this is already available or if you have any suggestions, please let me
know.
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
e DVI file (it should probably be around ten
pages):
http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-iuc567v96y3/J.dvi
(15664 bytes)
Any ideas would be appreciated.
This is version 1.3.5.
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I have an incomplete lyx document where the sections aren't being displayed.
And page numbers are displayed in middle of pages.
I chopped out everything but one chapter so you can review:
http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-iuc567v96y3/
since I played with this, but I recall that I lost
some formatting (especially since HTML is primitive).
Anyone want to write a real device for groff for "latex" (or even
lyx) output?
Jeremy C. Reed
Low cost press releases
e to the faq
or doc about this if it exists.)
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
{chapter}{Index}".
Thanks for the info. Problem solved!
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
ttp://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/CV which has some links to downloads and
examples and usage ideas.
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
package also
installs these files to its own hierarchy. And Gentoo uses a symlink to
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx for same. (See
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91108)
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
ld not mix title layouts with normal
ones.
What do you use for a subtitle for a book?
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
rs to docs?
Jeremy C. Reed
Media Relations and Publishing Services
http://www.reedmedia.net/
irections).
I am using the "Subject" layout but it puts my subtitle before my title.
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
at the beginning of the index.
I added a "\newpage{}" immediately before (without it said the Index was on
previous page, 57) and used that "\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}".
Replyi
ATH=/usr/local/lib in your environment
before running lyx, like:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib lyx
Jeremy C. Reed
open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
hat converter is used for this. (I don't see in my
preferences.)
I am using lyx 1.3.6.
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
be fine or having the book name as the header with a rule
at top with a page number at bottom would be good too.
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
you please point me to the documentation? Or Share an example?
Thank you,
Jeremy C. Reed
Media Relations and Publishing Services
http://www.reedmedia.net/
s solved for now with:
\usepackage{tocloft}
\addtolength{\cftsecnumwidth}{1em}
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
nt or bold used with \indexentry.
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
the hole punches like selected. I ordered
(online) around 1 a.m. and was able to pick up around ten or so copies of
my book at around 7:30 a.m.
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> My problem is that a header from a previous page is shown on a following page
> that is at the end of a chapter and is also blank. So my blank left even page
> has a header (showing the previous section name) and my right odd page is a
&g
page).
I want to get rid of that 0.38 indent (so lines up with Standard). Any
ideas?
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
ra } and undefined control sequence.
Or maybe I can redeibe the lyxcode environment, but I don't know how to
redefine an existing environment. Or I can create my own class, but I was
hoping I don't have to do that.
I found the lyxcode defined in lyxmacros.inc.
Any ideas on how to
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\normalfont\ttfamily}%
\item[]}
{\end{list}}
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
saw a posting on how to automatically fix this recently, but can't find
now.
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
e I am
updating content and later may change paper size.
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
ustify the line that lost the word.
Will \tolerance or \emergencystretch work with that?
And what is the difference between
\emergencystretch=2em
and
\setlength{\emergencystretch}{2em}
?
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I want to continue using justification. I want latex to know that the line
> is too long and simply wrap the word that it didn't hyphenate and then
> attempt to right justify the line that lost the word.
I tried over ten differ
her better way to draw a line ;-)
\hrulefill in ERT.
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
re-adding the following:
+ */
+#if defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(QT_THREAD_SUPPORT)
+ unlock();
+#endif
+}
#ifdef Q_OS_MAC
bool LQApplication::macEventFilter(EventRef event)
Arun: what operating system are you using?
Jeremy C. Reed
BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
drop-down list of paragraph environments
anymore. I used it to comment out text that I want to hide in my books
(and why I thought it should not be exported in plain text output -- but
maybe I misunderstood this).
Jeremy C. Reed
p.s. If you are a pkgsrc or NetBSD or DragonFly user, I will b
the middle of my document.
Thank you all for your work and support for LyX. It has been a great tool
for me.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
"date" but didn't find it.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
I also tried grepping through my installed /usr/pkg/share/lyx/doc/ files,
but didn't find information.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
techniques do you all use for creating a useful index?
Jeremy C. Reed
echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
om a command-line shell so you can see the output. For
example, I have error like:
/usr/bin/lpr: lp: unknown printer
Because my spool command is wrong.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular.
I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is
wider than my printed page.
How can I get that text to wrap automatically?
Or by manually putting in line breaks?
Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular.
> >
> > I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is
> >
iew without authenticating.
But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I
guess the solution is not to use Adobe :)
Jeremy C. Reed
ow can help:
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:20:11 -0400
From: Steve Litt
To: lyx-users
Subject: Re: Problem: TOC section 2 digit numbers crash into text
On Friday 18 May 2007 22:17, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > LyX 1.4.2, Mandriva 2007 Linux.
> >
> &
But the generated book is in A4.
Any suggestions on how to texexec to not reformat the pages at all (and
keep my 7.44in x 9.68in pages)?
Or any other tool or technique to do what I want?
Thanks in advance,
Jeremy C. Reed
hat in my book?
(In a previous book, I used EPS files that I created and exported with
inkscape.)
Jeremy C. Reed
es).
Also notice above I have the pkg_info commands in slanted text. Maybe they
should be in a bold. I am just want to be consistent and to be easy for
reading. I guess my goal should be that it is helpful to the reader
without the reader being distracted. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Je
}{3}$
How can I get those displayed as characters in lyx so it is convenient for
my wife to read her book in lyx while she works on it?
Reading the ERT for me is fine.
Jeremy C. Reed
My wife wanted to do a search and replace to replace
1/2 with ? and 3/4 with ? but we couldn't paste that with Ctrl-V or
middle-click (in X).
So I used vim to edit the lyx document.
Also I wanted to replace '1/3' with the corresponding evil red text. How
can I paste in ERT in the Find dialog?
o over
100MB due to the new PNGs, but I think my printer will accept that.
I read that pdflatex accepts JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or PDF. I assume that means
that a JPEG, TIFF, and PNG are the supported raster image formats for
embedding in a PDF. Does anyone know if using a tiff would be better than
a zero compressed png?
Jeremy C. Reed
rac{1}{5}$
$\frac{1}{8}$
$\frac{2}{3}$
> All told (and multiplied by however many special characters you need), this
> may be more work than it's worth.
Jeremy C. Reed
never thought about re-creating the images, but that is too much time
for me now. Thanks for the idea.
Jeremy C. Reed
26.)
I read that \footnote[num]{Text here.} only takes a number for [num].
Jeremy C. Reed
tell you how to change the appearance. There are also
> various packages for styling footnotes.
I figured that out after doing a lot more reading. In my preamble:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\alph{footnote}}
I will use that until I figure out my original plan.
> Search the net for tips - and if you want to do some latex trickery from
> time to time, get or borrow one of the recommended latex books.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Also thank you to JMarc: I started reading the ledmac documentation. It is
long!
Jeremy C. Reed
n and now on
> Mac.
Use ~ (not with lib)
Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will just
> contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct.
>
> :o/
Okay. ~/lib/lib/libQt*
Sometimes you can't use ~ (tilde). Maybe use the /the/full/path/to/lib.
Mayb
utput. Maybe it is missing your ~/lib/bin/moc or other
QT tool(s)?
Jeremy C. Reed
ph
9.4 maybe explain "ex" unit better -- example? (Isn't it the size of "X"
character?)
11.2.3 For Lulu, I have used pdflatex to create my PDFs fine. I have even used
pdftk as the Creator. Lulu printed them fine without complaint.
Thanks for teaching me: \raggedbottom
J
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007 10:14, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> [clip]
> > Page 28 need a period and space before "Here".
>
> Jeremy -- how do you see and remember things like that. Do you proofread
> professionally? If so, ho
tuation" mean? A punctuation extending into
margin?
Does anything special have to be done for "hanging punctuation"? Or just
\usepackage{microtype} does the "hanging punctuation"?
Jeremy C. Reed
n
reload in LyX when ready to start working on it.
Jeremy C. Reed
es. I want it automated. I don't want anything in my
margin (unless maybe in lyxcode block).
Any suggestions?
I googled for this for over 30 minutes but couldn't find what I am looking
for. (It seems like I asked about this before but can't find in my
saved email.)
Jeremy C. Reed
y typewriter" (I just happened to also be using "\emph on" so
thought that was it.)
Thanks for the ideas.
Jeremy C. Reed
those?
I don't recall them mentioned on this list.
Jeremy C. Reed
page or next page?
I can use \newpage between recipes, but that wastes space for short
recipes.
Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Richard Heck wrote:
> > Is there a lyx or latex command for jumping to the next column whether it is
> > on same page or next page?
> >
> > I can use \newpage between recipes, but that wastes space for short recipes.
> >
> The "Guide to LaTeX" sayeth:
> If the document cla
I found online a few years ago),
generates Postscript directly. My second testing program now generates
HTML and I use html2ps to convert. I think I will next try one of my ideas
above to better format my output.
Jeremy C. Reed
all
sized correctly. Unless some tool can do what I want without my manual
adjustments.
I have a few tables like this to create.
Jeremy C. Reed
table.png
Description: Binary data
It seems like even though multiple are highlighted,
only the one with my LyX cursor gets its width changed.
I need to get the entire generated table to be narrower so it will fit in
the printed book.
Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> At first, it started to work and I could generate several DVIs as I worked
> on it. But once I was finished, it errored with:
>
> LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg.
> LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg.
> La
On first row, using the Table Settings dialog (in lyx 1.5.2), the top
border selection is for entire row. I can't get it to work for a single
cell.
Anyone else have that problem?
Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On first row, using the Table Settings dialog (in lyx 1.5.2), the top border
> > selection is for entire row. I can't get it to work for a single cell.
> >
> > Anyone else have that problem?
but the tops of letters like "TTL" and "Fl" touch
the top of row (top border). Looks bad. I can provide PDF.
(Just noticed that my upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.5.2 lost my PDF export and
view using just "latex" to create the PDF.)
Jeremy C. Reed
"document,vector"
...
\converter pdflatex pdf2 "pdflatex $$i" "latex"
And ~/.lyx/preferences has:
\format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "F" "xpdf" "" "vector"
Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Bennett Helm wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > I am trying to figure out why after my upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.5.2 I lost
> > my Export menu option and View choice for PDF (pdflatex).
>
> ...
>
> > I hav
#x27;t touch the bottom of the
> > row (the border), but the tops of letters like "TTL" and "Fl" touch the top
> > of row (top border). Looks bad. I can provide PDF.
>
> I think posting a small example (both LyX and PDF) would be a good idea.
Attached.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> However, you can control height and depth through a parameter. Indeed,
> LaTeX multiplies height and depth of a row in a table by \arraystretch.
> Now, given that the height is generally bigger than the depth, for a
> sufficiently high value of \arra
ols -> Preferences
Look at File formats and then Converters.
Jeremy C. Reed
; > Liviu
>
> Ah - yes, that was it! I hadn't looked at "Insert", only at "File",
> which was where I'd expected it to be. Many thanks.
>
> Anthony
As for the "Import", it should not be overwriting, but just creating a new
LyX document. So you had multiple LyX documents open after doing import.
Jeremy C. Reed
In my content, I have a few tables where I do not want any caption to
Table number listed with them. They are redundant for me.
But I do want these tables still listed by number and caption in the list
of tables.
Any ideas on how to do that?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
reference of the different book
classes?
If not, what do you prefer and why?
Maybe the answers could be summarized on a wiki page.
Jeremy C. Reed
> Am Freitag 28 Dezember 2007 23:18:39 schrieb Bob Lounsbury:
> > I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond
> > that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include
> > if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones'
> > input.
Ne
I have been asked by a end-user of my pkgsrc LyX packages how to use it in
German.
How can I get the LyX interface to be in German?
Anything else I should know (such as support for umlaughts or default page
sizes or default units)?
I see my package has installed:
/usr/pkg/share/locale/de/LC_M
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> alias lyx-en="LANG=en_GB; lyx"
>
> in my .bashrc file for an English speaking lyx.
>
> To force a German interface (in UNIX), set the LANG variable to "de_DE", say,
> before starting lyx:
>
> LANG=de_DE; lyx
Thank you very much (and also thank you to
Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a
middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit -> Paste Special.
(I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.)
In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable.
This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not runnin
t;?
By the way, my producer (pdfeTeX-1.21a) is from teTeX-bin-3.0nb14 (pkgsrc
package). Any suggestions on tweaking that to create correct PDF?
Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
> I wish the error message would tell me exactly why it believes I don't have
> QT4 installed. Then I could fix the problem. Perhaps it's nothing but a
> missing symlink, but with an error message like that, I can't tell.
The error messages should be in th
To answer your Subject line:
xforms has not been maintained in around four years.
Qt4 gives more possibility to use on non-Unix and even non-X11 systems.
Qt4 has better support for internationalization and many other user
interface features. This lets LyX developers work on LyX specific
featur
ere I also captured the text. I
think my book would look better if I let TeX format the text versus using
PNG images.
Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've scoured the LyX sites and the web for any info on rtf2latex2e.
> Seems that it was originally written on a mac classic os9. There are
> unix and windows versions but I can't find any for OSX for the Mac. I've
> tried to compile unix code on t
.)
Jeremy C. Reed
Continuing my thread from January (where I used 1.5.2) ...
I have been using 1.5.4 and copy-and-paste still doesn't work. My
workaround now is very slow -- I save to a text file and then use LyX to
Insert -> File -> Plain Text ... I repeat this many times and it is a
waste of time. (I might as
having a second table of contents titled
"Excurses" listing just these five sections with the page numbers (using
pageref) -- maybe use tabular or multicolumn to get page numbers lined up
on right.
Any opinions or examples?
Jeremy C. Reed
p.s. As you can guess, I don't recall coming across Excursus before.
paste into LyX?
>
> Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more
> windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help.
No, only one LyX running.
I have a text highlighted in an xterm. But can't paste into LyX. Tried
middle click. Tried using menu options.
Jeremy C. Reed
ed the png image. It is blurry and seemed to scale somewhat
too big.
Any suggestions or pointers on creating good graphics to be used by LyX
that will print well for a book?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GD
e) but LyX
complained that now converter was setup for it.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
> With acrobat reader, use "File->Document properties->Fonts"
> Then click on "all fonts".
> There you see which fonts are embedded, and which are not.
Also the pdffonts tools included with poppler-utils (or poppler) or xpdf
lists the fonts used in a PDF with name, type, embedded, subset,
ToUnic
If I highlight a URL in my document and then click Insert -> Url
the popup window has blank input boxes. Maybe it should automatically
place the text or URL.
Also, I can't copy and paste into the Url input boxes.
I am using LyX 1.4.2. Is this expected behaviour?
I added one line to my inside title page of a 190 page book but the
resulting PDF -- according to diff has over 3000 changes.
I think the changes have to do with reconverting images and dates of
images (although originals are same).
Is there an easy way I can manually edit (maybe with vi) the P
> if you alter only one line on title page, why it should change ?
> maybe diffing postscipt versions would be better.
>From looking, the major changes were the images being rebuilt. And so had
different names.
> however i still think the most comfortableis to regenerate
> it and check the numbe
to get rid of entire columns?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
> > What is the correct way to get rid of entire columns?
> You didn't specify a LyX version, but I'm guessing 1.4.2 or 1.4.3. Right
> click in some empty space on the main menu. This should bring up the
> toolbar selection dialog. Put a check next to "Table". Then click
> anywhere in a colum
different auto-indexer to try?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
I asked about this in May but didn't get any reply.
I am looking for a step-by-step guide for using docbook-xml with LyX.
My configure.py has:
\Format docbook-xml xml "Docbook (XML)" "" "" "%%"
and
\converter docbookdocbook-xml "cp $$i $$o" "xml"
I am running lyx 1.4.3 on NetBSD.
Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format?
Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX?
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