Re: Failed fgetpos while using latex2rtf
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:17:13 +0100 (MET)
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To: LyX Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "Failed fgetpos" while using latex2rtf
Dear LyX-ers,
I am currently trying to export a simple document written
in LyX (of which I am a longtime user) into RTF.
I downloaded latex2rtf ver. 1.8aa, compiled installed it. When running
(from the command line) latex2rtf on the name.tex file I get the
following error (the same I used to get with ver. 1.8a, which I used to
have).
{\rtf1\pc\fs20\deff0\deflang1024
lots of RTF code
{\*\pnseclvl4\pnlcltr\pnstart1\pnindent720\pnhang{\pntxta .}}
kickstart-rm-080201.tex:1: Error! Failed fgetpos; main.c (Convert): errno
29
ANY LaTeX-from-LyX file I have tried to convert fails with this error.
Any hints? Tnx a lot in advance!
Marco Bravi
Have a try at ltx2rtf instead ?
Works fine here (mainly for formulas)
--
Jean-Pierre
Re: Shadow color box
Hello,
I use the color package.
I have, in the document preamble:
\usepackage{color, calc}
\definecolor{gris}{gray}{0.25}
\definecolor{contourgris}{gray}{0.75}
In the document, to add a box with a gray background and a
light gray box, I use:
\fcolorbox{contourgris}{gris}{\parbox{\textwith - \parindent-\ \parindent}{
%
% a standard environment or a quote environment
% I doesn't work for a list environment
%
}}
Your sincerely,
YC
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Hi,
Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following
parameters:
-colour of the shadow
-colour of the text
-colour of the frame
I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I
compil my tex file with pdflatex
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Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen Carville wrote: I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or on paper. which LyX-version do you have? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Simple equation format problem
Flink Del Dinky wrote:
Hello, LyX/LaTeX seems very good at displaying sophisticated
mathematical problems.
However, I can't seem to figure out how to display the underscore bar in
a simple arithmatic problem like this:
9
x 5
40
I'm trying to figure out how to draw the line the seperates the problem
from the answer.
do you mean something like the attached LyX-file?
Herbert
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#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 218
\textclass article
\language german
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme pslatex
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 1
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 15cm
\paperheight 22cm
\leftmargin 1.7cm
\topmargin 1.4cm
\rightmargin 1.2cm
\bottommargin 1.4cm
\headsep 1cm
\footskip 0.5cm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
\begin_inset Formula \[
\begin{array}{r}
9\\
\underline{\cdot 5\, \, \, }\\
40
\end{array}\]
\end_inset
\the_end
Re: Pb with new layout
Yves Bergeon wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a new layout, but I have this problem.
Is-it possible to get the number of item in an itemize block and to send
back this number to the beginning of the itemize list (itemize is an
example,
my problem is for an environment named overlay).
This next example will show you the problem:
\begin{itemize}{my_number}
\item 1 ...
\item 2 ...
\item 3 ...
\end{itemize}
where my_number is the number of item between \begin{itemize} and
\end{itemize}.
In this example, my number should have the value 3, and if I had an item
I want
this number to be incremented automatically.
maybe that the package mwlist does want you want.
Herbert
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RE: Specifying explicit point sizes
Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
sizes in the standard Layout-Character menu?
LyX does not really support this as you might have noticed from
reactions to you question, simply because it is not the way (La)TeX is
supposed to be used. Usually, one should define globally fonts, their
sizes, shapes etc. and commands to select these fonts.
However, if you really want to set a font size (or other font-related
parameters) without too much hassle, you can use low-level LaTeX 2e
functions directly. In LaTeX documentation on
"http://www.loria.fr/services/tex/",
--- (citation)
\fontencoding {encoding}
\fontfamily {family}
\fontseries {series}
\fontshape {shape}
\fontsize {size} {baselineskip}
Each of these commands sets one of the font attributes; \fontsize also
sets \baselineskip. The actual font in use is not altered by these
commands, but the current attributes are used to determine which font to
use after the next \selectfont command.
\selectfont
Selects a text font, based on the current values of the font attributes.
Warning: there must be a \selectfont command immediately after any
settings of the font parameters by (some of) the five \fontparameter
commands, before any following text.
--- (end of citation)
So if you really want to set a specific font size, you can create a
macro or directly type into your document in LaTeX mode, for example:
\fontsize{18pt}{22pt}\selectfont
here comes you text in 18pt...
Notice, however, that
1) you have to take care of \baselineskip as well
2) the setting is reset by any fontsize-changing command (section,
chapter, etc.)
Regards,
Pavel Cizek
Re: no shortcut for floats
Thies Wels wrote:
For the moment, you might want to download
ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
gunzip it and copy it as lyx.mo to your locale directory, most probably
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo
I did that but nothing changed. Do I have to configure something
additionally? I tried the configure button without success. I also
changed back to the cau bind file (although this might not have anything
to do with this stuff.. :))
No. indeed, you shouldn't have to change anything except the locale
file, and after a restart of LyX everything should work.
But probably you changed the text in the bind file!
This is, if you change it from "Float|a" to "Float|o" or something, the
translation mechanism will not be able to find a matching translation,
the text ist not translated (and hence the new shortcut is ignored).
So, delete your changed private bind/menu file and see if it works then.
In addition, you can use
strace -o out lyx
grep lyx.mo out
this should result in a line like
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
and see if LyX is reading the correct file.
Pit
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Re: find and replace
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Thies Wels wrote:
Is there a way to use latex commands in the find-replace funktion of
lyx? E.g.: guess you have 1times the word "dog" but finally you want
I don't think so. You could use "sed" program to change the LyX file
directly, althought you must be careful (and knowledgeable) then. Like:
sed 's,oldstring,newstring,g' oldfile.lyx newfile.lyx
"\emph{dog}"... ;-). Such a funktion would be handy!!!
Sure. And I think the find dialog should not actually accept LaTeX command
(at least not necessarily) but instead the user could search and replace
for styles too, not just character strings (I think some other word
processors can actually do that).
Find and replace Pb
Hello, I've got a little problem with find and replace. The find and replace function doesn't seems to search for string in a table. YC
Re: Find and replace Pb
"Yann" == Yann Collete [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yann Hello, I've got a little problem with find and replace. The find Yann and replace function doesn't seems to search for string in a Yann table. This is a known problem (not yet implemented in new tables). JMarc
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or on paper. Set the cell width to something less what you want from Layout/Tabular/ColumnRow/Width for example "4cm" (LyX 1.1.6 but possible with older versions too).
Re: find and replace
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: Sure. And I think the find dialog should not actually accept LaTeX command (at least not necessarily) but instead the user could search and replace for styles too, not just character strings (I think some other word processors can actually do that). Yes, this would be a very nice feature, and rest assured every LyX developer knows about the feature request :) But no one has yet worked on it ... john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: no shortcut for floats
In addition, you can use
strace -o out lyx
grep lyx.mo out
this should result in a line like
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
and see if LyX is reading the correct file.
Pit
Hmm! This changed not so much! At first
grep lyx.mo out gave the following message:
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
so, a different path as you mentioned
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6 )
I thought, o.k. lets try the new version of the lyx.mo file in this
directory path. Indeed the behaviour changed a little bit! The 'o' is
now clear underlined in the menu. But if I use the shortcut still the
math-funktion opens! With the small difference that no additional
paragraph is added anymore. I tried it with different .bind files (The
original ones!): cau, menu, de_menu.
whats wrong? Do I have the right lyx.mo file?
ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
Thies
Re: no shortcut for floats
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
so, a different path as you mentioned
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6 )
I thought, o.k. lets try the new version of the lyx.mo file in this
directory path. Indeed the behaviour changed a little bit!
Fine :-)
The 'o' is now clear underlined in the menu. But if I use the shortcut
still the math-funktion opens!
Aargh, that's XForms to blame (once again).
You may notice, that the o in "Formel" is underlined (first entry in
"Einfgen"). So that one opens as it should. The shortcut for Floats
is the "l", but that cannot be easily seen in the menu:
Due to the mentioned bug in XForms, the underline is shifted a bit
towards the right if the next entry is a menu separator :-(
So, try M-E l a and a figure float should appear...
Pit
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Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure is supposed to pick them up. You can use --with-extra-inc in configure to specify the directory, but taken the weird place for the headers they might not be what LyX wants even if they have the same name. You could try, though.
Re: Specifying explicit point sizes
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: - Dear fellow LyXers, - - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through - reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv - using the class "article" without setting a single font size. I started using lyx with version 0.10 or so while in college (second time around). Once I got used to the 'new' way of doing things I found it was _much_ faster to create good looking papers with Lyx than with Word or Wordperfect precisely because I never had to worry about font sizes or paragraph spacing or such. You have no idea how valuable it is to a student to be able to type it in, spell check, a few clicks for formatting, and print it out. Saved me hours of time I could use for studying. Sometimes even left me time for the wife and kids. Sometimes the formatting for preview took a while using Linux running on a 486, but is was easy to break really long papers into smaller chunks I could check fairly quickly. Now that I am in the 'real' world, I still use Lyx when I can. I used to maintain internal Network documentation with it and latex2html. After I left, the new maintainer switched to Dreamweaver and gripes constantly about how he never has time to keep up. - However, I understand that someone might want to set a specific font size. True, it may be necessary but for someone who, like me, just wants to produce output, it is no big deal. Lyx is a fabulous tool. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Simple equation format problem
In math-mode, you can insert \frac (starts a fraction) and then you can put a 2x1 matrix on top with math-matrix 1 2. Hth, Etienne
Re: how to really deal with figures?
Baruch Even I'm working on InsetGraphics, a rewrite of FigInset. Dekel Tsur The external inset will not work with pdflatex. I Does this mean that LyX 1.2 will not support pdfTeX??? Baruch Even Actually the InsetGraphics will have better support, the Baruch Even External Inset is something different than InsetGraphics. Baruch Even [...] Baruch Even I believe that for 1.2.0, the InsetGraphics will be ready Baruch Even for prime time and this will support pdflatex better. Thank you for the explanation! Now I am very relieved :-) I must admit that I misunderstood the situation. Regards Marcus
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen Carville wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: - Stephen Carville wrote: - - I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long - lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or - on paper. - - which LyX-version do you have? 1.1.5. than choose with right mouse button the table menu for the specific cell and insert a column width, for example 4cm in the table you can work with ctrl-enter, when your line seems to be too long. So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure is supposed to pick them up. i hope that one of the other user can help you with this problem, because the table-handling is much more better in 1.1.6fix1. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: - On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - - So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it - cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in - /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure - is supposed to pick them up. - - You can use --with-extra-inc in configure to specify the directory, but - taken the weird place for the headers they might not be what LyX wants - even if they have the same name. You could try, though. They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install the contents of CD2 ? john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: | | They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I | can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. | | Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install | the contents of CD2 ? And if LyX does not configure and make out on the box on your system then you system has some faulty installation/configurations. Missing packages perhaps. Lgb
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen, I am using Mandrake 7.2 as well. Check if all of these packages are installed: (you can check them from drakconf and then package manager). Check if 1. gcc is installed with c++ 2. libgc is there 3. latex2c++ 4. cvs are installed. Finally, to be on the safe side, install the rpm for xpm library. Then lyx should compile Tata R - Original Message - From: "Stephen Carville" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LyX users" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:06 AM Subject: Re: Word Wrap in Tables So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure is supposed to pick them up. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Installing fonts [was: Re: Specifying explicit point sizes]
| Jim Osborn wrote: | | Hi LyX experts, | | Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size | in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" | sizes in the standard Layout-Character menu? | | | have a look at | http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont Nice link, and nice links from it, which I followed, picking up a few new fonts on the way. However, how do I get Lyx to recognise fonts that I've installed in TeX? Robin
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, John Levon wrote: - On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - - They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I - can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. - - Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install - the contents of CD2 ? No, it was a fresh install. I have subsequently installed just about everything from either CD that had '-devel' in the name. This is not the first problem I have had with Mandrake 7.2 and the development environment. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On 13 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: | | They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I | can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. | | Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install | the contents of CD2 ? And if LyX does not configure and make out on the box on your system then you system has some faulty installation/configurations. Missing packages perhaps. Lgb Certainly it's a faulty installation. However Mandrake in their wisdom decided to place the C++ development files on CD2. Furthermore, upgrading from a previous version without owning CD2 works silently (on the cover disk version I tried). It took me forever to work out that the devel package had not been updated, and was one major reason in dropping Mandrake. john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: Specifying explicit point sizes
When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated. - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through - reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv - using the class "article" without setting a single font size. I started using lyx with version 0.10 or so while in college (second time around). Once I got used to the 'new' way of doing things I found it was _much_ faster to create good looking papers with Lyx than with Word or Wordperfect precisely because I never had to worry about font sizes or paragraph spacing or such. You have no idea how valuable it is to a student to be able to type it in, spell check, a few clicks for formatting, and print it out. Saved me hours of time I could use for studying. Sometimes even left me time for the wife and kids.
Equation numbering
Hi, In report style, how can I have equations to be numbered by incorporating the "section numbers" in? I can not show the section numbers in the section titles. Say I have the section title for section 2 as: PRELEMINARIES my first equation should be numbered as: y(t)=a.x(t)(2.1) Any idea? Regards, Remzi
Re: How to center section--headers?
Am Freitag, 9. Februar 2001 11:42 schrieben Sie:
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Schulbert wrote:
I'm also looking for a way to switch off the section-numbering for only
some of my sections (sounds crazy, I know...)
Use "section*" instead of "section".
If you want the section to show up in
the table of contents nevertheless, you need some TeX code.
( "\addcontentsline{Sectionname}" or something like that, I don't
remember)
If you use the (in germany quite popular) koma document classes
-- for example "article (koma-script)" --
there is also "Addsec" (table of contents but no number).
I think this looks more like LyX than using that TeX code.
Marcus
http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html
crash at every start
This is my first post on this list, I hope I won't break any rule... Also, please excuse my English, I'm not a native English speaker. Every time I start lyx, it crashes after displaying the main window and just before displaying the graphical logo. I've tried both versions 0.12 and 1.1.5fix1, with the same result. The most annoying problem is that both of them run fine on other machines. I really need it working in order to write a paper in mathematics, so any hint is welcome. Below follows the technical data: Cyrix 486Dx2, 80 MHz 16 Mb Ram (the memory modules are ok, I've even changed them with others an still no improvement) ALi 1489 (1487?) chipset on the motherboard standard RedHat 6.2 The ext2 and swap partition are ok, I've checked them. No other program makes any problem, except for the installation of RedHat which crashes 19 times out of 20. Their anaconda drives me mad. 6.0 install crashes with SIG9 somewhere before entering fdisk, while 6.1 and 6.2 installs crash with SIG11 somewhere between calculating the dependencies between packages and actually installing them. Probably it's a hardware problem, but I can't understand why, under these circumstances, I managed to succesfully compile a kernel, which is said to be the best hardware test. Thank you in advance! A. M. -- Linux user #166652 on Linux machine #73497
Re: lyx-cannot load colormap
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:02:41AM -0800, Jiri Mares wrote: I have RH 6.2 on P120 MHz and S3 videocard. When I start lyx (1.1.5fix1) I get inversion in colormap. How can I configure Lyx to avoid this? Thanks a lot Maybe running 'lyx -shared' will help??
Re: Pb option in a new convertor DVI - PDF
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:25:52AM +0100, Yves Bergeon wrote: Hi, I am trying to use a convertor DVI- PDF, which name is dvipdf (ghost 6.50). It's OK by hand, but when I try to use it from lyx, I had a window with this message: Error while executing dvipdf -p letter 'file_name.dvi' 'file_name.pdf' This is normal, because -p letter is not an option. So, how to avoid the string -p letter ? (I didn't define it). 3 options: 1) Write a wrapper script mydvipdf that will remove the invalid options 2) Define a new format named Pdf, define dvipdf as the dvi-Pdf converter, and delete the ps-pdf converter. 3) Wait to 1.1.6fix2, as this problem will be fixed there.
spellchecker feature suggestion
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
Upgraded to 1.1.6
Which fixed the problem with tables. The lyx developers have been _busy_. There is a bunch of nifty new features added between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6. Thanks guys... -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
[LyX] Illegal instruction (core dumped)
I installed Red Hat's 7.1 beta on my test system, and can't get LyX to work. I have tried 1.1.6fix1, both from the RPM and from an in situ compilation, and both bomb off with the "Illegal instruction" error a moment after I invoke LyX (and before anything visibly happens). System: LyX 1.1.6fix1 (either from RPM or compiled locally) xforms 0.88-6 (from an RPM) Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11 Pentium Pro For the compiled LyX, the only configuration that I specify is --prefix; everything else defaults. Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas
Re: Failed fgetpos while using latex2rtf
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:17:13 +0100 (MET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LyX Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "Failed fgetpos" while using latex2rtf
Dear LyX-ers,
I am currently trying to export a simple document written
in LyX (of which I am a longtime user) into RTF.
I downloaded latex2rtf ver. 1.8aa, compiled installed it. When running
(from the command line) latex2rtf on the name.tex file I get the
following error (the same I used to get with ver. 1.8a, which I used to
have).
{\rtf1\pc\fs20\deff0\deflang1024
lots of RTF code
{\*\pnseclvl4\pnlcltr\pnstart1\pnindent720\pnhang{\pntxta .}}
kickstart-rm-080201.tex:1: Error! Failed fgetpos; main.c (Convert): errno
29
ANY LaTeX-from-LyX file I have tried to convert fails with this error.
Any hints? Tnx a lot in advance!
Marco Bravi
Have a try at ltx2rtf instead ?
Works fine here (mainly for formulas)
--
Jean-Pierre
Re: Shadow color box
Hello,
I use the color package.
I have, in the document preamble:
\usepackage{color, calc}
\definecolor{gris}{gray}{0.25}
\definecolor{contourgris}{gray}{0.75}
In the document, to add a box with a gray background and a
light gray box, I use:
\fcolorbox{contourgris}{gris}{\parbox{\textwith - \parindent-\ \parindent}{
%
% a standard environment or a quote environment
% I doesn't work for a list environment
%
}}
Your sincerely,
YC
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Hi,
Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following
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-colour of the text
-colour of the frame
I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I
compil my tex file with pdflatex
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Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen Carville wrote: I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or on paper. which LyX-version do you have? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Simple equation format problem
Flink Del Dinky wrote:
Hello, LyX/LaTeX seems very good at displaying sophisticated
mathematical problems.
However, I can't seem to figure out how to display the underscore bar in
a simple arithmatic problem like this:
9
x 5
40
I'm trying to figure out how to draw the line the seperates the problem
from the answer.
do you mean something like the attached LyX-file?
Herbert
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#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 218
\textclass article
\language german
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme pslatex
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 1
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 15cm
\paperheight 22cm
\leftmargin 1.7cm
\topmargin 1.4cm
\rightmargin 1.2cm
\bottommargin 1.4cm
\headsep 1cm
\footskip 0.5cm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
\begin_inset Formula \[
\begin{array}{r}
9\\
\underline{\cdot 5\, \, \, }\\
40
\end{array}\]
\end_inset
\the_end
Re: Pb with new layout
Yves Bergeon wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a new layout, but I have this problem.
Is-it possible to get the number of item in an itemize block and to send
back this number to the beginning of the itemize list (itemize is an
example,
my problem is for an environment named overlay).
This next example will show you the problem:
\begin{itemize}{my_number}
\item 1 ...
\item 2 ...
\item 3 ...
\end{itemize}
where my_number is the number of item between \begin{itemize} and
\end{itemize}.
In this example, my number should have the value 3, and if I had an item
I want
this number to be incremented automatically.
maybe that the package mwlist does want you want.
Herbert
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RE: Specifying explicit point sizes
Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
sizes in the standard Layout-Character menu?
LyX does not really support this as you might have noticed from
reactions to you question, simply because it is not the way (La)TeX is
supposed to be used. Usually, one should define globally fonts, their
sizes, shapes etc. and commands to select these fonts.
However, if you really want to set a font size (or other font-related
parameters) without too much hassle, you can use low-level LaTeX 2e
functions directly. In LaTeX documentation on
"http://www.loria.fr/services/tex/",
--- (citation)
\fontencoding {encoding}
\fontfamily {family}
\fontseries {series}
\fontshape {shape}
\fontsize {size} {baselineskip}
Each of these commands sets one of the font attributes; \fontsize also
sets \baselineskip. The actual font in use is not altered by these
commands, but the current attributes are used to determine which font to
use after the next \selectfont command.
\selectfont
Selects a text font, based on the current values of the font attributes.
Warning: there must be a \selectfont command immediately after any
settings of the font parameters by (some of) the five \fontparameter
commands, before any following text.
--- (end of citation)
So if you really want to set a specific font size, you can create a
macro or directly type into your document in LaTeX mode, for example:
\fontsize{18pt}{22pt}\selectfont
here comes you text in 18pt...
Notice, however, that
1) you have to take care of \baselineskip as well
2) the setting is reset by any fontsize-changing command (section,
chapter, etc.)
Regards,
Pavel Cizek
Re: no shortcut for floats
Thies Wels wrote:
For the moment, you might want to download
ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
gunzip it and copy it as lyx.mo to your locale directory, most probably
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo
I did that but nothing changed. Do I have to configure something
additionally? I tried the configure button without success. I also
changed back to the cau bind file (although this might not have anything
to do with this stuff.. :))
No. indeed, you shouldn't have to change anything except the locale
file, and after a restart of LyX everything should work.
But probably you changed the text in the bind file!
This is, if you change it from "Float|a" to "Float|o" or something, the
translation mechanism will not be able to find a matching translation,
the text ist not translated (and hence the new shortcut is ignored).
So, delete your changed private bind/menu file and see if it works then.
In addition, you can use
strace -o out lyx
grep lyx.mo out
this should result in a line like
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
and see if LyX is reading the correct file.
Pit
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Re: find and replace
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Thies Wels wrote:
Is there a way to use latex commands in the find-replace funktion of
lyx? E.g.: guess you have 1times the word "dog" but finally you want
I don't think so. You could use "sed" program to change the LyX file
directly, althought you must be careful (and knowledgeable) then. Like:
sed 's,oldstring,newstring,g' oldfile.lyx newfile.lyx
"\emph{dog}"... ;-). Such a funktion would be handy!!!
Sure. And I think the find dialog should not actually accept LaTeX command
(at least not necessarily) but instead the user could search and replace
for styles too, not just character strings (I think some other word
processors can actually do that).
Find and replace Pb
Hello, I've got a little problem with find and replace. The find and replace function doesn't seems to search for string in a table. YC
Re: Find and replace Pb
"Yann" == Yann Collete [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yann Hello, I've got a little problem with find and replace. The find Yann and replace function doesn't seems to search for string in a Yann table. This is a known problem (not yet implemented in new tables). JMarc
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or on paper. Set the cell width to something less what you want from Layout/Tabular/ColumnRow/Width for example "4cm" (LyX 1.1.6 but possible with older versions too).
Re: find and replace
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: Sure. And I think the find dialog should not actually accept LaTeX command (at least not necessarily) but instead the user could search and replace for styles too, not just character strings (I think some other word processors can actually do that). Yes, this would be a very nice feature, and rest assured every LyX developer knows about the feature request :) But no one has yet worked on it ... john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: no shortcut for floats
In addition, you can use
strace -o out lyx
grep lyx.mo out
this should result in a line like
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
and see if LyX is reading the correct file.
Pit
Hmm! This changed not so much! At first
grep lyx.mo out gave the following message:
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
so, a different path as you mentioned
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6 )
I thought, o.k. lets try the new version of the lyx.mo file in this
directory path. Indeed the behaviour changed a little bit! The 'o' is
now clear underlined in the menu. But if I use the shortcut still the
math-funktion opens! With the small difference that no additional
paragraph is added anymore. I tried it with different .bind files (The
original ones!): cau, menu, de_menu.
whats wrong? Do I have the right lyx.mo file?
ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
Thies
Re: no shortcut for floats
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
so, a different path as you mentioned
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6 )
I thought, o.k. lets try the new version of the lyx.mo file in this
directory path. Indeed the behaviour changed a little bit!
Fine :-)
The 'o' is now clear underlined in the menu. But if I use the shortcut
still the math-funktion opens!
Aargh, that's XForms to blame (once again).
You may notice, that the o in "Formel" is underlined (first entry in
"Einfgen"). So that one opens as it should. The shortcut for Floats
is the "l", but that cannot be easily seen in the menu:
Due to the mentioned bug in XForms, the underline is shifted a bit
towards the right if the next entry is a menu separator :-(
So, try M-E l a and a figure float should appear...
Pit
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Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure is supposed to pick them up. You can use --with-extra-inc in configure to specify the directory, but taken the weird place for the headers they might not be what LyX wants even if they have the same name. You could try, though.
Re: Specifying explicit point sizes
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: - Dear fellow LyXers, - - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through - reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv - using the class "article" without setting a single font size. I started using lyx with version 0.10 or so while in college (second time around). Once I got used to the 'new' way of doing things I found it was _much_ faster to create good looking papers with Lyx than with Word or Wordperfect precisely because I never had to worry about font sizes or paragraph spacing or such. You have no idea how valuable it is to a student to be able to type it in, spell check, a few clicks for formatting, and print it out. Saved me hours of time I could use for studying. Sometimes even left me time for the wife and kids. Sometimes the formatting for preview took a while using Linux running on a 486, but is was easy to break really long papers into smaller chunks I could check fairly quickly. Now that I am in the 'real' world, I still use Lyx when I can. I used to maintain internal Network documentation with it and latex2html. After I left, the new maintainer switched to Dreamweaver and gripes constantly about how he never has time to keep up. - However, I understand that someone might want to set a specific font size. True, it may be necessary but for someone who, like me, just wants to produce output, it is no big deal. Lyx is a fabulous tool. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Simple equation format problem
In math-mode, you can insert \frac (starts a fraction) and then you can put a 2x1 matrix on top with math-matrix 1 2. Hth, Etienne
Re: how to really deal with figures?
Baruch Even I'm working on InsetGraphics, a rewrite of FigInset. Dekel Tsur The external inset will not work with pdflatex. I Does this mean that LyX 1.2 will not support pdfTeX??? Baruch Even Actually the InsetGraphics will have better support, the Baruch Even External Inset is something different than InsetGraphics. Baruch Even [...] Baruch Even I believe that for 1.2.0, the InsetGraphics will be ready Baruch Even for prime time and this will support pdflatex better. Thank you for the explanation! Now I am very relieved :-) I must admit that I misunderstood the situation. Regards Marcus
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen Carville wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: - Stephen Carville wrote: - - I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long - lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or - on paper. - - which LyX-version do you have? 1.1.5. than choose with right mouse button the table menu for the specific cell and insert a column width, for example 4cm in the table you can work with ctrl-enter, when your line seems to be too long. So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure is supposed to pick them up. i hope that one of the other user can help you with this problem, because the table-handling is much more better in 1.1.6fix1. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: - On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - - So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it - cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in - /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure - is supposed to pick them up. - - You can use --with-extra-inc in configure to specify the directory, but - taken the weird place for the headers they might not be what LyX wants - even if they have the same name. You could try, though. They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install the contents of CD2 ? john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: | | They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I | can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. | | Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install | the contents of CD2 ? And if LyX does not configure and make out on the box on your system then you system has some faulty installation/configurations. Missing packages perhaps. Lgb
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen, I am using Mandrake 7.2 as well. Check if all of these packages are installed: (you can check them from drakconf and then package manager). Check if 1. gcc is installed with c++ 2. libgc is there 3. latex2c++ 4. cvs are installed. Finally, to be on the safe side, install the rpm for xpm library. Then lyx should compile Tata R - Original Message - From: "Stephen Carville" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LyX users" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:06 AM Subject: Re: Word Wrap in Tables So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure is supposed to pick them up. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Installing fonts [was: Re: Specifying explicit point sizes]
| Jim Osborn wrote: | | Hi LyX experts, | | Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size | in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" | sizes in the standard Layout-Character menu? | | | have a look at | http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont Nice link, and nice links from it, which I followed, picking up a few new fonts on the way. However, how do I get Lyx to recognise fonts that I've installed in TeX? Robin
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, John Levon wrote: - On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - - They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I - can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. - - Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install - the contents of CD2 ? No, it was a fresh install. I have subsequently installed just about everything from either CD that had '-devel' in the name. This is not the first problem I have had with Mandrake 7.2 and the development environment. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On 13 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: | | They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I | can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. | | Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install | the contents of CD2 ? And if LyX does not configure and make out on the box on your system then you system has some faulty installation/configurations. Missing packages perhaps. Lgb Certainly it's a faulty installation. However Mandrake in their wisdom decided to place the C++ development files on CD2. Furthermore, upgrading from a previous version without owning CD2 works silently (on the cover disk version I tried). It took me forever to work out that the devel package had not been updated, and was one major reason in dropping Mandrake. john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: Specifying explicit point sizes
When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated. - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through - reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv - using the class "article" without setting a single font size. I started using lyx with version 0.10 or so while in college (second time around). Once I got used to the 'new' way of doing things I found it was _much_ faster to create good looking papers with Lyx than with Word or Wordperfect precisely because I never had to worry about font sizes or paragraph spacing or such. You have no idea how valuable it is to a student to be able to type it in, spell check, a few clicks for formatting, and print it out. Saved me hours of time I could use for studying. Sometimes even left me time for the wife and kids.
Equation numbering
Hi, In report style, how can I have equations to be numbered by incorporating the "section numbers" in? I can not show the section numbers in the section titles. Say I have the section title for section 2 as: PRELEMINARIES my first equation should be numbered as: y(t)=a.x(t)(2.1) Any idea? Regards, Remzi
Re: How to center section--headers?
Am Freitag, 9. Februar 2001 11:42 schrieben Sie:
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Schulbert wrote:
I'm also looking for a way to switch off the section-numbering for only
some of my sections (sounds crazy, I know...)
Use "section*" instead of "section".
If you want the section to show up in
the table of contents nevertheless, you need some TeX code.
( "\addcontentsline{Sectionname}" or something like that, I don't
remember)
If you use the (in germany quite popular) koma document classes
-- for example "article (koma-script)" --
there is also "Addsec" (table of contents but no number).
I think this looks more like LyX than using that TeX code.
Marcus
http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html
crash at every start
This is my first post on this list, I hope I won't break any rule... Also, please excuse my English, I'm not a native English speaker. Every time I start lyx, it crashes after displaying the main window and just before displaying the graphical logo. I've tried both versions 0.12 and 1.1.5fix1, with the same result. The most annoying problem is that both of them run fine on other machines. I really need it working in order to write a paper in mathematics, so any hint is welcome. Below follows the technical data: Cyrix 486Dx2, 80 MHz 16 Mb Ram (the memory modules are ok, I've even changed them with others an still no improvement) ALi 1489 (1487?) chipset on the motherboard standard RedHat 6.2 The ext2 and swap partition are ok, I've checked them. No other program makes any problem, except for the installation of RedHat which crashes 19 times out of 20. Their anaconda drives me mad. 6.0 install crashes with SIG9 somewhere before entering fdisk, while 6.1 and 6.2 installs crash with SIG11 somewhere between calculating the dependencies between packages and actually installing them. Probably it's a hardware problem, but I can't understand why, under these circumstances, I managed to succesfully compile a kernel, which is said to be the best hardware test. Thank you in advance! A. M. -- Linux user #166652 on Linux machine #73497
Re: lyx-cannot load colormap
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:02:41AM -0800, Jiri Mares wrote: I have RH 6.2 on P120 MHz and S3 videocard. When I start lyx (1.1.5fix1) I get inversion in colormap. How can I configure Lyx to avoid this? Thanks a lot Maybe running 'lyx -shared' will help??
Re: Pb option in a new convertor DVI - PDF
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:25:52AM +0100, Yves Bergeon wrote: Hi, I am trying to use a convertor DVI- PDF, which name is dvipdf (ghost 6.50). It's OK by hand, but when I try to use it from lyx, I had a window with this message: Error while executing dvipdf -p letter 'file_name.dvi' 'file_name.pdf' This is normal, because -p letter is not an option. So, how to avoid the string -p letter ? (I didn't define it). 3 options: 1) Write a wrapper script mydvipdf that will remove the invalid options 2) Define a new format named Pdf, define dvipdf as the dvi-Pdf converter, and delete the ps-pdf converter. 3) Wait to 1.1.6fix2, as this problem will be fixed there.
spellchecker feature suggestion
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
Upgraded to 1.1.6
Which fixed the problem with tables. The lyx developers have been _busy_. There is a bunch of nifty new features added between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6. Thanks guys... -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
[LyX] Illegal instruction (core dumped)
I installed Red Hat's 7.1 beta on my test system, and can't get LyX to work. I have tried 1.1.6fix1, both from the RPM and from an in situ compilation, and both bomb off with the "Illegal instruction" error a moment after I invoke LyX (and before anything visibly happens). System: LyX 1.1.6fix1 (either from RPM or compiled locally) xforms 0.88-6 (from an RPM) Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11 Pentium Pro For the compiled LyX, the only configuration that I specify is --prefix; everything else defaults. Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas
Re: "Failed fgetpos" while using latex2rtf
>>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:17:13 +0100 (MET)
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: "Failed fgetpos" while using latex2rtf
>>
>>Dear LyX-ers,
>>
>> I am currently trying to export a simple document written
>>in LyX (of which I am a longtime user) into RTF.
>>
>>I downloaded latex2rtf ver. 1.8aa, compiled & installed it. When running
>>(from the command line) latex2rtf on the .tex file I get the
>>following error (the same I used to get with ver. 1.8a, which I used to
>>have).
>>
>>{\rtf1\pc\fs20\deff0\deflang1024
>> lots of RTF code
>>{\*\pnseclvl4\pnlcltr\pnstart1\pnindent720\pnhang{\pntxta .}}
>>
>>kickstart-rm-080201.tex:1: Error! Failed fgetpos; main.c (Convert): errno
>>29
>>
>>ANY LaTeX-from-LyX file I have tried to convert fails with this error.
>>
>>Any hints? Tnx a lot in advance!
>>
>> Marco Bravi
>>
>>
Have a try at ltx2rtf instead ?
Works fine here (mainly for formulas)
--
Jean-Pierre
Re: Shadow color box
Hello,
I use the color package.
I have, in the document preamble:
\usepackage{color, calc}
\definecolor{gris}{gray}{0.25}
\definecolor{contourgris}{gray}{0.75}
In the document, to add a box with a gray background and a
light gray box, I use:
\fcolorbox{contourgris}{gris}{\parbox{\textwith - \parindent-\ \parindent}{
%
% a standard environment or a quote environment
% I doesn't work for a list environment
%
}}
Your sincerely,
YC
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> I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I
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Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen Carville wrote: > > I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long > lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or > on paper. which LyX-version do you have? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Simple equation format problem
Flink Del Dinky wrote:
>
> Hello, LyX/LaTeX seems very good at displaying sophisticated
> mathematical problems.
>
> However, I can't seem to figure out how to display the underscore bar in
> a simple arithmatic problem like this:
>9
> x 5
>
> 40
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to draw the line the seperates the problem
> from the answer.
do you mean something like the attached LyX-file?
Herbert
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#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 218
\textclass article
\language german
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme pslatex
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 1
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 15cm
\paperheight 22cm
\leftmargin 1.7cm
\topmargin 1.4cm
\rightmargin 1.2cm
\bottommargin 1.4cm
\headsep 1cm
\footskip 0.5cm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
\begin_inset Formula \[
\begin{array}{r}
9\\
\underline{\cdot 5\, \, \, }\\
40
\end{array}\]
\end_inset
\the_end
Re: Pb with new layout
Yves Bergeon wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to create a new layout, but I have this problem.
> Is-it possible to get the number of item in an itemize block and to send
> back this number to the beginning of the itemize list (itemize is an
> example,
> my problem is for an environment named overlay).
>
> This next example will show you the problem:
>
> \begin{itemize}{my_number}
> \item 1 ...
> \item 2 ...
> \item 3 ...
> \end{itemize}
>
> where my_number is the number of item between \begin{itemize} and
> \end{itemize}.
> In this example, my number should have the value 3, and if I had an item
> I want
> this number to be incremented automatically.
maybe that the package mwlist does want you want.
Herbert
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RE: Specifying explicit point sizes
> Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
> in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
> sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?
LyX does not really support this as you might have noticed from
reactions to you question, simply because it is not the way (La)TeX is
supposed to be used. Usually, one should define globally fonts, their
sizes, shapes etc. and commands to select these fonts.
However, if you really want to set a font size (or other font-related
parameters) without too much hassle, you can use low-level LaTeX 2e
functions directly. In LaTeX documentation on
"http://www.loria.fr/services/tex/",
--- (citation)
\fontencoding {}
\fontfamily {}
\fontseries {}
\fontshape {}
\fontsize {} {}
Each of these commands sets one of the font attributes; \fontsize also
sets \baselineskip. The actual font in use is not altered by these
commands, but the current attributes are used to determine which font to
use after the next \selectfont command.
\selectfont
Selects a text font, based on the current values of the font attributes.
Warning: there must be a \selectfont command immediately after any
settings of the font parameters by (some of) the five \font
commands, before any following text.
--- (end of citation)
So if you really want to set a specific font size, you can create a
macro or directly type into your document in LaTeX mode, for example:
\fontsize{18pt}{22pt}\selectfont
Notice, however, that
1) you have to take care of \baselineskip as well
2) the setting is reset by any fontsize-changing command (section,
chapter, etc.)
Regards,
Pavel Cizek
Re: no shortcut for floats
Thies Wels wrote:
> > For the moment, you might want to download
> > ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
> > gunzip it and copy it as lyx.mo to your locale directory, most probably
> > /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo
> I did that but nothing changed. Do I have to configure something
> additionally? I tried the configure button without success. I also
> changed back to the cau bind file (although this might not have anything
> to do with this stuff.. :))
No. indeed, you shouldn't have to change anything except the locale
file, and after a restart of LyX everything should work.
But probably you changed the text in the bind file!
This is, if you change it from "Float|a" to "Float|o" or something, the
translation mechanism will not be able to find a matching translation,
the text ist not translated (and hence the new shortcut is ignored).
So, delete your changed private bind/menu file and see if it works then.
In addition, you can use
strace -o out lyx
grep lyx.mo out
this should result in a line like
open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
and see if LyX is reading the correct file.
Pit
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Re: find and replace
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Thies Wels wrote:
> Is there a way to use latex commands in the find-replace funktion of
> lyx? E.g.: guess you have 1times the word "dog" but finally you want
I don't think so. You could use "sed" program to change the LyX file
directly, althought you must be careful (and knowledgeable) then. Like:
sed 's,oldstring,newstring,g' newfile.lyx
> "\emph{dog}"... ;-). Such a funktion would be handy!!!
Sure. And I think the find dialog should not actually accept LaTeX command
(at least not necessarily) but instead the user could search and replace
for styles too, not just character strings (I think some other word
processors can actually do that).
Find and replace Pb
Hello, I've got a little problem with find and replace. The find and replace function doesn't seems to search for string in a table. YC
Re: Find and replace Pb
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Hello, I've got a little problem with find and replace. The find Yann> and replace function doesn't seems to search for string in a Yann> table. This is a known problem (not yet implemented in new tables). JMarc
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: > I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long > lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or > on paper. Set the cell width to something less what you want from Layout/Tabular/ColumnRow/Width for example "4cm" (LyX 1.1.6 but possible with older versions too).
Re: find and replace
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > Sure. And I think the find dialog should not actually accept LaTeX command > (at least not necessarily) but instead the user could search and replace > for styles too, not just character strings (I think some other word > processors can actually do that). Yes, this would be a very nice feature, and rest assured every LyX developer knows about the feature request :) But no one has yet worked on it ... john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: no shortcut for floats
>
> In addition, you can use
> strace -o out lyx
> grep lyx.mo out
> this should result in a line like
> open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
> and see if LyX is reading the correct file.
>
> Pit
>
Hmm! This changed not so much! At first
grep lyx.mo out gave the following message:
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
so, a different path as you mentioned
>open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6 )
I thought, o.k. lets try the new version of the lyx.mo file in this
directory path. Indeed the behaviour changed a little bit! The 'o' is
now clear underlined in the menu. But if I use the shortcut still the
math-funktion opens! With the small difference that no additional
paragraph is added anymore. I tried it with different .bind files (The
original ones!): cau, menu, de_menu.
whats wrong? Do I have the right lyx.mo file?
ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
Thies
Re: no shortcut for floats
> open("/usr/X11R6/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6
>
> so, a different path as you mentioned
> >open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6 )
>
> I thought, o.k. lets try the new version of the lyx.mo file in this
> directory path. Indeed the behaviour changed a little bit!
Fine :-)
> The 'o' is now clear underlined in the menu. But if I use the shortcut
> still the math-funktion opens!
Aargh, that's XForms to blame (once again).
You may notice, that the o in "Formel" is underlined (first entry in
"Einfügen"). So that one opens as it should. The shortcut for Floats
is the "l", but that cannot be easily seen in the menu:
Due to the mentioned bug in XForms, the underline is shifted a bit
towards the right if the next entry is a menu separator :-(
So, try M-E l a and a figure float should appear...
Pit
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Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: > So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it > cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in > /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure > is supposed to pick them up. You can use --with-extra-inc in configure to specify the directory, but taken the weird place for the headers they might not be what LyX wants even if they have the same name. You could try, though.
Re: Specifying explicit point sizes
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: - Dear fellow LyXers, - - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through - reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv - using the class "article" without setting a single font size. I started using lyx with version 0.10 or so while in college (second time around). Once I got used to the 'new' way of doing things I found it was _much_ faster to create good looking papers with Lyx than with Word or Wordperfect precisely because I never had to worry about font sizes or paragraph spacing or such. You have no idea how valuable it is to a student to be able to type it in, spell check, a few clicks for formatting, and print it out. Saved me hours of time I could use for studying. Sometimes even left me time for the wife and kids. Sometimes the formatting for preview took a while using Linux running on a 486, but is was easy to break really long papers into smaller chunks I could check fairly quickly. Now that I am in the 'real' world, I still use Lyx when I can. I used to maintain internal Network documentation with it and latex2html. After I left, the new maintainer switched to Dreamweaver and gripes constantly about how he never has time to keep up. - However, I understand that someone might want to set a specific font size. True, it may be necessary but for someone who, like me, just wants to produce output, it is no big deal. Lyx is a fabulous tool. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Simple equation format problem
In math-mode, you can insert \frac (starts a fraction) and then you can put a 2x1 matrix on top with math-matrix 1 2. Hth, Etienne
Re: how to really deal with figures?
> > Baruch Even > I'm working on InsetGraphics, a rewrite of FigInset. > > Dekel Tsur > The external inset will not work with pdflatex. > I > Does this mean that LyX 1.2 will not support pdfTeX??? Baruch Even > Actually the InsetGraphics will have better support, the Baruch Even > External Inset is something different than InsetGraphics. Baruch Even > [...] Baruch Even > I believe that for 1.2.0, the InsetGraphics will be ready Baruch Even > for prime time and this will support pdflatex better. Thank you for the explanation! Now I am very relieved :-) I must admit that I misunderstood the situation. Regards Marcus
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen Carville wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > > - Stephen Carville wrote: > - > > - > I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long > - > lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or > - > on paper. > - > - which LyX-version do you have? > > 1.1.5. than choose with right mouse button the table menu for the specific cell and insert a column width, for example 4cm in the table you can work with ctrl-enter, when your line seems to be too long. > So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it > cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in > /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure > is supposed to pick them up. i hope that one of the other user can help you with this problem, because the table-handling is much more better in 1.1.6fix1. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: - On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - - > So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it - > cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in - > /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure - > is supposed to pick them up. - - You can use --with-extra-inc in configure to specify the directory, but - taken the weird place for the headers they might not be what LyX wants - even if they have the same name. You could try, though. They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: > They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I > can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install the contents of CD2 ? john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: | | > They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I | > can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. | | Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install | the contents of CD2 ? And if LyX does not configure and make out on the box on your system then you system has some faulty installation/configurations. Missing packages perhaps. Lgb
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
Stephen, I am using Mandrake 7.2 as well. Check if all of these packages are installed: (you can check them from drakconf and then package manager). Check if 1. gcc is installed with c++ 2. libgc is there 3. latex2c++ 4. cvs are installed. Finally, to be on the safe side, install the rpm for xpm library. Then lyx should compile Tata R - Original Message - From: "Stephen Carville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:06 AM Subject: Re: Word Wrap in Tables > > So far 1.1.6 has not compiled on my machine (Mandrake 7.2) because it > cannot find a bunch of includes. The files exist (in > /usr/include/g++-2/) but I haven't figured out yet where ./configure > is supposed to pick them up. > > -- > --Stephen Carville > http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt > == > Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women > failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more > young women. > == >
Installing fonts [was: Re: Specifying explicit point sizes]
> | Jim Osborn wrote: > | > > | > Hi LyX experts, > | > > | > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size > | > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" > | > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? > | > | > | have a look at > | http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont > Nice link, and nice links from it, which I followed, picking up a few new fonts on the way. However, how do I get Lyx to recognise fonts that I've installed in TeX? Robin
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, John Levon wrote: - On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - - > They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I - > can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. - - Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install - the contents of CD2 ? No, it was a fresh install. I have subsequently installed just about everything from either CD that had '-devel' in the name. This is not the first problem I have had with Mandrake 7.2 and the development environment. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: Word Wrap in Tables
On 13 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: > | > | > They do appear to be the correct headers. Where should they be? I > | > can create symlinks to prevent this problem again. > | > | Did you upgrade from a previous Mandrake by any chance ? And did you install > | the contents of CD2 ? > > And if LyX does not configure and make out on the box on your system > then you system has some faulty installation/configurations. Missing > packages perhaps. > > Lgb Certainly it's a faulty installation. However Mandrake in their wisdom decided to place the C++ development files on CD2. Furthermore, upgrading from a previous version without owning CD2 works silently (on the cover disk version I tried). It took me forever to work out that the devel package had not been updated, and was one major reason in dropping Mandrake. john -- "Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing." - hackernews
Re: Specifying explicit point sizes
When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated. > - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it > - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through > - reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv > - using the class "article" without setting a single font size. > > I started using lyx with version 0.10 or so while in college (second > time around). Once I got used to the 'new' way of doing things I > found it was _much_ faster to create good looking papers with Lyx than > with Word or Wordperfect precisely because I never had to worry about > font sizes or paragraph spacing or such. You have no idea how > valuable it is to a student to be able to type it in, spell check, a > few clicks for formatting, and print it out. Saved me hours of time I > could use for studying. Sometimes even left me time for the wife and > kids. >
Equation numbering
Hi, In report style, how can I have equations to be numbered by incorporating the "section numbers" in? I can not show the section numbers in the section titles. Say I have the section title for section 2 as: PRELEMINARIES my first equation should be numbered as: y(t)=a.x(t)(2.1) Any idea? Regards, Remzi
Re: How to center section--headers?
Am Freitag, 9. Februar 2001 11:42 schrieben Sie:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Schulbert wrote:
> > I'm also looking for a way to switch off the section-numbering for only
> > some of my sections (sounds crazy, I know...)
>
> Use "section*" instead of "section".
> If you want the section to show up in
> the table of contents nevertheless, you need some TeX code.
> ( "\addcontentsline{Sectionname}" or something like that, I don't
> remember)
If you use the (in germany quite popular) koma document classes
-- for example "article (koma-script)" --
there is also "Addsec" (table of contents but no number).
I think this looks more like LyX than using that TeX code.
Marcus
http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html
crash at every start
This is my first post on this list, I hope I won't break any rule... Also, please excuse my English, I'm not a native English speaker. Every time I start lyx, it crashes after displaying the main window and just before displaying the graphical logo. I've tried both versions 0.12 and 1.1.5fix1, with the same result. The most annoying problem is that both of them run fine on other machines. I really need it working in order to write a paper in mathematics, so any hint is welcome. Below follows the technical data: Cyrix 486Dx2, 80 MHz 16 Mb Ram (the memory modules are ok, I've even changed them with others an still no improvement) ALi 1489 (1487?) chipset on the motherboard standard RedHat 6.2 The ext2 and swap partition are ok, I've checked them. No other program makes any problem, except for the installation of RedHat which crashes 19 times out of 20. Their anaconda drives me mad. 6.0 install crashes with SIG9 somewhere before entering fdisk, while 6.1 and 6.2 installs crash with SIG11 somewhere between calculating the dependencies between packages and actually installing them. Probably it's a hardware problem, but I can't understand why, under these circumstances, I managed to succesfully compile a kernel, which is said to be the best hardware test. Thank you in advance! A. M. -- Linux user #166652 on Linux machine #73497
