LyX not completely importing new class/layout

[Steve Burnham]

I have attempted to create my own CV Latex class based on another template
I downloaded and incorporate it into LyX. I've done this before with my
School's dissertation class long ago. I have done the following (Linux):

   1. I downloaded the CV .cls file and I placed it in my LaTeX directory
   2. I ran texhash to update
   3. I created a LyX layout file (text below) and placed it in
   ~/.lyx/layouts/ and then reconfigured LyX and restarted the program
   4. Created a new file and under Document>Settings>Document Class I
   selected my new CV class called "resume" and hit apply. LyX then says it's
   converting the document to the new document class.

After these steps the pull down menu for the layout list does not populate
according to the new class. It appears populated as a standard article
class rather than the custom layout options from the CV class. If I add in
front matter and compile the document it does compile successfully and
things like name, address, phone are formatted correctly. So I know that
LyX can see the class and is using it to compile the document. I can also
import plain LaTeX and everything works but this just turns LyX into a
glorified TeX editor rather than what it should be doing. Below is the
contents of my layout file which is quite minimal:

#% comment line
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{resume}
Input stdclass.inc

-Steve
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Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[Steve Burnham]

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 7:40 PM Scott Kostyshak  wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 05:18:53PM -0600, Joel Kulesza wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Scott Kostyshak 
> wrote:
> >
> > > > P.S. For Mac Users, the file is likely in ~/Library/Application
> > > > Support/LyX-2.*/.
> > >
> > > Good to know. On Mac is the location indeed shown when you go to LyX >
> > > About LyX?
> >
> >
> > It is; I just thought I'd confirm.
>
> OK thanks.
>
> Scott
>

I hope it's not too late to contribute my preferences file.  The one
default I am surprised by is the screen zoom/font size. I set my zoom to
200%. It's just far too small by default. I'm not that old either (31) and
do have good vision.

-Steve


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Re: indented list of tables

[Steve Burnham]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 7:09 PM Jacob Bishop <bishop.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In my list of tables it appears to be every so slightly indented which my
> thesis editor is not happy with. In the link for a MWE you can see that the
> numbers 1.1 light up with the actual name of the chapter in the table of
> contents rather then with the number itself. I found this:
> http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/No-indent-in-LOF-LOT-and-tables-td479678.html 
> that
> suggests adding "listsleft" to the options. I have done that but with no
> success in un-indenting the list of tables. Are there any other options
> that I can change?
>
> -Steve
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ryk9ihpiwoudmj/list_of_tables.zip?dl=0
>
>
> I think that "listleft" is specific to koma-script. If you don't use
> tocloft, then the magic is to add
>
> \makeatletter
>
> \renewcommand*\l@table{\@dottedtocline{1}{0em}{2.3em}}
>
> \renewcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{0em}{2.3em}}
>
> \makeatother
>
> to your preamble to fix both the list of tables, and the list of figures.
> That seemed to do it for me. In terms of sources, I looked at the
> documentation for the tocloft package, on pages 3-4, which has the relevant
> information if you can make sense of it.
>
> Jacob
>

That did the trick!. Tocloft package wound up screwing up some other things
so I quit using that. The thesis class for the university is messy so it's
hard to know what packages are interfering with each other. You've now
helped me on my master's thesis and PhD dissertation so thank you again!
Fortunately this time around things went smoother with less formatting
issues since I've been doing most of my writing in LyX. Funny thing is my
list of tables in the master's thesis has this issue but the thesis editor
never caught it, hah!

-Steve

indented list of tables

[Steve Burnham]

In my list of tables it appears to be every so slightly indented which my
thesis editor is not happy with. In the link for a MWE you can see that the
numbers 1.1 light up with the actual name of the chapter in the table of
contents rather then with the number itself. I found this:
http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/No-indent-in-LOF-LOT-and-tables-td479678.html
that
suggests adding "listsleft" to the options. I have done that but with no
success in un-indenting the list of tables. Are there any other options
that I can change?

-Steve

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ryk9ihpiwoudmj/list_of_tables.zip?dl=0

Re: List of Figures

[Steve Burnham]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:10 AM CarLaTeX <carlatex...@gmail.com> wrote:


2017-03-13 8:27 GMT+01:00 Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net>:

On 2017-03-12, Steve Burnham wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:35 PM CarLaTeX <carlatex...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Il 12 Mar 2017 4:05 AM, "Steve Burnham" <dan...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

>> I'm having a hard time figuring an error out LyX gives on compilation.
I'm
>> trying to include a list of figures in my document. One document based on
>> the same template (custom university thesis template) but this document
>> throws the following error:

>> Contents.

>> ! Undefined control sequence.

>> l.117 \listoffigures

...

> I was trying to avoid the minimal example since I have to use a
> dropbox link because of all of the custom class and layout files.

We still ask to provide a minimal example. It is far more easy for you
than for anyone else (downloading and experimenting with uncommon stuff)
and has to be done anyway to get to the core of the problem.

Günter


Sorry, I did "reply" instead of "reply to all":

--
The culprits are these commented lines in your uuthesis.cls:

%\newif\iflistoffigures
...
%\listoffigurestrue
...
%
%\def\listoffigures{
%  \iflistoffigures
%\newpage
%\thispagestyle{empty}
%\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF FIGURES}
%\mainheading{LIST OF FIGURES}\vskip 3pt
%\ifnoisy \typeout{List of Figures.} \fi
%\@starttoc{lof}
%  \else
%\ifnoisy \typeout{No list of figures.} \fi
%  \fi
%}

If you leave out all the "%", you'll get your LoF.

However, I think you have to ask who provided you the uuthesis.cls, maybe
they have commented those lines because they don't want LoFs in that kind
of thesis.

Good luck for your graduation!

Carla
-

P.S. = However, Günter is right, I you had done a MWE, you would probably
have found the problem by yourself!


Thank you all that did it.

Funny thing is once I started uncommenting things I realized that I was the
one who commented it out several years ago when I was doing my master's
thesis. The rule is if you have more than 25 figures then there is no list
of figures which I find silly. I have more than 25 for my dissertation but
for my own personal copy I want the list. I swore I had removed the
functionality but thought I made changes in the preamble. After being
unable to fix it I figured it must be something else and emailed out. So
thanks again, it feels great to be finished!

-Steve

Re: List of Figures

[Steve Burnham]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:35 PM CarLaTeX <carlatex...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Il 12 Mar 2017 4:05 AM, "Steve Burnham" <dan...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> I'm having a hard time figuring an error out LyX gives on compilation. I'm
> trying to include a list of figures in my document. One document based on
> the same template (custom university thesis template) but this document
> throws the following error:
>
> Contents.
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
>
> l.117 \listoffigures
>
> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>
> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>
> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>
> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>
>
> The \tableofcontents and \listoftables works just fine but \listoffigures
> won't cooperate. Thanks for any insight,
>
>
> -Steve
>
>
> Look at this answer on TeX.SE:
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/201505/101651.
>
> If it doesn't solve your problem, I think we need more info (that is,
> could you try to create a minimal example that reproduce the error and
> attach the file to your post?).
>
> Bye!
> Carla
>

I wish it had been that simple. I thought I had seen that package so was
excited. I was trying to avoid the minimal example since I have to use a
dropbox link because of all of the custom class and layout files. Here is a
dropbox link though with a zip file containing all the necessary stuff. You
can comment out "\listoffigures" in the ERT at the beginning of the
document and it compiles just fine but when uncommented it breaks.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1njle770rqlexmm/table_of_figures.zip?dl=0

-Steve

List of Figures

[Steve Burnham]

I'm having a hard time figuring an error out LyX gives on compilation. I'm
trying to include a list of figures in my document. One document based on
the same template (custom university thesis template) but this document
throws the following error:

Contents.

! Undefined control sequence.

l.117 \listoffigures

The control sequence at the end of the top line

of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have

misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct

spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,

and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.


The \tableofcontents and \listoftables works just fine but \listoffigures
won't cooperate. Thanks for any insight,


-Steve

Re: Footnote question

[Steve Burnham]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:12 PM Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:48 PM Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:38 PM Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Forum,
>
> I am putting together my dissertation and having a problem with footnote
> formatting. I have enclosed a minimal example with the necessary style and
> class douments. You'll notice when a PDF is generated the text of the first
> footnote, which is attached to the chapter heading, does not appear as
> expected. The second footnote is generated as expected.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> I've made some amount of progress on the question but still searching for
> a final solution. I realized the footnote was appearing on the table of
> contents page. Following guidance here:
> https://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/FootnotesInSectionHeadings
>
> I added a short title. This removed the footnote from the table of
> contents but it still does not show up on the page that it's supposed to. I
> have included a dropbox link with a minimal working example. The users list
> seems to reject any files I attach.
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/s56zx9ty4svnbor/footnote_example.zip?dl=0
>
> -Steve
>
>
I've found a very sloppy solution to my footnote problem. I can delete the
chapter heading and use ERT like this to separate the footnote marker and
the footnote text:

\chapter[INTRODUCTION]{INTRODUCTION\protect\footnotemark}\footnotetext{this
is my footnote}

I'd like to come up with a more elegant solution though. The problem with
this ERT is that all of the subsections for each chapter are numbered wrong
in LyX as they number according to the last Chapter that was declared
without ERT. It all corrects itself at the time of compilation though. I've
tried just sticking an ERT box next to the chapter title with:

 \footnotemark\footnotetext{this is my footnote}

but that causes the footnote to again not appear at the bottom of the page.
When I export a .tex file it seems the problems is the placement of braces.

\chapter[INTRODUCTION]{INTRODUCTION\protect\footnotemark\footnotetext{this
is my footnote}}

The \footnotetext command should be outside of the braces for the chapter
title and \footnotemark command.

Re: Footnote question

[Steve Burnham]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:48 PM Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:38 PM Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Forum,
>
> I am putting together my dissertation and having a problem with footnote
> formatting. I have enclosed a minimal example with the necessary style and
> class douments. You'll notice when a PDF is generated the text of the first
> footnote, which is attached to the chapter heading, does not appear as
> expected. The second footnote is generated as expected.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> I've made some amount of progress on the question but still searching for
> a final solution. I realized the footnote was appearing on the table of
> contents page. Following guidance here:
> https://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/FootnotesInSectionHeadings
> I added a short title. This removed the footnote from the table of
> contents but it still does not show up on the page that it's supposed to. I
> have included a dropbox link with a minimal working example. The users list
> seems to reject any files I attach.
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/s56zx9ty4svnbor/footnote_example.zip?dl=0
>
> -Steve
>

Re: leftside superscript

[Steve Burnham]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:33 AM Kiuhnm  wrote:

> On 18/07/2016 13:25, Kiuhnm wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > what's the best way to write leftside superscripts in Lyx (latest
> > version) with /correct spacing/?
>
> \prescript from mathtools seems to work well. It'd be great if leftside
> prescripts were supported directly by Lyx.
>
> Kiuhnm
>
>

Just type them the same way you would super scripts in LyX. If you wanted 5
to the power of two it would be 5^2 if you wanted a 2 as a prescript then
^2 5 or use the underscore for subscripts.That's what works for me.

-Steve

Re: LyX problem - I need your help

[Steve Burnham]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:50 PM Isam Alobaidi  wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> This is Isam Alobaidi, PhD student in computer science department in
> Missouri University of Scienec and technology.
> I faced a problem with the LyX, I wonder if you can help me with it. I am
> writing my thesis by LyX but the university enforce me to
> use their temple that written in LaTeX.
> I have no idea how I can connect them together and use the temple in LyX
> in an other word how to make a given LaTeX template compatible with my LyX
> file?
> Waiting your kindly response.
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Isam Alobaidi
> PhD Student, Department of Computer Science 
> Missouri University of Science and Technology 
> 113 ERL, 500 West 16th Street, Rolla, MO 65409
> Webpage: http://web.mst.edu/~iaahgb/
>
>
Hi Isam,

It's difficult to give good help/advice without knowing what you've tried
and what errors you are running into. I recently went through what you are
going through with my thesis and had to rely on these forums for a lot of
help. I would start with the thread located here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/82100/match=burnham

After that I think it is helpful to look into adding custom LaTeX class
files to LyX and how to create .layout files. There are also some pretty
decent guides to getting LyX setup with your Universities LaTeX files. Here
is one I've gotten some help from:

http://www.aarondefazio.com/tangentially/?p=19

Once you've tried some things report back with what you've done and what is
going wrong and someone will be able to help you. Last of all don't give
up. Once you get it working it is well worth the effort.

-Steve

Re: Splitting long eqution

[Steve Burnham]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:58 AM Jacob Bishop <bishop.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> In regard to the ams multiline, when I use it in the two column format my
>> equations then get rather messed up. The first half of the equation is left
>> justified while the second half is right justified. The whole equation
>> (both parts) should be centered (exactly how it looks in LyX when in math
>> mode). I have tried to set the justification to center but it appears to
>> have no effect.
>>
>
> I suggest carefully reading
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/196/eqnarray-vs-align#197 and all
> the responses/links, especially
> http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/madsen/madsen.pdf which has a
> detailed breakdown and several side-by-side examples. Once you're done with
> that, you should experiment to be sure you understand the differences,
> pros, cons, etc. Then (being informed on the issues), you should...do
> whatever you want. The LyX math manual also has a fairly accurate
> description of the different environments.
>
> My own overall opinion of all this is that the normal align environment is
> easy to use, but ugly and that the AMS environments are a pain, but if
> looks matter then it is worth the extra work. Good luck.
>
> Jacob
>


Thank you for these references. So far they are pretty helpful and after I
finish my QE I'll need them more as I move into drafting my dissertation.

-Steve

Re: Splitting long eqution

[Steve Burnham]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 4:08 AM Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com> wrote:

> On 04 Dec 2015, at 02:30, Jacob Bishop <bisho...@byui.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> -Steve Burnham
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> see the extended minimal example attached.
>>
>
> This example is really good, and Anders' response was on the spot, but I
> thought I'd take the opportunity to point out something that took me quite
> a while to realize. When using the equation array environment (what happens
> when you push ctrl+enter), the spacing around the equal sign is different
> than what it is for a "display formula." This leads to a document that has
> inconsistent spacing, which can be seen in this example. The spacing around
> the equals sign in equation (1) is a lot less than the spacing around the
> equals signs in the other equations. The solution is to use AMS
> environments. Check the spacing produced in the attached document. I also
> used \mathrm for multi-letter subscripts, which I would recommend. Finally,
> you should check out the different reference types. I use the one with
> parentheses to do equations.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Jacob
>
> 
>
>
> Thanks Jacob, that was helpful!
> I like that you point out the use of \mathrm. I “preach” to all students
> and everyone else who wants to hear (and to everyone else too ;-) that
> indices that are not variables should be roman. So for those who use LyX or
> LaTeX and write equations \mathrm is one of the best commands to know…
>
> Anders
>

Thanks for the advice on \mathrm, equations look much better with it.

In regard to the ams multiline, when I use it in the two column format my
equations then get rather messed up. The first half of the equation is left
justified while the second half is right justified. The whole equation
(both parts) should be centered (exactly how it looks in LyX when in math
mode). I have tried to set the justification to center but it appears to
have no effect. See my new minimal example.

-Steve


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Re: Splitting long eqution

[Steve Burnham]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:47 AM Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com> wrote:

> On 01 Dec 2015, at 00:16, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a long numbered formula that I am trying to split into two lines. I
> am using 2.1.4 on OSX 10.11. Following the instructions in the wiki (
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/FormulaOnMultipleLines) I should be able to
> hit control+enter to begin a multiline equation, move the cursor to where I
> want a new line and hit control+enter again. This command appears to be
> disabled for some reason. I have found however that if I type Command+enter
> a new line is inserted and I can type the remaining portion of the
> equation. The problem is that this new line also gets a new equation number
> when it should all be part of the same equation. See attached minimal
> working example. Thanks,
>
>
> -Steve
>
> 
>
>
> Steve, that will depend on where you insert your label, see the extended
> minimal example attached.
>
> All the best!
> Anders
>

Thanks for the reply Anders. I didn't realize that I could Insert>display
formula and as soon as I attach a label it then becomes numbered. I had
always just done insert>numbered equation in the past.  It all works now!

Splitting long eqution

[Steve Burnham]

I have a long numbered formula that I am trying to split into two lines. I
am using 2.1.4 on OSX 10.11. Following the instructions in the wiki (
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/FormulaOnMultipleLines) I should be able to
hit control+enter to begin a multiline equation, move the cursor to where I
want a new line and hit control+enter again. This command appears to be
disabled for some reason. I have found however that if I type Command+enter
a new line is inserted and I can type the remaining portion of the
equation. The problem is that this new line also gets a new equation number
when it should all be part of the same equation. See attached minimal
working example. Thanks,


-Steve


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Re: thispagestyle empty not working

[Steve Burnham]

-Steve Burnham

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:55 PM Jacob Bishop <bishop.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having a problem. I put \thispagestyle{empty} into my LyX preamble,
> expecting it to suppress the page number on the first page (as per the
> wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Numbering#noPageNumberOnFirstPage). It does
> not. The page number shows up anyway. Attached is a minimal example. Does
> anyone have an idea as to what is happening? I am on Linux Mint 17 64-bit
> using LyX 2.1.4 (Friday, July 24, 2015).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacob
>

If I put \thispagestyle{empty} as ERT at the beginning of the document
(rather than the preamble) then it suppresses the page number on the first
page and all subsequent pages do have numbering.

-Steve

Re: biblatex.module and biber not available

[Steve Burnham]

I'm running the same setup as you are. I used the MacTeX distribution to
get TeX installed and then I just installed LyX. That is the only software
I had to install. I have only used BibTeX and that has always worked just
fine for me. I don't have any experience with biblatex though. If you want
to send an example file over I'm happy to test it out just to confirm if
there are issues or not but I don't know if I will be much help in the
trouble shooting area.

-Steve

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:44 AM jezZiFeR jezzi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 I have installed TeX and LyX on my new Laptop (OSX10.10) and now LyX could
 not find biber or the bib latex.module. In TeX Live Utility biber is
 installed, biblatex also is. Do I have to install anything else, or why
 could I not find the appropriate modules in document/preferences/modules.

 Thanks for help
 Jess

Re: biblatex.module and biber not available

[Steve Burnham]

I'm running the same setup as you are. I used the MacTeX distribution to
get TeX installed and then I just installed LyX. That is the only software
I had to install. I have only used BibTeX and that has always worked just
fine for me. I don't have any experience with biblatex though. If you want
to send an example file over I'm happy to test it out just to confirm if
there are issues or not but I don't know if I will be much help in the
trouble shooting area.

-Steve

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:44 AM jezZiFeR jezzi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 I have installed TeX and LyX on my new Laptop (OSX10.10) and now LyX could
 not find biber or the bib latex.module. In TeX Live Utility biber is
 installed, biblatex also is. Do I have to install anything else, or why
 could I not find the appropriate modules in document/preferences/modules.

 Thanks for help
 Jess

Re: biblatex.module and biber not available

[Steve Burnham]

I'm running the same setup as you are. I used the MacTeX distribution to
get TeX installed and then I just installed LyX. That is the only software
I had to install. I have only used BibTeX and that has always worked just
fine for me. I don't have any experience with biblatex though. If you want
to send an example file over I'm happy to test it out just to confirm if
there are issues or not but I don't know if I will be much help in the
trouble shooting area.

-Steve

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:44 AM jezZiFeR  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed TeX and LyX on my new Laptop (OSX10.10) and now LyX could
> not find biber or the bib latex.module. In TeX Live Utility biber is
> installed, biblatex also is. Do I have to install anything else, or why
> could I not find the appropriate modules in document/preferences/modules.
>
> Thanks for help
> Jess

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

[Steve Burnham]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
wrote:

 I have already done this way,but it does not work for me. Can someone help
 me to do that with this email?
 renato.pontef...@gmail.com

 Thanks to all

 Renato

 Il giorno mer 17 giu 2015 18:20 Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com ha
 scritto:

 Instructions are found on the website:
 http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists



 -Steve Burnham

 On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice 
 renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote:

 It s a  long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be
 impossibile. Please someone erase me


 Renato Pontefice


Send a blank email to lyx-users-unsubscr...@lists.lyx.org. Don't put
anything in the subject line or in the text body.

-Steve

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

[Steve Burnham]

Instructions are found on the website:
http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists



-Steve Burnham

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
wrote:

 It s a  long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be impossibile.
 Please someone erase me


 Renato Pontefice

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

[Steve Burnham]

Instructions are found on the website:
http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists



-Steve Burnham

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
wrote:

 It s a  long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be impossibile.
 Please someone erase me


 Renato Pontefice

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

[Steve Burnham]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
wrote:

 I have already done this way,but it does not work for me. Can someone help
 me to do that with this email?
 renato.pontef...@gmail.com

 Thanks to all

 Renato

 Il giorno mer 17 giu 2015 18:20 Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com ha
 scritto:

 Instructions are found on the website:
 http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists



 -Steve Burnham

 On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice 
 renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote:

 It s a  long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be
 impossibile. Please someone erase me


 Renato Pontefice


Send a blank email to lyx-users-unsubscr...@lists.lyx.org. Don't put
anything in the subject line or in the text body.

-Steve

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

[Steve Burnham]

Instructions are found on the website:
http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists



-Steve Burnham

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice <renato.pontef...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It s a  long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be impossibile.
> Please someone erase me
>
>
> Renato Pontefice
>

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

[Steve Burnham]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM Renato Pontefice <renato.pontef...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have already done this way,but it does not work for me. Can someone help
> me to do that with this email?
> renato.pontef...@gmail.com
>
> Thanks to all
>
> Renato
>
> Il giorno mer 17 giu 2015 18:20 Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> Instructions are found on the website:
>> http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists
>>
>>
>>
>> -Steve Burnham
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice <
>> renato.pontef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It s a  long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be
>>> impossibile. Please someone erase me
>>>
>>>
>>> Renato Pontefice
>>>
>>
Send a blank email to lyx-users-unsubscr...@lists.lyx.org. Don't put
anything in the subject line or in the text body.

-Steve

Re: Compatibility Mac - Linux

[Steve Burnham]

On May 6, 2015 at 12:30:32, Ygo Kanaki (x...@galama.net) wrote:

The main reason why me and my colleagues switched from MS-Word to Lyx is the  
problems we had with all the different Office versions, and problem we had  
opening Word-files in OpenOffice, etcetera. That was why we use Lyx.  

Today I get a .lyx file from a colleague with a Mac. I try to open the Lyx  
file, and I get this error message:  

/mnt/sda1/Dropbox/lithouse_shared_folder/Offers quotes prospects that we are  
working on/Jolly_X/20150506/offer_27.11.2013.lyx is from a newer version of  
LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.  

So I try to update my Lyx on Ubuntu 14.04 to a later version, but there is  
nothing to update. I have the most recent version (2.0.6 from April 2013)  
while my colleague has 2.1.2.2. from November 2014. I am out of luck.  

We're on Openoffice again. :(  



Repositories can take a while to update sometimes, not to mention you aren’t 
even running the latest version of Ubuntu. You could manually update though by 
downloading the binary from the LyX website (http://www.lyx.org/Download) and 
update to the latest version (2.1.3) on your own.

-Steve

Re: Compatibility Mac - Linux

[Steve Burnham]

On May 6, 2015 at 12:30:32, Ygo Kanaki (x...@galama.net) wrote:

The main reason why me and my colleagues switched from MS-Word to Lyx is the  
problems we had with all the different Office versions, and problem we had  
opening Word-files in OpenOffice, etcetera. That was why we use Lyx.  

Today I get a .lyx file from a colleague with a Mac. I try to open the Lyx  
file, and I get this error message:  

/mnt/sda1/Dropbox/lithouse_shared_folder/Offers quotes prospects that we are  
working on/Jolly_X/20150506/offer_27.11.2013.lyx is from a newer version of  
LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.  

So I try to update my Lyx on Ubuntu 14.04 to a later version, but there is  
nothing to update. I have the most recent version (2.0.6 from April 2013)  
while my colleague has 2.1.2.2. from November 2014. I am out of luck.  

We're on Openoffice again. :(  



Repositories can take a while to update sometimes, not to mention you aren’t 
even running the latest version of Ubuntu. You could manually update though by 
downloading the binary from the LyX website (http://www.lyx.org/Download) and 
update to the latest version (2.1.3) on your own.

-Steve

Re: Compatibility Mac - Linux

[Steve Burnham]

On May 6, 2015 at 12:30:32, Ygo Kanaki (x...@galama.net) wrote:

The main reason why me and my colleagues switched from MS-Word to Lyx is the  
problems we had with all the different Office versions, and problem we had  
opening Word-files in OpenOffice, etcetera. That was why we use Lyx.  

Today I get a .lyx file from a colleague with a Mac. I try to open the Lyx  
file, and I get this error message:  

"/mnt/sda1/Dropbox/lithouse_shared_folder/Offers quotes prospects that we are  
working on/Jolly_X/20150506/offer_27.11.2013.lyx is from a newer version of  
LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it."  

So I try to update my Lyx on Ubuntu 14.04 to a later version, but there is  
nothing to update. I have the most recent version (2.0.6 from April 2013)  
while my colleague has 2.1.2.2. from November 2014. I am out of luck.  

We're on Openoffice again. :(  



Repositories can take a while to update sometimes, not to mention you aren’t 
even running the latest version of Ubuntu. You could manually update though by 
downloading the binary from the LyX website (http://www.lyx.org/Download) and 
update to the latest version (2.1.3) on your own.

-Steve

Re: Centering graphics within a table

[Steve Burnham]

On April 13, 2015 at 14:26:23, Aline Gautrein (gautr...@googlemail.com) wrote:
Hey Lyx users!

I've got the following problem:

I made a table, which includes text and graphics. Text and graphics are in 
different cells.
I have two problems:

First: I want to center the graphics within the cell: The graphics are always 
placed at the top of the cells. I also tried to insert additional space in a 
row but in this case, too much free space appears.

The second problem: The text, which is in separated cells is always aligned at 
the bottom of the cell, no matter if I try to align it to the top or the middle 
of the cells.

Here, how it appears in pdf.:




I hope you can help me with this!

Thanks a lot!
Aline


I’m not guaranteeing I can help but could you attach a minimal example LyX file 
so that others in the forum can play around with your file and try to figure it 
out?


-Steve Burnham

Re: Centering graphics within a table

[Steve Burnham]

On April 13, 2015 at 14:26:23, Aline Gautrein (gautr...@googlemail.com) wrote:
Hey Lyx users!

I've got the following problem:

I made a table, which includes text and graphics. Text and graphics are in 
different cells.
I have two problems:

First: I want to center the graphics within the cell: The graphics are always 
placed at the top of the cells. I also tried to insert additional space in a 
row but in this case, too much free space appears.

The second problem: The text, which is in separated cells is always aligned at 
the bottom of the cell, no matter if I try to align it to the top or the middle 
of the cells.

Here, how it appears in pdf.:




I hope you can help me with this!

Thanks a lot!
Aline


I’m not guaranteeing I can help but could you attach a minimal example LyX file 
so that others in the forum can play around with your file and try to figure it 
out?


-Steve Burnham

Re: Centering graphics within a table

[Steve Burnham]

On April 13, 2015 at 14:26:23, Aline Gautrein (gautr...@googlemail.com) wrote:
Hey Lyx users!

I've got the following problem:

I made a table, which includes text and graphics. Text and graphics are in 
different cells.
I have two problems:

First: I want to center the graphics within the cell: The graphics are always 
placed at the top of the cells. I also tried to insert additional space in a 
row but in this case, too much free space appears.

The second problem: The text, which is in separated cells is always aligned at 
the bottom of the cell, no matter if I try to align it to the top or the middle 
of the cells.

Here, how it appears in pdf.:




I hope you can help me with this!

Thanks a lot!
Aline


I’m not guaranteeing I can help but could you attach a minimal example LyX file 
so that others in the forum can play around with your file and try to figure it 
out?


-Steve Burnham

Re: Compiling and creating thesis template

[Steve Burnham]

On April 10, 2015 at 01:47:40, SESTINI PIERSANTE (piersante.sest...@unisi.it) 
wrote:
Il 2015-04-10 03:49 Steve Burnham ha scritto: 
 A year ago I received a lot of help from the users list in getting my 
 universities thesis class setup to work with LyX. I am now trying to 
 set it up as a template of sorts so that others in my program can 
 benefit from LyX. The template complies just fine on OS X using the 
 latest version of LyX. When trying to compile on Windows however it 
 does not compile and lists the following errors: 
 
 Two LoadClass commands 
 Missing begin{document} 
 
 On OSX I simply have the LyX file, .cls, .sty, and .layout files all 
 in the same folder as a couple of child documents and the compile 
 works. My guess is that this setup somehow conflicts with how LyX and 
 MiKTeX operate on windows. I’ve Created a zip file with the required 
 thesis files and a minimal example. The users list won’t let me 
 attached a zip file so it can be downloaded from the link below. If 
 anyone can take a look at it and give some insight as to why it 
 won’t compile on Windows it would be appreciated. 
 
 https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GSlRRODlJaF9QRTAexport=download 
 
 
 -Steve Burnham 
I am not an expert, but MiKTeX already has a thesis package in 
/tex/latex/thesis. My guess is that it loads instead of your thesis.sty 
and/or cls and conflicts 
Renaming your style to uuthesis.sty (and changing the premble 
accordingly) seems to work here 


Hope this helps 

Piersante 




Thanks for the response.  Your diagnosis I believe was correct but fixing it 
wasn’t quite as simple.  Here’s what I did just for the record:

I went to the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex

There I created a folder called “uuthesis” and I place the .cls and .sty files 
in there. In my case the .cls file was named uuthesis and the .sty was named 
thesis.  I changed the .sty to uuthesis so that there wouldn’t be two 
thesis.sty files in the MikTeX database. Once I had those files added I went 
into the MikTeX settings and refreshed FNDB and updated formats (MiKTeX 
settings weren’t easy to find as they aren’t listed under MiKTeX, on both 
windows 7 and 8 I had to use the search function in the start menu and just 
search for “settings” and it came up). Finally, in the preamble of the LyX file 
I renamed the .sty file it was looking for to uuthesis.  Once I did all of that 
the document was able to compile.  

For whatever reason it seems that my installation of LyX on Windows won’t use 
local .sty files and only ones that are in the MiKTeX folders where as on Unix 
based operating systems it will. I don’t know if this is the case for all of 
Windows or not.  All the more reason to use Linux or OS X.

-Steve

Re: Compiling and creating thesis template

[Steve Burnham]

On April 10, 2015 at 01:47:40, SESTINI PIERSANTE (piersante.sest...@unisi.it) 
wrote:
Il 2015-04-10 03:49 Steve Burnham ha scritto: 
 A year ago I received a lot of help from the users list in getting my 
 universities thesis class setup to work with LyX. I am now trying to 
 set it up as a template of sorts so that others in my program can 
 benefit from LyX. The template complies just fine on OS X using the 
 latest version of LyX. When trying to compile on Windows however it 
 does not compile and lists the following errors: 
 
 Two LoadClass commands 
 Missing begin{document} 
 
 On OSX I simply have the LyX file, .cls, .sty, and .layout files all 
 in the same folder as a couple of child documents and the compile 
 works. My guess is that this setup somehow conflicts with how LyX and 
 MiKTeX operate on windows. I’ve Created a zip file with the required 
 thesis files and a minimal example. The users list won’t let me 
 attached a zip file so it can be downloaded from the link below. If 
 anyone can take a look at it and give some insight as to why it 
 won’t compile on Windows it would be appreciated. 
 
 https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GSlRRODlJaF9QRTAexport=download 
 
 
 -Steve Burnham 
I am not an expert, but MiKTeX already has a thesis package in 
/tex/latex/thesis. My guess is that it loads instead of your thesis.sty 
and/or cls and conflicts 
Renaming your style to uuthesis.sty (and changing the premble 
accordingly) seems to work here 


Hope this helps 

Piersante 




Thanks for the response.  Your diagnosis I believe was correct but fixing it 
wasn’t quite as simple.  Here’s what I did just for the record:

I went to the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex

There I created a folder called “uuthesis” and I place the .cls and .sty files 
in there. In my case the .cls file was named uuthesis and the .sty was named 
thesis.  I changed the .sty to uuthesis so that there wouldn’t be two 
thesis.sty files in the MikTeX database. Once I had those files added I went 
into the MikTeX settings and refreshed FNDB and updated formats (MiKTeX 
settings weren’t easy to find as they aren’t listed under MiKTeX, on both 
windows 7 and 8 I had to use the search function in the start menu and just 
search for “settings” and it came up). Finally, in the preamble of the LyX file 
I renamed the .sty file it was looking for to uuthesis.  Once I did all of that 
the document was able to compile.  

For whatever reason it seems that my installation of LyX on Windows won’t use 
local .sty files and only ones that are in the MiKTeX folders where as on Unix 
based operating systems it will. I don’t know if this is the case for all of 
Windows or not.  All the more reason to use Linux or OS X.

-Steve

Re: Compiling and creating thesis template

[Steve Burnham]

On April 10, 2015 at 01:47:40, SESTINI PIERSANTE (piersante.sest...@unisi.it) 
wrote:
Il 2015-04-10 03:49 Steve Burnham ha scritto: 
> A year ago I received a lot of help from the users list in getting my 
> universities thesis class setup to work with LyX. I am now trying to 
> set it up as a template of sorts so that others in my program can 
> benefit from LyX. The template complies just fine on OS X using the 
> latest version of LyX. When trying to compile on Windows however it 
> does not compile and lists the following errors: 
> 
> Two LoadClass commands 
> Missing begin{document} 
> 
> On OSX I simply have the LyX file, .cls, .sty, and .layout files all 
> in the same folder as a couple of child documents and the compile 
> works. My guess is that this setup somehow conflicts with how LyX and 
> MiKTeX operate on windows. I’ve Created a zip file with the required 
> thesis files and a minimal example. The users list won’t let me 
> attached a zip file so it can be downloaded from the link below. If 
> anyone can take a look at it and give some insight as to why it 
> won’t compile on Windows it would be appreciated. 
> 
> https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GSlRRODlJaF9QRTA=download 
> 
> 
> -Steve Burnham 
I am not an expert, but MiKTeX already has a thesis package in 
/tex/latex/thesis. My guess is that it loads instead of your thesis.sty 
and/or cls and conflicts 
Renaming your style to uuthesis.sty (and changing the premble 
accordingly) seems to work here 


Hope this helps 

Piersante 




Thanks for the response.  Your diagnosis I believe was correct but fixing it 
wasn’t quite as simple.  Here’s what I did just for the record:

I went to the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex

There I created a folder called “uuthesis” and I place the .cls and .sty files 
in there. In my case the .cls file was named uuthesis and the .sty was named 
thesis.  I changed the .sty to uuthesis so that there wouldn’t be two 
thesis.sty files in the MikTeX database. Once I had those files added I went 
into the MikTeX settings and refreshed FNDB and updated formats (MiKTeX 
settings weren’t easy to find as they aren’t listed under MiKTeX, on both 
windows 7 and 8 I had to use the search function in the start menu and just 
search for “settings” and it came up). Finally, in the preamble of the LyX file 
I renamed the .sty file it was looking for to uuthesis.  Once I did all of that 
the document was able to compile.  

For whatever reason it seems that my installation of LyX on Windows won’t use 
local .sty files and only ones that are in the MiKTeX folders where as on Unix 
based operating systems it will. I don’t know if this is the case for all of 
Windows or not.  All the more reason to use Linux or OS X.

-Steve

Re: LyX+Scilab

[Steve Burnham]

There is a package on CTAN called pythontex that allows you to run python from 
within a document.  I know LyX heavily relies on Python as well and I think I 
have seen mention of people using python code in their documents.  I used to 
use Matlab for data processing but have completely switched over to python so 
I’m pretty sure you could do everything you want to do in python.


-Steve

On January 25, 2015 at 7:00:05 AM, Francesco Menoncin 
(francesco.menon...@unibs.it) wrote:

Dear LyXers,  
I use and I like very much the package Knitr for executing R commands in  
LyX. Nevertheless, R is not so easy to use for big matrix computation. I  
wonder whether there exists a project similar to Knitr but allowing to  
code in LyX in other languages like Scilab, or Octave, or Matlab.  

Thank you  

Francesco  

--  
---  
Francesco Menoncin  
Associate Professor  
University of Brescia  
Department of Economics and Management  
E-mail: francesco.menon...@unibs.it  
Tel. 0039-0302988806  
Fax. 0039-0302988836  
https://sites.google.com/site/francescomenoncin/  
http://www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/  


--  
Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155  

Re: LyX+Scilab

[Steve Burnham]

There is a package on CTAN called pythontex that allows you to run python from 
within a document.  I know LyX heavily relies on Python as well and I think I 
have seen mention of people using python code in their documents.  I used to 
use Matlab for data processing but have completely switched over to python so 
I’m pretty sure you could do everything you want to do in python.


-Steve

On January 25, 2015 at 7:00:05 AM, Francesco Menoncin 
(francesco.menon...@unibs.it) wrote:

Dear LyXers,  
I use and I like very much the package Knitr for executing R commands in  
LyX. Nevertheless, R is not so easy to use for big matrix computation. I  
wonder whether there exists a project similar to Knitr but allowing to  
code in LyX in other languages like Scilab, or Octave, or Matlab.  

Thank you  

Francesco  

--  
---  
Francesco Menoncin  
Associate Professor  
University of Brescia  
Department of Economics and Management  
E-mail: francesco.menon...@unibs.it  
Tel. 0039-0302988806  
Fax. 0039-0302988836  
https://sites.google.com/site/francescomenoncin/  
http://www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/  


--  
Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155  

Re: LyX+Scilab

[Steve Burnham]

There is a package on CTAN called pythontex that allows you to run python from 
within a document.  I know LyX heavily relies on Python as well and I think I 
have seen mention of people using python code in their documents.  I used to 
use Matlab for data processing but have completely switched over to python so 
I’m pretty sure you could do everything you want to do in python.


-Steve

On January 25, 2015 at 7:00:05 AM, Francesco Menoncin 
(francesco.menon...@unibs.it) wrote:

Dear LyXers,  
I use and I like very much the package Knitr for executing R commands in  
LyX. Nevertheless, R is not so easy to use for big matrix computation. I  
wonder whether there exists a project similar to Knitr but allowing to  
code in LyX in other languages like Scilab, or Octave, or Matlab.  

Thank you  

Francesco  

--  
---  
Francesco Menoncin  
Associate Professor  
University of Brescia  
Department of Economics and Management  
E-mail: francesco.menon...@unibs.it  
Tel. 0039-0302988806  
Fax. 0039-0302988836  
https://sites.google.com/site/francescomenoncin/  
http://www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/  


--  
Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155  

Re: about python3 and lyx

[Steve Burnham]

On Nov 26, 2014 10:42 AM, José Matos jama...@lyx.org wrote:

 On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:22:08 Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
  My questions are exclusive (or not)
 
  1.   Is there a plan to move everything to python3 so we can finally
  forget the old python2?

   There is consensus to go that way but we are not there yet. We need to
identify which parts of the code are python2 specific and at least have the
code supporting both versions of python.

 Any help is welcome. :-)

  Or
 
  2.   Is there a way to have both python3 and bundled python version
in
  lyx living together in windows? Any hints?
 
  Best Regards

 Regards,
 --
 José Abílio

Is there any real pressing need to move over to Python 3? I'm a pretty
heavy python user and it just doesn't seem like the scientific community in
general cares about it. I've actually never met anyone who runs anything in
3.  Two of the major python package managers (anaconda and canopy) either
default to 2 or don't even support 3.

-Steve

Re: about python3 and lyx

[Steve Burnham]

On Nov 26, 2014 10:42 AM, José Matos jama...@lyx.org wrote:

 On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:22:08 Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
  My questions are exclusive (or not)
 
  1.   Is there a plan to move everything to python3 so we can finally
  forget the old python2?

   There is consensus to go that way but we are not there yet. We need to
identify which parts of the code are python2 specific and at least have the
code supporting both versions of python.

 Any help is welcome. :-)

  Or
 
  2.   Is there a way to have both python3 and bundled python version
in
  lyx living together in windows? Any hints?
 
  Best Regards

 Regards,
 --
 José Abílio

Is there any real pressing need to move over to Python 3? I'm a pretty
heavy python user and it just doesn't seem like the scientific community in
general cares about it. I've actually never met anyone who runs anything in
3.  Two of the major python package managers (anaconda and canopy) either
default to 2 or don't even support 3.

-Steve

Re: about python3 and lyx

[Steve Burnham]

On Nov 26, 2014 10:42 AM, "José Matos"  wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:22:08 Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
> > My questions are exclusive (or not)
> >
> > 1.   Is there a plan to move everything to python3 so we can finally
> > forget the old python2?
>
>   There is consensus to go that way but we are not there yet. We need to
identify which parts of the code are python2 specific and at least have the
code supporting both versions of python.
>
> Any help is welcome. :-)
>
> > Or
> >
> > 2.   Is there a way to have both python3 and bundled python version
in
> > lyx living together in windows? Any hints?
> >
> > Best Regards
>
> Regards,
> --
> José Abílio

Is there any real pressing need to move over to Python 3? I'm a pretty
heavy python user and it just doesn't seem like the scientific community in
general cares about it. I've actually never met anyone who runs anything in
3.  Two of the major python package managers (anaconda and canopy) either
default to 2 or don't even support 3.

-Steve

Re: Issue with lyx PLEASE HELP

[Steve Burnham]

On Nov 7, 2014 11:15 PM, V N knowledgegal...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hello,
I am running Yosemite and installed the latest lyx dmg file. When
I open up lyx I am given the following prompt:

 The selected document class article(AMS) requires external files that are
not available.
 The document class can still be used, but the document cannot be compiled
until the following prerequisites are installed:

 amsart.cls

 See section 2.1.2.2 (Class Availability) of the User's Guid for more
information.


 After the file opens and I press the eyes to make a pdf, I get the
message:
 The directory path to the document cannot contain spaces.



 I am not a tech guy so although I have read some forums where people had
the issue I still need some step by step advice.

 Can you please HELP?! I need to make pdf's ASAP.

 Thank you for your time.


Are you able to run LyX from the terminal? This sounds like the same
problem we were all having before but running from the terminal worked. It
should have been resolved with the latest version though.

Re: Issue with lyx PLEASE HELP

[Steve Burnham]

On Nov 7, 2014 11:15 PM, V N knowledgegal...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hello,
I am running Yosemite and installed the latest lyx dmg file. When
I open up lyx I am given the following prompt:

 The selected document class article(AMS) requires external files that are
not available.
 The document class can still be used, but the document cannot be compiled
until the following prerequisites are installed:

 amsart.cls

 See section 2.1.2.2 (Class Availability) of the User's Guid for more
information.


 After the file opens and I press the eyes to make a pdf, I get the
message:
 The directory path to the document cannot contain spaces.



 I am not a tech guy so although I have read some forums where people had
the issue I still need some step by step advice.

 Can you please HELP?! I need to make pdf's ASAP.

 Thank you for your time.


Are you able to run LyX from the terminal? This sounds like the same
problem we were all having before but running from the terminal worked. It
should have been resolved with the latest version though.

Re: Issue with lyx PLEASE HELP

[Steve Burnham]

On Nov 7, 2014 11:15 PM, "V N"  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>I am running Yosemite and installed the latest lyx dmg file. When
I open up lyx I am given the following prompt:
>
> The selected document class article(AMS) requires external files that are
not available.
> The document class can still be used, but the document cannot be compiled
until the following prerequisites are installed:
>
> amsart.cls
>
> See section 2.1.2.2 (Class Availability) of the User's Guid for more
information.
>
>
> After the file opens and I press the eyes to make a pdf, I get the
message:
> The directory path to the document cannot contain spaces.
>
>
>
> I am not a tech guy so although I have read some forums where people had
the issue I still need some step by step advice.
>
> Can you please HELP?! I need to make pdf's ASAP.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>

Are you able to run LyX from the terminal? This sounds like the same
problem we were all having before but running from the terminal worked. It
should have been resolved with the latest version though.

Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite

[Steve Burnham]

On October 21, 2014 at 09:13:48 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote:
Starting LyX from the terminal once or twice, and each time using preview from 
LyX fixes the problem.  

Hal  

On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote:  

 Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb Anders Host-Madsen ahostmad...@yahoo.coma:  
  
 After I upgraded to Yosemite, instant preview of math no longer works.  
 Is that a general issue?  
  
 Yes, seems so. At least you aren't the first one who reports this on this 
 list.  
  
 Stephan  


What kinds of errors are you all getting when preview fails?  I can confirm 
that running LyX from the terminal seems to run just fine.  I’ve run it 5 times 
now each time using the preview function but still when I start up LyX normally 
preview does not function.  I’m attaching a screen shot of the error.

-Steve

Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite

[Steve Burnham]

On October 21, 2014 at 09:13:48 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote:
Starting LyX from the terminal once or twice, and each time using preview from 
LyX fixes the problem.  

Hal  

On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote:  

 Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb Anders Host-Madsen ahostmad...@yahoo.coma:  
  
 After I upgraded to Yosemite, instant preview of math no longer works.  
 Is that a general issue?  
  
 Yes, seems so. At least you aren't the first one who reports this on this 
 list.  
  
 Stephan  


What kinds of errors are you all getting when preview fails?  I can confirm 
that running LyX from the terminal seems to run just fine.  I’ve run it 5 times 
now each time using the preview function but still when I start up LyX normally 
preview does not function.  I’m attaching a screen shot of the error.

-Steve

Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite

[Steve Burnham]

On October 21, 2014 at 09:13:48 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote:
Starting LyX from the terminal once or twice, and each time using preview from 
LyX fixes the problem.  

Hal  

On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Stephan Witt  wrote:  

> Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb Anders Host-Madsen   
>> After I upgraded to Yosemite, instant preview of math no longer works.  
>> Is that a general issue?  
>  
> Yes, seems so. At least you aren't the first one who reports this on this 
> list.  
>  
> Stephan  


What kinds of errors are you all getting when preview fails?  I can confirm 
that running LyX from the terminal seems to run just fine.  I’ve run it 5 times 
now each time using the preview function but still when I start up LyX normally 
preview does not function.  I’m attaching a screen shot of the error.

-Steve

Re: Yosemite + LyX

[Steve Burnham]

On October 18, 2014 at 10:37:54 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote:

 On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: 
 
 Am 18.10.2014 um 17:28 schrieb Hal Kierstead hal.kierst...@me.com: 
 
 I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work for me. 
 I cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them to LaTex and then 
 compile them with LaTex. This must be some path problem, but I do not know 
 how to deal with it. Any help would be appreciated. 
 
 To diagnose the problem open the messages pane (View menu) and look for error 
 messages. 
 If there is none then enable the log output for graphics conversion. 
 
 Post the contents here if the solution for the problem isn't obvious. 
 
 Stephan 

Stephan - 

Thanks for the attention. This is what I got. Maybe it should be obvious what 
to do, but its mostly gibberish to me. 

Hal 

Warning: Document class not available 


If it helps I am also running 10.10 and have had similar problems where none of 
my document classes are available.  When I upgraded to Yosemite I also updated 
my MacTeX distribution from 2013 to 2014 so the problem might have less to do 
with OS X 10.10 and more to do with updating TeX.  I haven’t had a lot of time 
yet to try and diagnose the problem but I have tried opening up LyX and doing a 
rebuild as well as ensuring that the classes are available in my TeX folder.







I

Re: Yosemite + LyX

[Steve Burnham]

On October 18, 2014 at 10:37:54 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote:

 On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: 
 
 Am 18.10.2014 um 17:28 schrieb Hal Kierstead hal.kierst...@me.com: 
 
 I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work for me. 
 I cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them to LaTex and then 
 compile them with LaTex. This must be some path problem, but I do not know 
 how to deal with it. Any help would be appreciated. 
 
 To diagnose the problem open the messages pane (View menu) and look for error 
 messages. 
 If there is none then enable the log output for graphics conversion. 
 
 Post the contents here if the solution for the problem isn't obvious. 
 
 Stephan 

Stephan - 

Thanks for the attention. This is what I got. Maybe it should be obvious what 
to do, but its mostly gibberish to me. 

Hal 

Warning: Document class not available 


If it helps I am also running 10.10 and have had similar problems where none of 
my document classes are available.  When I upgraded to Yosemite I also updated 
my MacTeX distribution from 2013 to 2014 so the problem might have less to do 
with OS X 10.10 and more to do with updating TeX.  I haven’t had a lot of time 
yet to try and diagnose the problem but I have tried opening up LyX and doing a 
rebuild as well as ensuring that the classes are available in my TeX folder.







I

Re: Yosemite + LyX

[Steve Burnham]

On October 18, 2014 at 10:37:54 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Stephan Witt  wrote: 
> 
> Am 18.10.2014 um 17:28 schrieb Hal Kierstead : 
> 
>> I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work for me. 
>> I cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them to LaTex and then 
>> compile them with LaTex. This must be some path problem, but I do not know 
>> how to deal with it. Any help would be appreciated. 
> 
> To diagnose the problem open the messages pane (View menu) and look for error 
> messages. 
> If there is none then enable the log output for graphics conversion. 
> 
> Post the contents here if the solution for the problem isn't obvious. 
> 
> Stephan 

Stephan - 

Thanks for the attention. This is what I got. Maybe it should be obvious what 
to do, but its mostly gibberish to me. 

Hal 

Warning: Document class not available 


If it helps I am also running 10.10 and have had similar problems where none of 
my document classes are available.  When I upgraded to Yosemite I also updated 
my MacTeX distribution from 2013 to 2014 so the problem might have less to do 
with OS X 10.10 and more to do with updating TeX.  I haven’t had a lot of time 
yet to try and diagnose the problem but I have tried opening up LyX and doing a 
rebuild as well as ensuring that the classes are available in my TeX folder.







I

Re: Is LyX 2.1.1 compatible with Mac OS X Yosemite?

[Steve Burnham]

On October 17, 2014 at 13:32:35 PM, Daisuke Koya (dk...@mac.com) wrote:

Hello all, 

Can someone please tell me whether LyX 2.1.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.10 
(Yosemite)? 

Thank you very much, 

Daisuke


I’m running 10.10 but with LyX 2.1.2.  Is there any reason you’re still on 
2.1.1?  There was a pretty big bug squashed in 2.1.2 related to data loss.



-Steve

Re: Is LyX 2.1.1 compatible with Mac OS X Yosemite?

[Steve Burnham]

On October 17, 2014 at 13:32:35 PM, Daisuke Koya (dk...@mac.com) wrote:

Hello all, 

Can someone please tell me whether LyX 2.1.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.10 
(Yosemite)? 

Thank you very much, 

Daisuke


I’m running 10.10 but with LyX 2.1.2.  Is there any reason you’re still on 
2.1.1?  There was a pretty big bug squashed in 2.1.2 related to data loss.



-Steve

Re: Is LyX 2.1.1 compatible with Mac OS X Yosemite?

[Steve Burnham]

On October 17, 2014 at 13:32:35 PM, Daisuke Koya (dk...@mac.com) wrote:

Hello all, 

Can someone please tell me whether LyX 2.1.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.10 
(Yosemite)? 

Thank you very much, 

Daisuke


I’m running 10.10 but with LyX 2.1.2.  Is there any reason you’re still on 
2.1.1?  There was a pretty big bug squashed in 2.1.2 related to data loss.



-Steve

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Steve Burnham]

I assume you are using MacTeX? What version? It really sounds like
something is messed up with the install. Have you tried uninstalling and
then reinstalling everything with the latest versions?

-Steve
On Sep 24, 2014 8:45 AM, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Anders,

 Yes, I did.
 When I select New File, error pops up saying
 The layout file:article could not be found.
 A default textclass with default layouts will be used.
 LyX will not be able to produce correct output.

 I cannot figure out what should I do.

 Thanks for your reply.

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Steve Burnham]

I assume you are using MacTeX? What version? It really sounds like
something is messed up with the install. Have you tried uninstalling and
then reinstalling everything with the latest versions?

-Steve
On Sep 24, 2014 8:45 AM, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Anders,

 Yes, I did.
 When I select New File, error pops up saying
 The layout file:article could not be found.
 A default textclass with default layouts will be used.
 LyX will not be able to produce correct output.

 I cannot figure out what should I do.

 Thanks for your reply.

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Steve Burnham]

I assume you are using MacTeX? What version? It really sounds like
something is messed up with the install. Have you tried uninstalling and
then reinstalling everything with the latest versions?

-Steve
On Sep 24, 2014 8:45 AM, "Taimur"  wrote:

> Hi Anders,
>
> Yes, I did.
> When I select New File, error pops up saying
> "The layout file:article could not be found.
> A default textclass with default layouts will be used.
> LyX will not be able to produce correct output".
>
> I cannot figure out what should I do.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
>
>
>

Re: erratic spacing between tables and figures

[Steve Burnham]

On June 5, 2014 at 08:21:26 AM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) 
wrote:
Yea. Check your floats. Make sure that they are marked as here definitely. 
Also you might want to add a \vfill before and after the picture. Also, make 
your pictures bigger unless you can't but try to. Bigger pictures are always 
better. 

~Ben


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:
2014-06-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:

I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I 
can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place each table and 
figure on their own separate page.  The problem is I try going to 
insertformattingnew page and also page break in between the two figures or 
tables but LyX seems to just ignore the command  and still formats the two 
figures on the same page.  I have also tried going the ERT route by adding both 
\pagebreak and \newpage but LyX also seems to ignore those commands as well. 
What am I doing wrong?  I have a link for a zip file with a minimal example 
that includes the needed class file as well.

Does this help?
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22191/forcing-a-figure-strictly-on-a-separate-page

Jürgen



I was able to fix it using a combination of what Ben suggested and some other 
information on the link Jurgen supplied.  The direct solution in the link 
resulted in errors but I found some other mentions of adding a clear page.  So 
I added a clear page between all figures and tables and then going off of Ben's 
suggestion I changed default placement to “top of page” rather then here 
definitely.  This successfully gives every table and figure its own page. 
Thanks so much for the help!

-Steve

Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

[Steve Burnham]

I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry 
incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed 
after the question mark.  I need to remove this period but am I having 
difficulty doing so.  I found this solution

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/181130/remove-question-mark-following-period-for-reference-title-in-pdf-using-vancouve

I tried to implement it by adding the \killpunct after the question mark in my 
.bib file and then added \newcommand{\killpunct}[1]{} to my preamble.  Upon 
compilation I get an error that there is a built in limit of 9 arguments.  
Searching around it seems like there are some fixes to overcome this limitation 
but nothing straightforward and all involve lots of programming in LaTeX, which 
I am not comfortable with.  Is there any easy fix to remove the offending 
period?

-- 
Steve Burnham

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

[Steve Burnham]

On June 5, 2014 at 18:22:45 PM, Jacob Bishop (bishop.ja...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry 
incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed 
after the question mark.  I need to remove this period

I realize this does not directly solve what you want to do, but I believe it is 
relevant. Are you *sure* that you need to remove the period? I believe it's 
worth asking. I have on occasion worked hard attempting to do something 
(sometimes succeeding, sometimes not) with a package that I actually did not 
need to do. As an example, I was very frustrated recently because I *needed* to 
place the full author list in the text for an article which had seven authors. 
I wrestled around with it for a while before finally checking the APA manual. 
It turns out, you're actually not supposed to list all seven authors in the 
text, but instead use et al., even for the first instance they are cited. This 
was a bit weird to me, but it turned out that what I *needed* to do did not 
actually *need* to be done. I know that APA says you put a period after the 
title of the article. This rule technically holds, even if there is a question 
mark in the title, and even if it looks weird. I don't know about vancover, but 
I think it's worth checking. Do you really *need* to remove that period?

Jacob


This is a good question and one I actually had to ask myself this afternoon.  I 
had to turn in a draft to the thesis editor today in order to comply with their 
deadlines so I was trying to figure out if the period could be there.  
Ultimately, I never figured it out but what I do know is I have to make 
whatever formatting changes my thesis editor tells me to and that was one of 
them.  So I actually decided to just go with the period and try to justify it, 
but when I got on the computer to print I noticed there was Adobe Acrobat Pro 
available which lets me edit pdf files.  So I just opened up the thesis 
document and deleted the period manually before printing.  I never replied with 
my fix hoping there is/would be a proper fix for the issue.  I’m sure there is 
one (it seems there always is) but it is probably more work than it is worth as 
opposed to just opening it up in Acrobat pro.  Citations can be a real pain 
though, I’m sure you realized that quickly writing your thesis and dissertation.

-Steve

Re: error

[Steve Burnham]

Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 9:08 PM 
From: Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com 
To: Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com, lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Subject: Re: error 

On June 5, 2014 at 12:50:35 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote: 

  
Hello,  

Can somebody tell me what is wrong in this file?  
There 2 issues,  
with the figure and with the bibliography!  

Thank.  


===  
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com  
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |  
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |  
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44  
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France  
===  

  
I don’t know if this is an acceptable solution for you but when I convert the 
.eps file to a .jpg and insert that instead it complies properly.  I’ve 
attached the .jpg if you would like it.  I don’t see any problems with the 
bibliography. 
  
-Steve 
On June 5, 2014 at 15:09:08 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote:


Hello,  
   
Why I need to use epstopdf  
How can I avoid to use epstopdf. I have an eps file, there is not point to 
convert it!  
   
Thank.  
   
===  
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com  
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |  
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |  
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44  
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France  
===  
   
   


This is probably a question better suited for a LyX developer to answer but I 
would assume that unless you have used .eps files successfully before then LyX 
isn’t able to handle them and doesn’t know what they are.  I don’t know what 
operating system you are using but on OSX and Windows there are very simple to 
use screen capture tools where you can just open up the file and draw a box 
around the picture and it creates a .jpg file.  I run OSX and this is what I 
did with your file (Cmd+Shift+4). 

-Steve

Re: erratic spacing between tables and figures

[Steve Burnham]

On June 5, 2014 at 08:21:26 AM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) 
wrote:
Yea. Check your floats. Make sure that they are marked as here definitely. 
Also you might want to add a \vfill before and after the picture. Also, make 
your pictures bigger unless you can't but try to. Bigger pictures are always 
better. 

~Ben


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:
2014-06-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:

I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I 
can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place each table and 
figure on their own separate page.  The problem is I try going to 
insertformattingnew page and also page break in between the two figures or 
tables but LyX seems to just ignore the command  and still formats the two 
figures on the same page.  I have also tried going the ERT route by adding both 
\pagebreak and \newpage but LyX also seems to ignore those commands as well. 
What am I doing wrong?  I have a link for a zip file with a minimal example 
that includes the needed class file as well.

Does this help?
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22191/forcing-a-figure-strictly-on-a-separate-page

Jürgen



I was able to fix it using a combination of what Ben suggested and some other 
information on the link Jurgen supplied.  The direct solution in the link 
resulted in errors but I found some other mentions of adding a clear page.  So 
I added a clear page between all figures and tables and then going off of Ben's 
suggestion I changed default placement to “top of page” rather then here 
definitely.  This successfully gives every table and figure its own page. 
Thanks so much for the help!

-Steve

Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

[Steve Burnham]

I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry 
incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed 
after the question mark.  I need to remove this period but am I having 
difficulty doing so.  I found this solution

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/181130/remove-question-mark-following-period-for-reference-title-in-pdf-using-vancouve

I tried to implement it by adding the \killpunct after the question mark in my 
.bib file and then added \newcommand{\killpunct}[1]{} to my preamble.  Upon 
compilation I get an error that there is a built in limit of 9 arguments.  
Searching around it seems like there are some fixes to overcome this limitation 
but nothing straightforward and all involve lots of programming in LaTeX, which 
I am not comfortable with.  Is there any easy fix to remove the offending 
period?

-- 
Steve Burnham

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

[Steve Burnham]

On June 5, 2014 at 18:22:45 PM, Jacob Bishop (bishop.ja...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry 
incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed 
after the question mark.  I need to remove this period

I realize this does not directly solve what you want to do, but I believe it is 
relevant. Are you *sure* that you need to remove the period? I believe it's 
worth asking. I have on occasion worked hard attempting to do something 
(sometimes succeeding, sometimes not) with a package that I actually did not 
need to do. As an example, I was very frustrated recently because I *needed* to 
place the full author list in the text for an article which had seven authors. 
I wrestled around with it for a while before finally checking the APA manual. 
It turns out, you're actually not supposed to list all seven authors in the 
text, but instead use et al., even for the first instance they are cited. This 
was a bit weird to me, but it turned out that what I *needed* to do did not 
actually *need* to be done. I know that APA says you put a period after the 
title of the article. This rule technically holds, even if there is a question 
mark in the title, and even if it looks weird. I don't know about vancover, but 
I think it's worth checking. Do you really *need* to remove that period?

Jacob


This is a good question and one I actually had to ask myself this afternoon.  I 
had to turn in a draft to the thesis editor today in order to comply with their 
deadlines so I was trying to figure out if the period could be there.  
Ultimately, I never figured it out but what I do know is I have to make 
whatever formatting changes my thesis editor tells me to and that was one of 
them.  So I actually decided to just go with the period and try to justify it, 
but when I got on the computer to print I noticed there was Adobe Acrobat Pro 
available which lets me edit pdf files.  So I just opened up the thesis 
document and deleted the period manually before printing.  I never replied with 
my fix hoping there is/would be a proper fix for the issue.  I’m sure there is 
one (it seems there always is) but it is probably more work than it is worth as 
opposed to just opening it up in Acrobat pro.  Citations can be a real pain 
though, I’m sure you realized that quickly writing your thesis and dissertation.

-Steve

Re: error

[Steve Burnham]

Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 9:08 PM 
From: Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com 
To: Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com, lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Subject: Re: error 

On June 5, 2014 at 12:50:35 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote: 

  
Hello,  

Can somebody tell me what is wrong in this file?  
There 2 issues,  
with the figure and with the bibliography!  

Thank.  


===  
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com  
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |  
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |  
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44  
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France  
===  

  
I don’t know if this is an acceptable solution for you but when I convert the 
.eps file to a .jpg and insert that instead it complies properly.  I’ve 
attached the .jpg if you would like it.  I don’t see any problems with the 
bibliography. 
  
-Steve 
On June 5, 2014 at 15:09:08 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote:


Hello,  
   
Why I need to use epstopdf  
How can I avoid to use epstopdf. I have an eps file, there is not point to 
convert it!  
   
Thank.  
   
===  
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com  
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |  
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |  
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44  
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France  
===  
   
   


This is probably a question better suited for a LyX developer to answer but I 
would assume that unless you have used .eps files successfully before then LyX 
isn’t able to handle them and doesn’t know what they are.  I don’t know what 
operating system you are using but on OSX and Windows there are very simple to 
use screen capture tools where you can just open up the file and draw a box 
around the picture and it creates a .jpg file.  I run OSX and this is what I 
did with your file (Cmd+Shift+4). 

-Steve

Re: erratic spacing between tables and figures

[Steve Burnham]

On June 5, 2014 at 08:21:26 AM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) 
wrote:
Yea. Check your floats. Make sure that they are marked as "here definitely". 
Also you might want to add a \vfill before and after the picture. Also, make 
your pictures bigger unless you can't but try to. Bigger pictures are always 
better. 

~Ben


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
2014-06-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:

I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I 
can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place each table and 
figure on their own separate page.  The problem is I try going to 
insert>formatting>new page and also page break in between the two figures or 
tables but LyX seems to just ignore the command  and still formats the two 
figures on the same page.  I have also tried going the ERT route by adding both 
\pagebreak and \newpage but LyX also seems to ignore those commands as well. 
What am I doing wrong?  I have a link for a zip file with a minimal example 
that includes the needed class file as well.

Does this help?
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22191/forcing-a-figure-strictly-on-a-separate-page

Jürgen



I was able to fix it using a combination of what Ben suggested and some other 
information on the link Jurgen supplied.  The direct solution in the link 
resulted in errors but I found some other mentions of adding a clear page.  So 
I added a clear page between all figures and tables and then going off of Ben's 
suggestion I changed default placement to “top of page” rather then here 
definitely.  This successfully gives every table and figure its own page. 
Thanks so much for the help!

-Steve

Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

[Steve Burnham]

I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry 
incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed 
after the question mark.  I need to remove this period but am I having 
difficulty doing so.  I found this solution

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/181130/remove-question-mark-following-period-for-reference-title-in-pdf-using-vancouve

I tried to implement it by adding the \killpunct after the question mark in my 
.bib file and then added \newcommand{\killpunct}[1]{} to my preamble.  Upon 
compilation I get an error that there is a built in limit of 9 arguments.  
Searching around it seems like there are some fixes to overcome this limitation 
but nothing straightforward and all involve lots of programming in LaTeX, which 
I am not comfortable with.  Is there any easy fix to remove the offending 
period?

-- 
Steve Burnham

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

[Steve Burnham]

On June 5, 2014 at 18:22:45 PM, Jacob Bishop (bishop.ja...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry 
incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed 
after the question mark.  I need to remove this period

I realize this does not directly solve what you want to do, but I believe it is 
relevant. Are you *sure* that you need to remove the period? I believe it's 
worth asking. I have on occasion worked hard attempting to do something 
(sometimes succeeding, sometimes not) with a package that I actually did not 
need to do. As an example, I was very frustrated recently because I *needed* to 
place the full author list in the text for an article which had seven authors. 
I wrestled around with it for a while before finally checking the APA manual. 
It turns out, you're actually not supposed to list all seven authors in the 
text, but instead use et al., even for the first instance they are cited. This 
was a bit weird to me, but it turned out that what I *needed* to do did not 
actually *need* to be done. I know that APA says you put a period after the 
title of the article. This rule technically holds, even if there is a question 
mark in the title, and even if it looks weird. I don't know about vancover, but 
I think it's worth checking. Do you really *need* to remove that period?

Jacob


This is a good question and one I actually had to ask myself this afternoon.  I 
had to turn in a draft to the thesis editor today in order to comply with their 
deadlines so I was trying to figure out if the period could be there.  
Ultimately, I never figured it out but what I do know is I have to make 
whatever formatting changes my thesis editor tells me to and that was one of 
them.  So I actually decided to just go with the period and try to justify it, 
but when I got on the computer to print I noticed there was Adobe Acrobat Pro 
available which lets me edit pdf files.  So I just opened up the thesis 
document and deleted the period manually before printing.  I never replied with 
my fix hoping there is/would be a proper fix for the issue.  I’m sure there is 
one (it seems there always is) but it is probably more work than it is worth as 
opposed to just opening it up in Acrobat pro.  Citations can be a real pain 
though, I’m sure you realized that quickly writing your thesis and dissertation.

-Steve

Re: error

[Steve Burnham]

Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 9:08 PM 
From: "Steve Burnham" <dan...@gmail.com> 
To: "Patrick Dupre" <pdu...@gmx.com>, lyx <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> 
Subject: Re: error 

On June 5, 2014 at 12:50:35 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote: 

  
Hello,  

Can somebody tell me what is wrong in this file?  
There 2 issues,  
with the figure and with the bibliography!  

Thank.  


===  
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com  
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |  
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |  
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44  
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France  
===  

  
I don’t know if this is an acceptable solution for you but when I convert the 
.eps file to a .jpg and insert that instead it complies properly.  I’ve 
attached the .jpg if you would like it.  I don’t see any problems with the 
bibliography. 
  
-Steve 
On June 5, 2014 at 15:09:08 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote:


Hello,  
   
Why I need to use epstopdf  
How can I avoid to use epstopdf. I have an eps file, there is not point to 
convert it!  
   
Thank.  
   
===  
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com  
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |  
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |  
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44  
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France  
===  
   
   


This is probably a question better suited for a LyX developer to answer but I 
would assume that unless you have used .eps files successfully before then LyX 
isn’t able to handle them and doesn’t know what they are.  I don’t know what 
operating system you are using but on OSX and Windows there are very simple to 
use screen capture tools where you can just open up the file and draw a box 
around the picture and it creates a .jpg file.  I run OSX and this is what I 
did with your file (Cmd+Shift+4). 

-Steve

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 3, 2014 at 17:26:57 PM, PhilipPirrip (p...@net.hr) wrote:

Use  
Insert  Formatting  Vertical space instead of just adding empty lines.  
Then, VFill is a stretchable vertical space that could help you keep the  
things on one page.  


This would work if the cover page was actually written in LyX but instead it is 
defined in the class file.  I specify the degree type in the preamble .  I 
manage to remove the blank page being created but the way the degree is defined 
in the class I am not sure how to break it up.

      {
        \vss
        A \@thesistype ~submitted to the faculty of\\ 
        The University of Utah\\ 
        in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
        \vss
      }
      \@degree \\

You can see the \@degree\\ simply takes what is written in the preamble and 
pastes in there as one line rather than “Master of Science” double space “In” 
double space “Nuclear Engineering”  I managed to get it formatted properly by 
adding the following in the class file after \@degree \\

 \@degree \\
  \mbox{} \\
  in \\
  \mbox{} \\
  Nuclear Engineering \\
  \mbox{} \\

I would like to make this a little more robust and allow for others to use the 
class file without having to edit it as much as I have.  In the preamble I 
specify the degree by entering after the \degree{} entry so I tried to add 
something like \degreein{} where someone can enter the information and replaced 
“Nuclear Engineering” in the class file with \@degreein but I get compile 
errors.  Is there a better way to go about this?

-Steve

erratic spacing between tables and figures

[Steve Burnham]

I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I 
can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place each table and 
figure on their own separate page.  The problem is I try going to 
insertformattingnew page and also page break in between the two figures or 
tables but LyX seems to just ignore the command  and still formats the two 
figures on the same page.  I have also tried going the ERT route by adding both 
\pagebreak and \newpage but LyX also seems to ignore those commands as well. 
What am I doing wrong?  I have a link for a zip file with a minimal example 
that includes the needed class file as well.

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GdXRmSXFiOWVIcWcexport=download
 
-- 
Steve Burnham

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 4, 2014 at 15:32:27 PM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) 
wrote:
Would you be willing to do this in ERT? I find that the first page, cover page, 
etc. are notoriously difficult to get correctly specified in Lyx. The ERT would 
be someting like
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/819/double-line-spacing

Also, it might be linebreak but I think it should be newline. Honestly, I find 
that if I have to edit or modify class files and the like, I just find a 
library to do it for me and write it up in latex. It seems to be much easier 
that way. 

\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{centering}
\doublespacing

Masters of Science \newline
in \newline
Nuclear Engineering \newline

\end{centering}

~Ben




I have no problem going the ERT route, especially since it is scattered all 
throughout my document.  Implementing this looks like it works though.  Hard to 
know exactly if the spacing is correct until I print it out and measure it like 
the thesis editors but all appears correct.

-Steve

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 3, 2014 at 17:26:57 PM, PhilipPirrip (p...@net.hr) wrote:

Use  
Insert  Formatting  Vertical space instead of just adding empty lines.  
Then, VFill is a stretchable vertical space that could help you keep the  
things on one page.  


This would work if the cover page was actually written in LyX but instead it is 
defined in the class file.  I specify the degree type in the preamble .  I 
manage to remove the blank page being created but the way the degree is defined 
in the class I am not sure how to break it up.

      {
        \vss
        A \@thesistype ~submitted to the faculty of\\ 
        The University of Utah\\ 
        in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
        \vss
      }
      \@degree \\

You can see the \@degree\\ simply takes what is written in the preamble and 
pastes in there as one line rather than “Master of Science” double space “In” 
double space “Nuclear Engineering”  I managed to get it formatted properly by 
adding the following in the class file after \@degree \\

 \@degree \\
  \mbox{} \\
  in \\
  \mbox{} \\
  Nuclear Engineering \\
  \mbox{} \\

I would like to make this a little more robust and allow for others to use the 
class file without having to edit it as much as I have.  In the preamble I 
specify the degree by entering after the \degree{} entry so I tried to add 
something like \degreein{} where someone can enter the information and replaced 
“Nuclear Engineering” in the class file with \@degreein but I get compile 
errors.  Is there a better way to go about this?

-Steve

erratic spacing between tables and figures

[Steve Burnham]

I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I 
can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place each table and 
figure on their own separate page.  The problem is I try going to 
insertformattingnew page and also page break in between the two figures or 
tables but LyX seems to just ignore the command  and still formats the two 
figures on the same page.  I have also tried going the ERT route by adding both 
\pagebreak and \newpage but LyX also seems to ignore those commands as well. 
What am I doing wrong?  I have a link for a zip file with a minimal example 
that includes the needed class file as well.

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GdXRmSXFiOWVIcWcexport=download
 
-- 
Steve Burnham

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 4, 2014 at 15:32:27 PM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) 
wrote:
Would you be willing to do this in ERT? I find that the first page, cover page, 
etc. are notoriously difficult to get correctly specified in Lyx. The ERT would 
be someting like
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/819/double-line-spacing

Also, it might be linebreak but I think it should be newline. Honestly, I find 
that if I have to edit or modify class files and the like, I just find a 
library to do it for me and write it up in latex. It seems to be much easier 
that way. 

\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{centering}
\doublespacing

Masters of Science \newline
in \newline
Nuclear Engineering \newline

\end{centering}

~Ben




I have no problem going the ERT route, especially since it is scattered all 
throughout my document.  Implementing this looks like it works though.  Hard to 
know exactly if the spacing is correct until I print it out and measure it like 
the thesis editors but all appears correct.

-Steve

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 3, 2014 at 17:26:57 PM, PhilipPirrip (p...@net.hr) wrote:

Use  
Insert > Formatting > Vertical space instead of just adding empty lines.  
Then, VFill is a stretchable vertical space that could help you keep the  
things on one page.  


This would work if the cover page was actually written in LyX but instead it is 
defined in the class file.  I specify the degree type in the preamble .  I 
manage to remove the blank page being created but the way the degree is defined 
in the class I am not sure how to break it up.

      {
        \vss
        A \@thesistype ~submitted to the faculty of\\ 
        The University of Utah\\ 
        in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
        \vss
      }
      \@degree \\

You can see the \@degree\\ simply takes what is written in the preamble and 
pastes in there as one line rather than “Master of Science” double space “In” 
double space “Nuclear Engineering”  I managed to get it formatted properly by 
adding the following in the class file after \@degree \\

 \@degree \\
  \mbox{} \\
  in \\
  \mbox{} \\
  Nuclear Engineering \\
  \mbox{} \\

I would like to make this a little more robust and allow for others to use the 
class file without having to edit it as much as I have.  In the preamble I 
specify the degree by entering after the \degree{} entry so I tried to add 
something like \degreein{} where someone can enter the information and replaced 
“Nuclear Engineering” in the class file with \@degreein but I get compile 
errors.  Is there a better way to go about this?

-Steve

erratic spacing between tables and figures

[Steve Burnham]

I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I 
can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place each table and 
figure on their own separate page.  The problem is I try going to 
insert>formatting>new page and also page break in between the two figures or 
tables but LyX seems to just ignore the command  and still formats the two 
figures on the same page.  I have also tried going the ERT route by adding both 
\pagebreak and \newpage but LyX also seems to ignore those commands as well. 
What am I doing wrong?  I have a link for a zip file with a minimal example 
that includes the needed class file as well.

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GdXRmSXFiOWVIcWc=download
 
-- 
Steve Burnham

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 4, 2014 at 15:32:27 PM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) 
wrote:
Would you be willing to do this in ERT? I find that the first page, cover page, 
etc. are notoriously difficult to get correctly specified in Lyx. The ERT would 
be someting like
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/819/double-line-spacing

Also, it might be linebreak but I think it should be newline. Honestly, I find 
that if I have to edit or modify class files and the like, I just find a 
library to do it for me and write it up in latex. It seems to be much easier 
that way. 

\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{centering}
\doublespacing

Masters of Science \newline
in \newline
Nuclear Engineering \newline

\end{centering}

~Ben




I have no problem going the ERT route, especially since it is scattered all 
throughout my document.  Implementing this looks like it works though.  Hard to 
know exactly if the spacing is correct until I print it out and measure it like 
the thesis editors but all appears correct.

-Steve

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 3, 2014 at 11:25:06 AM, Steve Burnham (dan...@gmail.com) wrote:

I am working through some formatting revisions from my thesis office and have a 
couple of initial questions:

1.  My degree on the cover page was originally written on one line but it is 
supposed to use three lines and double spaced.  I have it set to three lines 
now but cannot get it double spaced.  Also, when I move it to three lines a new 
blank page is created at the beginning of the document causing the title page 
to become a numbered page.  Instead, the vertical whitespace surrounding the 
degree title should simply be reduced to accommodate.  


I tried to fix this by adding \begin{doublespace} and \end{doublespace} around 
the degree title in the preamble but this resulted in errors so I am still 
stuck on this one.





2.  I have a numbered list where the spacing between each number is greater 
than the spacing of the rest of the document.  The space before the first 
number and after each subsequent number should be the same double space as the 
rest of the document and the double spacing occurring within each numbered 
item.  It looks like I should use the Enumitem package to fix this but I’m only 
finding examples on how to use it to change horizontal spacing, not vertical.  
Could someone help with this?  
I managed to fix this one after some more lengthy searching.  I added the 
following to my preamble:

\usepackage{enumitem} 
\setlist{nolistsep}   
 
% no big dumb spaces inbetween list items   
\let\oldenumerate=\enumerate  
\def\enumerate{%  
%\vspace{-5mm}
\oldenumerate%
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\parskip}{-1pt}%
}
 
% no big dumb spaces inbetween list items   
\let\olditemize=\itemize  
\def\itemize{%
\olditemize%  
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\parskip}{-1pt}%
}


-Steve

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 3, 2014 at 11:25:06 AM, Steve Burnham (dan...@gmail.com) wrote:

I am working through some formatting revisions from my thesis office and have a 
couple of initial questions:

1.  My degree on the cover page was originally written on one line but it is 
supposed to use three lines and double spaced.  I have it set to three lines 
now but cannot get it double spaced.  Also, when I move it to three lines a new 
blank page is created at the beginning of the document causing the title page 
to become a numbered page.  Instead, the vertical whitespace surrounding the 
degree title should simply be reduced to accommodate.  


I tried to fix this by adding \begin{doublespace} and \end{doublespace} around 
the degree title in the preamble but this resulted in errors so I am still 
stuck on this one.





2.  I have a numbered list where the spacing between each number is greater 
than the spacing of the rest of the document.  The space before the first 
number and after each subsequent number should be the same double space as the 
rest of the document and the double spacing occurring within each numbered 
item.  It looks like I should use the Enumitem package to fix this but I’m only 
finding examples on how to use it to change horizontal spacing, not vertical.  
Could someone help with this?  
I managed to fix this one after some more lengthy searching.  I added the 
following to my preamble:

\usepackage{enumitem} 
\setlist{nolistsep}   
 
% no big dumb spaces inbetween list items   
\let\oldenumerate=\enumerate  
\def\enumerate{%  
%\vspace{-5mm}
\oldenumerate%
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\parskip}{-1pt}%
}
 
% no big dumb spaces inbetween list items   
\let\olditemize=\itemize  
\def\itemize{%
\olditemize%  
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\parskip}{-1pt}%
}


-Steve

Re: Thesis formatting

[Steve Burnham]

On June 3, 2014 at 11:25:06 AM, Steve Burnham (dan...@gmail.com) wrote:

I am working through some formatting revisions from my thesis office and have a 
couple of initial questions:

1.  My degree on the cover page was originally written on one line but it is 
supposed to use three lines and double spaced.  I have it set to three lines 
now but cannot get it double spaced.  Also, when I move it to three lines a new 
blank page is created at the beginning of the document causing the title page 
to become a numbered page.  Instead, the vertical whitespace surrounding the 
degree title should simply be reduced to accommodate.  


I tried to fix this by adding \begin{doublespace} and \end{doublespace} around 
the degree title in the preamble but this resulted in errors so I am still 
stuck on this one.





2.  I have a numbered list where the spacing between each number is greater 
than the spacing of the rest of the document.  The space before the first 
number and after each subsequent number should be the same double space as the 
rest of the document and the double spacing occurring within each numbered 
item.  It looks like I should use the Enumitem package to fix this but I’m only 
finding examples on how to use it to change horizontal spacing, not vertical.  
Could someone help with this?  
I managed to fix this one after some more lengthy searching.  I added the 
following to my preamble:

\usepackage{enumitem} 
\setlist{nolistsep}   
 
% no big dumb spaces inbetween list items   
\let\oldenumerate=\enumerate  
\def\enumerate{%  
%\vspace{-5mm}
\oldenumerate%
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\parskip}{-1pt}%
}
 
% no big dumb spaces inbetween list items   
\let\olditemize=\itemize  
\def\itemize{%
\olditemize%  
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\parskip}{-1pt}%
}


-Steve

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

On May 17, 2014 at 02:08:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:
2014-05-16 23:49 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.  
All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than 
the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.  
If I highlight the text and right click and go to text style I can unbold the 
chapter title and section title as well as decrease the font size but the 
section number and the chapter number simply remain the same.  Is this 
something defined in the LaTeX class file or something that can be changed in 
LyX and how would I go about it?  

Yes, this is defined in the class. If you look at your class file, you'll 
probably find defintions of \chapter, \section etc. where the font weight and 
size are set. Sorry, I cannot look myself now.

Jürgen


I think I’ve located the section where it’s defined, just need to mess with it 
some and learn some LaTeX syntax to change it.  

One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single 
spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings 
I see the line spacing options.  I try to set that section to single spaced but 
then get compile errors:

! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.  
! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.

I’m thinking maybe something in the class file is preventing single space from 
happening.  Am I on the right track?  Is there simple fix for this and am I 
even doing it right?

-Steve

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

On May 17, 2014 at 12:05:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-17 18:56 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single 
spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings 
I see the line spacing options.  I try to set that section to single spaced but 
then get compile errors:

! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.  
! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.

I’m thinking maybe something in the class file is preventing single space from 
happening.  Am I on the right track?

No. What happens here is that the class provides its own \singlespace command, 
but LyX loads the setspace package for singlespacing, which also defines 
\singlespace, and the two definitions clash.
 
 Is there simple fix for this and am I even doing it right?

In the lyx layout file (uuthesis.layout), add the following line (for example 
under the PageStyle Headings line):

Provides setspace 1

Restart LyX and the error should vanish.

HTH
Jürgen


Awesome, worked like a charm.

-Steve

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

On May 17, 2014 at 02:08:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:
2014-05-16 23:49 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.  
All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than 
the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.  
If I highlight the text and right click and go to text style I can unbold the 
chapter title and section title as well as decrease the font size but the 
section number and the chapter number simply remain the same.  Is this 
something defined in the LaTeX class file or something that can be changed in 
LyX and how would I go about it?  

Yes, this is defined in the class. If you look at your class file, you'll 
probably find defintions of \chapter, \section etc. where the font weight and 
size are set. Sorry, I cannot look myself now.

Jürgen


I think I’ve located the section where it’s defined, just need to mess with it 
some and learn some LaTeX syntax to change it.  

One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single 
spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings 
I see the line spacing options.  I try to set that section to single spaced but 
then get compile errors:

! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.  
! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.

I’m thinking maybe something in the class file is preventing single space from 
happening.  Am I on the right track?  Is there simple fix for this and am I 
even doing it right?

-Steve

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

On May 17, 2014 at 12:05:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-17 18:56 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single 
spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings 
I see the line spacing options.  I try to set that section to single spaced but 
then get compile errors:

! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.  
! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.

I’m thinking maybe something in the class file is preventing single space from 
happening.  Am I on the right track?

No. What happens here is that the class provides its own \singlespace command, 
but LyX loads the setspace package for singlespacing, which also defines 
\singlespace, and the two definitions clash.
 
 Is there simple fix for this and am I even doing it right?

In the lyx layout file (uuthesis.layout), add the following line (for example 
under the PageStyle Headings line):

Provides setspace 1

Restart LyX and the error should vanish.

HTH
Jürgen


Awesome, worked like a charm.

-Steve

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

On May 17, 2014 at 02:08:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:
2014-05-16 23:49 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.  
All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than 
the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.  
If I highlight the text and right click and go to text style I can unbold the 
chapter title and section title as well as decrease the font size but the 
section number and the chapter number simply remain the same.  Is this 
something defined in the LaTeX class file or something that can be changed in 
LyX and how would I go about it?  

Yes, this is defined in the class. If you look at your class file, you'll 
probably find defintions of \chapter, \section etc. where the font weight and 
size are set. Sorry, I cannot look myself now.

Jürgen


I think I’ve located the section where it’s defined, just need to mess with it 
some and learn some LaTeX syntax to change it.  

One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single 
spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings 
I see the line spacing options.  I try to set that section to single spaced but 
then get compile errors:

! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.  
! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.

I’m thinking maybe something in the class file is preventing single space from 
happening.  Am I on the right track?  Is there simple fix for this and am I 
even doing it right?

-Steve

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

On May 17, 2014 at 12:05:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-17 18:56 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single 
spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings 
I see the line spacing options.  I try to set that section to single spaced but 
then get compile errors:

! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.  
! LaTeX Error: Command \singlespace already defined.

I’m thinking maybe something in the class file is preventing single space from 
happening.  Am I on the right track?

No. What happens here is that the class provides its own \singlespace command, 
but LyX loads the setspace package for singlespacing, which also defines 
\singlespace, and the two definitions clash.
 
 Is there simple fix for this and am I even doing it right?

In the lyx layout file (uuthesis.layout), add the following line (for example 
under the "PageStyle Headings" line):

Provides setspace 1

Restart LyX and the error should vanish.

HTH
Jürgen


Awesome, worked like a charm.

-Steve

Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.  
All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than 
the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.  
If I highlight the text and right click and go to text style I can unbold the 
chapter title and section title as well as decrease the font size but the 
section number and the chapter number simply remain the same.  Is this 
something defined in the LaTeX class file or something that can be changed in 
LyX and how would I go about it?  I’m including a zip file 
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GeVFRbm9KbTVyWjgexport=download) 
with minimal example of the document in question.  



-Steve

Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.  
All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than 
the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.  
If I highlight the text and right click and go to text style I can unbold the 
chapter title and section title as well as decrease the font size but the 
section number and the chapter number simply remain the same.  Is this 
something defined in the LaTeX class file or something that can be changed in 
LyX and how would I go about it?  I’m including a zip file 
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GeVFRbm9KbTVyWjgexport=download) 
with minimal example of the document in question.  



-Steve

Unbolding and resizing text

[Steve Burnham]

i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.  
All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than 
the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.  
If I highlight the text and right click and go to text style I can unbold the 
chapter title and section title as well as decrease the font size but the 
section number and the chapter number simply remain the same.  Is this 
something defined in the LaTeX class file or something that can be changed in 
LyX and how would I go about it?  I’m including a zip file 
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GeVFRbm9KbTVyWjg=download) 
with minimal example of the document in question.  



-Steve

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 03:40:54 AM, aparsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) wrote:

On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 

In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the 
.lyx.emergency file do not end with 
\end_body 
\end_document 

you can check if you have a working backup in your backups directory 
(see Tools  Preferences  Paths). 

HTH 
Jürgen 


I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed 
for backups.  I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or 
\end_document anywhere in the file.  The document ends with “\begin_inset 
Tabular”.  It actually looks like the entire document isn’t even there, 
possibly ending at chapter 5 (of 8 total plus appendix).  

I tried to add \end_body and \end_document to the end of the .lyx file but when 
I open it up now I just get that the file ended unexpectedly, which means that 
it is probably corrupted.



On May 15, 2014 at 24:29:12 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann (engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de) 
wrote:

Normally if you load your lyx file and there is an emergency file it 
tells you and if you agree it loads it. You are than asked whether you 
would like to keep the emergency file, and I would suggest to keep it. 
Wolfgang 


Unfortunately I cannot even get to the point where I am asked to keep the 
emergency file.  LyX just completely freezes as soon as I try to open up the 
file.  Any other file opens  up just fine, it’s only this one. 

I installed LyX and MikTeX on my Windows machine at school to see if this was a 
problem isolated to OSX, unfortunately LyX freezes when opening the file on 
Windows as well (Windows 8.1, LyX 2.1.0).  

-Steve

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 12:08:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost...@lyx.org) wrote:

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 

 We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-( 

Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's 
going on, maybe with a few more reports we can get lucky and pick out 
a pattern. 

Scott 


I sure can, I think this is the right file.  Happy to send anything that might 
help.

-Steve

preferences
Description: Binary data

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed 
for backups.


Ouch.


I didn’t even know that was an option.  I’m still learning LyX, but it only 
takes once to make sure there is a directory listed there.




 
 I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or \end_document anywhere 
in the file.  The document ends with “\begin_inset Tabular”.  


So you were hit exactly by this nasty bug:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9049
 
We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-(

Jürgen


That’s what it looks like my problem is.  Too bad it’s being difficult to 
replicate and isolate the problem.  Should it happen again I will be sure to 
update.  I can’t remember exactly what I was doing.  It was something to do 
with chaining font styles and single/double spacing.

The file really is corrupted then. Looking in the file, can you check 
whether it has the part that you worked on? It's possible that part 
was lost somehow. 


It’s actually missing a very significant amount, not just what I had most 
recently been working.  Probably 2/3 of the document.





It sounds like a bunch of strange things happened at once (no online 
backup and a LyX crash), but if you want to protect yourself from this 
in the future, you might want to consider revision control. 

It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though 
compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at 
using LyX, things go faster now.  I am going to start using version control.  I 
found this page about it (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/VersionControl), 
unfortunately it is very vague.  I have all the necessary packages to have it 
working on OSX.  I noticed there are a bunch of options like “check in changes” 
“copy” “revert” and “compare”.  Is there another document that might explain 
what these features are?  I have it turned on but I really don’t have any idea 
how to work it properly.  Particularly the check in and out changes options.

-Steve

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though 
compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at 
using LyX, things go faster now.  I am going to start using version control.  I 
found this page about it (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/VersionControl), 
unfortunately it is very vague.  I have all the necessary packages to have it 
working on OSX.  I noticed there are a bunch of options like “check in changes” 
“copy” “revert” and “compare”.  Is there another document that might explain 
what these features are?  I have it turned on but I really don’t have any idea 
how to work it properly.  Particularly the check in and out changes options.

First, of course, this bug needs to be fixed ASAP. But then, if you have the 
backup directory set up and you regularly hit save, you'll at least not lose 
_much_. Version control is of course a further option, but I am not sure RCS 
(which is described on that wiki page) could not be corrupted as well by this 
bug. Other version control options are described in Help  Additional Features, 
sec. 7.2.

Jürgen



I just realized as well, if the file becomes corrupted then revision control 
won’t do anything for me as I cannot get the file open to access it correct?  I 
think what I will do then is just have that backup directory and save 
frequently like I have been.  I don’t have any more trips planned before the 
thesis is due so I will also always be on the internet with my online backup 
service running.

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 03:40:54 AM, aparsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) wrote:

On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 

In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the 
.lyx.emergency file do not end with 
\end_body 
\end_document 

you can check if you have a working backup in your backups directory 
(see Tools  Preferences  Paths). 

HTH 
Jürgen 


I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed 
for backups.  I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or 
\end_document anywhere in the file.  The document ends with “\begin_inset 
Tabular”.  It actually looks like the entire document isn’t even there, 
possibly ending at chapter 5 (of 8 total plus appendix).  

I tried to add \end_body and \end_document to the end of the .lyx file but when 
I open it up now I just get that the file ended unexpectedly, which means that 
it is probably corrupted.



On May 15, 2014 at 24:29:12 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann (engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de) 
wrote:

Normally if you load your lyx file and there is an emergency file it 
tells you and if you agree it loads it. You are than asked whether you 
would like to keep the emergency file, and I would suggest to keep it. 
Wolfgang 


Unfortunately I cannot even get to the point where I am asked to keep the 
emergency file.  LyX just completely freezes as soon as I try to open up the 
file.  Any other file opens  up just fine, it’s only this one. 

I installed LyX and MikTeX on my Windows machine at school to see if this was a 
problem isolated to OSX, unfortunately LyX freezes when opening the file on 
Windows as well (Windows 8.1, LyX 2.1.0).  

-Steve

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 12:08:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost...@lyx.org) wrote:

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 

 We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-( 

Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's 
going on, maybe with a few more reports we can get lucky and pick out 
a pattern. 

Scott 


I sure can, I think this is the right file.  Happy to send anything that might 
help.

-Steve

preferences
Description: Binary data

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed 
for backups.


Ouch.


I didn’t even know that was an option.  I’m still learning LyX, but it only 
takes once to make sure there is a directory listed there.




 
 I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or \end_document anywhere 
in the file.  The document ends with “\begin_inset Tabular”.  


So you were hit exactly by this nasty bug:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9049
 
We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-(

Jürgen


That’s what it looks like my problem is.  Too bad it’s being difficult to 
replicate and isolate the problem.  Should it happen again I will be sure to 
update.  I can’t remember exactly what I was doing.  It was something to do 
with chaining font styles and single/double spacing.

The file really is corrupted then. Looking in the file, can you check 
whether it has the part that you worked on? It's possible that part 
was lost somehow. 


It’s actually missing a very significant amount, not just what I had most 
recently been working.  Probably 2/3 of the document.





It sounds like a bunch of strange things happened at once (no online 
backup and a LyX crash), but if you want to protect yourself from this 
in the future, you might want to consider revision control. 

It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though 
compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at 
using LyX, things go faster now.  I am going to start using version control.  I 
found this page about it (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/VersionControl), 
unfortunately it is very vague.  I have all the necessary packages to have it 
working on OSX.  I noticed there are a bunch of options like “check in changes” 
“copy” “revert” and “compare”.  Is there another document that might explain 
what these features are?  I have it turned on but I really don’t have any idea 
how to work it properly.  Particularly the check in and out changes options.

-Steve

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though 
compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at 
using LyX, things go faster now.  I am going to start using version control.  I 
found this page about it (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/VersionControl), 
unfortunately it is very vague.  I have all the necessary packages to have it 
working on OSX.  I noticed there are a bunch of options like “check in changes” 
“copy” “revert” and “compare”.  Is there another document that might explain 
what these features are?  I have it turned on but I really don’t have any idea 
how to work it properly.  Particularly the check in and out changes options.

First, of course, this bug needs to be fixed ASAP. But then, if you have the 
backup directory set up and you regularly hit save, you'll at least not lose 
_much_. Version control is of course a further option, but I am not sure RCS 
(which is described on that wiki page) could not be corrupted as well by this 
bug. Other version control options are described in Help  Additional Features, 
sec. 7.2.

Jürgen



I just realized as well, if the file becomes corrupted then revision control 
won’t do anything for me as I cannot get the file open to access it correct?  I 
think what I will do then is just have that backup directory and save 
frequently like I have been.  I don’t have any more trips planned before the 
thesis is due so I will also always be on the internet with my online backup 
service running.

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 03:40:54 AM, aparsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) wrote:

On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 

In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the 
.lyx.emergency file do not end with 
\end_body 
\end_document 

you can check if you have a working backup in your backups directory 
(see Tools > Preferences > Paths). 

HTH 
Jürgen 


I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed 
for backups.  I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or 
\end_document anywhere in the file.  The document ends with “\begin_inset 
Tabular”.  It actually looks like the entire document isn’t even there, 
possibly ending at chapter 5 (of 8 total plus appendix).  

I tried to add \end_body and \end_document to the end of the .lyx file but when 
I open it up now I just get that the file ended unexpectedly, which means that 
it is probably corrupted.



On May 15, 2014 at 24:29:12 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann (engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de) 
wrote:

Normally if you load your lyx file and there is an emergency file it 
tells you and if you agree it loads it. You are than asked whether you 
would like to keep the emergency file, and I would suggest to keep it. 
Wolfgang 


Unfortunately I cannot even get to the point where I am asked to keep the 
emergency file.  LyX just completely freezes as soon as I try to open up the 
file.  Any other file opens  up just fine, it’s only this one. 

I installed LyX and MikTeX on my Windows machine at school to see if this was a 
problem isolated to OSX, unfortunately LyX freezes when opening the file on 
Windows as well (Windows 8.1, LyX 2.1.0).  

-Steve

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 12:08:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost...@lyx.org) wrote:

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller  wrote: 

> We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-( 

Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's 
going on, maybe with a few more reports we can get lucky and pick out 
a pattern. 

Scott 


I sure can, I think this is the right file.  Happy to send anything that might 
help.

-Steve

preferences
Description: Binary data

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed 
for backups.


Ouch.


I didn’t even know that was an option.  I’m still learning LyX, but it only 
takes once to make sure there is a directory listed there.




 
 I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or \end_document anywhere 
in the file.  The document ends with “\begin_inset Tabular”.  


So you were hit exactly by this nasty bug:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9049
 
We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-(

Jürgen


That’s what it looks like my problem is.  Too bad it’s being difficult to 
replicate and isolate the problem.  Should it happen again I will be sure to 
update.  I can’t remember exactly what I was doing.  It was something to do 
with chaining font styles and single/double spacing.

The file really is corrupted then. Looking in the file, can you check 
whether it has the part that you worked on? It's possible that part 
was lost somehow. 


It’s actually missing a very significant amount, not just what I had most 
recently been working.  Probably 2/3 of the document.





It sounds like a bunch of strange things happened at once (no online 
backup and a LyX crash), but if you want to protect yourself from this 
in the future, you might want to consider revision control. 

It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though 
compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at 
using LyX, things go faster now.  I am going to start using version control.  I 
found this page about it (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/VersionControl), 
unfortunately it is very vague.  I have all the necessary packages to have it 
working on OSX.  I noticed there are a bunch of options like “check in changes” 
“copy” “revert” and “compare”.  Is there another document that might explain 
what these features are?  I have it turned on but I really don’t have any idea 
how to work it properly.  Particularly the check in and out changes options.

-Steve

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

[Steve Burnham]

On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:

2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham:
It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though 
compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at 
using LyX, things go faster now.  I am going to start using version control.  I 
found this page about it (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/VersionControl), 
unfortunately it is very vague.  I have all the necessary packages to have it 
working on OSX.  I noticed there are a bunch of options like “check in changes” 
“copy” “revert” and “compare”.  Is there another document that might explain 
what these features are?  I have it turned on but I really don’t have any idea 
how to work it properly.  Particularly the check in and out changes options.

First, of course, this bug needs to be fixed ASAP. But then, if you have the 
backup directory set up and you regularly hit save, you'll at least not lose 
_much_. Version control is of course a further option, but I am not sure RCS 
(which is described on that wiki page) could not be corrupted as well by this 
bug. Other version control options are described in Help > Additional Features, 
sec. 7.2.

Jürgen



I just realized as well, if the file becomes corrupted then revision control 
won’t do anything for me as I cannot get the file open to access it correct?  I 
think what I will do then is just have that backup directory and save 
frequently like I have been.  I don’t have any more trips planned before the 
thesis is due so I will also always be on the internet with my online backup 
service running.