Just a comment here, not a solution.
A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems
that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make
the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather
than making the contents the same. Tha
Thanks, maybe I'll try this. I have a lot of documents in
MS Word that I continually update, and ideally I would like
to convert all of those to LyX. So far, though, it has been
too cumbersome to be worth the while, so I continue
to use MS Word.
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
>
> What I'd propose is that someone begin a proper word2lyx project based
> upon Rob's ideas.
That would be great. I would be happy to donate to such a project
if it was set up as a 'donation project' as other projects on LyX's
homepage.
A lyx2word conver
I have a lyx and a latex question
First, is it possible to define new theorem environments in LyX?
I looked through the help manuals, but could not find anything.
If not possible in LyX, of course I can use latex \newtheorem. Here the
question is, is it possible to make this follow the style of
Sorry, I think I was not quite clear about what I would like to do.
I'm using the IEEETran class. I would like to define a new
type of theorem (a "property") that looks the same was as
theorems look in the IEEETran class.
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
Thanks, I will try that.
> 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
contents.
Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered
any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can
run under Lion.
You should be able to do this with the titlesec package.
For example, it has the following command:
"and you may add a dot after the counter simply with
\titlelabel{\thetitle.\quad}"
My experience is that trying to change the section labels
manually gives headaches.
Is there a way to make LyX automatically save the LaTeX version of a document
every time the LyX document is saved?
Dr Eberhard Lisse lisse.NA> writes:
>
> What on earth for?
>
There are several reasons. But a main reason is that
I would like to be able to edit my documents on my iPad. LaTeX
exists, but not LyX. I can edit the latex, and then copy
the changes back to LyX. But that does require I have
access
Paul A. Rubin msu.edu> writes:
>
> Anders Host-Madsen yahoo.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Is there a way to make LyX automatically save the LaTeX version of a
> > document
> > every time the LyX document is saved?
> >
>
> You can write a c
Thanks, that works. I see I can use the command-sequence to combine
the commands. So, now it works.
Andrew Parsloe clear.net.nz> writes:
> I'm interested to know whether this really does work. In the past when
> I've tried to use command-sequence with export or save operations it has
> run into problems with threaded code -- an export or save is not
> completed before the next command in th
Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes:
>
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> > On 6/04/2016 8:55 a.m., Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> > >Thanks, that works. I see I can use the command-sequence to combine
> > >the commands. So, now it
Anders Host-Madsen yahoo.com> writes:
>
> I can only say that so far it works for me. I assigned
>
> command-sequence buffer-write; buffer-export pdflatex; buffer-export pdf2
>
> to a key (control-command-S), and it works as intended. I'm using a mac.
>
>
> I notice that, when I export repeatedly to pdf, the command will
> actually run and the pdf will not update unless the buffer has been
> changed. So that's probably why your pdf doesn't always run --- you
> have to change the document, then it will all run.
>
No, that's not the issue. I do
Gordon Cooper kinect.co.nz> writes:
>
>
> On 07/04/16 02:18, David L. Johnson wrote:
> > I notice that, when I export repeatedly to pdf, the command will
> > actually run and the pdf will not update unless the buffer has been
> > changed. So that's probably why your pdf doesn't always run --
Update. If I run
command-sequence buffer-write; buffer-export pdf2; buffer-export pdflatex
It sometimes make LyX hang. If I run
command-sequence buffer-write; buffer-export pdflatex; buffer-export pdf2
sometimes the pdf export doesn't happen. So, neither quite work.
I have a strong feeling
Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes:
> I think this issue might be the one that you're running into:
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8338
Looking at this ticket and the comments, it seems it the same
kind of problem I run into. The exports run in parallel. It then
makes sense that my iMac, which h
Paul A. Rubin msu.edu> writes:
>
> Another possible approach is to define a new file format (Tools | File
> Handling | File Formats) and a new converter (Tools | File Handling |
> Converters) from LaTeX (pdflatex) to the new format. In the "Converter:"
> field, supply the name of a script that f
Paul A. Rubin msu.edu> writes:
> >
> Yes, this is what I meant, and the sequence you listed is what I would use.
> I don't know if it will work in 100% of all cases, but at worst you should
> have the .lyx and .tex files saved (and a LaTeX log file indicating why
> compilation failed), or maybe
Paul A. Rubin msu.edu> writes:
> Is LExport.sh marked executable by all users, not just yourself. I don't
> know whether LyX runs the script with you as the user or with LyX as the user.
It should be. Here is ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 madsen admin 20 Apr 12 14:11 LExport.sh
>
> Also, does the
Stephan Witt gmx.net> writes:
Thank you so much. Now it works. The key was to put the path to
the script
in the lyx path. I had understood from the LyX customization manual that
when you put it inside the lyx scripts folder, lyx would find it.
But that seems
not to be the case.
Also thanks for
Stephan Witt gmx.net> writes:
Unfortunately it's not quite there. I have tried to modify the
script to run bibtex,
but it doesn't work. I have tried different variations for the
input to bibtex,
below is one. But it's not quite clear to me exactly what
should be
the input argument to bibtex. I
OK, I found the problem. Textedit on Mac changed the quotes " into smart quotes.
After correcting that it works completely.
Thanks all for your help.
Anders Host-Madsen yahoo.com> writes:
A few more comment on this. To get the same latex file as one would
get when exporting from the menu, set the "nice" flag in the exporter.
The main issue with the script approach is that it changes the name
of the files. For example, space
That was it, now it works exactly as intended. Thanks again
for your help.
Hal Kierstead me.com> writes:
>
> Please post the final version.
> Thanks,
> Hal
>
I wrote a step by step procedure (ironically, in MS Word! I just
find it easier to copy the screen shots into Word) for the
non-techies -- mainly so I can myself repeat the procedure
when I install a new versio
Hi all,
It seems I cannot access the lyx lists through the gmane interface anymore. Is
that a general problem?
Anders Host-Madsen.
Has anyone tried LyX on MacOS Sierra? Any issues?
. Hopefully that will still work.
On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 8:21 AM, Christopher Menzel
wrote:
On 20 Sep 2016, at 2:16 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> Has anyone tried LyX on MacOS Sierra? Any issues?
LyX (currently 2.2) with MacTeX 2015 is rock solid for me under Sierra, and has
b
, at 2:16 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> Has anyone tried LyX on MacOS Sierra? Any issues?
LyX (currently 2.2) with MacTeX 2015 is rock solid for me under Sierra, and has
been since the early public betas. Will upgrade to MacTeX 2016 one of these
days but don't expect any problem
I need to create a conference poster, and I think I can do it with
beamerposter. But I would like to do it starting with a template/example, so
that I just have to replace things, not start from scratch (I have no
experience with beamer). Does anyone have a good example in LyX? I tried to
impor
On 04/08/2017 04:19 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
I need to create a conference poster, and I think I can do it with
beamerposter. But I would like to do it starting with a template/example, so
that I just have to replace things, not start from scratch (I have no
experience with beamer). Does
A sequence of multiple buffer exports works in 2.3.0 -- they did not do so in
2.2, and I had to write a shell script to circumvent it (that sometimes worked,
sometimes not). For example now I have the keyboard shortcut
command-sequence buffer-write; buffer-export pdflatex; buffer-export pdf2
ass
It seems to me that LyX 2.3 sets fractions slightly too low compared to the
baseline when entering equations. Of course once they are typeset, they move to
the correct position. But in the math input mode it's almost as though
fractions are in subscript mode. Anyone else noticed?
Yes, I can see it. The issue is that the \pi in math input mode is smaller than
the \pi in latex, which makes it look unbalanced in math input mode. Probably
nothing to do about that.
I have the following command sequence assigned to a shortcut:
command-sequence buffer-write; buffer-export pdflatex; buffer-export pdf2
The idea is that whenever I save a lyx file, I also get a latex and pdf file.
The issue is that the latex export messes up filenames (or paths, perhaps). As
an
.On
Sunday, May 6, 2018, 11:33:33 AM HST, Richard Kimberly Heck
wrote:
On 05/06/2018 04:58 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> I have the following command sequence assigned to a shortcut:
>
> command-sequence buffer-write; buffer-export pdflatex; buffer-export pdf2
This will
After upgrading to 2.3.1 I'm unable to import from latex. I'm pretty sure
import worked in 2.3.0. The error message I get is:
An error occurred while running:
$$s/../MacOS/tex2lyx -f "Big Data MDL CCF 17IX.tex" "Big Data MDL CCF 17IX.lyx"
To test that it's not a problem with my document, I create
Thanks, yes that solved the problem.
On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 8:43:22 AM HST, Richard Kimberly Heck
wrote:
On 10/16/18 2:41 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
After upgrading to 2.3.1 I'm unable to import from latex. I'm pretty sure
import worked in 2.3.0. The error
Perhaps beating a dead horse, but I really wish there would be a LyX for iPad.
Apple more and more positions the iPad as a computer replacement. And recent
developments has made that come closer for me. Latex is there, Keynote now can
do latex, and Pythonista can do (basic) Python. The only thin
I have not really figured out how to properly reply to the mailing list.
Hopefully this ends up the right place.
First, I tried rollapp.com. It’s not too bad, in fact. The interface is not
touch optimized, but one can use the Apple Pencil to click the small icons. A
little slow. Perhaps OK if on
Still have not found the proper way to post to thread, so I just hope it will
show up the right place.
First, for the topic of the thread: I have now tried 1) rollapp.com and 2)
remote access to my Mac from iPad (Screens and TeamWiever). rollapp.com is too
limited (e.g., shortcuts and arrow keys
I use LyX 2.0 on Mac. But I cannot find any templates.
One one computer I installed on top of LyX 1.6, on the other
computer it was a fresh install of 2.0. In either, no templates.
What can I do?
Thanks, that solved the problem!
I did this:
copy them from there (e. g. /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/templates)
to ~/Library/Application Support/LyX/templates
Of course, that is not very user friendly. In particular now that Apple has
decided to hide Library. Would it be possible to run some
kind of installation scr
It depends on whether or not you want to import equations as well.
I have been using Word2tex to convert word documents with
mainly equations, and it works fairly well. Some hand-editing is
required, but it is fairly limited. Word2tex is not free, though.
Still, I have found that all the free appr
You can hold down the shift key while you use the arrow keys, at
least on Mac.
> My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well
> with "lots of math equations". But over the years, Word has handled math
> in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version
> first, and making sure it works for your particular word docum
Did anyone try to run LyX under Mountain Lion? Any problems?
Thanks.
This is more of a latex question. Bibtex finds the location of BIB files
from the environmental variable
BIBINPUTS. This is true on both Windows and Mac, and has worked
so far. But suddenly, today, it doesn't
work on Mac anymore. What I have used until now is the
following method
In finder, c
The alternative is to give direct paths to the BIB files.
However, that is an issue when you collaborate with people
on a document.
Furthermore, it seems there is a bug in LyX. When
I give direct paths to the BIB files, the citation dialog box
becomes superwide, stretching beyond the width of my l
Sorry for posting to quick, the last issue with wide citation dialog box
solved itself. But still, the question is how to set
the path for bibtex.
I solved the problem through help on the Apple discussions. I will
post the solution here for reference in case others have the
same issue. Perhaps I can put it on a wiki?
1) In finder, choose Go->go to folder... /etc
2) Edit "launchd.conf" This file may not exist.
In that case create it. Make su
This is also a feature I sorely miss. Unless you only have
a few changes, the LyX display quickly becomes unreadable.
The consequence is that the the resulting pdf can have errors
that are overlooked in LyX, a typical example being missing
spaces.
karl linek.at linek.at> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using wrapfigure. I would like to have the top of a figure adjusted
> with the paragraph. Although I place the wrapfigure environment at the
> beginning of the paragraph, lyx places the figure about one line below
> the first line.
In my experie
I need to produce a paper using the ACM sig-alternate document class.
Is there anyway I can do that in LyX? I tried to import an example file to
LyX, but it gave an error.
For now it seems the only option is to write a draft in LyX, export
to Latex and then continue working there.
I found one LyX layout file at:
http://krono.act.uji.es/people/ismael/lyx-templates-1
This helps, but it lacks theorems (which is
key to what I write). Any other suggestions?
Is it possible to configure/program LyX so that whenever the LyX files is saved
by the user (not auto-save) the pdf version (and latex) version is also saved
(without the warning about overwrite)? I realized I do this hundred of times
every day: save the LyX file then export it to pdf. It would be
hat LyX can use it? It may be an issue of installing it in my Latex
installation. I use gwtex.
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Anders Host-Madsen, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
oblem?
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Anders Host-Madsen, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
I don't really understand how to post replies to messages on the mailing list,
so excuse me if this appears as a separate thread. Thanks to Guenter Milde for
the trick about converting latex formulas into lyx. That should work for short
pieces of latex code: just select the equation parts and co
Maybe this is not the right place to ask: I just don't understand how to post
replies to previous messages (including my own, and answers to my questions) on
this kind of mail forum. Could someone let me know where to find help? I tried
mailing lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org for help, but it doesn
Piero Faustini writes:
Yes, now I see, I can use gmane to post. There is some action
menu in the upper right corner.
Giovanni Bedetti writes:
>
> What i mean is that i paste LaTeX code and see the layout. I'd like to paste
> it in the source view.
I just started using LyX, and I had exactly the same question,
see the list below.
I feel that would be one of the most useful additions to LyX.
I will copy an
LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to
convert my old MS Word documents --
with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to
LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise
about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion
to LaTeX: Grind EQ and Wo
Richard Heck writes:
> >
> OpenOffice will export LaTeX. You should be able to load your Word docs
> there, and then export. Might be no worse. You WILL have to do hand
> editing, one way or the other. There's just no way around it.
I tried to install open office (neo office). It does conve
Jens Noeckel writes:
> Hi,
> yes, some of the lfun names have changed over time. For cross-
> references, you now have to invoke the lengthy command "dialog-show-
> new-inset ref"... In LyX 1.6.x you can find these function names by
> searching in the Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts panels
Richard Heck writes:
> There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if
> it runs on Windows. See here:
> http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
> But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux.
I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord,
But I couldn't make AbiWord
Yakup Ayvaz writes:
> I inserted an images, which also shows the image correctly in lyx,
> but then I try to export in pdf format I get an error like "... cannot
> determine size of graphic".
I would suggest specifying width and height in the LyX graphics
dialog box. This sounds like the type
Nikos Alexandris writes:
> Hi Yego.
>
> Hmm, that's a bit strange to me. I use .eps all the time without any
> problem and "hit" the pdf button (or export > PDF (pdlatex) ) and never
> experienced conflicts.
>
> Perhaps I don't understand the problem of Yakup very well, but I think
> it's prob
I believe you need to run "sudo texhash" from the terminal
after installing new packages.
jezZiFeR writes:
>From a few weeks of usage of LyX I find that the error messages
I get from LyX is rather meaningless. It appears to my that LyX
cuts away exactly the important parts. I would suggest you look
at the LaTeX log, or try to export to LaTeX and compile to see what
exactly happens in
OK, I can see that there is an answer to my question
on the LyX wiki. Didn't realize that before asking here.
Installing cocoAspell worked. Great.
I badly need spell checking for my typing. LyX relies on aspell,
which I don't have. I went to the aspell web page and
downloaded, but I find no installation
instructions. I'm lost. I use LyX on a Mac, and it seems aspell
is some kind of unix thing.
I can see that cocoAspell is a Mac
version o
I ran into the same problem. I just started using spellcheck.
There is a more direct solution. In Finder you can select
Go>Go To Folder (or shift-command-G). Then you can type
/usr/local/etc (or just /usr and then navigate from there).
You can then change the
access privileges for aspell.conf. How
First, a question to someone knowledgeable. How does LyX do it's
compilation
of LaTeX? Does it leave .aux files between compilations? I have had
this kind of errors with LaTeX. An error in compilation leaves an
invalid .aux file. That prevents compilation next time. I have had
to manually delete th
Mac already has this feature as part of the
operating system. I wonder if it would be
possible without too much trouble
to activate this in the Mac interface?
For a Mac user this would be better, since
it's nice to have one systemwide dictionary.
Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX?
Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or
\mathbf with \mathsf. If not,
is there any plans to implement this?
One of the advantages of using Latex is that it's plain text,
so it's possible to search and replace in equations.
Uwe Stöhr writes:
> This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a
> text editor and then use find and replace.
Thanks, I didn't think about the fact that
LyX files are text files. That seems a better solution
than exporting to Latex and then re-importing to LyX.
It appears that eq
Did you specify the elsart-harv.bst in the bibtex insert
(as style file)?
Otherwise, that would seem an obvious problem.
Is there any good way to convert LyX (or LaTeX perhaps
more to the point) to HTML? I do know LyX can export
to HTML, but the result is not pretty; it looks so
last century. Also, many packages seems to be
stripped away (such as enumitem). There is no
options to format the HTML to look nice.
I tri
Iain Mac Donald writes:
Thanks, as I stated, I did try elyxer. That
actually produces nice output, but it seems
to support a very limited set of latex/lyx.
None of my equations or numbered lists
come out correctly. But maybe this will one
day be a good tool. It appears to be new.
I do like the p
Robert Orr writes:
> One means that I've found as an alternative has been to export .pdf,
> then convert it to html by sending it to adobe.
I actually did try this earlier, using Acrobat Pro.
But the result was terrible, absolutely terrible.
Any tricks?
Typhoon writes:
> I use tex4ht or hevea. I find that either one of them does a reasonable
> job if you then apply a custom CSS. But my work is always plain text,
> no images. I'm using Debian Lenny.
Thanks, hevea does look interesting. But it seems to be a unix thing.
How can I use it on a Mac?
Alex Fernandez writes:
Thanks for making this available. I will experiment a little
more with it, and possibly send you some files.
> tex4ht works on all platforms. It is normally accessed when you
> view your document as HTML from LyX.
> If this is not the case tex4ht is not installed.
> (it is often part of the LaTeX distribution).
Yes, the translation from within lyx works (htlatex is there). But I'm
not very satisfied
BH writes:
> I haven't used hevea, but I have used tex4ht, which is a part of
> TeXLive; LyX should already recognize it.
>
> Bennett
I tried using tex4ht on some other documents, and the result is
better than my initial judgement made them. Equations are actually
rendered quite faithfully. But
rgheck writes:
> The other possibility is plastex, which I haven't used but keep meaning
> to investigate. It's pure python, so should run anywhere LyX does.
Now I tried out Plastex. The concept is a little different.
It makes the latex document into a complete, hierarchical web page.
The resul
john writes:
But looking at the web site, it looks like
latex2html was not updated since 2001. That makes
me somewhat reluctant to rely on it.
I have the same problem. However, only with SOME eps files.
In my case EPS files generated by Matlab just don't show in LyX,
but those from some other sources do show in LyX (for example
those in the user guide).
My only workaround has been to convert the EPS into PDF manually
(in OS X just use pr
Steve Litt writes:
I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
First, it's much easier not to use styles. Personally, I always used
styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
together documents from gr
Talking about tables. I'm trying to import a table from excel.
I get the error "this file is from an earlier version of LyX,
but LyX failed to convert it." If I try to open the file lyx created
from the CSV, LyX crashes. I tried to shorten my csv file
to a few lines, and then LyX managed to import
Guenter Milde writes:
> Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The
> space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible.
I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see
my previous posting), but
Giovanni writes:
> It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph?
Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic?
Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages
of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until
you posting. This solved my probl
I cannot confirm this either. In my 1.6.1 Lyx, the
save as location is my working directory. There
must be something amiss in your installation.
Problem solved: There was an apostrophe (') that had been converted to a
weird character when Excel saved the file (Excel for Mac, it seems, only
has the options of Windows
format or MS-DOS format, both incompatible with Mac). After removing that,
it converted correctly. So, it was Excel's prob
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