Re: Lyx to RTF

[Herbert Voss]

 The problem is that I have to present it for a contest and the
 organization only accepts formats that can be read with MS Word :-((
 Is there any way to convert my document to RTF (or other format that can
 be read by Word)???

choose lyx-tex-html-rtf

Herbert

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Float placement

[M.Hendler]

Hi all!

The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
in the text.
But LyX places them on a random style. :)
First 2 are on the first page with the text and the rest on the next page.
The bad thing is that, on the old page a new subsection starts and thats what I really 
hate now.
LyX (or Latex) doesn't take care of the sectioning of a book. I dont want to have the 
floats of
section 2 in section 3 ! Or even floats of section 2.3 in section 2.4!

How can I tell LyX that I really want to have the floats at the place where I have 
inserted them?

I tried all global variations of h, !h and so on.

Any ideas?

Thanx a lot
Matthias

Re: Float placement

[Herbert Voss]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, M.Hendler wrote:

 Hi all!
 
 The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
 I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
 The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
 in the text.
 But LyX places them on a random style. :)

it's not that floats should be ...
but try 

\usepackage{floats}   %- latex preamble

leave option float placement in layout-document blank
and write in tex (red) as the very first line in the float

[H]

but remember, that the H-Option puts the floats
exactly there, where they appear in the page.

Herbert

Re: Float placement

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:50:52 +0200
From: "M.Hendler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Float placement

Hi all!

The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
in the text.
But LyX places them on a random style. :)
First 2 are on the first page with the text and the rest on the next page.
The bad thing is that, on the old page a new subsection starts and thats what 
I really hate now.
LyX (or Latex) doesn't take care of the sectioning of a book. I dont want to 
have the floats of
section 2 in section 3 ! Or even floats of section 2.3 in section 2.4!

A few ideas:

\clearpage 
in ERT make a newpage and purges the buffer of floats, so that 
all the pending figure are placed,  but
you may not like a newpage at a beginning of a subsection...

Beware that the float must be  preceded and followed by a blank line: 
if not, the float is within the paragraph, which is not a good idea.

If you have several small figures, you may like to have them in one single
float, within a table.

What about wrapfig ? This could give you a better layout in the page.

There has been in the list a technique to change locally the order using ERT, 
but I don'recall it. I seldomly use it, !ht for figures is generally OK
(but I miss a separate global order for tables, I would like !hb because
the caption is over the table in french typography).


How can I tell LyX that I really want to have the floats at the place where I 
have inserted them?

No way, you have to understand how the placement algorithm works
and move the figures and paragraphs around untif all is OK. But it's
useless to do so until the very last LaTeX passes, beacuse yous should not
do any prematurate local tuning.

I tried all global variations of h, !h and so on.

Any ideas?

Thanx a lot

Hope that helps

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: table of content

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 "jdd" == jdd  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

jdd for now a long time, the edit table of content feature gives a
jdd table that insists to stay in front of lyx.

jdd I remember time where a clic on the lyx window made lyx come in
jdd front and the table below.

jdd this is very unpleasant and make edit/table of content nearly
jdd unusable - one can't type in lyx with the toc windows up.

I cannot reproduce that. Are you sure it happens only with this popup?
What window manager are you using?

JMarc

Re: Float placement

[Yann Collete]

Hello,

I have encountered the same problem one day.
I had found a solution in a TeX FAQ. The thing to tune
is the Max Float Per Page counter and the size of the page
where to place the floats.
Here are the commands to place in the LaTeX preamble.

\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{.9}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{.1}
\setcounter{totalnumber}{10}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{.8}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{.8}

It works for me but maybe you'll have to tune the values.

YC

Re: Float placement

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, M.Hendler wrote:
| 
|  Hi all!
|  
|  The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
|  I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
|  The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
|  in the text.
|  But LyX places them on a random style. :)
| 
| it's not that floats should be ...
| but try 
| 
| \usepackage{floats}   %- latex preamble

that should be 
\usepackage{float}

| 
| leave option float placement in layout-document blank
| and write in tex (red) as the very first line in the float
| 
| [H]

to use the H placement with figure and table you also have to issue a
\restylefloat{table}
\restylefloat{figure}
(at least one version of the float doc told me so)

Lgb

[ ] in references

[Alexander Bauer]

Hi,

I'm using references in a document and if the 
document is printed, the label (grey part) is in brackets.
Like this

[Wöhe, G] blah blah

Is it possible to get rid off the 
brackets?



Alex

Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but...

- I can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state: "File
  xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in /tmp/lyx_tmp*,
  including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view them but it would be
  nice if I could do this without a shell...

- Somehow the cursor tends to disappear, mainly after I deleted
  something. Is this a new feature or a bug? If it's a feature, is
  there a way to turn it off?

- I won't mention this background_color thing (oops, now I did)
  because it has been discussed enough :-)

Any help would be appreciated!

-- 
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ ] in references

[Herbert Voss]

 Alexander Bauer wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I'm using references in a document and if the document is printed, the
 label (grey part) is in brackets.
 Like this
 
 [Wöhe, G] blah blah
 
 Is it possible to get rid off the brackets?

\usepackage{cite}   % all in latex preamble
\citeleft{}
\citeright{}

Herbert



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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 "Raffael" == Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Raffael I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
Raffael can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
Raffael "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
Raffael /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
Raffael them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
Raffael shell...

This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?

Raffael - Somehow the cursor tends to disappear, mainly after I
Raffael deleted something. Is this a new feature or a bug? If it's a
Raffael feature, is there a way to turn it off?

This will be fixed in 1.1.5fix1

Raffael - I won't mention this background_color thing (oops, now I
Raffael did) because it has been discussed enough :-)

this will be fixed too.

JMarc

Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

"Kayvan A. Sylvan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:15:01PM +0200, Raffael Herzog wrote:
  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
"Raffael" == Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   
   Raffael I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
   Raffael can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
   Raffael "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
   Raffael /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
   Raffael them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
   Raffael shell...
   
   This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?
  
  Yes... I've got a network boot system, Lyx has been configured with
  --prefix=/usr/X11R6, which mounted read-only. But it happens on every
  system including the server. /tmp is of course local.
  
 
 Have you tried doing Options-Reconfigure on the system?

Yes, on both. The last I tried was to reconfigure on the server and
restart Lyx. Still the same.

 -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan
 Associates, Inc.  | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena
 http://www.successlinks.com/kayvan | Reach your goals now! | Robin
 Gregory

-- 
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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  "Raffael" == Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Raffael I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
 Raffael can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
 Raffael "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
 Raffael /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
 Raffael them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
 Raffael shell...
 
 This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?

Yes... I've got a network boot system, Lyx has been configured with
--prefix=/usr/X11R6, which mounted read-only. But it happens on every
system including the server. /tmp is of course local.

 [...]

 JMarc

-- 
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem opening documents from the recently opened file list

[C Y]

Hi! I just upgraded Lyx to 1.1.5 (nice job guys!) and am encountering a 
strange behavior when loading documents containing eps files.  If I open 
them from the File-Open menu, everything works fine.  But if I try to use 
the list of files at the bottom of the file menu, it never renders the eps 
images.  It's not a show stopper or anything, but I thought it might 
indicate a flaw in the way Lyx opens documents from the recent list in the 
File menu.  I watched the messages at the bottom of the main window as it 
loaded the document and the only difference I saw was that the open from 
recent list didn't show some buffer dialogues that the File-Open loading 
did show.  Has anyone else run into this?

Best,
C Y

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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Torsten Hahn]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:
snip
 Torsten "Undefined control sequence ...ley Publishing Company, 2nd
 Torsten \btxeditionlon {}, 1996. The control sequence at the end of
 Torsten the top line of your error message was never \def'ed ..."
 
 If you look closely at your dvi file, you will find that one of the
 entries (published in 1996) is wrong.
 
 You probably need to use a special package with this german
 bibiography style.

Yes, this is the solution, a "\usepackage{bibgerm}" does the job. Thanks for
the tip !

Ciao,
Torsten
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Re: table of content

[jdd]

Le jeu, 29 jun 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit :
  "jdd" == jdd  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 jdd for now a long time, the edit table of content feature gives a
 jdd table that insists to stay in front of lyx.
 
 jdd I remember time where a clic on the lyx window made lyx come in
 jdd front and the table below.
 
 jdd this is very unpleasant and make edit/table of content nearly
 jdd unusable - one can't type in lyx with the toc windows up.
 
 I cannot reproduce that. Are you sure it happens only with this popup?
 What window manager are you using?

I use kde. yes, it's also the case for math popup (but there the popup is
much smaller and I didn't notice it.

may I have inadvertently modified anything in lyx config file? I have this
only with lyx.


 
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Re: Lyx to RTF

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:07:14 +0200
From: Isaac Barona Martínez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lyx to RTF


Hi all!!

I have just finished my thesis using lyx. It's about 250 pages with lots
of pictures and tables and I haven't had any problem.

The problem is that I have to present it for a contest and the
organization only accepts formats that can be read with MS Word :-((
Is there any way to convert my document to RTF (or other format that can
be read by Word)???

Thanks in advance.

Best regards from Spain,
Isaac.

They don't even accept PS or PDF ? What happen when they want to print ?
Well it can't be helped, I suppose, and everybody has to cope with
it one day or another.

Going through RTF is no good IMHO, I use latex2HTML in the following way:
  - convert with increased resolution for images (display formulas are better
   when printed)
  - postfilter the produced HTML for typical M$ codes (ligatures, guillemets,..)
  and justification (replace P by P ALIGN="JUSTIFY")
  - copy the produced files in Windows
  - open M$ Word
  - open file
  - save as .doc
  - VERY IMPORTANT !!! : in Edit, remove links on all images, otherwise the .doc
  cannot be moved (the links are absolute ones, I suspect).
  
 One (big) drawback: the inline equations (which are all right
 in HTML) are 0.5mm over the baselines in .doc. This comes from the fact 
 that there is no option to deal separately with inline and display
 equations, it would be much better to translate inline equation in MATHML
 or SYMBOL like tth.
 
 Using tth works also, but it looses the very good typography
 of display equations.
 
 I'm currently looking forward hacking the code of latex2html to force
 the translation inside it, but I've no result yet.
 
Perhaps somebody else has a better technique, as Perl motto says:
"There's more than one way to do it."
 
Regards

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: Lyx to RTF

[Herbert Voss]

 The problem is that I have to present it for a contest and the
 organization only accepts formats that can be read with MS Word :-((
 Is there any way to convert my document to RTF (or other format that can
 be read by Word)???

choose lyx-tex-html-rtf

Herbert

-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://perce.de/voss

Float placement

[M.Hendler]

Hi all!

The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
in the text.
But LyX places them on a random style. :)
First 2 are on the first page with the text and the rest on the next page.
The bad thing is that, on the old page a new subsection starts and thats what I really 
hate now.
LyX (or Latex) doesn't take care of the sectioning of a book. I dont want to have the 
floats of
section 2 in section 3 ! Or even floats of section 2.3 in section 2.4!

How can I tell LyX that I really want to have the floats at the place where I have 
inserted them?

I tried all global variations of h, !h and so on.

Any ideas?

Thanx a lot
Matthias

Re: Float placement

[Herbert Voss]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, M.Hendler wrote:

 Hi all!
 
 The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
 I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
 The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
 in the text.
 But LyX places them on a random style. :)

it's not that floats should be ...
but try 

\usepackage{floats}   %- latex preamble

leave option float placement in layout-document blank
and write in tex (red) as the very first line in the float

[H]

but remember, that the H-Option puts the floats
exactly there, where they appear in the page.

Herbert

Re: Float placement

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:50:52 +0200
From: "M.Hendler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Float placement

Hi all!

The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
in the text.
But LyX places them on a random style. :)
First 2 are on the first page with the text and the rest on the next page.
The bad thing is that, on the old page a new subsection starts and thats what 
I really hate now.
LyX (or Latex) doesn't take care of the sectioning of a book. I dont want to 
have the floats of
section 2 in section 3 ! Or even floats of section 2.3 in section 2.4!

A few ideas:

\clearpage 
in ERT make a newpage and purges the buffer of floats, so that 
all the pending figure are placed,  but
you may not like a newpage at a beginning of a subsection...

Beware that the float must be  preceded and followed by a blank line: 
if not, the float is within the paragraph, which is not a good idea.

If you have several small figures, you may like to have them in one single
float, within a table.

What about wrapfig ? This could give you a better layout in the page.

There has been in the list a technique to change locally the order using ERT, 
but I don'recall it. I seldomly use it, !ht for figures is generally OK
(but I miss a separate global order for tables, I would like !hb because
the caption is over the table in french typography).


How can I tell LyX that I really want to have the floats at the place where I 
have inserted them?

No way, you have to understand how the placement algorithm works
and move the figures and paragraphs around untif all is OK. But it's
useless to do so until the very last LaTeX passes, beacuse yous should not
do any prematurate local tuning.

I tried all global variations of h, !h and so on.

Any ideas?

Thanx a lot

Hope that helps

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: table of content

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 "jdd" == jdd  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

jdd for now a long time, the edit table of content feature gives a
jdd table that insists to stay in front of lyx.

jdd I remember time where a clic on the lyx window made lyx come in
jdd front and the table below.

jdd this is very unpleasant and make edit/table of content nearly
jdd unusable - one can't type in lyx with the toc windows up.

I cannot reproduce that. Are you sure it happens only with this popup?
What window manager are you using?

JMarc

Re: Float placement

[Yann Collete]

Hello,

I have encountered the same problem one day.
I had found a solution in a TeX FAQ. The thing to tune
is the Max Float Per Page counter and the size of the page
where to place the floats.
Here are the commands to place in the LaTeX preamble.

\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{.9}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{.1}
\setcounter{totalnumber}{10}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{.8}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{.8}

It works for me but maybe you'll have to tune the values.

YC

Re: Float placement

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, M.Hendler wrote:
| 
|  Hi all!
|  
|  The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
|  I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
|  The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
|  in the text.
|  But LyX places them on a random style. :)
| 
| it's not that floats should be ...
| but try 
| 
| \usepackage{floats}   %- latex preamble

that should be 
\usepackage{float}

| 
| leave option float placement in layout-document blank
| and write in tex (red) as the very first line in the float
| 
| [H]

to use the H placement with figure and table you also have to issue a
\restylefloat{table}
\restylefloat{figure}
(at least one version of the float doc told me so)

Lgb

[ ] in references

[Alexander Bauer]

Hi,

I'm using references in a document and if the 
document is printed, the label (grey part) is in brackets.
Like this

[Wöhe, G] blah blah

Is it possible to get rid off the 
brackets?



Alex

Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but...

- I can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state: "File
  xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in /tmp/lyx_tmp*,
  including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view them but it would be
  nice if I could do this without a shell...

- Somehow the cursor tends to disappear, mainly after I deleted
  something. Is this a new feature or a bug? If it's a feature, is
  there a way to turn it off?

- I won't mention this background_color thing (oops, now I did)
  because it has been discussed enough :-)

Any help would be appreciated!

-- 
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ ] in references

[Herbert Voss]

 Alexander Bauer wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I'm using references in a document and if the document is printed, the
 label (grey part) is in brackets.
 Like this
 
 [Wöhe, G] blah blah
 
 Is it possible to get rid off the brackets?

\usepackage{cite}   % all in latex preamble
\citeleft{}
\citeright{}

Herbert



-- 
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http://perce.de/voss

Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 "Raffael" == Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Raffael I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
Raffael can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
Raffael "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
Raffael /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
Raffael them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
Raffael shell...

This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?

Raffael - Somehow the cursor tends to disappear, mainly after I
Raffael deleted something. Is this a new feature or a bug? If it's a
Raffael feature, is there a way to turn it off?

This will be fixed in 1.1.5fix1

Raffael - I won't mention this background_color thing (oops, now I
Raffael did) because it has been discussed enough :-)

this will be fixed too.

JMarc

Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

"Kayvan A. Sylvan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:15:01PM +0200, Raffael Herzog wrote:
  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
"Raffael" == Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   
   Raffael I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
   Raffael can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
   Raffael "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
   Raffael /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
   Raffael them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
   Raffael shell...
   
   This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?
  
  Yes... I've got a network boot system, Lyx has been configured with
  --prefix=/usr/X11R6, which mounted read-only. But it happens on every
  system including the server. /tmp is of course local.
  
 
 Have you tried doing Options-Reconfigure on the system?

Yes, on both. The last I tried was to reconfigure on the server and
restart Lyx. Still the same.

 -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan
 Associates, Inc.  | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena
 http://www.successlinks.com/kayvan | Reach your goals now! | Robin
 Gregory

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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  "Raffael" == Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Raffael I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
 Raffael can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
 Raffael "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
 Raffael /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
 Raffael them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
 Raffael shell...
 
 This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?

Yes... I've got a network boot system, Lyx has been configured with
--prefix=/usr/X11R6, which mounted read-only. But it happens on every
system including the server. /tmp is of course local.

 [...]

 JMarc

-- 
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem opening documents from the recently opened file list

[C Y]

Hi! I just upgraded Lyx to 1.1.5 (nice job guys!) and am encountering a 
strange behavior when loading documents containing eps files.  If I open 
them from the File-Open menu, everything works fine.  But if I try to use 
the list of files at the bottom of the file menu, it never renders the eps 
images.  It's not a show stopper or anything, but I thought it might 
indicate a flaw in the way Lyx opens documents from the recent list in the 
File menu.  I watched the messages at the bottom of the main window as it 
loaded the document and the only difference I saw was that the open from 
recent list didn't show some buffer dialogues that the File-Open loading 
did show.  Has anyone else run into this?

Best,
C Y

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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Torsten Hahn]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:
snip
 Torsten "Undefined control sequence ...ley Publishing Company, 2nd
 Torsten \btxeditionlon {}, 1996. The control sequence at the end of
 Torsten the top line of your error message was never \def'ed ..."
 
 If you look closely at your dvi file, you will find that one of the
 entries (published in 1996) is wrong.
 
 You probably need to use a special package with this german
 bibiography style.

Yes, this is the solution, a "\usepackage{bibgerm}" does the job. Thanks for
the tip !

Ciao,
Torsten
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Re: table of content

[jdd]

Le jeu, 29 jun 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit :
  "jdd" == jdd  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 jdd for now a long time, the edit table of content feature gives a
 jdd table that insists to stay in front of lyx.
 
 jdd I remember time where a clic on the lyx window made lyx come in
 jdd front and the table below.
 
 jdd this is very unpleasant and make edit/table of content nearly
 jdd unusable - one can't type in lyx with the toc windows up.
 
 I cannot reproduce that. Are you sure it happens only with this popup?
 What window manager are you using?

I use kde. yes, it's also the case for math popup (but there the popup is
much smaller and I didn't notice it.

may I have inadvertently modified anything in lyx config file? I have this
only with lyx.


 
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Re: Lyx to RTF

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:07:14 +0200
From: Isaac Barona Martínez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lyx to RTF


Hi all!!

I have just finished my thesis using lyx. It's about 250 pages with lots
of pictures and tables and I haven't had any problem.

The problem is that I have to present it for a contest and the
organization only accepts formats that can be read with MS Word :-((
Is there any way to convert my document to RTF (or other format that can
be read by Word)???

Thanks in advance.

Best regards from Spain,
Isaac.

They don't even accept PS or PDF ? What happen when they want to print ?
Well it can't be helped, I suppose, and everybody has to cope with
it one day or another.

Going through RTF is no good IMHO, I use latex2HTML in the following way:
  - convert with increased resolution for images (display formulas are better
   when printed)
  - postfilter the produced HTML for typical M$ codes (ligatures, guillemets,..)
  and justification (replace P by P ALIGN="JUSTIFY")
  - copy the produced files in Windows
  - open M$ Word
  - open file
  - save as .doc
  - VERY IMPORTANT !!! : in Edit, remove links on all images, otherwise the .doc
  cannot be moved (the links are absolute ones, I suspect).
  
 One (big) drawback: the inline equations (which are all right
 in HTML) are 0.5mm over the baselines in .doc. This comes from the fact 
 that there is no option to deal separately with inline and display
 equations, it would be much better to translate inline equation in MATHML
 or SYMBOL like tth.
 
 Using tth works also, but it looses the very good typography
 of display equations.
 
 I'm currently looking forward hacking the code of latex2html to force
 the translation inside it, but I've no result yet.
 
Perhaps somebody else has a better technique, as Perl motto says:
"There's more than one way to do it."
 
Regards

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: Lyx to RTF

[Herbert Voss]

> The problem is that I have to present it for a contest and the
> organization only accepts formats that can be read with MS Word :-((
> Is there any way to convert my document to RTF (or other format that can
> be read by Word)???

choose lyx->tex->html->rtf

Herbert

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Float placement

[M.Hendler]

Hi all!

The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
in the text.
But LyX places them on a random style. :)
First 2 are on the first page with the text and the rest on the next page.
The bad thing is that, on the old page a new subsection starts and thats what I really 
hate now.
LyX (or Latex) doesn't take care of the sectioning of a book. I dont want to have the 
floats of
section 2 in section 3 ! Or even floats of section 2.3 in section 2.4!

How can I tell LyX that I really want to have the floats at the place where I have 
inserted them?

I tried all global variations of h, !h and so on.

Any ideas?

Thanx a lot
Matthias

Re: Float placement

[Herbert Voss]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, M.Hendler wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
> I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
> The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
> in the text.
> But LyX places them on a random style. :)

it's not that floats should be ...
but try 

\usepackage{floats}   %<- latex preamble

leave option float placement in layout->document blank
and write in tex (red) as the very first line in the float

[H]

but remember, that the H-Option puts the floats
exactly there, where they appear in the page.

Herbert

Re: Float placement

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:50:52 +0200
>>From: "M.Hendler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Float placement
>>
>>Hi all!
>>
>>The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
>>I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
>>The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
>>in the text.
>>But LyX places them on a random style. :)
>>First 2 are on the first page with the text and the rest on the next page.
>>The bad thing is that, on the old page a new subsection starts and thats what 
I really hate now.
>>LyX (or Latex) doesn't take care of the sectioning of a book. I dont want to 
have the floats of
>>section 2 in section 3 ! Or even floats of section 2.3 in section 2.4!

A few ideas:

\clearpage 
in ERT make a newpage and purges the buffer of floats, so that 
all the pending figure are placed,  but
you may not like a newpage at a beginning of a subsection...

Beware that the float must be  preceded and followed by a blank line: 
if not, the float is within the paragraph, which is not a good idea.

If you have several small figures, you may like to have them in one single
float, within a table.

What about wrapfig ? This could give you a better layout in the page.

There has been in the list a technique to change locally the order using ERT, 
but I don'recall it. I seldomly use it, !ht for figures is generally OK
(but I miss a separate global order for tables, I would like !hb because
the caption is over the table in french typography).

>>
>>How can I tell LyX that I really want to have the floats at the place where I 
have inserted them?

No way, you have to understand how the placement algorithm works
and move the figures and paragraphs around untif all is OK. But it's
useless to do so until the very last LaTeX passes, beacuse yous should not
do any prematurate local tuning.
>>
>>I tried all global variations of h, !h and so on.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanx a lot

Hope that helps

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: table of content

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "jdd" == jdd  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

jdd> for now a long time, the edit table of content feature gives a
jdd> table that insists to stay in front of lyx.

jdd> I remember time where a clic on the lyx window made lyx come in
jdd> front and the table below.

jdd> this is very unpleasant and make edit/table of content nearly
jdd> unusable - one can't type in lyx with the toc windows up.

I cannot reproduce that. Are you sure it happens only with this popup?
What window manager are you using?

JMarc

Re: Float placement

[Yann Collete]

Hello,

I have encountered the same problem one day.
I had found a solution in a TeX FAQ. The thing to tune
is the Max Float Per Page counter and the size of the page
where to place the floats.
Here are the commands to place in the LaTeX preamble.

\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{.9}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{.1}
\setcounter{totalnumber}{10}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{.8}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{.8}

It works for me but maybe you'll have to tune the values.

YC

Re: Float placement

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, M.Hendler wrote:
| 
| > Hi all!
| > 
| > The placement of  floats drive my crazy!
| > I am using the book style an set the placement to: !htbp
| > The problem is, that I have 5 floats (6cm x 4.25cm) which all should be placed
| > in the text.
| > But LyX places them on a random style. :)
| 
| it's not that floats should be ...
| but try 
| 
| \usepackage{floats}   %<- latex preamble

that should be 
\usepackage{float}

| 
| leave option float placement in layout->document blank
| and write in tex (red) as the very first line in the float
| 
| [H]

to use the H placement with figure and table you also have to issue a
\restylefloat{table}
\restylefloat{figure}
(at least one version of the float doc told me so)

Lgb

[ ] in references

[Alexander Bauer]

Hi,
 
I'm using references in a document and if the 
document is printed, the label (grey part) is in brackets.
Like this
 
[Wöhe, G] blah blah
 
Is it possible to get rid off the 
brackets?
 
 
 
Alex
 

Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but...

- I can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state: "File
  xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in /tmp/lyx_tmp*,
  including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view them but it would be
  nice if I could do this without a shell...

- Somehow the cursor tends to disappear, mainly after I deleted
  something. Is this a new feature or a bug? If it's a feature, is
  there a way to turn it off?

- I won't mention this background_color thing (oops, now I did)
  because it has been discussed enough :-)

Any help would be appreciated!

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Re: [ ] in references

[Herbert Voss]

> Alexander Bauer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using references in a document and if the document is printed, the
> label (grey part) is in brackets.
> Like this
> 
> [Wöhe, G] blah blah
> 
> Is it possible to get rid off the brackets?

\usepackage{cite}   % all in latex preamble
\citeleft{}
\citeright{}

Herbert



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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Raffael" == Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Raffael> I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
Raffael> can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
Raffael> "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
Raffael> /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
Raffael> them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
Raffael> shell...

This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?

Raffael> - Somehow the cursor tends to disappear, mainly after I
Raffael> deleted something. Is this a new feature or a bug? If it's a
Raffael> feature, is there a way to turn it off?

This will be fixed in 1.1.5fix1

Raffael> - I won't mention this background_color thing (oops, now I
Raffael> did) because it has been discussed enough :-)

this will be fixed too.

JMarc

Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:15:01PM +0200, Raffael Herzog wrote:
> > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > > "Raffael" == Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 
> > > Raffael> I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
> > > Raffael> can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
> > > Raffael> "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
> > > Raffael> /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
> > > Raffael> them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
> > > Raffael> shell...
> > > 
> > > This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?
> > 
> > Yes... I've got a network boot system, Lyx has been configured with
> > --prefix=/usr/X11R6, which mounted read-only. But it happens on every
> > system including the server. /tmp is of course local.
> > 
> 
> Have you tried doing Options->Reconfigure on the system?

Yes, on both. The last I tried was to reconfigure on the server and
restart Lyx. Still the same.

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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Raffael Herzog]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > "Raffael" == Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Raffael> I updated to Lyx 1.1.5 yesterday. It works fine, but... - I
> Raffael> can't preview any documents. xdvi or ghostview both state:
> Raffael> "File xyz.dvi not found". The files are present in
> Raffael> /tmp/lyx_tmp*, including .ps and .pdf files. So I _can_ view
> Raffael> them but it would be nice if I could do this without a
> Raffael> shell...
> 
> This one is pretty strange... Does it always happen?

Yes... I've got a network boot system, Lyx has been configured with
--prefix=/usr/X11R6, which mounted read-only. But it happens on every
system including the server. /tmp is of course local.

> [...]
>
> JMarc

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Problem opening documents from the recently opened file list

[C Y]

Hi! I just upgraded Lyx to 1.1.5 (nice job guys!) and am encountering a 
strange behavior when loading documents containing eps files.  If I open 
them from the File->Open menu, everything works fine.  But if I try to use 
the list of files at the bottom of the file menu, it never renders the eps 
images.  It's not a show stopper or anything, but I thought it might 
indicate a flaw in the way Lyx opens documents from the recent list in the 
File menu.  I watched the messages at the bottom of the main window as it 
loaded the document and the only difference I saw was that the open from 
recent list didn't show some buffer dialogues that the File->Open loading 
did show.  Has anyone else run into this?

Best,
C Y

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Re: Problems with 1.1.5

[Torsten Hahn]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:

> Torsten> "Undefined control sequence ...ley Publishing Company, 2nd
> Torsten> \btxeditionlon {}, 1996. The control sequence at the end of
> Torsten> the top line of your error message was never \def'ed ..."
> 
> If you look closely at your dvi file, you will find that one of the
> entries (published in 1996) is wrong.
> 
> You probably need to use a special package with this german
> bibiography style.

Yes, this is the solution, a "\usepackage{bibgerm}" does the job. Thanks for
the tip !

Ciao,
Torsten
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Re: table of content

[jdd]

Le jeu, 29 jun 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit :
> > "jdd" == jdd  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> jdd> for now a long time, the edit table of content feature gives a
> jdd> table that insists to stay in front of lyx.
> 
> jdd> I remember time where a clic on the lyx window made lyx come in
> jdd> front and the table below.
> 
> jdd> this is very unpleasant and make edit/table of content nearly
> jdd> unusable - one can't type in lyx with the toc windows up.
> 
> I cannot reproduce that. Are you sure it happens only with this popup?
> What window manager are you using?

I use kde. yes, it's also the case for math popup (but there the popup is
much smaller and I didn't notice it.

may I have inadvertently modified anything in lyx config file? I have this
only with lyx.


> 
> JMarc
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Re: Lyx to RTF

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:07:14 +0200
>>From: Isaac Barona Martínez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Lyx to RTF
>>
>>
>>Hi all!!
>>
>>I have just finished my thesis using lyx. It's about 250 pages with lots
>>of pictures and tables and I haven't had any problem.
>>
>>The problem is that I have to present it for a contest and the
>>organization only accepts formats that can be read with MS Word :-((
>>Is there any way to convert my document to RTF (or other format that can
>>be read by Word)???
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Best regards from Spain,
>>Isaac.

They don't even accept PS or PDF ? What happen when they want to print ?
Well it can't be helped, I suppose, and everybody has to cope with
it one day or another.

Going through RTF is no good IMHO, I use latex2HTML in the following way:
  - convert with increased resolution for images (display formulas are better
   when printed)
  - postfilter the produced HTML for typical M$ codes (ligatures, guillemets,..)
  and justification (replace  by )
  - copy the produced files in Windows
  - open M$ Word
  - open file
  - save as .doc
  - VERY IMPORTANT !!! : in Edit, remove links on all images, otherwise the .doc
  cannot be moved (the links are absolute ones, I suspect).
  
 One (big) drawback: the inline equations (which are all right
 in HTML) are 0.5mm over the baselines in .doc. This comes from the fact 
 that there is no option to deal separately with inline and display
 equations, it would be much better to translate inline equation in MATHML
 or SYMBOL like tth.
 
 Using tth works also, but it looses the very good typography
 of display equations.
 
 I'm currently looking forward hacking the code of latex2html to force
 the translation inside it, but I've no result yet.
 
Perhaps somebody else has a better technique, as Perl motto says:
"There's more than one way to do it."
 
Regards

-- 
Jean-Pierre