Looks like some problem with the xforms interface but I'm not sure what
it is..
This is not a solution to your problem but you might want to try out the
native Win32 version at:
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/
It's pretty easy to install and doesn't require cygwin...
nirmal
On Sun, 19
Hi.. I need to submit a paper for a conference and they have several
formatting requirements.. so my qns:
1. How do I change the size of section headings?
2. How do I change the case of subsection headings.. i.e. from Title
case (e.g. "Subsection One") to sentence case ("Subsection one")?
3. Is it
Thanks Steve and Dekel.. unfortunately this conference (IEEE/SEMI
Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference) isn't LaTeXy yet.. so
they don't have a style file.. I think I will have one ready though by
the time I submit my paper.. :-)
I checked out titlesec and sectsty.. ended up using both
> It's an IEEE conference. You should use the IEEE article class
> (which is supported in lyx ;-)
Yes it's IEEE but unfortunately they don't use the IEEE
publication format.. I checked the list of IEEE conferences that use the
IEEE format and there are just two as per
http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/i
Hi.. I have an equation in the AMS display environment. I inserted a
label for this equation but now I'd like to delete it.. how do I do
this?
Thanks,
nirmal
> Edit it to an empty string?
>
Thanks for the responses everyone.. toggle numbering works.. but editing
the label to an empty one still leaves a number in the final output and
results in some funny behavior.. i.e. the label number (say #2) shows up
and the next equation is numbered correctly (#3
> Oh, forgot to mention that I have the Xforms version, not Qt (and not
> KDE either). Couldn't find anywhere to download the Qt stuff from, and
> I had to hack into the source to figure out why colors weren't being
> set at all.
You don't need to download anything extra (other than Qt of course!)
> Can anyone tell me how can i place a box around an itemized list, or
> any other kind of list?
How about a table with one row and one column and putting the list
inside the table? Then you can set the borders on the table so you'll
have a box around your list...
nirmal
> have a box around your list...
Or not.. looks like one can't put a list inside a table.. is this
possible at all?
nirmal
Hi.. the CV class seems to be missing in 1.3.0.. at least in
Layout->Document.. but it's in the lyx-1.3.0/lib/tex/ folder though..
why isn't it showing up in the menu?
Thanks,
nirmal
> I would like the equation numbers to appear in brackets in the text
> when I reference them. How can this be done?
>
I use the Prettyref option and that puts in the parantheses around the
eqn. number when you reference an equation.. if you click on the
reference inset, in "Format", hit "Formatt
> you can copy from your old-installed lyx, otherwise from CTAN -->
> cv.cls
>
It's already there in the lyx-1.3.0/lib/tex/ and
/usr/local/share/lyx/tex folders and the layout file is in
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts so the files exist but lyx isn't reading
it in for some reason..
nirmal
> What happens if you type 'kpsewhich cv.cls' at the command line?
>
It outputs nothing so I guess it isn't in some PATH? Also I had to re-install
tetex-base, tetex-bin and tetex-extra after upgrading Debian from Woody to
testing. And this gave me some problems.. like tetex-extra supposedly needs
> If you install LyX from the source, it doesn't put cv.cls in the
> correct place (this is a known bug).
> You need to copy it into TEXMF/tex/latex/, and run texhash.
Aah.. thanks guys... yes I did install from source... so I put it in
latex/misc and ran texhash and it all works now..
nirmal
> on in Lyx. It might have been written by Herbert Voss, and it was a ps
> or pdf...
>
Herbert's tips page is at:
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index.phtml
nirmal
I'm using lyx 1.3.0 with Qt (compiled from source) on Debian powerpc..
when I make changes to a lyx file which has previously not been edited
by 1.3.0 but by an older version, and view the output (in DVI or PS or
PDF), the changes aren't reflected. Somehow the old file is still being
read and outp
Hi.. does anyone know if there's a converter that takes a powerpoint
file and converts it to LaTeX or LyX?
Thanks,
nirmal
> What is libforms1?
>
Do you have xforms installed?
nirmal
> Probably not, but you can export PowerPoint to RTF (for outline)
> and set of HTML/PNG files, which can be all then assembled into
> LyX/LaTeX-based presentation.
Thanks Matej... I just found out a cool way of getting the template from
powerpoint into a pdfscreen presentation in LyX.. the develo
Great! Thanks Dekel..
nirmal
>
> You are correct. I just fixed this bug.
>
>
Hi.. does any of the standard layouts in LyX correspond to the standard Latex
class proc.cls? If not, does anyone have a layout file corresponding to this?
I'm trying to submit a paper for a conference which has it's own sty file and
makes use of the proc class..
Thanks,
nirmal
Hi.. I'm running into a couple of problems:
1. I've included a jpg figure in my document .. pdflatex seems to be modifying
the size of this figure to fit into my two column format document since if I
view -> dvipdfm, it shows the correct size (bigger than what would fit into a
column width).. is t
> is successful. However, if I use gcc2, the same configure script dies
> with
>
> checking for moc2... not found
> checking for moc... /sw/bin/moc
> checking for uic... /sw/bin/uic
> checking for Qt library name... failed
> configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you ha
Hi.. I'm having trouble with some simple math in the math editor.. I'm getting
errors saying there are missing $, } etc.. I'm attaching a sample file here
which has 2 lines of math text that gives me 15 errors. Please let me know what
needs to be done to correct this (if it can be corrected by the
> There was a bad bug in one of the older releases which caused /dev/null to
> be removed when ./configure was run as root...
>
and if I remember right, 1.2.2, the version you're trying to install, is the
buggy one.. you might want to download and install 1.2.3 or the latest 1.3.1..
nirmal
> > missing something? Some killer feature? :-)
>
> Not really. There are just people out there who like pain, you know...
>
Not sure I understand what you mean by "pain" Andre... cos I thought that one of
the coolest features of the Qt version was being able to navigate thru folders
and files
> and it complained that the moc or moc2 executable wasn't found. I don't
> seem to have this package available to install into my Suse 8.1 system.
> What is this?
>
A Qt executable if I'm not too wrong.. you may have to specify the path to teh
Qt directory using --with-qt-dir= ..
nirmal
> and it displays the info, but it just won't display the info for the
> one that's being cited (clicked).
I don't seem to have this problem.. using 1.3.1 with qt on Debian powerpc.. I
ugraded from 1.3.0 using the patch.. wonder if that made a difference...
nirmal
Hi.. I'm having trouble with getting some graphics into my file.. I have a bunch
of jpg files that I've included in my document.. LyX shows these images
perfectly well in the LyX window but when I view PDF using any of the three
methods, the images get really distorted.. I was hoping that at least
> Try tex2pdf, preserves the original jpg images,
> does the hyperref part for you.
>
I downloaded and tried tex2pdf.. it gives me errors..
btw, from the log file, it seems like it uses pdflatex?? So how would
the output be different from the one using pdflatex directly? Just
curious.. I'm attac
Hi.. what's the easiest way to include uncited references from a bib
database?
Thanks,
nirmal
> system, and I am wondering how I can make lyx to display all math
> symbols as a symbol and not a red text? ( A \Leftrightarrow
Are you inside the math editor? If not, hit Ctrl-m and type
\Leftrightarrow and a space (or hit the rightarrow key) and you'll see
the symbol..
Or are you saying that
> Easiest... soon you're going to want the 'optimal' way ;-)
As long as optimal is easy.. :-)
> AFAIK, you have to do \nocite{Author98a} in ERT.
I was hoping to avoid ERT.. I had to use ERT earlier also when I used
bibentry.. the main problem with ERT is that one needs to remember (or
lookup) th
> In this case it might be the \mathrm in your equation which then
> includes \mathbf (maybe you pressed C-m by mistake within the equation?).
Thanks Amir.. after reading your post, I looked more carefully and there was a
C-m in there for no reason..
> I should add however, that when I deleted
> The first choice would be to use the available standard truetype fonts
> by microsoft (Times New Roman, Arial, etc...)
>
In Qt, you should also try Bitstream Charter.. it looks pretty neat on the
screen...
nirmal
Thanks Jurgen.. will check this out..
nirmal
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen.
>
>
>
> Mark the textpart and then ->Layout->Character->Color
>
This would change the color of the text.. highlighting would change the color of
the background of the text. Though changing color might do it, it's very
possible that in large docs, changed text color may not get noticed...
Thanks,
n
Hi.. I'm running into problems with my bibliography and citations...
they aren't showing up in the final output.. this file used to run fine
earlier (in the previous 1.2.* versions of Lyx) so I don't know if
something has changed in 1.3.1 that could cause this.. I'm using the Qt
frontend.. I'm att
> export the lyx file to latex and try to run it by yourself.
>
> latex file.tex
> latex file.tex
> bibtex file
> makeindex file
> latex file.tex
> latex file.tex
>
> what happens?
Hi Herbert.. I did the above and this is what happens:
1. latex file.tex has problems determining the size of the
> does someone have installed gbib, i'm trying with on Debian GNU/Linux
> box but it crashes
>
Yes, I use gbib for my references.. on Debian.. which version do you have
installed? I just upgaded to 0.1.1c2 (I think) and it seems to work fine.. just
do "apt-get install gbib" .. this one is in unst
I know this has come up in the past 2 weeks, and I tried something mentioned in
one of the replies but it doesn't seem to work.. when I do a
\renewcommand{\refname}{REFERENCES} in the preamble (actually, in a separate
.sty file which is included using \usepackage{} in the preamble), the
references
> Try
> \usepackage{babel}
> \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\refname{REFERENCES}}
>
Thanks Jurgen.. this worked!
> Maybe something else renames it after your .sty-file?
>
> Have you been able to make it work by itself? (i.e. just renaming it in
Christian.. I tried putting \renewcommand{\ref
Hi, I was wondering if there's some latex package that enables highlighting of
text (the equivalent of highlighting using a highlighter on paper)? If not, it
would be a useful feature to add to LyX.. it's very helpful when you want the
reader to only look at certain parts of the text..
Thanks,
ni
> then in ert \colorbox{red}{some text}
> with a \usepackage{color} in the preamble
Thanks Herbet... Yes, I guess ERT is the only way.. I tried soul and
that's pretty neat too but again in ERT..
Maybe I should put in a feature request for text highlighting in Lyx??
it would be nice to be able t
I did some more experimentation... when I do a View -> DVI (with all
the files in the directory deleted except the lyx file), I don't get the
references or citations as I mentioned in the earlier mail.. but if I do
a View-> HTML, it shows all the references and everything's fine.. and
after this if
> It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in
> depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX.
Yes you can avoid most of the complicated Latex math stuff by using
LyX..
> In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode?
You go into math mode and then typ
Hi.. is there a list of all the math shortcuts somewhere? Some lyx
configuration file maybe? I found a document on the web by googling
which had some but not all.. for example, how do I get a hat or a tilde
on an existing character? I can select the character with the mouse and
then get the hat or
Awesome! Thanks Andre..
nirmal
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 02:43 am, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:20:25AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> > Hi.. is there a list of all the math shortcuts somewhere? Some lyx
> > configuration file maybe?
>
> look for some .../bind/math.bind
>
Hi.. I need to use bold greek letters to denote vectors and currently
even if I start a bold mode and then enter the greek letter I still get
the usual greek letter.. Is there something I can put in the preamble
that will actually put in a bold greek letter where a greek letter has
been entered in
Thanks for the solutions Angus.. I'm not sure if I'm implementing them
correctly since the first method (using the preamble and main body)
compiles fine but doesn't give me bold greeks and instead gives me the
following at the point where I put the begin_inset commands in ERT:
_inset FormulaMacro
> I am sure Angus meant you should put the \begin_inset stuff directly
> in your .lyx file
Aah.. OK, did that.. now both the solutions compile fine but I still
don't see a difference in the greek letters that should be in bold.. am
I missing something?
Thanks,
nirmal
Thanks a lot Angus.. I see now..:-)
I can use this from now on but is there any good way of converting all
the bold greeks (by bold greeks I mean those entered with a C-b and then
the greek letter) that I currently have in my document to these macros
without editing all of them? There are just t
Thanks a lot Angus.. I'll try the shell script.. I do have a lot of
those multiple instances that you mentioned.. will manually take care of
them once and for all!
Thanks for the help,
nirmal
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:42:58 +
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, you can try the attac
simply add them to the table.. If you find any
errors, please let me know.. the file is at:
www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyXMathShortcuts.lyx
Thanks,
nirmal
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 02:43 am, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:20:25AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> >
John.. can you please outline what the advantages are of using latex-xft
fonts for Math? I've not been following the list closely for the past
couple months..
Thanks,
nirmal
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:46:46 +0100
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you needed latex-ttf-fonts, then uninstal
Hi.. how do I get a long equation in a display environment to split
itself into two lines or more as necessary.. attached is a lyx file with
one such long equation that I'd like to have split.. I tried \sloppy in
the preamble but it doesn't work.. probably cos the equation is in the
display mode?
I'm not sure why you resorted to the article class.. the CV class
included with LyX can produce something very similar.. I created mine
using the CV class.. it's at:
www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/CV_Nirmal_Govind.pdf
I can send you the lyx file in case you want to take a look at it..
Btw, I have a
I see.. I used the AMS multiline to split it up.. btw, is there any
documentation on using the AMS environments in LyX with the Insert ->
Math menu options? I think I know how some of them work but if there's
some documentation I'd like to take a look at it.. couldn't find it in
the help guides.
T
> Please do, btw, can I put a link to it in the CV-example page?
> (and/or put the lyx-code there?).
I'll send it to you in a separate mail.. and sure, you can put a link to
the CV as an example..
> could add their sample documents. This is work in progress, so for now
> I'm using my web-site ins
Oh this is cool! You actually have a script that does it.. neat! Thanks
for the link...
nirmal
> You can find similar stuff here:
>
> http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/lyx-bindings/
>
> /Christian
>
> --
> Christian Ridderström
> http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
>
>
>
Take a look at the attached modified lyx file.. the preamble has some
stuff that I got from asking on this list..
However, I think the authors side by side is something that is used
quite frequently.. is this worthy of a feature request?
nirmal
On 19 Jun 2003 15:11:51 -0400
Remzi Seker <[EMAIL
Hi.. I'm having trouble with the figure float and vertical
spacing of paragraphs. The paragraph that comes after a figure float has
an extra line before it, i.e. some additional vertical spacing. And this
spacing is a problem if the figure float in the final output isn't
placed exactly at the point
> The extra space goes away if you don't center the whole float
> environment (centering the image inside the float is sufficient).
Thanks Juergen.. works great..
nirmal
Hi.. a very similar problem to the last one with figure floats. This
time, I have a figure float right before the start of a section and I
have the float placement set to Justified. The section following the
figure has no figures in it but the paragraphs in the section all have
an extra line betwee
I think I found out why this happened.. I had set the figure float's
placement (not paragraph placement) to "Use default placement" and this
put the figure on the top of the next page. And the section came right
below the figure so it looks like LyX/Latex was trying to fill that
column (the paper i
Hi.. I need to submit a paper for a conference that accepts Latex files.
But they require a single .tex file, i.e. the figures, bibliography
etc. all have to be incorporated into that .tex file using the
filecontents* environment. I'm having a few problems with this:
1. From the instructions given
Thanks Andre and Dekel for your responses..
> Does the conference allows using jpg/pdf figures ?
> If they only allow EPS figures, you should convert your figures to EPS
They basically want just one .tex file which should have everything in
it.. so all the figures should be in there using the fil
> - Change the position of page number. It is at the top, and I want to put
> it at the bottom.
Hmm.. I thought the default page style would put the page numbers at the
bottom and centered..
> - When I create a list, LyX number:
>
> 0.1 Introduction.
>
> 0.2 Things.
You probably added subsect
> and it didn't change. I think this is one of Lyx features :-). It isn't?
It would change the numbers on the others (decrementing each by one, thus 1,
2 etc..) since you've defined the others as sections but it won't make them
subsections and hence won't number them as subsections (therefore, yo
> Is there away that I can have title etc of a reference
> appear in the body of my document. I am currently
Yes, you can do this with the bibentry package.
nirmal
Hi.. I wrote up a short document on how one can configure the metafont modes
to generate darker fonts for printed output... this is useful when printing
documents written in certain fonts (especially CM) to low resolution
printers where the output may be a little too light.. I'd promised to write
t
Hi.. how do I rename the heading of an Appendix so that it shows up as
"Appendix A: " instead of just "A: ". And how would I change
that to be "Appendix 1: " to have numbers instead of letters? I'm
writing a paper using the article class.
Thanks,
nirmal
> use Peter Wilson's appendix package:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/appendix/
Thanks for the link Juergen.. I checked it out and looks like I can change
the title of appendices only for classes that provide the chapter
environment. So with the article class, I wasn't able
Thanks a lot Herbert and Juergen.. both solutions worked... related question
- how do I get the equation numbering in the Appendices to be something
like A1.1 for equation 1 in appendix 1 or A.1 for equation 1 in appendix A?
Thanks,
nirmal
> You have to use the appendices environment. Try the att
> \renewcommand\theequation{\Alph{section}.\arabic{equation}}
>
> behind start of appendix
Thanks Herbert..
Another qn - what do I need to do to the label for the appendix so that when
I cross-reference it, it doesn't say "Section A" and instead says "Appendix
A"?
Thanks,
nirmal
Thanks again Juergen and Herbert.. works great.. I think I'll put all
this appendix info into a document and send to the documentation team..
the current info in the user's guide could use some updating as it stops
with the creation of an appendix..
nirmal
A big problem with filecontents is that if you modify a file that your
correspondent already have, filecontents will _not_ override it. Am
major problem, if you ask me.
Aah.. I did some googling and looks like the problem above has been
solved already. Check out the filecontents package which is m
Hi.. I'm writing a paper using the article class. It's in the 2-column
format. However the abstract and KEYWORDS need to be in a single column,
centered on the page. How can I do this?
Thanks,
nirmal
> http://voss.homedns.org/lyx/layouts/layout.phtml#onecolAbstract
404 Not Found .. is the link bad?
Thanks,
nirmal
> Use the abstract.sty package.
Works like a charm! thanks...
> in the default twocolumn mode you can have floats, with the
> multicol package not.
That's good to know cos I use floats that need to span the two columns..
(which leads me to my next qn. -- in a separate thread)
Ingar - thanks
ks,
nirmal
--
Bibentry.lyx
Description: application/lyx
% Sixpack 0.99(=0.0.6)
% Bibliography: /home/nirmalg/Research/Thesis/robust_design.bib
% Corresponding sixpack database: /home/nirmalg/Research/Thesis/robust_design.bib.bref
% created by Nirmal Govind,Home, on Fri Aug 15 0:
> the problem is the asa.bst. Choose for example apalike.bst
Thanks everyone.. the problem was the absolute path was needed as Juergen
pointed out.. I do have asa.bst in my texpath so it all works now.. but I
was under the impression that if the lyx/tex file and the bib file are in
the same direct
> with standard text under it and i would like to move
> that entire section below another section. i saw post
How about a simple cut and paste of the old section (including the heading)
below the other section? Make sure that when you select the old section,
the section number also gets selected
Alistair Atkinson wrote:
> in a document when exporting to DVI, PS or PDF. Images appear kind of
> "blocky", almost like they are at a low resolution.
I think I've seen this before.. the problem is usually when the native
format in which the image was created was not eps for a PS or jpg for a
PDF
> Perhaps. I've taken the PNG and used GIMP to convert it to an EPS. The EPS
What software generated the PNG image? Did it have an option for any other
format like JPEG or PS? Doesn't look like GIMP does a good job with PNG
files.. with the version I have, it didn't even give me the option to
exp
> checking [for cmex10]... /usr/local/share/lyx/configure: kpsewhich:
> command not found
kpsewhich is part of the tex distribution right.. so you may want to check
if the tex distribution was installed properly.. or maybe the path to
kpsewhich isn't in your default path... the experts will be ab
Hi.. I'm trying to help a friend who's trying to get a presentation working
with pdfscreen2 (I sent the pdfscreen2.sty file that's included in the lyx
distribution).. this is the error that he gets.. any ideas?
Thanks,
nirmal
Include comment 'screen' Excluding comment 'print'
(C:\texmf\tex\latex\
> Loads hyperref twice ?
> (might be loaded by the class).
I checked and it seems that hyperref hasn't been explicitly loaded.. the
errors in the previous post were using pdflatex.. he gets the following
errors/messages with TeXify (I haven't used this before, it must be
something on WinEdt or Mi
Hi... I just recompiled Qt 3.1.2 and then lyx 1.3.2 with gcc 3.3 ..
everything went fine with the compile.. but when I open a document (which
looked fine before), the math symbols are all in ERT... any ideas on why
the recompile should affect this? (I was using lyx 1.3.2 with Qt 3.1.2,
both compil
On Sunday 07 September 2003 7:17 am, you wrote:
> Hej !
>
> I had this pb. I solved it by installing the package latex-ttf available
> at
> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/
thanks Nicolas.. I was only able to find the latex-xft package at the above
address. I installed it in the .fonts directory
Hi John,
> What lyx version ? What distro ? What are your font settings in your
> prefs ?
Lyx 1.3.2 compiled with gcc 3.3 using Qt 3.1.2 also compiled with gcc 3.3.
the source was patched with Johnathan Burchill's adaptation of your Change
Tracking patch. I'm running Debian PPC on an ibook. Font
> See what happens if you set it back to Charter again.
No change..
> I have no idea what has been going on. lyx -dbg font should show you
> which fonts get used for which settings.
Figured out what was going wrong.. for some reason, LyX decided to use the
Bitstream Charter(Zz_Abiword) font inst
> Yes, Qt's that use fontconfig need the special fonts installed
>
> john
How do I find out from the Qt source whether it uses fontconfig or not? Or
is there a list that shows which versions use fontconfig and which don't?
Thanks,
nirmal
> keyboard. I mean, I used the tilde you get by hitting shift and pressing
> the key that says ~. It is above the TAB on a US keyboard.
Curious.. how did you manage to get the tilde using the keyboard to show up
above the character you wanted the tilde on? I tried but the closest I
could get was
> had a similar pb last week, but i don't know what was the conclusion.
Hello Nicolas.. I had this problem last week.. in my case, even after I'd
installed latex-xft-fonts, everything was messed up (my entire document
looked like some sort of painting).. but it turned out that somehow the
default
Hi.. I'm trying to change the size of a table within a float to
footnotesize. I tried putting \footnotesize as ERT before the table float
but that doesn't have any effect. Is there a way by which I can change the
size of a table that's in a float?
Thanks,
nirmal
I ran into the same problem again after recompiling lyx 1.3.2 with a
different Qt (the standard one with Debian unstable).. Just wanted to
confirm that I applied this patch and recompiled and the math symbols show
up fine now with the old qtrc.
nirmal
Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at
> LaTex Error:File 'newcent.sty' not found
>
> Even if I change the font to default, I get a similar error message.
Do you have a \usepackage{newcent} by any chance in your Latex preamble?
nirmal
John Levon wrote:
1.4.x lets you write a file in ~/.lyx/ that gives toolbar positions and
contents.
Hi John.. how useable is 1.4cvs at the moment? The last time I tried
(probably around 6wks ago), the response to key strokes was very slow
and I was told that things were being taken apart and re
I do use it every day. But my usage is not math-intensive (mostly
literate programming documents).
thanks Kavyan.. I'll update my cvs version then.. though my stuff is
math-intensive.. hopefully it'll work well..
nirmal
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