks Uwe, I'll wait then. Mateo. On Sunday 15 March 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > obregonma...@gmail.com schrieb: > > > I assume that I would have to compile against the new QT then. > > I cannot recommend this because we noticed several new bugs in Qt 4.5 that > could make documents > uncompil

Re: LyX 1.6.2: View/Update toolbar position problem still

2009-03-15 Thread obregonmateo
Thanks Vincent- I assume that I would have to compile against the new QT then. Mateo. On Sunday 15 March 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > obregonma...@gmail.com schreef: > > Thanks for the new version. However, I I'm not sure if I have something > > wrong ... it it's still a "feature": No

LyX 1.6.2: View/Update toolbar position problem still

2009-03-15 Thread obregonmateo
Thanks for the new version. However, I I'm not sure if I have something wrong ... it it's still a "feature": No matter what I try, I cannot get the "View/Update"toolbar to stay to the right of one of the top main toolbars. Every time I start LyX, the View/Update toolbar is all the way to the rig

NoteItem style in beamer layout

2009-02-25 Thread obregonmateo
Has anyone used the "NoteItem" style to generate extra notes for the presentation (that are supposedly printed out when the [handout] class option is used)? The beamer documentation talks about using pgfpages, but I have tried the instructions there and I haven't managed to get notes to pint on

Re: How to give bibtex credit for Lyx program?

2009-02-16 Thread obregonmateo
EHEM, correctly with the ending curly bracket and extras for the kbibtex program: @Misc{ LyX2009LDPsm, title = {{LyX 1.6.1 - The Document Processor [Computer software and manual]}}, author = {{The LyX Team}}, howpublished = {Internet: http://www.lyx.org}, year = {

Re: How to give bibtex credit for Lyx program?

2009-02-16 Thread obregonmateo
On Monday 16 February 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > obregonma...@gmail.com schrieb: > > Doeas anyone have a bibtex reference for Lyx? How should we give credit > > for it? > > I use this BibTeX entry: > > @MISC{LyX, >author = {{The LyX Team}}, >title = {LyX 1.6.x}, >howpublished = {Internet:

How to give bibtex credit for Lyx program?

2009-02-15 Thread obregonmateo
Hi again- Doeas anyone have a bibtex reference for Lyx? How should we give credit for it? Mateo.

Re: Child documents with Sweave

2009-02-14 Thread obregonmateo
On Saturday 14 February 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am using lyx v. 1.5.5 (debian lenny). How can I include child documents > > with sweave code? > > I think this is this very old bug: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48 Thanks for the pointer. A

Child documents with Sweave

2009-02-14 Thread obregonmateo
Hi everyone- I have a problem using Sweave within child documents, The production of the PDF seems to be interpreting the "Scrap" code (and anything withing ERT boxes for that matter) as regular text, and does not process it as Sweave code (or respect ERT information), I have used the same docu

Feature request: Collapsed items show LABEL

2008-10-29 Thread obregonmateo
HI- I've always found that collapsing figures, tables and sections of text has been a great asset ... except for when I want to look at a specific table and I have to open them all up to find the one I want. Could the next release of LyX show the first label encountered within the collapsed it

Re: Zotero is great for organizing literature and bibliography

2008-10-11 Thread obregonmateo
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > So far, what I have done is to export Zotero as bibtex. > Then import bibtex into Jabref, and use the link of Jabref with Lyx. > > I wish there was a more direct way. I manage all my 150+ references with kbibtex, and lyx uses the same bibtex f

problem on LYX home page

2008-05-11 Thread obregonmateo
Hi- http://www.lyx.org has the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function news_data() in /home/lyx/www/www-user/test/pmwiki/cookbook/LyX/news.php on line 28 Cheers. Mateo.

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-05 Thread obregonmateo
On Friday 04 April 2008 14:17, Robert Orr wrote: > Do you need a .sty file to work with LyX?  Can you > share it? You do need to make sure you have the following LaTeX packages installed on your system: sciposter % the actual latex style file multicol% to get multip

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-04 Thread obregonmateo
I made a very simple sciposter.layout file (attached) that defined the class for LyX, put it in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts, and reconfigured lyx. I've also attached an example sciposter.lyx. I know that the layout file could be much better and that this would make the lyx document have less ER

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-02 Thread obregonmateo
I ended up using the sciposter class with the options [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{sectionbox} \usepackage{wallpaper} This gave me a great A0 landscape poster with 3 columns, a wallpaper image and text enclosed in boxes with a white

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread obregonmateo
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 14:23, muzzle wrote: > Hi, > I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I > am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited > for the task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides

Re: thesis template collection

2008-01-08 Thread obregonmateo
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:02, Robert Poser wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to collect/share LyX thesis templates from different universities. > Interests can publish their own templates and profit by hints of others. > > www.thesis-template.com. > > thanx, > Rob Are there any PhD thesis LyX te

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread obregonmateo
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:31, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Hi, > > While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book > writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual > writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind > (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the o

sciposter latex for A0 posters in LyX

2007-11-21 Thread obregonmateo
I struggled with the a0poster latex packages and the .layout files that people so kindly posted here, but I found them very hard to work with. I looked for other options and found the sciposter package, together with sectionbox, multicol and wallpaper latex packages. I found these much easier

Re: A0 posters in LyX

2007-11-19 Thread obregonmateo
On Monday 19 November 2007 23:22, Robert Orr wrote: > Thank you... > > It might not be obvious to everyone. I missed something. I have been trying to use the a0poster.layout and cannot get anything to work. What do you fix? Could you attach your working a0poster.layout? > > I used the a0poster.

Re: A0 posters in LyX

2007-11-19 Thread obregonmateo
On Monday 19 November 2007 08:21, G. Milde wrote: > On 16.11.07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've found several references through Google search on how to create an > > a0poster.layout, but I haven't found any tips on what LyX tools to use to > > create a poster. > > > > Should I use minipages and

Re: A0 posters in LyX

2007-11-16 Thread obregonmateo
On Friday 16 November 2007 14:10, Les Denham wrote: > On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've found several references through Google search on how to create an > > a0poster.layout, but I haven't found any tips on what LyX tools to use to > > create a poster. > > > > Should I

A0 posters in LyX

2007-11-16 Thread obregonmateo
I've found several references through Google search on how to create an a0poster.layout, but I haven't found any tips on what LyX tools to use to create a poster. Should I use minipages and fixed floats for graphics and tables, or, should I use columns? Any special handling of fonts? What about

Re: using Section andsubsection titles withing text

2007-10-03 Thread obregonmateo
On Thursday 04 October 2007 01:49, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Oct 3, 2007, at 7:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all- > > > > I've looked around, but I cannot see how to use the Section and > > Subsection > > titles as the Frame title for a Beamer presentation. Any ideas? > > > > Mateo. > > Sec

using Section andsubsection titles withing text

2007-10-03 Thread obregonmateo
Hi all- I've looked around, but I cannot see how to use the Section and Subsection titles as the Frame title for a Beamer presentation. Any ideas? Mateo.

Re: Apacite and long URLs

2007-09-06 Thread obregonmateo
In the preamble: \usepackage{url} Then, wherever you have your web link: \url{http://www..} Mateo. On Thursday 06 September 2007 08:22, Roberto Gorjão wrote: > Hi, > > As you know, long URLs, in bibliographies styled with apacite, are not > broken and are printed on a single line that get

Re: web references

2007-09-05 Thread obregonmateo
I've been trying to understand how to include DOI and URL references within bibtex so that they come out properly formatted for APA. The kbibtex program is very good for keeping references in a bibtex file, and allows lots of extra functionality, like keeping the DOI and URL references so you c

lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2007-08-31 Thread obregonmateo
Hi all- Does anyone have (or know of) a bibtex style file that produces modern APA formatted references, that include DOI and URL references? I tried: apa apalike apalike2 apacite apacitex newapa and none do a satisfactory job. The plannat and elsart-harv include url references, but don't for

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-09 Thread obregonmateo
You don't have the "Natbib" option with style "Author, year" selected in the Document|Setting|Bibliography menu. The references show fine with this set. Mateo. On Saturday 04 August 2007 22:04, John Kane wrote: > I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper > citations. I have tried wh

Re: LyX cannot entirely change the document language

2007-07-25 Thread obregonmateo
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 21:53, Dov Feldstern wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > > Paul Smith wrote: > >> On 7/24/07, Steve Litt > >> > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > After having written a piece of a document, there is apparently no > >>> > way of changing the overall language of the document,

Re: RFC: Better name for the wiki page 'LyX for X'

2007-07-24 Thread obregonmateo
On Monday 23 July 2007 21:03, killermike wrote: > On Monday 23 July 2007 19:33:44 Maria Gouskova wrote: > > I think "LyX for X" is less misleading than the "science" > > alternatives. Many people use the term "sciences" narrowly to refer > > only to physics, chemistry, etc. to the exclusion of huma