Re: LyX-LaTeX to Web

2021-12-22 Thread Herbert Voss via lyx-users
Am 22.12.21 um 11:07 schrieb Baris Erkus via lyx-users: I wonder if LyX or any other LaTeX based tool can be used to generate web site of a book as in the following example: export your document to LaTeX and then run latex2html https://ctan.org/pkg/latex2html?lang=de Herbert https://lea

LyX-LaTeX to Web

2021-12-22 Thread Baris Erkus via lyx-users
I wonder if LyX or any other LaTeX based tool can be used to generate web site of a book as in the following example: https://learnaboutstructures.com/Common-Load-Types-for-Beams-and-Frames Any direction would be appreciated. -- ↓↓ Please bottom-post. St

RE: LyX, LaTeX & Labels?

2019-02-06 Thread Bernt Lie
OK. That seemed to solve the problem - at least for now :-). -B From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: onsdag 6. februar 2019 16.23 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: LyX, LaTeX & Labels? On 2/6/19 10:12 AM, Bernt Lie wrote: ... is it best to put the label in

Re: LyX, LaTeX & Labels?

2019-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 2/6/19 10:12 AM, Bernt Lie wrote: ... is it best to put the label in the **caption**? -B I always put labels in the caption insets. Paul

RE: LyX, LaTeX & Labels?

2019-02-06 Thread Bernt Lie
... is it best to put the label in the *caption*? -B From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On Behalf Of Bernt Lie Sent: onsdag 6. februar 2019 16.04 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: LyX, LaTeX & Labels? I use LYX 2.3.1-1 on 64 bit Windows 10. In my documents, LaTeX messes up the reference

LyX, LaTeX & Labels?

2019-02-06 Thread Bernt Lie
I use LYX 2.3.1-1 on 64 bit Windows 10. In my documents, LaTeX messes up the references to the figures. From past experience, this may have to do with where in the figure float the label is placed. Here is an example of one of my figure floats: [cid:image002.jpg@01D4BE35.9B862170] Question

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed Problem Solved at Long Last

2018-03-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 09.03.2018 um 06:09 schrieb elloh van: Thank you very much. I have tested it, everything is perfect !! It is working perfectly. I am now able to view the output in all formats without any complaint !! Thank you very much, I am now happy !! Many thanks for your report. I apologize for all th

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-03-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 08.03.2018 um 17:49 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: I think we found a solution. Could you therefore please test this and install the new LyX 2.3.0 using this installer: Please take instead the latest installer you find here: http://ftp.lyx.de/LyXWinInstaller/LyX2.3.0/ regards Uwe

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-03-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 14.02.2018 um 11:56 schrieb elloh van: I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 on my laptop but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failed the external program pdflatex finished wi

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed: LaTeX Log File Attached

2018-02-27 Thread Scott Kostyshak
following error message: > "LyX: LaTeX failedthe external program pdflatex finished with an error.It is > recommended you fix the cause of external progam's error (check the logs)". > > I have attached the LaTeX Log File to this mail for your consideration. > Hope t

LyX: LaTeX failed: LaTeX Log File Attached

2018-02-27 Thread elloh van
Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 Windows version on my laptop running Windows 10 but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failedthe external program pdflatex finished

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 23.02.2018 um 12:02 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Le 23/02/2018 à 11:47, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : Jean-Marc, where can I find the description and handling of "the 'title and preamble hacks' module"? I searched for it in all available Helps for Lyx, but did not find it. Wolfgang The

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/02/2018 à 11:47, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : Jean-Marc, where can I find the description and handling of "the 'title and preamble hacks' module"? I searched for it in all available Helps for Lyx, but did not find it. Wolfgang The only documentation that I know is in the document settin

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 23.02.2018 um 10:57 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Le 22/02/2018 à 20:52, Daniel Gómez Martínez a écrit : Hello everyone, I have large sections of customized TeX code in the LaTeX preamble of some LyX templates I've created over time. I would like to know if there's a way to quickly toggl

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 22/02/2018 à 20:52, Daniel Gómez Martínez a écrit : Hello everyone, I have large sections of customized TeX code in the LaTeX preamble of some LyX templates I've created over time. I would like to know if there's a way to quickly toggle between commented and uncommented line for a given se

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Maye some form of LaTeX conditional (\newif), which you then pass as a Custom option in Documents->Settings? el On 22/02/2018 22:05, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have large sections of customized TeX c

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/22/2018 05:06 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/22/2018 04:00 PM, Paul A Rubin wrote: On 02/22/2018 03:37 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/22/2018 03:05 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez mailto:dangome...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello everyone,

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/22/2018 04:00 PM, Paul A Rubin wrote: > > > > On 02/22/2018 03:37 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 02/22/2018 03:05 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez >>> mailto:dangome...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I have large se

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-22 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:37:44PM +, Richard Heck wrote: > What might be more plausible, and > something I think we have considered, is to have some way to launch an > external text editor and then read back whatever's provided, kind of > like we do with graphics (say). There is a trac ticke

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-22 Thread Paul A Rubin
On 02/22/2018 03:37 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/22/2018 03:05 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez mailto:dangome...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello everyone, I have large sections of customized TeX code in the LaTeX preamble of some LyX tem

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/22/2018 03:05 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez > mailto:dangome...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have large sections of customized TeX code in the LaTeX preamble > of some LyX templates I've created over time. I would

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-22 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez < dangome...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have large sections of customized TeX code in the LaTeX preamble of some > LyX templates I've created over time. I would like to know if there's a way > to quickly toggle between commente

Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-22 Thread Daniel Gómez Martínez
Hello everyone, I have large sections of customized TeX code in the LaTeX preamble of some LyX templates I've created over time. I would like to know if there's a way to quickly toggle between commented and uncommented line for a given selection of lines (say, with a keyboard shortcut), and in cas

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-16 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
Make sure that this dog does not claim that Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all time. On 02/16/2018 08:26 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 02:49:59 -0800 Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: [I don't know why this person posts this query repeatedly, without apparently readin

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/16/2018 10:49 AM, Frederic Mynard wrote: A student of mine have the exact same problem on a laptop with Windows 10, and I tried to help her fix it: the log didn’t seem to contain any error (!)—I copy it below— so I reinstalled MikTeX and LyX, reconfigured LyX, but to no avail. It keeps do

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 02:49:59 -0800 Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: > [I don't know why this person posts this query repeatedly, without > apparently reading any of the responses. I have CC'd this message to > him, but his handler or server may be configured such that everything > is going into

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-16 Thread Frederic Mynard
into the > spam bucket.] > > There have been repeated responses to your query posted to the LyX user > mailing list. > > Be sure to subscriber to the list! If you post a query to this list, the > answers may also be posted to this list and not necessarily CC'd to yo

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-16 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
n 02/16/2018 02:21 AM, elloh van wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 Windows version on my laptop but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failed the exter

LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-16 Thread elloh van
Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 Windows version on my laptop but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failedthe external program pdflatex finished with an error.

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-15 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 on my laptop but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failed the external program pdflatex finished with an error. It is recommended you fix the cause o

LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-15 Thread elloh van
Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 on my laptop but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failedthe external program pdflatex finished with an error.It is recommended yo

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The log file does not reside in the same directory as the LyX file, at least not on the Mac. el On 14/02/2018 13:17, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: > There should be a file with the extension “.log” in the directory in the > same director as your .lyx file. [...]

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/14/2018 05:50 AM, elloh van wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 on my laptop but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failed the external program pdf

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-14 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
message: "LyX: LaTeX failed the external program pdflatex finished with an error. It is recommended you fix the cause of external progam's error (check the logs)". Please what should I do to overcome the problem ? Hope to hearing from you soon. Thank you With kind regards Van W

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
g error message: > > "LyX: LaTeX failed > the external program pdflatex finished with an error. > It is recommended you fix the cause of external progam's error (check > the logs)". > > Please what should I do to overcome the problem ? > Hope to hearing from

LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-14 Thread elloh van
Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 on my laptop but when I wanted to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the pdflatex gives the following error message: "LyX: LaTeX failedthe external program pdflatex finished with an error.It is recommended yo

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-31 Thread udi
Thanks, Paul, for the update.  I guess I was totally wrong.  Good to know about the Debian release, too.  I suppose that will cover Ubuntu. Ehud Kaplan On 05/31/2017 08:57 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 05/31/2017 11:49 AM, udi wrote:

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 05/31/2017 11:49 AM, udi wrote: I was under the impression that the Miktex developer has abandoned it in favor of TexLive, which works well on both Windows and Linux. Is that information inaccurate? Ehud Kaplan The most recent release came out three days ago, and the "roadmap" page shows p

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-31 Thread udi
I was under the impression that the Miktex developer has abandoned it in favor of TexLive, which works well on both Windows and Linux.  Is that information inaccurate? Ehud Kaplan On 05/30/2017 03:03 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 05/29/2017

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 05/30/2017 01:43 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: Hey everyone, I talked with my collaborator and acquired some more details. When she was installing lyx, it asked her to update miktex/install updates. She did that and after that was when tex was not working. So then she uninstalled lyx, but t

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-30 Thread Christos Makridis
Hey everyone, I talked with my collaborator and acquired some more details. When she was installing lyx, it asked her to update miktex/install updates. She did that and after that was when tex was not working. So then she uninstalled lyx, but tex was still not working, so she uninstalled miktex an

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-30 Thread Christos Makridis
Great question, will find out and follow up. (Thank you all for being so prompt and interested in figuring out the problem!)

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 05/29/2017 11:03 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: Hey Richard, I am pretty sure it is Windows, and it's the most recent version from miktex. I can ask her for the specifics though if you think it might help? -- We also need to know which LyX installer she used. There are two versions for Wind

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-29 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:55:03PM -0700, Christos Makridis wrote: > Hey Lyx Community, > > One of my collaborators downloaded lyx, but for some reason it prevented > her from compiling her latex files as she normally did. After she > uninstalled lyx, there was still a problem with beamer, which w

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-29 Thread Christos Makridis
Hey Richard, I am pretty sure it is Windows, and it's the most recent version from miktex. I can ask her for the specifics though if you think it might help? -- Christos Makridis Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University Department of Management Science & Engineering Department of Economics www.chris

Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/29/2017 08:55 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: > Hey Lyx Community, > > One of my collaborators downloaded lyx, but for some reason it > prevented her from compiling her latex files as she normally did. Is this on Windows? Which version of LyX did she install? and how? Richard

Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility

2017-05-29 Thread Christos Makridis
Hey Lyx Community, One of my collaborators downloaded lyx, but for some reason it prevented her from compiling her latex files as she normally did. After she uninstalled lyx, there was still a problem with beamer, which would not compile. Specifically, it gave the following error: --- (C:/Users/fi

LyX/LaTeX Class/Style for Taylor & Francis Pubs

2016-05-04 Thread Rich Shepard
The Taylor & Francis web site has a Wurd template, but no LaTex class or LyX style for their journals. If anyone here knows of an acceptable style (perhaps KOMA-Script article?) please let me know. TIA, Rich

lyx latex export aux file

2015-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I try to reduce the bib file, which I created with jabref, to the cited references (the bib file contains many more). For this purpose I want to select the aux file. This file I get by exporting from lyx to normal latex. However, I get an error message saying that names of figures such as VanDe

Re: LyX/LaTeX compiling error

2015-03-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 06:29:01 + (UTC) Maaneli Derakhshani wrote: > Dear LyX Users, > My Mac hard drive recently crashed and my LyX files were on the > drive. The files were recovered from the drive, and placed on an > external hard drive, which I then transferred to a new Mac. However, > when

LyX/LaTeX compiling error

2015-03-15 Thread Maaneli Derakhshani
Dear LyX Users, My Mac hard drive recently crashed and my LyX files were on the drive. The files were recovered from the drive, and placed on an external hard drive, which I then transferred to a new Mac. However, when trying to compile the LyX files into PDF format, I get the following error me

SV: LyX "LaTeX Error: File `subscript.sty' not found

2013-01-03 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi >Hello, Im getting this error on LyX 2.0.5 working on windows. The package is called fragments, if it is not in MikTeX you could instal it from CTAN http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fragments Ingar

Re: Trouble with Lyx: Latex Error

2012-08-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/22/2012 07:17 PM, Daniel Schuster wrote: Hi, I discovered Lyx a week ago and I am fascinated about the effectiveness and simplicity. But there are two things that make working with it very frustrating. First thing is that I recieve this error message when I use some Layout options an cli

Re: Mostly successful experiment: LyX -> LaTeX -> Word using pandoc

2012-08-08 Thread Jerry
On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Nico Williams wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Jerry wrote: >> I just tried a quick experiment with pandoc, saving a 3.5 page LyX document >> (article class) of mostly lorem ipsum as LaTeX and then using pandoc to >> convert that to .docx, Word's XML format

Re: Mostly successful experiment: LyX -> LaTeX -> Word using pandoc

2012-08-08 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Jerry wrote: > I just tried a quick experiment with pandoc, saving a 3.5 page LyX document > (article class) of mostly lorem ipsum as LaTeX and then using pandoc to > convert that to .docx, Word's XML format. I then viewed the .docx in > Microsoft Word 2011 for O

Re: Mostly successful experiment: LyX -> LaTeX -> Word using pandoc

2012-08-08 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/08/12 at 12:35pm, Ernesto Posse wrote: > I tried it on Ubuntu and got similar results, generating .docx (viewed > on LibreOffice) and html. Pandoc seems to ignore the TOC and > bibliography though. On HTML it also ignored the title, author and > abstract fields. On LibreOffice the math was re

Re: Mostly successful experiment: LyX -> LaTeX -> Word using pandoc

2012-08-08 Thread Ernesto Posse
I tried it on Ubuntu and got similar results, generating .docx (viewed on LibreOffice) and html. Pandoc seems to ignore the TOC and bibliography though. On HTML it also ignored the title, author and abstract fields. On LibreOffice the math was rendered more or less OK, but some symbols were missing

SV: lyx latex-import problem

2012-02-29 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi >Please file a bug report if the file is not secret (or if you can easily >create a non-secret one). For the time it is secret :), but in a couple of weeks it would not be so I'll have a look at it then. >Yes. You have two options: > >1) Add the line > >\sindex[]{translate} %splitidx.sty >to

Re: lyx latex-import problem

2012-02-28 Thread Georg Baum
Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > Hi > > I have a couple of hundred abstracts from a web form that > produces simple LaTeX files. I have cat'ed them into one big LaTeX file > and imported it to LyX. This works for the most part, but I have > problem with \sindex that needs a option i [index_name] which

Re: lyx latex-import problem

2012-02-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-02-19, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > Hi > I have a couple of hundred abstracts from a web form that produces > simple LaTeX files. I have cat'ed them into one big LaTeX file and > imported it to LyX. This works for the most part, but I have problem > with \sindex that needs a option i [index_

lyx latex-import problem

2012-02-19 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi I have a couple of hundred abstracts from a web form that produces simple LaTeX files. I have cat'ed them into one big LaTeX file and imported it to LyX. This works for the most part, but I have problem with \sindex that needs a option i [index_name] which is not recognized by LyX and theref

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 17, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > A template is a means, not an end. As soon as you finish tailoring the > sketch of a document (using the class that you've chosen) to your > likes, then you're good to go: start writing and filling it up with > actual content. When you finish

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > OK, I have a simple document, of a kind I create frequently. I've selected a > document class -- koma-script article -- as a basis on which to begin > building a template, have made some changes to the document, and have saved a > cop

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-16 Thread Eric Weir
OK, I have a simple document, of a kind I create frequently. I've selected a document class -- koma-script article -- as a basis on which to begin building a template, have made some changes to the document, and have saved a copy of it in the templates folder. I am not certain that is suffici

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples > folders shipped with LyX. They will often contain templates for the > various document classes available. Start with File > New from > template. Yes, I noticed that about the

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many >> other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list >> revealed in tools > tex informatio

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > I think I'm gonna go with koma, Trevor. For one, the documentation strikes > me as excellent. Certainly compared to memoir. > Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples folders shipped with LyX. They will often contain temp

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many > other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list > revealed in tools > tex information > latex classes koma is still missing. > Some times Tool

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:23:36 PM Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so > : > >> important. It assumes few prerequisites. > > > > I do reca

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:19:31 PM you wrote: > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: > >> Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if > >> it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so >> important. It assumes few prerequisites. >> > > I do recall there being significant content at your site related to LaTeX, >

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: >> >> Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it >> even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author >> themselves. Other users especially those

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many >> other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list >> revealed in tools > tex information > latex classes koma is still missing. >> > > The

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > n 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> >> I'm intrigued by both memoir and koma. And maybe the standard classes are as >> good a place to start? >> >> The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] >> much l

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much > less so. > > Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even > exists, is targete

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir > wrote: > > The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma > [scrguien] > > > much less so. > > Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it > even exis

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 11:42 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > >>> Through documents > settings > document class I see a collection of >>> document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools > tex >>> information > latex classes I see a huge list of classes. Are these >>> available for use in LyX? I

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: > >> I've found the LyX layouts folder. In >> /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. > > Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. Thanks, Stephan. I was careless

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] > much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author themselves. Other users

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> The sort of thing >> you want to do would probably be quite easy with the memoir class, or >> perhaps with one of the koma-script classes (probably the article one, >> since it looks as if you do not need chapters here), all of which >> provide "hooks"

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Most of your questions should already be answered in either of these > three documents in Help: Intro, Tutorial and User's Guide. (For > example, User's Guide > Section 3.1.2.2 explains why some classes > would be tagged as 'unavailable'.) If

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: > > I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. > How do I make use of them? Through documents > settings? If so, where exactly? > > Through

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > I've found the LyX layouts folder. In > /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through > documents > settings? If so, where exactly? > > Through documents > settings > document class I see a collection of d

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents > settings? If so, where exactly? Through documents > settings > document class I see a collection of document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools >

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Soon they will be, we all hope. Rob has made some progress on his > LyX-Outline project [1], which intends to provide LyX with some of the > features of Scrivener, including a corkboard and a fancier outline > pane. At the moment the code can b

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > To modify aspects of your documents you do not need to create new > 'layouts'. You can take a class, create the backbone of your desired > document (also by taking into account your personal idiosyncrasies, as > far as LyX and LaTeX let you to)

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Default LaTeX classes as a > benchmark for a well typeset document is probably a good start; then > you can sharpen some rough edges, here and there, often by using some > other LaTeX packages or functionalities. Or you can leave things as > th

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > I'm a Mac user too and make extensive use of both Scrivener and LyX/LaTeX. > But they are no competitive products. LyX is at the end of the pre-press > cycle; it's about presentation Thanks for the guidance, Trevo

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Weir
> On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 07/13/2011 09:34 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> Where do I start? Perhaps better, how do I go about creating a layout for a >> document type. >> > This is an advanced matter Hadn't considered that, Richard. I assumed star

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > I'm a Mac user too and make extensive use of both Scrivener and LyX/LaTeX. > But they are no competitive products. > Soon they will be, we all hope. Rob has made some progress on his LyX-Outline project [1], which intends

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
> start using LyX/LaTeX, focusing initially on shorter documents. So far this > has involved importing text or LaTeX coded documents into LyX, modifying the > format to suit my tastes using the menu and toolbar. My ability to make > documents look the way I want them to is limited. I

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > Word and its ilk have made people think they can do creative > typesetting, when in fact what they tend to do is make a mess of things. > I personally think it's a *good* thing that LyX does not make this easy. > I agree. I prefer LyX primaril

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Weir
opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX. >>> LaTeX is great when you write for a medium >>> with a defined formatting, e.g., a journal, and they give you a >>> style file to use. Then you just fill out the >>> contents. But if you a free to format your document

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/13/2011 10:48 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > On 13/07/11 16:38, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: >>> My ability to make documents look the way I want them to is limited. >> >> In my personal opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX. >> LaTeX is great when yo

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 13/07/11 16:38, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: My ability to make documents look the way I want them to is limited. In my personal opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX. LaTeX is great when you write for a medium with a defined formatting, e.g., a journal, and they give you a style file to

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
> My ability to make documents look the way I want them to is limited. In my personal opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX. LaTeX is great when you write for a medium with a defined formatting, e.g., a journal, and they give you a style file to use. Then you just fill out the conte

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I'm a Mac user too and make extensive use of both Scrivener and LyX/LaTeX. But they are no competitive products. LyX is at the end of the pre-press cycle; it's about presentation. Don't get me wrong its f***ing good presentation given that LaTeX is behind it but none the less it&#x

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/13/2011 09:34 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > I am conscious of the fact that this may be the kind of excessively broad > question that makes it difficult for knowledgeable people to be helpful. > Nevertheless, since I am to a large extent at a loss regarding the answer I > will ask it: Where do I

Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Weir
I have been dancing around moving to LyX/LaTeX for formatting and printing documents. I have the MacTeX installation of the full TeX Live package and LyX 2.0. For longer writing projects I use Scrivener, which can compile Multimarkdown encoded documents to LaTeX. I am a complete novice

Re: Fwd: Lyx -> latex -> Lyx - cycle not working for very simple file

2011-03-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 29/03/11 19:02, Georg Baum a écrit : This is a known problem. tex2lyx does not support listings (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5194) or the standard verbatim environment (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5408) at all. Fixing this is possible, but not easy, since the usual TeX parsing cannot be

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