> > Yes, this works well. Thanks, Jürgen, and all the best for 2019 to
> > you and all on this very helpful list,
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> >>
> >> Jürgen
> >>
> >>> Wolfgang
> >
I have found this kind of title page manipulation is much easier to
achieve with the memoir class, where the layout of the title page is
essentially whatever you want it to be.
Les
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Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> Les,
>
> If you use Koma-Script that's a non-starter.
>
> el
Of course it is. Which is one of the reasons why I have gone to the
(considerable) trouble of learning what is necessary to use memoir.
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how to
improve page layout. If you want good page layout that is nearly what
you need, use KOMA-script Book. If you want an exact page layout, use
Memoir, but be prepared to learn how to do it.
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etheaderspaces{0.625in}{*}{*}
\setlrmargins{0.75in}{*}{*}
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{0.0in}
\setlength{\uppermargin}{0.7in} %Top margin including header
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in the manual (over 500 pages with a Fog Index
around 13).
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ale faster, and at lower cost. If
the publisher's costs are lower, they can sell at a lower price, which
will increase the number of sales and (hopefully) increase my royalties.
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m the default you have
problems. That's how I found out that memoir does things differently.
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e pandemic). I have received
two more sets of corrections, and sent two more revisions, before
receiving the publication agreement for me to sign on Monday.
I have been using LyX for about twenty years, and am extremely grateful
to the volunteers who have made it what it is today.
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Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> What font did you use?
Times Roman base size 12pt. That was part of the required specification.
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compression and minimum quality, I was able
to reduce the size of the exported PDF to 238.8kB, a third smaller than
the imported image. And the resolution of the image is still 180dpi.
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inimal example including an SVG file and the PDF
> output. Can you reproduce the problem? Is there a solution?
>
David,
I find your example does not have the arrows inn LyX, but does have
them in the PDF output, as yours does. I'm running Linux Mint with LyX
2.0.8.1.
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epackage[param1]{microtype}
> 3. use heavy loaded settings to get what you need
> ?
I'm hardly a heavy user of microtype, but usually when I do use it I
tend to play around with tracking (though not much else: the microtype
manual is 241 pages, so it's easy to waste a lot of time perfectin
e
done on your system.
The only difference I can see that might make a difference is in the
LaTeX Preamble under Settings. Try copying the lines:
% set fonts for nicer pdf view
\IfFileExists{lmodern.sty}{\usepackage{lmodern}}{}
from the preamble in the tutorial to the preamble in your document.
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cribed as"
F56
Type: Type 3
Encoding: Custom
Actual Font: F56
Actual Font Type: Type 3
There is no mention of it being embedded.
I don't know where this font is coming from in your document, but it
may be the problem.
None of the viewers I tried had any problems with correctly displaying
your PDF.
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; about doing this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Usman
I'd look at report (KOMA-script). It has a lot more options.
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in question as one or two PDF
files, using an external program, then add them in the right place to
the PDF file produced by the LyX document.
One way of doing this is to generate two blank pages (insert two
consecutive New Pages) then remove these two pages and replace them
with the figure pages using pdftk.
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et it to work on my x86_64 Linux machine, and when using it
to view Lyx output I just close it each time.
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cument where a new page makes sense to force the
display of pending floats.
See http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/floats#unprocessed
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ure or poster without hesitation; it might also be
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mably
> produced by "convert". What should I do?
>
Nils,
I'd try adding the flag 'vector' to the SVG->PDF converter definition. See
the Help file Customization.lyx section 3.5., "Converters, Formats, Viewers,
Editors and Copiers".
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On Wednesday 05 September 2007 09:46, Hartmut Haase wrote:
> Hi,
> can someone please send me a .lyx-file where I can see how to use Old Style
> Figures?
See attachment.
Les
test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
nguage is not English, who has not mastered the language. It
is also written solely for Windows users (which many readers may find an
advantage, but which I find strange).
Les
ng in the manual for the
Memoir class
(http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf)
starting on page 195. It isn't a trivial problem, and it will require some
use of Latex, but judging from the examples given can produce some very
acceptable layouts.
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om the various databases. Some of the figures will
be generated by this script too (maps using GMT and graphs using Grace).
4. Generate LaTeX for each of the 28 volumes.
5. Output to PDF, probably using pdfLaTeX.
I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Les
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On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Richard Heck wrote:
> Les Denham wrote:
> > My current ideas of how to do this are the following:
> > 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that
> > vary in each of the reports from the various databases.
>
>
automatically if you have "Two-sided document" checked
under Document->Settings->Page Layout.
If it's a one-sided document, there is no recto and verso.
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of
Lyx. Can you point where to look?
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er
and was delighted with how much easier it was to use. His only complaint was
the lack of a Spanish thesaurus (does MS Word have one?).
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tached.
Les
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#LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 245
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics d
floats and let LaTeX figure out where to put
them -- but I'd also expect to waste a lot of time juggling margins, font
sizes and spacing to fill the page without overflowing it.
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o the same.
If I did use LyX, I would most likely use minipages to control layout -- but
even with them, it's hard to get things looking right.
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ion, position of caption, etc.) I insert the next
figure by copying and pasting the previous figure, then editing the image
filename, label and caption appropriately.
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See h
Font newcent.
Has anyone else run across this kind of problem? I suspect it is a problem
with fonts -- the errors occur with "fi", "ff" and a few other uncommon
letter combinations.
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port->OpenOffice.org Writer function in
LyX, which uses oolatex. I too have no clue as to how the ligature (which
appears to be the problem) affects the conversion. But the error is quite
repeatable.
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1: some footnote
> 2: some other footnote
Neal,
1. The first time the footnote occurs, put it in normally.
2. Then put a label in the footnote.
3. To refer to the same footnote a second time, insert a crossreference to the
label and format it as superscript.
4. Example attached.
Les
f
requently disallowing graphical logins
except by root, until you log in as root and then log out again.
We only use RHEL3 because we use some proprietory software that only runs on
that release -- it's archaic, and doesn't support a lot of recent software or
a lot of new hardware.
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y file,
then send the output to the printer?
Les
t is usually a PDF file, you can't get it using pdflatex -- you have to
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judicious use of
ERT, or use one of the included styles and stick with the defaults.
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you the
choice of:
LyX Note
Comment
Greyed out
Framed
Shaded
In 1.4.2 the choices are:
LyX Note
Comment
Greyed out
The "Greyed out" option gives you the effect you're looking for.
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On Tuesday 12 February 2008 13:16, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote:
> > If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster
> > tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice
> > job.
>
&
file.ps
which should generate file.eps
One of the features I like about this utility is that it happily deals with a
lot of files that ghostscript chokes on (which is probably not pertinent in
your case -- these are usually very large and complex fi
"convert" to do the job, I think you'll change everything into a
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nutes ago I completed a 66 page document with 235 figures, almost all
of them labeled and cross-referenced, and while I have not done a final
proof-read I do not think I have an error in any of those references.
Les
want in many cases. If there was a particular
word or phrase later in the caption you wanted in the label you could insert
the label in front of it, and I'm sure it would work fine.
Les
t all with latex. When I try to print a document with
such figures, the printing fails with the message:
"Could not print document name.lyx.
Check that your printer is set up correctly."
Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message
gives the im
bly
simple). That makes it easy to change if necessary.
3. Avoid using script if possible.
Les
button I get a
pop-up box with the following error message:-
An error occurred whilst running db2dvi newfile1,sgml
I am using LyX version 1.5.4 on Fedora 7
Where do I look for a solution please?
Cheers,
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On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote:
> Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a
> filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to
> disable this?
Try Tools->Preferences->User interface
and uncheck the "Backup
I like the look, and I'm particularly impressed with how quickly it has gone
from a suggestion for an improvement to a fait accompli.
Les
year ago, but could not get something that looked
reasonable. I ended up doing it in Scribus: but that meant fiddling with
every little detail of the appearance.
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;Go to Label" as one of the
options.
For the final PDF document, use the hyperref package.
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he column width, and
put a border on the bottom only. Or you could put both parts in a table.
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st as well as
anything using MS Word (wouldn't Excel be better?). If you can save the
graph in a vector format that LyX can read (such as PDF or Postscript) the
results will be better than saving it as a raster file.
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t it as PDF, and merge the PDF export from your report using
pdfpages (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdfpages),
which is probably in your LaTeX distribution. If you want a really nice
title page, you might want to use Scribus rather than LyX to format it.
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n't duplicate this behavior; and I've never seen it, even though I use
footnotes very frequently (though I usually use other classes).
What version of LyX are you using? Can you post a minimal example of a LyX
file which exh
nt application, such as Scribus) and combine it with the rest
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wiki somewhere, but I only found
out about it after I'd done the job, and I haven't read it.
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lection-genericextra
Now I don't know what most of these are, but I'm pretty sure I might want
psfig, so I emerge this package.
Les
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responder on mail from the LyX list.
You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every
address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list . . .
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.1, and Ubuntu 7.10
should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I
started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent
enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat
with powerdot is you
a mailing list archived at http://www.freelists.org/archives/powerdot/
which is helpful for a new user.
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s2pdf) export (or viewer) it should work properly. The
page format problem is probably due to something lacking in the class options
or in the preamble. Have you tried the example, powerdot-example.lyx?
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t do
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On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote:
> The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do
> that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final
> document.
With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf
documentation
ed. If they aren't,
anything you do with the output from pdflatex won't work. If that happens to
a particular figure, you can convert it to a bitmap (I'd suggest PNG) using
Gimp, ImageMagick or other image editor, and specify the bitmap in your LyX
document. LyX will handle it automatically.
Les
e why the settings
I'm using give the results they do.
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who want perfect figure placement should perhaps use a
publishing program such as Scribus. But be prepared to place every figure
exactly where you want it -- one at a time.
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ont, I can't tell.
You can fiddle with the line spacing in the table (I don't remember exactly
how), but it seems to me the simplest solution would be to use another font.
I'm using 1.5.4 with texlive on Gentoo 2007.
Les
a reason why most printed blocks of text have used a serif
font for the last three centuries or more: it's easier to read.
Les
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On Monday 18 September 2006 12:42, mail.k wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to create a slide with text and graphics side by side:
>
> three "itemize"d lines on the left, and a small figure on the right.
>
> I've tried \twocolumn{text}{\includegraphics{}}
>
> and also tried floats, but the graphics do
gured for 64 bit?
>
Steve,
I've been running Lyx in a 64-bit version of SuSE 10.0 for about a year with
no issues. It's not the latest version (1.3.6, I think -- I'm not on that
machine at present), and I don't know whether it's a 32-bit
ple shows the Lyx source and PDF output.
Les
test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:48, Philipp Fleig wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am new to LyX and I want to write a simple "note" using Lyx. Just a
> few lines and some formulae, so no sections, dates, heading etc.
> What document class should I use for this?
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Philipp
Phillipp
n be integrated with LaTeX. So putting it together with Lyx
should be practical, though I haven't tried it.
Les
I don't
> think it's too big, but please correct me if wrong).
>
Kenward,
I loaded it into Lyx 1.4.1 on Gentoo Linux and it came out in Letter without
me doing anything (see attached). The margins could be evened a little, but
it's definitely Letter. There may be something different in 1.4.3.
Les
labreportRubric.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
stings}
\pdsetup{%
lf=INT3.3,
rf=Estimating Hydrocarbon Content from Amplitudes,
logohook=c,
logopos={.08\slidewidth,.92\slideheight},
logocmd={\includegraphics[scale=.16]{nola76_simple.ps}}
}
As you can see, almost everything is specific to the layour of my
presentation.
Les
the paragraph containing the graphic (even within a
float), but I've had fewer problems with the Hfill.
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u need the HPLIP package (http://hplip.sourceforge.net) which supports the
printing and scanning functions quite nicely.
Les
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS
> Word...
>
> Why not use MS Word from the beginning?
Steve,
The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The
report I'm working o
c
formats can be taken care of automatically with Lyx -- Grace .agr format, for
example, which I use very often -- while others you might export as a .eps
file from the application that generates the graphic.
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worthy of a four-year-old.
Writing of any kind is so rare I can't imagine there being any demand for
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action}{0.07} % allow minimal text w. figs
Also see http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/bibliog/latex/floats.htm
Les
esentation, you will
have to reconsider what you're presenting, perhaps using an overview with
additional slides to show detail.
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a worthy goal.
On balance, as I don't have strong feelings as a user, I should vote for the
one which will be of most use to LyX as a community for the longest time.
That must surely be Oxygen. See:
http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=2
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on from HTML to LyX is (at least in principle) doable. The big
problem with SIMILE is that the guts of the output is in Javascript not HTML.
I'm not aware of a way of getting Javascript into something LyX might be able
to handle.
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at
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer
or at the Beamer template installed with LyX.
Another possibility is Powerdot.
Les
line. So I inserted a line break.
> Problem is, now I've got a line break in the TOC. Is there any way to have
> my line break and normal-looking TOC, too?
>
> Richard Opheim
Richard,
You can use Short Title (Insert->Short Title) to define a different title for
the Table
mat may give unacceptably
slow loading over some internet connections. JPEG is usually smaller than
PNG, so there is an argument for using it for online distribution. But in
general PNG is a very good universal format. If the PNG file is still too
big, reduce the image resolution for online distribution.
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pened, but I don't use gnuplot because
this kind of thing seems to happen with it. Instead I use xmgrace,
which can do exactly what I think you're trying to do, and can export
directly to either PDF or EPS, either of which will probably behave
better than PS when included as a figure.
Les
X documentation for the package:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/
Les
Adjust the margins (Document->Settings->Page
Margins) and if you still have too much space at the top of the page
you can use Insert->Formatting->Vertical Space to put in a negative
space at the top of the page.
But I'd use a spreadsheet such as Gnumeric or LibreOffice Calc to do
the job.
Les
publisher are happy with the results.
If anyone wants advice with a similar project I am happy to help.
Les
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available in all its computer labs?
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r breaks.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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On Tuesday 11 February 2003 1523 pm, you wrote:
> but certain, the same fonts and sizes but when I convert it, it looks
> horrible with fuzzy text.
>
> What does it take to fix this? How do I determine the critical difference
> between the nicely rendering chapters and the horribly rendering cove
On Thursday 20 March 2003 1428 pm, you wrote:
> > > ld: warning: file libGL.so.1: required by
> > > /usr/site/qt//lib/libqt-mt.so, not found
> > > Undefined first referenced
> > > symbol in file
> > > glXQueryExtension /usr/site/qt//lib/l
lows spaces in file and directory names. This is in keeping with its
design as a totally graphical operating system, where a command line should
never be needed.
Les
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