Copy and paste from MS Word
Hi all, How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Thanks in advance. -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam
Re: List of Symbol (Nomenclature) AND List of Abbreviations (Glossary)
Thanks G. Milde for your reply. In the meantime I've solved this issue with the package glossaries. It's very powerful but requires to generate the final document version with a plain latex export and the command line. G. Milde wrote: On 19.04.08, Michael Brunneder wrote: Hi! I'm writing a thesis in Lyx and I've the following problem. I need a List of Symbols (Nomenclature) and a separate List of Abbreviations. The Nomenclature is working fine as described in the Lyx user guide. But now I would need more or less a second nomenclature to realize my List of Abbreviations. Any easy way to achive this? # texdoc nomencl this will open the nomencl documentation (nomencl.pdf) on a texlive system. Section 5.1 Subgroups will help further. Unfortunately, you cannot pass options to nomencl with LyX but this should not stand in the way here... Guenter
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
D.Zorig schrieb: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Save your file as text file. Then Use the menu Insert - File - Plain Text, Join Lines (See sec. 6 of the EmbeddedObjects manual for more the differences of the Plain text insertion methods.) regards Uwe
ams align requires a punctuation character?
I tried using ams align (lyx1.6svn), to typeset this:
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset Formula \begin{align*}
\renewcommand \minalignsep {2em}s_{i} :i\text{th systematic bit}\\
p_{i}^{j} :j\text{th parity bit for }i\text{th input}\\
t_{i}^{j} :j\text{th tail bit from }i\text{th encoder}\end{align*}
\end_inset
It seemed that unless I put some punctuation, such a '=' or in the above
case ':', I did not get any column space.
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
D.Zorig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Just copy the text in Word, and in LyX use paste special - plaintext (Ctrl+Shift+V). As you most probably don't want to paste soft (conditional) hyphens in LyX, you have to switch off automatic hyphenation and replace all manually inserted soft hyphens by nothing, in Word, before copying. -- Wilfried Hennings
Re: english appended to the left side of the running head
Richard Heck wrote: rhb wrote: I'm rather inexperienced with LaTeX and LyX, trying to use the latter to write a presentation for a class. I'm using the amsart document class, because it makes the handout look the best, but at the top of each page, it prints the title as englishTopological Vector Spaces instead of Topological Vector Spaces. Is there any way I can fix this, or get rid of the header entirely (I don't really need it)? Also, is there a way to remove or lessen the empty space above the title on the first page of the document? I'm having trouble figuring that out. I've seen this problem, too. I think it's a LyX bug. Please file a report at bugzilla.lyx.org, and I'll have a look at it as soon as I get a chance. rh Well known bug in babel IIRC, grab latest babel.
For help!
Dear LYX I am a user of LYX. Now I am writing my thesis using LYX. But I come to a problem. How can do make a global citation? A general lyx file of my thesis contains six sub-lyx files. I would like to make citations in a sub-file. But I need to generate Bib Tex Generated Bibliography for each sub one. The point is that I don't want Bibliography appears in every chapter of my thesis, but last one. So could you please tell me how I can manage it? Thanks! Best Regards! Ming Ding
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
Wilfried wrote: D.Zorig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Just copy the text in Word, and in LyX use paste special - plaintext (Ctrl+Shift+V). As you most probably don't want to paste soft (conditional) hyphens in LyX, you have to switch off automatic hyphenation and replace all manually inserted soft hyphens by nothing, in Word, before copying. You can also try saving the text from Word as HTML and then importing that. You'll get a lot of the formatting right that way. rh
Re: For help!
Ding Ming (QFL PD PI) wrote:
Dear LYX
I am a user of LYX. Now I am writing my thesis using LYX. But I come to a
problem. How can do make a global citation?
A general lyx file of my thesis contains six sub-lyx files. I would like to make citations in a
sub-file. But I need to generate Bib Tex Generated Bibliography for each sub one. The
point is that I don't want Bibliography appears in every chapter of my thesis, but
last one. So could you please tell me how I can manage it?
A few possibilities.
One: You may be able to put the bibliography in a comment in the
subfiles. LyX will see it, but it won't get exported to LaTeX. Downside:
You can't compile the subfiles on their own.
Two: If LyX knows about the master-child relationship, then it will let
you insert citations based upon the bibliography in the master document.
To let LyX know about this, though, you have to open the child documents
from the master document, using the Edit button in the Include dialog,
which you get by clicking on the Include inset. This is a bit of a pain,
but it does work.
Three: Just before the bibliography inset in each child file, put this
in ERT:
\ifx\MAINBIB\undefined
And then just after it, put this, again in ERT:
\fi
Now, in the master file, put this in ERT:
\newcommand\MAINBIB{biblio}
The \ifx line is checking to see whether \MAINBIB is defined. (NOTE:
Don't define \undefined!!) It is if we're compiling the master, and then
the bibliography will be ignored. This trick is the same one I describe
here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros, but put to a different use.
Richard
No indent in LOF, LOT and tables
Hello,
I'm writing a thesis with scrartcl and want to clear the indent of LOF and
LOT. I already read, that this is possible by setting the option listsleft
of koma-script. But how can I set this option in LyX?
The second Point is: I changed the LOF with following Command
%Fügt Abbildung vor die Nummern in der LOF
\makeatletter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] }
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\par
\addcontentsline{\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\csname the#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}%
\begingroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi
\normalsize
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] #3}\par \endgroup}
\makeatother
(I know that it would have been easier using the tocloft-package, but
anyway...) so that the LOF looks like:
Abbildung 1
Testabbildung.. 2
Abbildung 2 asödkfö öalkdfj aölskdf...
34
Does somebody know, how to insert : after the numberation?
And last but not least: The tables I inserted do also hab a little indent.
Is it possible to change that?
Thanks for help!
Nico
text underlined because of language
Hello, if I insert text from outside in my lyx-document, it's underlined because of language. Does s.b. know how to fix that? The problem is that if words of a table for example are underlined like that, the indent of this row is different to the other rows... s.b. an idea why? Nico
Re: Google Docs to LaTeX
Dear Charles,
It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But on
further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of
``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or French.
With a fairly wide but unscientifically chosen variety of English documents, I
found that the desiderata of:
(a) retaining crucial formatting that an English language Word or OpenOffice or
docs.google user would likely employ
and:
(b) avoiding a demoralizing film of ERT
by messing with the preferences in writer2latex.xml.
The accursed red {}- is what remains, though the obvious expedient of a find and
replace in the latex file before importing into LyX is clearly the way to go if
that's all there is. I think it has to do with the ucs.sty that is used in
connection with the choice of utf8 among the 'inputencoding' options. But this
is way over my head.
I don't know how far this depends on how various things are adjusted on the (mac
)computer I was using - doc-odt-latex-lyx involves a lot of adjustments - but
for the heck of it I will list the alterations from the defaults that seemed to
maximize what is preserved subject to the principle of ERT avoidance:
option name=inputencoding value=utf8 /
option name=multilingual value=false /
in place of
option name=inputencoding value=ascii /
option name=multilingual value=true /
option name=formatting value=ignore_most /
option name=page_formatting value=ignore_all /
option name=ignore_hard_page_breaks value=true /
option name=ignore_hard_line_breaks value=true /
option name=ignore_empty_paragraphs value=true /
option name=ignore_double_spaces value=true /
in place of
option name=formatting value=convert_basic /
option name=page_formatting value=convert_all /
option name=ignore_hard_page_breaks value=false /
option name=ignore_hard_line_breaks value=false /
option name=ignore_empty_paragraphs value=false /
option name=ignore_double_spaces value=false /
These choices keep the amount of junk in the preamble to a minimum too. The
more I fiddle with it the sounder writer2latex seems to be; I wouldn't have
thought it was possible. Again, this is all over my head, though now primitive
text-altering script-composition isn't, to my amazement - so,
or rather, {}- so,
thanks,
Michael
natbib again
Hi everybody I am still a newcomer in using LyX and I am still encountering problems with natbib. May I ask for your help once again? 1) When I try to install natbib via MiKTeX, I get a MiKTeX problem report: FTP: couldn't retrieve (RETR failed) the specified file I have tried other mirrors without success (when choosing other mirrors I get the message: invalid easy handle). In advance, thank you very much! Kind regards Alfred
Re: text underlined because of language
NicoWinger schrieb: if I insert text from outside in my lyx-document, it's underlined because of language. Does s.b. know how to fix that? Use the character dialog and reset the language. regards Uwe
Re: Google Docs to LaTeX
Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Charles, It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But on further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of ``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or French. With a fairly wide but unscientifically chosen variety of English documents, I found that the desiderata of: (a) retaining crucial formatting that an English language Word or OpenOffice or docs.google user would likely employ and: (b) avoiding a demoralizing film of ERT by messing with the preferences in writer2latex.xml. Indeed, the script is not necessary if you edit the writer2latex.xml file in your system, as you've done already. All you need to do is to select the appropriate encoding (latin9 is the most popular, after utf8 for latin writing systems, as you've found out). Personally, I prefer to avoid loading a full Office Suite to make the conversion, so I bypass them by not saving my googledocs papers into word, rtf, or odf. Try saving your GoogleDocs documents as HTML, and then convert them with html2tex. Check http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html All you need is a friendly gcc compiler (or a friend to give it to you), and it makes the whole work for you with a simple call to the converter. Perhaps you may have to call html-tidy to cleanup the HTML source a bit, but a simple bash script (or in windows, a bat file) will work. Small is beautiful, Luis.
Copy and paste from MS Word
Hi all, How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Thanks in advance. -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam
Re: List of Symbol (Nomenclature) AND List of Abbreviations (Glossary)
Thanks G. Milde for your reply. In the meantime I've solved this issue with the package glossaries. It's very powerful but requires to generate the final document version with a plain latex export and the command line. G. Milde wrote: On 19.04.08, Michael Brunneder wrote: Hi! I'm writing a thesis in Lyx and I've the following problem. I need a List of Symbols (Nomenclature) and a separate List of Abbreviations. The Nomenclature is working fine as described in the Lyx user guide. But now I would need more or less a second nomenclature to realize my List of Abbreviations. Any easy way to achive this? # texdoc nomencl this will open the nomencl documentation (nomencl.pdf) on a texlive system. Section 5.1 Subgroups will help further. Unfortunately, you cannot pass options to nomencl with LyX but this should not stand in the way here... Guenter
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
D.Zorig schrieb: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Save your file as text file. Then Use the menu Insert - File - Plain Text, Join Lines (See sec. 6 of the EmbeddedObjects manual for more the differences of the Plain text insertion methods.) regards Uwe
ams align requires a punctuation character?
I tried using ams align (lyx1.6svn), to typeset this:
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset Formula \begin{align*}
\renewcommand \minalignsep {2em}s_{i} :i\text{th systematic bit}\\
p_{i}^{j} :j\text{th parity bit for }i\text{th input}\\
t_{i}^{j} :j\text{th tail bit from }i\text{th encoder}\end{align*}
\end_inset
It seemed that unless I put some punctuation, such a '=' or in the above
case ':', I did not get any column space.
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
D.Zorig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Just copy the text in Word, and in LyX use paste special - plaintext (Ctrl+Shift+V). As you most probably don't want to paste soft (conditional) hyphens in LyX, you have to switch off automatic hyphenation and replace all manually inserted soft hyphens by nothing, in Word, before copying. -- Wilfried Hennings
Re: english appended to the left side of the running head
Richard Heck wrote: rhb wrote: I'm rather inexperienced with LaTeX and LyX, trying to use the latter to write a presentation for a class. I'm using the amsart document class, because it makes the handout look the best, but at the top of each page, it prints the title as englishTopological Vector Spaces instead of Topological Vector Spaces. Is there any way I can fix this, or get rid of the header entirely (I don't really need it)? Also, is there a way to remove or lessen the empty space above the title on the first page of the document? I'm having trouble figuring that out. I've seen this problem, too. I think it's a LyX bug. Please file a report at bugzilla.lyx.org, and I'll have a look at it as soon as I get a chance. rh Well known bug in babel IIRC, grab latest babel.
For help!
Dear LYX I am a user of LYX. Now I am writing my thesis using LYX. But I come to a problem. How can do make a global citation? A general lyx file of my thesis contains six sub-lyx files. I would like to make citations in a sub-file. But I need to generate Bib Tex Generated Bibliography for each sub one. The point is that I don't want Bibliography appears in every chapter of my thesis, but last one. So could you please tell me how I can manage it? Thanks! Best Regards! Ming Ding
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
Wilfried wrote: D.Zorig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Just copy the text in Word, and in LyX use paste special - plaintext (Ctrl+Shift+V). As you most probably don't want to paste soft (conditional) hyphens in LyX, you have to switch off automatic hyphenation and replace all manually inserted soft hyphens by nothing, in Word, before copying. You can also try saving the text from Word as HTML and then importing that. You'll get a lot of the formatting right that way. rh
Re: For help!
Ding Ming (QFL PD PI) wrote:
Dear LYX
I am a user of LYX. Now I am writing my thesis using LYX. But I come to a
problem. How can do make a global citation?
A general lyx file of my thesis contains six sub-lyx files. I would like to make citations in a
sub-file. But I need to generate Bib Tex Generated Bibliography for each sub one. The
point is that I don't want Bibliography appears in every chapter of my thesis, but
last one. So could you please tell me how I can manage it?
A few possibilities.
One: You may be able to put the bibliography in a comment in the
subfiles. LyX will see it, but it won't get exported to LaTeX. Downside:
You can't compile the subfiles on their own.
Two: If LyX knows about the master-child relationship, then it will let
you insert citations based upon the bibliography in the master document.
To let LyX know about this, though, you have to open the child documents
from the master document, using the Edit button in the Include dialog,
which you get by clicking on the Include inset. This is a bit of a pain,
but it does work.
Three: Just before the bibliography inset in each child file, put this
in ERT:
\ifx\MAINBIB\undefined
And then just after it, put this, again in ERT:
\fi
Now, in the master file, put this in ERT:
\newcommand\MAINBIB{biblio}
The \ifx line is checking to see whether \MAINBIB is defined. (NOTE:
Don't define \undefined!!) It is if we're compiling the master, and then
the bibliography will be ignored. This trick is the same one I describe
here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros, but put to a different use.
Richard
No indent in LOF, LOT and tables
Hello,
I'm writing a thesis with scrartcl and want to clear the indent of LOF and
LOT. I already read, that this is possible by setting the option listsleft
of koma-script. But how can I set this option in LyX?
The second Point is: I changed the LOF with following Command
%Fügt Abbildung vor die Nummern in der LOF
\makeatletter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] }
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\par
\addcontentsline{\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\csname the#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}%
\begingroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi
\normalsize
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] #3}\par \endgroup}
\makeatother
(I know that it would have been easier using the tocloft-package, but
anyway...) so that the LOF looks like:
Abbildung 1
Testabbildung.. 2
Abbildung 2 asödkfö öalkdfj aölskdf...
34
Does somebody know, how to insert : after the numberation?
And last but not least: The tables I inserted do also hab a little indent.
Is it possible to change that?
Thanks for help!
Nico
text underlined because of language
Hello, if I insert text from outside in my lyx-document, it's underlined because of language. Does s.b. know how to fix that? The problem is that if words of a table for example are underlined like that, the indent of this row is different to the other rows... s.b. an idea why? Nico
Re: Google Docs to LaTeX
Dear Charles,
It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But on
further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of
``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or French.
With a fairly wide but unscientifically chosen variety of English documents, I
found that the desiderata of:
(a) retaining crucial formatting that an English language Word or OpenOffice or
docs.google user would likely employ
and:
(b) avoiding a demoralizing film of ERT
by messing with the preferences in writer2latex.xml.
The accursed red {}- is what remains, though the obvious expedient of a find and
replace in the latex file before importing into LyX is clearly the way to go if
that's all there is. I think it has to do with the ucs.sty that is used in
connection with the choice of utf8 among the 'inputencoding' options. But this
is way over my head.
I don't know how far this depends on how various things are adjusted on the (mac
)computer I was using - doc-odt-latex-lyx involves a lot of adjustments - but
for the heck of it I will list the alterations from the defaults that seemed to
maximize what is preserved subject to the principle of ERT avoidance:
option name=inputencoding value=utf8 /
option name=multilingual value=false /
in place of
option name=inputencoding value=ascii /
option name=multilingual value=true /
option name=formatting value=ignore_most /
option name=page_formatting value=ignore_all /
option name=ignore_hard_page_breaks value=true /
option name=ignore_hard_line_breaks value=true /
option name=ignore_empty_paragraphs value=true /
option name=ignore_double_spaces value=true /
in place of
option name=formatting value=convert_basic /
option name=page_formatting value=convert_all /
option name=ignore_hard_page_breaks value=false /
option name=ignore_hard_line_breaks value=false /
option name=ignore_empty_paragraphs value=false /
option name=ignore_double_spaces value=false /
These choices keep the amount of junk in the preamble to a minimum too. The
more I fiddle with it the sounder writer2latex seems to be; I wouldn't have
thought it was possible. Again, this is all over my head, though now primitive
text-altering script-composition isn't, to my amazement - so,
or rather, {}- so,
thanks,
Michael
natbib again
Hi everybody I am still a newcomer in using LyX and I am still encountering problems with natbib. May I ask for your help once again? 1) When I try to install natbib via MiKTeX, I get a MiKTeX problem report: FTP: couldn't retrieve (RETR failed) the specified file I have tried other mirrors without success (when choosing other mirrors I get the message: invalid easy handle). In advance, thank you very much! Kind regards Alfred
Re: text underlined because of language
NicoWinger schrieb: if I insert text from outside in my lyx-document, it's underlined because of language. Does s.b. know how to fix that? Use the character dialog and reset the language. regards Uwe
Re: Google Docs to LaTeX
Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Charles, It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But on further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of ``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or French. With a fairly wide but unscientifically chosen variety of English documents, I found that the desiderata of: (a) retaining crucial formatting that an English language Word or OpenOffice or docs.google user would likely employ and: (b) avoiding a demoralizing film of ERT by messing with the preferences in writer2latex.xml. Indeed, the script is not necessary if you edit the writer2latex.xml file in your system, as you've done already. All you need to do is to select the appropriate encoding (latin9 is the most popular, after utf8 for latin writing systems, as you've found out). Personally, I prefer to avoid loading a full Office Suite to make the conversion, so I bypass them by not saving my googledocs papers into word, rtf, or odf. Try saving your GoogleDocs documents as HTML, and then convert them with html2tex. Check http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html All you need is a friendly gcc compiler (or a friend to give it to you), and it makes the whole work for you with a simple call to the converter. Perhaps you may have to call html-tidy to cleanup the HTML source a bit, but a simple bash script (or in windows, a bat file) will work. Small is beautiful, Luis.
Copy and paste from MS Word
Hi all, How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Thanks in advance. -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam
Re: List of Symbol (Nomenclature) AND List of Abbreviations (Glossary)
Thanks G. Milde for your reply. In the meantime I've solved this issue with the package "glossaries". It's very powerful but requires to generate the "final" document version with a plain latex export and the command line. G. Milde wrote: On 19.04.08, Michael Brunneder wrote: Hi! I'm writing a thesis in Lyx and I've the following problem. I need a List of Symbols (Nomenclature) and a separate List of Abbreviations. The Nomenclature is working fine as described in the Lyx user guide. But now I would need more or less a "second" nomenclature to realize my List of Abbreviations. Any easy way to achive this? #> texdoc nomencl this will open the nomencl documentation (nomencl.pdf) on a texlive system. Section 5.1 Subgroups will help further. Unfortunately, you cannot pass options to nomencl with LyX but this should not stand in the way here... Guenter
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
D.Zorig schrieb: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Save your file as text file. Then Use the menu Insert -> File -> Plain Text, Join Lines (See sec. 6 of the EmbeddedObjects manual for more the differences of the Plain text insertion methods.) regards Uwe
ams align requires a punctuation character?
I tried using ams align (lyx1.6svn), to typeset this:
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset Formula \begin{align*}
\renewcommand \minalignsep {2em}s_{i} & :i\text{th systematic bit}\\
p_{i}^{j} & :j\text{th parity bit for }i\text{th input}\\
t_{i}^{j} & :j\text{th tail bit from }i\text{th encoder}\end{align*}
\end_inset
It seemed that unless I put some punctuation, such a '=' or in the above
case ':', I did not get any column space.
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
D.Zorig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph > breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and > put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX > paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter > in LYX that is too much work it seems. Just copy the text in Word, and in LyX use "paste special - plaintext (Ctrl+Shift+V)". As you most probably don't want to paste soft (conditional) hyphens in LyX, you have to switch off automatic hyphenation and replace all manually inserted soft hyphens by nothing, in Word, before copying. -- Wilfried Hennings
Re: "english" appended to the left side of the running head
Richard Heck wrote: > rhb wrote: >> I'm rather inexperienced with LaTeX and LyX, trying to use the latter to >> write a presentation for a class. I'm using the amsart document class, >> because it makes the handout look the best, but at the top of each page, >> it prints the title as "englishTopological Vector Spaces" instead of >> "Topological Vector Spaces". Is there any way I can fix this, or get rid >> of the header entirely (I don't really need it)? >> >> Also, is there a way to remove or lessen the empty space above the title >> on the first page of the document? I'm having trouble figuring that out. >> >> > I've seen this problem, too. I think it's a LyX bug. Please file a > report at bugzilla.lyx.org, and I'll have a look at it as soon as I get > a chance. > > rh Well known bug in babel IIRC, grab latest babel.
For help!
Dear LYX I am a user of LYX. Now I am writing my thesis using LYX. But I come to a problem. How can do make a global citation? A general lyx file of my thesis contains six sub-lyx files. I would like to make citations in a sub-file. But I need to generate "Bib Tex Generated Bibliography" for each sub one. The point is that I don't want "Bibliography" appears in every chapter of my thesis, but last one. So could you please tell me how I can manage it? Thanks! Best Regards! Ming Ding
Re: Copy and paste from MS Word
Wilfried wrote: D.Zorig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and hit enter in LYX that is too much work it seems. Just copy the text in Word, and in LyX use "paste special - plaintext (Ctrl+Shift+V)". As you most probably don't want to paste soft (conditional) hyphens in LyX, you have to switch off automatic hyphenation and replace all manually inserted soft hyphens by nothing, in Word, before copying. You can also try saving the text from Word as HTML and then importing that. You'll get a lot of the formatting right that way. rh
Re: For help!
Ding Ming (QFL PD PI) wrote:
Dear LYX
I am a user of LYX. Now I am writing my thesis using LYX. But I come to a
problem. How can do make a global citation?
A general lyx file of my thesis contains six sub-lyx files. I would like to make citations in a
sub-file. But I need to generate "Bib Tex Generated Bibliography" for each sub one. The
point is that I don't want "Bibliography" appears in every chapter of my thesis, but
last one. So could you please tell me how I can manage it?
A few possibilities.
One: You may be able to put the bibliography in a comment in the
subfiles. LyX will see it, but it won't get exported to LaTeX. Downside:
You can't compile the subfiles on their own.
Two: If LyX knows about the master-child relationship, then it will let
you insert citations based upon the bibliography in the master document.
To let LyX know about this, though, you have to open the child documents
from the master document, using the "Edit" button in the Include dialog,
which you get by clicking on the Include inset. This is a bit of a pain,
but it does work.
Three: Just before the bibliography inset in each child file, put this
in ERT:
\ifx\MAINBIB\undefined
And then just after it, put this, again in ERT:
\fi
Now, in the master file, put this in ERT:
\newcommand\MAINBIB{biblio}
The \ifx line is checking to see whether \MAINBIB is defined. (NOTE:
Don't define \undefined!!) It is if we're compiling the master, and then
the bibliography will be ignored. This trick is the same one I describe
here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros, but put to a different use.
Richard
No indent in LOF, LOT and tables
Hello,
I'm writing a thesis with scrartcl and want to clear the indent of LOF and
LOT. I already read, that this is possible by setting the option "listsleft"
of koma-script. But how can I set this option in LyX?
The second Point is: I changed the LOF with following Command
%Fügt "Abbildung " vor die Nummern in der LOF
\makeatletter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] }
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\par
\addcontentsline{\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\csname the#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}%
\begingroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi
\normalsize
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] #3}\par \endgroup}
\makeatother
(I know that it would have been easier using the tocloft-package, but
anyway...) so that the LOF looks like:
Abbildung 1
Testabbildung.. 2
Abbildung 2 asödkfö öalkdfj aölskdf...
34
Does somebody know, how to insert ":" after the numberation?
And last but not least: The tables I inserted do also hab a little indent.
Is it possible to change that?
Thanks for help!
Nico
text underlined because of "language"
Hello, if I insert text from outside in my lyx-document, it's underlined because of "language". Does s.b. know how to fix that? The problem is that if words of a table for example are underlined like that, the indent of this row is different to the other rows... s.b. an idea why? Nico
Re: Google Docs to LaTeX
Dear Charles,
It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But on
further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of
``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or French.
With a fairly wide but unscientifically chosen variety of English documents, I
found that the desiderata of:
(a) retaining crucial formatting that an English language Word or OpenOffice or
docs.google user would likely employ
and:
(b) avoiding a demoralizing film of ERT
by messing with the preferences in writer2latex.xml.
The accursed red {}- is what remains, though the obvious expedient of a find and
replace in the latex file before importing into LyX is clearly the way to go if
that's all there is. I think it has to do with the ucs.sty that is used in
connection with the choice of utf8 among the 'inputencoding' options. But this
is way over my head.
I don't know how far this depends on how various things are adjusted on the (mac
)computer I was using - doc->odt->latex->lyx involves a lot of adjustments - but
for the heck of it I will list the alterations from the defaults that seemed to
maximize what is preserved subject to the principle of ERT avoidance:
in place of
in place of
These choices keep the amount of junk in the preamble to a minimum too. The
more I fiddle with it the sounder writer2latex seems to be; I wouldn't have
thought it was possible. Again, this is all over my head, though now primitive
text-altering script-composition isn't, to my amazement - so,
or rather, {}- so,
thanks,
Michael
natbib again
Hi everybody I am still a newcomer in using LyX and I am still encountering problems with natbib. May I ask for your help once again? 1) When I try to install natbib via MiKTeX, I get a MiKTeX problem report: FTP: couldn't retrieve (RETR failed) the specified file I have tried other mirrors without success (when choosing other mirrors I get the message: "invalid easy handle"). In advance, thank you very much! Kind regards Alfred
Re: text underlined because of "language"
NicoWinger schrieb: if I insert text from outside in my lyx-document, it's underlined because of "language". Does s.b. know how to fix that? Use the character dialog and reset the language. regards Uwe
Re: Google Docs to LaTeX
Michael Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear Charles, > It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But on > further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of > ``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or French. > With a fairly wide but unscientifically chosen variety of English documents, I > found that the desiderata of: > (a) retaining crucial formatting that an English language Word or OpenOffice > or > docs.google user would likely employ > and: > (b) avoiding a demoralizing film of ERT > by messing with the preferences in writer2latex.xml. > Indeed, the script is not necessary if you edit the writer2latex.xml file in your system, as you've done already. All you need to do is to select the appropriate encoding (latin9 is the most popular, after utf8 for latin writing systems, as you've found out). Personally, I prefer to avoid loading a full Office Suite to make the conversion, so I bypass them by not saving my googledocs papers into word, rtf, or odf. Try saving your GoogleDocs documents as HTML, and then convert them with html2tex. Check http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html All you need is a friendly gcc compiler (or a friend to give it to you), and it makes the whole work for you with a simple call to the converter. Perhaps you may have to call html-tidy to cleanup the HTML source a bit, but a simple bash script (or in windows, a bat file) will work. Small is beautiful, Luis.
