Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Gour
Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over > the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics > using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with > ps4pdf before being inser

Re: Sorting the Bibliography

2005-10-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Walid Maalej wrote: > Dear all, > > I ve just added my references using the Lyx features. Now I would like to > have theses references alphabetically sorted in the final document. > Can I do it with Lyx? If No, do you know which LaTeX commands will solve > my problem? The way your bibliography i

Wiki page for "Presentations using LyX"

2005-10-13 Thread chr
Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it. On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote: > These were really nice. > > Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory? >

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/13/05, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over > > the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics > > using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with > > ps4pdf before

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Georg Baum
Gour wrote: > Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with > PSTricks macros output format) & to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape > can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf & inclusion in > beamer presentation? > > What is the status of SVG support in LyX/L

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Gour
Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People > who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks > is much superior to pgf. So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save graphic as LaTeX

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Gour wrote: >> Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People >> who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks >> is much superior to pgf. > > So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save > graphic as LaTeX with PSTricks exte

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Gour
Angus Leeming ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you're being funky, you could write an Inkscape template for the > "External Inset" (see share/lyx/external_templates) and include your > inkscape file directly into your LyX document. I do just that all the time > with my XFig figures. Whoah...this i

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote: I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX. Anything that produces a file in .eps format can be inserted directly into the document. afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex? This is correct. Is th

Caption and graphics within the same paragraph?!

2005-10-13 Thread Walid Maalej
Hi @ all, I was wondering if it is possible to put the graphics centered within a float and the caption justified. Every time I change the paragraph parameter of the caption to "justified" it turns automatically to centered as the graphic. I will really appreciate any help Walid

Re: Caption and graphics within the same paragraph?!

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
> I was wondering if it is possible to put the graphics centered within > a float and the caption justified. Every time I change the paragraph > parameter of the caption to "justified" it turns automatically to > centered as the graphic. I presume that you don't want the graphics and caption on se

Re: pdflatex & MacOS X

2005-10-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
David and Bennett I too have problems when I try an view or export you file with pdflatex - I am using winXP I have had a fiddle about and find the following interesting although have no idea what t means or how to fix it!! I called the original lyx document test1.lyx and the file to be inc

lyx-code - date-insert

2005-10-13 Thread David Wolfson
hello lyx-list, I've just subscribed having had a trawl through the wiki (but not found the answer to my problem), so a quick intro seems in order. I'm currently trying to write up and engineering thesis in lyx, having migrated to linux for all but a few apps in the last couple of years. Havin

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Gour
Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a > new choice, PDF4, on the View and File->Export menus. Use those. I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing? > Others need to address this. There are so many high q

FW: Caption and graphics within the same paragraph?!

2005-10-13 Thread Walid Maalej
Subject: RE: Caption and graphics within the same paragraph?! Hi Dan, Thanks for your replay. > I presume that you don't want the graphics and caption on separate lines > within the caption. If you do, then just hit enter once before you > insert the graphics. Yes. Sure the graphic and its nam

Re: lyx-code - date-insert

2005-10-13 Thread chr
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, David Wolfson wrote: > Anyway, the first of these problems is with inserting a date. I do the > occasion print out and would like to include the current date when I do. Hang on... you actually want to have the current date in the printout??? (One of the most frequent questio

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote: I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing? I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I think. Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for

Re: FW: Caption and graphics within the same paragraph?!

2005-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Walid Maalej wrote: > Yes. Sure the graphic and its name are in separate lines --> separate > paragraphs. However I'm not able to define two different styles for each > paragraph: Justified for the caption and centered for the graphic. I have > both of them inside a float:Figure > Do you know if th

Re: FW: Caption and graphics within the same paragraph?!

2005-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 13 October 2005 20:43, Walid Maalej wrote: > > > Yes. Sure the graphic and its name are in separate lines --> separate > > > paragraphs. However I'm not able to define two different styles for > > > each paragraph: Justified for the caption and centered for the graphic. > > > I > > > >

Problems with installing/running

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Badzey
Hi: So I've been using LyX for awhile now. Great program - wrote my dissertation on it in about half the time it would have taken for LatTeX. So I noticed the new build (1.3.6) for Windows, and figured I'd give it a shot. I don't know what the problem is, but it's been giving me fits ever

Re: Problems with installing/running

2005-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Robert Badzey wrote: > > Hi: > > So I've been using LyX for awhile now. Great program - wrote my > dissertation on it in about half the time it would have taken for LatTeX. > > So I noticed the new build (1.3.6) for Windows, and figured I'd give it a > shot. I don't know what the problem is,

pdflatex

2005-10-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi In trying to help with another thread (pdflatex & MacOS X) I have come across something I don't understand. It appears that when you do Export->pdflatex Lyx does not do what I expected. Here is what I think should happen: Lyx->Latex->pdf (using pdflatex) AND it should produce the same resu

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I'm using LyX and Beamer class these days for a presentation of Gimp 2.2.x. The result is great by the way! To add special effects I also use minipages in slides (or frames) As for svg graphics here is my solution: I inserted 2 small identical images, the first one is svg and the other is png

Re: pdflatex

2005-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > It appears that when you do Export->pdflatex Lyx does not do what I > expected. > > Here is what I think should happen: > > Lyx->Latex->pdf (using pdflatex) AND it should produce the same results > as if I did by hand Not necessarily. When LyX knows that it's outputing l

Re: pdflatex & MacOS X

2005-10-13 Thread David Philp
Hi Just for the record, in case anyone else has a similar problem: (1) my problem is fixed by using absolute rather than relative paths (thanks Bennett) (2) Since I didn't used to need absolute paths, I have entered this into bugzilla. Thanks! D

poster view/export postscript page size problem.

2005-10-13 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, I am using sciposter.cls to produce a poster. I set a0 and other options as recommended by the sciposter manual. If I export latex, run latex, dvips, I would get a correct poster. However, within lyx, view dvi is fine but view/export ps/pdf only gives me a corner of the poster. I checke