biblatex-biber

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

hello,

Is somebody using
biblatex-biber
under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for installing 
it?

Wolfgang

hyphenation in Italian, again

[Richard Brown]

Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
publishers quickly.

I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
advance.

I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04

Richard


Richard Brown
..

Re: pkg/42449: pkgsrc-built LyX uses unusable font on Red Hat (fwd)

[Pavel Sanda]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 Anyone recognize this problem in this bug report?
 http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=42449
 (A screenshot is linked from there too.)
 
 Using wrong fonts for menu and introductory graphic.

looks like qt problem. in this case wiping ~/.lyx wont help, but wiping 
~/.config/LyX could.
another app to try would be qtconfig.
pavel

Re: biblatex-biber

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 12/15/09, Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
  Is somebody using
  biblatex-biber
  under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for 
 installing
  it?

Some day biber might make its way to TeXLive [1], but sofar I haven't
seen binaries for Debian or Ubuntu. I would suggest downloading the
biber sources and issuing the usual ./configure  make  make
install.
Liviu

[1] http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-July/021440.html

Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Felix Kromarek]

Sehr geehrte Nutzer,

ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.

Unter DateiNeue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

apa.layout

ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

apa.layout

ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


In

/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

(auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist
gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden
und unter WerkzeugeTeX-Informationen auch nicht.
Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich
leider nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum
Programmieren.
Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:

Building the package and its documentation
--

The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:

tex apacite.ins

The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:

pdflatex apacite.drv  == Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
bibtex   apacite  == Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include ref. list
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve citations
pdflatex apacite.drv  == 'Labels may have changed'
makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx == (author index)
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include author index
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve table of contents



Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:

:~$ tex apacite.ins
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
* apacite.ins

Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:

! I can't find file `tex'.

Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe
zu fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden,
werde aber nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.


Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,

Felix


ProblemAPA.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Felix Kromarek]

Should I've written in english??? I found the mail adress on a german site,
so I wrote in german.
Please be so kind an give me just a short answer, if I have to fix my
message!

Am 15. Dezember 2009 11:50 schrieb Felix Kromarek 
felixkroma...@googlemail.com:

 Sehr geehrte Nutzer,

 ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
 APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.

 Unter DateiNeue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
 aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

 apa.layout

 ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

 dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

 nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

 LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


 Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
 Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

 apa.layout

 ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

 dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

 nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

 LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


 In

 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

 (auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist 
 gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden

 und unter WerkzeugeTeX-Informationen auch nicht.
 Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich leider 
 nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum Programmieren.

 Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:

 Building the package and its documentation
 --

 The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
 files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:

 tex apacite.ins

 The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:

 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
 bibtex   apacite  == Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include ref. list
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve citations
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == 'Labels may have changed'
 makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx == (author index)
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include author index
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve table of contents



 Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:

 :~$ tex apacite.ins
 This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 ! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
 * apacite.ins


 Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:

 ! I can't find file `tex'.

 Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe zu 
 fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden, werde aber 
 nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.


 Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,

 Felix

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Julio Rojas]

It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
the italian hyphenation for babel.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
 Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
 Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
 publishers quickly.

 I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
 I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
 back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
 files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
 yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
 should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
 have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
 warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
 have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
 advance.

 I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04

 Richard


 Richard Brown
 ..

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Kornel Benko]

Am Tuesday 15 December 2009 schrieb Felix Kromarek:
 Should I've written in english??? I found the mail adress on a german site,
 so I wrote in german.
 Please be so kind an give me just a short answer, if I have to fix my
 message!

Looks like you need the latex apa package.

In texlive2009 the directory /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa 
has
apa.cls  dutch.apa  english.apa  greek.apa

Kornel

 Am 15. Dezember 2009 11:50 schrieb Felix Kromarek 
 felixkroma...@googlemail.com:
 
  Sehr geehrte Nutzer,
 
  ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
  APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.
 
  Unter DateiNeue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
  aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
 
  Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
 
  apa.layout
 
  ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
 
  dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
 
  nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
 
  'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
 
  LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
 
 
  Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
  Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
 
  Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
 
  apa.layout
 
  ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
 
  dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
 
  nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
 
  'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
 
  LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
 
 
  In
 
  /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/
 
  (auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist 
  gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden
 
  und unter WerkzeugeTeX-Informationen auch nicht.
  Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich leider 
  nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum Programmieren.
 
  Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:
 
  Building the package and its documentation
  --
 
  The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
  files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:
 
  tex apacite.ins
 
  The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:
 
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
  bibtex   apacite  == Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include ref. list
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve citations
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == 'Labels may have changed'
  makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx == (author index)
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include author index
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve table of contents
 
 
 
  Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:
 
  :~$ tex apacite.ins
  This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  ! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
  * apacite.ins
 
 
  Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:
 
  ! I can't find file `tex'.
 
  Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe zu 
  fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden, werde aber 
  nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.
 
 
  Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,
 
  Felix
 
 
 



-- 
Kornel Benko
kornel.be...@berlin.de


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Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Piero]

 If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
 the italian hyphenation for babel.

If I can remember, every time I reinstall MikTeX I have to go to Settings-
Language and select italian hyphenation in order to have correct italian 
hyphenation. Did you try?

Irfanview and LyX

[Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez]

I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code ( or
no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!

I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a question.

I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).

I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have had
success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
lighter.

Thanks in Advance!

Re: Page numbering for subpages

[Les Denham]

On Monday 14 December 2009 16:29:04 Dainis Zegners wrote:
 Hello to everybody!
 
 I have the following problem to solve in Lyx:
 
 I have a couple of graphics in floats that each fill a whole page. I want
  that these pages are inserted as subpages, that is with numberings 40a,
  40b, etc.
 
 The reason is that I am writting a thesis with a maximum page limit of 40,
  but I am allowed to count pages with graphs only as subpages.
 
 I have already searched the internet for some hours but have not found a
 solution yet. I found a latex package called subfigure , but some how this
  did not work together with the float environment.
 
 I would greatly appreciate any help, thanks in advance !
 
Dainis,

I don't know of any easy way of doing this, but the following process should 
work:

1.  Get the numbers of subsequent pages right.  You can do this with the LaTeX 
command \setpagenumber{41} inserted after your last figure, but if you don't 
have any pages after the last figure you won't need to do this.

2. Export to PDF from LyX.

3. Use PDFTK to uncompress the PDF file.
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/)

4. Use a text editor on the uncompressed PDF file, and change the page numbers 
as required.

5. If needed, use the text editor on the uncompressed PDF file to change any 
references to the page numbers of the figures on the pages you just 
renumbered.  If you only used figure numbers in crossreferences, you will only 
have to change the List of Figures.

6. Use PDFTK to compress the PDF file. 

I can see some potential problems. The justification of the edited numbers 
will be off slightly. Finding the numbers to edit in the uncompressed PDF file 
could be difficult.  You could simplify that problem by using PDFTK to extract 
the pages to be edited individually, and just uncompressing them.

Les
-- 
Les Denham
---
http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham
---
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Manveru]

2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez jcarlos.ci...@gmail.com:
 I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
 In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code ( or
 no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!

 I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a question.

 I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
 external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
 www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).

 I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have had
 success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
 lighter.

What is the question actually?

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez]

Ups!  My specifical question is What is the procedure to launch Irfanview
like external image editor/viewer with LyX?

For instance, I change the tools-preferences-File handling-File
Format-PNG Editor  Viewer to i_irfanview32. With that Irfanview is
launched but the input image is not loaded. I try the $$i (The input file)
variable  (Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User) but
unsuccessfully.

Sorry for my terrible English!

JC





2009/12/15 Manveru manv...@manveru.pl

 2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez jcarlos.ci...@gmail.com:
  I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
  In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code (
 or
  no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!
 
  I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a
 question.
 
  I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
  external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
  www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).
 
  I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have
 had
  success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
  lighter.

 What is the question actually?

 --
 Manveru
 jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Manveru]

2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez jcarlos.ci...@gmail.com:
 Ups!  My specifical question is What is the procedure to launch Irfanview
 like external image editor/viewer with LyX?

 For instance, I change the tools-preferences-File handling-File
 Format-PNG Editor  Viewer to i_irfanview32. With that Irfanview is
 launched but the input image is not loaded. I try the $$i (The input file)
 variable  (Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User) but
 unsuccessfully.

 Sorry for my terrible English!

There is no documentation for irfanview on their web page, but I am
not sure it accepts simple parameters provided by command line.
Command line is not mentioned in their FAQ, but forum mentions a lot
of /something options, so there is probably a help file with command
line option reference guide.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Julio Rojas]

Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.

I thought you were on Windows as you spoke of MikTeX. But no problem.
First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
says on the hyphenation patterns being used. You can check that in LyX
in Document-Latex Log. There you will see a message at the
beggining saying:

Babel v3.8h and hyphenation patterns for english...

Those are the languages being used by Babel. If you found Italian,
then LaTeX is using Italian and I don't know what the problem is. If
you cannot find it, the it means you have to install th package
texlive-lang-italian, which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern.

I hope this helps.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
 Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my
 system as far as I can tell- is a windows programme. I'm on ubuntu
 linux- does that mean I should do something different?

 I forgot to say in my OP that the document language settings are set
 (via document - settings) to italian. But the hyphenation is still
 wrong.

 On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:13 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
 It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
 If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
 the italian hyphenation for babel.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
  Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
  Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
  publishers quickly.
 
  I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
  I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
  back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
  files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
  yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
  should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
  have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
  warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
  have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
  advance.
 
  I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
 
  Richard
 
 
  Richard Brown
  ..
 
 
 
 
 Richard Brown
 ..

Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

Dear list,

I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]- 
document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the first  
citation will give a full reference, following citations will only use  
author and shorttitle«.


I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will  
give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the  
chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?


Thank you*
Jess

RE: Page numbering for subpages

[Rob Oakes]

Hi, 

This could also be done using a set of LaTeX commands following your main
body text.  This is a rough first draft, but the general procedure goes like
this:

1.) Create a variable to keep track of the current page.

2.) Redefine \thepage macro so that it will paginate the sub-figures
appropriately.  This will involve resetting the page counter

3.) Set page back to its previous value.

If you follow this procedure at every figure/subfigure groups, it should
have the desired effect.  A rough draft of the code is below.  Also, you
might consider redefining one of the float environments (or creating your
own) so that it applies these definitions automatically.  That would spare
you from needing to add them before every block of figures.
%%

% Add to the document preamble
\newcommand{\currentpage}{\relax}

End of Body Text
___

% Add the following before the first figure as ERT

% Create Value to Keep Track of the Current Page
\renewcommand{\currentpage}{\value{page}}
\setcounter{page}{0} % Set the page counter value to zero
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{\currentpage}\alph{page}} % Track the sub
pages
___

Sub-figures
___

% Add the following before the next figure as ERT

\setcounter{page}{\currentpage} % Restores the currentpage value
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}} % Restores the previous definition

%%

This is an extremely rough solution, and I haven't tested it, but it would
generally have the effect that you're looking for.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Richard Brown]

Julio, 

 Julio Rojas wrote:
 Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.

Sorry, I thought I had. I'm very new to all this and have lots to learn.
Maybe I've done it better this time.

 
 First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
 says on the hyphenation patterns being used.

That told me I'm only using English. So I loaded the package you
suggested, and IT WORKS!

Thanks a load!

Richard

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:26 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
 Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.
 
 I thought you were on Windows as you spoke of MikTeX. But no problem.
 First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
 says on the hyphenation patterns being used. You can check that in LyX
 in Document-Latex Log. There you will see a message at the
 beggining saying:
 
 Babel v3.8h and hyphenation patterns for english...
 
 Those are the languages being used by Babel. If you found Italian,
 then LaTeX is using Italian and I don't know what the problem is. If
 you cannot find it, the it means you have to install th package
 texlive-lang-italian, which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern.
 
 I hope this helps.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com
 
 
 
 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
  Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my
  system as far as I can tell- is a windows programme. I'm on ubuntu
  linux- does that mean I should do something different?
 
  I forgot to say in my OP that the document language settings are set
  (via document - settings) to italian. But the hyphenation is still
  wrong.
 
  On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:13 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
  It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
  If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
  the italian hyphenation for babel.
  -
  Julio Rojas
  jcredbe...@gmail.com
 
 
 
  On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com 
  wrote:
   Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
   Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
   publishers quickly.
  
   I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
   I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
   back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
   files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
   yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
   should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
   have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
   warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
   have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
   advance.
  
   I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
  
   Richard
  
  
   Richard Brown
   ..
  
  
  
  
  Richard Brown
  ..
 
 
 
 
Richard Brown
..

Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Has anyone tried some BasicTeX version for MacOS with LyX with succes?

This time, for reasons of disc space economy, I prefered not to migrate to  
full MacTeX 2009, but rather installing the BacicTeX.dmg (2009)  from  
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/morepackages.html  for then, whenever  
necessary, install aditional LaTeX packages with tlmgr.


Because all the day I'm using a somewhat extraordinary LaTeX/LyX document  
class (tufte-latex, handout and book), I expected having to install  
additional packages after need, whenever in an error message is said  
cannot find xy.sty or similar - and I did this already in about 10 cases.


But there must be some other principal problem, that inhibits properly  
compiling of my (existing) LyX documents. I am sure, it is not because of  
LyX. But perhaps someone here can give advice, though:


With a tufte-handout lyx file, which compiled well to pdf under  
MacTeX-2008, now there are errors like:


! Font T1/phv/m/n/10=phvr8t at 8.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file  
not found.
! Font T1/pplj/m/n/10=pplr9d at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


Other error messages with the koma letter class and layout (also working  
before):


! Font T1/pplx/m/n/12=pplr9e at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
foun

! Arithmetic overflow.
! Font T1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9e at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.
! Font OT1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9t at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found

etc.
! \textfont 0 is undefined (character ().

None of the processes result in usable pdf.

regards,
joachim
--
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 - LyX 1.6.5
MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

RE: Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Joachim,

The errors that you posted are common when using xetex instead of pdflatex or 
basic latex to compile a document.  Do you know if your installation is trying 
to use xelatex instead of the other engines?

You may want to check your export settings and make sure that something didn't 
get inadvertently changed.  If you haven't already, you might want to try 
reconfiguring LyX (Tools - Reconfigure).

However, I would actually recommend that you use MacTeX.  While it is a bit of 
a hard drive pig (3 GB), I've had troubles with other LaTeX distributions on 
Mac (including BasicTeX).  The package selection is incomplete, or I will 
discover that a necessary font wasn't installed.  It seems that some of the 
smaller distributions don't always carefully vet their dependencies and this 
can result in installed packages requiring software that wasn't included.  
Manually trying to sort this out is tremendously frustrating.  (Speaking from 
experience here.)

Compared to those frustrations, I finally decided that I would just delete a 
few extra videos out of iTunes.  Even now, months later, I still think that was 
a good decision.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Osnabryg
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:28 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

Has anyone tried some BasicTeX version for MacOS with LyX with succes?

This time, for reasons of disc space economy, I prefered not to migrate to  
full MacTeX 2009, but rather installing the BacicTeX.dmg (2009)  from  
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/morepackages.html  for then, whenever  
necessary, install aditional LaTeX packages with tlmgr.

Because all the day I'm using a somewhat extraordinary LaTeX/LyX document  
class (tufte-latex, handout and book), I expected having to install  
additional packages after need, whenever in an error message is said  
cannot find xy.sty or similar - and I did this already in about 10 cases.

But there must be some other principal problem, that inhibits properly  
compiling of my (existing) LyX documents. I am sure, it is not because of  
LyX. But perhaps someone here can give advice, though:

With a tufte-handout lyx file, which compiled well to pdf under  
MacTeX-2008, now there are errors like:

! Font T1/phv/m/n/10=phvr8t at 8.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file  
not found.
! Font T1/pplj/m/n/10=pplr9d at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.

Other error messages with the koma letter class and layout (also working  
before):

! Font T1/pplx/m/n/12=pplr9e at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
foun
! Arithmetic overflow.
! Font T1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9e at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.
! Font OT1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9t at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found
etc.
! \textfont 0 is undefined (character ().

None of the processes result in usable pdf.

regards,
joachim
-- 
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 - LyX 1.6.5
MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 15.12.2009 11:50, schrieb Felix Kromarek:


  Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
apa.layout
ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.


You need to install the LaTeX-package APA. Use the TeXLive package manager to 
install APA.

But why do you want to use APA? This is a layout for journal submissions of the American 
Psychological Association. It is not designed for master theses and the like. Moreover, I wonder why 
you as German should use the layout of an American society for your thesis.

I recommend to use the class book (koma-script), report (koma-script) or memoir.

regards Uwe

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 15.12.2009 14:45, schrieb Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez:


I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).


Go to the LyX preferences and specify a viewer of your choice to the image formats you like to edit 
from within LyX. It is enough to specify irfanview as editor (in case the filename is 
irfanview.exe. Assure that the path to the irfanview.exe is in LyX's PATH prefix in the LyX preferences.


regards Uwe

Re: biblatex-biber

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Tuesday 15 December 2009 09:56:47 schrieben Sie:
 Hello

 On 12/15/09, Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
   Is somebody using
   biblatex-biber
   under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for
  installing it?

 Some day biber might make its way to TeXLive [1], but sofar I haven't
 seen binaries for Debian or Ubuntu. I would suggest downloading the
 biber sources and issuing the usual ./configure  make  make
 install.
 Liviu

 [1] http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-July/021440.html

Thanks, Liviu, for your answer 
Wolfgang

biblatex-biber

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

hello,

Is somebody using
biblatex-biber
under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for installing 
it?

Wolfgang

hyphenation in Italian, again

[Richard Brown]

Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
publishers quickly.

I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
advance.

I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04

Richard


Richard Brown
..

Re: pkg/42449: pkgsrc-built LyX uses unusable font on Red Hat (fwd)

[Pavel Sanda]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 Anyone recognize this problem in this bug report?
 http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=42449
 (A screenshot is linked from there too.)
 
 Using wrong fonts for menu and introductory graphic.

looks like qt problem. in this case wiping ~/.lyx wont help, but wiping 
~/.config/LyX could.
another app to try would be qtconfig.
pavel

Re: biblatex-biber

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 12/15/09, Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
  Is somebody using
  biblatex-biber
  under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for 
 installing
  it?

Some day biber might make its way to TeXLive [1], but sofar I haven't
seen binaries for Debian or Ubuntu. I would suggest downloading the
biber sources and issuing the usual ./configure  make  make
install.
Liviu

[1] http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-July/021440.html

Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Felix Kromarek]

Sehr geehrte Nutzer,

ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.

Unter DateiNeue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

apa.layout

ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

apa.layout

ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


In

/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

(auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist
gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden
und unter WerkzeugeTeX-Informationen auch nicht.
Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich
leider nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum
Programmieren.
Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:

Building the package and its documentation
--

The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:

tex apacite.ins

The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:

pdflatex apacite.drv  == Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
bibtex   apacite  == Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include ref. list
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve citations
pdflatex apacite.drv  == 'Labels may have changed'
makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx == (author index)
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include author index
pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve table of contents



Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:

:~$ tex apacite.ins
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
* apacite.ins

Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:

! I can't find file `tex'.

Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe
zu fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden,
werde aber nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.


Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,

Felix


ProblemAPA.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Felix Kromarek]

Should I've written in english??? I found the mail adress on a german site,
so I wrote in german.
Please be so kind an give me just a short answer, if I have to fix my
message!

Am 15. Dezember 2009 11:50 schrieb Felix Kromarek 
felixkroma...@googlemail.com:

 Sehr geehrte Nutzer,

 ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
 APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.

 Unter DateiNeue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
 aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

 apa.layout

 ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

 dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

 nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

 LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


 Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
 Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

 apa.layout

 ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

 dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

 nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

 LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


 In

 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

 (auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist 
 gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden

 und unter WerkzeugeTeX-Informationen auch nicht.
 Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich leider 
 nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum Programmieren.

 Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:

 Building the package and its documentation
 --

 The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
 files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:

 tex apacite.ins

 The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:

 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
 bibtex   apacite  == Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include ref. list
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve citations
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == 'Labels may have changed'
 makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx == (author index)
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include author index
 pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve table of contents



 Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:

 :~$ tex apacite.ins
 This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 ! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
 * apacite.ins


 Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:

 ! I can't find file `tex'.

 Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe zu 
 fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden, werde aber 
 nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.


 Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,

 Felix

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Julio Rojas]

It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
the italian hyphenation for babel.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
 Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
 Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
 publishers quickly.

 I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
 I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
 back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
 files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
 yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
 should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
 have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
 warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
 have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
 advance.

 I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04

 Richard


 Richard Brown
 ..

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Kornel Benko]

Am Tuesday 15 December 2009 schrieb Felix Kromarek:
 Should I've written in english??? I found the mail adress on a german site,
 so I wrote in german.
 Please be so kind an give me just a short answer, if I have to fix my
 message!

Looks like you need the latex apa package.

In texlive2009 the directory /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa 
has
apa.cls  dutch.apa  english.apa  greek.apa

Kornel

 Am 15. Dezember 2009 11:50 schrieb Felix Kromarek 
 felixkroma...@googlemail.com:
 
  Sehr geehrte Nutzer,
 
  ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
  APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.
 
  Unter DateiNeue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
  aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
 
  Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
 
  apa.layout
 
  ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
 
  dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
 
  nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
 
  'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
 
  LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
 
 
  Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
  Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
 
  Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
 
  apa.layout
 
  ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
 
  dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
 
  nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
 
  'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
 
  LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
 
 
  In
 
  /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/
 
  (auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist 
  gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden
 
  und unter WerkzeugeTeX-Informationen auch nicht.
  Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich leider 
  nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum Programmieren.
 
  Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:
 
  Building the package and its documentation
  --
 
  The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
  files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:
 
  tex apacite.ins
 
  The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:
 
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
  bibtex   apacite  == Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include ref. list
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve citations
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == 'Labels may have changed'
  makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx == (author index)
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Include author index
  pdflatex apacite.drv  == Resolve table of contents
 
 
 
  Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:
 
  :~$ tex apacite.ins
  This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  ! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
  * apacite.ins
 
 
  Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:
 
  ! I can't find file `tex'.
 
  Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe zu 
  fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden, werde aber 
  nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.
 
 
  Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,
 
  Felix
 
 
 



-- 
Kornel Benko
kornel.be...@berlin.de


signature.asc
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Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Piero]

 If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
 the italian hyphenation for babel.

If I can remember, every time I reinstall MikTeX I have to go to Settings-
Language and select italian hyphenation in order to have correct italian 
hyphenation. Did you try?

Irfanview and LyX

[Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez]

I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code ( or
no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!

I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a question.

I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).

I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have had
success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
lighter.

Thanks in Advance!

Re: Page numbering for subpages

[Les Denham]

On Monday 14 December 2009 16:29:04 Dainis Zegners wrote:
 Hello to everybody!
 
 I have the following problem to solve in Lyx:
 
 I have a couple of graphics in floats that each fill a whole page. I want
  that these pages are inserted as subpages, that is with numberings 40a,
  40b, etc.
 
 The reason is that I am writting a thesis with a maximum page limit of 40,
  but I am allowed to count pages with graphs only as subpages.
 
 I have already searched the internet for some hours but have not found a
 solution yet. I found a latex package called subfigure , but some how this
  did not work together with the float environment.
 
 I would greatly appreciate any help, thanks in advance !
 
Dainis,

I don't know of any easy way of doing this, but the following process should 
work:

1.  Get the numbers of subsequent pages right.  You can do this with the LaTeX 
command \setpagenumber{41} inserted after your last figure, but if you don't 
have any pages after the last figure you won't need to do this.

2. Export to PDF from LyX.

3. Use PDFTK to uncompress the PDF file.
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/)

4. Use a text editor on the uncompressed PDF file, and change the page numbers 
as required.

5. If needed, use the text editor on the uncompressed PDF file to change any 
references to the page numbers of the figures on the pages you just 
renumbered.  If you only used figure numbers in crossreferences, you will only 
have to change the List of Figures.

6. Use PDFTK to compress the PDF file. 

I can see some potential problems. The justification of the edited numbers 
will be off slightly. Finding the numbers to edit in the uncompressed PDF file 
could be difficult.  You could simplify that problem by using PDFTK to extract 
the pages to be edited individually, and just uncompressing them.

Les
-- 
Les Denham
---
http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham
---
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Manveru]

2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez jcarlos.ci...@gmail.com:
 I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
 In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code ( or
 no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!

 I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a question.

 I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
 external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
 www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).

 I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have had
 success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
 lighter.

What is the question actually?

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez]

Ups!  My specifical question is What is the procedure to launch Irfanview
like external image editor/viewer with LyX?

For instance, I change the tools-preferences-File handling-File
Format-PNG Editor  Viewer to i_irfanview32. With that Irfanview is
launched but the input image is not loaded. I try the $$i (The input file)
variable  (Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User) but
unsuccessfully.

Sorry for my terrible English!

JC





2009/12/15 Manveru manv...@manveru.pl

 2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez jcarlos.ci...@gmail.com:
  I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
  In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code (
 or
  no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!
 
  I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a
 question.
 
  I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
  external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
  www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).
 
  I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have
 had
  success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
  lighter.

 What is the question actually?

 --
 Manveru
 jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Manveru]

2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez jcarlos.ci...@gmail.com:
 Ups!  My specifical question is What is the procedure to launch Irfanview
 like external image editor/viewer with LyX?

 For instance, I change the tools-preferences-File handling-File
 Format-PNG Editor  Viewer to i_irfanview32. With that Irfanview is
 launched but the input image is not loaded. I try the $$i (The input file)
 variable  (Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User) but
 unsuccessfully.

 Sorry for my terrible English!

There is no documentation for irfanview on their web page, but I am
not sure it accepts simple parameters provided by command line.
Command line is not mentioned in their FAQ, but forum mentions a lot
of /something options, so there is probably a help file with command
line option reference guide.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Julio Rojas]

Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.

I thought you were on Windows as you spoke of MikTeX. But no problem.
First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
says on the hyphenation patterns being used. You can check that in LyX
in Document-Latex Log. There you will see a message at the
beggining saying:

Babel v3.8h and hyphenation patterns for english...

Those are the languages being used by Babel. If you found Italian,
then LaTeX is using Italian and I don't know what the problem is. If
you cannot find it, the it means you have to install th package
texlive-lang-italian, which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern.

I hope this helps.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
 Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my
 system as far as I can tell- is a windows programme. I'm on ubuntu
 linux- does that mean I should do something different?

 I forgot to say in my OP that the document language settings are set
 (via document - settings) to italian. But the hyphenation is still
 wrong.

 On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:13 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
 It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
 If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
 the italian hyphenation for babel.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
  Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
  Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
  publishers quickly.
 
  I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
  I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
  back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
  files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
  yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
  should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
  have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
  warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
  have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
  advance.
 
  I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
 
  Richard
 
 
  Richard Brown
  ..
 
 
 
 
 Richard Brown
 ..

Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

Dear list,

I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]- 
document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the first  
citation will give a full reference, following citations will only use  
author and shorttitle«.


I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will  
give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the  
chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?


Thank you*
Jess

RE: Page numbering for subpages

[Rob Oakes]

Hi, 

This could also be done using a set of LaTeX commands following your main
body text.  This is a rough first draft, but the general procedure goes like
this:

1.) Create a variable to keep track of the current page.

2.) Redefine \thepage macro so that it will paginate the sub-figures
appropriately.  This will involve resetting the page counter

3.) Set page back to its previous value.

If you follow this procedure at every figure/subfigure groups, it should
have the desired effect.  A rough draft of the code is below.  Also, you
might consider redefining one of the float environments (or creating your
own) so that it applies these definitions automatically.  That would spare
you from needing to add them before every block of figures.
%%

% Add to the document preamble
\newcommand{\currentpage}{\relax}

End of Body Text
___

% Add the following before the first figure as ERT

% Create Value to Keep Track of the Current Page
\renewcommand{\currentpage}{\value{page}}
\setcounter{page}{0} % Set the page counter value to zero
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{\currentpage}\alph{page}} % Track the sub
pages
___

Sub-figures
___

% Add the following before the next figure as ERT

\setcounter{page}{\currentpage} % Restores the currentpage value
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}} % Restores the previous definition

%%

This is an extremely rough solution, and I haven't tested it, but it would
generally have the effect that you're looking for.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Richard Brown]

Julio, 

 Julio Rojas wrote:
 Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.

Sorry, I thought I had. I'm very new to all this and have lots to learn.
Maybe I've done it better this time.

 
 First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
 says on the hyphenation patterns being used.

That told me I'm only using English. So I loaded the package you
suggested, and IT WORKS!

Thanks a load!

Richard

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:26 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
 Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.
 
 I thought you were on Windows as you spoke of MikTeX. But no problem.
 First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
 says on the hyphenation patterns being used. You can check that in LyX
 in Document-Latex Log. There you will see a message at the
 beggining saying:
 
 Babel v3.8h and hyphenation patterns for english...
 
 Those are the languages being used by Babel. If you found Italian,
 then LaTeX is using Italian and I don't know what the problem is. If
 you cannot find it, the it means you have to install th package
 texlive-lang-italian, which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern.
 
 I hope this helps.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com
 
 
 
 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote:
  Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my
  system as far as I can tell- is a windows programme. I'm on ubuntu
  linux- does that mean I should do something different?
 
  I forgot to say in my OP that the document language settings are set
  (via document - settings) to italian. But the hyphenation is still
  wrong.
 
  On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:13 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
  It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
  If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
  the italian hyphenation for babel.
  -
  Julio Rojas
  jcredbe...@gmail.com
 
 
 
  On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com 
  wrote:
   Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
   Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
   publishers quickly.
  
   I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
   I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
   back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
   files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
   yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
   should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
   have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
   warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
   have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
   advance.
  
   I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
  
   Richard
  
  
   Richard Brown
   ..
  
  
  
  
  Richard Brown
  ..
 
 
 
 
Richard Brown
..

Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Has anyone tried some BasicTeX version for MacOS with LyX with succes?

This time, for reasons of disc space economy, I prefered not to migrate to  
full MacTeX 2009, but rather installing the BacicTeX.dmg (2009)  from  
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/morepackages.html  for then, whenever  
necessary, install aditional LaTeX packages with tlmgr.


Because all the day I'm using a somewhat extraordinary LaTeX/LyX document  
class (tufte-latex, handout and book), I expected having to install  
additional packages after need, whenever in an error message is said  
cannot find xy.sty or similar - and I did this already in about 10 cases.


But there must be some other principal problem, that inhibits properly  
compiling of my (existing) LyX documents. I am sure, it is not because of  
LyX. But perhaps someone here can give advice, though:


With a tufte-handout lyx file, which compiled well to pdf under  
MacTeX-2008, now there are errors like:


! Font T1/phv/m/n/10=phvr8t at 8.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file  
not found.
! Font T1/pplj/m/n/10=pplr9d at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


Other error messages with the koma letter class and layout (also working  
before):


! Font T1/pplx/m/n/12=pplr9e at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
foun

! Arithmetic overflow.
! Font T1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9e at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.
! Font OT1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9t at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found

etc.
! \textfont 0 is undefined (character ().

None of the processes result in usable pdf.

regards,
joachim
--
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 - LyX 1.6.5
MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

RE: Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Joachim,

The errors that you posted are common when using xetex instead of pdflatex or 
basic latex to compile a document.  Do you know if your installation is trying 
to use xelatex instead of the other engines?

You may want to check your export settings and make sure that something didn't 
get inadvertently changed.  If you haven't already, you might want to try 
reconfiguring LyX (Tools - Reconfigure).

However, I would actually recommend that you use MacTeX.  While it is a bit of 
a hard drive pig (3 GB), I've had troubles with other LaTeX distributions on 
Mac (including BasicTeX).  The package selection is incomplete, or I will 
discover that a necessary font wasn't installed.  It seems that some of the 
smaller distributions don't always carefully vet their dependencies and this 
can result in installed packages requiring software that wasn't included.  
Manually trying to sort this out is tremendously frustrating.  (Speaking from 
experience here.)

Compared to those frustrations, I finally decided that I would just delete a 
few extra videos out of iTunes.  Even now, months later, I still think that was 
a good decision.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Osnabryg
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:28 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

Has anyone tried some BasicTeX version for MacOS with LyX with succes?

This time, for reasons of disc space economy, I prefered not to migrate to  
full MacTeX 2009, but rather installing the BacicTeX.dmg (2009)  from  
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/morepackages.html  for then, whenever  
necessary, install aditional LaTeX packages with tlmgr.

Because all the day I'm using a somewhat extraordinary LaTeX/LyX document  
class (tufte-latex, handout and book), I expected having to install  
additional packages after need, whenever in an error message is said  
cannot find xy.sty or similar - and I did this already in about 10 cases.

But there must be some other principal problem, that inhibits properly  
compiling of my (existing) LyX documents. I am sure, it is not because of  
LyX. But perhaps someone here can give advice, though:

With a tufte-handout lyx file, which compiled well to pdf under  
MacTeX-2008, now there are errors like:

! Font T1/phv/m/n/10=phvr8t at 8.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file  
not found.
! Font T1/pplj/m/n/10=pplr9d at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.

Other error messages with the koma letter class and layout (also working  
before):

! Font T1/pplx/m/n/12=pplr9e at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
foun
! Arithmetic overflow.
! Font T1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9e at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.
! Font OT1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9t at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found
etc.
! \textfont 0 is undefined (character ().

None of the processes result in usable pdf.

regards,
joachim
-- 
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 - LyX 1.6.5
MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 15.12.2009 11:50, schrieb Felix Kromarek:


  Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
apa.layout
ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.


You need to install the LaTeX-package APA. Use the TeXLive package manager to 
install APA.

But why do you want to use APA? This is a layout for journal submissions of the American 
Psychological Association. It is not designed for master theses and the like. Moreover, I wonder why 
you as German should use the layout of an American society for your thesis.

I recommend to use the class book (koma-script), report (koma-script) or memoir.

regards Uwe

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 15.12.2009 14:45, schrieb Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez:


I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).


Go to the LyX preferences and specify a viewer of your choice to the image formats you like to edit 
from within LyX. It is enough to specify irfanview as editor (in case the filename is 
irfanview.exe. Assure that the path to the irfanview.exe is in LyX's PATH prefix in the LyX preferences.


regards Uwe

Re: biblatex-biber

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Tuesday 15 December 2009 09:56:47 schrieben Sie:
 Hello

 On 12/15/09, Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
   Is somebody using
   biblatex-biber
   under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for
  installing it?

 Some day biber might make its way to TeXLive [1], but sofar I haven't
 seen binaries for Debian or Ubuntu. I would suggest downloading the
 biber sources and issuing the usual ./configure  make  make
 install.
 Liviu

 [1] http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-July/021440.html

Thanks, Liviu, for your answer 
Wolfgang

biblatex-biber

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

hello,

Is somebody using
biblatex-biber
under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for installing 
it?

Wolfgang

hyphenation in Italian, again

[Richard Brown]

Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
publishers quickly.

I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
advance.

I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04

Richard


Richard Brown
..

Re: pkg/42449: pkgsrc-built LyX uses unusable font on Red Hat (fwd)

[Pavel Sanda]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Anyone recognize this problem in this bug report?
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=42449
> (A screenshot is linked from there too.)
> 
> Using wrong fonts for menu and introductory graphic.

looks like qt problem. in this case wiping ~/.lyx wont help, but wiping 
~/.config/LyX could.
another app to try would be qtconfig.
pavel

Re: biblatex-biber

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 12/15/09, Wolfgang Engelmann  wrote:
>  Is somebody using
>  biblatex-biber
>  under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for 
> installing
>  it?
>
Some day biber might make its way to TeXLive [1], but sofar I haven't
seen binaries for Debian or Ubuntu. I would suggest downloading the
biber sources and issuing the usual ./configure && make && make
install.
Liviu

[1] http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-July/021440.html

Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Felix Kromarek]

Sehr geehrte Nutzer,

ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.

Unter Datei>Neue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

apa.layout

ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

 Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei

apa.layout

ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,

dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei

nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument

'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.

LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.


In

/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

(auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist
gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden
und unter Werkzeuge>TeX-Informationen auch nicht.
Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich
leider nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum
Programmieren.
Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:

Building the package and its documentation
--

The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:

tex apacite.ins

The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:

pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
bibtex   apacite  <== Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Include ref. list
pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Resolve citations
pdflatex apacite.drv  <== 'Labels may have changed'
makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx <== (author index)
pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Include author index
pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Resolve table of contents



Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:

:~$ tex apacite.ins
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
<*> apacite.ins

Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:

! I can't find file `tex'.

Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe
zu fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden,
werde aber nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.


Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,

Felix


ProblemAPA.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Felix Kromarek]

Should I've written in english??? I found the mail adress on a german site,
so I wrote in german.
Please be so kind an give me just a short answer, if I have to fix my
message!

Am 15. Dezember 2009 11:50 schrieb Felix Kromarek <
felixkroma...@googlemail.com>:

> Sehr geehrte Nutzer,
>
> ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
> APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.
>
> Unter Datei>Neue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
> aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
>
> Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
>
> apa.layout
>
> ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
>
> dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
>
> nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
>
> 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
>
> LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
>
>
> Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
> Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
>
> Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
>
> apa.layout
>
> ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
>
> dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
>
> nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
>
> 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
>
> LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
>
>
> In
>
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/
>
> (auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist 
> gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden
>
> und unter Werkzeuge>TeX-Informationen auch nicht.
> Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich leider 
> nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum Programmieren.
>
> Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:
>
> Building the package and its documentation
> --
>
> The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
> files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:
>
> tex apacite.ins
>
> The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:
>
> pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
> bibtex   apacite  <== Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
> pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Include ref. list
> pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Resolve citations
> pdflatex apacite.drv  <== 'Labels may have changed'
> makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx <== (author index)
> pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Include author index
> pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Resolve table of contents
>
>
>
> Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:
>
> :~$ tex apacite.ins
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> ! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
> <*> apacite.ins
>
>
> Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:
>
> ! I can't find file `tex'.
>
> Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe zu 
> fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden, werde aber 
> nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.
>
>
> Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,
>
> Felix
>
>

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Julio Rojas]

It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
the italian hyphenation for babel.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown  wrote:
> Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
> Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
> publishers quickly.
>
> I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
> I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
> back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
> files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
> yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
> should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
> have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
> warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
> have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
> advance.
>
> I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
>
> Richard
>
>
> Richard Brown
> ..
>
>
>
>

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Kornel Benko]

Am Tuesday 15 December 2009 schrieb Felix Kromarek:
> Should I've written in english??? I found the mail adress on a german site,
> so I wrote in german.
> Please be so kind an give me just a short answer, if I have to fix my
> message!

Looks like you need the latex apa package.

In texlive2009 the directory /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa 
has
"apa.cls  dutch.apa  english.apa  greek.apa"

Kornel

> Am 15. Dezember 2009 11:50 schrieb Felix Kromarek <
> felixkroma...@googlemail.com>:
> 
> > Sehr geehrte Nutzer,
> >
> > ich möchte beim Schreiben meiner Examensarbeit gerne Lyx mit der
> > APA-Formatvorlage verwenden.
> >
> > Unter Datei>Neue Vorlage wird zwar mir apa.lyx zur Auswahl angeboten,
> > aber nach der Auswahl erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
> >
> > Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
> >
> > apa.layout
> >
> > ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
> >
> > dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
> >
> > nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
> >
> > 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
> >
> > LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
> >
> >
> > Aber es wird dennoch ein Dokument erzeugt (dieses befindet sich im Anhang).
> > Beim Öffnen des Dokuments erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung:
> >
> > Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
> >
> > apa.layout
> >
> > ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
> >
> > dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
> >
> > nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
> >
> > 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.
> >
> > LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können.
> >
> >
> > In
> >
> > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/
> >
> > (auf den Eintrag in diesem Verzeichnis bin ich durch die Mailinglist 
> > gekommen) ist apa nicht zu finden
> >
> > und unter Werkzeuge>TeX-Informationen auch nicht.
> > Wie ich mit dem bei CTAN angeboten Dateien umgehen soll, weiß ich leider 
> > nicht genau bzw. fehlt mir da leider das Verständnis zum Programmieren.
> >
> > Laut der README-Datei im gezippten Packet ist folgendes notwendig:
> >
> > Building the package and its documentation
> > --
> >
> > The generated LaTeX package (.sty), BibTeX style (.bst), and supporting
> > files (.apc, .bib, .drv) are extracted by running:
> >
> > tex apacite.ins
> >
> > The documentation is then generated by the following sequence:
> >
> > pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Produces apacite.pdf (documentation)
> > bibtex   apacite  <== Produces apacite.bbl (reference list)
> > pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Include ref. list
> > pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Resolve citations
> > pdflatex apacite.drv  <== 'Labels may have changed'
> > makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx <== (author index)
> > pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Include author index
> > pdflatex apacite.drv  <== Resolve table of contents
> >
> >
> >
> > Allerdings erhalte ich im Terminal als Antwort:
> >
> > :~$ tex apacite.ins
> > This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> > ! I can't find file `apacite.ins'.
> > <*> apacite.ins
> >
> >
> > Ich habe den selben Befehl auch mit apacite.dtx probiert:
> >
> > ! I can't find file `tex'.
> >
> > Ich bin also ratlos, was ich noch versuchen kann, außer hier um Hilfe zu 
> > fragen. Im Internet bin ich auch nicht weiter fündig geworden, werde aber 
> > nach der Lösung des Problems die Vorgehensweise posten.
> >
> >
> > Vielen Dank und mit freundlichem Gruß,
> >
> > Felix
> >
> >
> 



-- 
Kornel Benko
kornel.be...@berlin.de


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Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Piero]

> If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
> the italian hyphenation for babel.

If I can remember, every time I reinstall MikTeX I have to go to Settings-
Language and select italian hyphenation in order to have correct italian 
hyphenation. Did you try?

Irfanview and LyX

[Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez]

I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code ( or
no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!

I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a question.

I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).

I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have had
success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
lighter.

Thanks in Advance!

Re: Page numbering for subpages

[Les Denham]

On Monday 14 December 2009 16:29:04 Dainis Zegners wrote:
> Hello to everybody!
> 
> I have the following problem to solve in Lyx:
> 
> I have a couple of graphics in floats that each fill a whole page. I want
>  that these pages are inserted as subpages, that is with numberings 40a,
>  40b, etc.
> 
> The reason is that I am writting a thesis with a maximum page limit of 40,
>  but I am allowed to count pages with graphs only as subpages.
> 
> I have already searched the internet for some hours but have not found a
> solution yet. I found a latex package called subfigure , but some how this
>  did not work together with the float environment.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any help, thanks in advance !
> 
Dainis,

I don't know of any easy way of doing this, but the following process should 
work:

1.  Get the numbers of subsequent pages right.  You can do this with the LaTeX 
command \setpagenumber{41} inserted after your last figure, but if you don't 
have any pages after the last figure you won't need to do this.

2. Export to PDF from LyX.

3. Use PDFTK to uncompress the PDF file.
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/)

4. Use a text editor on the uncompressed PDF file, and change the page numbers 
as required.

5. If needed, use the text editor on the uncompressed PDF file to change any 
references to the page numbers of the figures on the pages you just 
renumbered.  If you only used figure numbers in crossreferences, you will only 
have to change the List of Figures.

6. Use PDFTK to compress the PDF file. 

I can see some potential problems. The justification of the edited numbers 
will be off slightly. Finding the numbers to edit in the uncompressed PDF file 
could be difficult.  You could simplify that problem by using PDFTK to extract 
the pages to be edited individually, and just uncompressing them.

Les
-- 
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Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Manveru]

2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez :
> I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
> In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code ( or
> no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!
>
> I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a question.
>
> I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
> external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
> www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).
>
> I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have had
> success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
> lighter.

What is the question actually?

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez]

Ups!  My specifical question is What is the procedure to launch Irfanview
like external image editor/viewer with LyX?

For instance, I change the tools->preferences->File handling->File
Format->PNG Editor & Viewer to i_irfanview32. With that Irfanview is
launched but the input image is not loaded. I try the $$i (The input file)
variable  ("Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User") but
unsuccessfully.

Sorry for my terrible English!

JC





2009/12/15 Manveru 

> 2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez :
> > I am a light user without LATEX knowledge. I use LyX for a year ago.
> > In my opinion, LyX ranks among the best tools of free open source code (
> or
> > no ) that I had known.  Thank you very much! Fantastic Work!
> >
> > I have some suggestions ... but today I will limit myself to ask a
> question.
> >
> > I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
> > external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
> > www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).
> >
> > I have tried to follow the Customization instructions manual and I have
> had
> > success with Imagine (www(dot)nyam(dot)pe(dot)kr/ (yes!) but Irfanview is
> > lighter.
>
> What is the question actually?
>
> --
> Manveru
> jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
> gg: 1624001
>   http://www.manveru.pl
>

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Manveru]

2009/12/15 Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez :
> Ups!  My specifical question is What is the procedure to launch Irfanview
> like external image editor/viewer with LyX?
>
> For instance, I change the tools->preferences->File handling->File
> Format->PNG Editor & Viewer to i_irfanview32. With that Irfanview is
> launched but the input image is not loaded. I try the $$i (The input file)
> variable  ("Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User") but
> unsuccessfully.
>
> Sorry for my terrible English!

There is no documentation for irfanview on their web page, but I am
not sure it accepts simple parameters provided by command line.
Command line is not mentioned in their FAQ, but forum mentions a lot
of /something options, so there is probably a help file with command
line option reference guide.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Julio Rojas]

Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.

I thought you were on Windows as you spoke of MikTeX. But no problem.
First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
says on the hyphenation patterns being used. You can check that in LyX
in "Document->Latex Log". There you will see a message at the
beggining saying:

Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english...

Those are the languages being used by Babel. If you found "Italian",
then LaTeX is using Italian and I don't know what the problem is. If
you cannot find it, the it means you have to install th package
"texlive-lang-italian", which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern.

I hope this helps.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown  wrote:
> Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my
> system as far as I can tell- is a windows programme. I'm on ubuntu
> linux- does that mean I should do something different?
>
> I forgot to say in my OP that the document language settings are set
> (via document -> settings) to italian. But the hyphenation is still
> wrong.
>
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:13 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
>> It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
>> If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
>> the italian hyphenation for babel.
>> -
>> Julio Rojas
>> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown  wrote:
>> > Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
>> > Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
>> > publishers quickly.
>> >
>> > I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
>> > I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
>> > back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
>> > files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
>> > yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
>> > should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
>> > have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
>> > warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
>> > have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
>> > advance.
>> >
>> > I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> >
>> > Richard Brown
>> > ..
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
> Richard Brown
> ..
>
>
>
>

Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

Dear list,

I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]- 
document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the first  
citation will give a full reference, following citations will only use  
author and shorttitle«.


I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will  
give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the  
chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?


Thank you*
Jess

RE: Page numbering for subpages

[Rob Oakes]

Hi, 

This could also be done using a set of LaTeX commands following your main
body text.  This is a rough first draft, but the general procedure goes like
this:

1.) Create a variable to keep track of the current page.

2.) Redefine \thepage macro so that it will paginate the sub-figures
appropriately.  This will involve resetting the "page" counter

3.) Set "page" back to its previous value.

If you follow this procedure at every figure/subfigure groups, it should
have the desired effect.  A rough draft of the code is below.  Also, you
might consider redefining one of the float environments (or creating your
own) so that it applies these definitions automatically.  That would spare
you from needing to add them before every block of figures.
%%

% Add to the document preamble
\newcommand{\currentpage}{\relax}

End of Body Text
___

% Add the following before the first "figure" as ERT

% Create Value to Keep Track of the Current Page
\renewcommand{\currentpage}{\value{page}}
\setcounter{page}{0} % Set the page counter value to zero
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{\currentpage}\alph{page}} % Track the sub
pages
___

Sub-figures
___

% Add the following before the next figure as ERT

\setcounter{page}{\currentpage} % Restores the currentpage value
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}} % Restores the previous definition

%%

This is an extremely rough solution, and I haven't tested it, but it would
generally have the effect that you're looking for.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

[Richard Brown]

Julio, 

 Julio Rojas wrote:
> Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.

Sorry, I thought I had. I'm very new to all this and have lots to learn.
Maybe I've done it better this time.

> 
> First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
> says on the hyphenation patterns being used.

That told me I'm only using English. So I loaded the package you
suggested, and IT WORKS!

Thanks a load!

Richard

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:26 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
> Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.
> 
> I thought you were on Windows as you spoke of MikTeX. But no problem.
> First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX
> says on the hyphenation patterns being used. You can check that in LyX
> in "Document->Latex Log". There you will see a message at the
> beggining saying:
> 
> Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english...
> 
> Those are the languages being used by Babel. If you found "Italian",
> then LaTeX is using Italian and I don't know what the problem is. If
> you cannot find it, the it means you have to install th package
> "texlive-lang-italian", which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown  wrote:
> > Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my
> > system as far as I can tell- is a windows programme. I'm on ubuntu
> > linux- does that mean I should do something different?
> >
> > I forgot to say in my OP that the document language settings are set
> > (via document -> settings) to italian. But the hyphenation is still
> > wrong.
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:13 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote:
> >> It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document.
> >> If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading
> >> the italian hyphenation for babel.
> >> -
> >> Julio Rojas
> >> jcredbe...@gmail.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown  
> >> wrote:
> >> > Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to
> >> > Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my
> >> > publishers quickly.
> >> >
> >> > I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian.
> >> > I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going
> >> > back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config
> >> > files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as
> >> > yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they
> >> > should be and  when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I
> >> > have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
> >> > warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
> >> > have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
> >> > advance.
> >> >
> >> > I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
> >> >
> >> > Richard
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Richard Brown
> >> > ..
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> > Richard Brown
> > ..
> >
> >
> >
> >
Richard Brown
..

Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Has anyone tried some BasicTeX version for MacOS with LyX with succes?

This time, for reasons of disc space economy, I prefered not to migrate to  
full MacTeX 2009, but rather installing the BacicTeX.dmg (2009)  from  
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/morepackages.html  for then, whenever  
necessary, install aditional LaTeX packages with tlmgr.


Because all the day I'm using a somewhat extraordinary LaTeX/LyX document  
class (tufte-latex, handout and book), I expected having to install  
additional packages after need, whenever in an error message is said  
"cannot find xy.sty" or similar - and I did this already in about 10 cases.


But there must be some other principal problem, that inhibits properly  
compiling of my (existing) LyX documents. I am sure, it is not because of  
LyX. But perhaps someone here can give advice, though:


With a tufte-handout lyx file, which compiled well to pdf under  
MacTeX-2008, now there are errors like:


! Font T1/phv/m/n/10=phvr8t at 8.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file  
not found.
! Font T1/pplj/m/n/10=pplr9d at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


Other error messages with the koma letter class and layout (also working  
before):


! Font T1/pplx/m/n/12=pplr9e at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
foun

! Arithmetic overflow.
! Font T1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9e at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.
! Font OT1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9t at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found

etc.
! \textfont 0 is undefined (character ().

None of the processes result in usable pdf.

regards,
joachim
--
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 - LyX 1.6.5
MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

RE: Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Joachim,

The errors that you posted are common when using xetex instead of pdflatex or 
basic latex to compile a document.  Do you know if your installation is trying 
to use xelatex instead of the other engines?

You may want to check your export settings and make sure that something didn't 
get inadvertently changed.  If you haven't already, you might want to try 
reconfiguring LyX (Tools -> Reconfigure).

However, I would actually recommend that you use MacTeX.  While it is a bit of 
a hard drive pig (3 GB), I've had troubles with other LaTeX distributions on 
Mac (including BasicTeX).  The package selection is incomplete, or I will 
discover that a necessary font wasn't installed.  It seems that some of the 
smaller distributions don't always carefully vet their dependencies and this 
can result in installed packages requiring software that wasn't included.  
Manually trying to sort this out is tremendously frustrating.  (Speaking from 
experience here.)

Compared to those frustrations, I finally decided that I would just delete a 
few extra videos out of iTunes.  Even now, months later, I still think that was 
a good decision.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Osnabryg
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:28 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

Has anyone tried some BasicTeX version for MacOS with LyX with succes?

This time, for reasons of disc space economy, I prefered not to migrate to  
full MacTeX 2009, but rather installing the BacicTeX.dmg (2009)  from  
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/morepackages.html  for then, whenever  
necessary, install aditional LaTeX packages with tlmgr.

Because all the day I'm using a somewhat extraordinary LaTeX/LyX document  
class (tufte-latex, handout and book), I expected having to install  
additional packages after need, whenever in an error message is said  
"cannot find xy.sty" or similar - and I did this already in about 10 cases.

But there must be some other principal problem, that inhibits properly  
compiling of my (existing) LyX documents. I am sure, it is not because of  
LyX. But perhaps someone here can give advice, though:

With a tufte-handout lyx file, which compiled well to pdf under  
MacTeX-2008, now there are errors like:

! Font T1/phv/m/n/10=phvr8t at 8.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file  
not found.
! Font T1/pplj/m/n/10=pplr9d at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.

Other error messages with the koma letter class and layout (also working  
before):

! Font T1/pplx/m/n/12=pplr9e at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
foun
! Arithmetic overflow.
! Font T1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9e at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.
! Font OT1/pplx/m/n/8=pplr9t at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found
etc.
! \textfont 0 is undefined (character ().

None of the processes result in usable pdf.

regards,
joachim
-- 
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 - LyX 1.6.5
MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: Lyx 1.6.4, APA-Formatvorlage fehlt; Ubuntu 9.10

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 15.12.2009 11:50, schrieb Felix Kromarek:


  Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Fomatdatei
apa.layout
ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran,
dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil-Datei
nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument
'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen.


You need to install the LaTeX-package APA. Use the TeXLive package manager to 
install APA.

But why do you want to use APA? This is a layout for journal submissions of the American 
Psychological Association. It is not designed for master theses and the like. Moreover, I wonder why 
you as German should use the layout of an American society for your thesis.

I recommend to use the class book (koma-script), report (koma-script) or memoir.

regards Uwe

Re: Irfanview and LyX

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 15.12.2009 14:45, schrieb Jose Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez:


I work in Windows XP 3 and I need 'imperiously' to change the default
external image viewer/editor/visor (MSPaint) to another visor (irfanview)
www(dot)irfanview(dot)com).


Go to the LyX preferences and specify a viewer of your choice to the image formats you like to edit 
from within LyX. It is enough to specify "irfanview" as editor (in case the filename is 
irfanview.exe. Assure that the path to the irfanview.exe is in LyX's PATH prefix in the LyX preferences.


regards Uwe

Re: biblatex-biber

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Tuesday 15 December 2009 09:56:47 schrieben Sie:
> Hello
>
> On 12/15/09, Wolfgang Engelmann  wrote:
> >  Is somebody using
> >  biblatex-biber
> >  under debian and could she/he be kind enough to give some hints for
> > installing it?
>
> Some day biber might make its way to TeXLive [1], but sofar I haven't
> seen binaries for Debian or Ubuntu. I would suggest downloading the
> biber sources and issuing the usual ./configure && make && make
> install.
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-July/021440.html

Thanks, Liviu, for your answer 
Wolfgang