Problems setting up LyX
Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on dial up at the moment). I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but there's not much that's intuitive. I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ryan
Re: Justify the text
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Justify-the-text-tp17561619p17585064.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Justify the text
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Justify-the-text-tp17561619p17585066.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Labels and parent-child documents
Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not, I think this would be a nice feature, rather than having to modify manually the overlapping labels. Cheers, Nicolás
Re: Justify the text
Hi! I think rgheck was not talking about the Paragraph environment (or style?), but about changing the format of your paragraphs (Edit-Paragraph settings). From the Paragraph settings dialog you can select if you want your paragraph justified, centered, etc. Nicolás sarah84 wrote: Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh
Re: Labels and parent-child documents
Humberto Castejon wrote: Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not, I think this would be a nice feature, rather than having to modify manually the overlapping labels. No, you don't really want LyX to do that. It should be possible to reference labels in one child from the other children---which it is, as things are. If you start modifying the labels themselves, then you would have also to modify the references to those labels. But then how do you know which one you meant to reference? rh
Re: Justify the text
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Justify-the-text-tp17561619p17585067.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: dvi no output
Ed Sykes wrote: Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it makes no difference to change the font. Anything else I could try? Or should I start re-installing MikTeX? I'd leave messing with MikTeX for last. Your initial post said you'd made a few changes. Might be one of the edits had unintended consequences. If you recall them, try unraveling them and see if you get back normal output. If so, reinsert the changes one at a time until you find the culprit. The other thing to do is to look at the LaTeX log file for the document. Maybe there's a message in there indicating the source of the problem. /Paul
Re: LyX Installer problem
David Hewitt schrieb: The main concern is that when it goes through checking for document class and then packages just before starting LyX, it hangs up. I kill the window, it eventually starts LyX, I go to MikTeX and update and install the packages I want... restart LyX, run Configure, restart... and all works fine. I yesterday tried to reproduce the problem by installing LyX from scratch and without an existing MiKTeX on different PCs - it worked fine in all cases: MiKTeX never hang up at any package. Note that the check for packages is a MiKTeX thing and not a LyX one. regards Uwe
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard. I use this to copy tables from Excel into an empty LaTeX document and then import this document into a new LyX document. From there I use again copy and paste to copy the LyX table into the final document. Works like a charm and also preserves much of the formattings (e.g. bold font headers). Daniel
Re: Problems setting up LyX
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on dial up at the moment). I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but there's not much that's intuitive. I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ryan Once you have texlive fully installed. Run Tools-Reconfigure in LyX a couple of times to see if it picks up the texlive installation. Cheers, /Bob
Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate because I wouldn't be able to work on my thesis, but I reinstalled LyX 1.5.4 and it is working so far. Apple's update messed up whatever has been changed in LyX 1.5.5 from its previous version 1.5.4. By the way, I'd like to congratulate you for the great effort in bringing LyX to people like me. I will be making a nice donation as soon as I finish my PhD and find a real job. At the moment, I don't even have a scholarship anymore. Please let me know if I can be of more help. Thanks a lot, George smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Subfigure caption spacing
Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian subfigCapEx.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate because I wouldn't be able to work on my thesis, but I reinstalled LyX 1.5.4 and it is working so far. Apple's update messed up whatever has been changed in LyX 1.5.5 from its previous version 1.5.4. I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? Do you have any other unusual software installed that might alter the appearance of windows across applications? (If so, what happens if you disable it and restart?) By the way, I'd like to congratulate you for the great effort in bringing LyX to people like me. I will be making a nice donation as soon as I finish my PhD and find a real job. At the moment, I don't even have a scholarship anymore. Thanks! Bennett
Re: Subfigure caption spacing
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian Peter, You've been having a lot of different issues with what seems like an LyX problem. Are you using a University provided .cls or .sty file? This does not seem like the behavior from a standard LaTeX document class. Generally, the subfigure captions would be justified and hyphenated, but your subcaptions are not. ?? Cheers, /Bob
Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/06/2008, at 4:44 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? I have a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac. Do you have any other unusual software installed that might alter the appearance of windows across applications? (If so, what happens if you disable it and restart?) I can't think of any unusual software installed on my MAC that would mess up the graphical interface, and I haven't installed anything new neither before nor after I updated he operating system. Any software in particular that caused problems to LyX in the past that you are aware of? I attached a screen-shot of how LyX 1.5.5 opens on my computer. It crashes straight after. I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted. Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works? Bennett
Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page
RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000 \exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My document is A4 paper size but I need a few pages of A3 paper format for large flowsheet diagrams. Kind regards, Zorig On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D.Zorig wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP. My document has utf8 encoding and Cyrillic font. I'm getting about 10 hyphenation per page and doesn't look pretty. Unfortunately microtype package doesn't work with Cyrillic font. So no protrusion and expansion available. By googling, I got a understanding that hyphenation could be controlled with following commands. But I can't find their definition. \hyphenpenalty= \exhyphenpenalty= \righthyphenmin= \lefthyphenmin= \emergencystretch= \tolerance= I don't want to completely turn off hyphenation just reduce the number of hyphenation per page. I don't want to leave just 2 or 3 letters on the upper line and hyphenate. Preferably just stretch spaces or justify such line. These commands all just take numerical arguments. Usually something like 1 makes it impossible. So \hyphenpenalty=1 would basically make hyphentation impossible. It seems to default to 50, so increasing it to 100 ought to give you fewer hyphens. That said, is your page narrow relative to your font size? Or something along those lines? Or are you using a lot of big words? rh
Re: Subfigure caption spacing
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian Peter, You've been having a lot of different issues with what seems like an LyX problem. Are you using a University provided .cls or .sty file? This does not seem like the behavior from a standard LaTeX document class. Generally, the subfigure captions would be justified and hyphenated, but your subcaptions are not. ?? Cheers, /Bob Hi Bob, You are right, they provided us a .cls file for which I created a Lyx layout wrapper. However, the sample subfigure output they provided that was made with the .cls file looks different from what I get when using the subfigures in Lyx. This is why I'm trying to figure out how to fix the spacing. Thanks. Adrian
Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy
Thank you. Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at implementing this into 1.6, it seems to be a natural upgrade. Gavin Jürgen Spitzmüller-2 wrote: gdmj100 wrote: I hope that someone up to the challenge, as doing it in Lyx is a much more attractive option than dropping into a tex file. you could have a look at biblatex, which should provide all those features IIRC. For details on how to use the package in LyX, see http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex Jürgen -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Sectioned-bibliogaphy-tp17536298p17593851.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Changing the fonts of the Document
I'm new to LyX, and it looks like an exciting way to create documents. One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts. But how can I say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular font? Or, that this document should use margins of this length? Is there no way to change these type of universal settings, without learning the LaTeX commands to modify Document classes? Related point: I have hundreds of fonts installed under Windows, but I can't see them in any of the LyX menus. How do I give LyX access to them? (I'm using MiKTeX - is there a command I need to run to have it load all of my Windows fonts?). Thanks - I am a BugMeNot account and postings from this user may not always be from the same person. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-the-fonts-of-the-Document-tp17594263p17594263.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Problems setting up LyX
Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on dial up at the moment). I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but there's not much that's intuitive. I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ryan
Re: Justify the text
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Justify-the-text-tp17561619p17585064.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Justify the text
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Justify-the-text-tp17561619p17585066.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Labels and parent-child documents
Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not, I think this would be a nice feature, rather than having to modify manually the overlapping labels. Cheers, Nicolás
Re: Justify the text
Hi! I think rgheck was not talking about the Paragraph environment (or style?), but about changing the format of your paragraphs (Edit-Paragraph settings). From the Paragraph settings dialog you can select if you want your paragraph justified, centered, etc. Nicolás sarah84 wrote: Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh
Re: Labels and parent-child documents
Humberto Castejon wrote: Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not, I think this would be a nice feature, rather than having to modify manually the overlapping labels. No, you don't really want LyX to do that. It should be possible to reference labels in one child from the other children---which it is, as things are. If you start modifying the labels themselves, then you would have also to modify the references to those labels. But then how do you know which one you meant to reference? rh
Re: Justify the text
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» (Standard) Because if i will use Paragraphe insted of Standard in the visualtion it will be Bold, and bigger. Sarah rgheck wrote: sarah84 wrote: Hello, I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every time I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not justify, I dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!! By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french caracters make this pb. Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that is causing the problem? rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Justify-the-text-tp17561619p17585067.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: dvi no output
Ed Sykes wrote: Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it makes no difference to change the font. Anything else I could try? Or should I start re-installing MikTeX? I'd leave messing with MikTeX for last. Your initial post said you'd made a few changes. Might be one of the edits had unintended consequences. If you recall them, try unraveling them and see if you get back normal output. If so, reinsert the changes one at a time until you find the culprit. The other thing to do is to look at the LaTeX log file for the document. Maybe there's a message in there indicating the source of the problem. /Paul
Re: LyX Installer problem
David Hewitt schrieb: The main concern is that when it goes through checking for document class and then packages just before starting LyX, it hangs up. I kill the window, it eventually starts LyX, I go to MikTeX and update and install the packages I want... restart LyX, run Configure, restart... and all works fine. I yesterday tried to reproduce the problem by installing LyX from scratch and without an existing MiKTeX on different PCs - it worked fine in all cases: MiKTeX never hang up at any package. Note that the check for packages is a MiKTeX thing and not a LyX one. regards Uwe
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard. I use this to copy tables from Excel into an empty LaTeX document and then import this document into a new LyX document. From there I use again copy and paste to copy the LyX table into the final document. Works like a charm and also preserves much of the formattings (e.g. bold font headers). Daniel
Re: Problems setting up LyX
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on dial up at the moment). I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but there's not much that's intuitive. I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ryan Once you have texlive fully installed. Run Tools-Reconfigure in LyX a couple of times to see if it picks up the texlive installation. Cheers, /Bob
Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate because I wouldn't be able to work on my thesis, but I reinstalled LyX 1.5.4 and it is working so far. Apple's update messed up whatever has been changed in LyX 1.5.5 from its previous version 1.5.4. By the way, I'd like to congratulate you for the great effort in bringing LyX to people like me. I will be making a nice donation as soon as I finish my PhD and find a real job. At the moment, I don't even have a scholarship anymore. Please let me know if I can be of more help. Thanks a lot, George smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Subfigure caption spacing
Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian subfigCapEx.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate because I wouldn't be able to work on my thesis, but I reinstalled LyX 1.5.4 and it is working so far. Apple's update messed up whatever has been changed in LyX 1.5.5 from its previous version 1.5.4. I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? Do you have any other unusual software installed that might alter the appearance of windows across applications? (If so, what happens if you disable it and restart?) By the way, I'd like to congratulate you for the great effort in bringing LyX to people like me. I will be making a nice donation as soon as I finish my PhD and find a real job. At the moment, I don't even have a scholarship anymore. Thanks! Bennett
Re: Subfigure caption spacing
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian Peter, You've been having a lot of different issues with what seems like an LyX problem. Are you using a University provided .cls or .sty file? This does not seem like the behavior from a standard LaTeX document class. Generally, the subfigure captions would be justified and hyphenated, but your subcaptions are not. ?? Cheers, /Bob
Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/06/2008, at 4:44 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? I have a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac. Do you have any other unusual software installed that might alter the appearance of windows across applications? (If so, what happens if you disable it and restart?) I can't think of any unusual software installed on my MAC that would mess up the graphical interface, and I haven't installed anything new neither before nor after I updated he operating system. Any software in particular that caused problems to LyX in the past that you are aware of? I attached a screen-shot of how LyX 1.5.5 opens on my computer. It crashes straight after. I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted. Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works? Bennett
Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page
RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000 \exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My document is A4 paper size but I need a few pages of A3 paper format for large flowsheet diagrams. Kind regards, Zorig On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D.Zorig wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP. My document has utf8 encoding and Cyrillic font. I'm getting about 10 hyphenation per page and doesn't look pretty. Unfortunately microtype package doesn't work with Cyrillic font. So no protrusion and expansion available. By googling, I got a understanding that hyphenation could be controlled with following commands. But I can't find their definition. \hyphenpenalty= \exhyphenpenalty= \righthyphenmin= \lefthyphenmin= \emergencystretch= \tolerance= I don't want to completely turn off hyphenation just reduce the number of hyphenation per page. I don't want to leave just 2 or 3 letters on the upper line and hyphenate. Preferably just stretch spaces or justify such line. These commands all just take numerical arguments. Usually something like 1 makes it impossible. So \hyphenpenalty=1 would basically make hyphentation impossible. It seems to default to 50, so increasing it to 100 ought to give you fewer hyphens. That said, is your page narrow relative to your font size? Or something along those lines? Or are you using a lot of big words? rh
Re: Subfigure caption spacing
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian Peter, You've been having a lot of different issues with what seems like an LyX problem. Are you using a University provided .cls or .sty file? This does not seem like the behavior from a standard LaTeX document class. Generally, the subfigure captions would be justified and hyphenated, but your subcaptions are not. ?? Cheers, /Bob Hi Bob, You are right, they provided us a .cls file for which I created a Lyx layout wrapper. However, the sample subfigure output they provided that was made with the .cls file looks different from what I get when using the subfigures in Lyx. This is why I'm trying to figure out how to fix the spacing. Thanks. Adrian
Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy
Thank you. Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at implementing this into 1.6, it seems to be a natural upgrade. Gavin Jürgen Spitzmüller-2 wrote: gdmj100 wrote: I hope that someone up to the challenge, as doing it in Lyx is a much more attractive option than dropping into a tex file. you could have a look at biblatex, which should provide all those features IIRC. For details on how to use the package in LyX, see http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex Jürgen -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Sectioned-bibliogaphy-tp17536298p17593851.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Changing the fonts of the Document
I'm new to LyX, and it looks like an exciting way to create documents. One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts. But how can I say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular font? Or, that this document should use margins of this length? Is there no way to change these type of universal settings, without learning the LaTeX commands to modify Document classes? Related point: I have hundreds of fonts installed under Windows, but I can't see them in any of the LyX menus. How do I give LyX access to them? (I'm using MiKTeX - is there a command I need to run to have it load all of my Windows fonts?). Thanks - I am a BugMeNot account and postings from this user may not always be from the same person. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-the-fonts-of-the-Document-tp17594263p17594263.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Problems setting up LyX
Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on dial up at the moment). I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but there's not much that's intuitive. I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ryan
Re: Justify the text
Hello again,
Acutally I used "standard" for this part of my memo, I used it to write the
section. for exemple:
MADCOW (the section title "Section")
(Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système
d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de
l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» ("Standard")
Because if i will use "Paragraphe" insted of "Standard" in the visualtion it
will be "Bold, and bigger".
Sarah
rgheck wrote:
>
> sarah84 wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every
>> time
>> I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not
>> justify, I
>> dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!!
>>
>> By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french
>> caracters make this pb.
>>
>>
> Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing
> justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that
> is causing the problem?
>
> rh
>
>
>
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Re: Justify the text
Hello again,
Acutally I used "standard" for this part of my memo, I used it to write the
section. for exemple:
MADCOW (the section title "Section")
(Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système
d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de
l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» ("Standard")
Because if i will use "Paragraphe" insted of "Standard" in the visualtion it
will be "Bold, and bigger".
Sarah
rgheck wrote:
>
> sarah84 wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every
>> time
>> I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not
>> justify, I
>> dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!!
>>
>> By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french
>> caracters make this pb.
>>
>>
> Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing
> justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that
> is causing the problem?
>
> rh
>
>
>
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Labels and parent-child documents
Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not, I think this would be a nice feature, rather than having to modify manually the overlapping labels. Cheers, Nicolás
Re: Justify the text
Hi!
I think rgheck was not talking about the Paragraph environment (or style?), but about changing the format of your paragraphs
(Edit->Paragraph settings). From the Paragraph settings dialog you can select if you want your paragraph justified, centered, etc.
Nicolás
sarah84 wrote:
Hello again,
Acutally I used "standard" for this part of my memo, I used it to write the
section. for exemple:
MADCOW (the section title "Section")
(Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système
d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de
l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» ("Standard")
Because if i will use "Paragraphe" insted of "Standard" in the visualtion it
will be "Bold, and bigger".
Sarah
rgheck wrote:
sarah84 wrote:
Hello,
I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every
time
I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not
justify, I
dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!!
By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french
caracters make this pb.
Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing
justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that
is causing the problem?
rh
Re: Labels and parent-child documents
Humberto Castejon wrote: Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not, I think this would be a nice feature, rather than having to modify manually the overlapping labels. No, you don't really want LyX to do that. It should be possible to reference labels in one child from the other children---which it is, as things are. If you start modifying the labels themselves, then you would have also to modify the references to those labels. But then how do you know which one you meant to reference? rh
Re: Justify the text
Hello again,
Acutally I used "standard" for this part of my memo, I used it to write the
section. for exemple:
MADCOW (the section title "Section")
(Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système
d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de
l’université de Rome «La Sapienza» ("Standard")
Because if i will use "Paragraphe" insted of "Standard" in the visualtion it
will be "Bold, and bigger".
Sarah
rgheck wrote:
>
> sarah84 wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am using Lyx1.5 to write my master's memo, the problem is that every
>> time
>> I visualise thet texte there r some parts of the texte that r not
>> justify, I
>> dont know what to do, and I am just using it scine 2 days!!
>>
>> By the way I am writing in french so I dont know if the special french
>> caracters make this pb.
>>
>>
> Have you been using the paragraph settings dialog and changing
> justification? If not, can you post (or send me privately) the file that
> is causing the problem?
>
> rh
>
>
>
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Re: dvi no output
Ed Sykes wrote: Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it makes no difference to change the font. Anything else I could try? Or should I start re-installing MikTeX? I'd leave messing with MikTeX for last. Your initial post said you'd made a few changes. Might be one of the edits had unintended consequences. If you recall them, try unraveling them and see if you get back normal output. If so, reinsert the changes one at a time until you find the culprit. The other thing to do is to look at the LaTeX log file for the document. Maybe there's a message in there indicating the source of the problem. /Paul
Re: LyX Installer problem
David Hewitt schrieb: The main concern is that when it goes through checking for document class and then packages just before starting LyX, it hangs up. I kill the window, it eventually starts LyX, I go to MikTeX and update and install the packages I want... restart LyX, run Configure, restart... and all works fine. I yesterday tried to reproduce the problem by installing LyX from scratch and without an existing MiKTeX on different PCs - it worked fine in all cases: MiKTeX never hang up at any package. Note that the check for packages is a MiKTeX thing and not a LyX one. regards Uwe
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard. I use this to "copy" tables from Excel into an empty LaTeX document and then import this document into a new LyX document. From there I use again copy and paste to copy the LyX table into the final document. Works like a charm and also preserves much of the formattings (e.g. bold font headers). Daniel
Re: Problems setting up LyX
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary > compatible with Etch). > > I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as > possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. > > I'm finding that I have lots of missing classes and layout files, no PDF or > DVI functionality, problems with output, etc. I had tetex installed but then > changed to texlive. I don't have it all installed but quite a lot (still on > dial up at the moment). > > I search Synaptic for relevant PDF and DVI packages (no pdflatex) but > there's not much that's intuitive. > > I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. Any suggestions? > > Kind regards, > Ryan > Once you have texlive fully installed. Run Tools->Reconfigure in LyX a couple of times to see if it picks up the texlive installation. Cheers, /Bob
Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate because I wouldn't be able to work on my thesis, but I reinstalled LyX 1.5.4 and it is working so far. Apple's update messed up whatever has been changed in LyX 1.5.5 from its previous version 1.5.4. By the way, I'd like to congratulate you for the great effort in bringing LyX to people like me. I will be making a nice donation as soon as I finish my PhD and find a real job. At the moment, I don't even have a scholarship anymore. Please let me know if I can be of more help. Thanks a lot, George smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Subfigure caption spacing
Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian subfigCapEx.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM, "George G. Szegö" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I > updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the > operating system yesterday. > > LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and > an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate because I wouldn't be able > to work on my thesis, but I reinstalled LyX 1.5.4 and it is working so far. > Apple's update messed up whatever has been changed in LyX 1.5.5 > from its previous version 1.5.4. I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? Do you have any other unusual software installed that might alter the appearance of windows across applications? (If so, what happens if you disable it and restart?) > By the way, I'd like to congratulate you for the great effort in bringing > LyX to people like me. I will be making a nice donation as soon as > I finish my PhD and find a real job. At the moment, I don't even have > a scholarship anymore. Thanks! Bennett
Re: Subfigure caption spacing
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The > spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have > attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? > Thank you. > > Adrian Peter, You've been having a lot of different issues with what seems like an LyX problem. Are you using a University provided .cls or .sty file? This does not seem like the behavior from a standard LaTeX document class. Generally, the subfigure captions would be justified and hyphenated, but your subcaptions are not. ?? Cheers, /Bob
Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM, "George G. Szegö" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/06/2008, at 4:44 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: > > I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring >> out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? >> > > I have a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac. > > Do you have any other unusual software installed that might alter the >> appearance of windows across applications? (If so, what happens if >> you disable it and restart?) >> > > I can't think of any unusual software installed on my MAC that would mess > up the graphical interface, and I haven't installed anything new > neither before nor after I updated he operating system. Any software in > particular that caused problems to LyX in the past that you are > aware of? I attached a screen-shot of how LyX 1.5.5 opens on my computer. > It crashes straight after. I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded was corrupted. Could you try downloading again and seeing if it works? Bennett
Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page
RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000 \exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My document is A4 paper size but I need a few pages of A3 paper format for large flowsheet diagrams. Kind regards, Zorig On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > D.Zorig wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP. My document has utf8 encoding and >> Cyrillic font. I'm getting about 10 hyphenation per page and doesn't look >> pretty. Unfortunately microtype package doesn't work with Cyrillic font. >> So no protrusion and expansion available. >> By googling, I got a understanding that hyphenation could be controlled >> with >> following commands. But I can't find their definition. >> \hyphenpenalty= >> \exhyphenpenalty= >> \righthyphenmin= >> \lefthyphenmin= >> \emergencystretch= >> \tolerance= >> I don't want to completely turn off hyphenation just reduce the number of >> hyphenation per page. I don't want to leave just 2 or 3 letters on the >> upper line and hyphenate. Preferably just stretch spaces or justify such >> line. >> >> >> > These commands all just take numerical arguments. Usually something like > 1 makes it impossible. So > > \hyphenpenalty=1 > > would basically make hyphentation impossible. It seems to default to 50, so > increasing it to 100 ought to give you fewer hyphens. > > That said, is your page narrow relative to your font size? Or something > along those lines? Or are you using a lot of big words? > > rh > >
Re: Subfigure caption spacing
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The > > spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I > have > > attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? > > Thank you. > > > > Adrian > > Peter, > > You've been having a lot of different issues with what seems like an > LyX problem. Are you using a University provided .cls or .sty file? > This does not seem like the behavior from a standard LaTeX document > class. Generally, the subfigure captions would be justified and > hyphenated, but your subcaptions are not. ?? > > Cheers, > /Bob > Hi Bob, You are right, they provided us a .cls file for which I created a Lyx layout wrapper. However, the sample subfigure output they provided that was made with the .cls file looks different from what I get when using the subfigures in Lyx. This is why I'm trying to figure out how to fix the spacing. Thanks. Adrian
Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy
Thank you. Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at implementing this into 1.6, it seems to be a natural upgrade. Gavin Jürgen Spitzmüller-2 wrote: > > gdmj100 wrote: >> I hope that someone up to the challenge, as doing it in Lyx is a much >> more >> attractive option than dropping into a tex file. > > you could have a look at biblatex, which should provide all those features > IIRC. > > For details on how to use the package in LyX, see > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex > > Jürgen > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Sectioned-bibliogaphy-tp17536298p17593851.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Changing the fonts of the Document
I'm new to LyX, and it looks like an exciting way to create documents. One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts. But how can I say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular font? Or, that this document should use margins of this length? Is there no way to change these type of universal settings, without learning the LaTeX commands to modify Document classes? Related point: I have hundreds of fonts installed under Windows, but I can't see them in any of the LyX menus. How do I give LyX access to them? (I'm using MiKTeX - is there a command I need to run to have it load all of my Windows fonts?). Thanks - I am a BugMeNot account and postings from this user may not always be from the same person. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-the-fonts-of-the-Document-tp17594263p17594263.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
