Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On 28 Dezember 2007 23:18:39 Bob Lounsbury: Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Cheers and Happy New Year! Bob Lounsbury Ubuntu 7.10; LyX-1.5.2 (Fri, Oct 5, 2007, ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb) Waiting for 1.5.3 Cheers Ignacio
Linebreaks in tabulars?
Is there someway to make linebreaks in a tabular for a single cell? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linebreaks-in-tabulars--tp14545913p14545913.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured again when I started a backport of 1.5.3 for the first time on a fresh system and today it's gone on the same box. On my computer at home and my laptop I've been working with full speed and joy for the last two month. I've nearly given up on searching for a testcase where it's reproducible now. Out of curiosity I've taken a look at the bugs filled against LyX in the Ubuntu launchpad thingy last week and found at least those three describing the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/136632 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/94706 So I tink that the problem exits to some extend. Beside that 1.5.3 seems to be solid now. Thanks to you and all the other people involved. :) Cheers, Sven -- There's no need for tears, cause there's no need to cry. That love that you leave will never be denied. [ Flogging Molly - Laura ] Gebuehrenboykott 2008 BU WTAL http://www.boykott-wuppertal.de
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured again when I started a backport of 1.5.3 for the first time on a fresh system and today it's gone on the same box. On my computer at home and my laptop I've been working with full speed and joy for the last two month. I've nearly given up on searching for a testcase where it's reproducible now. Out of curiosity I've taken a look at the bugs filled against LyX in the Ubuntu launchpad thingy last week and found at least those three describing the same problem: Hum, why are those people discussing the bugs there instead of our bugzilla and/or the mailing lists? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/136632 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813 The slowness due to external clipboard has been solved in 1.5.2 IIRC. As to the scrolling and redraw problem, I am almost certain that it is an issue with X11 and the Window manager. LyX uses a pixmap (QPixmap) for the work area drawing and this is handled at the server side under X11; if for some reason, the pixmap transfer to screen is delayed, LyX will obviously appear to be very slow. I cannot do much without some profiling result but I understand at the same time that it's hard to profile if the slowness is intermittent. I could send out a patch that uses an image instead of a pixmap for drawing; the difference is that an image will be processed by the X11 client. This could speedup local execution of LyX but will be a problem for LyX over the network. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/94706 Scrolling will be fixed in 1.6. Abdel.
Problem rendering (QT4) itatlic Computer Modern
I'm using the OpenType version available at: http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/download.html as my LyX interface fonts. Please see the screenshot attached. Italic CM serif is not properly displayed, but it *does* show up correctly in Opera (qt4 based) and qtconfig. My question: Is it a LyX/QT rendering bug, or a (metric) problem of this particular font? I use LyX 1.5.3 and 1.60svn. attachment: screenshot.png
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
El vie, 28-12-2007 a las 15:18 -0700, Bob Lounsbury escribió: Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Laptop: Ubuntu 7.10, Lyx 1.5.1 at the moment (Ubuntu plus Gentoo just in a few days, if possible...:-) Desktop (home): Ubuntu 7.10, Lyx 1.5.1 Cheers and Happy New Year! Bob Lounsbury Same to you! Daniel
Re: Linebreaks in tabulars?
bigblop wrote: Is there someway to make linebreaks in a tabular for a single cell? You have to assign a fixed width to the column containing the cell. /Paul
Dutch LyX
Dear LyX users, I would like to write my reports in dutch, but I don't have a 'patch' that makes all LyX inputs dutch (for example: Abstract, References, etc..). How can I change this so that I can easially switch between dutch and english? I am not really handy with all this MikTeX stuff, so I hope you guys can help me out! Thanks! Tim
Re: Dutch LyX
Tim Vos wrote: I would like to write my reports in dutch, but I don't have a 'patch' that makes all LyX inputs dutch (for example: Abstract, References, etc..). How can I change this so that I can easially switch between dutch and english? Select dutch in Document-Settings-Language. This will load the dutch hyphenation patterns, enable dutch spell checking and translate strings like References, Chapter etc. in the output. To select different languages for single paragraphs or expressions, use Edit-Text Style-Language. The strings remain untranslated (i.e., English) in the LyX work area, though. The reason is that the dutch translation of the LyX user interface has not been maintained since March 2003 and was removed from the release (since it does not have the minimum number of required translations). If you feel like it, you're welcome to get the dutch translation into shape again. All that it needs is a text editor and dutch language skills: http://www.lyx.org/devel/translation.php http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/README.localization If you're interested, contact the lyx-docs (at) lists (dot) lyx (dot) org Jürgen
How do you handle definition lists?
Hi all, My new book will have a glossary or definition list at the beginning of each chapter, in order to introduce words introduced in the chapter. I could do it with a table, or with the Description environment (my favorite), or maybe some other way. Curious -- in what format do you all usually put such glossaries? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: importing a database
Pol wrote: I would like to import a whole database into a lyx table, to edit before printing. Specifically, i am using tellico as database, but any solution is welcome. I know i can export as bibtex, but how to import into a table? I don't know tellico, but a general approach is to export the database to a spreadsheet, either directly (if supported) or by exporting a text file and then importing the text file into the spreadsheet. Then create a table of the appropriate dimensions in the LyX document and follow the tips on the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets) to copy the data from the spreadsheet to the LyX doc. /Paul
Reminder of otl2lyx.awk
Hi all, Just a reminder for those of you using both VimOutliner and LyX that you can convert a tab indented outline with colon+space defined body text with otl2lyx.awk, available here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Otl2lyx First you fill out the level to environment table file so that the program correctly converts between indent levels and LyX environments, and then you run it like this: otl2lyx.awk level2environmentfile outlinefile The resulting LyX content comes out stdout and can be redirected to a file. Then you simply build an empty LyX doc in the desired document class, and using an editor put in the LyX content from otl2lyx.awk. otl2lyx.awk has been tested and works for LyX 1.4.x. I hear 1.5.x has a different format, so obviously otl2lyx.awk must be changed to output the 1.5.x type LyX, or maybe the LyX project offers a converter. Either way it's not rocket science. Modern LyX offers an outline mode similar to MS Word. IMHO that's the single greatest feature advance since character styles. However, I still use VimOutliner to create the initial outline, because VimOutliner is so amazingly fast for a touch typist. It's nice to know that once I've converted to LyX, I can continue to handle my document as an outline within LyX. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
use of paralist
Hi, recently paralist was mentioned to permit lists in regular paragraphs in LaTeX. My idea how to use so far is to define layout entries to start an 'inparaenum' environment and to end it. Supposing that I can use a normal item inside. I don't consider this a nice 'lyxish' solution. Would be interested whether somebody has already experiences with this package. TIA Hellmut -- CORPHIS - Service and More GmbH Co. KG Dr. Hellmut Weber | Partner Degenfeldstraße 2 | 80803 München fon +49 89 228 468 50 | fax +49 89 228 468 55 mobil +49 172 8450321 | http://www.serviceandmore.info | [EMAIL PROTECTED] CORPHIS Service and More GmbH Co. KG, München, Registergericht München
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
My family uses 1.3.6 on three Ubuntu 6.06 LTS boxes for books, articles, reports, Broadway, and classroom materials. I've home built 1.5.2 for Ubuntu Feisty for testing. Have not decided to upgrade the rest yet but will test 1.5.3 soon. An open-source project that I work with, the Enhanced Machine Controller also uses 1.3.6 extensively for documentation. Lyx files are included in the CVS for the project. We offer the option of automatic document preparation during make and provide automated updates if changes are made to the lyx code for the developer versions of documents on our site. That documentation runs several hundred pages of PDF and quite a stack of HTML. The curious can browse/download at http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/. Really intrepid explorers are welcome at http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/emc2/docs/src/ Thanks to all for a great product, great service, and really quick help. Ray Henry
I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi all, For the first time I've gone beyond book outlining in VO (VimOutliner) and am actually writing the book (via body text) in VO. What this does is eliminate the artificial demarkation between outlining and writing. It's very possible, and in fact quite likely, that some chapters will be ready for writing long before others are fully outlined. In the past this led me to either retard writing certain chapters, or prematurely convert to LyX. Now, to an extent, I can write one chapter while outlining another, and have everything come out well in the end. This is not a rigorous process. The VO writing will be only a very rough draft. It can't include things like Tips, Notes, character styles etc. Well, it could, but not without time consuming difficulty. Instead, this is an informal extension of traditional outlining. The goal is still to have the book really take shape in LyX. Fortunately, recent versions of LyX include an outline mode similar to what MS Word has had forever. This means that in all stages of development, outlining methods can be used. Early, when outlining speed is paramount, VO is used for speed, but some writing and formatting capabilities are available.. Later, when writing and formatting capabilities are most important, LyX is used, with the advantage that some outlining capabilities are still retained. Stay tuned... SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
This is quite interesting to me as I am also interested in writing a book with Lyx. I think I have seen some of your discussions in using VIM, and I guess now VIM outliner, with Lyx. Could you provide links to documents on your website and possibly posts on the Lyx user's mailing list where you discuss the use of VIM with Lyx? TIA Bob
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Since there seems to be some interest in this, I would like to offer my alternative experience. I am a great believer in outlines for anything longer than a letter to Mum. I also use them the way that Steve talks about - outline - write - outline, etc. My first experience was with Thinktank back in the prehistoric era. It had a neat feature called Hoist: one part of the outline was made to appear as the whole - a chapter in a book could be hoisted for that day's work and the rest of the material was well and truly out of the way. It is a form of folding. This hoisting is **very** valuable when writing longer texts. Emacs can be made to behave the same way with outline-minor-mode and foldout. The hoist is actually the foldout-zoom-subtree command. You can use outlining and write directly in LaTeX. So, what I do is much as described by Steve except at the end I can import a LaTeX file into LyX. Of course, it depends on whether you like emacs. I understand that not all people do :-). It would be a valuable feature to add directly to LyX (in case the developers have a lot of extra time on their hands!!!). Cheers, Alan
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Monday 31 December 2007 03:54:28 Typhoon wrote: Since there seems to be some interest in this, I would like to offer my alternative experience. I am a great believer in outlines for anything longer than a letter to Mum. I also use them the way that Steve talks about - outline - write - outline, etc. I'm also a fan of outlining. For the last year or so I have a been using a mind mapping tool called Kdissert. You can see some of its output in this posting (scroll down): http://www.unmusic.co.uk/index.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=29 The great thing about outlining graphically, is that you can put an idea down on the page without having to decide where it appears in the structure. This is useful for forgetful people like myself as I don't have to keep things in my head. The problem with this tool is that editors don't usually accept pitches in graphical form. This means that the process of pitching an article consists of mapping it out and then writing it up, which is rather long-winded. For this reason, like Steve, I've started to wonder if LyX itself can be used for outlining thanks to the new outlining sidebar. In the case of a detailed pitch, outlining and composing the pitch can be combined. I hear that 1.6 may contain folding section features? If so, this will make LyX even more plausible as an outliner. For the book that I am writing, I am hoping that I can start creating chapter outlines from my written notes using the graphical tool. Once this is done, I can start writing the actual chapters by flitting between the written notes and the graphical mind-map. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom etc.
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On 28 Dezember 2007 23:18:39 Bob Lounsbury: Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Cheers and Happy New Year! Bob Lounsbury Ubuntu 7.10; LyX-1.5.2 (Fri, Oct 5, 2007, ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb) Waiting for 1.5.3 Cheers Ignacio
Linebreaks in tabulars?
Is there someway to make linebreaks in a tabular for a single cell? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linebreaks-in-tabulars--tp14545913p14545913.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured again when I started a backport of 1.5.3 for the first time on a fresh system and today it's gone on the same box. On my computer at home and my laptop I've been working with full speed and joy for the last two month. I've nearly given up on searching for a testcase where it's reproducible now. Out of curiosity I've taken a look at the bugs filled against LyX in the Ubuntu launchpad thingy last week and found at least those three describing the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/136632 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/94706 So I tink that the problem exits to some extend. Beside that 1.5.3 seems to be solid now. Thanks to you and all the other people involved. :) Cheers, Sven -- There's no need for tears, cause there's no need to cry. That love that you leave will never be denied. [ Flogging Molly - Laura ] Gebuehrenboykott 2008 BU WTAL http://www.boykott-wuppertal.de
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured again when I started a backport of 1.5.3 for the first time on a fresh system and today it's gone on the same box. On my computer at home and my laptop I've been working with full speed and joy for the last two month. I've nearly given up on searching for a testcase where it's reproducible now. Out of curiosity I've taken a look at the bugs filled against LyX in the Ubuntu launchpad thingy last week and found at least those three describing the same problem: Hum, why are those people discussing the bugs there instead of our bugzilla and/or the mailing lists? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/136632 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813 The slowness due to external clipboard has been solved in 1.5.2 IIRC. As to the scrolling and redraw problem, I am almost certain that it is an issue with X11 and the Window manager. LyX uses a pixmap (QPixmap) for the work area drawing and this is handled at the server side under X11; if for some reason, the pixmap transfer to screen is delayed, LyX will obviously appear to be very slow. I cannot do much without some profiling result but I understand at the same time that it's hard to profile if the slowness is intermittent. I could send out a patch that uses an image instead of a pixmap for drawing; the difference is that an image will be processed by the X11 client. This could speedup local execution of LyX but will be a problem for LyX over the network. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/94706 Scrolling will be fixed in 1.6. Abdel.
Problem rendering (QT4) itatlic Computer Modern
I'm using the OpenType version available at: http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/download.html as my LyX interface fonts. Please see the screenshot attached. Italic CM serif is not properly displayed, but it *does* show up correctly in Opera (qt4 based) and qtconfig. My question: Is it a LyX/QT rendering bug, or a (metric) problem of this particular font? I use LyX 1.5.3 and 1.60svn. attachment: screenshot.png
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
El vie, 28-12-2007 a las 15:18 -0700, Bob Lounsbury escribió: Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Laptop: Ubuntu 7.10, Lyx 1.5.1 at the moment (Ubuntu plus Gentoo just in a few days, if possible...:-) Desktop (home): Ubuntu 7.10, Lyx 1.5.1 Cheers and Happy New Year! Bob Lounsbury Same to you! Daniel
Re: Linebreaks in tabulars?
bigblop wrote: Is there someway to make linebreaks in a tabular for a single cell? You have to assign a fixed width to the column containing the cell. /Paul
Dutch LyX
Dear LyX users, I would like to write my reports in dutch, but I don't have a 'patch' that makes all LyX inputs dutch (for example: Abstract, References, etc..). How can I change this so that I can easially switch between dutch and english? I am not really handy with all this MikTeX stuff, so I hope you guys can help me out! Thanks! Tim
Re: Dutch LyX
Tim Vos wrote: I would like to write my reports in dutch, but I don't have a 'patch' that makes all LyX inputs dutch (for example: Abstract, References, etc..). How can I change this so that I can easially switch between dutch and english? Select dutch in Document-Settings-Language. This will load the dutch hyphenation patterns, enable dutch spell checking and translate strings like References, Chapter etc. in the output. To select different languages for single paragraphs or expressions, use Edit-Text Style-Language. The strings remain untranslated (i.e., English) in the LyX work area, though. The reason is that the dutch translation of the LyX user interface has not been maintained since March 2003 and was removed from the release (since it does not have the minimum number of required translations). If you feel like it, you're welcome to get the dutch translation into shape again. All that it needs is a text editor and dutch language skills: http://www.lyx.org/devel/translation.php http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/README.localization If you're interested, contact the lyx-docs (at) lists (dot) lyx (dot) org Jürgen
How do you handle definition lists?
Hi all, My new book will have a glossary or definition list at the beginning of each chapter, in order to introduce words introduced in the chapter. I could do it with a table, or with the Description environment (my favorite), or maybe some other way. Curious -- in what format do you all usually put such glossaries? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: importing a database
Pol wrote: I would like to import a whole database into a lyx table, to edit before printing. Specifically, i am using tellico as database, but any solution is welcome. I know i can export as bibtex, but how to import into a table? I don't know tellico, but a general approach is to export the database to a spreadsheet, either directly (if supported) or by exporting a text file and then importing the text file into the spreadsheet. Then create a table of the appropriate dimensions in the LyX document and follow the tips on the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets) to copy the data from the spreadsheet to the LyX doc. /Paul
Reminder of otl2lyx.awk
Hi all, Just a reminder for those of you using both VimOutliner and LyX that you can convert a tab indented outline with colon+space defined body text with otl2lyx.awk, available here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Otl2lyx First you fill out the level to environment table file so that the program correctly converts between indent levels and LyX environments, and then you run it like this: otl2lyx.awk level2environmentfile outlinefile The resulting LyX content comes out stdout and can be redirected to a file. Then you simply build an empty LyX doc in the desired document class, and using an editor put in the LyX content from otl2lyx.awk. otl2lyx.awk has been tested and works for LyX 1.4.x. I hear 1.5.x has a different format, so obviously otl2lyx.awk must be changed to output the 1.5.x type LyX, or maybe the LyX project offers a converter. Either way it's not rocket science. Modern LyX offers an outline mode similar to MS Word. IMHO that's the single greatest feature advance since character styles. However, I still use VimOutliner to create the initial outline, because VimOutliner is so amazingly fast for a touch typist. It's nice to know that once I've converted to LyX, I can continue to handle my document as an outline within LyX. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
use of paralist
Hi, recently paralist was mentioned to permit lists in regular paragraphs in LaTeX. My idea how to use so far is to define layout entries to start an 'inparaenum' environment and to end it. Supposing that I can use a normal item inside. I don't consider this a nice 'lyxish' solution. Would be interested whether somebody has already experiences with this package. TIA Hellmut -- CORPHIS - Service and More GmbH Co. KG Dr. Hellmut Weber | Partner Degenfeldstraße 2 | 80803 München fon +49 89 228 468 50 | fax +49 89 228 468 55 mobil +49 172 8450321 | http://www.serviceandmore.info | [EMAIL PROTECTED] CORPHIS Service and More GmbH Co. KG, München, Registergericht München
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
My family uses 1.3.6 on three Ubuntu 6.06 LTS boxes for books, articles, reports, Broadway, and classroom materials. I've home built 1.5.2 for Ubuntu Feisty for testing. Have not decided to upgrade the rest yet but will test 1.5.3 soon. An open-source project that I work with, the Enhanced Machine Controller also uses 1.3.6 extensively for documentation. Lyx files are included in the CVS for the project. We offer the option of automatic document preparation during make and provide automated updates if changes are made to the lyx code for the developer versions of documents on our site. That documentation runs several hundred pages of PDF and quite a stack of HTML. The curious can browse/download at http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/. Really intrepid explorers are welcome at http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/emc2/docs/src/ Thanks to all for a great product, great service, and really quick help. Ray Henry
I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi all, For the first time I've gone beyond book outlining in VO (VimOutliner) and am actually writing the book (via body text) in VO. What this does is eliminate the artificial demarkation between outlining and writing. It's very possible, and in fact quite likely, that some chapters will be ready for writing long before others are fully outlined. In the past this led me to either retard writing certain chapters, or prematurely convert to LyX. Now, to an extent, I can write one chapter while outlining another, and have everything come out well in the end. This is not a rigorous process. The VO writing will be only a very rough draft. It can't include things like Tips, Notes, character styles etc. Well, it could, but not without time consuming difficulty. Instead, this is an informal extension of traditional outlining. The goal is still to have the book really take shape in LyX. Fortunately, recent versions of LyX include an outline mode similar to what MS Word has had forever. This means that in all stages of development, outlining methods can be used. Early, when outlining speed is paramount, VO is used for speed, but some writing and formatting capabilities are available.. Later, when writing and formatting capabilities are most important, LyX is used, with the advantage that some outlining capabilities are still retained. Stay tuned... SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
This is quite interesting to me as I am also interested in writing a book with Lyx. I think I have seen some of your discussions in using VIM, and I guess now VIM outliner, with Lyx. Could you provide links to documents on your website and possibly posts on the Lyx user's mailing list where you discuss the use of VIM with Lyx? TIA Bob
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Since there seems to be some interest in this, I would like to offer my alternative experience. I am a great believer in outlines for anything longer than a letter to Mum. I also use them the way that Steve talks about - outline - write - outline, etc. My first experience was with Thinktank back in the prehistoric era. It had a neat feature called Hoist: one part of the outline was made to appear as the whole - a chapter in a book could be hoisted for that day's work and the rest of the material was well and truly out of the way. It is a form of folding. This hoisting is **very** valuable when writing longer texts. Emacs can be made to behave the same way with outline-minor-mode and foldout. The hoist is actually the foldout-zoom-subtree command. You can use outlining and write directly in LaTeX. So, what I do is much as described by Steve except at the end I can import a LaTeX file into LyX. Of course, it depends on whether you like emacs. I understand that not all people do :-). It would be a valuable feature to add directly to LyX (in case the developers have a lot of extra time on their hands!!!). Cheers, Alan
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Monday 31 December 2007 03:54:28 Typhoon wrote: Since there seems to be some interest in this, I would like to offer my alternative experience. I am a great believer in outlines for anything longer than a letter to Mum. I also use them the way that Steve talks about - outline - write - outline, etc. I'm also a fan of outlining. For the last year or so I have a been using a mind mapping tool called Kdissert. You can see some of its output in this posting (scroll down): http://www.unmusic.co.uk/index.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=29 The great thing about outlining graphically, is that you can put an idea down on the page without having to decide where it appears in the structure. This is useful for forgetful people like myself as I don't have to keep things in my head. The problem with this tool is that editors don't usually accept pitches in graphical form. This means that the process of pitching an article consists of mapping it out and then writing it up, which is rather long-winded. For this reason, like Steve, I've started to wonder if LyX itself can be used for outlining thanks to the new outlining sidebar. In the case of a detailed pitch, outlining and composing the pitch can be combined. I hear that 1.6 may contain folding section features? If so, this will make LyX even more plausible as an outliner. For the book that I am writing, I am hoping that I can start creating chapter outlines from my written notes using the graphical tool. Once this is done, I can start writing the actual chapters by flitting between the written notes and the graphical mind-map. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom etc.
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On 28 Dezember 2007 23:18:39 Bob Lounsbury: > Hi, > > I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond > that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include > if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' > input. > > Cheers and Happy New Year! > Bob Lounsbury Ubuntu 7.10; LyX-1.5.2 (Fri, Oct 5, 2007, ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb) Waiting for 1.5.3 Cheers Ignacio
Linebreaks in tabulars?
Is there someway to make linebreaks in a tabular for a single cell? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linebreaks-in-tabulars--tp14545913p14545913.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, > Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're > very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured again when I started a backport of 1.5.3 for the first time on a fresh system and today it's gone on the same box. On my computer at home and my laptop I've been working with full speed and joy for the last two month. I've nearly given up on searching for a testcase where it's reproducible now. Out of curiosity I've taken a look at the bugs filled against LyX in the Ubuntu launchpad thingy last week and found at least those three describing the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/136632 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/94706 So I tink that the problem exits to some extend. Beside that 1.5.3 seems to be solid now. Thanks to you and all the other people involved. :) Cheers, Sven -- There's no need for tears, cause there's no need to cry. That love that you leave will never be denied. [ Flogging Molly - Laura ] Gebuehrenboykott 2008 BU WTAL http://www.boykott-wuppertal.de
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured again when I started a backport of 1.5.3 for the first time on a fresh system and today it's gone on the same box. On my computer at home and my laptop I've been working with full speed and joy for the last two month. I've nearly given up on searching for a testcase where it's reproducible now. Out of curiosity I've taken a look at the bugs filled against LyX in the Ubuntu launchpad thingy last week and found at least those three describing the same problem: Hum, why are those people discussing the bugs there instead of our bugzilla and/or the mailing lists? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/136632 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813 The slowness due to external clipboard has been solved in 1.5.2 IIRC. As to the scrolling and redraw problem, I am almost certain that it is an issue with X11 and the Window manager. LyX uses a pixmap (QPixmap) for the work area drawing and this is handled at the server side under X11; if for some reason, the pixmap transfer to screen is delayed, LyX will obviously appear to be very slow. I cannot do much without some profiling result but I understand at the same time that it's hard to profile if the slowness is intermittent. I could send out a patch that uses an image instead of a pixmap for drawing; the difference is that an image will be processed by the X11 client. This could speedup local execution of LyX but will be a problem for LyX over the network. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/94706 Scrolling will be fixed in 1.6. Abdel.
Problem rendering (QT4) itatlic Computer Modern
I'm using the OpenType version available at: http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/download.html as my LyX interface fonts. Please see the screenshot attached. Italic CM serif is not properly displayed, but it *does* show up correctly in Opera (qt4 based) and qtconfig. My question: Is it a LyX/QT rendering bug, or a (metric) problem of this particular font? I use LyX 1.5.3 and 1.60svn. <>
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
El vie, 28-12-2007 a las 15:18 -0700, Bob Lounsbury escribió: > Hi, > > I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond > that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include > if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' > input. > Laptop: Ubuntu 7.10, Lyx 1.5.1 at the moment (Ubuntu plus Gentoo just in a few days, if possible...:-) Desktop (home): Ubuntu 7.10, Lyx 1.5.1 > Cheers and Happy New Year! > Bob Lounsbury Same to you! Daniel
Re: Linebreaks in tabulars?
bigblop wrote: Is there someway to make linebreaks in a tabular for a single cell? You have to assign a fixed width to the column containing the cell. /Paul
Dutch LyX
Dear LyX users, I would like to write my reports in dutch, but I don't have a 'patch' that makes all LyX inputs dutch (for example: Abstract, References, etc..). How can I change this so that I can easially switch between dutch and english? I am not really handy with all this MikTeX stuff, so I hope you guys can help me out! Thanks! Tim
Re: Dutch LyX
Tim Vos wrote: > I would like to write my reports in dutch, but I don't have a 'patch' that > makes all LyX inputs dutch (for example: Abstract, References, etc..). How > can I change this so that I can easially switch between dutch and english? Select "dutch" in Document->Settings->Language. This will load the dutch hyphenation patterns, enable dutch spell checking and translate strings like "References, Chapter" etc. in the output. To select different languages for single paragraphs or expressions, use Edit->Text Style->Language. The strings remain untranslated (i.e., English) in the LyX work area, though. The reason is that the dutch translation of the LyX user interface has not been maintained since March 2003 and was removed from the release (since it does not have the minimum number of required translations). If you feel like it, you're welcome to get the dutch translation into shape again. All that it needs is a text editor and dutch language skills: http://www.lyx.org/devel/translation.php http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/README.localization If you're interested, contact the lyx-docs (at) lists (dot) lyx (dot) org Jürgen
How do you handle definition lists?
Hi all, My new book will have a glossary or definition list at the beginning of each chapter, in order to introduce words introduced in the chapter. I could do it with a table, or with the Description environment (my favorite), or maybe some other way. Curious -- in what format do you all usually put such glossaries? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: importing a database
Pol wrote: I would like to import a whole database into a lyx table, to edit before printing. Specifically, i am using tellico as database, but any solution is welcome. I know i can export as bibtex, but how to import into a table? I don't know tellico, but a general approach is to export the database to a spreadsheet, either directly (if supported) or by exporting a text file and then importing the text file into the spreadsheet. Then create a table of the appropriate dimensions in the LyX document and follow the tips on the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets) to copy the data from the spreadsheet to the LyX doc. /Paul
Reminder of otl2lyx.awk
Hi all, Just a reminder for those of you using both VimOutliner and LyX that you can convert a tab indented outline with colon+space defined body text with otl2lyx.awk, available here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Otl2lyx First you fill out the level to environment table file so that the program correctly converts between indent levels and LyX environments, and then you run it like this: otl2lyx.awk level2environmentfile outlinefile The resulting LyX content comes out stdout and can be redirected to a file. Then you simply build an empty LyX doc in the desired document class, and using an editor put in the LyX content from otl2lyx.awk. otl2lyx.awk has been tested and works for LyX 1.4.x. I hear 1.5.x has a different format, so obviously otl2lyx.awk must be changed to output the 1.5.x type LyX, or maybe the LyX project offers a converter. Either way it's not rocket science. Modern LyX offers an "outline mode" similar to MS Word. IMHO that's the single greatest feature advance since character styles. However, I still use VimOutliner to create the initial outline, because VimOutliner is so amazingly fast for a touch typist. It's nice to know that once I've converted to LyX, I can continue to handle my document as an outline within LyX. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
use of paralist
Hi, recently paralist was mentioned to permit lists in regular paragraphs in LaTeX. My idea how to use so far is to define layout entries to start an 'inparaenum' environment and to end it. Supposing that I can use a normal item inside. I don't consider this a nice 'lyxish' solution. Would be interested whether somebody has already experiences with this package. TIA Hellmut -- CORPHIS - Service and More GmbH & Co. KG Dr. Hellmut Weber | Partner Degenfeldstraße 2 | 80803 München fon +49 89 228 468 50 | fax +49 89 228 468 55 mobil +49 172 8450321 | http://www.serviceandmore.info | [EMAIL PROTECTED] CORPHIS Service and More GmbH & Co. KG, München, Registergericht München
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
My family uses 1.3.6 on three Ubuntu 6.06 LTS boxes for books, articles, reports, Broadway, and classroom materials. I've home built 1.5.2 for Ubuntu Feisty for testing. Have not decided to upgrade the rest yet but will test 1.5.3 soon. An open-source project that I work with, the Enhanced Machine Controller also uses 1.3.6 extensively for documentation. Lyx files are included in the CVS for the project. We offer the option of automatic document preparation during make and provide automated updates if changes are made to the lyx code for the developer versions of documents on our site. That documentation runs several hundred pages of PDF and quite a stack of HTML. The curious can browse/download at http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/. Really intrepid explorers are welcome at http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/emc2/docs/src/ Thanks to all for a great product, great service, and really quick help. Ray Henry
I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi all, For the first time I've gone beyond book outlining in VO (VimOutliner) and am actually writing the book (via body text) in VO. What this does is eliminate the artificial demarkation between outlining and writing. It's very possible, and in fact quite likely, that some chapters will be ready for writing long before others are fully outlined. In the past this led me to either retard writing certain chapters, or prematurely convert to LyX. Now, to an extent, I can write one chapter while outlining another, and have everything come out well in the end. This is not a rigorous process. The VO writing will be only a very rough draft. It can't include things like Tips, Notes, character styles etc. Well, it could, but not without time consuming difficulty. Instead, this is an informal extension of traditional outlining. The goal is still to have the book really take shape in LyX. Fortunately, recent versions of LyX include an outline mode similar to what MS Word has had forever. This means that in all stages of development, outlining methods can be used. Early, when outlining speed is paramount, VO is used for speed, but some writing and formatting capabilities are available.. Later, when writing and formatting capabilities are most important, LyX is used, with the advantage that some outlining capabilities are still retained. Stay tuned... SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
This is quite interesting to me as I am also interested in writing a book with Lyx. I think I have seen some of your discussions in using VIM, and I guess now VIM outliner, with Lyx. Could you provide links to documents on your website and possibly posts on the Lyx user's mailing list where you discuss the use of VIM with Lyx? TIA Bob
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Since there seems to be some interest in this, I would like to offer my alternative experience. I am a great believer in outlines for anything longer than a letter to Mum. I also use them the way that Steve talks about - outline - write - outline, etc. My first experience was with Thinktank back in the prehistoric era. It had a neat feature called "Hoist": one part of the outline was made to appear as the whole - a chapter in a book could be "hoisted" for that day's work and the rest of the material was well and truly out of the way. It is a form of "folding". This "hoisting" is **very** valuable when writing longer texts. Emacs can be made to behave the same way with outline-minor-mode and foldout. The "hoist" is actually the foldout-zoom-subtree command. You can use outlining and write directly in LaTeX. So, what I do is much as described by Steve except at the end I can import a LaTeX file into LyX. Of course, it depends on whether you like emacs. I understand that not all people do :-). It would be a valuable feature to add directly to LyX (in case the developers have a lot of extra time on their hands!!!). Cheers, Alan
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Monday 31 December 2007 03:54:28 Typhoon wrote: > Since there seems to be some interest in this, I would like to offer my > alternative experience. > > I am a great believer in outlines for anything longer than a letter to > Mum. I also use them the way that Steve talks about - outline - write - > outline, etc. > I'm also a fan of outlining. For the last year or so I have a been using a "mind mapping" tool called Kdissert. You can see some of its output in this posting (scroll down): http://www.unmusic.co.uk/index.php?name=News=article=29 The great thing about outlining graphically, is that you can put an idea down on the page without having to decide where it appears in the structure. This is useful for forgetful people like myself as I don't have to keep things in my head. The problem with this tool is that editors don't usually accept pitches in graphical form. This means that the process of pitching an article consists of mapping it out and then writing it up, which is rather long-winded. For this reason, like Steve, I've started to wonder if LyX itself can be used for outlining thanks to the new outlining sidebar. In the case of a detailed pitch, outlining and composing the pitch can be combined. I hear that 1.6 may contain folding section features? If so, this will make LyX even more plausible as an outliner. For the book that I am writing, I am hoping that I can start creating chapter outlines from my written notes using the graphical tool. Once this is done, I can start writing the actual chapters by flitting between the written notes and the graphical mind-map. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom etc.
