This is clearly either a problem in the way that R installs itself, or
the way that LaTeX installs itself. I'm not actually sure which though
and I don't know where to file the bug report.
When I just checked, I was not able to find a "sweave" package for R,
nor was I able to find one for TeXLive
Hi Rob,
I'm not sure that I follow what you're trying to accomplish. Do you
need your figures to appear in text, or do you need them to appear at
the end of your document after the references section? (The way that
many biomedical journals specify an article must be submitted.)
And what do you
pell user dictionary stored in
the /home/ folder that I should be using instead? (I've already gotten
the same thing to work with aspell.)
Thanks,
Rob Oakes
It's been a while since I've used it, but I thought that EndNote was
able to directly export to BibTeX. If not, you can export to EndNote
XML and then import using JabRef, BibDesk (Mac OS X), Zotero or
Mendeley. Or you can upload to CiteULike and then download a converted
BibTeX file to use local
Dear LyX-Users,
Everytime this particular topic comes up, I find myself exploring
different options for automatically importing MS Word into LyX. This
latest time round, I managed to come up with an automated system that
meets most of my needs.
A description with links and instructions can be fo
s/layout, I would be extremely
appreciative of any feedback; particularly if things don't work quite
right. I would like to include this class with aforementioned book, and
I hate to release code with bugs.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Hi Ricardo,
If you'd find it helpful, I've been working on a book appendix that
compares some of the most common LaTeX document classes. It shows
examples, and goes over their more common features. It's still in draft
form, but I would be happy to provide a download link if you think it
would be
Probably the easiest way to do this is to downloa and install the Qt SDK
for Windows (http://qt.nokia.com/downloads). It includes the Qt4
development libraries, documentation, and an IDE called Qt Creator.
Using Qt Creator in addition to CMake (http://www.cmake.org/) is
probably the easiest way I
that it is unable to either locate the
LyX pipe or that it is unable to find the bibliography style.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had success getting it to work with one of the
alpha builds of LyX or with the SVN versions.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Sorry, my apologies. In the previous message, I meant to say LyZ not
Lytero.
Same question and issues, though.
Sent from Rob's Palm
On May 28, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Rob Oakes wrote:
Dear LyX Users,
I've been toiling away on a book chapter about Reference Managers
and Cite-While
ove should help you get started (and may even be enough to help you
sort it out). If not, feel free to shoot me an email and I'd be happy to try
and walk you through it.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Will wrote:
> I am trying to modify the book class for my thesis. I
Dear LyX-Users,
I am in the process of creating a custom of modules for personal use
(one for easily creating dropcaps via letrine and the stringstrings
package, and another for the creation of epigraphs). For the epigraph
module to work correctly, it is important that I be able to use multiple
i
Hi Ivan,
Instead of using the "View" PDF, use the "Export" option instead. This will
create a copy of the PDF in the working directory. As I understand it, the
"View" option is meant to look at the progress of your document rather than
create a copy for distribution.
Cheers,
Rob
On Jun 3,
> I was also hoping to control other files. Can I have LyX keep other output
> and aux files, so that latex and bibtex can run fewer times and produce the
> output faster (example, references and bibs). My understanding is that
> everything is wiped out if I close and reopen. This can waste time
ages if I exported to LaTeX and compiled there, as
well. I suppose that is the price that I pay for having a very complicated
document and desiring beautiful typesetting. Even so, I'm sure that I will
survive.
Cheers,
Rob
On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:12 AM, BH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 201
For a futre enhancement of LyX, it might also be worth adding .bib, .aux, and
other such files between sessions. As others have pointed out, caching of
these files might greatly improve the compilation time between sessions. And
as most of them are text based, it would not greatly add to the s
ol repeatedely
show up on users mailing list.) And as per the GPL, any patches would be sent
upstream to the maintainer of PDF-Shuffler.
Anyone who might interested?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
; On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
>> I came up empty handed.
>>
> What about PDF chain [1], an alpha-stage GUI to pdftk [2]? It has a
> compress/uncompress dialogue, but I'm not sure that it does what
> you're looking for.
>
> Re
or your computer, and allow it to
read/write to protected directories.
Just some thoughts.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users,
Sorry for the spam, but ...
I had a friend contact me today who was looking for a current University of
Utah Thesis class, and wondering if I might be willing to help him create a
layout file for it. Before I go about updating the (very old) class available
from the mathematic
Hi John,
This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is
not available. You can install these using the MikTeX package manager.
Simply search for the required package name and then click on install.
Once you have installed the needed LaTeX packages, then you can
reconfigu
Hi Vincent,
<< So.. could it be Rob's outliner enhancements then ??? >>
That's certainly possible, but I think it unlikely. To the best of my
knowledge, Jose only began using the branch with the expanded outliner and
other tools yesterday whereas the problem has also been seen in LyX 1.6.6.1
Dear LyX-Users,
As I've gotten several emails already, I thought I would forward this along
to the list.
It appears that there is some interest in trying out the outline
enhancements I've been working on for the past few months. I greatly
appreciate the interest in my little project, I rea
Hi Jim,
I think that you can expect a very good experience on Windows without admin
rights. You may want to take a look at LyX-Portable. There is even a project
devoted to creating a LyX on Windows experience that can be run from a memory
stick (see http://code.google.com/p/lytex/).
Additio
an elegant, it does get the job done. And
it's probably as fast as commenting out code lines.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:07 -0400, Jim Rockford wrote:
> What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that
> shows all the reference citations in t
I just realized that there might be a second option as well. The
appearance of the bibliography in a latex document is determined by an
environment called thebibliography.
When I was working on a CV template (see
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/25/latex-cv-part1 and
http://blog.oak-tree
Right, so just overlook everything in that last email. It doesn't work.
You might be able to accomplish something by redefining the
\thebibliography and \bibitem commands (and probably one or two more),
but I'd need to think about how to go about doing it before making
recommendations.
If this ro
I think that would work pretty well. It turns out, there's actually a
couple of different approaches you can take. I'm trying to write up a
guide.
The one serious limitation to placing the information in a Note inset is
that it doesn't get passed to LaTeX. As a result, you need to manually
load
Hi Bob,
The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document is to use
a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram editor) and then
exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, JPEG, etc.). There may be
LaTeX packages that can draw circuit diagrams (I wou
Hi Anders,
I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the
HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import
While some formatting is lost, it's mostly the type of formatting that
Hi Steve,
<< I notice that your conversion isn't done by OO itself, but by
ConvertDoc. Does ConvertDoc pass through paragraph and character
styles? If so, this is VERY useful. Note that I don't even care if it
translates the style defs -- I can just make a layout. What I want is a
final doc with
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 10:00 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
> I have two figures (eps files) inserted as side by side graphics
> (directly, not in floats). Each lies in its own Box (Minipage), the
> boxes separated by a couple of \qquads. But one figure prints higher
> than the other, I suppose
know and I'll try and add
them.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Hi Benjamin,
I'm not sure that I follow the second question either. What are these PDF
files? Are they multiple pages worth of material, or just a single page of
material? If they are just a single page of material (any you've already sized
them appropriately), I would just add them using th
Hi Jean-Marc,
> I'd like to have at least one good theme before looking at multiple
> themes :)
I'm not thinking multiple themes so much as a theming system. We could
save the list out as a text/xml file and then load an entire list of
colors in at once.
>
> Qt is supposed to help us here.
Hi Jose,
If you've been using the LyX-Outline branch, you may want to update to
the most recent version. It's been a little over a week since I've
merge LyX trunk. (I've been trying to fix a problem related to tabbing
to the next entry in the expanded outline view.)
I merged the source again th
I also, couldn't agree more. I tend to hide my modifications as new
document classes ... but front-matter should be finger painted. After
that, though, I don't want to see or think about ERT.
On 08/11/2010 12:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi Morten,
<< Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you
think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if
elegant. What do you people use? >>
Take care with calling Computer Modern dated. I personally don't like
it, but a lot of people do. I'd u
Hi Helmut,
My apologies. The article was cross-posted to two sites: blog.oak-tree.us and
www.oak-tree.us. The error was corrected on the first and not on the second.
I have since updated the download link:
http://www.oak-tree.us/2010/08/02/texmemo/
Please let me know if you have any other
Hi Steve,
I'd recommend that you first convert to HTML using eLyXer, and then use create
an HTML to Word export filter.
The ConvertDoc script described in this article
(http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import) can be used to
automate the command line OpenOffice conversio
errors are
> shown the first time but after changing something (and thus probably
> overwriting the cause of these errors) it is working fine.
>
>
> Thanks a lot and happy LyXing
>
> Hellmut
>
>
> On 15.08.2010 23:29, Rob Oakes wrote:
>> Hi Helmut,
>>
It appears that the request for Feature Freeze exception has been granted. I'm
now trying to whittle down the list of Launchpad bugs. Is it just me, or are
the LyX website and trac down?
Also, were the problems with platex solved per LyX 1.6.7? I remember some of
the discussion, but haven't
Hi Hellmut,
Thanks for these recommendations. They are appreciated.
> Permit some sort of textual logo (for people who know some LaTeX like
> me using different fonts, sizes, color, etc.)
> An elementary form could be an ERT block instead of the graphics inset
> but I don't have any idea how t
Dear LyX Users and Developers,
I wanted to provide a bit of an update to my adventures with Ubuntu
packaging (insofar as they are related to LyX).
I've spoken with the Ubuntu developers, and they have granted our
request to include 1.6.7 in the next version of Ubuntu (Maverick
Meerkat, 10.1
Dear LyX Users,
This is a pure piece of personal promotion, but ... here goes.
Tonight, I will be giving a talk about LyX to the Salt Lake Linux Users
Group. The meeting will be at the University of Utah in the Warnock
Engineering building. (See below for directions.)
It will start at jus
Hi Fareed,
Does this new LyX package depend on the the TexLive in Ubuntu's
repositories? Ubuntu's version of TexLive was out-of-date for a long
time, so I installed TexLive 2009 directly from its net installer, to
use its latex package manager. As a result I've had to install any latex
related p
Dear LyX Users,
Because I got a couple of emails asking about the slides from my
presentation yesterday, I thought I would pass along the following link:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/08/19/linux-typography
From there, you can download a copy of the slides, or view the
slides/speak
On Aug 20, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Sure. But you lose one of the most important features of TeXLive: immediate
> update to the most recent packages from CTAN.
I think it really depends on your needs. The question for the user becomes,
how often do you really need to upda
> This is how, after all, python packages are managed (through setup.py). But I
> agree if you really need this, advanced users can figure it out by
> themselves. I can only dream.
I'm not sure that it's that simple. (Or if it is, I really need to learn more
about packaging!) I maintain a py
Hi Boraz,
Start by reading section 5.2 of Help > Customization. Then I would
suggest looking at a couple of layout files, first something simple
like the basic article class (article.layout) and then a thesis-type
layout file. The layout files are located in a folder (cleverly named
'layout
Hi Guenter,
I'm probably missing something obvious, but can't you use a \protect command?
In a few of the document classes I've written, this has allowed me to pass all
kind of fragile commands (images, for examples in the texMemo class) while
keeping the processor nice and happy.
Cheers,
Ro
Hi Necati,
I don't typically use LyX when working with Beamer. I think it's easier to
just use plain LaTeX.
However, attached you will find the source file for the example slides I
included earlier. The theme commands are invoked with ERT insets.
If you have any questions, please feel free t
Layout files are just simple text files that have been saved with the .layout
extensions. You then place this file in the "layouts" subdirectory of your LyX
user directory.
(To see where your LyX user directory is located, simply click on Help > About,
or if using Mac, Application Menu > About
o, if the feature doesn't fit
within LyX, perhaps we could send the use case scenarios and discussion to
another project where it did fit? The natural fit, at least to my mind, would
be one of the IM clients. Perhaps Empathy?
Anyone else have any thoughts?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Hi Les,
> I had no idea people were asking for this kind of feature. Real-time
> collaboration on a document seems to me to be a formula for a colossal waste
> of time, extending the concept of endless meetings to an online equivalent.
I'm not sure if ti's people in general or just people that
Dear LyX Users and Developers,
I'm currently working on the book chapter that covers writing with LyX and
LaTeX. While doing so, I've been trying to find a list of all of the external
tools and modules that LyX works with. While many of these are alluded to in
the manuals, is anyone aware of
Hi Rainer,
Thank you for your comments.
>
> Nice - could you inform the list when it is available? Will it be
> downloadable?
Short answer, yes.
Slightly longer answer: I'm not sure that it will be freely available,
unfortunately. It is dependent on the publisher There will be several
cha
Dear LyX-Users,
Sorry for spamming the list, but I am scrambling to compile a table on the
default formatting for the common LaTeX document classes and I can't seem to
find a piece of information. I am hoping that someone on the list may know.
What is the default font used for the KOMA-Script
Hi Uwe,
Thank you for getting back to me. I'm sorry if if my inquiry sounds stupid. (I
will concede that it is mildly dense.) Even so, I'm trying to track down
which fonts the different packages use without making any modifications. I
know that it is very easy to change the font to an alter
Hi Uwe,
Thanks for the response. My question doesn't really have much to do with LyX,
but rather about the defaults selected by particular LaTeX distributions. I
asked it on the users list mostly because it's where I know the most people and
there are multiple TeX experts who hang out here.
Dear LyX Users,
I've run into a bit of a problem and I am wondering if anyone else has
seen it before. I'm trying to compile test documents on Windows with
LyX 2.0 and MikTeX 2.8. The documents all compile without trouble, but
I'm having a devil of a time with PDF images.
The document converte
Hi Liviu,
I can't help but weigh in on this one. I think it really depends on who the
audience is, how much they are motivated, and the medium through which you are
delivering the message.
> My personal experience from the bench suggests something similar.
> Whenever I spend too much time tryi
erting code with the TeX Code Inset (Insert >
TeX Code). I've never really used this particular package, so I don't know how
complicated it is. If it's somewhat ugly, I could possibly help create a module
to simplify things.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users,
I am currently slogging my way through a book chapter on advanced methods in
LyX/LaTeX and just had a quick question. Does anyone know if there is
documentation on how to use LyX with luaTeX?
I know that it isn't officially supported, and things would probably break
terribl
Hi Frederick,
This is a very large question. To narrow the scope (and provide better
references), what specifically are you looking to do?
When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just
LyX documents)?
What do you mean, "convert a design from the drawingboard
Thanks for the link.
I was able to get LuaTeX working with normal pdfTeX documents via following the
instructions on the wiki (using the MacTeX 2010 distribution and LyX 2.0). I'm
running into problems using fontspec, though. I think that is due to the lack
of a fontspec database. (Described
Dear LyX Users,
Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it
anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago,
I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and
wanted to send a general report for Mac users.
Hi Frederick,
> My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content
> person, not technical and hence the handicap.
Please don't apologize. It would probably be a better world if content people
forced technical people to explain themselves.
> I know what I want the first pages
On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> There is preliminary XeTeX support in the development version. Not
> ready for the masses.
On this point, I have to disagree.
Preliminary as it might be, I've found it very stable. I've been using LyX 2
for nearly a year, and have transitione
Hi Stefano,
> do you have any advice or pointers to sites explaining how to use margin
> kerning in XeTeX? The notes posted by J Kew on the mailing list and on the
> XeTeX wiki are way too cryptic for me.
Short answer, yes. As far as I know, it hasn't yet been discussed much in the
Interwebs,
Hi Tim,
<>
Good for you!
It wasn't until I started creating custom document classes and LyX modules
that I really started to think, "Wow, this whole LyX thing is cool. With a
little bit of effort, you can literally do anything."
<< Basically, I want something that goes
(Nifty graphics with my
the same page. It will also use a different numbering
scheme (a,b,c ... if using the standard classes) and not screw up your document
footnote numbering.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Dear LyX-Users,
Does anyone know if it is possible to create new types of breaks in LyX? I've
just discovered the \clearoddpage and \cleareven page commands in the lhelp
package. As I'm currently working on a project which uses illustrations on the
even pages opposite chapter heads (e.g. Illu
Hi John,
Are you looking to use them throughout the entire document, or as character
styles? If you want to use them in the entire document, you can simply add
the LaTeX code to the preamble (Document > Settings). If you want to create
custom character styles, you can create insets which include
This is a stupid question, but I'll go ahead and ask it anyway. What happens
when you to export to PDF? Is there any particular reason you need a DVI file?
(It's an old format and not very well supported. PDF is a much better
alternative.)
Cheers,
Rob
Dear LyX Users,
Does anyone know how to export a document to a custom URL with LyX? I've been
playing with the creation of e-books using the XHTML export in LyX 2.0 (and it
works really well), but would like to export to a directory different than the
one which holds my files.
I can't seem to
Dear LyX Developers and Users,
I've been playing with using LyX as a way to create both print PDFs and ePub
documents from a single source document. So far, everything works very, very
well. (The XHMTL is extremely clean and easy to modify by tweaking the CSS.)
What is not easy, however, is the
Dear LyX Users and Developers,
Does anyone know if LyX's current XHTML export allows for the HTML to be output
in one file and for the CSS to be output to another? If this isn't currently
possible, does anyone know how hard it might be to implement?
I've been working with a non-profit to create
Hi Tomaso,
You may be able to modify this to suit your purposes.
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import
You obviously wouldn't need to mess about with the Word step, but the script
might be useful for converting from ODF to LaTeX? There are links to the other
tools as
Hi Tommaso,
Sorry to hear about the difficulties. I actually had better luck creating my
own import path.
ODF -> HTML -> Run tidy on HTML -> HTML2LaTeX-> LyX
This made sure that the markup coming into LyX was as clean as possible with no
strange ERT or other data that couldn't be converted. I
Dear LyX Developers and Users,
For the past couple of days, I've been working on a custom LaTeX document class
for a non-profit. It is based on memoir, and while it is still a work in
progress, I'd like to think that it is rather awesome.
Because the final goal is to use this document class in
Dear LyX Developers and Users,
> I'm trying to create custom insets and environments for the document class
> features. One environment that has me stumped though, is how to create an
> inset for the memoir "sidecaption" feature.
>
> The sidecaption environment allows you to typeset the caption
Dear LyX-Developers,
So, after working on the Side Caption style, I got excited and thought that I
would try and make an "epigraph" style for memoir and my custom class.
The epigraph command allows the enterprising author to add a quotation to their
document prior to the start of the chapter (s
>
> This is just one man's opinion, but I never use the document class's features
> for the front matter. I just use custom environments and ERT (embedded LaTeX)
> to place all elements of the front matter -- the title, the author, the cover
> image, the copyright page, the dedication and ackno
Dear Users and Developers,
Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the
GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that
review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today?
I think it's very important that w
Hi Steve,
> I'm not quite sure what you guys mean by "semantic import/export", but if you
> mean exporting the text marked up with (empty) styles and the (empty) style
> definitions so all I have to do with the MSWord file is fill in the styles,
> then I'm on it like a squirrel on a tree. Let m
Hi Richard,
There is a known bug in older versions of XeTeX which can cause problems with
math symbols in some fonts. The bug report for Ubuntu can be found here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/364627
I was able to fix the problem by editing a configuration file:
/e
There are two latext packages that can be used for timelines: timeslins and
chronology. This links discusses both of them, they seem pretty straightforward
to use and chronology creates a nicely drawn figure.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/217834/how-to-create-a-timeline-with-latex
If your'
Hi Ramin,
> I'm using 2.0 to export html which I can then convert to epub format
> with Calibre.
I've been playing with the same export. So far I've been really happy. Rather
than using Calibre to do the conversion, you might take a look at Sigil. It
creates a much cleaner ePub (though Calibre
Hi Liviu,
> Completely off-topic, does anyone have an idea what typeface The
> Economist uses in its print edition?
I was curious, so I spent a little bit of time researching it. It's actually a
proprietary font that they commissioned purely for the print magazine, called
EcoType. This article
It actually depends on how you intend to use the resulting document. If you
will be printing the resulting PDF on a professional press, then you will want
to use a lossless format (most likely tiff), or a high quality jpeg.
If the PDF is to be put on your website, you will probably want to use
Hi Sam,
You can use the same version of the document, just place the print image in one
branch and the web version in another. (Branches may be LyX's single most
awesome, never heard-of feature.)
When you want to compile for print, then activate that branch. When you want to
compile for web, a
Dear Mauro and Liviu,
Sorry for being so quiet through the whole exchange, but I've been buried at
work for the past month and I'm still trying to get on top of things.
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Mauro wrote:
>> Hello every
> Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with
> LyX's internal XHTML export.
Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job
for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of
sticking points that aren
Dear Users,
Sorry that I've been incommunicado for the past few months. I've been
extraordinarily busy getting married, trying to wrap up a never-ending book
project, and digging myself out of enormous holes at work. However, I wanted to
raise something I saw on the list last week (I think that
I've been working on a custom of custom documents and wanted to check
something. Does anyone know if you can add custom keyboard shortcuts to a LyX
layout file (or the local layout)? I've created a custom character style inset
and going to the Edit menu or right clicking and then selecting the s
Hi Rainer,
> I have seen the "invoice" LaTeX package, but didn't manage to get it to work
> in LyX.
The Invoice package looks (more or less) like it would be great for quotes.
Could you elaborate on what you couldn't get to work?
It looks like it makes extensive use of commands that require tw
Hi Richard,
> No, sorry. Shortcuts are global. I can see where it would be cool to be
> able to do this, but it seems complicated to me. LyX would have to
> reload the shortcuts every time you switched buffers.
Good to know. And, now that you mention it, it would be complex thing to
implement an
On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, stefano franchi wrote:
>> Could you point to some specific instructions? I've always wanted to
>> try this, but never quite made the first step. I may first test it in
>> a Virtual Machine.
>>
...
> 1. Uninstall all the tex-related packages from the system via syn
On Nov 18, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Helge Hafting wrote:
> I found it easier to have two latex distributions. I have lyx and texlive
> from debian, as well as a direct install of texlive-2011. There is nothing to
> manage - the direct install of texlive takes precedence because it is earlier
> in my P
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