Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Windows - no preview

holing python.exe is in your system PATH. Then rename the currently shipped version of python.exe in lyx/bin Preview then works fine. But moving on--- I cannot now view .pdf images in 1.3.5 under windoze I'm seeing a convertDefault.sh Error The script cannot find the ppm file in the temp dir any id

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Windows - no preview

rm 'C:\my\file', # so use everything from the first ':' to the end of the line. FILE=`echo "$2" | cut -d ':' -f 2-` test -f "$FILE" || { echo "$0 ERROR" echo "Unable to find file \"${FILE}\"" ex

Re: Instant Preview and ImageMagick on Windows 1.3.5

st windows info: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Uwe and I keep this as up to date as poss. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Instant Preview and ImageMagick on Windows 1.3.5

Rob S wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: FYI, it looks like your points about 'convert.exe' are in the process of being merged into the WindowsSetup page: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Playground/RobSaundersSandbox Ignore my last - I did not read far enough! The convert.exe does have to be i

Re: LyX on WinXP

Your feedback will be most welcome and help us improve them as required. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Use of spell check

look at my 1.3.3 installation and see it works on there first. It not something I have noticed. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Problem in inserting graphic

le with another graphic format like jpeg or tiff? also jpeg and bmp images all work well for me with Lyx under windows. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Attempt to use lyxpreview

X preview â PPM converter to python /lyxpreview2ppm.py which I believe was on your earlier advice. The windows wiki page does however cover this step. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: "error converting to loadable format" on lyx 1.3.5 WinXP

2-` test -f "$FILE" || { echo "$0 ERROR" echo "Unable to find file \"${FILE}\"" exit 1 } I believe it requires you to comment out these last 6 lines of the offending script. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: "error converting to loadable format" on lyx 1.3.5 WinXP

I've just added a note of this fix on the Wiki "windows setup" page since it's cropped up a few times of late. Ammend as required! Rob S . Can anyone tell me what is going wrong and how do I proceed? How come the jpg and bmp work? Have a look here at this earlier thr

Re: Can´t see figures in Lyx

ki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup Follow through the steps found here; it may give you further clues. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Inserting Bibtex in lyx for Windows

/WindowsSetup Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: lyxserver under windows

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Is it possible to use the lyxserver utility on a windows XP platform. Not that I know of. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Require "et al" in italics

Hi List; Latex help needed. I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the "et al" in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civ

figure placement tweak

nitely not before here"? I feel the use of "Here definitely" is really too strong for this. Regards in advance Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: figure placement tweak

Q. In the float Settings box which option(s) should I choose to have the float placed "Here if possible + Definitely not before here"? maybe others know a lyxish way to do that, but what about using the latex package "flafter" (in the preamble)? I'm not familiar with this package Sven but I'm

Re: figure placement tweak

Rob S wrote: Q. In the float Settings box which option(s) should I choose to have the float placed "Here if possible + Definitely not before here"? maybe others know a lyxish way to do that, but what about using the latex package "flafter" (in the preamble)? I'm not f

Re: Bibliography

items anyway. You then need to add this to the bibtex generated box BEFORE your other .bib files. Rob S Geoff -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK @PREAMBLE{ "\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} " # &q

Re: how to insert a 'landscape page' inside a document with portrait orientation ?

e>>Convert option in gsview32 to convert all the .pdf into another pdf (dont ask - i have no idea!) 6. now open the newly saved version in acrobat and the ERT inserted image will be in landscape. It takes far less time doing than explaining!! Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Gro

Re: how to insert a 'landscape page' inside a document with portrait orientation ?

I would like to insert a landscape page in a document with portrait orientation ! I've just tried it again. See attached before and after pdfs. Hope that is what you mean. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southa

Re: pdf file not found

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: After using pdflatex to convert my lyx file Acrobat Reader says cannot find file. You need to ensure Acrobat is closed first prior to using PdfLatex. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton

summation symbol

Hi List; How do I place limits above and below the summation(\sum) symbol from within the math panel?? It's going to be obvious I know!! Apologies and thanks in advance Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Dutch surnames in Bibtex

(which is what happens now)? Try Natbib/ERT options. First have a look at the Natbib package documentation. I think it covers special cases like this. http://gking.harvard.edu/files/natnotes.pdf There is also a dvi of this in the LaTeX distribution folder. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research

Bug in spell checker?

(long) time ago where I noted that the top item in the spell check listbox cannot be selected and used to replace an error directly. I find you need to first select a word from lower in the list and then reselect the top word for this to work. 1. Can this be confirmed? 2. If so where best to r

Re: Bug in spell checker?

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have tested your problem on 1.3.5-QT for WinXp and whatever the bug it seems to have been fixed. I can select and replace using the first in the list, the only in the list etc This highlights a point I made some (long) time ago where I noted that the top item in the sp

Re: Bibtex references

parts at any time but the ref list will only appear once at the location you specified in the "master" document. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: lyx on Solaris 9 or cygwin

setup. Far better to install LyX 1.3.5 for windows following the guidance on this page. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

igurations. I can confirm this method works without a problem on my Windows XP ported version of LyX 1.3.5. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

this method works without a problem on my Windows XP ported version of LyX 1.3.5. Rob S Win port LyX 1.3.5 Further to my last - Just found this method will also copy text from a .doc or a .pdf straight into LyX - now thats saved some hassle. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group

Re: Centering a Float in Lyx

Matt; My Document settings has \centre in the "float placement" field, and I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. Any ideas? Click in the float. Then from menu select Layout>>Paragraph>>alignment>>center Hope thats what

Elsart users

e all this without problems using ERT so I'm not too concerned if is the only option) Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Elsart users

, but maybe someone else knows of a better way. Regards, Milos I'm pretty much there now (99%). A few ert boxes and an extra Style added to the elsart layout file to define the \corauth LaTeX commannd (same as footnote). Cheers Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of

Re: Elsart Template, authors inline --nearly!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List; For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline. Ah, does not appear to be there! 2nd try Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environm

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

? I'll probably have more questions -- this is entirely new to me. In that case I suggest you have a google around for bib, bibtex, etc. You may find a lot of the FAQs are already answered elsewhere. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Enginee

Re: Newbie: Can't Launch Lyx due to needed layout description

gs are pointing to. Thanks again, William DeShazer Have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup You no longer need cygwin to use lyx on windows Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

i Janus; Try adding this to the document preamble - it works using \nocite{*}, apalike and Natbib producing the output as you require: [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED] , #2\fi)} [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no idea what this does however since I snipped it from elsewhere but it works for me ;-) Rob S

Re: List of figures

cat but the actual caption says - A nice picture of a cat that has recently been fed something nice blah blah Geoff; From toolbar select insert--short title add this just before the original caption. Add the short title version in this box - job done! Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

need for a win wiki anyway ;-) Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: strange behaviour in lyx-1.3.5

o spellcheck documents one by one. Rob S PS I'm sure this has been mentioned in the past on the list but possibly disguised as a Windows port problem rather than a generic problem. -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: Making beautiful LyX icons...

r own logo" kind of company) is telling me that they only see a large black image I can't understand why. I've done my best with inkscape and convert, but no success. Gunnar. See Lyx3.ico attached for us windows users Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Grou

Re: Making beautiful LyX icons...

on a win box. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK


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LyXWin Wiki Pages

pages - I'll keep an eye open for any changes which I can then reflect over on the newer group pages. Hope that all makes sense ;-) Cheers Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southampton UK

Re: thesis initial pages numbering and title page

e class for my thesis. As above - example of this on the thesismaster file attached > c) How does one force something to start from a fresh page. Try adding the following to a TEX box \clearpage Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engin

Re: Tables too wide

on the page? I'm not sure if this is the best solution but I have used: This is all in a table float; Table title \scriptsize (in a TEX box) Table here \normalsize (in a TEX box) Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Unive

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

command an autorun entry in the Registry so it takes effect every time you reboot. More info please! subst?? Can provide a more detailed step by step method for this - it may help others, like myself, who are not that "computer jargon" literate. Cheers Rob S -- R D Saunders

Re: Overview of the NatBib styles - which is the right one for me?

alike + natbib without a problem As I mentioned some time back though I have had to add: [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED] , #2\fi)} [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the preamble but thats all. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Universi

Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX - Danish chracters

ranslate extended ASCII" that does the necessary conversions automatically. Ekkehart Not sure if this will work for all but: I added a touch of LaTeX code directly into the .bib file entry. i.e. Freds{\o}e in the bib file entry will produce Fredsøe in the output. Rob S -- R D Saund

Lyx has helped to convert another M to a D!!

thanks Dr. Rob S For the record I used: Report class out of the box Natbib from the options found within preferences Used Apalike style (tweaked to italicise et. al.) but with no other hassle Pdflatex to export/build Image formats .pdf, .png, .bmp and .jpg (I never really understood graphics

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