description in curriculum vitae

? Thanks Ralph Boland

\usepackage{makeidx} run twice for amsbook. Generates Error.

index. So I cannot prevent this from occurring. I am using Lyx 2.3.2 and Debian 10 OS. Is this fixed in Lyx 2.3.3? Ralph Boland

mapping function key to second index entry function

nice if I could create my own .bind file and in my document settings (or somewhere) be able to select for my own .bind file to be used. If this functionality exists somewhere in Lyx I couldn't find it. Thanks for you interest in my post. Ralph Boland

Re: mapping function key to second index entry function

"index-insert not". worked. I set the function key to F10. Now when I type F10 key I get an entry for the Notation-Index. Thanks Ralph On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 21:08, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > On 9/10/19 2:29 PM, Ralph Boland wrote: > > Wish List Note: while I wan

Why does lyx add: '\noindent' when generating my .tex file

hy I get this message that would me most helpful. Thanks for any help received. Ralph Boland rpbol...@gmail.com enumItemBug.lyx Description: application/lyx %% LyX 2.3.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing

Fwd: Why does lyx add: '\noindent' when generating my .tex file

-- Forwarded message - From: Jürgen Spitzmüller Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 00:15 Subject: Re: Why does lyx add: '\noindent' when generating my .tex file To: > Am Freitag, den 15.11.2019, 17:09 -0700 schrieb Ralph Boland: > > Alas, I do not know why Lyx ad

Mac Word 98 to Lyx

tes for various scientific and mathematical journals. Could such templates be used with Lyx? Thanks in advance for your time. Ralph Boland University of Ottawa. Ont. Canada

Printing Users Manual

few errors not in any of the above categories. Any ideas as to why I am getting these errors? Thanks in advance for you time. Ralph Boland

Running ispell problems.

in for me to get the sysadmin people to update tools so I'd rather be sure before I bug them. Thanks Ralph Boland

Consecutive facts mess up

style fact2 identical to style fact so that I can switch them. This seems like a crude approach and would also clutter up by style box which is already too long. Any other suggestions? Ralph Boland

Numbering equations in a proof

maintaining the normal rules for numbering equations outside a proof for the rest of my thesis? Of course I could number them by hand but lyx doesn't let you do this easily and in any case that would be against the lyx philosophy. Ralph Boland

Master files

o. Thanks Ralph Boland

remapping arrow keys

27;t appear to be any corresponding functions for "left" and "right". Any suggestions? Also, I noticed that there is a special character for end-of sentence. Currently I just use the '.' character. I assume that there is a good reason why I should use the special character instead. What is the reason? Ralph Boland

Turning off label conversion

? This would be a great help. Perhaps other would like this capability as well. Thanks Ralph Boland

Re: Algorithm label without Algorithm Paragraph style

best fix is to have a paragraph using style "Algorithm" which does not show up when printed. Is this possible? How do I do it? If not, how else can I achieve the effect that I want? Ralph Boland p.s. I realize this is not a Lyx problem but a problem with the way I am attempting to

key map for math-like delimiters

currently using Lyx 1.0.4) Thanks, Ralph Boland While I am here, I posted another problem a short while ago but I didn't get an answer. Perhaps its simple to solve but unfortunately I am unfamiliar with latex. Hopefully people don't think I am just too stupid to be worth helping

Problems with Captions/figures.

e to do all these things using the combined postscript/latex XFig figures. What options do I have? Thanks Ralph Boland

Caption problms.

optioned it would still be much appreciated. Ralph Boland

Using figures in Multipart Documents

anyway so I can live with this but for some people this would be a real pain if not impossible. Can anyone suggest alternative solutions? Is this problem fixed in Lyx 1.1.4? Thanks in advance for you help. Ralph Boland

Problems with list of algorithms

someone tell me what style that I am missing or what else the problem is. I am using lyx 1.0.4 Thanks Ralph Boland #This file was created by Mon Jan 17 19:32:21 2000 #LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team \lyxformat 2.15 \textclass amsbook \begin_preamble \makeatletter \usep

Problems with lyx math macros.

am working on a single chapter. However when I try to combine my chapters using a master file. the fact that the macros are repeated causes errors and thus preventing me from printing until I remove the duplicated macros. Is there a way to get around this? I am using Lyx 1.0.4

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

y the moderator. Unfortunately I lack both the experience with Lyx and the necessary time to be the moderator. Perhaps the position of moderator can be rotated amoung a number of "experts". Ralph Boland

Heavy hands on keyboard

would like to invoke the XAutoRepeatOff(display) function to turn off the autorepeat feature. Is there a way of doing this in lyx? I don't know how I can access the display structure that lyx uses when I envoke lyx. I am running lyx 1.0.4 from a Sun workstation. Thanks Ralph Boland

Problems with lists of figures

in advance for your help and thanks for the great product. P.S. If you need files with these errors in them let me know. I don't think they will be necessary. Ralph Boland

Lyx-Code style problems.

es me what I need until this can be sorted out. Hopefully I can create my own layouts when I upgrade. I don't see why any of this relates to the problem I have with Lyx-Code but I thought I should let you know. Thanks Ralph Boland Currently I am using lyx 1.0.4 and will upgrade when the n

Re: word count

an use that. If I find out the name I'll let you know. Hope this helps Ralph boland

math delimiters too big

miters would be smaller in future. As a last resort I could uses lyx macros instead of the mappings above. This would be less convienient but preferable to the current state of affairs. Perhaps I should ask this question to a tex user group but I thought I would ask here first. Thanks Ralph Boland P.S. Does anybody besides me find the math delimiters to be too large?

1) wide figures/amsart 2) adding commands to lyxrc

ion of the documentation for a newer version of lyx or is the lyx 1.0.4 documentation the best for using lyx 1.0.4? I assume the next stable version of lyx will be 1.2. When it is released I hope to convince our sysadmin guy to install a new version of lyx. Any idea when lyx 1.2 might be released? Than

printing two sided.

I am using lyx 1.0.4 I am having trouble printing an article (with ams things loaded into it) two sided. I found the some advice from a couple of old postings (below): However these suggestions don't seem to work for me. 1) exporting, making the modification, and then importing makes too man

Re: math-delimiters

d in text mode. Thus you should use these keyboard shortcuts wisely. I wish latex or lyx had a "small-math-delim" capability but none exists as far as I know. Ralph Boland

latex,math set_color

ried setting footnote red and got the same error. Any suggestioons as to how I can fix this. Thanks Ralph Boland

lyx buggy when resouces scarce

cause the machine I am on has limited resources. The remote machine has plenty of resources so it suprizes me that I have so much difficulty. Thanks Ralph Boland p.s. I can send you core dumps (lots) if you want.

foilTex and figure floats

I am using foilTex to create a slide presentation. Some of my figures contain latex code so I want to use the combined PS/LaTex method of creating the figure. (for this I do not use foilTex but create a different document for these figures. My problem is that I don't want the word "Figure" to

Re: foilTex and figure floats

Herbert Voss wrote: > > Ralph Boland wrote: > > > > I am using foilTex to create a slide presentation. > > Some of my figures contain latex code so I want to > > > My problem is that I don't want the word > > "Figure" to show up and so

pdf output

y from lyx except perhaps through a custom export command. WHAT EXACTLY DO THESE SETTINGS DO AND HOW DO I MAKE THEM TAKE EFFECT? The archives have several useful comments on how to convert my foilTex lyx documents to pdf files which I will now try. Any final advice welcome. I am using lyx-1

problems with algoithm floats.

t was run using lyx-1.1.5fix1. The same thing happens if I use 1.0.4 even though lyx-1.0.4 used to work. Any help greatly appreciated. Ralph Boland probFiles.tgz

problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0

he students in the courses that I am teaching are able to install lyx on their laptops (which are mostly running the exact same software). If I could build an automatically installing package that I could give them to run that would be great but I am not sure what is involved with doing this. Thanks in advance for your help. Ralph Boland

trouble finding xforms/ build lyx on slackware 9.0

source that I can download. If anyone has gotten lyx to run on slackware 9.0 feel free to put salt on my wounds by pointing out your success; and while your at it tell me how you did it. Thanks. Ralph Boland

Bug. How to report a bug

7;special-key'a" the cursor is placed before (not after where I think it should be) the 'greek-alpha' symbol. Thus before I can continue typing I must advance the cursor from before the 'alpha-symbol' to after the 'alpha-symbol'. I do this kind of typing often. Thanks, especially if this bug has already been reported. Ralph Boland

ajour.cls / ajour.layout files

bly not be as clean as it should be. Could anyone volunteer to clean up my file before I release it? If there are reasons why I should not try to create such a file I would like to hear them. I don't want to spend time on this unless it is a good idea. Hope you can help me and if not I hope I can help you. Ralph Boland

subscripted text in math equations.

In my thesis I sometimes write things such as y

Bold math problems / slide headaches

natively there would need to be some kind of center page command that worked like center paragraph. These sound more like latex/foiltex issues than lyx issues and I don't expect solutions anytime soon. But I thought I'd let you know of some of the problems. Thanks Ralph Boland

using if/then/else with sections of text (was Re: bilingual documents ?)

our comments directly into the assignment and send the marked versions back. It would also be a great tool if conferences/journals would accept lyx files and have referees return commented lyx files to the authors. Don't hold your breath on this one though. Sorry that I can't volunteer to actually implement any of these features. Thanks Ralph Boland

Bold Cell Entries in Tables/Very Simple Document Styles?

ertain entries in the table to be bold. However, if I try setting the characters in a table cell to bold using: layout->character or ert: \textbf{entry} I do not get the affects I expect. Is there a way to make a single cell entry of a table bold? Thanks. Ralp

flexible color change

set whether or not the "pink" text is green or white. Note: I have tried using prosper but have had numberous problems. Is there documenation on proper installation of prosper; what software and versions of software are needed etc? Thanks Ralph Boland

Re: scaling EPS how?

- You can scale an eps figure in Lyx as described above. Unfortunately you cannot scale relative to the size of the original figure but must scale relative to page size. Thus you must use your judgement if relative dimensions are to be maintained. Ralph Boland

Re: lyx compatibility

inor changes in the preamble including a comment on the version of lyx being used. Hope this helps. Ralph Boland

problems converting from eps to pdf

mand "convert"was not found. I could not find any references to this command on ubuntu. Can anyone tell me how to install the "convert" command on ubuntu? If I am doing anything else wrong fell free to point that out as well. Sincerely, Ralph Boland

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

is ready for release, but alas, at the current rate of progress, that will be years from now. Ralph Boland

problem recognizing floats

aving problems with floats. I assume the problem is something trivial that I have missed relating to a change to Lyx (or Linux or Latex) since 2002. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Ralph Boland Appended is the first few lines of the Tex file generated by Lyx. The problem is with the

Re: How many use Linux:

1) and > am currently using it on Ubuntu 9.0.4. I've used Lyx on Linux since 1999. Wrote a thesis, a few papers, and numerous resumes and cover letters. Ralph Boland -- When a woman becomes sexually aroused the necessary blood flows from her heart. When a man becomes sexually aroused, the necessary blood is removed from his brain.

Re: Offer... for technical writing

language. You could also work on translating the English phrases of Lyx itself into your language. Perhaps some Lyx developer would help you with this remotely. If that is not enough work for you, your help with the English Lyx documentation is of course welcome. Ralph Boland -- Had a wife

lyx and fig2eps

ng list or user group for xfig? I have not found one. Ralph Boland

change tracking feature extension request.

for Lyx is in Lyx, the first benifitiary of this feature could be Lyx itself. Comments welcome. Ralph Boland