Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Allen Barker]

On 05/28/2012 09:34 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/27/2012 09:56 PM, Allen Barker wrote:


The program is currently ~800K tarred and zipped,
including documentation. If anyone here is interested
in trying it out I can send copies out by email (unless
someone suggests a better way to distribute copies at
this stage).


If you're at all serious about this program, then I'd suggest
you create a git repo for it somewhere like gitorious, and
then people can have easy access, as well as follow the
changes you're making. List it as pre-alpha or whatever,
and people know what they're getting.


OK, thanks.  I'll look into setting up a git repo somewhere
and re-post when I get things set up.

Re: changing fixed names 'Contents', 'List of Figures', etc. Maybe solved

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-29, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Tue, 29 May 2012 00:03:08 + (UTC), ddiedrichs said:

 I cannot change the default strings 'Contents', 'List of Figures',
 etc. that are generated as titles of these sections.  I have tried
 putting in the preamble commands of the type:

 \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}

 But nothing works.  I am typing in English without the babel package.

Are you sure you do not use the babel packge? LyX uses it by default. 
What does the ViewSource window show when you tick the show complete
source box? (You can also export your example to LaTeX and play with
it.)

I am asking, because the minimal LaTeX example

  \documentclass[english]{article}
  % \usepackage{babel}
  
  \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} 
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \tableofcontents
  \section{test the best}
  
  \end{document}

works as you expect (showing Table of Contents as contents heading in
the output).

 I reproduced your symptom in an article based document, putting
 \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} in the document
 preamble, as you would expect it should be. Like you, my document
 continued to print the table of contents title as Contents. So then I
 exported to LaTeX, fooled around with it, and discovered it works only
 if \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} is in the document
 itself, not the document header.

The usual trick in these cases is \AtBeginDocument. Indeed, replacing
renaming \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} with:

 \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}}

works also with babel as expected.

 So I went back into LyX, removed \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of
 Contents} from the document preamble, and put it in an ERT before the
 Table of Contents, and it did the right thing.

No need for ERT with \AtBeginDocument.

Günter

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-28, Allen Barker wrote:

 I've written a Python program which I'm calling
 Lyx Notebook.  It interacts with Lyx (via the Lyx
 server) to allow it to be used as a code-evaluating
 notebook (similar to Mathematica notebooks or the
 Sage notebook).  It's still at an early stage, but
 I already find it useful.

Sounds interesting.

I wonder whether the project might gain from the PyClient
Python package that provides a pythonic interface to LyX.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient

Günter

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Allen Barker]

On 05/29/2012 03:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2012-05-28, Allen Barker wrote:


I've written a Python program which I'm calling
Lyx Notebook.  It interacts with Lyx (via the Lyx
server) to allow it to be used as a code-evaluating
notebook (similar to Mathematica notebooks or the
Sage notebook).  It's still at an early stage, but
I already find it useful.


Sounds interesting.

I wonder whether the project might gain from the PyClient
Python package that provides a pythonic interface to LyX.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient


That package might have been useful.  I think I came
across that page, but I wasn't sure if the package was
still operational since it hadn't been updated for a
few years.  Since I was playing around with the Lyx server
pipes anyway, I ended up just implementing things from
scratch.

Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript

[Påvel Nicklasson]

Durign the latest try I just recieved an error message (in Swedish):

 Ett fel uppstod vid körning av:

dvips -t a4 -o Symposieskrift.ps Symposieskrift.dvi


(An error occurred during operation:

dvips -t a4 -o Symposieskrift.ps Symposieskrift.dvi) or something
similar in English.


There were no log popping up and thus nothing to check.


I retrieved the log from View - Messages and attach it. I can't see
anything obviously wrong, but the most logical for me is that the last
images in the log should be the problematic ones and shoudl thus be
converted to eps?


log
Description: Binary data

Re: Managing acknowledgements and disclosures?

[Richard Heck]

On 05/21/2012 10:31 PM, Chris Hennick wrote:
Tonight I decided that when I was citing books or reprints that had 
been given to me, I should probably add an acknowledgement, like so:


The authors wish to thank donors for the following reference
materials: [#] from Jane Doe, [#] from John Doe, and [#, #] from
anonymous sources.


However, I'll have to manually edit this acknowledgement if I drop one 
of those sources, or if I receive and cite another reprint. It also 
occurs to me that I'd have the same issue if I were buying source 
materials with grant money, since then the citations would determine 
which grant numbers went on which papers. (At least, that's how I 
understand funding disclosure, although as a grad student I'm new to 
the subject.)


Is it possible in LyX to automatically manage acknowledgements and 
grant disclosures, when some of them are tied to particular citations?


The answer is that it should be possible to do this in LaTeX---you can 
do anything in LaTeX---but it is not trivial.


Most bibliographical citations print a note field. One could put into 
the note field a LaTeX command that would add an acknowledgement to some 
existing list of acknowledgements. So you'd have something like:

\def\addtoacks#1{
\@ifundefined\myacks
{\def\myacks{#1}}
{\def\myacks{\myacks; #1}}}
to set it up, and then in each thing you want to acknowledge, in the 
BibTeX note field:

\addtoacks{\cite{mykey}, from Jane Doe}
or whatever. The nice thing about this is that the acknowledgements will 
appear in order, though you won't get the collapse [#, #]. The bad thing 
is that this version won't work unless the acknowledgement is printed 
after the bibliography, which may not be what you want. In that case, 
you could try printing the acknoweldgement to a file and then loading 
that file on a later run of LaTeX, but that gets more complicated.


Richard

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Nico Williams]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 If you're at all serious about this program, then I'd suggest
 you create a git repo for it somewhere like gitorious, and
 then people can have easy access, as well as follow the
 changes you're making. List it as pre-alpha or whatever,
 and people know what they're getting.

+1

Git has become my preferred downloader for these sorts of things.
There's a number of git service providers (github, gitorious, ...),
and you can always host your own.

Nico
--

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Allen Barker]

On 05/28/2012 09:34 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/27/2012 09:56 PM, Allen Barker wrote:


The program is currently ~800K tarred and zipped,
including documentation. If anyone here is interested
in trying it out I can send copies out by email (unless
someone suggests a better way to distribute copies at
this stage).


If you're at all serious about this program, then I'd suggest
you create a git repo for it somewhere like gitorious, and
then people can have easy access, as well as follow the
changes you're making. List it as pre-alpha or whatever,
and people know what they're getting.


OK, thanks.  I'll look into setting up a git repo somewhere
and re-post when I get things set up.

Re: changing fixed names 'Contents', 'List of Figures', etc. Maybe solved

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-29, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Tue, 29 May 2012 00:03:08 + (UTC), ddiedrichs said:

 I cannot change the default strings 'Contents', 'List of Figures',
 etc. that are generated as titles of these sections.  I have tried
 putting in the preamble commands of the type:

 \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}

 But nothing works.  I am typing in English without the babel package.

Are you sure you do not use the babel packge? LyX uses it by default. 
What does the ViewSource window show when you tick the show complete
source box? (You can also export your example to LaTeX and play with
it.)

I am asking, because the minimal LaTeX example

  \documentclass[english]{article}
  % \usepackage{babel}
  
  \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} 
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \tableofcontents
  \section{test the best}
  
  \end{document}

works as you expect (showing Table of Contents as contents heading in
the output).

 I reproduced your symptom in an article based document, putting
 \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} in the document
 preamble, as you would expect it should be. Like you, my document
 continued to print the table of contents title as Contents. So then I
 exported to LaTeX, fooled around with it, and discovered it works only
 if \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} is in the document
 itself, not the document header.

The usual trick in these cases is \AtBeginDocument. Indeed, replacing
renaming \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} with:

 \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}}

works also with babel as expected.

 So I went back into LyX, removed \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of
 Contents} from the document preamble, and put it in an ERT before the
 Table of Contents, and it did the right thing.

No need for ERT with \AtBeginDocument.

Günter

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-28, Allen Barker wrote:

 I've written a Python program which I'm calling
 Lyx Notebook.  It interacts with Lyx (via the Lyx
 server) to allow it to be used as a code-evaluating
 notebook (similar to Mathematica notebooks or the
 Sage notebook).  It's still at an early stage, but
 I already find it useful.

Sounds interesting.

I wonder whether the project might gain from the PyClient
Python package that provides a pythonic interface to LyX.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient

Günter

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Allen Barker]

On 05/29/2012 03:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2012-05-28, Allen Barker wrote:


I've written a Python program which I'm calling
Lyx Notebook.  It interacts with Lyx (via the Lyx
server) to allow it to be used as a code-evaluating
notebook (similar to Mathematica notebooks or the
Sage notebook).  It's still at an early stage, but
I already find it useful.


Sounds interesting.

I wonder whether the project might gain from the PyClient
Python package that provides a pythonic interface to LyX.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient


That package might have been useful.  I think I came
across that page, but I wasn't sure if the package was
still operational since it hadn't been updated for a
few years.  Since I was playing around with the Lyx server
pipes anyway, I ended up just implementing things from
scratch.

Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript

[Påvel Nicklasson]

Durign the latest try I just recieved an error message (in Swedish):

 Ett fel uppstod vid körning av:

dvips -t a4 -o Symposieskrift.ps Symposieskrift.dvi


(An error occurred during operation:

dvips -t a4 -o Symposieskrift.ps Symposieskrift.dvi) or something
similar in English.


There were no log popping up and thus nothing to check.


I retrieved the log from View - Messages and attach it. I can't see
anything obviously wrong, but the most logical for me is that the last
images in the log should be the problematic ones and shoudl thus be
converted to eps?


log
Description: Binary data

Re: Managing acknowledgements and disclosures?

[Richard Heck]

On 05/21/2012 10:31 PM, Chris Hennick wrote:
Tonight I decided that when I was citing books or reprints that had 
been given to me, I should probably add an acknowledgement, like so:


The authors wish to thank donors for the following reference
materials: [#] from Jane Doe, [#] from John Doe, and [#, #] from
anonymous sources.


However, I'll have to manually edit this acknowledgement if I drop one 
of those sources, or if I receive and cite another reprint. It also 
occurs to me that I'd have the same issue if I were buying source 
materials with grant money, since then the citations would determine 
which grant numbers went on which papers. (At least, that's how I 
understand funding disclosure, although as a grad student I'm new to 
the subject.)


Is it possible in LyX to automatically manage acknowledgements and 
grant disclosures, when some of them are tied to particular citations?


The answer is that it should be possible to do this in LaTeX---you can 
do anything in LaTeX---but it is not trivial.


Most bibliographical citations print a note field. One could put into 
the note field a LaTeX command that would add an acknowledgement to some 
existing list of acknowledgements. So you'd have something like:

\def\addtoacks#1{
\@ifundefined\myacks
{\def\myacks{#1}}
{\def\myacks{\myacks; #1}}}
to set it up, and then in each thing you want to acknowledge, in the 
BibTeX note field:

\addtoacks{\cite{mykey}, from Jane Doe}
or whatever. The nice thing about this is that the acknowledgements will 
appear in order, though you won't get the collapse [#, #]. The bad thing 
is that this version won't work unless the acknowledgement is printed 
after the bibliography, which may not be what you want. In that case, 
you could try printing the acknoweldgement to a file and then loading 
that file on a later run of LaTeX, but that gets more complicated.


Richard

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Nico Williams]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 If you're at all serious about this program, then I'd suggest
 you create a git repo for it somewhere like gitorious, and
 then people can have easy access, as well as follow the
 changes you're making. List it as pre-alpha or whatever,
 and people know what they're getting.

+1

Git has become my preferred downloader for these sorts of things.
There's a number of git service providers (github, gitorious, ...),
and you can always host your own.

Nico
--

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Allen Barker]

On 05/28/2012 09:34 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/27/2012 09:56 PM, Allen Barker wrote:


The program is currently ~800K tarred and zipped,
including documentation. If anyone here is interested
in trying it out I can send copies out by email (unless
someone suggests a better way to distribute copies at
this stage).


If you're at all serious about this program, then I'd suggest
you create a git repo for it somewhere like gitorious, and
then people can have easy access, as well as follow the
changes you're making. List it as pre-alpha or whatever,
and people know what they're getting.


OK, thanks.  I'll look into setting up a git repo somewhere
and re-post when I get things set up.

Re: changing fixed names 'Contents', 'List of Figures', etc.

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-29, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 00:03:08 + (UTC), ddiedrichs said:

>> I cannot change the default strings 'Contents', 'List of Figures',
>> etc. that are generated as titles of these sections.  I have tried
>> putting in the preamble commands of the type:

>> \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}

>> But nothing works.  I am typing in English without the babel package.

Are you sure you do not use the babel packge? LyX uses it by default. 
What does the View>Source window show when you tick the "show complete
source" box? (You can also export your example to LaTeX and play with
it.)

I am asking, because the minimal LaTeX example

  \documentclass[english]{article}
  % \usepackage{babel}
  
  \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} 
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \tableofcontents
  \section{test the best}
  
  \end{document}

works as you expect (showing "Table of Contents" as contents heading in
the output).

> I reproduced your symptom in an article based document, putting
> \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} in the document
> preamble, as you would expect it should be. Like you, my document
> continued to print the table of contents title as "Contents". So then I
> exported to LaTeX, fooled around with it, and discovered it works only
> if \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} is in the document
> itself, not the document header.

The usual trick in these cases is \AtBeginDocument. Indeed, replacing
renaming \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} with:

 \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}}

works also with babel as expected.

> So I went back into LyX, removed \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of
> Contents} from the document preamble, and put it in an ERT before the
> Table of Contents, and it did the right thing.

No need for ERT with \AtBeginDocument.

Günter

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-28, Allen Barker wrote:

> I've written a Python program which I'm calling
> Lyx Notebook.  It interacts with Lyx (via the Lyx
> server) to allow it to be used as a code-evaluating
> notebook (similar to Mathematica notebooks or the
> Sage notebook).  It's still at an early stage, but
> I already find it useful.

Sounds interesting.

I wonder whether the project might gain from the PyClient
Python package that provides a "pythonic" interface to LyX.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient

Günter

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Allen Barker]

On 05/29/2012 03:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2012-05-28, Allen Barker wrote:


I've written a Python program which I'm calling
Lyx Notebook.  It interacts with Lyx (via the Lyx
server) to allow it to be used as a code-evaluating
notebook (similar to Mathematica notebooks or the
Sage notebook).  It's still at an early stage, but
I already find it useful.


Sounds interesting.

I wonder whether the project might gain from the PyClient
Python package that provides a "pythonic" interface to LyX.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient


That package might have been useful.  I think I came
across that page, but I wasn't sure if the package was
still operational since it hadn't been updated for a
few years.  Since I was playing around with the Lyx server
pipes anyway, I ended up just implementing things from
scratch.

Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript

[Påvel Nicklasson]

Durign the latest try I just recieved an error message (in Swedish):

 Ett fel uppstod vid körning av:

dvips -t a4 -o "Symposieskrift.ps" "Symposieskrift.dvi"


(An error occurred during operation:

dvips -t a4 -o "Symposieskrift.ps" "Symposieskrift.dvi") or something
similar in English.


There were no log popping up and thus nothing to check.


I retrieved the log from View -> Messages and attach it. I can't see
anything obviously wrong, but the most logical for me is that the last
images in the log should be the problematic ones and shoudl thus be
converted to eps?


log
Description: Binary data

Re: Managing acknowledgements and disclosures?

[Richard Heck]

On 05/21/2012 10:31 PM, Chris Hennick wrote:
Tonight I decided that when I was citing books or reprints that had 
been given to me, I should probably add an acknowledgement, like so:


The authors wish to thank donors for the following reference
materials: [#] from Jane Doe, [#] from John Doe, and [#, #] from
anonymous sources.


However, I'll have to manually edit this acknowledgement if I drop one 
of those sources, or if I receive and cite another reprint. It also 
occurs to me that I'd have the same issue if I were buying source 
materials with grant money, since then the citations would determine 
which grant numbers went on which papers. (At least, that's how I 
understand funding disclosure, although as a grad student I'm new to 
the subject.)


Is it possible in LyX to automatically manage acknowledgements and 
grant disclosures, when some of them are tied to particular citations?


The answer is that it should be possible to do this in LaTeX---you can 
do anything in LaTeX---but it is not trivial.


Most bibliographical citations print a "note" field. One could put into 
the note field a LaTeX command that would add an acknowledgement to some 
existing list of acknowledgements. So you'd have something like:

\def\addtoacks#1{
\@ifundefined\myacks
{\def\myacks{#1}}
{\def\myacks{\myacks; #1}}}
to set it up, and then in each thing you want to acknowledge, in the 
BibTeX note field:

\addtoacks{\cite{mykey}, from Jane Doe}
or whatever. The nice thing about this is that the acknowledgements will 
appear in order, though you won't get the collapse [#, #]. The bad thing 
is that this version won't work unless the acknowledgement is printed 
after the bibliography, which may not be what you want. In that case, 
you could try printing the acknoweldgement to a file and then loading 
that file on a later run of LaTeX, but that gets more complicated.


Richard

Re: program to use Lyx as a code-evaluating notebook

[Nico Williams]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Richard Heck  wrote:
> If you're at all serious about this program, then I'd suggest
> you create a git repo for it somewhere like gitorious, and
> then people can have easy access, as well as follow the
> changes you're making. List it as pre-alpha or whatever,
> and people know what they're getting.

+1

Git has become my preferred downloader for these sorts of things.
There's a number of git service providers (github, gitorious, ...),
and you can always host your own.

Nico
--