Re: Fancy headers lost on Index pages

[Hellmut Weber]

On 08.09.2010 13:50, Helge Hafting wrote:
 On 15. juli 2010 13:49, Hellmut Weber wrote:
 On 15.07.2010 03:42, Julien Rioux wrote:
 On 13/07/2010 11:46 AM, Hellmut Weber wrote:
 Hi list,
 i don't remember whether this has already been discussed in this
 list...

 I have a document (based on koma article) in which i use fancy headers.
 That works very well in the main part of the document, but the the
 first
 page of the index (at the end of my document) doesn't show any
 header or
 footer information (not even a pager number).
 On the second page of the index the header and footer info appears
 correctly.

 What can I do to get the header and footer strings on the first page of
 the index?

 TIA and happy LyXing

 Hellmut


 I don't know if it would work, but you could try Insert  TeX Code just
 before the index, and fill this TeX Code box with
 \thispagestyle{plain} or \thispagestyle{fancy}

 If this doesn't work, you at least have some more keywords to try in
 google.

 Cheers,
 Julien


 Hi Julien,
 thanks for your reply ;-)

 You proposal helped me to pin down the effect somewhat more.
 Since i'm using the koma scrlttr2 class i had to use the command
 \thispagestyle{scrheadings} (which is used in my stye file for this
 document too.

 This doesn't solve my problem, though.
 It seems that the LaTeX command \printindex{} which is generated by LyX
 is the culprit.
 I suppose it issues a command like \thispagestyle{empty} because it is
 starting sort of a new chapter.

 Exactly. The index is a chapter, like any other chapter. So it starts
 with a chapter-start page. With koma-script, you can decide what a
 chapter page should look like. And even better, you can select the style
 for the index start page specifically. Try putting this in
 your preamble, in order to have scrheadings on the index page:
 
 \renewcommand{\indexpagestyle}{scrheadings}
 
 Should work without further workarounds. view-pdf from LyX worked for
 me with a test index.
 
 \indexpagestyle can be set to any style that is supported by
 \pagestyle and \thispagestyle. plain, scrheadings, and so on. The
 latter also needs \usepackage{scrpage2}
 
 See scrguien.pdf (comes with the latex koma-script packages) for more info.
 
 Following this route i found a workaround. Her it is (in the hope that
 may be helpful for somebody else)

 * export my lyx file to LaTeX (pdflatex)

 * run pdflatex from the command line on this a first time
 (which generates an *.idx file)

 * run makeindex on this file (without extension)
 (which generates an *.ind file which will be input during the next
 pdflatex run)

 In my reply to your personal account i forgot the most important point
 ,-(
 *** Edit the *.ind file ***
 After the first line
  \begin{theindex}
 add the line
  \thispagestyle{scrheadings}

 * final run of pfdlatex on the *.tex source file

 And here we are, the first page of the index has the desired header and
 footer lines.


 Happy LyXing

 Hellmut


Hi Helge,
thanks for indicating the correct solution.

I'm using the koma script classes since years but didn't study the docu
in every detail.

Cheers

Hellmut


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Re: agutex layout?

[Evan Mason]

 But thats the idea of the draft mode - getting a quick preview of the 
 document without images.
 
Hi Uwe, I'm still not sure about no figures in draft mode. At
http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/manuscript_tools/journals/latex/ it says when
making the initial submission you should use draft mode with figures.  Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.  I've
tried to activate that but I guess agutmpl.tex is not called when using
agutex.layout?

It would also be useful to have the line numbering option that is available in
agutmpl.tex.

Many thanks, Evan

Creating book cover using pstricks

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

Dear All

I would like to create book cover using LyX.
I did searching and found how to use pstricks, however it is pure LaTeX.

Is there any example in implementing pstricks within LyX that I can learn.

Perhaps it would be very useful if a template of book-cover is in LyX
template folder.

Regards
Waluyo

using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Necati Demir]

Hello,

I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use

1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.

How can i do that?

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Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Richard Heck]

On 9/9/10 9:25 AM, Necati Demir wrote:

Hello,

I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use

1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.

How can i do that?

   
I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do 
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.


rh

Re: Creating book cover using pstricks

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:


I would like to create book cover using LyX. I did searching and found how
to use pstricks, however it is pure LaTeX.


Waluyo,

  No, PSTricks is not pure LaTeX. It is PostScript that can be used with
LaTeX. PSTricks is a vector graphics application, not a page layout
application.


Is there any example in implementing pstricks within LyX that I can learn.


  You can write PSTricks code with LyX by putting it in a LaTeX box (called
ERT unless that's changed).


Perhaps it would be very useful if a template of book-cover is in LyX
template folder.


  I suggest that you look at a page layout application such as Scribus which
will allow you to set frames on each page (front and back covers, spine) and
put text or graphics in each frame. You can use PSTricks, Inkscape, or The
GIMP to produce the graphics and Scribus will see all the installed fonts so
you can use what you think looks good.

  As the saying goes, choose horses for courses. A book cover is a page
layout product. The book content is a text layout product done exceptionally
well by LyX/LaTeX. Complicated, precisely drawn and sized figures are a
PSTricks product that can be incorporated into the text body or used on the
book's cover.

Rich

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Richard Heck wrote:


I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.


  In addition, it will lessen the impact of your presentation and confuse
your audience. Regardless, you might find PowerPoint more suitable based on
the horrible presentations I've seen people show.

Rich

Re: agutex layout?

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/09/2010 5:26 AM, Evan Mason wrote:

Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.


You probably want to learn how to do this from the template file 
agutempl.tex, and then apply what you have learned to your LyX document. 
That means putting the necessary LaTeX commands in Document  Settings 
 Preamble. Any such tweaks should go to the layout file only if all 
agutex documents are to be typeset this way. Would you say that is the case?


The same applies to line numbering.

Cheers,
Julien

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Necati Demir wrote:


Rich, let me tell you why i want to use no theme on some pages. I am
preparing a training note. First slide will be presentation, second slide
will be training notes of first side, third slide will be presentation and
fourth slide will be traing notes of third slide, 


Necati,

  I've not tried to integrate notes and visuals. I thought the Beamer class
note feature was for speaker notes.

  If I was in your position (and I have been, several times :-) ) I would
separate the two components.

  Well designed and presented visuals are brief lists of bullet points with
the occasional figure or quotation. If you've ever taken home printed slides
from a presentation you attended, and looked at those pages a few weeks to a
few months later, how much information did you get from them? Probably not
as much as you would have wanted. Same thing with downloading presentations
from the Web: they don't tell the entire story.

  I always prepare an accompanying article or book that goes into more
detail than is on the slides. For a presentation to the Bureau of Land
Management's Minerals Workshop on our approach to quantifying subjectivity
in environmental impact assessments, I prepared and distributed a 24-page
article. For the 2-day seminars I presented in Perth and Melbourne
(Australia) a couple of years ago on the same subject, I prepared a 125-page
book. Attendees could take notes in the documents (I did not include the
slides as illustrations, but I could have done so), but the text went into
much greater detail than was presented on each slide.

  If your training is on a topic that would have added value by the students
taking away a more detailed textual explanation they could use for reference
and refresher learning, you'd provide greater value and they'd like you
better for the effort.

Rich

Thanks for LyX

[Steve Litt]

Hi LyX developers and community,

I'm putting the finishing touches on the first draft of a 100K word book, and 
while typing I was thinking how wonderful LyX is, and how grateful I am for 
LyX. Unlike other writing tools, LyX ignores accidental double spaces or 
accidental double newlines. It never crashes except in on very specific math 
activity, so you just back up a lot in math. It never screws up your file. 

It's WYSIWYG enough to see what's what in the editing environment without 
compiling to PDF, but not so WYSIWYG to introduce code bloat and instability.

LyX is built for speed. I've had a 6000 word day using LyX, a couple 5000 word 
days, and several 4000 word days.

Thanks so much for this spectacular writing tool.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use
 
 1) different theme,
 2) custom theme,
 3) no theme.
 
 How can i do that?

If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf
files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or
something else.


Kenward
-- 
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be 
_teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, 
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next 
ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone 
could have. - Lee Iacocca

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kenward Vaughan wrote:


If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files
for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something
else.


  Take a look at pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit):
www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Rich

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Necati Demir]

Rob,
Can you send a lyx file that uses your sty file?

On 9 September 2010 18:06, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
 While it is true that you can't switch between different themes in a Beamer 
 document, you can approximate the effect through the use of color, font, 
 inner and outer themes.  (See the Beamer manual for a more thorough 
 discussion of each.)

 By being smart, you can combine the different theme components you want into 
 custom macros that can be used in your document.  Then, you can switch 
 between the different appearances by invoking your macro at the appropriate 
 place int h document.

 I have attached a simple example to this email (you will need to modify it as 
 I haven't included the fonts or design files, which are copyrighted).  It's 
 based on a KeyNote theme that I particularly like and has a light and a dark 
 color scheme.  (Example slides are also attached.)

 Going the custom route also has an additional advantage, it allows you to 
 create slides that are attractive and personalized.  If you create something 
 that you like and that matches your personal tastes, it means that you will 
 spend more time working on the content and less time dicking around with your 
 slide appearance.  (Just my $0.02, though.)

 If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email and i'd be happy to 
 try and help you sort out a custom theme.

 Cheers,

 Rob Oakes









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Pi Bilişim Teknolojileri
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Tables and more tables

[John Coppens]

Hello people,

Two problems with tables:

1) Scrolling:

When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around, so
scrolling has to be done clicking columns. This gets a little tiring if a
lot of editing has to be done.

Selecting a cell can get very difficult, causing the table to jump around
and making a correct selection nearly impossible.

I already disabled the automatic table toolbar. The toolbar made things
worse by causing extra scrolling.

Is there any way to get a more predictable behaviour?

2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic... I found how to add \extrarowheight
in table cells, but that seems to add space only at the top of the cell.
How can I add extra margin at the bottom? (Also tried a DefSkip below the
internal table, but this makes the bottom border of the cell disappear -
weird)

This is the generated PDF:

http://jcoppens.com/univ/iua/hds/data/address_modes.pdf

Thanks on beforehand!
John

Re: agutex layout?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 09.09.2010 11:26, schrieb Evan Mason:


But thats the idea of the draft mode - getting a quick preview of the
document without images.


Hi Uwe, I'm still not sure about no figures in draft mode. At
http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/manuscript_tools/journals/latex/ it says when
making the initial submission you should use draft mode with figures.


OK, but what is the problem? Draft mode means that only a frame is drawn 
in the output. So when the require that, why not?



Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.  I've
tried to activate that but I guess agutmpl.tex is not called when using
agutex.layout?


Of course not. A layout file is just a text file telling LyX how to 
display the LaTeX-commands on screen. When you load a file, only this 
file is used. But I still don't understand your concerns. When you want 
to have the draft mode, add draft to the document class options, if 
not then not. In agutmpl.tex the use the draft document class option 
because this is the default for initial submissions.



It would also be useful to have the line numbering option that is available in
agutmpl.tex.


Then activate them by uncommenting the corresponding lines in the 
document preamble of your file. In my agutex layout file, you would have 
to uncomment line 2 and 3.


regards Uwe

Re: Tables and more tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 09.09.2010 18:45, schrieb John Coppens:


1) Scrolling:

When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around,


This is a known problem. The situation will be much better in the next 
major LyX version 2.0.



2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic...


Insert some horizontal or vertical space if necessary. The 
EmbeddedObkects manual that you find in LyX's Help emnu shows you many 
examples how to do this. (Start with sec. 3.7 Subfloats and/or sec. 
2.12.1 Row Spacing.)


regards Uwe

Re: Thanks for LyX

[Manolo Martínez]

I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic thanks for
lyx messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story. Next
Friday I finally have the public defence of my doctoral dissertation. It
has been written in LyX from scratch, and it's been a pleasure to do so.
And, while the content is very debatable, it looks seriously beautiful.
You guys appear in the acknowledgements and, as I guess you will not be
reading it anytime soon, let me copy here the relevant passage:

I would also like to thank the online community that has made the actual
process of writing and typesetting this dissertation so much easier, by
developing the software and helping newbies like me to undertand and
benefit from it. Among many others: the LyX developers that read the
LyX-users mailing list, André Miede for creating the beautiful LaTeX
syle I have used to typeset the dissertation, and Nick Mariette who
ported it to LyX. Details on how to get the amazing set of tools
provided by this group of incredibly generous people can be found in
page 229.

So, yeah, thanks for LyX.
Manolo

Problem with Nick Mariette's thesis style

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, while compiling the sample document for Nick Mariette's
thesis style, I receive the following error at the end of the
compilation process:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file fvmro8r): Font fvmro8r at 408 not found

The thing is this font, which seemly belong to Bera, doesn't appear
anywhere in the installation files. Does anybody know how to solve
this problem. I would like to move to this style as soon as possible,

Best regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: looking for layout for MNRAS journal

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 30.08.2010 14:56, schrieb Piotr A. Dybczyński:


I am in urgent need of obtaining LyX layout file for the journal paper for
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

Its LaTeX class is available at:

http://www.wiley.com/bw/static/mnras_latex.asp


Do you still need it or is it too late? I'm already working on another 
layout file and could this way also write a layout file for MNRAS.


regards Uwe

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Necati,

I don't typically use LyX when working with Beamer.  I think it's easier to 
just use plain LaTeX.

However, attached you will find the source file for the example slides I 
included earlier.  The theme commands are invoked with ERT insets.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

Cheers,

Rob



Crazy-Ones.lyx
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Re: Thanks for LyX

[Raymond Lillard]

On 09/09/2010 11:06 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote:

I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic thanks for
lyx messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story.


In like vein, I just finished a 60 page protocol document
for a piece of highly configurable instrumentation.

I spent less than 2 weeks on it.  I could have used Word
like my client thought he wanted and then milked it for
another 2 weeks. :-)  Just for the record, I used the
article class.

BTW, I not a professional tech-writer.  I'm an electrical
engineer who also writes mainly embedded firmware.  While I
have many painful memories of troff, I no experience to
speak of with Latex.  The point being, one can be productive
with Lyx w/o being a Tex guru.

Feeling adventurous, I pulled down the SVN version and
used that because I wanted some of the new features not
back-ported to 1.6.x.  I suffered a few crashes, but was
not able to make them consistent enough build a bug case.
The few crashes were not often enough to interfere with
my progress.

Well done and thanks to the team who is working on Lyx2.

Ray Lillard

Re: Fancy headers lost on Index pages

[Hellmut Weber]

On 08.09.2010 13:50, Helge Hafting wrote:
 On 15. juli 2010 13:49, Hellmut Weber wrote:
 On 15.07.2010 03:42, Julien Rioux wrote:
 On 13/07/2010 11:46 AM, Hellmut Weber wrote:
 Hi list,
 i don't remember whether this has already been discussed in this
 list...

 I have a document (based on koma article) in which i use fancy headers.
 That works very well in the main part of the document, but the the
 first
 page of the index (at the end of my document) doesn't show any
 header or
 footer information (not even a pager number).
 On the second page of the index the header and footer info appears
 correctly.

 What can I do to get the header and footer strings on the first page of
 the index?

 TIA and happy LyXing

 Hellmut


 I don't know if it would work, but you could try Insert  TeX Code just
 before the index, and fill this TeX Code box with
 \thispagestyle{plain} or \thispagestyle{fancy}

 If this doesn't work, you at least have some more keywords to try in
 google.

 Cheers,
 Julien


 Hi Julien,
 thanks for your reply ;-)

 You proposal helped me to pin down the effect somewhat more.
 Since i'm using the koma scrlttr2 class i had to use the command
 \thispagestyle{scrheadings} (which is used in my stye file for this
 document too.

 This doesn't solve my problem, though.
 It seems that the LaTeX command \printindex{} which is generated by LyX
 is the culprit.
 I suppose it issues a command like \thispagestyle{empty} because it is
 starting sort of a new chapter.

 Exactly. The index is a chapter, like any other chapter. So it starts
 with a chapter-start page. With koma-script, you can decide what a
 chapter page should look like. And even better, you can select the style
 for the index start page specifically. Try putting this in
 your preamble, in order to have scrheadings on the index page:
 
 \renewcommand{\indexpagestyle}{scrheadings}
 
 Should work without further workarounds. view-pdf from LyX worked for
 me with a test index.
 
 \indexpagestyle can be set to any style that is supported by
 \pagestyle and \thispagestyle. plain, scrheadings, and so on. The
 latter also needs \usepackage{scrpage2}
 
 See scrguien.pdf (comes with the latex koma-script packages) for more info.
 
 Following this route i found a workaround. Her it is (in the hope that
 may be helpful for somebody else)

 * export my lyx file to LaTeX (pdflatex)

 * run pdflatex from the command line on this a first time
 (which generates an *.idx file)

 * run makeindex on this file (without extension)
 (which generates an *.ind file which will be input during the next
 pdflatex run)

 In my reply to your personal account i forgot the most important point
 ,-(
 *** Edit the *.ind file ***
 After the first line
  \begin{theindex}
 add the line
  \thispagestyle{scrheadings}

 * final run of pfdlatex on the *.tex source file

 And here we are, the first page of the index has the desired header and
 footer lines.


 Happy LyXing

 Hellmut


Hi Helge,
thanks for indicating the correct solution.

I'm using the koma script classes since years but didn't study the docu
in every detail.

Cheers

Hellmut


-- 
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Degenfeldstraße 2 tel   +49-89-3081172
D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321
please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq

Re: agutex layout?

[Evan Mason]

 But thats the idea of the draft mode - getting a quick preview of the 
 document without images.
 
Hi Uwe, I'm still not sure about no figures in draft mode. At
http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/manuscript_tools/journals/latex/ it says when
making the initial submission you should use draft mode with figures.  Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.  I've
tried to activate that but I guess agutmpl.tex is not called when using
agutex.layout?

It would also be useful to have the line numbering option that is available in
agutmpl.tex.

Many thanks, Evan

Creating book cover using pstricks

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

Dear All

I would like to create book cover using LyX.
I did searching and found how to use pstricks, however it is pure LaTeX.

Is there any example in implementing pstricks within LyX that I can learn.

Perhaps it would be very useful if a template of book-cover is in LyX
template folder.

Regards
Waluyo

using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Necati Demir]

Hello,

I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use

1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.

How can i do that?

-- 
Necati DEMİR
http://demir.web.tr

Pi Bilişim Teknolojileri
http://www.pibilisim.com.tr
--

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Richard Heck]

On 9/9/10 9:25 AM, Necati Demir wrote:

Hello,

I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use

1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.

How can i do that?

   
I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do 
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.


rh

Re: Creating book cover using pstricks

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:


I would like to create book cover using LyX. I did searching and found how
to use pstricks, however it is pure LaTeX.


Waluyo,

  No, PSTricks is not pure LaTeX. It is PostScript that can be used with
LaTeX. PSTricks is a vector graphics application, not a page layout
application.


Is there any example in implementing pstricks within LyX that I can learn.


  You can write PSTricks code with LyX by putting it in a LaTeX box (called
ERT unless that's changed).


Perhaps it would be very useful if a template of book-cover is in LyX
template folder.


  I suggest that you look at a page layout application such as Scribus which
will allow you to set frames on each page (front and back covers, spine) and
put text or graphics in each frame. You can use PSTricks, Inkscape, or The
GIMP to produce the graphics and Scribus will see all the installed fonts so
you can use what you think looks good.

  As the saying goes, choose horses for courses. A book cover is a page
layout product. The book content is a text layout product done exceptionally
well by LyX/LaTeX. Complicated, precisely drawn and sized figures are a
PSTricks product that can be incorporated into the text body or used on the
book's cover.

Rich

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Richard Heck wrote:


I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.


  In addition, it will lessen the impact of your presentation and confuse
your audience. Regardless, you might find PowerPoint more suitable based on
the horrible presentations I've seen people show.

Rich

Re: agutex layout?

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/09/2010 5:26 AM, Evan Mason wrote:

Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.


You probably want to learn how to do this from the template file 
agutempl.tex, and then apply what you have learned to your LyX document. 
That means putting the necessary LaTeX commands in Document  Settings 
 Preamble. Any such tweaks should go to the layout file only if all 
agutex documents are to be typeset this way. Would you say that is the case?


The same applies to line numbering.

Cheers,
Julien

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Necati Demir wrote:


Rich, let me tell you why i want to use no theme on some pages. I am
preparing a training note. First slide will be presentation, second slide
will be training notes of first side, third slide will be presentation and
fourth slide will be traing notes of third slide, 


Necati,

  I've not tried to integrate notes and visuals. I thought the Beamer class
note feature was for speaker notes.

  If I was in your position (and I have been, several times :-) ) I would
separate the two components.

  Well designed and presented visuals are brief lists of bullet points with
the occasional figure or quotation. If you've ever taken home printed slides
from a presentation you attended, and looked at those pages a few weeks to a
few months later, how much information did you get from them? Probably not
as much as you would have wanted. Same thing with downloading presentations
from the Web: they don't tell the entire story.

  I always prepare an accompanying article or book that goes into more
detail than is on the slides. For a presentation to the Bureau of Land
Management's Minerals Workshop on our approach to quantifying subjectivity
in environmental impact assessments, I prepared and distributed a 24-page
article. For the 2-day seminars I presented in Perth and Melbourne
(Australia) a couple of years ago on the same subject, I prepared a 125-page
book. Attendees could take notes in the documents (I did not include the
slides as illustrations, but I could have done so), but the text went into
much greater detail than was presented on each slide.

  If your training is on a topic that would have added value by the students
taking away a more detailed textual explanation they could use for reference
and refresher learning, you'd provide greater value and they'd like you
better for the effort.

Rich

Thanks for LyX

[Steve Litt]

Hi LyX developers and community,

I'm putting the finishing touches on the first draft of a 100K word book, and 
while typing I was thinking how wonderful LyX is, and how grateful I am for 
LyX. Unlike other writing tools, LyX ignores accidental double spaces or 
accidental double newlines. It never crashes except in on very specific math 
activity, so you just back up a lot in math. It never screws up your file. 

It's WYSIWYG enough to see what's what in the editing environment without 
compiling to PDF, but not so WYSIWYG to introduce code bloat and instability.

LyX is built for speed. I've had a 6000 word day using LyX, a couple 5000 word 
days, and several 4000 word days.

Thanks so much for this spectacular writing tool.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use
 
 1) different theme,
 2) custom theme,
 3) no theme.
 
 How can i do that?

If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf
files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or
something else.


Kenward
-- 
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be 
_teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, 
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next 
ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone 
could have. - Lee Iacocca

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kenward Vaughan wrote:


If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files
for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something
else.


  Take a look at pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit):
www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Rich

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Necati Demir]

Rob,
Can you send a lyx file that uses your sty file?

On 9 September 2010 18:06, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
 While it is true that you can't switch between different themes in a Beamer 
 document, you can approximate the effect through the use of color, font, 
 inner and outer themes.  (See the Beamer manual for a more thorough 
 discussion of each.)

 By being smart, you can combine the different theme components you want into 
 custom macros that can be used in your document.  Then, you can switch 
 between the different appearances by invoking your macro at the appropriate 
 place int h document.

 I have attached a simple example to this email (you will need to modify it as 
 I haven't included the fonts or design files, which are copyrighted).  It's 
 based on a KeyNote theme that I particularly like and has a light and a dark 
 color scheme.  (Example slides are also attached.)

 Going the custom route also has an additional advantage, it allows you to 
 create slides that are attractive and personalized.  If you create something 
 that you like and that matches your personal tastes, it means that you will 
 spend more time working on the content and less time dicking around with your 
 slide appearance.  (Just my $0.02, though.)

 If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email and i'd be happy to 
 try and help you sort out a custom theme.

 Cheers,

 Rob Oakes









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Tables and more tables

[John Coppens]

Hello people,

Two problems with tables:

1) Scrolling:

When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around, so
scrolling has to be done clicking columns. This gets a little tiring if a
lot of editing has to be done.

Selecting a cell can get very difficult, causing the table to jump around
and making a correct selection nearly impossible.

I already disabled the automatic table toolbar. The toolbar made things
worse by causing extra scrolling.

Is there any way to get a more predictable behaviour?

2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic... I found how to add \extrarowheight
in table cells, but that seems to add space only at the top of the cell.
How can I add extra margin at the bottom? (Also tried a DefSkip below the
internal table, but this makes the bottom border of the cell disappear -
weird)

This is the generated PDF:

http://jcoppens.com/univ/iua/hds/data/address_modes.pdf

Thanks on beforehand!
John

Re: agutex layout?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 09.09.2010 11:26, schrieb Evan Mason:


But thats the idea of the draft mode - getting a quick preview of the
document without images.


Hi Uwe, I'm still not sure about no figures in draft mode. At
http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/manuscript_tools/journals/latex/ it says when
making the initial submission you should use draft mode with figures.


OK, but what is the problem? Draft mode means that only a frame is drawn 
in the output. So when the require that, why not?



Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.  I've
tried to activate that but I guess agutmpl.tex is not called when using
agutex.layout?


Of course not. A layout file is just a text file telling LyX how to 
display the LaTeX-commands on screen. When you load a file, only this 
file is used. But I still don't understand your concerns. When you want 
to have the draft mode, add draft to the document class options, if 
not then not. In agutmpl.tex the use the draft document class option 
because this is the default for initial submissions.



It would also be useful to have the line numbering option that is available in
agutmpl.tex.


Then activate them by uncommenting the corresponding lines in the 
document preamble of your file. In my agutex layout file, you would have 
to uncomment line 2 and 3.


regards Uwe

Re: Tables and more tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 09.09.2010 18:45, schrieb John Coppens:


1) Scrolling:

When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around,


This is a known problem. The situation will be much better in the next 
major LyX version 2.0.



2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic...


Insert some horizontal or vertical space if necessary. The 
EmbeddedObkects manual that you find in LyX's Help emnu shows you many 
examples how to do this. (Start with sec. 3.7 Subfloats and/or sec. 
2.12.1 Row Spacing.)


regards Uwe

Re: Thanks for LyX

[Manolo Martínez]

I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic thanks for
lyx messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story. Next
Friday I finally have the public defence of my doctoral dissertation. It
has been written in LyX from scratch, and it's been a pleasure to do so.
And, while the content is very debatable, it looks seriously beautiful.
You guys appear in the acknowledgements and, as I guess you will not be
reading it anytime soon, let me copy here the relevant passage:

I would also like to thank the online community that has made the actual
process of writing and typesetting this dissertation so much easier, by
developing the software and helping newbies like me to undertand and
benefit from it. Among many others: the LyX developers that read the
LyX-users mailing list, André Miede for creating the beautiful LaTeX
syle I have used to typeset the dissertation, and Nick Mariette who
ported it to LyX. Details on how to get the amazing set of tools
provided by this group of incredibly generous people can be found in
page 229.

So, yeah, thanks for LyX.
Manolo

Problem with Nick Mariette's thesis style

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, while compiling the sample document for Nick Mariette's
thesis style, I receive the following error at the end of the
compilation process:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file fvmro8r): Font fvmro8r at 408 not found

The thing is this font, which seemly belong to Bera, doesn't appear
anywhere in the installation files. Does anybody know how to solve
this problem. I would like to move to this style as soon as possible,

Best regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: looking for layout for MNRAS journal

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 30.08.2010 14:56, schrieb Piotr A. Dybczyński:


I am in urgent need of obtaining LyX layout file for the journal paper for
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

Its LaTeX class is available at:

http://www.wiley.com/bw/static/mnras_latex.asp


Do you still need it or is it too late? I'm already working on another 
layout file and could this way also write a layout file for MNRAS.


regards Uwe

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Necati,

I don't typically use LyX when working with Beamer.  I think it's easier to 
just use plain LaTeX.

However, attached you will find the source file for the example slides I 
included earlier.  The theme commands are invoked with ERT insets.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

Cheers,

Rob



Crazy-Ones.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Thanks for LyX

[Raymond Lillard]

On 09/09/2010 11:06 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote:

I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic thanks for
lyx messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story.


In like vein, I just finished a 60 page protocol document
for a piece of highly configurable instrumentation.

I spent less than 2 weeks on it.  I could have used Word
like my client thought he wanted and then milked it for
another 2 weeks. :-)  Just for the record, I used the
article class.

BTW, I not a professional tech-writer.  I'm an electrical
engineer who also writes mainly embedded firmware.  While I
have many painful memories of troff, I no experience to
speak of with Latex.  The point being, one can be productive
with Lyx w/o being a Tex guru.

Feeling adventurous, I pulled down the SVN version and
used that because I wanted some of the new features not
back-ported to 1.6.x.  I suffered a few crashes, but was
not able to make them consistent enough build a bug case.
The few crashes were not often enough to interfere with
my progress.

Well done and thanks to the team who is working on Lyx2.

Ray Lillard

Re: Fancy headers lost on Index pages

[Hellmut Weber]

On 08.09.2010 13:50, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On 15. juli 2010 13:49, Hellmut Weber wrote:
>> On 15.07.2010 03:42, Julien Rioux wrote:
>>> On 13/07/2010 11:46 AM, Hellmut Weber wrote:
 Hi list,
 i don't remember whether this has already been discussed in this
 list...

 I have a document (based on koma article) in which i use fancy headers.
 That works very well in the main part of the document, but the the
 first
 page of the index (at the end of my document) doesn't show any
 header or
 footer information (not even a pager number).
 On the second page of the index the header and footer info appears
 correctly.

 What can I do to get the header and footer strings on the first page of
 the index?

 TIA and happy LyXing

 Hellmut

>>>
>>> I don't know if it would work, but you could try Insert>  TeX Code just
>>> before the index, and fill this TeX Code box with
>>> "\thispagestyle{plain}" or "\thispagestyle{fancy}"
>>>
>>> If this doesn't work, you at least have some more keywords to try in
>>> google.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Julien
>>>
>>
>> Hi Julien,
>> thanks for your reply ;-)
>>
>> You proposal helped me to pin down the effect somewhat more.
>> Since i'm using the koma scrlttr2 class i had to use the command
>> \thispagestyle{scrheadings} (which is used in my stye file for this
>> document too.
>>
>> This doesn't solve my problem, though.
>> It seems that the LaTeX command \printindex{} which is generated by LyX
>> is the culprit.
>> I suppose it issues a command like \thispagestyle{empty} because it is
>> starting sort of a new chapter.
>>
> Exactly. The index is a chapter, like any other chapter. So it starts
> with a "chapter-start" page. With koma-script, you can decide what a
> chapter page should look like. And even better, you can select the style
> for the index start page specifically. Try putting this in
> your preamble, in order to have "scrheadings" on the index page:
> 
> \renewcommand{\indexpagestyle}{scrheadings}
> 
> Should work without further workarounds. "view->pdf" from LyX worked for
> me with a test index.
> 
> \indexpagestyle can be set to any style that is supported by
> \pagestyle and \thispagestyle. "plain", "scrheadings", and so on. The
> latter also needs \usepackage{scrpage2}
> 
> See scrguien.pdf (comes with the latex koma-script packages) for more info.
> 
>> Following this route i found a workaround. Her it is (in the hope that
>> may be helpful for somebody else)
>>
>> * export my lyx file to LaTeX (pdflatex)
>>
>> * run pdflatex from the command line on this a first time
>> (which generates an *.idx file)
>>
>> * run makeindex on this file (without extension)
>> (which generates an *.ind file which will be input during the next
>> pdflatex run)
>>
>> In my reply to your personal account i forgot the most important point
>> ,-(
>> *** Edit the *.ind file ***
>> After the first line
>>  \begin{theindex}
>> add the line
>>  \thispagestyle{scrheadings}
>>
>> * final run of pfdlatex on the *.tex source file
>>
>> And here we are, the first page of the index has the desired header and
>> footer lines.
>>
>>
>> Happy LyXing
>>
>> Hellmut
>>

Hi Helge,
thanks for indicating the correct solution.

I'm using the koma script classes since years but didn't study the docu
in every detail.

Cheers

Hellmut


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Re: agutex layout?

[Evan Mason]

> But thats the idea of the draft mode - getting a quick preview of the 
> document without images.
> 
Hi Uwe, I'm still not sure about no figures in draft mode. At
http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/manuscript_tools/journals/latex/ it says when
making the initial submission you should use draft mode with figures.  Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.  I've
tried to activate that but I guess agutmpl.tex is not called when using
agutex.layout?

It would also be useful to have the line numbering option that is available in
agutmpl.tex.

Many thanks, Evan

Creating book cover using pstricks

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

Dear All

I would like to create book cover using LyX.
I did searching and found how to use pstricks, however it is pure LaTeX.

Is there any example in implementing pstricks within LyX that I can learn.

Perhaps it would be very useful if a template of book-cover is in LyX
template folder.

Regards
Waluyo

using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Necati Demir]

Hello,

I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use

1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.

How can i do that?

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Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Richard Heck]

On 9/9/10 9:25 AM, Necati Demir wrote:

Hello,

I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use

1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.

How can i do that?

   
I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do 
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.


rh

Re: Creating book cover using pstricks

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:


I would like to create book cover using LyX. I did searching and found how
to use pstricks, however it is pure LaTeX.


Waluyo,

  No, PSTricks is not pure LaTeX. It is PostScript that can be used with
LaTeX. PSTricks is a vector graphics application, not a page layout
application.


Is there any example in implementing pstricks within LyX that I can learn.


  You can write PSTricks code with LyX by putting it in a LaTeX box (called
"ERT" unless that's changed).


Perhaps it would be very useful if a template of book-cover is in LyX
template folder.


  I suggest that you look at a page layout application such as Scribus which
will allow you to set frames on each page (front and back covers, spine) and
put text or graphics in each frame. You can use PSTricks, Inkscape, or The
GIMP to produce the graphics and Scribus will see all the installed fonts so
you can use what you think looks good.

  As the saying goes, choose horses for courses. A book cover is a page
layout product. The book content is a text layout product done exceptionally
well by LyX/LaTeX. Complicated, precisely drawn and sized figures are a
PSTricks product that can be incorporated into the text body or used on the
book's cover.

Rich

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Richard Heck wrote:


I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.


  In addition, it will lessen the impact of your presentation and confuse
your audience. Regardless, you might find PowerPoint more suitable based on
the horrible presentations I've seen people show.

Rich

Re: agutex layout?

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/09/2010 5:26 AM, Evan Mason wrote:

Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.


You probably want to learn how to do this from the template file 
agutempl.tex, and then apply what you have learned to your LyX document. 
That means putting the necessary LaTeX commands in "Document > Settings 
> Preamble". Any such tweaks should go to the layout file only if all 
agutex documents are to be typeset this way. Would you say that is the case?


The same applies to line numbering.

Cheers,
Julien

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Necati Demir wrote:


Rich, let me tell you why i want to use no theme on some pages. I am
preparing a training note. First slide will be presentation, second slide
will be training notes of first side, third slide will be presentation and
fourth slide will be traing notes of third slide, 


Necati,

  I've not tried to integrate notes and visuals. I thought the Beamer class
note feature was for speaker notes.

  If I was in your position (and I have been, several times :-) ) I would
separate the two components.

  Well designed and presented visuals are brief lists of bullet points with
the occasional figure or quotation. If you've ever taken home printed slides
from a presentation you attended, and looked at those pages a few weeks to a
few months later, how much information did you get from them? Probably not
as much as you would have wanted. Same thing with downloading presentations
from the Web: they don't tell the entire story.

  I always prepare an accompanying article or book that goes into more
detail than is on the slides. For a presentation to the Bureau of Land
Management's Minerals Workshop on our approach to quantifying subjectivity
in environmental impact assessments, I prepared and distributed a 24-page
article. For the 2-day seminars I presented in Perth and Melbourne
(Australia) a couple of years ago on the same subject, I prepared a 125-page
book. Attendees could take notes in the documents (I did not include the
slides as illustrations, but I could have done so), but the text went into
much greater detail than was presented on each slide.

  If your training is on a topic that would have added value by the students
taking away a more detailed textual explanation they could use for reference
and refresher learning, you'd provide greater value and they'd like you
better for the effort.

Rich

Thanks for LyX

[Steve Litt]

Hi LyX developers and community,

I'm putting the finishing touches on the first draft of a 100K word book, and 
while typing I was thinking how wonderful LyX is, and how grateful I am for 
LyX. Unlike other writing tools, LyX ignores accidental double spaces or 
accidental double newlines. It never crashes except in on very specific math 
activity, so you just back up a lot in math. It never screws up your file. 

It's WYSIWYG enough to see what's what in the editing environment without 
compiling to PDF, but not so WYSIWYG to introduce code bloat and instability.

LyX is built for speed. I've had a 6000 word day using LyX, a couple 5000 word 
days, and several 4000 word days.

Thanks so much for this spectacular writing tool.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am creating a  presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use
> 
> 1) different theme,
> 2) custom theme,
> 3) no theme.
> 
> How can i do that?

If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf
files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or
something else.


Kenward
-- 
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be 
_teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, 
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next 
ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone 
could have. - Lee Iacocca

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kenward Vaughan wrote:


If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files
for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something
else.


  Take a look at pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit):
www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Rich

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Necati Demir]

Rob,
Can you send a lyx file that uses your sty file?

On 9 September 2010 18:06, Rob Oakes  wrote:
> While it is true that you can't switch between different themes in a Beamer 
> document, you can approximate the effect through the use of color, font, 
> inner and outer themes.  (See the Beamer manual for a more thorough 
> discussion of each.)
>
> By being smart, you can combine the different theme components you want into 
> custom macros that can be used in your document.  Then, you can switch 
> between the different appearances by invoking your macro at the appropriate 
> place int h document.
>
> I have attached a simple example to this email (you will need to modify it as 
> I haven't included the fonts or design files, which are copyrighted).  It's 
> based on a KeyNote theme that I particularly like and has a light and a dark 
> color scheme.  (Example slides are also attached.)
>
> Going the custom route also has an additional advantage, it allows you to 
> create slides that are attractive and personalized.  If you create something 
> that you like and that matches your personal tastes, it means that you will 
> spend more time working on the content and less time dicking around with your 
> slide appearance.  (Just my $0.02, though.)
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email and i'd be happy to 
> try and help you sort out a custom theme.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob Oakes
>
>
>
>
>
>



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Tables and more tables

[John Coppens]

Hello people,

Two problems with tables:

1) Scrolling:

When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around, so
scrolling has to be done clicking columns. This gets a little tiring if a
lot of editing has to be done.

Selecting a cell can get very difficult, causing the table to jump around
and making a correct selection nearly impossible.

I already disabled the automatic table toolbar. The toolbar made things
worse by causing extra scrolling.

Is there any way to get a more predictable behaviour?

2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic... I found how to add \extrarowheight
in table cells, but that seems to add space only at the top of the cell.
How can I add extra margin at the bottom? (Also tried a DefSkip below the
internal table, but this makes the bottom border of the cell disappear -
weird)

This is the generated PDF:

http://jcoppens.com/univ/iua/hds/data/address_modes.pdf

Thanks on beforehand!
John

Re: agutex layout?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 09.09.2010 11:26, schrieb Evan Mason:


But thats the idea of the draft mode - getting a quick preview of the
document without images.


Hi Uwe, I'm still not sure about no figures in draft mode. At
http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/manuscript_tools/journals/latex/ it says when
making the initial submission you should use draft mode with figures.


OK, but what is the problem? Draft mode means that only a frame is drawn 
in the output. So when the require that, why not?



Also in
agutmpl.tex there is the option in draft mode to include figures or not.  I've
tried to activate that but I guess agutmpl.tex is not called when using
agutex.layout?


Of course not. A layout file is just a text file telling LyX how to 
display the LaTeX-commands on screen. When you load a file, only this 
file is used. But I still don't understand your concerns. When you want 
to have the draft mode, add "draft" to the document class options, if 
not then not. In agutmpl.tex the use the draft document class option 
because this is the default for initial submissions.



It would also be useful to have the line numbering option that is available in
agutmpl.tex.


Then activate them by uncommenting the corresponding lines in the 
document preamble of your file. In my agutex layout file, you would have 
to uncomment line 2 and 3.


regards Uwe

Re: Tables and more tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 09.09.2010 18:45, schrieb John Coppens:


1) Scrolling:

When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around,


This is a known problem. The situation will be much better in the next 
major LyX version 2.0.



2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic...


Insert some horizontal or vertical space if necessary. The 
EmbeddedObkects manual that you find in LyX's Help emnu shows you many 
examples how to do this. (Start with sec. 3.7 "Subfloats" and/or sec. 
2.12.1 "Row Spacing".)


regards Uwe

Re: Thanks for LyX

[Manolo Martínez]

I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic "thanks for
lyx" messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story. Next
Friday I finally have the public defence of my doctoral dissertation. It
has been written in LyX from scratch, and it's been a pleasure to do so.
And, while the content is very debatable, it looks seriously beautiful.
You guys appear in the acknowledgements and, as I guess you will not be
reading it anytime soon, let me copy here the relevant passage:

I would also like to thank the online community that has made the actual
process of writing and typesetting this dissertation so much easier, by
developing the software and helping newbies like me to undertand and
benefit from it. Among many others: the LyX developers that read the
LyX-users mailing list, André Miede for creating the beautiful LaTeX
syle I have used to typeset the dissertation, and Nick Mariette who
ported it to LyX. Details on how to get the amazing set of tools
provided by this group of incredibly generous people can be found in
page 229.

So, yeah, thanks for LyX.
Manolo

Problem with Nick Mariette's thesis style

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, while compiling the sample document for Nick Mariette's
thesis style, I receive the following error at the end of the
compilation process:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file fvmro8r): Font fvmro8r at 408 not found

The thing is this font, which seemly belong to Bera, doesn't appear
anywhere in the installation files. Does anybody know how to solve
this problem. I would like to move to this style as soon as possible,

Best regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: looking for layout for MNRAS journal

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 30.08.2010 14:56, schrieb Piotr A. Dybczyński:


I am in urgent need of obtaining LyX layout file for the journal paper for
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

Its LaTeX class is available at:

http://www.wiley.com/bw/static/mnras_latex.asp


Do you still need it or is it too late? I'm already working on another 
layout file and could this way also write a layout file for MNRAS.


regards Uwe

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Necati,

I don't typically use LyX when working with Beamer.  I think it's easier to 
just use plain LaTeX.

However, attached you will find the source file for the example slides I 
included earlier.  The theme commands are invoked with ERT insets.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

Cheers,

Rob



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Re: Thanks for LyX

[Raymond Lillard]

On 09/09/2010 11:06 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote:

I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic "thanks for
lyx" messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story.


In like vein, I just finished a 60 page protocol document
for a piece of highly configurable instrumentation.

I spent less than 2 weeks on it.  I could have used Word
like my client thought he wanted and then milked it for
another 2 weeks. :-)  Just for the record, I used the
article class.

BTW, I not a professional tech-writer.  I'm an electrical
engineer who also writes mainly embedded firmware.  While I
have many painful memories of troff, I no experience to
speak of with Latex.  The point being, one can be productive
with Lyx w/o being a Tex guru.

Feeling adventurous, I pulled down the SVN version and
used that because I wanted some of the new features not
back-ported to 1.6.x.  I suffered a few crashes, but was
not able to make them consistent enough build a bug case.
The few crashes were not often enough to interfere with
my progress.

Well done and thanks to the team who is working on Lyx2.

Ray Lillard