Child documents, integration and citation

2012-05-18 Thread Ray Rashif
Hi guys I want to confirm that this is a bug. I've noticed some old threads on this [1] but I believe it's a little different. When the master document includes the bibliography, opening the child document and adding a citation works. So, while editing, the child document is aware of the bib data

Re: Child documents, integration and citation

2012-05-19 Thread Ray Rashif
On 19 May 2012 09:30, stefano franchi wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 5/18/12 7:31 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys >>> >>> I want to confirm that this is a bug. I've noticed some old threads on

Re: Child documents, integration and citation

2012-05-19 Thread Ray Rashif
On 20 May 2012 05:05, case wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012, Ray Rashif wrote: > >> For now I don't see much of a problem but I don't know how I'm going >> to deal with it once I'm in the range of hundreds of pages and a >> number of chapters. > > FW

Re: Scrolling Slowness [Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly]

2012-05-22 Thread Ray Rashif
On 22 May 2012 23:13, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > On 20.05.2012 11:14, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > >> So, I finally managed to track down a peculiarity. >> >> On Windows (7), there is no scrolling issue with the keyboard, or the >> mouse scroll wheel (or touchpad vertical scroll). However, there is >>

Re: I'm certain it has been discussed here previously..............

2012-06-03 Thread Ray Rashif
On 3 June 2012 17:38, Charlie wrote: > > I'm certain it's been discussed here before, but I can't find a > reference to it. > > The way to stop a URL as an "insert URL" from running out over the > margins into infinity. This happens in various document classes. > > The first line of the Insert URL

Re: Drag and drop image files to LyX

2012-06-08 Thread Ray Rashif
On 9 June 2012 02:16, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/08/2012 01:17 PM, Horacio Pérez wrote: >> >> Is it possible somehow to drag and drop image files to LyX? >> > Not at the moment, I don't think, though feel free to file an enhancement > request. It probably wouldn't be all that hard to make this wo

PDF go to real page number

2012-06-10 Thread Ray Rashif
Is there a way to make it such that when I select a 'Go To' page, the pdf viewer would take me directly to the 'actual' page number in the document, and not the number of the entire PDF? It can be worked around by not using 'Go To', but instead entering the number in the counter field. However, it'

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 13 June 2012 02:05, William Hanson wrote: > To All, > > I'm still having trouble getting LyX 2.0.3 to allow me to insert citations > into documents created on a new Dell (running Windows 7).  (My old HP, which > runs Windows XP, has no trouble doing this). On the Dell LyX works just fine > unti

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 13 June 2012 04:58, William Hanson wrote: > My problem is not primarily with creating new documents.  It is mainly with > getting existing LyX documents (that have been transferred to my new > computer) to appear with the references in them when LyX creates pdf files > from them.  At present th

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-13 Thread Ray Rashif
On 14 June 2012 04:07, William Hanson wrote: > Ray, > > Below you suggest:  " just reselect your bib files by browsing to the > correct ones."  That's what I've been doing but it doesn't work. the > problem, as I've described it, still exists. > > You also suggest:  "check to make sure there is no

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-14 Thread Ray Rashif
On 14 June 2012 11:27, William Hanson wrote: > Ray, > > Thanks for your careful and detailed response.  Here are my answers to your > 1-4. > > 1.  Yes, I had gathered as much. > > 2.  I was not limited in the number of .bib files I could add when running > LyX on my old computer.  But you're right

Re: help regarding jabref to lyx

2012-06-14 Thread Ray Rashif
On 14 June 2012 23:13, Y.A. Sharif wrote: >  Dear Friends > Can anyone help me regarding the input of reference through jabref to lyx? > I tried several times but jabref mentions something about the path link in > the lyx. > I made the change but its not working. > And I did the other way like, I

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-15 Thread Ray Rashif
On 15 June 2012 03:17, William Hanson wrote: > Ray, > > > I'm trying to make progress by taking mini-steps.  In trying to execute one > of your recommendations, I've hit a snag.  Recently you said: > > "Choose an existing citation in your LyX document, note down its name > as seen there. For eg.,

Re: Can't update pdf in PDF-XChange, but can in Adobe..

2012-06-18 Thread Ray Rashif
On 18 June 2012 07:25, nikusik wrote: > Hello all! > > So I can't update my pdf file when using PDF-XChange (or Nuance) as a pdf > reader, but there is no problem when I use Adobe. > > I can view/ create the documents fine in LyX using all 3 readers, but when I > try to update with PDF-XChange or

Custom frontmatter and headings

2012-06-19 Thread Ray Rashif
Hi guys I'm adding a _static_ list of acronyms/abbreviations/units page (because I don't want any program to mess with my style of abbreviating throughout the document), but so far I haven't been able to match the frontmatter headings, for eg. table of contents, list of figures, list of tables. I

Re: Custom frontmatter and headings

2012-06-19 Thread Ray Rashif
On 20 June 2012 01:44, Ray Rashif wrote: > Hi guys > > I'm adding a _static_ list of acronyms/abbreviations/units page > (because I don't want any program to mess with my style of > abbreviating throughout the document), but so far I haven't been able > to match

Re: Custom frontmatter and headings

2012-06-20 Thread Ray Rashif
On 20 June 2012 05:45, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:02:40 +0800, Ray Rashif said: >> On 20 June 2012 01:44, Ray Rashif wrote: >> > Hi guys >> > >> > I'm adding a _static_ list of acronyms/abbreviations/units page >> > (because

Re: Include a PDF file containing 3D object

2012-06-22 Thread Ray Rashif
On 22 June 2012 21:50, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> I don't think that you can use pdfpages, as it *embeds* the page in the >> created pdf (as I >> understand it) - what you probably would need is to *add* the page with the >> 3d object into y

Re: Using datatools Within LyX

2012-06-25 Thread Ray Rashif
On 26 June 2012 02:46, Rich Shepard wrote: >  The datatools package can read a .csv file and produce a LaTeX table > (which the docs refer to as a database). The LaTeX code is straight-forward, > but I've not succeeded in implementing it within the LyX environment. > >  I set up a float table and

Re: Relativ and absolute Path by picutres

2012-07-09 Thread Ray Rashif
On 9 July 2012 14:34, uwe wrote: > Hello, > > i work with to configurations on my lyx Documents: > > MacOSX, LYx, Dropbox > > Linux, Lyx, Dropbox > > The most time i work with MaxOSX. Sometime i have to make changes with > Linux/lyx and compile the Lyx-Dokument to pdf. > > My lyx under MacOSX stor

Unable to export to OpenDocument ODF

2012-07-12 Thread Ray Rashif
I'm trying to export my entire document to a format which can be edited in conventional word processing software (OpenOffice, MS Word). As RTF does not support images, and HTML export does not retain much of the formatting (e.g. citations, sometimes not even appearing), I am left with ODF. However,

Re: Unable to export to OpenDocument ODF

2012-07-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 13 July 2012 05:09, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/12/2012 02:45 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> I'm trying to export my entire document to a format which can be >> edited in conventional word processing software (OpenOffice, MS Word). >> As RTF does not support

Re: Graphics Tools

2012-07-16 Thread Ray Rashif
On 16 July 2012 23:44, William R. Buckley wrote: > Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to > include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures > to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually > employed for use to make drawn images suit

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir wrote: > My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to > see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images, you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been usin

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 17:39, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > >> On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir wrote: >>> My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to >>> see if the LaTeX to RTF convert

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to >> install latex2rtf? >> > I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're > not providing binar

Re: pdfpages inclusion with forms blanks the forms information

2012-08-07 Thread Ray Rashif
On 8 August 2012 09:11, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > Dear LyXers, > >I'm producing a few files (via pdflatex) in the 2.1.0 version of lyx (I > grab it from the -devel git repository and compile it locally). This is on a > debian system, running a 3.5 (sid) kernel. > >When I include an alread

Re: Setting Up Longtable

2012-08-10 Thread Ray Rashif
On 11 August 2012 07:42, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > >> Ah. A slightly easier way of getting there is to place the mouse cursor >> within the table, and then go to the "Edit" menu at the top of the LyX >> window, choose "Table Settings", and then the dialo

Re: Setting Up Longtable

2012-08-13 Thread Ray Rashif
On 14 August 2012 00:35, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I'm still not doing this correctly. When I try to add a new row above the >> top row (column headers), it's inserted below that row. Cutting and >> pasting the column headers to the new second row does no

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 September 2012 09:08, David L. Johnson wrote: > His full path began with /usr/local -- not somewhere the distro should use. > That is for things the user installs, only, in my book. That texlive was obviously installed manually as no sane, orthodox package manager touches /usr/local. The t

Re: Errors when using apacite for bibliography

2012-11-23 Thread Ray Rashif
On 23 November 2012 02:58, Florian wrote: > Hi there, > > I would need some help with apacite, as I do not seem to get it working. I > use LyX 2.0.5 on Windows 7. Try enabling Default citation style in preferences and then in preamble save the following: % Workaround for APA style (must turn off

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-08 Thread Ray Rashif
On 9 December 2012 00:45, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM, John Kane wrote: > > Hi John, > >> Would anyone know of any work being done on this? > > No work is currently being done. See the last comment here for the reason why: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8187 > > And

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread Ray Rashif
On 11 December 2012 01:21, Jacob Bishop wrote: > have found very few people in the social sciences who are even aware of > LaTeX. Not closed minded, just unaware. They use MS Word and Endnote because > they don't know that there are good/better (free) alternatives. And this stems from the fact th

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread Ray Rashif
On 11 December 2012 03:01, stefano franchi wrote: > > Not true. LyX/Latex's benefits are not limited to typesetting equations > (although it does a much better job that its competition in that area). A > Latex-typeset document looks better in many other respects---from > paragraph-division and ty

Re: non-English character in bibtex

2012-12-31 Thread Ray Rashif
On 30 December 2012 12:02, Degang Wu wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use the bibtex function in lyx to generate the reference > list, and the bibtex library is generated and managed by Zotero. Now the > author names of an entry contain accented a and \beta (both characters are > in plain text), a

Re: Lyx: citation

2013-01-31 Thread Ray Rashif
On 31 January 2013 04:04, "Jörg Kühne" wrote: > Dear Lyx user list > > In Lyx appears the citation in form of (vgl. Scheer, 2002, S. 4) but in > the PDF the citation appears in the form of [vgl. 1, S. 4]. What can I do > to change the PDF citation view to (vgl. Scheer, 2002, S. 4)? > > Best regar

Re: Get number of unique references cited

2013-02-09 Thread Ray Rashif
On 10 February 2013 01:33, stefano franchi wrote: > One way to go about it is to use bibtool to extract all the references > your article/book uses from your aux file and dump them in a new .bib file. > Then you can use grep on the @ character to count them. Not foolproof but > should get you fai

Re: searching in the references

2013-02-15 Thread Ray Rashif
On 15 February 2013 17:10, Frédéric Parrenin wrote: > Dear all, > > I often encounter compilation problems linked with the bibliography. > For example, lyx tell me that there is a syntax problem in a given > reference. > Then I need to search where I have inserted the reference in the lyx > docume

Re: URL appearing in reference list with apa6

2013-02-18 Thread Ray Rashif
On 19 February 2013 02:39, John Kane wrote: > I seem to have gotten LyX back in action for the moment with apa6. > However am having a minor problem with a bibliography item. For some > reason it is including a URL which I don't want. > > The URL is correct, in that I did download the reference

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Ray Rashif
On 25 February 2013 18:59, Csikos Bela wrote: > And/or is it possible to make a pdf which is not searchable or indexable? > There may be a couple of ways or more to go about this. For starters, you may convert the text to outlines. For software that allow you to predefine some security options f

Re: eLyXer 1.2.4 released

2013-03-16 Thread Ray Rashif
On 17 March 2013 07:12, Alex Fernandez wrote: > As Liviu discovered, just to let you all know that I had to release 1.2.5 > because of problems with the 1.2.4 release (the binary lacked a couple of > patches; otherwise the source code was fine). Alex, when I first heard of eLyXer -- amidst mounti

Re: eLyXer 1.2.4 released

2013-03-17 Thread Ray Rashif
On 17 March 2013 19:12, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi Ray, > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> On 17 March 2013 07:12, Alex Fernandez wrote: >> > As Liviu discovered, just to let you all know that I had to release >> > 1.2.5 >>

Re: Turning hyperref off in table of contents

2013-03-24 Thread Ray Rashif
On 25 March 2013 05:20, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا wrote: > Dear all: I'm getting the hyperref links ON in the table-of-contents, when I > don't want it. Could you pls guide on how to remove the clickable blue marks > around the chapter titles in TOC? Thanks, FN Why

Re: Insert 2 empty pages at the very beginning of book(KOMA-Script)

2013-03-30 Thread Ray Rashif
On 27 March 2013 01:06, Hans-Peter Wolf wrote: > Dear experts, > > I use Lyx Version 2.0.5.1,Windows 7,64 Bit. > > I use the book(KOMA-Script)-document. > > My probleme: How can I add 2 aditional, empty pages ( in German the so > called “Schmutztitel”) at the very beginning of the book-document? >

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-17 Thread Ray Rashif
On 4 April 2013 07:11, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/03/2013 04:41 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: >> >> >>> Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). >>> >>> Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> No i

Re: Installing Lyx with no internet connection

2013-04-21 Thread Ray Rashif
+On 21 April 2013 22:41, adi wrote: > Hi! > Im using windows XP and would like to install Lyx for the first time on this > computer. Is it possible to make this work with no internet connection > during the actual installation? (I have another computer connected to the > internet) Absolutely. I d

Re: Citations are not working.

2013-04-21 Thread Ray Rashif
On 21 April 2013 21:28, John Kane wrote: > I seem to be rapidly losing any ability to work with LyX. In the attached > example I cannot get citations to work. I originally added the citations > using the Lyz plug-in for Zotero but a quick and non-expert look at the bib > file suggests it's okay a

Re: Citations are not working.

2013-04-23 Thread Ray Rashif
On 23 April 2013 19:39, John Kane wrote: > Sorry to take so long to get back to you. > > @ Jacob, > Many thanks for both your and Ray's help. I read through both and tried > yours first and you were right. I had thought that I had I had changed that > setting but I had not. For some reason I se

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Ray Rashif
On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis wrote: > I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice > but nothing seems to work. In fact when taking the convert option : > Latex(plain) to openoffice nothing happens and responds : "E

Re: bibliography file question: refetching records automatically

2013-05-21 Thread Ray Rashif
On 20 April 2013 15:51, Csikos Bela wrote: > Hello: > > I have a question regarding bibliography/bibtex databases. > Is there a program or script that can use an existing bibliography database > (format is not important, can be bibtex, RIS, etc.) and fetch all of its > records in a complete form

Re: Preparing and inserting figures into LyX document

2013-05-24 Thread Ray Rashif
On 24 May 2013 05:00, Gordon Watson wrote: > With LyX working nicely with my text-input, I now need to learn how to > prepare and insert figures in that text. > > 1. Given my system -- MacOSX 10.7.5, LyX 2.0.5.1 -- where best to start > drawing for LyX? > > 2. What search-terms are best for lear

Re: My hyperlinks and urls are not working in Adobe or Okular but do work

2013-05-25 Thread Ray Rashif
On 26 May 2013 02:27, John Kane wrote: > Follow up on the Okular problem. Apparently I had accidentally turned on the > browse tool--whatever that is. Hit n Cntl-1 fixed it. Still not a clue > about acrobat I am able to reproduce this. I haven't used Adobe's Linux viewer for a long time, and I w

Re: Reference list without numbers before the entries

2013-06-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 1 June 2013 21:45, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 01.06.2013 15:41, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > > > Maybe I got it completely wrong, but don't you just want to use >> author-year, >> i.e. "harvard" style (via Natbib or BibLaTeX), which works with and >> without >> BibTeX? See attached for a simple n

Re: Reference list without numbers before the entries

2013-06-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 1 June 2013 22:02, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Ray Rashif wrote: > > OK so it's like this: > > > > > > Those using LaTeX are more productive than their traditional > counterparts.¹ > > > > --- > > ¹ John, 1999 > > > >

Re: Reference list without numbers before the entries

2013-06-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 1 June 2013 22:14, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I did but maybe I completely misunderstood the task. In your example the > bib > > entry has the key "bratmann" and the label is "Bratmann(1999)". In the > > footnote you referenced it via the label. I understand it so that th

Re: Line breaks in URLs

2013-06-07 Thread Ray Rashif
On 7 June 2013 04:35, Tim Wescott wrote: > I tried putting a really really long URL into Lyx, expecting that it > would get line breaks forced as necessary to fit. > > That didn't happen -- instead, it just gets truncated. > > Is there a way to force line breaks in a URL, or even (oh be still my

Re: Anyone know of a best-seller written in LyX

2013-06-09 Thread Ray Rashif
On 9 June 2013 23:32, stefano franchi wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > >> So, when he comes back and asks that, it would be *wonderful* to give >> the writer's list one or more best seller books (I think something with >> an Amazon rank of less than 5000 would

Re: the dreaded docx export - WAS: Anyone know of a best-seller written in LyX

2013-06-11 Thread Ray Rashif
On 11 June 2013 14:15, Rainer M Krug wrote: > These are just ideas from my side, but to try to incorporate pandoc > into LyX in the same way as LaTeX is Incorporated, would make LyX even > more powerful then it is already now. > I agree. In fact, I think this affects me more as an editor, where

Re: the dreaded docx export - WAS: Anyone know of a best-seller written in LyX

2013-06-11 Thread Ray Rashif
On 12 June 2013 03:57, stefano franchi wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > >> On 11 June 2013 14:15, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> >> I wanted to survey the LyX and LaTeX community for some opinions on this, >> perhaps to get an

Re: the dreaded docx export - WAS: Anyone know of a best-seller written in LyX

2013-06-13 Thread Ray Rashif
On 12 June 2013 20:45, Rainer M Krug wrote: > stefano franchi writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > >> stefano franchi writes: > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug > wrote: > &g

Re: Disable copy and paste

2013-08-08 Thread Ray Rashif
On 8 August 2013 16:17, Rilke Rainer Michael wrote: > Hi List, > > > > I want to export a lyx document to a pdf. However, I want also that once > reading the document it is impossible to copy and paste text from this pdf. > Do you have any idea, whether there is a workaround for lyx? That is encr

Re: Disable copy and paste

2013-08-08 Thread Ray Rashif
On 8 August 2013 17:51, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Just one word of caution: if you can see the text on screen, you can > extract it by taking a screenshot and using ocr (optical character > recognition) and nothing will stop you. So this just makes it slightly > more difficult to get the text. What'

Re: Widows and Orphans

2013-09-10 Thread Ray Rashif
On 11 September 2013 03:35, Gordon Cooper wrote: > I expected that an answer would not be simple About 20 years ago > I wrote a module in Pascal that kept a line count for each page > and forced a new page if a paragraph break or a new heading > came within a selectable distance from the bottom. T

Re: printing

2013-12-05 Thread Ray Rashif
On 5 December 2013 03:36, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, David L. Johnson > wrote: >> On 12/04/2013 12:43 PM, mike wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Even though I am an old LaTeX user (but a new LyX user) for my current >>> purposes I would like to be able to print in a format v

Re: Unicode in ERT inserts

2014-02-14 Thread Ray Rashif
On 15 February 2014 01:33, Joe Lovick wrote: > > Hi, > >So i have run into the issue that it would be good to use a unicode > character within an ERT, but this causes a failure, one can type the > character just fine in lyx, but it isn't converted during compilation. > >a minimal example i