Fancy headers in 2.4

2025-01-08 Thread Stephen Buonopane
In LyX 2.4.2.1, the rule below the fancy header does not extend to the right margin. Same file opened in 2.3.8, looks fine. On MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1. Thanks, Steve mwe.lyx Description: Binary data mwe2.4.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document mwe2.3.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document -- lyx

Re: Convert Mac Word and Thesis to LyX

2024-04-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Apr 17, 2024, at 4:57 PM, Brian Kneller via lyx-users > wrote: > > Hi, > > I hope I am in the correct space. — I have prepared a thesis for a PhD (75K > words)and approx 80 figures, the text in Mac-word and the figures are in > Adobe Illustrator so I have some flexibility in Format.

Re: Problems with insert Graphics on MacOS

2023-07-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 18, 2023, at 8:43 AM, Sarah Stelter via lyx-users wrote: > > Dear Lyx Team, > > I installed a new version of Lyx Version 2.3.7 on my MacOS Ventura Version > 13.3.1. > It worked before but now I can’t insert Graphics anymore without tipping the > path manually. > Basacly the browse f

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Jan 23, 2023, at 3:19 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: > > For those of you facing this issue, here are two other ways to copy the full > path and file name, which I think are fewer mouse clicks than opening the Get > Info.. > > 1) In the Finder, right click on the file to bring up the contextua

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Jan 21, 2023, at 4:02 PM, Christopher Menzel > wrote: > > Udi wrote: >> I think this bug is already reported here >> , it seems that you can enter the >> Unix file path into the "File:" field manually. >> >> It's not a perfect solution, but it mi

Re: More space for document

2023-01-13 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Jan 13, 2023, at 2:54 PM, Paul Stansell wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 18:44, Richard Kimberly Heck > wrote: > > FYI, Paul, there's also a full screen mode in LyX (which I think Pavel > implemented), if you really want more space. > > I didn't know abou

Re: dictionary

2022-01-28 Thread Stephen Buonopane via lyx-users
> On Jan 28, 2022, at 10:44 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller via lyx-users > wrote: > > Am Freitag, dem 28.01.2022 um 15:48 +0100 schrieb Patrick Dupre: >> Here it is >> >> But no paths about my own dictionaries > > Checkout whether there are any (hidden) files starting with .aspell or > .hunspell in y

Re: Graphics clipping in LyX 2.3.6

2022-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane via lyx-users
> On Jan 18, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 03:23:02PM -0500, Stephen Buonopane via lyx-users > wrote: >> I looked at the release notes for 2.3.6 and the only possibly related item I >> could find was >> "- Fix clipping

Graphics clipping in LyX 2.3.6

2022-01-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane via lyx-users
Ever since I upgraded to LyX 2.3.6.2 (on Mac OS X 10.15.7) I have been having issues when I use “clip to coordinates” in the LyX: Graphics window. The bounding box of the on-screen LyX preview is different than the pdf output (using pdflatex). This worked fine when I was in LyX 2.3.5.2 I am usi

Re: PDF graphics is blurred in LyX when scaled

2018-11-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Nov 12, 2018, at 7:52 AM, Baris Erkus wrote: > > On 12-Nov-18 3:38 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: >> Am Montag, 12. November 2018 13:21:58 CET schrieb Daniel : >>> On 11/11/2018 19:14, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 11/10/18 9:45 PM, Baris Erkus wrote: > Hello, > > PDF graphics appear

Re: Formatting name/date to be filled by others

2018-04-10 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Apr 10, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Of course, \hspace{} and \vspace{} will place these appropriately. What I >> seek is a way to add the solid underline for a defined length and at a >> specified place. Would \hfill{} be the appropr

Re: Removing period following section reference

2017-09-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 11:09 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: > > Hey Lyx Community, > > I've spent some time searching online for a resolution to this, but haven't > found much. > > The issue is as follows. > > Suppose I write a section in the appendix (insert appendix here) like: > > \section{

Re: LyX Spell Checker Sanity Check

2017-01-06 Thread Stephen G. Buonopane
> On Jan 6, 2017, at 10:27 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Richard Heck > wrote: > The spell checkers are all external programs. I don't know what the > default is on OSX. > > Nor I. > > Is it possible you accidentally told the spell checker

Re: Inserting a very large skip that does not apply.

2016-11-27 Thread Stephen G. Buonopane
> On Nov 27, 2016, at 12:07 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > > I clearly am missing something obvious. I just want to place a line of text > in the centre of a landscape page. > > I thought I could just insert a fairly large custom skip and that should do > it but the skip seems be ignored. >

Re: Lilypond preview

2016-09-21 Thread Stephen Luttrell
> On 14 Sep 2016, at 02:23, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 07:14:00PM +0100, Stephen Luttrell wrote: >> I have OS X 10.11.6 and LyX 2.2.1 with (1) Look & Feel / Display / Display >> graphics checked, and (2) Look & Feel / Display / Instant previ

Lilypond preview

2016-09-13 Thread Stephen Luttrell
work as expected in the LyX window. In case it is relevant, preview of mathematical formulae in my LyX window works correctly. Stephen Luttrell

Re: Landscape document..........

2016-07-16 Thread Stephen GEORGE
Hi All, On 17/07/16 08:41, Charlie wrote: On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:48:28 + (UTC) "Paul A.Rubin ru...@msu.edu" informed me of this: > Charlie ipstarmail.com.au> writes: With a full page picture, landscape the picture goes out past the right page, with the text landscape it a

lyx 2.2.0 icons and mac retina

2016-06-07 Thread Stephen G. Buonopane
I have been upgraded to a new retina mac book pro which I also use with an external, non-retina display. With Lyx 2.2.0 the icons rescale when I move LyX between the retina and non-retina displays.If I set them to normal on the retina display, they become tiny on the external monitor. With Ly

Re: graphical float placements

2015-03-25 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Mar 25, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Am 25.03.2015 um 19:49 schrieb fmsal...@virginmedia.com: >> Hullo, >>Using distribution openSUSE 13.2 but not the rpm's for tex and lyx. >> TexLive 2014 installed and lyx 2.1.2 compiled locally.. >> >>I am writing a documen

Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts

2014-10-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I have been following this thread (and past related ones) with great interest as I will be forced to upgrade to a retina Mac in the next 6 months or so. Could someone post some screen shots that show the on-screen quality on a retina mac versus non-retina? How is the image quality on a non-retin

Re: Templates on Mac OS X

2014-07-16 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On the Mac installation, they get buried inside of the app package. Find LyX.app in your applications folder Right click on it and select "show package contents" Then go to Contents -> Resources -> templates On my installation of LyX, File -> New from Template goes to /Library/ApplicationSuppor

Fwd: How to enlarge a Graphic?

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Begin forwarded message: > From: Norbert Böhm > Subject: Re: How to enlarge a Graphic? > Date: April 17, 2014 6:00:12 AM EDT > To: Stephen Buonopane > > Am 17.04.2014 05:08, schrieb Stephen Buonopane: >> >> On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

Re: How to enlarge a Graphic?

2014-04-16 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/16/2014 05:06 AM, Norbert Böhm wrote: >> Hello, >> >> can I ask here to a Lyx - Problem with Graphics? >> >> So, the Problem is, that I want to set a Graphic over the holy entire >> of a A4 - Page. I may set of the margins for this site.

Can't change previewer

2014-02-06 Thread Stephen Corwin
Hi-- I've been using LyX for many years and know how to change previewers, but no matter what I do now, documents come up in Yap. I'm running LyX 2.0.7 on Windows 7. What I've done: 1. Installed SumatraPDF 2. Added ;C:\Program Files (x86)\SumatraPDF to the "PATH prefix" item in Tools > Prefere

Where is insert branch in 2.0.7?

2014-01-25 Thread Stephen Luttrell
I have Lyx 2.0.7 on OS X 10.9.1. The menu entry for "Insert Branch " doesn't exist in 2.0.7. Previously in 2.0.6, when you created a new branch name, its name was appended to the menu entry "Insert Branch ..." so that further instances of the branch could then be created, but this no longer happen

Re: Seeing invisible table grid lines in the GUI

2014-01-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jan 22, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Hi LyX users, I use LyX on several computers (all

Re: Can't insert PDF image into LyX

2013-12-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Try the solution given here… http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/fixing_pdf_graphics_in_lyx.php which creates a direct conversion from pdf to png. It solved a related problem for me in the past where the conversion through eps subtly changed the graphics dimensions making on screen cropping near

Re: Tutorial sample files

2013-10-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Paul Meehl wrote: > I am new to LyX and cannot find the sample files described in the > Tutorial.pdf: > >Finally, we have written a file called example_raw.lyx to let you practice > your LYX skills. Imagine that it was typed by someone who did not know > about an

Re: Question #2: Printed results from LyX

2013-08-29 Thread Stephen George
On 30/08/2013 1:49 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 8/29/13 8:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote: When doing stochastic screening, the ideal is to screen at the same dpi as the final printing device. Next best is an even multiple. I.E. screen at 300 dpi for printing on a 600 dpi printer. You also have to d

Re: Anyone know of a best-seller written in LyX

2013-06-11 Thread Stephen George
On 12/06/2013 1:02 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: of course he's right, but then he can google what DILLIGAF stands for :-)-O No he can't, with comments like /"open source programs have great appeal for people who want to tinker with computers but almost none for those who actually want to do so

Re: Specifying a path prefix in a LaTeX macro

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen Brooking
> I've tried the same under Windows (I need this to work with LyX under > Windows), setting an environment variable to point to a path (and > reconfiguring and restarting LyX just in case), and specifying that path as > my \filepath, but I still get the same 'I can't write on file > `/testreq1.tex'

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen Brooking
> $$r The full path to the original LyX file being processed, e.g. > D:/Documents/LyX/ Is this supported in Windows? I tried to update my LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex) converter to specify the output directory (to overcome the problem in my other thread); so it is specified as this: pdflat

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen Brooking
> There may not be any pdf->png converter defined, though one could use > ImageMagick to define one. A better solution might be to modify the > script you have to export something other than PDF. This is probably > fairly easy to do. So I have now updated my script to convert to PNG also, and s

Re: Specifying a path prefix in a LaTeX macro

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen Brooking
> > \filepath{c:/docs/} > > Have you tried it with Windows-style path names? So I changed this to define a \dirsep macro which gives me a backslash. Using \textbackslash (and I think escaping the backslash) seemed to insert a \T1 macro that is undefined. However, with my \dirsep, I still get th

Re: Specifying a path prefix in a LaTeX macro

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Brooking
> > \filepath{c:/docs/} > > Have you tried it with Windows-style path names? Hi Richard, I have, but I'm not sure I've tried it in the correct way. \filepath{c:\docs\} The above would be looking for the macro \docs ? How should I express the Windows-style path names? Thanks and regards, Ste

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Brooking
> Which doesn't seem to show any error. > > Any other suggestions of what I could try? Am I doing the right thing in > trying to get the console output in the command prompt? Sorry - I wasn't looking high enough up in the debug output. If I just select 'Graphics conversion and loading' messages

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Brooking
> > So I now get my conversion performed OK when I generate the PDF > > document, but the preview of the figure in the LyX editing window > > still says 'Error converting to loadable format'. Would you be able to > > provide me any pointers as to why this is? Is there a log of the > > errors th

Specifying a path prefix in a LaTeX macro

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Brooking
Hi, I'm using LyX 2.0.5.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I am trying to put together a LyX framework that will allow me to enter some text, set it to a particular Style, and for the text marked by that Style to be written to a file. The filename and path to be specified by other macros. The file creat

Re: Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Brooking
> > No? I hesitate to contradict you Richard but in my tinkering with > > Python scripts I've run converters using *all* the following: > > [snip] > > $$p The full directory path of the LyX temporary directory. On my > > Windows system one day this was > > > > C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Temp/l

Problem specifying a new converter

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Brooking
Hi, I have specified a new converter to convert Visio drawings into PDF (using some VBScript borrowed from elsewhere on the web), but have run into issues. My converter is specified like this: cscript /vsd2pdf.vbs "$$i" "$$o" When Visio runs, it can't access the file to convert because the curr

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-02 Thread Stephen
Hi, Thank you, .. I have been jumping though hoops to control my text width within a cell ( inserting boxes into cells - argh)... your question cause me to try your example out and with a little paying around I've learnt something. Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that widt

Re: Caption-Figure Alignment

2013-03-09 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:28 AM, James Sutherland wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann > wrote: > > This has always been a source of frustration to me. It seems like the > default behavior should be for the paragraph style in a float to be centered. > This should be fo

Re: from mac to windows

2013-02-25 Thread Stephen
Hi Cecile, I have also had problems with Miktex not installing missing packages properly, see my post where I comment on a solution that fixed it for me. ymmv http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg94623.html Steve On 25/02/13 09:05, Cecile Danilo wrote: I downloaded LyX-2

Re: Problems with Windows installation [solved]

2013-02-06 Thread Stephen George
Hi Les, On 7/02/2013 2:49 AM, Les Denham wrote: Yesterday I had a friend call me for advice on a Windows XP installation of Lyx. He had been using LyX for several years without any problems, and had just updated to 2.0.5.1. Now he could work in LyX, but could not generate a PDF output. He is ru

Re: Excess Space With Tables and Figures at Chapter's End

2013-01-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've a short paragraph that concludes a chapter and this paragraph > includes two table floats and two figure floats. TeX spreads these out over > 4 pages with too much white space. The first page has the paragraph, a lot > of space, then one tabl

pdf cropping

2012-09-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I have a pdf file that has /MediaBox [0 0 630 376] when I ask LyX to get the bounding box from the file it returns [0 0 611 376] which means the right edge of the image is cut off in both the LyX preview and the pdf output, unless I change the 611 to 630. I searched the pdf file in a text edito

Re: Put figures in figure float in center - the best way?

2012-09-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >>> I have not used it recently, but I get the same error you do. I copied it >>> from Herbert Voss' >>> tips and tricks page many years ago. It worked then, but I am not sure what >>> has changed. >> >>> Actually…it looks like the /singlespac

Re: Put figures in figure float in center - the best way?

2012-09-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/09/12 15:15, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> On 12/09/12 14:19, Stephen Buonopane wrote: >>> You can add something like this to your preamble (does not affect

Re: Put figures in figure float in center - the best way?

2012-09-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
You can add something like this to your preamble (does not affect how they appear in LyX preview of course)… \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{ \@float{figure} \centering \singlespacing} {\end@float} \renewenvironment{table}[1][]{ \@float{table}

Re: Find and Replace window bug

2012-09-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 3, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Anders Høg wrote: > In mac osx, the Find and Replace (Advanced) window's upper part gets stuck > under the menubar when opened. It's extremely annoying as the only way I seem > to be able to close it, is by changing resolution. Is this is a known bug? > > Regards >

Re: BibDesk: how to show references that are not used in text?

2012-07-30 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:07 AM, CP wrote: > CP gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm using BibDesk for my literature and am trying to add more references to > the reference list at the end of a paper without having referenced them in the > text. Any ideas? >> Thanks! > > My current 'dirty' solution is to

Re: Adjusting LyX to do things by default

2011-11-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 17, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: Thankyou for your response, but I'm newbie at this, could let me know how please? how to customize that code? Here is what I have in my preamble (Document > Settings > Latex Preamble) to set all the section font sizes to 12pt \usepackag

Re: Adjusting LyX to do things by default

2011-11-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: 1- How to center sections, subsections and table of content tittles by default? nothing more the rest I need it on left side (no prob with that) 2- How to establish size "normalsize" for subsections and table of contents tittles by default in

Re: Lyx 2.0.1 not working on Lion

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 1, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday, October 01, 2011 06:33:14 AM Mark wrote: Stephen, the error message is: "You can't open the application lyx because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." And I checked through some other application

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a "file n

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a "file not found" error from the pdftex.def package.

Re: insert filename

2011-09-23 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Horst Jurkat wrote: i use "info-insert buffer name" to insert the current filename in the document. Is there a possibility to do that without the fileextension (*.lyx)? in TexCode (ERT) \jobname

Re: place figure at the end

2011-07-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
In my lyx document I wish to put the figure approximatively where they should be in the final document. However, I wish, in a draft version, to have all the figures coming at the end of the document. Is there an option to do so ? Try the endfloat package. In the preamble put \usepackage{endflo

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-13 Thread Stephen George
On 13/07/2011 12:31 PM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Is their some documentation on the Lyx file format somew

RE: LyX 2.0 on Windows

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Harwin
Great, thanks. That seems to be downloading. Steve From: Diego Queiroz [mailto:queiroz.di...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2011 11:08 AM To: Stephen Harwin Cc: Jim Oldfield; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: LyX 2.0 on Windows On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Stephen Harwin

RE: LyX 2.0 on Windows

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Harwin
Sorry, I do not seem to be able to find a 2.0.0-2 installer for download let alone a Bundle. Can you send me a link? Most of the mirror sites fail. Thanks Steve From: Jim Oldfield [mailto:jim_...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2011 10:17 AM To: Stephen Harwin; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

LyX 2.0 on Windows

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Harwin
Hi, I am not able download 2.0 for Windows from http://www.lyx.org/Download/#toc3. Which download do I grab from the mirror site if this is the first time I am installing a latex package? Thanks Steve

Re: People can't read my pdf's

2011-04-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:43 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: On 04/12/2011 01:52 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, For the past week or so, people have been having trouble opening and printing PDF files I generate with LyX. I am trying

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document. However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between the two included pdfs. Is there a

RE: IEEEtran file Inserting photo help please..............

2010-09-12 Thread stephen
otos there Can somebody help me out?? Thanks n sorry for the confusion Regards Stephen -Original Message- From: Waluyo Adi Siswanto [mailto:was.u...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 10:36 AM To: step...@vinvish.com Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: IEEEtran file Inser

IEEEtran file Inserting photo help please..............

2010-09-12 Thread stephen
ide document via Lyx?? Thanks Stephen This email message, including any attached files, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it has been addressed. Vinvish Technologies Pvt Ltd prohibits the right to publish, copy, distribute or disc

Re: EPS Files Without Preview

2010-07-21 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to them. Eps files with a preview cause an error ("An error occurred whilst running epstopdf"), and the pd

Re: Dumb Captioning Question

2010-06-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I want to have some tables in a document, and I want the tables to have captions. But I want the positions of the tables to be pinned down -- i.e. I don't want to use normal floats. So -- is there a way to have a "non-floating float" to contain my table and caption, or is there a way to

Re: path to .lyx on MAC

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I am using Lyx 1.6.6 on Mac, I noticed I do not have $HOME/.lyx/ layouts/, so I am wondering where I put a custom made module? /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.6

Re: Cannot Export Lyx to latex on Mac

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Thompson
I am also a new user -- and have the same issue. I have not been able to convert in either direction between LyX and LaTeX. How ever I am able to View->View Source. What appears seems to be pure LaTeX. On May 24, 2010, at 7:06 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > I have just downloaded mactex and Ly

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Richard Brown wrote: I do > Insert External Files > PDF and select my pdf. I add the pages options for all of the pages (there are 2). Lyx burbles a little, and then spits the error message at me: error converting to loadable format. The file was prepared by a

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
- Original Message - >I have a horrible feeling I have asked this before, but on Ubuntu 9.10 >Lyx won't show PDF images in the document (they compile OK). >They show up on Windows OK, so I assume its some set up on Linux that I >need to tweak. -- If you have ghostscript

Re: Graphics Insert

2010-03-01 Thread Stephen Buonopane
This is a behavior I've not seen with previous versions of LyX but which appears more often than not with 1.6.5. When I insert a graphics figure (either pdf or jpg) and change the edges in the clipping tab of the settings dialog box, both the original and changed figure are displayed side-by-

Re: lyx 1.6.5 can't load pdf images on Mac OS X 10.6.2

2010-02-16 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Francesco Turci wrote: Hallo, i’m using Lyx on Mac OS X 10.6.2. Everything seems to work properly, but the image converters don’t seem to work: i’ve included some pdf images in my document (i tried with sme ps too) but Lyx doesn’t load them (it says “Error co

Re: Tufte book layout - title ?

2010-02-12 Thread Stephen George
copy files into the MikTeK directory like that, and they wont interfere with subsequent updates I might run on MikTek in the future, what risks do I run by leaving it this way?. Thanks for the help - Steve Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Stephen, You may need to get the most recent version from the t

Tufte book layout - title ?

2010-02-12 Thread Stephen George
Hi, I'm a newbie to Lyx, and was playing with the Tufte book class. I'm a little confused, I downloaded Lyx Example File from http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-book#toc1 When I try to create a pdf of the example file, I got an error about the title (using windows and Lyx 1..6.5) (LaTeX Err

Re: uiucthesis layout help

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Anthony
rgheck wrote: On 02/07/2010 02:14 PM, Stephen Anthony wrote: I am new to LATEX/LYX, and I am interested in trying it out for my thesis. I have found the LATEX style and class for my thesis (http://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp). They appear to be appropriately installed, I

uiucthesis layout help

2010-02-07 Thread Stephen Anthony
s not appear. When I try "Local Layout" there, it tells me "Unable to read local layout file". Can someone either generate a layout for me from the uiucthesis2009 class/style provided, or help me figure out how to do that properly myself? Windows XP Pro LyX 1.6.5 MikTeX 2.8 Thanks, Stephen Anthony

Re: graphics preview on Mac

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jan 18, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: BH wrote: I can confirm: graphics on screen cannot be viewed, though printed output is fine. I have gs version 8.70 (as does Stephen). i believe its fixed in ghostscript trunk by http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/source/detail?r=10560 you

Re: graphics preview on Mac

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I recently upgraded to TeXLive 2009 and LyX 1.6.5 on Mac. On screen LyX preview of pdf graphics no longer works (other formats seem to work). convert *.pdf *.ppm works fine from the command line below is the error output Any ideas

graphics preview on Mac

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I recently upgraded to TeXLive 2009 and LyX 1.6.5 on Mac. On screen LyX preview of pdf graphics no longer works (other formats seem to work). convert *.pdf *.ppm works fine from the command line below is the error output Any ideas? Thanks Steve Current allocation mode is local GPL Ghostscrip

Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Stephen George
Hi, I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say one

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

2009-08-28 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote: Dear All, I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS directs it should be. I know I succeeded in getting single spaced subfigure captions in my

Re: Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:50 PM, John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:18:41 -0400 Stephen Buonopane wrote: Did you try in ERT \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5} Hi Stephem. That command seems to resize the entire table, with contents. It does nothing to the row-to-border spacing. I have

Re: Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:29 PM, John Coppens wrote: Hello all. I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the borders, so I defined a default 'extra bottom space' in the properties. It seems this extra space is only added to the (bottom of) last row (even though all rows

Where is the export directory

2009-08-16 Thread Stephen Winters
able to locate where the document gets located to. Can you help me find the export folder? Thanks Stephen Winters Salem, Oregon

Beamer

2009-04-25 Thread Stephen Thomas
Hi all,   im really new to lyx and latex..i installed lyx 1.6 with miktex bundled from the windows installation page at lyx .org.Im using windows XP.I want to tryout the beamer presentation creation with lyx. But wen i open new from template and give a beamer template Lyx tells that

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Hubert Christiaen wrote: It' s indeed a bit strange that float figures are not automatically centered. LyX outputs whatever the class defines, and most classes define it to be raggedright (by default). You may do it yourself by

Re: LyX like LaTeXiT?

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Giorgio Zavarise wrote: Is there any possibility to use LyX just as a tool to generate equations to be included in Keynote? I am using LaTeXiT for this scope, but there you have to type the LaTeX commands (and I am using LyX just to avoid it). You can copy an

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 19, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Dave Hewitt wrote: One additional tip... If you are likely to use the aliases in many documents, you can put a list of the \defcitealias commands in a tex file and then use Insert-> File->Child Document in LyX. I noticed that you can put the \defcitealias in th

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
n the wiki at: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc4 I added a feature request here: * add option for citealias to the bibtex dialog http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5266 Thanks to Stephen B. for the tip!!! One additional tip... If you are likely to use the aliases in many docu

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Dave Hewitt wrote: You need to use the citealias command see my previous post http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users-UqbJ+GOpo4+hPH1hqNUYSQ public.gmane.org/msg43232.html This link does not work for me. Can you give the date so we can track down the post. This

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 17, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Tim Michelsen wrote: Hello, although this is not a core latex list I would like to ask for your advice on an issue with author entries in Bibtex databases. Sometimes, the author (or editor) can be an institution or organisation which could be abbreviated in te

Re: Raising a Figure

2008-09-11 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I have two figures placed side by side, but the left hand figure is taller than the right hand figure, so when they line up along their baselines, the right hand figure looks much lower. How can I move the right hand figure up, so its cen

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-07 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 6, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Off topic: I am looking for a solution to add running page numbering to a postscript or PDF document and maybe add a footer or header (maybe with a horizontal rule). This may not be the slickest way, but I think you can do it all right

Re: Adding a new class in Mac version

2008-09-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Martin Lesmana wrote: Hi there, I have followed the installation instruction here http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac (option 2) to install tetex, ghostscript and imagemagick using fink. And then I get the .dmg file for Lyx and drag that into my applications folder.

Re: pdfpages and filenames

2008-09-01 Thread Stephen Buonopane
using LyX/Mac 1.5.5 with tex-live 2007 The preamble definition is an easier workaround since you only need the full path once. On Aug 31, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: In LyX 1.4 I used to be able to just use the filename with the includepdf command in ERT, \includepdf{myfile

pdfpages and filenames

2008-08-31 Thread Stephen Buonopane
In LyX 1.4 I used to be able to just use the filename with the includepdf command in ERT, \includepdf{myfile} In LyX 1.5.5 it seems that I need to put the full pathname and filename, \includepdf{\very\long\path\myfile} which is inconvenient because the pathname is very long and some of the

Re: Figure Numbering

2008-08-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I'm fairly new to LyX only used it this past 6 months for my masters thesis. I have not come across a way to have it sequentially number all figures in a document. Zan, I believe that you're correct, and that my memory is faulty. Looking at my book (published 2005 and written using Ly

Re: Lyx/MacTex Integration

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 14, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Alan Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Start by determining what isn't necessary in an integrated app, then work out how to put everything together in a package. All things considered I think you'll find such a Lyx Grand a smaller fil

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