Re: Resume Tables

[Stephane Bersier]

Hello Peter and Marcelo,

Thank you very much for your advice! Peter, I tried using parboxes, and I
think one could make it work, but as you say, text alignment remains an
issue. Marcelo, your idea is perfect, except for the fact that the
environment is shared by the whole line. I can work around that by manually
changing the text style, though.

Thanks again.

Stephane


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:

 I am trying to rewrite my resume in LyX. I attached my old resume which I
 made with Google docs.
  
 However I didn't find any way to have two columns where one can easily
 write some arbitrary text in one column on the same height as some text in
 the other column. I did this for achievements and dates in my old resume;
 you can see that each date is vertically aligned with the corresponding
 achievement.

 It's seems to me that you can easily make this with Insert  Formatting 
 Horizontal Space  Horizontal Fill

 Bachelor of Science: Honours Mathematics  Computer Science -- Horizontal
 Fill -- 2006 - 2010
 Item 1
 Item 2
 Item 3 --- Horizontal fill --  2003

 Marcelo


Hello Stephane,

 However I didn't find any way to have two columns where one can easily
 write some arbitrary text in one column on the same height as some text in
 the other column. I did this for achievements and dates in my old resume;
 you can see that each date is vertically aligned with the corresponding
 achievement.
[...snip...]
- I tried using a table, as I did in Google docs. However, it doesn't
seem possible (why not?) to put arbitrary environments in them (I tried
putting boxes (minipages) into tables, but, apart from being
cumbersome, it
doesn't keep the spacing before the first line in the box).

1.- try to use longtable, instead of table. That should allow your table
to flow over page breaks (longtable tab in the table settings dialog).
2.- use parbox instead of minipage, that will work with tables. BTW,
when you set a fixed width for a column in a table, it will behave
as if you had a parbox within the cell. Well, there still can be
problems with text alignment, but it's worth to give it a try.
3.- final option is to take a look at how moderncv mackage is written.
It uses tables as well, just it hides the tabular stuff in macros
which allow you to enter the stuff in a better way. The only thing
is that moderncv puts the dates to the left hand side column,
instead of the right hand one.

Perhaps this helps a bit.

Best,

Peter.

PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

Using Debian Wheezy

and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is a
Gimp application window that says something about Import from pdf.

Everything appears to be as it was in my
Lyx-Preferences-File handling-Converters

I can't find any references to the Gimp there. But where LyX once
brought the pdf up with Okular it does something weird with the window
that in turn does nothing at all.

Any help appreciated.
Charlie
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**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

Nature makes no mistakes. In such a universe, a decision which results
in one's death, is not a mistake. It is simply a way of dying at the
right moment. --Alan Watts

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: Thank You!

[Anthony Campbell]

On 21 Jun 2012, Les Denham wrote:
 On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:12:22 +0200
 Påvel Nicklasson pavel223...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  My wishlist includes an Adobe Distiller type of program for Linux and
  that more printing houses would learn about LaTeX/LyX and offer
  support and advice.
 
 Påvel,
 
 One of my problems has been that most printing companies insist on if
 providing a PDF it must be distilled using Adobe for PDF files. That's
 a quote from Lulu.com, and while they do accept other PDF files for
 private printing, if you want it published by them you have to comply.
 Other publishers have similar wording.
 
 I have heard that Lulu.com will accept a PostScript file, though they
 do not say so on their website.

[snip]

 

I have published six books on Lulu. They were submitted as postsrcipt
files and that caused no problems. As an experiment I also submitted
one as a pdf prepared with Lyx and that worked too. The one difficulty
that arose was with one of the books which contained a lot of coloured
plates; I couldn't get these to work with the resolution that Lulu was
demanding. They started refusing to accept the book for widespread
distribution but in fact it is available and selling on Amazon and as an
ebook.


Admittedly I haven't put a new book on Lulu for about a year and things
may have changed, but I'd say it is still worth trying either a
postscript file or a pdf prepared with Lyx. I think the acceptance
question may relate to whether the fonts are correctly embedded or not.

For two of my books, which I distribute myself as well as having them on
Amazon etc., I have them printed myself by Antony Rowe; cheaper than
Lulu and no difficulty with my pdfs. And you can reach them by phone - a
big plus.


Incidentally, Lulu are printers, not publishers.



Anthony

-- 
Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk 
http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk
http://www.skepticviews.org.uk 
http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk
http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:45:21 +1000 Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au
 suggested this:

Using Debian Wheezy

and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is a
Gimp application window that says something about Import from pdf.

Further to this, when LyX is called up in a terminal, and try to
convert to a .pdf - I get this:

Running: pdflatex  percival.tex  /dev/null
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./percival.tex
LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
Babel v3.8m and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, lo aded.


Running: pdflatex  percival.tex  /dev/null
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./percival.tex
LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
Babel v3.8m and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, lo aded.


Running: xdg-open percival.pdf

Not certain what that means?

TIA
Charlie
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Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe
that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who
taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good. --- Victoria Lincoln

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:59:43 +1000 Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au
 suggested this:

Using Debian Wheezy

and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is
a Gimp application window that says something about Import from
pdf. 

Nutted it out - changed to okular in LyX-Preferences-File
Handling-File Formats

It was Custom, but I didn't change it - so what interfered?

Sorry for the noise. [hangs head in shame]
Charlie
-- 
**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not
a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved... W J Bryan

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/7/7 Charlie:
 Nutted it out - changed to okular in LyX-Preferences-File
 Handling-File Formats

 It was Custom, but I didn't change it - so what interfered?

xdg-open is a wrapper that opens a file or URL in the user's preferred
application. If this is installed on your OS (and some Linux distros
use it by default), LyX will select it as the custom output program
for PDF (and many other output formats) and thus lets xdg-open decide
which application to use actually. What changed, probably, is the
application that is set in xdg-open for PDF files (the text/pdf mime
type). You can check and change that in the xdg-open configuration
files located at ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list (for a
single user) and /usr/share/applications/defaults.list (system wide).
Another possibility is that xdg-open was installed recently (and
wasn't before) during a system update.

In any case, GIMP does not strike me a good default application for
PDFs in general, so I would change it to something more reasonable
independent of the LyX case.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Biblatex

[mario chiari]

Hi


i was not using biber, still it works fine with
\usepackage[backref,backend=biber]{biblatex} too, and I see a .bcf file
now.

I am not sure how to help you. (Did you check biblatex version and
writing permissions?)

Try to ask at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/


good luck
mario


On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 22:21 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:
 Hi,
 
 My \bibliography is fine with {myfile}, but what is this:
 
 ERROR - No data files on command line or provided in the file 
 'Neu204.bcf'! Exiting
 
 ?
 
 
 Bernd
 
 
 
 Am 06.07.2012 20:42, schrieb mario chiari:
  Hi
 
  here it works very well.
 
  I need to write the complete path to the .bib file within the preamble:
 
  \bibliography{/root/ my path to /myfile.bib} (my OS is linux)
 
  In your .lyx document you need something like
 
  \cite{AAA}
  \nocite{*}
  \printbibliography.
 
  What does your log say?

  mario
 
 
 
 
 
  On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 00:22 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I downloaded LyX 2.0.4.
  Then I followed the instructions on http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex.
  However, the pdf generated does not have a bibliography.
  I tried an own file as well as one of the examples on that site.
 
  Please help...
 
  Bernd Kappenberg
 
 
 
 

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:47:16 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org
 suggested this:

In any case, GIMP does not strike me a good default application for
PDFs in general, so I would change it to something more reasonable
independent of the LyX case.

Hello Peter and Jürgen,

Thank you both for taking the time to explain. I think that as you said
Jürgen, xdg was installed with an upgrade today, and I have made the
appropriate changes to ensure that Gimp doesn't open .pdf documents.

Your help has been much appreciated.
Charlie
-- 
**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
magic and power in it. Begin it now. --Goethe

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: testers needed for LyX\'s Windows installer

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 27.06.2012 20:37, schrieb Uwe Stöhr:

Am 27.06.2012 11:27, schrieb Rick Blok:


When I start the installer, it complains that lyx is already installed, and
that I should remove it first. However, since I don't have admin rights, I
can't do that.


But this means that LyX was once installed with admin permissions. There is no 
other way to
uninstall it without admin privileges in this case.


I think I now know why you got this: LyX was first installed as admin and later on again without 
admin privileges. This is now no longer possible in the new installer version:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/

Have you in the meantime been able to uninstall LyX? If not try this:

1. uninstall LyX as admin
2. remove in the registry all occurrences of LyX
3. login as user without admin privileges
4. check if you can find a lyx.exe on your PC, if so, delete the whole Lyx 
installation folder
5. remove again in the registry all occurrences of LyX (this time you will clean up residues in the 
user-specific area of the registry)


regards Uwe

Re: Resume Tables

[Marcelo Acuña]

[...] Marcelo, your idea is perfect, except for the fact that the environment 
is shared by the whole line. I can work around that by manually changing the 
text style, though.

[...]

I don't understand what is the problem.
Before send the post I make an example for me and that work correctly.

Regards
Marcelo

hf-example.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Biblatex

[Bernd Kappenberg]

Hi,

I followed your link and now I think it's a conflict between biblatex- 
and biber versions.


Hopefully it will go away after the next MiKTeX update...

Thanks,
Bernd


Am 07.07.2012 11:13, schrieb mario chiari:

Hi


i was not using biber, still it works fine with
\usepackage[backref,backend=biber]{biblatex} too, and I see a .bcf file
now.

I am not sure how to help you. (Did you check biblatex version and
writing permissions?)

Try to ask at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/


good luck
mario


On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 22:21 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:

Hi,

My \bibliography is fine with {myfile}, but what is this:

ERROR - No data files on command line or provided in the file
'Neu204.bcf'! Exiting

?


Bernd



Am 06.07.2012 20:42, schrieb mario chiari:

Hi

here it works very well.

I need to write the complete path to the .bib file within the preamble:

\bibliography{/root/ my path to /myfile.bib} (my OS is linux)

In your .lyx document you need something like

\cite{AAA}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography.

What does your log say?
   
mario






On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 00:22 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:

Hi,

I downloaded LyX 2.0.4.
Then I followed the instructions on http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex.
However, the pdf generated does not have a bibliography.
I tried an own file as well as one of the examples on that site.

Please help...

Bernd Kappenberg










--
Bernd Kappenberg
Zeichen setzen für Europa
Der Gebrauch europäischer lateinischer Sonderzeichen in der deutschen 
Öffentlichkeit
ISBN 3-89821-749-3

Re: Resume Tables

[Stephane Bersier]

Hello Peter and Marcelo,

Thank you very much for your advice! Peter, I tried using parboxes, and I
think one could make it work, but as you say, text alignment remains an
issue. Marcelo, your idea is perfect, except for the fact that the
environment is shared by the whole line. I can work around that by manually
changing the text style, though.

Thanks again.

Stephane


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:

 I am trying to rewrite my resume in LyX. I attached my old resume which I
 made with Google docs.
  
 However I didn't find any way to have two columns where one can easily
 write some arbitrary text in one column on the same height as some text in
 the other column. I did this for achievements and dates in my old resume;
 you can see that each date is vertically aligned with the corresponding
 achievement.

 It's seems to me that you can easily make this with Insert  Formatting 
 Horizontal Space  Horizontal Fill

 Bachelor of Science: Honours Mathematics  Computer Science -- Horizontal
 Fill -- 2006 - 2010
 Item 1
 Item 2
 Item 3 --- Horizontal fill --  2003

 Marcelo


Hello Stephane,

 However I didn't find any way to have two columns where one can easily
 write some arbitrary text in one column on the same height as some text in
 the other column. I did this for achievements and dates in my old resume;
 you can see that each date is vertically aligned with the corresponding
 achievement.
[...snip...]
- I tried using a table, as I did in Google docs. However, it doesn't
seem possible (why not?) to put arbitrary environments in them (I tried
putting boxes (minipages) into tables, but, apart from being
cumbersome, it
doesn't keep the spacing before the first line in the box).

1.- try to use longtable, instead of table. That should allow your table
to flow over page breaks (longtable tab in the table settings dialog).
2.- use parbox instead of minipage, that will work with tables. BTW,
when you set a fixed width for a column in a table, it will behave
as if you had a parbox within the cell. Well, there still can be
problems with text alignment, but it's worth to give it a try.
3.- final option is to take a look at how moderncv mackage is written.
It uses tables as well, just it hides the tabular stuff in macros
which allow you to enter the stuff in a better way. The only thing
is that moderncv puts the dates to the left hand side column,
instead of the right hand one.

Perhaps this helps a bit.

Best,

Peter.

PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

Using Debian Wheezy

and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is a
Gimp application window that says something about Import from pdf.

Everything appears to be as it was in my
Lyx-Preferences-File handling-Converters

I can't find any references to the Gimp there. But where LyX once
brought the pdf up with Okular it does something weird with the window
that in turn does nothing at all.

Any help appreciated.
Charlie
-- 
**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

Nature makes no mistakes. In such a universe, a decision which results
in one's death, is not a mistake. It is simply a way of dying at the
right moment. --Alan Watts

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: Thank You!

[Anthony Campbell]

On 21 Jun 2012, Les Denham wrote:
 On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:12:22 +0200
 Påvel Nicklasson pavel223...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  My wishlist includes an Adobe Distiller type of program for Linux and
  that more printing houses would learn about LaTeX/LyX and offer
  support and advice.
 
 Påvel,
 
 One of my problems has been that most printing companies insist on if
 providing a PDF it must be distilled using Adobe for PDF files. That's
 a quote from Lulu.com, and while they do accept other PDF files for
 private printing, if you want it published by them you have to comply.
 Other publishers have similar wording.
 
 I have heard that Lulu.com will accept a PostScript file, though they
 do not say so on their website.

[snip]

 

I have published six books on Lulu. They were submitted as postsrcipt
files and that caused no problems. As an experiment I also submitted
one as a pdf prepared with Lyx and that worked too. The one difficulty
that arose was with one of the books which contained a lot of coloured
plates; I couldn't get these to work with the resolution that Lulu was
demanding. They started refusing to accept the book for widespread
distribution but in fact it is available and selling on Amazon and as an
ebook.


Admittedly I haven't put a new book on Lulu for about a year and things
may have changed, but I'd say it is still worth trying either a
postscript file or a pdf prepared with Lyx. I think the acceptance
question may relate to whether the fonts are correctly embedded or not.

For two of my books, which I distribute myself as well as having them on
Amazon etc., I have them printed myself by Antony Rowe; cheaper than
Lulu and no difficulty with my pdfs. And you can reach them by phone - a
big plus.


Incidentally, Lulu are printers, not publishers.



Anthony

-- 
Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk 
http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk
http://www.skepticviews.org.uk 
http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk
http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:45:21 +1000 Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au
 suggested this:

Using Debian Wheezy

and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is a
Gimp application window that says something about Import from pdf.

Further to this, when LyX is called up in a terminal, and try to
convert to a .pdf - I get this:

Running: pdflatex  percival.tex  /dev/null
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./percival.tex
LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
Babel v3.8m and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, lo aded.


Running: pdflatex  percival.tex  /dev/null
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./percival.tex
LaTeX2e 2011/06/27
Babel v3.8m and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, lo aded.


Running: xdg-open percival.pdf

Not certain what that means?

TIA
Charlie
-- 
**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe
that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who
taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good. --- Victoria Lincoln

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:59:43 +1000 Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au
 suggested this:

Using Debian Wheezy

and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is
a Gimp application window that says something about Import from
pdf. 

Nutted it out - changed to okular in LyX-Preferences-File
Handling-File Formats

It was Custom, but I didn't change it - so what interfered?

Sorry for the noise. [hangs head in shame]
Charlie
-- 
**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not
a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved... W J Bryan

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/7/7 Charlie:
 Nutted it out - changed to okular in LyX-Preferences-File
 Handling-File Formats

 It was Custom, but I didn't change it - so what interfered?

xdg-open is a wrapper that opens a file or URL in the user's preferred
application. If this is installed on your OS (and some Linux distros
use it by default), LyX will select it as the custom output program
for PDF (and many other output formats) and thus lets xdg-open decide
which application to use actually. What changed, probably, is the
application that is set in xdg-open for PDF files (the text/pdf mime
type). You can check and change that in the xdg-open configuration
files located at ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list (for a
single user) and /usr/share/applications/defaults.list (system wide).
Another possibility is that xdg-open was installed recently (and
wasn't before) during a system update.

In any case, GIMP does not strike me a good default application for
PDFs in general, so I would change it to something more reasonable
independent of the LyX case.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Biblatex

[mario chiari]

Hi


i was not using biber, still it works fine with
\usepackage[backref,backend=biber]{biblatex} too, and I see a .bcf file
now.

I am not sure how to help you. (Did you check biblatex version and
writing permissions?)

Try to ask at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/


good luck
mario


On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 22:21 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:
 Hi,
 
 My \bibliography is fine with {myfile}, but what is this:
 
 ERROR - No data files on command line or provided in the file 
 'Neu204.bcf'! Exiting
 
 ?
 
 
 Bernd
 
 
 
 Am 06.07.2012 20:42, schrieb mario chiari:
  Hi
 
  here it works very well.
 
  I need to write the complete path to the .bib file within the preamble:
 
  \bibliography{/root/ my path to /myfile.bib} (my OS is linux)
 
  In your .lyx document you need something like
 
  \cite{AAA}
  \nocite{*}
  \printbibliography.
 
  What does your log say?

  mario
 
 
 
 
 
  On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 00:22 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I downloaded LyX 2.0.4.
  Then I followed the instructions on http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex.
  However, the pdf generated does not have a bibliography.
  I tried an own file as well as one of the examples on that site.
 
  Please help...
 
  Bernd Kappenberg
 
 
 
 

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:47:16 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org
 suggested this:

In any case, GIMP does not strike me a good default application for
PDFs in general, so I would change it to something more reasonable
independent of the LyX case.

Hello Peter and Jürgen,

Thank you both for taking the time to explain. I think that as you said
Jürgen, xdg was installed with an upgrade today, and I have made the
appropriate changes to ensure that Gimp doesn't open .pdf documents.

Your help has been much appreciated.
Charlie
-- 
**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
magic and power in it. Begin it now. --Goethe

***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___

Re: testers needed for LyX\'s Windows installer

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 27.06.2012 20:37, schrieb Uwe Stöhr:

Am 27.06.2012 11:27, schrieb Rick Blok:


When I start the installer, it complains that lyx is already installed, and
that I should remove it first. However, since I don't have admin rights, I
can't do that.


But this means that LyX was once installed with admin permissions. There is no 
other way to
uninstall it without admin privileges in this case.


I think I now know why you got this: LyX was first installed as admin and later on again without 
admin privileges. This is now no longer possible in the new installer version:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/

Have you in the meantime been able to uninstall LyX? If not try this:

1. uninstall LyX as admin
2. remove in the registry all occurrences of LyX
3. login as user without admin privileges
4. check if you can find a lyx.exe on your PC, if so, delete the whole Lyx 
installation folder
5. remove again in the registry all occurrences of LyX (this time you will clean up residues in the 
user-specific area of the registry)


regards Uwe

Re: Resume Tables

[Marcelo Acuña]

[...] Marcelo, your idea is perfect, except for the fact that the environment 
is shared by the whole line. I can work around that by manually changing the 
text style, though.

[...]

I don't understand what is the problem.
Before send the post I make an example for me and that work correctly.

Regards
Marcelo

hf-example.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Biblatex

[Bernd Kappenberg]

Hi,

I followed your link and now I think it's a conflict between biblatex- 
and biber versions.


Hopefully it will go away after the next MiKTeX update...

Thanks,
Bernd


Am 07.07.2012 11:13, schrieb mario chiari:

Hi


i was not using biber, still it works fine with
\usepackage[backref,backend=biber]{biblatex} too, and I see a .bcf file
now.

I am not sure how to help you. (Did you check biblatex version and
writing permissions?)

Try to ask at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/


good luck
mario


On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 22:21 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:

Hi,

My \bibliography is fine with {myfile}, but what is this:

ERROR - No data files on command line or provided in the file
'Neu204.bcf'! Exiting

?


Bernd



Am 06.07.2012 20:42, schrieb mario chiari:

Hi

here it works very well.

I need to write the complete path to the .bib file within the preamble:

\bibliography{/root/ my path to /myfile.bib} (my OS is linux)

In your .lyx document you need something like

\cite{AAA}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography.

What does your log say?
   
mario






On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 00:22 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:

Hi,

I downloaded LyX 2.0.4.
Then I followed the instructions on http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex.
However, the pdf generated does not have a bibliography.
I tried an own file as well as one of the examples on that site.

Please help...

Bernd Kappenberg










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Re: Resume & Tables

[Stephane Bersier]

Hello Peter and Marcelo,

Thank you very much for your advice! Peter, I tried using parboxes, and I
think one could make it work, but as you say, text alignment remains an
issue. Marcelo, your idea is perfect, except for the fact that the
environment is shared by the whole line. I can work around that by manually
changing the text style, though.

Thanks again.

Stephane


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Marcelo Acuña  wrote:

> >I am trying to rewrite my resume in LyX. I attached my old resume which I
> made with Google docs.
>  >
> >However I didn't find any way to have two columns where one can easily
> write some arbitrary text in one column on >the same height as some text in
> the other column. I did this for achievements and dates in my old resume;
> you can see >that each date is vertically aligned with the corresponding
> achievement.
>
> It's seems to me that you can easily make this with Insert > Formatting >
> Horizontal Space > Horizontal Fill
>
> Bachelor of Science: Honours Mathematics & Computer Science <-- Horizontal
> Fill --> 2006 - 2010
> Item 1
> Item 2
> Item 3 <--- Horizontal fill -->  2003
>
> Marcelo
>
>
Hello Stephane,

> However I didn't find any way to have two columns where one can easily
> write some arbitrary text in one column on the same height as some text in
> the other column. I did this for achievements and dates in my old resume;
> you can see that each date is vertically aligned with the corresponding
> achievement.
[...snip...]
>- I tried using a table, as I did in Google docs. However, it doesn't
>seem possible (why not?) to put arbitrary environments in them (I tried
>putting boxes (minipages) into tables, but, apart from being
cumbersome, it
>doesn't keep the spacing before the first line in the box).

1.- try to use longtable, instead of table. That should allow your table
to flow over page breaks (longtable tab in the table settings dialog).
2.- use parbox instead of minipage, that will work with tables. BTW,
when you set a fixed width for a column in a table, it will behave
as if you had a parbox within the cell. Well, there still can be
problems with text alignment, but it's worth to give it a try.
3.- final option is to take a look at how moderncv mackage is written.
It uses tables as well, just it hides the tabular stuff in macros
which allow you to enter the stuff in a better way. The only thing
is that moderncv puts the dates to the left hand side column,
instead of the right hand one.

Perhaps this helps a bit.

Best,

Peter.

PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

Using Debian Wheezy

and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is a
Gimp application window that says something about "Import from pdf".

Everything appears to be as it was in my
Lyx->Preferences->File handling->Converters

I can't find any references to the Gimp there. But where LyX once
brought the pdf up with Okular it does something weird with the window
that in turn does nothing at all.

Any help appreciated.
Charlie
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Re: Thank You!

[Anthony Campbell]

On 21 Jun 2012, Les Denham wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:12:22 +0200
> Påvel Nicklasson  wrote:
> 
> > My wishlist includes an Adobe Distiller type of program for Linux and
> > that more printing houses would learn about LaTeX/LyX and offer
> > support and advice.
> 
> Påvel,
> 
> One of my problems has been that most printing companies insist on "if
> providing a PDF it must be distilled using Adobe" for PDF files. That's
> a quote from Lulu.com, and while they do accept other PDF files for
> private printing, if you want it published by them you have to comply.
> Other publishers have similar wording.
> 
> I have heard that Lulu.com will accept a PostScript file, though they
> do not say so on their website.

[snip]

> 

I have published six books on Lulu. They were submitted as postsrcipt
files and that caused no problems. As an experiment I also submitted
one as a pdf prepared with Lyx and that worked too. The one difficulty
that arose was with one of the books which contained a lot of coloured
plates; I couldn't get these to work with the resolution that Lulu was
demanding. They started refusing to accept the book for widespread
distribution but in fact it is available and selling on Amazon and as an
ebook.


Admittedly I haven't put a new book on Lulu for about a year and things
may have changed, but I'd say it is still worth trying either a
postscript file or a pdf prepared with Lyx. I think the acceptance
question may relate to whether the fonts are correctly embedded or not.

For two of my books, which I distribute myself as well as having them on
Amazon etc., I have them printed myself by Antony Rowe; cheaper than
Lulu and no difficulty with my pdfs. And you can reach them by phone - a
big plus.


Incidentally, Lulu are printers, not publishers.



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Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:45:21 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au"
 suggested this:

>Using Debian Wheezy
>
>and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is a
>Gimp application window that says something about "Import from pdf".

Further to this, when LyX is called up in a terminal, and try to
convert to a .pdf - I get this:

Running: pdflatex  "percival.tex" > /dev/null
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./percival.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, lo aded.


Running: pdflatex  "percival.tex" > /dev/null
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./percival.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, lo aded.


Running: xdg-open "percival.pdf"

Not certain what that means?

TIA
Charlie
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Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:59:43 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au"
 suggested this:

>>Using Debian Wheezy
>>
>>and suddenly when converting to a pdf document, I get what I think is
>>a Gimp application window that says something about "Import from
>>pdf". 

Nutted it out - changed to "okular" in LyX->Preferences->File
Handling->File Formats

It was Custom, but I didn't change it - so what interfered?

Sorry for the noise. [hangs head in shame]
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Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/7/7 Charlie:
> Nutted it out - changed to "okular" in LyX->Preferences->File
> Handling->File Formats
>
> It was Custom, but I didn't change it - so what interfered?

xdg-open is a wrapper that opens a file or URL in the user's preferred
application. If this is installed on your OS (and some Linux distros
use it by default), LyX will select it as the custom output program
for PDF (and many other output formats) and thus lets xdg-open decide
which application to use actually. What changed, probably, is the
application that is set in xdg-open for PDF files (the text/pdf mime
type). You can check and change that in the xdg-open configuration
files located at ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list (for a
single user) and /usr/share/applications/defaults.list (system wide).
Another possibility is that xdg-open was installed recently (and
wasn't before) during a system update.

In any case, GIMP does not strike me a good default application for
PDFs in general, so I would change it to something more reasonable
independent of the LyX case.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Biblatex

[mario chiari]

Hi


i was not using biber, still it works fine with
\usepackage[backref,backend=biber]{biblatex} too, and I see a .bcf file
now.

I am not sure how to help you. (Did you check biblatex version and
writing permissions?)

Try to ask at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/


good luck
mario


On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 22:21 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My \bibliography is fine with {myfile}, but what is this:
> 
> ERROR - No data files on command line or provided in the file 
> 'Neu204.bcf'! Exiting
> 
> ?
> 
> 
> Bernd
> 
> 
> 
> Am 06.07.2012 20:42, schrieb mario chiari:
> > Hi
> >
> > here it works very well.
> >
> > I need to write the complete path to the .bib file within the preamble:
> >
> > \bibliography{/root/ my path to /myfile.bib} (my OS is linux)
> >
> > In your .lyx document you need something like
> >
> > \cite{AAA}
> > \nocite{*}
> > \printbibliography.
> >
> > What does your log say?
> >   
> > mario
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 00:22 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I downloaded LyX 2.0.4.
> >> Then I followed the instructions on http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex.
> >> However, the pdf generated does not have a bibliography.
> >> I tried an own file as well as one of the examples on that site.
> >>
> >> Please help...
> >>
> >> Bernd Kappenberg
> >
> >
> 
> 

Re: PDF weirdness suddenly.............

[Charlie]

 On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:47:16 +0200 "Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org"
 suggested this:

>In any case, GIMP does not strike me a good default application for
>PDFs in general, so I would change it to something more reasonable
>independent of the LyX case.

Hello Peter and Jürgen,

Thank you both for taking the time to explain. I think that as you said
Jürgen, xdg was installed with an upgrade today, and I have made the
appropriate changes to ensure that Gimp doesn't open .pdf documents.

Your help has been much appreciated.
Charlie
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Re: testers needed for LyX\'s Windows installer

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 27.06.2012 20:37, schrieb Uwe Stöhr:

Am 27.06.2012 11:27, schrieb Rick Blok:


When I start the installer, it complains that lyx is already installed, and
that I should remove it first. However, since I don't have admin rights, I
can't do that.


But this means that LyX was once installed with admin permissions. There is no 
other way to
uninstall it without admin privileges in this case.


I think I now know why you got this: LyX was first installed as admin and later on again without 
admin privileges. This is now no longer possible in the new installer version:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/

Have you in the meantime been able to uninstall LyX? If not try this:

1. uninstall LyX as admin
2. remove in the registry all occurrences of LyX
3. login as user without admin privileges
4. check if you can find a "lyx.exe" on your PC, if so, delete the whole Lyx 
installation folder
5. remove again in the registry all occurrences of LyX (this time you will clean up residues in the 
user-specific area of the registry)


regards Uwe

Re: Resume & Tables

[Marcelo Acuña]

[...] Marcelo, your idea is perfect, except for the fact that the environment 
is shared by the whole line. I can work around that by manually changing the 
text style, though.

[...]

I don't understand what is the problem.
Before send the post I make an example for me and that work correctly.

Regards
Marcelo

hf-example.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Biblatex

[Bernd Kappenberg]

Hi,

I followed your link and now I think it's a conflict between biblatex- 
and biber versions.


Hopefully it will go away after the next MiKTeX update...

Thanks,
Bernd


Am 07.07.2012 11:13, schrieb mario chiari:

Hi


i was not using biber, still it works fine with
\usepackage[backref,backend=biber]{biblatex} too, and I see a .bcf file
now.

I am not sure how to help you. (Did you check biblatex version and
writing permissions?)

Try to ask at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/


good luck
mario


On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 22:21 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:

Hi,

My \bibliography is fine with {myfile}, but what is this:

ERROR - No data files on command line or provided in the file
'Neu204.bcf'! Exiting

?


Bernd



Am 06.07.2012 20:42, schrieb mario chiari:

Hi

here it works very well.

I need to write the complete path to the .bib file within the preamble:

\bibliography{/root/ my path to /myfile.bib} (my OS is linux)

In your .lyx document you need something like

\cite{AAA}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography.

What does your log say?
   
mario






On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 00:22 +0200, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:

Hi,

I downloaded LyX 2.0.4.
Then I followed the instructions on http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex.
However, the pdf generated does not have a bibliography.
I tried an own file as well as one of the examples on that site.

Please help...

Bernd Kappenberg










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Der Gebrauch europäischer lateinischer Sonderzeichen in der deutschen 
Öffentlichkeit
ISBN 3-89821-749-3