Re: using older Lyx documents after upgrading

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 06:55:25AM +0200, Michael Berger wrote:
> 
> To be frank, I am surprised that by now all but two my of old documents
> (Miede's classicthesis) do compile after changing/adapting just one or two
> details - most documents compiled off the cuff!
> And for these two last documents I found my way: a combination of copy
> and/or redoing other parts.

Great!

> Forgetting the frustration and thinking of the benefits and learning effects
> I have no regrets :-D.

This is a good attitude to have.

Scott


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Re: using older Lyx documents after upgrading

[Michael Berger]

On 07/20/2016 02:19 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:50:19PM +0200, Michael Berger wrote:

Hi all, this is to share my experience with other users and asking for help
from the developers. ;-)

I have quite a number of LyX documents made in Mageia5 using LyX 2.1;
TexLive 2013; classicthesis-LyX-v4.1, most of them with the module
'Linguistics' loaded and using different bibliography styles.

After upgrading to LyX 2.2.0; TexLive2016; classicthesis-LyX-v4.2 and
loading those older documents I found the following when trying to export to
PDF:

I don't know much about this stuff, but in general you do not want to
upgrade several critical components at once. Ideally you should upgrade
one system (e.g. LyX), test, if everything goes well, upgrade another
system (e.g. Koma-Script), test, etc. And whenever you upgrade, you
should always make sure you can easily downgrade. If you can't easily go
back to how you had it before, take a step back and ask yourself "do I
really need to upgrade"? You will learn through frustration that
upgrades break things. This will always be true. But since you are
learning more about Linux you will learn how to create a robust workflow
and how to easily go back to how you had things before.

Sounds like a frustrating issue. I hope you find a solution and don't
have to redo all of the documents!

Best of luck,

Scott

Thanks Scott,
good comment, very basic but nevertheless quite true: there is no such 
thing like a general recipe or one single reason if things don't work as 
expected after such radical upgrades.


To be frank, I am surprised that by now all but two my of old documents 
(Miede's classicthesis) do compile after changing/adapting just one or 
two details - most documents compiled off the cuff!
And for these two last documents I found my way: a combination of 
copy and/or redoing other parts.


And yes, I could always go back (there were situations when I thought to 
just forget about this whole dam.. idea) without loosing a bit because 
this exercise is done on a separate experimental computer while all my 
work is still there and save on another machine.


Forgetting the frustration and thinking of the benefits and learning 
effects I have no regrets :-D.


Cheers!
Michael

Re: using older Lyx documents after upgrading

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:50:19PM +0200, Michael Berger wrote:
> Hi all, this is to share my experience with other users and asking for help
> from the developers. ;-)
> 
> I have quite a number of LyX documents made in Mageia5 using LyX 2.1;
> TexLive 2013; classicthesis-LyX-v4.1, most of them with the module
> 'Linguistics' loaded and using different bibliography styles.
> 
> After upgrading to LyX 2.2.0; TexLive2016; classicthesis-LyX-v4.2 and
> loading those older documents I found the following when trying to export to
> PDF:

I don't know much about this stuff, but in general you do not want to
upgrade several critical components at once. Ideally you should upgrade
one system (e.g. LyX), test, if everything goes well, upgrade another
system (e.g. Koma-Script), test, etc. And whenever you upgrade, you
should always make sure you can easily downgrade. If you can't easily go
back to how you had it before, take a step back and ask yourself "do I
really need to upgrade"? You will learn through frustration that
upgrades break things. This will always be true. But since you are
learning more about Linux you will learn how to create a robust workflow
and how to easily go back to how you had things before.

Sounds like a frustrating issue. I hope you find a solution and don't
have to redo all of the documents!

Best of luck,

Scott


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Re: Math Panel?

[Richard Heck]

On 19 July 2016 at 10:03, Daniel Roma > wrote:

hi
i'm using LyX 2.2.0,how insert pi, phi (pi), theta, and sigma in
formulas?
thank you

> On 07/19/2016 11:45 AM, John Kane wrote:
>> If th math panel is open click on the
>> α symbol in the top row and it should bring up a set of Greek symbols

If you are going to be inserting many of these, it will save you time to
learn
the LaTeX commands: \pi, \phi, \theta, \sigma, and you can capitalize
the first
letter to get Greek capitals. You can just type these into math.

Richard

Re: KOMAscript book workaround?

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:48:18 +0530
Swami Atmarupananda  wrote:

> Greetings.
> I'm redoing through lyx a book whose 1st edition I wrote in latex.
> All has worked excellently well -- much quicker than the original
> latex -- except one problem. I'm using KOMA scrbook, which forces a
> blank page after the title page. (The first edition used memoir which
> doesn't have the problem.) But I need to put publication info on the
> backside (verso) of the title page, and can't figure out how to
> override the forced blank page. (Other forced blank pages after part
> and chapter headings are not an issue.)

Others are answering your exact question: I just have a comment that's
not responsive to your question but may or may not be helpful...

I've used LyX to write books since 2001. I think I'm selling about 8
LyX-authored books. Early on, in one case I used Koma and in one case I
used Memoir. I soon viewed both as mistakes: They conflicted with
normal stuff (one of them conflicted horribly with href). They put me
in a minority, with less available knowledge and documentation.

From then on, I started with the Book document class and added what I
needed. That way I wasn't choosing a whole new document class to get
two or three needed features.

Everyone's mileage varies: I just thought I'd present this viewpoint.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
 of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Title page

[John Kane]

Here are a couple suggestions that may work
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/148576/lyxarticle-document-image-under-title-in-front-page

On 19 July 2016 at 12:34, Usman Ashraf  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a query in regards to the default title page in report class which
> only gives you an option to add title, author and date. However, I would
> also like to add supervisor, logo etc. How do I go about doing this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Usman




-- 
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

Re: Title page

[Les]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:34:20 +0100
Usman Ashraf  wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a query in regards to the default title page in report class
> which only gives you an option to add title, author and date.
> However, I would also like to add supervisor, logo etc. How do I go
> about doing this?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Usman

I'd look at report (KOMA-script). It has a lot more options.

Les
-- 
L. R. Denham

Title page

[Usman Ashraf]

Hi

I have a query in regards to the default title page in report class which only 
gives you an option to add title, author and date. However, I would also like 
to add supervisor, logo etc. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks 

Usman

Question regarding Title Page in report class

[Usman Ashraf]

Hi

I have a query in regards to the default title page in report class which only 
gives you an option to add title, author and date. However, I would also like 
to add supervisor, logo etc. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks 

Usman

Re: KOMAscript book workaround?

[Swami Atmarupananda]

Many thanks. I have contacted him, got a reply, and sent him an MWE.
Swami

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse  wrote:

> Komascript issue.
>
> Contact the author of the package, who is very helpful.
>
> el
>
> On 2016-07-19 12:18, Swami Atmarupananda wrote:
> > Greetings.
> > I'm redoing through lyx a book whose 1st edition I wrote in latex. All
> > has worked excellently well -- much quicker than the original latex --
> > except one problem. I'm using KOMA scrbook, which forces a blank page
> > after the title page. (The first edition used memoir which doesn't have
> > the problem.) But I need to put publication info on the backside (verso)
> > of the title page, and can't figure out how to override the forced blank
> > page. (Other forced blank pages after part and chapter headings are not
> > an issue.)
> >
> > I see provision for the environments "uppertitleback" and
> > "lowertitleback" under scrbook, which promise to do most of what I want
> > (maybe all), but I can't get them to work. The manual says that the
> > matter within the environment must be put before the \maketitle command.
> > I'm not sure where LyX puts that command, but in latex it comes just
> > after the titlepage information (title, author, date, publisher) is
> > entered. So I put the matter with environment just after \frontmatter
> > (i.e. immediately above the titlepage matter), but it still appears on
> > the next righthand (recto) page after the titlepage; and I also tried
> > putting it in the middle of the titlepage matter, and at the end, but it
> > still comes on the next recto page. Same with matter in the
> > lowertitleback environment. I've tried it by typing in the matter in lyx
> > and selecting the environment from the dropdown menu, and I've tried it
> > by entering latex code. Same thing.
> >
> > So, to state it simply, I want to put a page-worth of material on the
> > backside of the title page, where scrbook forces a blank page. Anything
> > that works is fine -- the simpler the better. The one workaround
> > mentioned above may not be sufficient even if I could get it to work,
> > which I can't, because uppertitleback and lowertitleback seem to be
> > designed for a single paragraph each, and I have several worth of
> > publication data.
> >
> > Using LyX 2.1.4 under Ubuntu 16.04.
> >
> > Many thanks for any help.
> > Swami
>
>

Re: Math Panel?

[John Kane]

If th math panel is open click on the
α symbol in the top row and it should bring up a set of Greek symbols

On 19 July 2016 at 10:03, Daniel Roma  wrote:

> hi
> i'm using LyX 2.2.0,how insert pi, phi (pi), theta, and sigma in formulas?
> thank you
>



-- 
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

Math Panel?

[Daniel Roma]

hi
i'm using LyX 2.2.0,how insert pi, phi (pi), theta, and sigma in formulas?
thank you

Re: KOMAscript book workaround?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Komascript issue.

Contact the author of the package, who is very helpful.

el

On 2016-07-19 12:18, Swami Atmarupananda wrote:
> Greetings.
> I'm redoing through lyx a book whose 1st edition I wrote in latex. All
> has worked excellently well -- much quicker than the original latex --
> except one problem. I'm using KOMA scrbook, which forces a blank page
> after the title page. (The first edition used memoir which doesn't have
> the problem.) But I need to put publication info on the backside (verso)
> of the title page, and can't figure out how to override the forced blank
> page. (Other forced blank pages after part and chapter headings are not
> an issue.)
> 
> I see provision for the environments "uppertitleback" and
> "lowertitleback" under scrbook, which promise to do most of what I want
> (maybe all), but I can't get them to work. The manual says that the
> matter within the environment must be put before the \maketitle command.
> I'm not sure where LyX puts that command, but in latex it comes just
> after the titlepage information (title, author, date, publisher) is
> entered. So I put the matter with environment just after \frontmatter
> (i.e. immediately above the titlepage matter), but it still appears on
> the next righthand (recto) page after the titlepage; and I also tried
> putting it in the middle of the titlepage matter, and at the end, but it
> still comes on the next recto page. Same with matter in the
> lowertitleback environment. I've tried it by typing in the matter in lyx
> and selecting the environment from the dropdown menu, and I've tried it
> by entering latex code. Same thing.
> 
> So, to state it simply, I want to put a page-worth of material on the
> backside of the title page, where scrbook forces a blank page. Anything
> that works is fine -- the simpler the better. The one workaround
> mentioned above may not be sufficient even if I could get it to work,
> which I can't, because uppertitleback and lowertitleback seem to be
> designed for a single paragraph each, and I have several worth of
> publication data.
> 
> Using LyX 2.1.4 under Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> Many thanks for any help.
> Swami

KOMAscript book workaround?

[Swami Atmarupananda]

Greetings.
I'm redoing through lyx a book whose 1st edition I wrote in latex. All has
worked excellently well -- much quicker than the original latex -- except
one problem. I'm using KOMA scrbook, which forces a blank page after the
title page. (The first edition used memoir which doesn't have the problem.)
But I need to put publication info on the backside (verso) of the title
page, and can't figure out how to override the forced blank page. (Other
forced blank pages after part and chapter headings are not an issue.)

I see provision for the environments "uppertitleback" and "lowertitleback"
under scrbook, which promise to do most of what I want (maybe all), but I
can't get them to work. The manual says that the matter within the
environment must be put before the \maketitle command. I'm not sure where
LyX puts that command, but in latex it comes just after the titlepage
information (title, author, date, publisher) is entered. So I put the
matter with environment just after \frontmatter (i.e. immediately above the
titlepage matter), but it still appears on the next righthand (recto) page
after the titlepage; and I also tried putting it in the middle of the
titlepage matter, and at the end, but it still comes on the next recto
page. Same with matter in the lowertitleback environment. I've tried it by
typing in the matter in lyx and selecting the environment from the dropdown
menu, and I've tried it by entering latex code. Same thing.

So, to state it simply, I want to put a page-worth of material on the
backside of the title page, where scrbook forces a blank page. Anything
that works is fine -- the simpler the better. The one workaround mentioned
above may not be sufficient even if I could get it to work, which I can't,
because uppertitleback and lowertitleback seem to be designed for a single
paragraph each, and I have several worth of publication data.

Using LyX 2.1.4 under Ubuntu 16.04.

Many thanks for any help.
Swami

Does anybody know how to use \tikzexternalize, storing the files in a user's dir and not in a LyX temp dir?

[CarLaTeX]

I'm working in Windows 10 with MiKTeX distibution.
If I write in my preamble:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize[prefix={Figures/}]
all works well, but the externalized files are stored in a LyX temp dir,
hence I loose them when I close LyX.
If I write:
\tikzexternalize[prefix={"C:/Users/MyName
MySurname/Documents/LaTeX/Figures/"}]
I get the error:
! I can't write on file `"C:/Users/MyName
MySurname/Documents/LaTeX/Figures/MyDoc-figure0.md5"'.
I've also posted a question on TEX SE, but till without answer:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/319721/tikz-externalization-with-absolute-path-and-miktex-distribution
Could anyone help me?
Thank you!

Carla

using older Lyx documents after upgrading

[Michael Berger]

Hi all, this is to share my experience with other users and asking for 
help from the developers. ;-)


I have quite a number of LyX documents made in Mageia5 using LyX 2.1; 
TexLive 2013; classicthesis-LyX-v4.1, most of them with the module 
'Linguistics' loaded and using different bibliography styles.


After upgrading to LyX 2.2.0; TexLive2016; classicthesis-LyX-v4.2 and 
loading those older documents I found the following when trying to 
export to PDF:


 * Beamer presentations > OK
 * All types of Koma-Script documents >> basically OK with some minor
   adjustments, inter alia regarding the bibliography style, e.g. oscola
 * classicthesis-LyX-v4.2_biblatex_biber and
   classicthesis-LyX-v4.2_biblatex_bibtex8 >> do compile all example
   files as well as their original 'ClassicThesis.lyx' template without
   any problem.
 * but trying to compile any of my classicthesis-LyX-v4.1 documents I
   get either an endless loop or heaps of errors - there are so many
   different errors that I eventually gave up trying to fix them

I also started copying parts of my old documents into a new one but even 
text that I considered not very special produced errors.


Authoring everything entirely new seems to be the only way as far as I 
see now. Well is that it?


Any explanation, clue, advice etc. is highly appreciated.

Cheers and thanks,

Michael