Help regarding lyx

[pramod salunkhe]

Dear Sir

I am using lyx from last 2 months. I found It is very useful for report writing.
I have few doubts about it. Could you please clear it?

1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The error 
is No information for viewing pdf.

2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write FIG instead of Figure before 
the capion starts.

3.Suppose I have started to write a report in lyx. On the first page of lyx I 
want the page No. of 23. How can I do this?

Waiting for your reply.

Thank you

Yours Sincerely

Pramod


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Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:04, Stephen Harris wrote:
 Jose' Matos wrote:
 
Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready
  to go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux
  distributions.

 You know best! Is there an objective method used in determining
 if Gnome or KDE, Nedit or LyX, goes into the primary distribution
 while the other contender is placed into extras? I was thinking if
 statistics were kept on yum install foo downloads (not who did it)
 that the frequency of download would be an objective measure. Maybe
 that would only work if both similar programs started in extras.

  It is not easy to explain, some of the reasons are historical, and the 
border between Core and Extras is becoming blurred (and this is good). The 
goal for upcoming versions is for the Extras to be included in the 
installation process. That will mean a support for installing either from the 
network or from supplementary cd's or dvd's.

  Things are improving a lot and I like the way it is coming. :-)

 I gave the Chris Karakas instructions a try, but it became hard
 to obtain the packages or the right versions, maybe that was on
 Cygwin; it was harder than following Michael Gertz instuctions!

  I intend to look his document after July (I am really busy now), I have 
several ideas how things can improve regarding lyx and docbook.

 I think yum or other programs like it, is the single best reason
 to use Linux rather than Windows. I can remember if you wanted to
 install a new program which would take 10 minutes, finding and
 installing all the dependencies could take an hour, even if they
 were listed beforehand and I don't think they were always listed.
 Maybe I should have used the word default rather than primary.

  :-)

 My final question. I was reading about fontconfig because of
 installing the Bakoma fonts which are in zip format into Cygwin.
 (This is something easy to do in Windows, install fonts.)
 I read there is a dependency to freetype. The freetype page
 mentions there is a new May31,06 version of KDE which doesn't
 have security problems because it uses fontconfig without
 freetype. Also it mentions an rpm freetype patch package suitable
 for using with Cygwin's rpm package. So does yum or rpm, when it
 installs fonts, write to those associated .conf files (fc-cache)?

  No idea. :-(

 Best regards,

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:29, David Neeley wrote:
 There are a number of package/installation systems in Linux--perhaps
 as we get true Linux Standard Base-compliant we can settle those down
 a great deal! I have also heard good things about yum (making up for
 some of the rpm deficiencies); yast keeps getting better; of course
 Debian led the way with apt/dpkg; and others such as portage are also
 supposed to be excellent.

  I am sorry for the out of topic here.

  Note that it is unfair to compare rpm with apt/dpkg. Actually I used to 
manage rpms with apt.

  Referring only to debian and fedora here as the same applies to other 
distributions we are dealing on three levels here:

  package - rpm or deb
  package manager - yum or apt
  distribution- fedora or debian

  We need to distribution level to define common policies that make it easy to 
interoperate between different packages. That is what is taking time to 
define in Extras and it succeeded so that now Core is following the policies 
established in Extras.

  What people refer as the rpm hell was the absence of a policy so that 
packages could interoperate. It is not enough to have a tongue, we need to 
speak the same language so that communication happens. ;-)

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Help regarding lyx

[Charles de Miramon]

pramod salunkhe wrote:


 3.Suppose I have started to write a report in lyx. On the first page of
 lyx I want the page No. of 23. How can I do this?
 
The page number is kept in a counter called page. You have to set it to the
correct number.

Put in ERT at the top of your document 
\setcounter{page}{23}

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Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Isaac Pante]

Hello everybody!

I'm very fond of Lyx but I've got a problem with it. I followed the
instructions (of this page: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/
qa1067.html), created a .MacOSX directory in my home folder and
inserted the following environment.plist file:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
plist version=1.0
dict
keyBIBINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/string
keyBSTINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/string
keyDISPLAY/key
string:0.0/string
keyLANG/key
stringFR/string
keyOUTPUT_CHARSET/key
stringFR.iso8859-1/string
/dict
/plist

Here is my problem: the help menus (user's guide, tutorial, etc.) are
now in french, but my GUI remains in english. How can I translate it?

Thanks for your help!

Isaac Pante


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Problems with citations and URL

[Gustav Von Sydow]

Hi!

I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
entry in the database looks like this:

 

@article{basic_vulnerability,

AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},

TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},

JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},

URL=
{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

}

 

I use normal plain bibliography and can't get the URLs to show in the
bibliography, any suggestions? 

 

 

I have tried with natbib but get some strange errors: 

 

Missing } inserted. - But where is it inserted?

Missing $ inserted. - hm

Extra }, or forgotten $.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - what?

Missing $ inserted.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - well I still do not
understand 

 

Any help appreciated

 

/ Gustav

 

dvipng error and failed preview

[Stefano Grioni]

Hello,

I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char 
preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict 
begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.


And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile 
0lyxpreview.tex


Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Thx a lot

Re: Problems with citations and URL

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Subject: Problems with citations and URL
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:13:34 +0200
From: Gustav Von Sydow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Hi!

I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
entry in the database looks like this:

 

@article{basic_vulnerability,

AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},

TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},

JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},

URL=
{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

}

 

I use normal plain bibliography and can't get the URLs to show in the
bibliography, any suggestions? 

Normal won't work, natbib should.
Here I have urlint as the field name for url, don't remember where this comes 
from (natbib doc ?),
but it works.
   urlint = {http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}


Missing } inserted. - But where is it inserted?

Missing $ inserted. - hm

Extra }, or forgotten $.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - what?

Missing $ inserted.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - well I still do not
understand 

Typical of _ being found where it should not (in plain text): latex tries to
make it in math, where it is legal.
Seems due to the unrecognised url field, or to a missing \url{} escape command,
so you may also try
   url = 
{\url{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}}
   
(add \usepackage{url} in the preamble of the document, lyx can't infere the 
need of url.sty
from external bibtex data.

HTH

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: Lyx: LATEX error Cannot determine size of graphic in ...

[Holger Blasum]

Dear J Marton,

On 06-06, J. Marton wrote:
 Package graphics Error: Division  by 0.
   Arithmetic overflow.
   LATEX error Cannot determine size of graphic in ...
   
   1.) I get the same this message, when trying to export pdf (pdflatex) .  
 Please, maybe You can help me?

Maybe the graphic you include is broken in a way that the image
converting software invoked by latex assumes
the image is of length or width 0? Does this error also occur with, for
example, the graphic you can download at 
http://www.lyx.org/images/lyx_logo_hi.gif ?

   2.) I have the pictures for my LYX doc. in a file on USBstick. How can  I 
 make, that whenever I save the Lyxfile as LYX or export the lyxfile  as TEX, 
 the pictures in the Lyxfile are also saved and exported. So  that when 
 emailing it, others can view the files without the file  containing the 
 pictures. This means, without possessing the USBstick  with the pictures.

As far as I know (the other users on the list might want to correct me if
this is wrong), you cannot encapsulate graphics right into lyx or even 
tex files. Two alternatives: (1) when you email it, send it eg as PDF
(File-Export-PDF, any of the options), (2) if you want others to
change it, create a folder (e.g.) C:\MyLyxDocument\ and another folder 
C:\MyLyxDocument\Images\. Put your lyx file (say MyDocument.lyx) into 
C:\MyLyxDocument\, put the image(s) (say MyImage.gif) 
in the folder C:\MyLyxDocument\Images\ and when you are inserting an 
image (via Insert-Graphics) specify a relative path Images\MyImage.gif 
in the File line of the Graphics Insertion Menu. If you use relative
paths like that, you simply later can create zip of 
the entire C:\MyLyxDocument folder and its subfolders and send it 
around.

Regards,

-- 
Holger Blasum +49-174-7313590 (gsm) GnuPG 1024D/ACDFC3B769DC1ED66B47


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Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Georg Baum]

Stefano Grioni wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char
 preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
 dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict
 begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.

This is a harmless warning, it appears also when dvipng is working.

 And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile
 0lyxpreview.tex
 
 Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Go to the temp folder where 0lyxpreview.tex is created, and run latex that
file by hand. Then you will see the error messages.


Georg

index

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

minor question:


if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is inserted, it is not 
found. 

CO(indexword CO) plays an important role

I searched for 
CO plays

Same with a space between CO and indexword

CO (indexword CO) plays an important role

Is this intended?

major question:


If i index a word which should be emphasized because it is a scientific name
it is shown in the Index at the begin of the index correctly emphasized but 
independent of its alphabetical status -which is ok.
However, the names are shown according to their sequential occurrance, not 
according to their alphabet:

indexword \emph{Xanthium}
indexword \emph{Kalanchoe}
indexword \emph{Arabidopsis}

and now come the `normal´ indexed words
.
.
.

Any workaround besides handwork in the index file?

Wolfgang

Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Stefano Grioni]

Georg Baum wrote:

Stefano Grioni wrote:

  

Hello,

I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char
preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict
begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.



This is a harmless warning, it appears also when dvipng is working.

  

And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile
0lyxpreview.tex

Does anybody know how to solve this problem?



Go to the temp folder where 0lyxpreview.tex is created, and run latex that
file by hand. Then you will see the error messages.


Georg

  


Ok thanks, but do you have an idea about why it fail the preview ? Or anyway 
where to search (for example a lib missing or so?)

Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Georg Baum]

Stefano Grioni wrote:

 Ok thanks, but do you have an idea about why it fail the preview ?

No.

 Or 
 anyway where to search (for example a lib missing or so?)

The error messages you would get if you did what I wrote would tell more
about the source of the problem. You can post them here if they don't make
sense to you.


Georg

Re: Problems with citations and URL

[K. Elo]

Hi Gustav,

I had a similar problem some time ago and posted a question. This topic
was discussed quite thoroughly, but here my suggestion:

2006-06-07 12:13 +0200, Gustav Von Sydow:
 Hi!
 
 I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
 entry in the database looks like this:
 
  
 
 @article{basic_vulnerability,
 
 AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},
 
 TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},
 
 JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},
 
 URL=
 {http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}
 
 }
 

Here use:

URL=\url{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

instead. Hope this helps!

Greetings,
Kimmo

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Isaac Pante wrote:


Hello everybody!

I'm very fond of Lyx but I've got a problem with it. I followed the
instructions (of this page: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/
qa1067.html), created a .MacOSX directory in my home folder and
inserted the following environment.plist file:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
plist version=1.0
dict
keyBIBINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/string
keyBSTINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/string
keyDISPLAY/key
string:0.0/string
keyLANG/key
stringFR/string
keyOUTPUT_CHARSET/key
stringFR.iso8859-1/string
/dict
/plist

Here is my problem: the help menus (user's guide, tutorial, etc.) are
now in french, but my GUI remains in english. How can I translate it?

Thanks for your help!


I believe all that *should* be necessary is

keyLANG/key
stringfr/string

(note the lower case fr). However, it doesn't seem to be working  
for me either, though I was confident it worked at least for LyX/ 
Mac-1.4.0. It does work on development versions of LyX-1.4.2, which  
is not yet ready for release. I'm not sure what to say at this point.


Anyone else have suggestions? (Is this working for anyone else with  
LyX/Mac-1.4.1?)


Bennett

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Bennett == Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Bennett Anyone else have suggestions? (Is this working for anyone
Bennett else with LyX/Mac-1.4.1?)

I think it does not work in 1.4.1. There was a bug in the way we found
the locale directory. A workaround is to set LYX_LOCALEDIR variable.

JMarc

Re: Help regarding lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

pramod salunkhe wrote:


1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The error is 
No information for viewing pdf.


Go to Edit-Preferences...-File Formats, highlight PDF (ps2pdf) in the 
format list, type the name of your viewer (for instance, acrord32 if you 
use Acrobat Reader) in the Viewer field, click Modify and Apply.  Repeat 
for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF (dvipdfm),  then click Save.


You may also need to go to Edit-Preferences...-Paths and add the path 
to your viewer (for instance, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader) 
to the PATH Prefix (separated from the rest by a semicolon).


If you use Acrobat Reader, take a look at 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1.  It's a work-around for the 
problem that you can't preview changes to a document in Reader if an 
earlier version of the document is open (in other words, you have to 
remember to close the PDF before you edit and preview again).


2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write FIG instead of Figure before 
the capion starts.



In the body of your document, before the first figure, insert a TeX 
inset (also known as ERT, either Insert-TeX, Ctrl-L, or use the TEX 
button on the tool bar), and enter \renewcommand{\figurename}{FIG.} in 
the inset.


/Paul

unicode character input

[Dennis Nezic]

why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
use :|.

Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[Richard Heck]

pramod salunkhe wrote:
 1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The 
 error is No information for viewing pdf.
   
Look in Preferences  File Formats and tell LyX what program you want to
use to view PDF.
 2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write FIG instead of Figure before 
 the capion starts.
   
This kind of issue has nothing to do with LyX: It's a LaTeX matter. (The
same is true of your third question, already answered by someone else.)
So if you want to do this kind of customization, get a copy of /The
LaTeX Companion/, which is a good guide to some of the most commonly
used LaTeX packages. Try putting this in ERT at the beginning of your
document:
\renewcommand{\figurename}[1]{FIG #1}
It seems only to work, however, with some classes: It works with book,
but not with paper. It does seem to work with report, so maybe it will
work for you.

NOTE TO LYX MAINTAINERS: It does not work to put the above command in
the preamble. I'd count that as a bug. (This is true both in 1.3.7 and
in 1.4.1.) The reason seems to be that the babel package is loaded only
after the rest of the preamble has been.

Richard Heck

LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using LyX  
1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert  Graphics gives  
only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the graphics  
file I'm trying to insert and the message Error converting to  
loadable format. (In case it's relevant, I downloaded 1.4.1 after my  
Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5. During the upgrade, my hard drive  
was replaced, but the line drawings remained untouched on the  
university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:54:32 -0400
From: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pramod salunkhe [EMAIL PROTECTED], LyX Users List 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[..].

NOTE TO LYX MAINTAINERS: It does not work to put the above command in
the preamble. I'd count that as a bug. (This is true both in 1.3.7 and
in 1.4.1.) The reason seems to be that the babel package is loaded only
after the rest of the preamble has been.

I'm not a LyX maintainer, but this point has been discussed already AFAIR.
babel is loaded after the preamble without arguments, so that you may
load is yourself in the preamble (even with a different option than the class 
language option)
to get your result:
\usepackage{babel}
\renewcommand{\figurename}[1]{FIG #1}
should do it.

If you want the behaviour permanently, you may change the cfg file, e.g. in 
frenchb.cfg:
\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{{\scshape Figure}}}
may be changed in
\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{{\scshape Fig.}}}

With TL 2005 (and I guess with TeteX 3), frenchb.cfg can be changed in a local 
dir ~/.texlive2005

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: unicode character input

[Georg Baum]

Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 18:50 schrieb Dennis Nezic:
 why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
 those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
 use :|.

unicode and deadkeys are two different things. unicode does not work, it 
is planned for 1.5. deadkeys work fine for me, i. e. I can compose an é 
by first pressing ' and then e.


Georg

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

After more investigation, the figures that yield the conversion error  
(below) appear to be figures that I had previously uploaded to the  
submissions website of a journal. Other figures load just fine. (So  
this does not seem to be a 1.3.4 vs 1.4.1 problem.) Can the process  
of uploading a figure file in some cases have an effect on the  
original figure file, an effect that then prevents that figure from  
loading into LyX?


Bruce

On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using LyX  
1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert  Graphics  
gives only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the  
graphics file I'm trying to insert and the message Error  
converting to loadable format. (In case it's relevant, I  
downloaded 1.4.1 after my Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5.  
During the upgrade, my hard drive was replaced, but the line  
drawings remained untouched on the university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: unicode character input

[Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto]

Citando a Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
use :|.


What LyX version are you using? I had a similar problem a while ago and 
it was solved when I upgraded to 1.4.1.


(Thanks to everyone who suggested it, BTW)

xpm-Konverter?

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I`m starting to work with Lyx again with Lyx 1.4.1 (windows
installer, german).

I cannot view the tutorial als a PDF-file: I get the information:
Keine Information vorhanden, um Dateien im xpm-Format nach png zu
konvertieren. Definieren Sie einen Konverter in den Einstellungen.

What kind of konverter is this? What do I have to do?



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Re: unicode character input

[Dennis Nezic]

 On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:30:01 -0400,
 Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Citando a Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
  those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app
  i use :|.
 
 What LyX version are you using? I had a similar problem a while ago
 and it was solved when I upgraded to 1.4.1.

1.4.1 ... which doesn't support unicode.

i can't wait for 1.5, as georg mentioned a bit earlier.

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Georg Koe]

Well - thank's for the hint with LYX_LOCALEDIR. I set it to
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/locale in
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and now I have my German userinterface.
The Problem is that the interface doesn't show the right charakters
for umlauts but e.g. o instead of ö. I have a screenshot attached.
(LyX 1.4.1, lang de, MacOS X 10.4.6)
Thank's for any hints on how to get the right special characters in
the menues etc., G.


lyx_interface_error_de.gif
Description: GIF image

upper case letter with accentuation

[paul saumane]

1) Looking at the help, I cannot find the way to type accentuated upper case 
letters (capital letters with accent). 
I just found capital A with grave accent typing Alt, ctrl, 7 then shift a.
Any clue to guide me.

2) In a title, is there a way to mix character size with bolding and slanting 
on several lines to reproduce the way it was done on old books.
I tried it using title and ctrl new line but the first line(s) are not taken 
into account in the final document.

Thanks and regards

Paul

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

I seem to be replying to my own requests for help, not with help or a  
solution, unfortunately, but with new information about the problem.  
My apologies for not investigating for a longer time before I queried  
the list, but I'm hyperventilating at the thought of having to  
recreate all these drawings.


Here's the problem, as I understand it at the moment: A manuscript  
(with many figures) created in LyX/Mac 1.3.4 used to launch perfectly  
in 1.3.4 with all the figures loading nicely. When I tried today to  
open that manuscript in LyX/Mac 1.4.1, none of the figures loaded:  
the graphics boxes either said Error in converting to loadable  
format or something like Not found.


More detail: In a folder called Research, I have a folder called  
Prop6 and other folders. The Prop6 folder contains original figures  
(in cvs format, created using Canvas) and also figures in eps format  
(without preview) made from these original Canvas figures. The eps  
figures used to load just fine in LyX/Mac 1.3.4. Now in LyX/mac 1.4.1  
these same eps figures give the message Error in converting to  
loadable format. Even if I take one of the original cvs figures  
(which are in a subfolder of the Prop6 folder), save it in eps format  
(without preview), I still get the same error! (Since the original  
cvs figures were never uploaded to the journal submission site (see  
below), it now seems unlikely that the journal submission uploading  
process has anything to do with my problem.)


Figures NOT in the Prop6 folder but created in much the same way --  
using Canvas to make the original, then a Save As in eps format  
without preview --  load perfectly in LyX/Mac 1.4.1. Could there be  
something in the way I did the Save As on the Prop6 figures -- some  
option I did or did not select -- that could be causing this?


Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce





On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

After more investigation, the figures that yield the conversion  
error (below) appear to be figures that I had previously uploaded  
to the submissions website of a journal. Other figures load just  
fine. (So this does not seem to be a 1.3.4 vs 1.4.1 problem.) Can  
the process of uploading a figure file in some cases have an effect  
on the original figure file, an effect that then prevents that  
figure from loading into LyX?


Bruce

On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using  
LyX 1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert  Graphics  
gives only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the  
graphics file I'm trying to insert and the message Error  
converting to loadable format. (In case it's relevant, I  
downloaded 1.4.1 after my Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5.  
During the upgrade, my hard drive was replaced, but the line  
drawings remained untouched on the university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]

[Richard Heck]

One of the things I personally find annoying about LaTeX is the syntax,
and BibTeX is even worse, frankly, but it's not that insanely
complicated once you adjust to the stack-oriented character of the
language. You may find it useful to keep pen and paper nearby so you can
keep track of what's on the stack as you trace the code.

If you haven't read it, obviously you should read btxhak.dvi, the guide
to hacking BibTeX style files. It takes a while---I know---to get a
sense for how the language works, and how these style files work, but it
will start to make sense after a while. You should also export to LaTeX,
compile the file manually, and look at what is being written to the .bbl
file, when various bibliography styles are used.

The labels used in the bibliography, and in the text, are set by the
\bibitem command that the style file writes to the .bbl file. In many
style files, this seems to be written by the output.bibitem function,
which is called at the beginning of each of the functions, article,
book, etc, that are called for the appropriate sorts of items. Here it
is from plain.bst:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

This ends up writing something like:

\bibitem{Descartes:Rules}

to your .bbl file. Compare this function, from alpha.bst:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem[ write$
  label write$
  ]{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

This writes something like:

\bibitem[Des82]{Descartes:Rules}

to the .bbl file, with the result that the label Des82 is used both in
the text and the bibliography. Since there is no such argument to
\bibitem in the previous case, the default is used: The cite key is
simply a number.

The variable label is what holds the value of the cite key in
alpha.bst. Where was it set? You will note that it is mentioned in the
ENTRY declaration, both in plain.bst and in alpha.bst, as a string
variable that is associated with each item in the bibliography. This is
NOT an item set in the .bib file itself---unlike author, title,
etc---but rather a new variable that has been declared to be associated
with each item and that can be manipulated in the .bst file. In
plain.bst, the label variable is set in the function longest.label.pass:

FUNCTION {longest.label.pass}
{ number.label int.to.str$ 'label := % number.label was initialized to 1 in 
initialize.longest.label
 % its string form is here being assigned 
to label
  number.label #1 + 'number.label := %this increments number.label
  label width$ longest.label.width  
{ label 'longest.label :=
  label width$ 'longest.label.width :=
}
'skip$
  if$
}

(I've added comments.) This function is called for each item in the
bibliography with:

ITERATE(longest.label.pass)

which is itself called after the list has been sorted and such. If you
look at alpha.bst, you will see that label is set for each item in
calc.label, which is itself called in the function presort, called with
ITERATE(presort).

Hint: If you want to know where a variable named var is set, search
for: 'var, since an assignment to var will look like: 'var :=, the
assigned value being whatever is on the top of the stack. (If you see
whatever 'var ;=, then the occurrence of whatever is just pushing a
value onto the stack.)

So the label variable exists in plain.bst, but it is not used there. But
we can use it. For example, suppose we change the definition of
output.bibitem in plain.bst to the following:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem[FROG write$
  label write$
  ]{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

Then we get cite keys like: FROG3, FROG25, etc.

Your request is more complicated, because we want something different
for different types of entries. But that's OK, because we have the entry
type in the type$ variable, and we can just check that. The easiest
thing to do would seem to be to define a new function that will print
the prefix we want depending upon the entry type. This function will
handle articles, incollections, and books:

FUNCTION {output.prefix}
{
  type$ incollection =
  type$ article =
  + %hack for or
{ Art }
{
  type$ book =
{ Book }
{ Other }
  if$
}
  if$
}

If you need to add other types, that's obviously easy to do. (There's no
elsif here, so we have to use nested ifs. Exercise: Code up a switch or
case statement!) We then redefine output.bibitem as follows:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem[ write$
  output.prefix write$
  label write$
  ]{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

That should do what you need, more or less.

Richard


Ares wrote:
 As I wrote in a previous post, I would like the references of my PhD
 thesis
 to be arranged as follows:

 References

 Articles
 

Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]

[Sara Stymne]

Ares skrev:
As I wrote in a previous post, I would like the references of my PhD 
thesis

to be arranged as follows:


References

Articles
[Art1] article1
[Art2] article2
etc
Books
[Book1] book1
[Book2] book2
etc
etc
...


LyX 1.4.1 supports sectioned bibliography, so it is possible to 
split the

Bibliography chapter in sections.

In order to have the citation as [Art1] and [Book1] etc, I need to hack a
bst file, as suggested by Jürgen. I had a look to plain.bst and it 
doesn't

sound so easy!

In the end I would just like to add a prefix (Book, Art etc) to the
reference numbering and to use a separate bst file for each entry (Books,
Articles etc), so that the numbering starts with each section.

Is there a resource where I can find how bst files work? or is there 
someone

who can help me?

Thanks for support,
Diego


Hi!

I think that a much easier way to get a bst file than to start hack it 
is to use the makebst utility. (run latex makebst) Then you get a series 
of multiple choice question on how you want to format oyur 
bibliographical entries. Then two files are created, a dbj file and a 
bst file. The bst file is the bibliography file created. The dbj file is 
a batch file that is run through latex to create the bst file.


If you later want to tweak the style file, this can easily be done by 
changing the dbj file, which is quite easy. Just comment out the option 
you want to change using a #, and uncomment the line with the option 
you prefer instead. The you just run the dbj file thorugh latex to 
update the bst file!


You might not be able to do everything this way, but at least it is easy 
and it helped me a lot!


/Sara

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Stephen Harris]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:


Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce



Did I miss you making a minimal example file available?
Usually a .lyx file and the suspected .eps images linked
to a webpage to make a download from. Maybe you can send
the files one at a time to the list and not exceed the
limit the user list imposes on file attachments.

I was testing the Win32 Latex version from TexLive2005
and encountered your problem. In my case it was due to
a problem with the Latex installation. I will try to
find the solution in order to point to the problem area
on your installation. Sometimes making a minimal file
will discover the problem for you. If your example file
works on (our)other systems then you will know it is
your environment. This may be a wrong path to the folder
containing your eps files in your environment, or, they
don't get copied. So make a simple file with just one
or a few of the eps images and see if it works. Perhaps
you don't have all the helper apps for LyX installed or
one is working right. Maybe you could convert the eps
image to .png and use the .png filename in your doc
and try pdflatex and see if it views (or eps2pdf).

Here is an example that caused me a similar problem and
the fix. I'm not suggesting this is your particular
problem, just an example of possible causes. Your earlier
version, 1.3.4, maybe used some files that are obsolete
on your newer installation, perhaps Latex, not LyX.
I really think it is a good idea to try converting your
eps file(s) to another image format and including that
in your doc and see if it now displays. There may be
a simpler solution depending on the problem, or, the
solution may have a learning curve, so trying to change
the image format may be the quickest. I think there is
a method to use pdf and maintain (needed?) scalability.
Finally, an advantage of a minimal file displaying the
problem is you may be fortunate enough to have Paul Rubin
scutinize it.



Dan Luecking wrote:

The eps to pdf conversion does fail out of the box, but
that seems tobe because dvipdfm can't take PDF higher than
version 1.3. One needs to change the config file so that
the eps to pdf conversion process
(the line beginning with D) produces version 1.3 or lower.
I use  D epstopdf --outfile=%o --nocompress %i
in config and edit epstopdf.pl (which produces 1.4 by
default on my system). Instead of editing epstopdf.pl,
one could  set GS_OPTIONS=-dCompatibilityLevel=1.2
on the command line or use a gs command in config that sets
the level:
  D gswin32c.exe -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dUseFlateCompression=true -dNOPAUSE
-sOutputFile=%o %i -c quit

(all on one line). Problems can occur out of the box
because theout-of-the-box config file has incorrect quoting
for windows. The config-win provided (copy it to config)
uses epstopdf. Using dvipdfm's -vv option quickly showed me
where the problem lied (in the pdf version produced by epstopdf).

I remove quoting around the file names (%o and %i) in config's D
option, and never use filenames or paths with spaces in them.

-

Regards,
Stephen
Topic ontology recapitulates entropic phylogeny.

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Stephen Harris]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:



Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce




When trying to your file, use the ps2pdf viewer.

Do either of these bugs appear relevant to your case?

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2588
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2419

--
Stephen
Topic ontology recapitulates entropic phylogeny.

Help regarding lyx

[pramod salunkhe]

Dear Sir

I am using lyx from last 2 months. I found It is very useful for report writing.
I have few doubts about it. Could you please clear it?

1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The error 
is No information for viewing pdf.

2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write FIG instead of Figure before 
the capion starts.

3.Suppose I have started to write a report in lyx. On the first page of lyx I 
want the page No. of 23. How can I do this?

Waiting for your reply.

Thank you

Yours Sincerely

Pramod


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Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:04, Stephen Harris wrote:
 Jose' Matos wrote:
 
Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready
  to go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux
  distributions.

 You know best! Is there an objective method used in determining
 if Gnome or KDE, Nedit or LyX, goes into the primary distribution
 while the other contender is placed into extras? I was thinking if
 statistics were kept on yum install foo downloads (not who did it)
 that the frequency of download would be an objective measure. Maybe
 that would only work if both similar programs started in extras.

  It is not easy to explain, some of the reasons are historical, and the 
border between Core and Extras is becoming blurred (and this is good). The 
goal for upcoming versions is for the Extras to be included in the 
installation process. That will mean a support for installing either from the 
network or from supplementary cd's or dvd's.

  Things are improving a lot and I like the way it is coming. :-)

 I gave the Chris Karakas instructions a try, but it became hard
 to obtain the packages or the right versions, maybe that was on
 Cygwin; it was harder than following Michael Gertz instuctions!

  I intend to look his document after July (I am really busy now), I have 
several ideas how things can improve regarding lyx and docbook.

 I think yum or other programs like it, is the single best reason
 to use Linux rather than Windows. I can remember if you wanted to
 install a new program which would take 10 minutes, finding and
 installing all the dependencies could take an hour, even if they
 were listed beforehand and I don't think they were always listed.
 Maybe I should have used the word default rather than primary.

  :-)

 My final question. I was reading about fontconfig because of
 installing the Bakoma fonts which are in zip format into Cygwin.
 (This is something easy to do in Windows, install fonts.)
 I read there is a dependency to freetype. The freetype page
 mentions there is a new May31,06 version of KDE which doesn't
 have security problems because it uses fontconfig without
 freetype. Also it mentions an rpm freetype patch package suitable
 for using with Cygwin's rpm package. So does yum or rpm, when it
 installs fonts, write to those associated .conf files (fc-cache)?

  No idea. :-(

 Best regards,

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:29, David Neeley wrote:
 There are a number of package/installation systems in Linux--perhaps
 as we get true Linux Standard Base-compliant we can settle those down
 a great deal! I have also heard good things about yum (making up for
 some of the rpm deficiencies); yast keeps getting better; of course
 Debian led the way with apt/dpkg; and others such as portage are also
 supposed to be excellent.

  I am sorry for the out of topic here.

  Note that it is unfair to compare rpm with apt/dpkg. Actually I used to 
manage rpms with apt.

  Referring only to debian and fedora here as the same applies to other 
distributions we are dealing on three levels here:

  package - rpm or deb
  package manager - yum or apt
  distribution- fedora or debian

  We need to distribution level to define common policies that make it easy to 
interoperate between different packages. That is what is taking time to 
define in Extras and it succeeded so that now Core is following the policies 
established in Extras.

  What people refer as the rpm hell was the absence of a policy so that 
packages could interoperate. It is not enough to have a tongue, we need to 
speak the same language so that communication happens. ;-)

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Help regarding lyx

[Charles de Miramon]

pramod salunkhe wrote:


 3.Suppose I have started to write a report in lyx. On the first page of
 lyx I want the page No. of 23. How can I do this?
 
The page number is kept in a counter called page. You have to set it to the
correct number.

Put in ERT at the top of your document 
\setcounter{page}{23}

-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Isaac Pante]

Hello everybody!

I'm very fond of Lyx but I've got a problem with it. I followed the
instructions (of this page: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/
qa1067.html), created a .MacOSX directory in my home folder and
inserted the following environment.plist file:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
plist version=1.0
dict
keyBIBINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/string
keyBSTINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/string
keyDISPLAY/key
string:0.0/string
keyLANG/key
stringFR/string
keyOUTPUT_CHARSET/key
stringFR.iso8859-1/string
/dict
/plist

Here is my problem: the help menus (user's guide, tutorial, etc.) are
now in french, but my GUI remains in english. How can I translate it?

Thanks for your help!

Isaac Pante


[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.isaacpante.net

Problems with citations and URL

[Gustav Von Sydow]

Hi!

I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
entry in the database looks like this:

 

@article{basic_vulnerability,

AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},

TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},

JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},

URL=
{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

}

 

I use normal plain bibliography and can't get the URLs to show in the
bibliography, any suggestions? 

 

 

I have tried with natbib but get some strange errors: 

 

Missing } inserted. - But where is it inserted?

Missing $ inserted. - hm

Extra }, or forgotten $.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - what?

Missing $ inserted.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - well I still do not
understand 

 

Any help appreciated

 

/ Gustav

 

dvipng error and failed preview

[Stefano Grioni]

Hello,

I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char 
preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict 
begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.


And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile 
0lyxpreview.tex


Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Thx a lot

Re: Problems with citations and URL

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Subject: Problems with citations and URL
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:13:34 +0200
From: Gustav Von Sydow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Hi!

I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
entry in the database looks like this:

 

@article{basic_vulnerability,

AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},

TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},

JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},

URL=
{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

}

 

I use normal plain bibliography and can't get the URLs to show in the
bibliography, any suggestions? 

Normal won't work, natbib should.
Here I have urlint as the field name for url, don't remember where this comes 
from (natbib doc ?),
but it works.
   urlint = {http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}


Missing } inserted. - But where is it inserted?

Missing $ inserted. - hm

Extra }, or forgotten $.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - what?

Missing $ inserted.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} - well I still do not
understand 

Typical of _ being found where it should not (in plain text): latex tries to
make it in math, where it is legal.
Seems due to the unrecognised url field, or to a missing \url{} escape command,
so you may also try
   url = 
{\url{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}}
   
(add \usepackage{url} in the preamble of the document, lyx can't infere the 
need of url.sty
from external bibtex data.

HTH

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: Lyx: LATEX error Cannot determine size of graphic in ...

[Holger Blasum]

Dear J Marton,

On 06-06, J. Marton wrote:
 Package graphics Error: Division  by 0.
   Arithmetic overflow.
   LATEX error Cannot determine size of graphic in ...
   
   1.) I get the same this message, when trying to export pdf (pdflatex) .  
 Please, maybe You can help me?

Maybe the graphic you include is broken in a way that the image
converting software invoked by latex assumes
the image is of length or width 0? Does this error also occur with, for
example, the graphic you can download at 
http://www.lyx.org/images/lyx_logo_hi.gif ?

   2.) I have the pictures for my LYX doc. in a file on USBstick. How can  I 
 make, that whenever I save the Lyxfile as LYX or export the lyxfile  as TEX, 
 the pictures in the Lyxfile are also saved and exported. So  that when 
 emailing it, others can view the files without the file  containing the 
 pictures. This means, without possessing the USBstick  with the pictures.

As far as I know (the other users on the list might want to correct me if
this is wrong), you cannot encapsulate graphics right into lyx or even 
tex files. Two alternatives: (1) when you email it, send it eg as PDF
(File-Export-PDF, any of the options), (2) if you want others to
change it, create a folder (e.g.) C:\MyLyxDocument\ and another folder 
C:\MyLyxDocument\Images\. Put your lyx file (say MyDocument.lyx) into 
C:\MyLyxDocument\, put the image(s) (say MyImage.gif) 
in the folder C:\MyLyxDocument\Images\ and when you are inserting an 
image (via Insert-Graphics) specify a relative path Images\MyImage.gif 
in the File line of the Graphics Insertion Menu. If you use relative
paths like that, you simply later can create zip of 
the entire C:\MyLyxDocument folder and its subfolders and send it 
around.

Regards,

-- 
Holger Blasum +49-174-7313590 (gsm) GnuPG 1024D/ACDFC3B769DC1ED66B47


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Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Georg Baum]

Stefano Grioni wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char
 preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
 dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict
 begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.

This is a harmless warning, it appears also when dvipng is working.

 And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile
 0lyxpreview.tex
 
 Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Go to the temp folder where 0lyxpreview.tex is created, and run latex that
file by hand. Then you will see the error messages.


Georg

index

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

minor question:


if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is inserted, it is not 
found. 

CO(indexword CO) plays an important role

I searched for 
CO plays

Same with a space between CO and indexword

CO (indexword CO) plays an important role

Is this intended?

major question:


If i index a word which should be emphasized because it is a scientific name
it is shown in the Index at the begin of the index correctly emphasized but 
independent of its alphabetical status -which is ok.
However, the names are shown according to their sequential occurrance, not 
according to their alphabet:

indexword \emph{Xanthium}
indexword \emph{Kalanchoe}
indexword \emph{Arabidopsis}

and now come the `normal´ indexed words
.
.
.

Any workaround besides handwork in the index file?

Wolfgang

Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Stefano Grioni]

Georg Baum wrote:

Stefano Grioni wrote:

  

Hello,

I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char
preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict
begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.



This is a harmless warning, it appears also when dvipng is working.

  

And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile
0lyxpreview.tex

Does anybody know how to solve this problem?



Go to the temp folder where 0lyxpreview.tex is created, and run latex that
file by hand. Then you will see the error messages.


Georg

  


Ok thanks, but do you have an idea about why it fail the preview ? Or anyway 
where to search (for example a lib missing or so?)

Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Georg Baum]

Stefano Grioni wrote:

 Ok thanks, but do you have an idea about why it fail the preview ?

No.

 Or 
 anyway where to search (for example a lib missing or so?)

The error messages you would get if you did what I wrote would tell more
about the source of the problem. You can post them here if they don't make
sense to you.


Georg

Re: Problems with citations and URL

[K. Elo]

Hi Gustav,

I had a similar problem some time ago and posted a question. This topic
was discussed quite thoroughly, but here my suggestion:

2006-06-07 12:13 +0200, Gustav Von Sydow:
 Hi!
 
 I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
 entry in the database looks like this:
 
  
 
 @article{basic_vulnerability,
 
 AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},
 
 TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},
 
 JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},
 
 URL=
 {http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}
 
 }
 

Here use:

URL=\url{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

instead. Hope this helps!

Greetings,
Kimmo

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Isaac Pante wrote:


Hello everybody!

I'm very fond of Lyx but I've got a problem with it. I followed the
instructions (of this page: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/
qa1067.html), created a .MacOSX directory in my home folder and
inserted the following environment.plist file:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
plist version=1.0
dict
keyBIBINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/string
keyBSTINPUTS/key
string~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/string
keyDISPLAY/key
string:0.0/string
keyLANG/key
stringFR/string
keyOUTPUT_CHARSET/key
stringFR.iso8859-1/string
/dict
/plist

Here is my problem: the help menus (user's guide, tutorial, etc.) are
now in french, but my GUI remains in english. How can I translate it?

Thanks for your help!


I believe all that *should* be necessary is

keyLANG/key
stringfr/string

(note the lower case fr). However, it doesn't seem to be working  
for me either, though I was confident it worked at least for LyX/ 
Mac-1.4.0. It does work on development versions of LyX-1.4.2, which  
is not yet ready for release. I'm not sure what to say at this point.


Anyone else have suggestions? (Is this working for anyone else with  
LyX/Mac-1.4.1?)


Bennett

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Bennett == Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Bennett Anyone else have suggestions? (Is this working for anyone
Bennett else with LyX/Mac-1.4.1?)

I think it does not work in 1.4.1. There was a bug in the way we found
the locale directory. A workaround is to set LYX_LOCALEDIR variable.

JMarc

Re: Help regarding lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

pramod salunkhe wrote:


1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The error is 
No information for viewing pdf.


Go to Edit-Preferences...-File Formats, highlight PDF (ps2pdf) in the 
format list, type the name of your viewer (for instance, acrord32 if you 
use Acrobat Reader) in the Viewer field, click Modify and Apply.  Repeat 
for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF (dvipdfm),  then click Save.


You may also need to go to Edit-Preferences...-Paths and add the path 
to your viewer (for instance, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader) 
to the PATH Prefix (separated from the rest by a semicolon).


If you use Acrobat Reader, take a look at 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1.  It's a work-around for the 
problem that you can't preview changes to a document in Reader if an 
earlier version of the document is open (in other words, you have to 
remember to close the PDF before you edit and preview again).


2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write FIG instead of Figure before 
the capion starts.



In the body of your document, before the first figure, insert a TeX 
inset (also known as ERT, either Insert-TeX, Ctrl-L, or use the TEX 
button on the tool bar), and enter \renewcommand{\figurename}{FIG.} in 
the inset.


/Paul

unicode character input

[Dennis Nezic]

why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
use :|.

Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[Richard Heck]

pramod salunkhe wrote:
 1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The 
 error is No information for viewing pdf.
   
Look in Preferences  File Formats and tell LyX what program you want to
use to view PDF.
 2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write FIG instead of Figure before 
 the capion starts.
   
This kind of issue has nothing to do with LyX: It's a LaTeX matter. (The
same is true of your third question, already answered by someone else.)
So if you want to do this kind of customization, get a copy of /The
LaTeX Companion/, which is a good guide to some of the most commonly
used LaTeX packages. Try putting this in ERT at the beginning of your
document:
\renewcommand{\figurename}[1]{FIG #1}
It seems only to work, however, with some classes: It works with book,
but not with paper. It does seem to work with report, so maybe it will
work for you.

NOTE TO LYX MAINTAINERS: It does not work to put the above command in
the preamble. I'd count that as a bug. (This is true both in 1.3.7 and
in 1.4.1.) The reason seems to be that the babel package is loaded only
after the rest of the preamble has been.

Richard Heck

LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using LyX  
1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert  Graphics gives  
only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the graphics  
file I'm trying to insert and the message Error converting to  
loadable format. (In case it's relevant, I downloaded 1.4.1 after my  
Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5. During the upgrade, my hard drive  
was replaced, but the line drawings remained untouched on the  
university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:54:32 -0400
From: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pramod salunkhe [EMAIL PROTECTED], LyX Users List 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[..].

NOTE TO LYX MAINTAINERS: It does not work to put the above command in
the preamble. I'd count that as a bug. (This is true both in 1.3.7 and
in 1.4.1.) The reason seems to be that the babel package is loaded only
after the rest of the preamble has been.

I'm not a LyX maintainer, but this point has been discussed already AFAIR.
babel is loaded after the preamble without arguments, so that you may
load is yourself in the preamble (even with a different option than the class 
language option)
to get your result:
\usepackage{babel}
\renewcommand{\figurename}[1]{FIG #1}
should do it.

If you want the behaviour permanently, you may change the cfg file, e.g. in 
frenchb.cfg:
\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{{\scshape Figure}}}
may be changed in
\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{{\scshape Fig.}}}

With TL 2005 (and I guess with TeteX 3), frenchb.cfg can be changed in a local 
dir ~/.texlive2005

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: unicode character input

[Georg Baum]

Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 18:50 schrieb Dennis Nezic:
 why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
 those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
 use :|.

unicode and deadkeys are two different things. unicode does not work, it 
is planned for 1.5. deadkeys work fine for me, i. e. I can compose an é 
by first pressing ' and then e.


Georg

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

After more investigation, the figures that yield the conversion error  
(below) appear to be figures that I had previously uploaded to the  
submissions website of a journal. Other figures load just fine. (So  
this does not seem to be a 1.3.4 vs 1.4.1 problem.) Can the process  
of uploading a figure file in some cases have an effect on the  
original figure file, an effect that then prevents that figure from  
loading into LyX?


Bruce

On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using LyX  
1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert  Graphics  
gives only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the  
graphics file I'm trying to insert and the message Error  
converting to loadable format. (In case it's relevant, I  
downloaded 1.4.1 after my Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5.  
During the upgrade, my hard drive was replaced, but the line  
drawings remained untouched on the university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: unicode character input

[Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto]

Citando a Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
use :|.


What LyX version are you using? I had a similar problem a while ago and 
it was solved when I upgraded to 1.4.1.


(Thanks to everyone who suggested it, BTW)

xpm-Konverter?

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I`m starting to work with Lyx again with Lyx 1.4.1 (windows
installer, german).

I cannot view the tutorial als a PDF-file: I get the information:
Keine Information vorhanden, um Dateien im xpm-Format nach png zu
konvertieren. Definieren Sie einen Konverter in den Einstellungen.

What kind of konverter is this? What do I have to do?



-- 
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Re: unicode character input

[Dennis Nezic]

 On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:30:01 -0400,
 Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Citando a Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
  those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app
  i use :|.
 
 What LyX version are you using? I had a similar problem a while ago
 and it was solved when I upgraded to 1.4.1.

1.4.1 ... which doesn't support unicode.

i can't wait for 1.5, as georg mentioned a bit earlier.

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Georg Koe]

Well - thank's for the hint with LYX_LOCALEDIR. I set it to
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/locale in
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and now I have my German userinterface.
The Problem is that the interface doesn't show the right charakters
for umlauts but e.g. o instead of ö. I have a screenshot attached.
(LyX 1.4.1, lang de, MacOS X 10.4.6)
Thank's for any hints on how to get the right special characters in
the menues etc., G.


lyx_interface_error_de.gif
Description: GIF image

upper case letter with accentuation

[paul saumane]

1) Looking at the help, I cannot find the way to type accentuated upper case 
letters (capital letters with accent). 
I just found capital A with grave accent typing Alt, ctrl, 7 then shift a.
Any clue to guide me.

2) In a title, is there a way to mix character size with bolding and slanting 
on several lines to reproduce the way it was done on old books.
I tried it using title and ctrl new line but the first line(s) are not taken 
into account in the final document.

Thanks and regards

Paul

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

I seem to be replying to my own requests for help, not with help or a  
solution, unfortunately, but with new information about the problem.  
My apologies for not investigating for a longer time before I queried  
the list, but I'm hyperventilating at the thought of having to  
recreate all these drawings.


Here's the problem, as I understand it at the moment: A manuscript  
(with many figures) created in LyX/Mac 1.3.4 used to launch perfectly  
in 1.3.4 with all the figures loading nicely. When I tried today to  
open that manuscript in LyX/Mac 1.4.1, none of the figures loaded:  
the graphics boxes either said Error in converting to loadable  
format or something like Not found.


More detail: In a folder called Research, I have a folder called  
Prop6 and other folders. The Prop6 folder contains original figures  
(in cvs format, created using Canvas) and also figures in eps format  
(without preview) made from these original Canvas figures. The eps  
figures used to load just fine in LyX/Mac 1.3.4. Now in LyX/mac 1.4.1  
these same eps figures give the message Error in converting to  
loadable format. Even if I take one of the original cvs figures  
(which are in a subfolder of the Prop6 folder), save it in eps format  
(without preview), I still get the same error! (Since the original  
cvs figures were never uploaded to the journal submission site (see  
below), it now seems unlikely that the journal submission uploading  
process has anything to do with my problem.)


Figures NOT in the Prop6 folder but created in much the same way --  
using Canvas to make the original, then a Save As in eps format  
without preview --  load perfectly in LyX/Mac 1.4.1. Could there be  
something in the way I did the Save As on the Prop6 figures -- some  
option I did or did not select -- that could be causing this?


Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce





On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

After more investigation, the figures that yield the conversion  
error (below) appear to be figures that I had previously uploaded  
to the submissions website of a journal. Other figures load just  
fine. (So this does not seem to be a 1.3.4 vs 1.4.1 problem.) Can  
the process of uploading a figure file in some cases have an effect  
on the original figure file, an effect that then prevents that  
figure from loading into LyX?


Bruce

On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using  
LyX 1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert  Graphics  
gives only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the  
graphics file I'm trying to insert and the message Error  
converting to loadable format. (In case it's relevant, I  
downloaded 1.4.1 after my Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5.  
During the upgrade, my hard drive was replaced, but the line  
drawings remained untouched on the university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]

[Richard Heck]

One of the things I personally find annoying about LaTeX is the syntax,
and BibTeX is even worse, frankly, but it's not that insanely
complicated once you adjust to the stack-oriented character of the
language. You may find it useful to keep pen and paper nearby so you can
keep track of what's on the stack as you trace the code.

If you haven't read it, obviously you should read btxhak.dvi, the guide
to hacking BibTeX style files. It takes a while---I know---to get a
sense for how the language works, and how these style files work, but it
will start to make sense after a while. You should also export to LaTeX,
compile the file manually, and look at what is being written to the .bbl
file, when various bibliography styles are used.

The labels used in the bibliography, and in the text, are set by the
\bibitem command that the style file writes to the .bbl file. In many
style files, this seems to be written by the output.bibitem function,
which is called at the beginning of each of the functions, article,
book, etc, that are called for the appropriate sorts of items. Here it
is from plain.bst:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

This ends up writing something like:

\bibitem{Descartes:Rules}

to your .bbl file. Compare this function, from alpha.bst:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem[ write$
  label write$
  ]{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

This writes something like:

\bibitem[Des82]{Descartes:Rules}

to the .bbl file, with the result that the label Des82 is used both in
the text and the bibliography. Since there is no such argument to
\bibitem in the previous case, the default is used: The cite key is
simply a number.

The variable label is what holds the value of the cite key in
alpha.bst. Where was it set? You will note that it is mentioned in the
ENTRY declaration, both in plain.bst and in alpha.bst, as a string
variable that is associated with each item in the bibliography. This is
NOT an item set in the .bib file itself---unlike author, title,
etc---but rather a new variable that has been declared to be associated
with each item and that can be manipulated in the .bst file. In
plain.bst, the label variable is set in the function longest.label.pass:

FUNCTION {longest.label.pass}
{ number.label int.to.str$ 'label := % number.label was initialized to 1 in 
initialize.longest.label
 % its string form is here being assigned 
to label
  number.label #1 + 'number.label := %this increments number.label
  label width$ longest.label.width  
{ label 'longest.label :=
  label width$ 'longest.label.width :=
}
'skip$
  if$
}

(I've added comments.) This function is called for each item in the
bibliography with:

ITERATE(longest.label.pass)

which is itself called after the list has been sorted and such. If you
look at alpha.bst, you will see that label is set for each item in
calc.label, which is itself called in the function presort, called with
ITERATE(presort).

Hint: If you want to know where a variable named var is set, search
for: 'var, since an assignment to var will look like: 'var :=, the
assigned value being whatever is on the top of the stack. (If you see
whatever 'var ;=, then the occurrence of whatever is just pushing a
value onto the stack.)

So the label variable exists in plain.bst, but it is not used there. But
we can use it. For example, suppose we change the definition of
output.bibitem in plain.bst to the following:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem[FROG write$
  label write$
  ]{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

Then we get cite keys like: FROG3, FROG25, etc.

Your request is more complicated, because we want something different
for different types of entries. But that's OK, because we have the entry
type in the type$ variable, and we can just check that. The easiest
thing to do would seem to be to define a new function that will print
the prefix we want depending upon the entry type. This function will
handle articles, incollections, and books:

FUNCTION {output.prefix}
{
  type$ incollection =
  type$ article =
  + %hack for or
{ Art }
{
  type$ book =
{ Book }
{ Other }
  if$
}
  if$
}

If you need to add other types, that's obviously easy to do. (There's no
elsif here, so we have to use nested ifs. Exercise: Code up a switch or
case statement!) We then redefine output.bibitem as follows:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  \bibitem[ write$
  output.prefix write$
  label write$
  ]{ write$
  cite$ write$
  } write$
  newline$
  
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

That should do what you need, more or less.

Richard


Ares wrote:
 As I wrote in a previous post, I would like the references of my PhD
 thesis
 to be arranged as follows:

 References

 Articles
 

Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]

[Sara Stymne]

Ares skrev:
As I wrote in a previous post, I would like the references of my PhD 
thesis

to be arranged as follows:


References

Articles
[Art1] article1
[Art2] article2
etc
Books
[Book1] book1
[Book2] book2
etc
etc
...


LyX 1.4.1 supports sectioned bibliography, so it is possible to 
split the

Bibliography chapter in sections.

In order to have the citation as [Art1] and [Book1] etc, I need to hack a
bst file, as suggested by Jürgen. I had a look to plain.bst and it 
doesn't

sound so easy!

In the end I would just like to add a prefix (Book, Art etc) to the
reference numbering and to use a separate bst file for each entry (Books,
Articles etc), so that the numbering starts with each section.

Is there a resource where I can find how bst files work? or is there 
someone

who can help me?

Thanks for support,
Diego


Hi!

I think that a much easier way to get a bst file than to start hack it 
is to use the makebst utility. (run latex makebst) Then you get a series 
of multiple choice question on how you want to format oyur 
bibliographical entries. Then two files are created, a dbj file and a 
bst file. The bst file is the bibliography file created. The dbj file is 
a batch file that is run through latex to create the bst file.


If you later want to tweak the style file, this can easily be done by 
changing the dbj file, which is quite easy. Just comment out the option 
you want to change using a #, and uncomment the line with the option 
you prefer instead. The you just run the dbj file thorugh latex to 
update the bst file!


You might not be able to do everything this way, but at least it is easy 
and it helped me a lot!


/Sara

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Stephen Harris]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:


Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce



Did I miss you making a minimal example file available?
Usually a .lyx file and the suspected .eps images linked
to a webpage to make a download from. Maybe you can send
the files one at a time to the list and not exceed the
limit the user list imposes on file attachments.

I was testing the Win32 Latex version from TexLive2005
and encountered your problem. In my case it was due to
a problem with the Latex installation. I will try to
find the solution in order to point to the problem area
on your installation. Sometimes making a minimal file
will discover the problem for you. If your example file
works on (our)other systems then you will know it is
your environment. This may be a wrong path to the folder
containing your eps files in your environment, or, they
don't get copied. So make a simple file with just one
or a few of the eps images and see if it works. Perhaps
you don't have all the helper apps for LyX installed or
one is working right. Maybe you could convert the eps
image to .png and use the .png filename in your doc
and try pdflatex and see if it views (or eps2pdf).

Here is an example that caused me a similar problem and
the fix. I'm not suggesting this is your particular
problem, just an example of possible causes. Your earlier
version, 1.3.4, maybe used some files that are obsolete
on your newer installation, perhaps Latex, not LyX.
I really think it is a good idea to try converting your
eps file(s) to another image format and including that
in your doc and see if it now displays. There may be
a simpler solution depending on the problem, or, the
solution may have a learning curve, so trying to change
the image format may be the quickest. I think there is
a method to use pdf and maintain (needed?) scalability.
Finally, an advantage of a minimal file displaying the
problem is you may be fortunate enough to have Paul Rubin
scutinize it.



Dan Luecking wrote:

The eps to pdf conversion does fail out of the box, but
that seems tobe because dvipdfm can't take PDF higher than
version 1.3. One needs to change the config file so that
the eps to pdf conversion process
(the line beginning with D) produces version 1.3 or lower.
I use  D epstopdf --outfile=%o --nocompress %i
in config and edit epstopdf.pl (which produces 1.4 by
default on my system). Instead of editing epstopdf.pl,
one could  set GS_OPTIONS=-dCompatibilityLevel=1.2
on the command line or use a gs command in config that sets
the level:
  D gswin32c.exe -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dUseFlateCompression=true -dNOPAUSE
-sOutputFile=%o %i -c quit

(all on one line). Problems can occur out of the box
because theout-of-the-box config file has incorrect quoting
for windows. The config-win provided (copy it to config)
uses epstopdf. Using dvipdfm's -vv option quickly showed me
where the problem lied (in the pdf version produced by epstopdf).

I remove quoting around the file names (%o and %i) in config's D
option, and never use filenames or paths with spaces in them.

-

Regards,
Stephen
Topic ontology recapitulates entropic phylogeny.

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Stephen Harris]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:



Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce




When trying to your file, use the ps2pdf viewer.

Do either of these bugs appear relevant to your case?

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2588
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2419

--
Stephen
Topic ontology recapitulates entropic phylogeny.

Help regarding lyx

[pramod salunkhe]

Dear Sir

I am using lyx from last 2 months. I found It is very useful for report writing.
I have few doubts about it. Could you please clear it?

1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The error 
is "No information for viewing pdf".

2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write "FIG" instead of "Figure" before 
the capion starts.

3.Suppose I have started to write a report in lyx. On the first page of lyx I 
want the page No. of 23. How can I do this?

Waiting for your reply.

Thank you

Yours Sincerely

Pramod


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Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:04, Stephen Harris wrote:
> Jose' Matos wrote:
> >
> >   Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready
> > to go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux
> > distributions.
>
> You know best! Is there an objective method used in determining
> if Gnome or KDE, Nedit or LyX, goes into the primary distribution
> while the other contender is placed into extras? I was thinking if
> statistics were kept on "yum install foo" downloads (not who did it)
> that the frequency of download would be an objective measure. Maybe
> that would only work if both similar programs started in extras.

  It is not easy to explain, some of the reasons are historical, and the 
border between Core and Extras is becoming blurred (and this is good). The 
goal for upcoming versions is for the Extras to be included in the 
installation process. That will mean a support for installing either from the 
network or from supplementary cd's or dvd's.

  Things are improving a lot and I like the way it is coming. :-)

> I gave the Chris Karakas instructions a try, but it became hard
> to obtain the packages or the right versions, maybe that was on
> Cygwin; it was harder than following Michael Gertz instuctions!

  I intend to look his document after July (I am really busy now), I have 
several ideas how things can improve regarding lyx and docbook.

> I think yum or other programs like it, is the single best reason
> to use Linux rather than Windows. I can remember if you wanted to
> install a new program which would take 10 minutes, finding and
> installing all the dependencies could take an hour, even if they
> were listed beforehand and I don't think they were always listed.
> Maybe I should have used the word default rather than primary.

  :-)

> My final question. I was reading about fontconfig because of
> installing the Bakoma fonts which are in zip format into Cygwin.
> (This is something easy to do in Windows, install fonts.)
> I read there is a dependency to freetype. The freetype page
> mentions there is a new May31,06 version of KDE which doesn't
> have security problems because it uses fontconfig without
> freetype. Also it mentions an rpm freetype patch package suitable
> for using with Cygwin's rpm package. So does yum or rpm, when it
> installs fonts, write to those associated .conf files (fc-cache)?

  No idea. :-(

> Best regards,

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:29, David Neeley wrote:
> There are a number of package/installation systems in Linux--perhaps
> as we get true Linux Standard Base-compliant we can settle those down
> a great deal! I have also heard good things about yum (making up for
> some of the rpm deficiencies); yast keeps getting better; of course
> Debian led the way with apt/dpkg; and others such as portage are also
> supposed to be excellent.

  I am sorry for the out of topic here.

  Note that it is unfair to compare rpm with apt/dpkg. Actually I used to 
manage rpms with apt.

  Referring only to debian and fedora here as the same applies to other 
distributions we are dealing on three levels here:

  package - rpm or deb
  package manager - yum or apt
  distribution- fedora or debian

  We need to distribution level to define common policies that make it easy to 
interoperate between different packages. That is what is taking time to 
define in Extras and it succeeded so that now Core is following the policies 
established in Extras.

  What people refer as the "rpm hell" was the absence of a policy so that 
packages could interoperate. It is not enough to have a tongue, we need to 
speak the same language so that communication happens. ;-)

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Help regarding lyx

[Charles de Miramon]

pramod salunkhe wrote:


> 3.Suppose I have started to write a report in lyx. On the first page of
> lyx I want the page No. of 23. How can I do this?
> 
The page number is kept in a counter called page. You have to set it to the
correct number.

Put in ERT at the top of your document 
\setcounter{page}{23}

-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Isaac Pante]

Hello everybody!

I'm very fond of Lyx but I've got a problem with it. I followed the
instructions (of this page: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/
qa1067.html), created a ".MacOSX" directory in my home folder and
inserted the following "environment.plist" file:





BIBINPUTS
~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib
BSTINPUTS
~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst
DISPLAY
:0.0
LANG
FR
OUTPUT_CHARSET
FR.iso8859-1



Here is my problem: the help menus (user's guide, tutorial, etc.) are
now in french, but my GUI remains in english. How can I translate it?

Thanks for your help!

Isaac Pante


[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.isaacpante.net

Problems with citations and URL

[Gustav Von Sydow]

Hi!

I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
entry in the database looks like this:

 

@article{basic_vulnerability,

AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},

TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},

JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},

URL=
{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

}

 

I use normal plain bibliography and can't get the URLs to show in the
bibliography, any suggestions? 

 

 

I have tried with natbib but get some strange errors: 

 

Missing } inserted. -> But where is it inserted?

Missing $ inserted. -> hm

Extra }, or forgotten $.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} -> what?

Missing $ inserted.

 ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} -> well I still do not
understand 

 

Any help appreciated

 

/ Gustav

 

dvipng error and failed preview

[Stefano Grioni]

Hello,

I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char 
preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict 
begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.


And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile 
0lyxpreview.tex


Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Thx a lot

Re: Problems with citations and URL

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

>>Subject: Problems with citations and URL
>>Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:13:34 +0200
>>From: "Gustav Von Sydow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: 
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
>>entry in the database looks like this:
>>
>> 
>>
>>@article{basic_vulnerability,
>>
>>AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},
>>
>>TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},
>>
>>JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},
>>
>>URL=
>>{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}
>>
>>}
>>
>> 
>>
>>I use normal plain bibliography and can't get the URLs to show in the
>>bibliography, any suggestions? 

Normal won't work, natbib should.
Here I have urlint as the field name for url, don't remember where this comes 
from (natbib doc ?),
but it works.
   urlint = {http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

>>
>>Missing } inserted. -> But where is it inserted?
>>
>>Missing $ inserted. -> hm
>>
>>Extra }, or forgotten $.
>>
>> ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} -> what?
>>
>>Missing $ inserted.
>>
>> ...elogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf} -> well I still do not
>>understand 

Typical of _ being found where it should not (in plain text): latex tries to
make it in math, where it is legal.
Seems due to the unrecognised url field, or to a missing \url{} escape command,
so you may also try
   url = 
{\url{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}}
   
(add \usepackage{url} in the preamble of the document, lyx can't infere the 
need of url.sty
from external bibtex data.

HTH

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: Lyx: LATEX error "Cannot determine size of graphic in ..."

[Holger Blasum]

Dear J Marton,

On 06-06, J. Marton wrote:
> "Package graphics Error: Division  by 0.
>   Arithmetic overflow.
>   LATEX error "Cannot determine size of graphic in ..."
>   
>   1.) I get the same this message, when trying to export pdf (pdflatex) .  
> Please, maybe You can help me?

Maybe the graphic you include is broken in a way that the image
converting software invoked by latex assumes
the image is of length or width 0? Does this error also occur with, for
example, the graphic you can download at 
http://www.lyx.org/images/lyx_logo_hi.gif ?

>   2.) I have the pictures for my LYX doc. in a file on USBstick. How can  I 
> make, that whenever I save the Lyxfile as LYX or export the lyxfile  as TEX, 
> the pictures in the Lyxfile are also saved and exported. So  that when 
> emailing it, others can view the files without the file  containing the 
> pictures. This means, without possessing the USBstick  with the pictures.

As far as I know (the other users on the list might want to correct me if
this is wrong), you cannot encapsulate graphics right into lyx or even 
tex files. Two alternatives: (1) when you email it, send it eg as PDF
(File->Export->PDF, any of the options), (2) if you want others to
change it, create a folder (e.g.) C:\MyLyxDocument\ and another folder 
C:\MyLyxDocument\Images\. Put your lyx file (say MyDocument.lyx) into 
C:\MyLyxDocument\, put the image(s) (say MyImage.gif) 
in the folder C:\MyLyxDocument\Images\ and when you are inserting an 
image (via Insert->Graphics) specify a relative path "Images\MyImage.gif" 
in the "File" line of the Graphics Insertion Menu. If you use relative
paths like that, you simply later can create zip of 
the entire C:\MyLyxDocument folder and its subfolders and send it 
around.

Regards,

-- 
Holger Blasum +49-174-7313590 (gsm) GnuPG 1024D/ACDFC3B769DC1ED66B47


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Description: Digital signature

Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Georg Baum]

Stefano Grioni wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char
> preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
> dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict
> begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.

This is a harmless warning, it appears also when dvipng is working.

> And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile
> 0lyxpreview.tex
> 
> Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Go to the temp folder where 0lyxpreview.tex is created, and run latex that
file by hand. Then you will see the error messages.


Georg

index

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

minor question:


if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is inserted, it is not 
found. 

CO(indexword CO) plays an important role

I searched for 
CO plays

Same with a space between CO and indexword

CO (indexword CO) plays an important role

Is this intended?

major question:


If i index a word which should be emphasized because it is a scientific name
it is shown in the Index at the begin of the index correctly emphasized but 
independent of its alphabetical status -which is ok.
However, the names are shown according to their sequential occurrance, not 
according to their alphabet:

indexword \emph{Xanthium}
indexword \emph{Kalanchoe}
indexword \emph{Arabidopsis}

and now come the `normal´ indexed words
.
.
.

Any workaround besides handwork in the index file?

Wolfgang

Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Stefano Grioni]

Georg Baum wrote:

Stefano Grioni wrote:

  

Hello,

I'm running lyx 1.4.1 on archlinux, and when I insert a special char
preview fails, and when I leave math-mode I get :
dvipng warning: at (-1,-3) ignored header \special{!userdict
begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}.



This is a harmless warning, it appears also when dvipng is working.

  

And sometime launching some files I get latex failed to compile
0lyxpreview.tex

Does anybody know how to solve this problem?



Go to the temp folder where 0lyxpreview.tex is created, and run latex that
file by hand. Then you will see the error messages.


Georg

  


Ok thanks, but do you have an idea about why it fail the preview ? Or anyway 
where to search (for example a lib missing or so?)

Re: dvipng error and failed preview

[Georg Baum]

Stefano Grioni wrote:

> Ok thanks, but do you have an idea about why it fail the preview ?

No.

> Or 
> anyway where to search (for example a lib missing or so?)

The error messages you would get if you did what I wrote would tell more
about the source of the problem. You can post them here if they don't make
sense to you.


Georg

Re: Problems with citations and URL

[K. Elo]

Hi Gustav,

I had a similar problem some time ago and posted a question. This topic
was discussed quite thoroughly, but here my suggestion:

2006-06-07 12:13 +0200, Gustav Von Sydow:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using LYX 1.4.1 for windows and wibTeX to edit my references. An
> entry in the database looks like this:
> 
>  
> 
> @article{basic_vulnerability,
> 
> AUTHOR= {Mark Collier},
> 
> TITLE= {Basic Vulnerability Issues for SIP Security},
> 
> JOURNAL= {SecureLogix Corporation},
> 
> URL=
> {http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}
> 
> }
> 

Here use:

URL=\url{http://download.securelogix.com/library/SIP_Security030105.pdf}

instead. Hope this helps!

Greetings,
Kimmo

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Isaac Pante wrote:


Hello everybody!

I'm very fond of Lyx but I've got a problem with it. I followed the
instructions (of this page: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/
qa1067.html), created a ".MacOSX" directory in my home folder and
inserted the following "environment.plist" file:





BIBINPUTS
~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib
BSTINPUTS
~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst
DISPLAY
:0.0
LANG
FR
OUTPUT_CHARSET
FR.iso8859-1



Here is my problem: the help menus (user's guide, tutorial, etc.) are
now in french, but my GUI remains in english. How can I translate it?

Thanks for your help!


I believe all that *should* be necessary is

LANG
fr

(note the lower case "fr"). However, it doesn't seem to be working  
for me either, though I was confident it worked at least for LyX/ 
Mac-1.4.0. It does work on development versions of LyX-1.4.2, which  
is not yet ready for release. I'm not sure what to say at this point.


Anyone else have suggestions? (Is this working for anyone else with  
LyX/Mac-1.4.1?)


Bennett

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Bennett> Anyone else have suggestions? (Is this working for anyone
Bennett> else with LyX/Mac-1.4.1?)

I think it does not work in 1.4.1. There was a bug in the way we found
the locale directory. A workaround is to set LYX_LOCALEDIR variable.

JMarc

Re: Help regarding lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

pramod salunkhe wrote:


1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The error is 
"No information for viewing pdf".


Go to Edit->Preferences...->File Formats, highlight PDF (ps2pdf) in the 
format list, type the name of your viewer (for instance, acrord32 if you 
use Acrobat Reader) in the Viewer field, click Modify and Apply.  Repeat 
for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF (dvipdfm),  then click Save.


You may also need to go to Edit->Preferences...->Paths and add the path 
to your viewer (for instance, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader) 
to the PATH Prefix (separated from the rest by a semicolon).


If you use Acrobat Reader, take a look at 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1.  It's a work-around for the 
problem that you can't preview changes to a document in Reader if an 
earlier version of the document is open (in other words, you have to 
remember to close the PDF before you edit and preview again).


2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write "FIG" instead of "Figure" before 
the capion starts.



In the body of your document, before the first figure, insert a TeX 
inset (also known as ERT, either Insert->TeX, Ctrl-L, or use the TEX 
button on the tool bar), and enter \renewcommand{\figurename}{FIG.} in 
the inset.


/Paul

unicode character input

[Dennis Nezic]

why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
use :|.

Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[Richard Heck]

pramod salunkhe wrote:
> 1. Recently I loaded Lyx 1.3.7. In that it is not showing pdf viewer. The 
> error is "No information for viewing pdf".
>   
Look in Preferences > File Formats and tell LyX what program you want to
use to view PDF.
> 2. In the figure caption I want lyx to write "FIG" instead of "Figure" before 
> the capion starts.
>   
This kind of issue has nothing to do with LyX: It's a LaTeX matter. (The
same is true of your third question, already answered by someone else.)
So if you want to do this kind of customization, get a copy of /The
LaTeX Companion/, which is a good guide to some of the most commonly
used LaTeX packages. Try putting this in ERT at the beginning of your
document:
\renewcommand{\figurename}[1]{FIG #1}
It seems only to work, however, with some classes: It works with book,
but not with paper. It does seem to work with report, so maybe it will
work for you.

NOTE TO LYX MAINTAINERS: It does not work to put the above command in
the preamble. I'd count that as a bug. (This is true both in 1.3.7 and
in 1.4.1.) The reason seems to be that the babel package is loaded only
after the rest of the preamble has been.

Richard Heck

LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using LyX  
1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert > Graphics gives  
only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the graphics  
file I'm trying to insert and the message "Error converting to  
loadable format." (In case it's relevant, I downloaded 1.4.1 after my  
Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5. During the upgrade, my hard drive  
was replaced, but the line drawings remained untouched on the  
university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

>>Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:54:32 -0400
>>From: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: pramod salunkhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LyX Users List 
>>
>>Subject: Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)
>>
[..].
>>
>>NOTE TO LYX MAINTAINERS: It does not work to put the above command in
>>the preamble. I'd count that as a bug. (This is true both in 1.3.7 and
>>in 1.4.1.) The reason seems to be that the babel package is loaded only
>>after the rest of the preamble has been.

I'm not a LyX maintainer, but this point has been discussed already AFAIR.
babel is loaded after the preamble without arguments, so that you may
load is yourself in the preamble (even with a different option than the class 
language option)
to get your result:
\usepackage{babel}
\renewcommand{\figurename}[1]{FIG #1}
should do it.

If you want the behaviour permanently, you may change the cfg file, e.g. in 
frenchb.cfg:
\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{{\scshape Figure}}}
may be changed in
\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{{\scshape Fig.}}}

With TL 2005 (and I guess with TeteX 3), frenchb.cfg can be changed in a local 
dir ~/.texlive2005

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: unicode character input

[Georg Baum]

Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 18:50 schrieb Dennis Nezic:
> why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
> those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
> use :|.

unicode and deadkeys are two different things. unicode does not work, it 
is planned for 1.5. deadkeys work fine for me, i. e. I can compose an é 
by first pressing ' and then e.


Georg

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

After more investigation, the figures that yield the conversion error  
(below) appear to be figures that I had previously uploaded to the  
submissions website of a journal. Other figures load just fine. (So  
this does not seem to be a 1.3.4 vs 1.4.1 problem.) Can the process  
of uploading a figure file in some cases have an effect on the  
original figure file, an effect that then prevents that figure from  
loading into LyX?


Bruce

On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using LyX  
1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert > Graphics  
gives only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the  
graphics file I'm trying to insert and the message "Error  
converting to loadable format." (In case it's relevant, I  
downloaded 1.4.1 after my Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5.  
During the upgrade, my hard drive was replaced, but the line  
drawings remained untouched on the university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: unicode character input

[Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto]

Citando a Dennis Nezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app i
use :|.


What LyX version are you using? I had a similar problem a while ago and 
it was solved when I upgraded to 1.4.1.


(Thanks to everyone who suggested it, BTW)

xpm-Konverter?

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I`m starting to work with Lyx again with Lyx 1.4.1 (windows
installer, german).

I cannot view the tutorial als a PDF-file: I get the information:
"Keine Information vorhanden, um Dateien im xpm-Format nach png zu
konvertieren. Definieren Sie einen Konverter in den Einstellungen."

What kind of konverter is this? What do I have to do?



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Re: unicode character input

[Dennis Nezic]

> On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:30:01 -0400,
> Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Citando a Dennis Nezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > why does it not seem to be possible to input unicode characters (ie.
> > those with deadkeys) into lyx? ... as i can do with every other app
> > i use :|.
> 
> What LyX version are you using? I had a similar problem a while ago
> and it was solved when I upgraded to 1.4.1.

1.4.1 ... which doesn't support unicode.

i can't wait for 1.5, as georg mentioned a bit earlier.

Re: Changing lyx GUI language on MAC OS X

[Georg Koe]

Well - thank's for the hint with LYX_LOCALEDIR. I set it to
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/locale in
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and now I have my German userinterface.
The Problem is that the interface doesn't show the right charakters
for umlauts but e.g. "o instead of ö. I have a screenshot attached.
(LyX 1.4.1, lang de, MacOS X 10.4.6)
Thank's for any hints on how to get the right special characters in
the menues etc., G.


lyx_interface_error_de.gif
Description: GIF image

upper case letter with accentuation

[paul saumane]

1) Looking at the help, I cannot find the way to type accentuated upper case 
letters (capital letters with accent). 
I just found capital A with grave accent typing Alt, ctrl, 7 then shift a.
Any clue to guide me.

2) In a title, is there a way to mix character size with bolding and slanting 
on several lines to reproduce the way it was done on old books.
I tried it using title and ctrl new line but the first line(s) are not taken 
into account in the final document.

Thanks and regards

Paul

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Bruce Pourciau]

I seem to be replying to my own requests for help, not with help or a  
solution, unfortunately, but with new information about the problem.  
My apologies for not investigating for a longer time before I queried  
the list, but I'm hyperventilating at the thought of having to  
recreate all these drawings.


Here's the problem, as I understand it at the moment: A manuscript  
(with many figures) created in LyX/Mac 1.3.4 used to launch perfectly  
in 1.3.4 with all the figures loading nicely. When I tried today to  
open that manuscript in LyX/Mac 1.4.1, none of the figures loaded:  
the graphics boxes either said "Error in converting to loadable  
format" or something like "Not found."


More detail: In a folder called Research, I have a folder called  
Prop6 and other folders. The Prop6 folder contains original figures  
(in cvs format, created using Canvas) and also figures in eps format  
(without preview) made from these original Canvas figures. The eps  
figures used to load just fine in LyX/Mac 1.3.4. Now in LyX/mac 1.4.1  
these same eps figures give the message "Error in converting to  
loadable format." Even if I take one of the original cvs figures  
(which are in a subfolder of the Prop6 folder), save it in eps format  
(without preview), I still get the same error! (Since the original  
cvs figures were never uploaded to the journal submission site (see  
below), it now seems unlikely that the journal submission uploading  
process has anything to do with my problem.)


Figures NOT in the Prop6 folder but created in much the same way --  
using Canvas to make the original, then a Save As in eps format  
without preview --  load perfectly in LyX/Mac 1.4.1. Could there be  
something in the way I did the Save As on the Prop6 figures -- some  
option I did or did not select -- that could be causing this?


Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce





On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

After more investigation, the figures that yield the conversion  
error (below) appear to be figures that I had previously uploaded  
to the submissions website of a journal. Other figures load just  
fine. (So this does not seem to be a 1.3.4 vs 1.4.1 problem.) Can  
the process of uploading a figure file in some cases have an effect  
on the original figure file, an effect that then prevents that  
figure from loading into LyX?


Bruce

On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

Some line drawings (in eps format) which loaded just fine using  
LyX 1.3.4 now do not load in 1.4.1. In LyX 1.4.1 Insert > Graphics  
gives only a graphics box that contains the (correct) name of the  
graphics file I'm trying to insert and the message "Error  
converting to loadable format." (In case it's relevant, I  
downloaded 1.4.1 after my Mac OS had been upgraded to 10.4.5.  
During the upgrade, my hard drive was replaced, but the line  
drawings remained untouched on the university server.)


Any help would be much appreciated.

Bruce

Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]

[Richard Heck]

One of the things I personally find annoying about LaTeX is the syntax,
and BibTeX is even worse, frankly, but it's not that insanely
complicated once you adjust to the stack-oriented character of the
language. You may find it useful to keep pen and paper nearby so you can
keep track of what's on the stack as you trace the code.

If you haven't read it, obviously you should read btxhak.dvi, the guide
to hacking BibTeX style files. It takes a while---I know---to get a
sense for how the language works, and how these style files work, but it
will start to make sense after a while. You should also export to LaTeX,
compile the file manually, and look at what is being written to the .bbl
file, when various bibliography styles are used.

The labels used in the bibliography, and in the text, are set by the
\bibitem command that the style file writes to the .bbl file. In many
style files, this seems to be written by the output.bibitem function,
which is called at the beginning of each of the functions, article,
book, etc, that are called for the appropriate sorts of items. Here it
is from plain.bst:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  "\bibitem{" write$
  cite$ write$
  "}" write$
  newline$
  ""
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

This ends up writing something like:

\bibitem{Descartes:Rules}

to your .bbl file. Compare this function, from alpha.bst:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  "\bibitem[" write$
  label write$
  "]{" write$
  cite$ write$
  "}" write$
  newline$
  ""
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

This writes something like:

\bibitem[Des82]{Descartes:Rules}

to the .bbl file, with the result that the label "Des82" is used both in
the text and the bibliography. Since there is no such argument to
\bibitem in the previous case, the default is used: The cite key is
simply a number.

The variable "label" is what holds the value of the cite key in
alpha.bst. Where was it set? You will note that it is mentioned in the
ENTRY declaration, both in plain.bst and in alpha.bst, as a "string
variable" that is associated with each item in the bibliography. This is
NOT an item set in the .bib file itself---unlike author, title,
etc---but rather a new variable that has been declared to be associated
with each item and that can be manipulated in the .bst file. In
plain.bst, the label variable is set in the function longest.label.pass:

FUNCTION {longest.label.pass}
{ number.label int.to.str$ 'label := % number.label was initialized to 1 in 
initialize.longest.label
 % its string form is here being assigned 
to label
  number.label #1 + 'number.label := %this increments number.label
  label width$ longest.label.width > 
{ label 'longest.label :=
  label width$ 'longest.label.width :=
}
'skip$
  if$
}

(I've added comments.) This function is called for each item in the
bibliography with:

ITERATE(longest.label.pass)

which is itself called after the list has been sorted and such. If you
look at alpha.bst, you will see that label is set for each item in
calc.label, which is itself called in the function presort, called with
ITERATE(presort).

Hint: If you want to know where a variable named "var" is set, search
for: 'var, since an assignment to var will look like: 'var :=, the
assigned value being whatever is on the top of the stack. (If you see
whatever 'var ;=, then the occurrence of "whatever" is just pushing a
value onto the stack.)

So the label variable exists in plain.bst, but it is not used there. But
we can use it. For example, suppose we change the definition of
output.bibitem in plain.bst to the following:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  "\bibitem[FROG" write$
  label write$
  "]{" write$
  cite$ write$
  "}" write$
  newline$
  ""
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

Then we get cite keys like: FROG3, FROG25, etc.

Your request is more complicated, because we want something different
for different types of entries. But that's OK, because we have the entry
type in the type$ variable, and we can just check that. The easiest
thing to do would seem to be to define a new function that will print
the prefix we want depending upon the entry type. This function will
handle articles, incollections, and books:

FUNCTION {output.prefix}
{
  type$ "incollection" =
  type$ "article" =
  + %hack for "or"
{ "Art" }
{
  type$ "book" =
{ "Book" }
{ "Other" }
  if$
}
  if$
}

If you need to add other types, that's obviously easy to do. (There's no
elsif here, so we have to use nested ifs. Exercise: Code up a switch or
case statement!) We then redefine output.bibitem as follows:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  "\bibitem[" write$
  output.prefix write$
  label write$
  "]{" write$
  cite$ write$
  "}" write$
  newline$
  ""
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

That should do what you need, more or less.

Richard


Ares wrote:
> As I wrote in a previous post, I would like the references of my PhD
> 

Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]

[Sara Stymne]

Ares skrev:
As I wrote in a previous post, I would like the references of my PhD 
thesis

to be arranged as follows:


References

Articles
[Art1] article1
[Art2] article2
etc
Books
[Book1] book1
[Book2] book2
etc
etc
...


LyX 1.4.1 supports "sectioned bibliography", so it is possible to 
split the

Bibliography chapter in sections.

In order to have the citation as [Art1] and [Book1] etc, I need to hack a
bst file, as suggested by Jürgen. I had a look to plain.bst and it 
doesn't

sound so easy!

In the end I would just like to add a prefix (Book, Art etc) to the
reference numbering and to use a separate bst file for each entry (Books,
Articles etc), so that the numbering starts with each "section".

Is there a resource where I can find how bst files work? or is there 
someone

who can help me?

Thanks for support,
Diego


Hi!

I think that a much easier way to get a bst file than to start hack it 
is to use the makebst utility. (run latex makebst) Then you get a series 
of multiple choice question on how you want to format oyur 
bibliographical entries. Then two files are created, a dbj file and a 
bst file. The bst file is the bibliography file created. The dbj file is 
a batch file that is run through latex to create the bst file.


If you later want to tweak the style file, this can easily be done by 
changing the dbj file, which is quite easy. Just comment out the option 
you want to change using a "#", and uncomment the line with the option 
you prefer instead. The you just run the dbj file thorugh latex to 
update the bst file!


You might not be able to do everything this way, but at least it is easy 
and it helped me a lot!


/Sara

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Stephen Harris]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:


Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce



Did I miss you making a minimal example file available?
Usually a .lyx file and the suspected .eps images linked
to a webpage to make a download from. Maybe you can send
the files one at a time to the list and not exceed the
limit the user list imposes on file attachments.

I was testing the Win32 Latex version from TexLive2005
and encountered your problem. In my case it was due to
a problem with the Latex installation. I will try to
find the solution in order to point to the problem area
on your installation. Sometimes making a minimal file
will discover the problem for you. If your example file
works on (our)other systems then you will know it is
your environment. This may be a wrong path to the folder
containing your eps files in your environment, or, they
don't get copied. So make a simple file with just one
or a few of the eps images and see if it works. Perhaps
you don't have all the helper apps for LyX installed or
one is working right. Maybe you could convert the eps
image to .png and use the .png filename in your doc
and try pdflatex and see if it views (or eps2pdf).

Here is an example that caused me a similar problem and
the fix. I'm not suggesting this is your particular
problem, just an example of possible causes. Your earlier
version, 1.3.4, maybe used some files that are obsolete
on your newer installation, perhaps Latex, not LyX.
I really think it is a good idea to try converting your
eps file(s) to another image format and including that
in your doc and see if it now displays. There may be
a simpler solution depending on the problem, or, the
solution may have a learning curve, so trying to change
the image format may be the quickest. I think there is
a method to use pdf and maintain (needed?) scalability.
Finally, an advantage of a minimal file displaying the
problem is you may be fortunate enough to have Paul Rubin
scutinize it.



Dan Luecking wrote:

"The eps to pdf conversion does fail out of the box, but
that seems tobe because dvipdfm can't take PDF higher than
version 1.3. One needs to change the config file so that
the eps to pdf conversion process
(the line beginning with D) produces version 1.3 or lower.
I use  D "epstopdf --outfile=%o --nocompress %i"
in config and edit epstopdf.pl (which produces 1.4 by
default on my system). Instead of editing epstopdf.pl,
one could  set GS_OPTIONS=-dCompatibilityLevel=1.2
on the command line or use a gs command in config that sets
the level:
  D "gswin32c.exe -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dUseFlateCompression=true -dNOPAUSE
-sOutputFile=%o %i -c quit"

(all on one line). Problems can occur "out of the box"
because theout-of-the-box config file has incorrect quoting
for windows. The config-win provided (copy it to config)
uses epstopdf. Using dvipdfm's -vv option quickly showed me
where the problem lied (in the pdf version produced by epstopdf).

I remove quoting around the file names (%o and %i) in config's D
option, and never use filenames or paths with spaces in them."

-

Regards,
Stephen
Topic ontology recapitulates entropic phylogeny.

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

[Stephen Harris]

Bruce Pourciau wrote:



Thanks for any help the list can provide.

Bruce




When trying to your file, use the ps2pdf viewer.

Do either of these bugs appear relevant to your case?

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2588
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2419

--
Stephen
Topic ontology recapitulates entropic phylogeny.