Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi folks,
I come from a purely humanities background, and the interesting thing
about what has been said here is that, the more I use lyx, the more I
realise that I need to know tex/latex.
For that reason I am now patiently going through beginners latex
books,
using gedit- I am not yet ready to face emacs+auctex. (I use emacs only
for the most basic of editing when X won't behave and I need to use a
console to fix it).
This list and the issues discussed on it have brought  me to the
realisation that I actually need to learn latex in order to make the
best use of lyx. Per haps I may eventually cease using lyx, but I doubt
it: lyx has replaced all normal word processors in my life: the
quality of it's output on the printed page, and in other formats, is
infinitely superior to any other writing tool I have used. Knowing latex
more deeply can only improve my use of it. :-)
Generally, a big thank you to everyone on this list, because
just reading through your comments is an invaluable learning experience
for me. And, of course, to the lyx developers, latex authors, Donald
Knuth,and is there anyone I have forgotten? (Of course there is!)
Cheers

Bruce



On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:27 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote:
  [...] In fact I am liking the 
  Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working
  on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would 
  never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, 
  and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those 
  who don't).
 
 Thanks for saying this. I had been feeling, in a funny kind of way, guilty
 because I've also been using Emacs et al. almost exclusively for a while now
 despite being a long time LyX user (but a longer time LaTeX user, I must
 admit).  What's done it for me, at the moment, is reftex which provides an
 easier interface to references for somebody like me that does not like using
 the mouse.
 
 But I still think LyX is absolutely fantastic and it's my first port-of-call
 when I can't remember how to do something in LaTeX!!
 
 cheers,
 eric

Re: lyx-1-4.0 install problem

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi, i am using ubuntu 5.10 and i have the same problem installing with
qt: on ./configure with appropriate options I am told that qt cannot be
found. When I installed 1.4Pre3 I had no problems. What can I do about
this?

bruce

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:27 +0530, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:

 
 Hi,
 
 I am using tar file and compiling with the following command
 
 ./configure --with-frontend=xforms
 
 Before this I have installed 
 
 libforms-1.0-release
 
 I get the following message at the end of ./configure. I am using 
 mandrake10.1.
 --
 Configuration
   Host type:  i686-pc-linux-gnu
   Special build flags:compression pch  jpeg-image-loader 
 use-ispell
   C   Compiler:   gcc
   C   Compiler LyX flags:
   C   Compiler flags:   -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2
   C++ Compiler:   g++ (3.4.1)
   C++ Compiler LyX flags:  -fno-exceptions
   C++ Compiler flags:   -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2
   Linker flags:
   Linker user flags:
   XForms Frontend:
   libXpm version:   4.11
   libforms version:
   Packaging:  posix
   LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin
   LyX files dir:  /usr/local/share/lyx
 
  The following problems have been detected by configure.
  Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
  (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)
 
 ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library
is correctly installed on your system.
 
 ** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library
is correctly installed on your system.
 -
 
 What cud be the problem?
 
 Thanks
 
 Subir
 

spell check

[Bruce Muirhead]

hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell
checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then
disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in
fact check them or offer me alternatives.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do
to fix this problem?
thanks in advance

bruce

Re: spell check

[Bruce Muirhead]

Yes, that seems to be the bug. thanks


On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 01:15 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:

 Bruce Muirhead muirhead-Om/CcixLSK/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
 message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell
  checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then
  disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in
  fact check them or offer me alternatives.
 
  Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do
  to fix this problem?
  thanks in advance
 
  bruce
 
 
 I think this bug may be #2218, you can read comments at
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2218
 
 I think spellchecking from the shell might work.
 Save the file and type aspell -c foo.lyx at the command line.
 
 It would find all the various preamble misspellings but if
 you add them, eventually you will just have your words
 in the document spellchecked.
 
 Regards,
 Stephen
 
 
 

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Bruce Muirhead]

You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula and 
easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in a 
separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using pdftk.


see  http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk

It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and lets 
me design the cover and frontispiece however I want.




Cheers



Bruce

- Original Message - 


From: Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file


On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
before the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?


pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

 I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar 
questions.

Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5


Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author:
   * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware
   * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
   * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist
Webmaster
   * Troubleshooters.Com
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Background images

[Bruce Muirhead]

I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in
which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a
background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page.

I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes
such as exebook and ybookmaker.

If this is possible, how would I go about doing it?

Bruce

user defined headers

[Bruce Muirhead]

hi 
I need to define my own headers for a few documents (very small
documents!), but have been unable to work out how to do this.

I know I need to use fancyhdr, which is as simple as choosing myheadings
in document settings, but I have to admit that I have no idea of show to
actually tell lyx what I want in the header! Unfortunately, I am
relatively tex/latex ignorant, so a lot of the apparently relevant
documentation is uninformative for me. 

In these instances I need to have my name and address in the top left
hand corner. (I can kludge this, I know, for one page documents, but
works of more than one page would be very difficult to do.) In other
instances I need to have my name in the top left hand corner, the page
number centred, and the title of the document in the right hand corner.

Is there some easy way to achieve these two results?

thanks in advance

Bruce

Re: Fwd: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

[Bruce Muirhead]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:58 +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote:



 Is anything wrong with my compile command:
 ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib
 --with-version-suffix=-1.4.2
 

--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3

that did it for me, anyway!
Cheers

Bruce

 ??
 Russel: Can you send me your compile command?
 
 Thank you for further help - it cost me hours and now I want to see the damn
 thing RUNNING!! :-)
 
 christopher

memoir ToC

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi folks
I am using Lyx 1.4.2 on Ubuntu Dapper. When I try and insert a table
of contents into the file, and view a DVI or export, I get the following
error:

 \tableofcontents*
  
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

and

 \tableofcontents*
  
Dimensions can be in units of em, ex, in, pt, pc,
cm, mm, dd, cc, bp, or sp; but yours is a new one!
I'll assume that you meant to say pt, for printer's points.
To recover gracefully from this error, it's best to
delete the erroneous units; e.g., type `2' to delete
two letters. (See Chapter 27 of The TeXbook.)


In terms of understanding the TeXbook, I am rather slow :-0 and simply
have not been able to work out what is needed to fix the problem.
Is this a lyx bug? And what can I do, if anything, to get a ToC in
my document.
Cheers

Bruce

styles for medicine, patient records..

[Bruce Muirhead]

does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical
profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports?

Or, is there something which could easily be modified?

Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself?

thanks in advance

Bruce

Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi folks,
I come from a purely humanities background, and the interesting thing
about what has been said here is that, the more I use lyx, the more I
realise that I need to know tex/latex.
For that reason I am now patiently going through beginners latex
books,
using gedit- I am not yet ready to face emacs+auctex. (I use emacs only
for the most basic of editing when X won't behave and I need to use a
console to fix it).
This list and the issues discussed on it have brought  me to the
realisation that I actually need to learn latex in order to make the
best use of lyx. Per haps I may eventually cease using lyx, but I doubt
it: lyx has replaced all normal word processors in my life: the
quality of it's output on the printed page, and in other formats, is
infinitely superior to any other writing tool I have used. Knowing latex
more deeply can only improve my use of it. :-)
Generally, a big thank you to everyone on this list, because
just reading through your comments is an invaluable learning experience
for me. And, of course, to the lyx developers, latex authors, Donald
Knuth,and is there anyone I have forgotten? (Of course there is!)
Cheers

Bruce



On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:27 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote:
  [...] In fact I am liking the 
  Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working
  on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would 
  never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, 
  and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those 
  who don't).
 
 Thanks for saying this. I had been feeling, in a funny kind of way, guilty
 because I've also been using Emacs et al. almost exclusively for a while now
 despite being a long time LyX user (but a longer time LaTeX user, I must
 admit).  What's done it for me, at the moment, is reftex which provides an
 easier interface to references for somebody like me that does not like using
 the mouse.
 
 But I still think LyX is absolutely fantastic and it's my first port-of-call
 when I can't remember how to do something in LaTeX!!
 
 cheers,
 eric

Re: lyx-1-4.0 install problem

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi, i am using ubuntu 5.10 and i have the same problem installing with
qt: on ./configure with appropriate options I am told that qt cannot be
found. When I installed 1.4Pre3 I had no problems. What can I do about
this?

bruce

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:27 +0530, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:

 
 Hi,
 
 I am using tar file and compiling with the following command
 
 ./configure --with-frontend=xforms
 
 Before this I have installed 
 
 libforms-1.0-release
 
 I get the following message at the end of ./configure. I am using 
 mandrake10.1.
 --
 Configuration
   Host type:  i686-pc-linux-gnu
   Special build flags:compression pch  jpeg-image-loader 
 use-ispell
   C   Compiler:   gcc
   C   Compiler LyX flags:
   C   Compiler flags:   -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2
   C++ Compiler:   g++ (3.4.1)
   C++ Compiler LyX flags:  -fno-exceptions
   C++ Compiler flags:   -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2
   Linker flags:
   Linker user flags:
   XForms Frontend:
   libXpm version:   4.11
   libforms version:
   Packaging:  posix
   LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin
   LyX files dir:  /usr/local/share/lyx
 
  The following problems have been detected by configure.
  Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
  (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)
 
 ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library
is correctly installed on your system.
 
 ** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library
is correctly installed on your system.
 -
 
 What cud be the problem?
 
 Thanks
 
 Subir
 

spell check

[Bruce Muirhead]

hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell
checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then
disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in
fact check them or offer me alternatives.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do
to fix this problem?
thanks in advance

bruce

Re: spell check

[Bruce Muirhead]

Yes, that seems to be the bug. thanks


On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 01:15 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:

 Bruce Muirhead muirhead-Om/CcixLSK/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
 message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell
  checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then
  disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in
  fact check them or offer me alternatives.
 
  Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do
  to fix this problem?
  thanks in advance
 
  bruce
 
 
 I think this bug may be #2218, you can read comments at
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2218
 
 I think spellchecking from the shell might work.
 Save the file and type aspell -c foo.lyx at the command line.
 
 It would find all the various preamble misspellings but if
 you add them, eventually you will just have your words
 in the document spellchecked.
 
 Regards,
 Stephen
 
 
 

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Bruce Muirhead]

You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula and 
easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in a 
separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using pdftk.


see  http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk

It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and lets 
me design the cover and frontispiece however I want.




Cheers



Bruce

- Original Message - 


From: Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file


On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
before the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?


pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

 I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar 
questions.

Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5


Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author:
   * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware
   * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
   * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist
Webmaster
   * Troubleshooters.Com
   * http://www.troubleshooters.com


--
José Abílio



--
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Checked by AVG Free Edition.
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Background images

[Bruce Muirhead]

I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in
which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a
background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page.

I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes
such as exebook and ybookmaker.

If this is possible, how would I go about doing it?

Bruce

user defined headers

[Bruce Muirhead]

hi 
I need to define my own headers for a few documents (very small
documents!), but have been unable to work out how to do this.

I know I need to use fancyhdr, which is as simple as choosing myheadings
in document settings, but I have to admit that I have no idea of show to
actually tell lyx what I want in the header! Unfortunately, I am
relatively tex/latex ignorant, so a lot of the apparently relevant
documentation is uninformative for me. 

In these instances I need to have my name and address in the top left
hand corner. (I can kludge this, I know, for one page documents, but
works of more than one page would be very difficult to do.) In other
instances I need to have my name in the top left hand corner, the page
number centred, and the title of the document in the right hand corner.

Is there some easy way to achieve these two results?

thanks in advance

Bruce

Re: Fwd: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

[Bruce Muirhead]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:58 +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote:



 Is anything wrong with my compile command:
 ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib
 --with-version-suffix=-1.4.2
 

--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3

that did it for me, anyway!
Cheers

Bruce

 ??
 Russel: Can you send me your compile command?
 
 Thank you for further help - it cost me hours and now I want to see the damn
 thing RUNNING!! :-)
 
 christopher

memoir ToC

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi folks
I am using Lyx 1.4.2 on Ubuntu Dapper. When I try and insert a table
of contents into the file, and view a DVI or export, I get the following
error:

 \tableofcontents*
  
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

and

 \tableofcontents*
  
Dimensions can be in units of em, ex, in, pt, pc,
cm, mm, dd, cc, bp, or sp; but yours is a new one!
I'll assume that you meant to say pt, for printer's points.
To recover gracefully from this error, it's best to
delete the erroneous units; e.g., type `2' to delete
two letters. (See Chapter 27 of The TeXbook.)


In terms of understanding the TeXbook, I am rather slow :-0 and simply
have not been able to work out what is needed to fix the problem.
Is this a lyx bug? And what can I do, if anything, to get a ToC in
my document.
Cheers

Bruce

styles for medicine, patient records..

[Bruce Muirhead]

does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical
profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports?

Or, is there something which could easily be modified?

Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself?

thanks in advance

Bruce

Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi folks,
I come from a purely humanities background, and the interesting thing
about what has been said here is that, the more I use lyx, the more I
realise that I need to know tex/latex.
For that reason I am now patiently going through beginners latex
books,
using gedit- I am not yet ready to face emacs+auctex. (I use emacs only
for the most basic of editing when X won't behave and I need to use a
console to fix it).
This list and the issues discussed on it have brought  me to the
realisation that I actually need to learn latex in order to make the
best use of lyx. Per haps I may eventually cease using lyx, but I doubt
it: lyx has replaced all "normal" word processors in my life: the
quality of it's output on the printed page, and in other formats, is
infinitely superior to any other writing tool I have used. Knowing latex
more deeply can only improve my use of it. :-)
Generally, a big thank you to everyone on this list, because
just reading through your comments is an invaluable learning experience
for me. And, of course, to the lyx developers, latex authors, Donald
Knuth,and is there anyone I have forgotten? (Of course there is!)
Cheers

Bruce



On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:27 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote:
> > [...] In fact I am liking the 
> > Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working
> > on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would 
> > never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, 
> > and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those 
> > who don't).
> 
> Thanks for saying this. I had been feeling, in a funny kind of way, guilty
> because I've also been using Emacs et al. almost exclusively for a while now
> despite being a long time LyX user (but a longer time LaTeX user, I must
> admit).  What's done it for me, at the moment, is reftex which provides an
> easier interface to references for somebody like me that does not like using
> the mouse.
> 
> But I still think LyX is absolutely fantastic and it's my first port-of-call
> when I can't remember how to do something in LaTeX!!
> 
> cheers,
> eric

Re: lyx-1-4.0 install problem

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi, i am using ubuntu 5.10 and i have the same problem installing with
qt: on ./configure with appropriate options I am told that qt cannot be
found. When I installed 1.4Pre3 I had no problems. What can I do about
this?

bruce

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:27 +0530, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using tar file and compiling with the following command
> 
> ./configure --with-frontend=xforms
> 
> Before this I have installed 
> 
> libforms-1.0-release
> 
> I get the following message at the end of ./configure. I am using 
> mandrake10.1.
> --
> Configuration
>   Host type:  i686-pc-linux-gnu
>   Special build flags:compression pch  jpeg-image-loader 
> use-ispell
>   C   Compiler:   gcc
>   C   Compiler LyX flags:
>   C   Compiler flags:   -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2
>   C++ Compiler:   g++ (3.4.1)
>   C++ Compiler LyX flags:  -fno-exceptions
>   C++ Compiler flags:   -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2
>   Linker flags:
>   Linker user flags:
>   XForms Frontend:
>   libXpm version:   4.11
>   libforms version:
>   Packaging:  posix
>   LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin
>   LyX files dir:  /usr/local/share/lyx
> 
>  The following problems have been detected by configure.
>  Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
>  (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)
> 
> ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library
>is correctly installed on your system.
> 
> ** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library
>is correctly installed on your system.
> -
> 
> What cud be the problem?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Subir
> 

spell check

[Bruce Muirhead]

hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell
checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then
disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in
fact check them or offer me alternatives.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do
to fix this problem?
thanks in advance

bruce

Re: spell check

[Bruce Muirhead]

Yes, that seems to be the bug. thanks


On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 01:15 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:

> "Bruce Muirhead"  wrote in
> message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell
> > checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then
> > disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in
> > fact check them or offer me alternatives.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do
> > to fix this problem?
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > bruce
> >
> 
> I think this bug may be #2218, you can read comments at
> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2218
> 
> I think spellchecking from the shell might work.
> Save the file and type aspell -c foo.lyx at the command line.
> 
> It would find all the various preamble misspellings but if
> you add them, eventually you will just have your words
> in the document spellchecked.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Bruce Muirhead]

You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula and 
easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in a 
separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using pdftk.


see  http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk

It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and lets 
me design the cover and frontispiece however I want.




Cheers



Bruce

- Original Message - 


From: "Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file


On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
before the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?


pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

 I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar 
questions.

Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5


Thanks

SteveT

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Background images

[Bruce Muirhead]

I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in
which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a
background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page.

I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes
such as exebook and ybookmaker.

If this is possible, how would I go about doing it?

Bruce

user defined headers

[Bruce Muirhead]

hi 
I need to define my own headers for a few documents (very small
documents!), but have been unable to work out how to do this.

I know I need to use fancyhdr, which is as simple as choosing myheadings
in document settings, but I have to admit that I have no idea of show to
actually tell lyx what I want in the header! Unfortunately, I am
relatively tex/latex ignorant, so a lot of the apparently relevant
documentation is uninformative for me. 

In these instances I need to have my name and address in the top left
hand corner. (I can kludge this, I know, for one page documents, but
works of more than one page would be very difficult to do.) In other
instances I need to have my name in the top left hand corner, the page
number centred, and the title of the document in the right hand corner.

Is there some easy way to achieve these two results?

thanks in advance

Bruce

Re: Fwd: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

[Bruce Muirhead]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:58 +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote:



> Is anything wrong with my compile command:
> ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib
> --with-version-suffix=-1.4.2
> 

--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3

that did it for me, anyway!
Cheers

Bruce

> ??
> Russel: Can you send me your compile command?
> 
> Thank you for further help - it cost me hours and now I want to see the damn
> thing RUNNING!! :-)
> 
> christopher

memoir ToC

[Bruce Muirhead]

Hi folks
I am using Lyx 1.4.2 on Ubuntu Dapper. When I try and insert a table
of contents into the file, and view a DVI or export, I get the following
error:

 \tableofcontents*
  
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

and

 \tableofcontents*
  
Dimensions can be in units of em, ex, in, pt, pc,
cm, mm, dd, cc, bp, or sp; but yours is a new one!
I'll assume that you meant to say pt, for printer's points.
To recover gracefully from this error, it's best to
delete the erroneous units; e.g., type `2' to delete
two letters. (See Chapter 27 of The TeXbook.)


In terms of understanding the TeXbook, I am rather slow :-0 and simply
have not been able to work out what is needed to fix the problem.
Is this a lyx bug? And what can I do, if anything, to get a ToC in
my document.
Cheers

Bruce

styles for medicine, patient records..

[Bruce Muirhead]

does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical
profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports?

Or, is there something which could easily be modified?

Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself?

thanks in advance

Bruce

Re: Exporting to ODF or MS Office ignores any bibliography styles

[Bruce Muirhead]

  From: Scott Kostyshak 
 To: Nikola Ivan Leder  
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 7:01
 Subject: Re: Exporting to ODF or MS Office ignores any bibliography styles
   
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 08:52:33PM +, Nikola Ivan Leder wrote:
> I am using Lyx to write my thesis and have run into several problems with 
> exporting regarding references.
> 
> I need are numerical references in numbered by order of appearance in the 
> text (not sorted alphabetically) with vancouver style.
> 
> I set this up with natbib and bibtex8 with vancouver style. 
> The export to PDF or DVI via luatex gets me a perfect document, everything 
> else gives me alphabetically ordered references, completely ignoring any 
> changes I make to document/settings/bibliography.
> 
> My bibliography is in .bib made with Jabref.
> 
> 
> I need export to word or ODF so I can copy/paste certain parts of the text 
> to various web forms and such...  as well as for correspondence with my 
> mentor etc..
> 
> Is there any way to "fix" the export function?  
> If I just select all text in the PDF and paste it in a text processor, 
> there is a lot of manual work to get it to look proper.
> 
> thank you in advance!
> 
> P.S.  tried this in Linux and Windows, behavior is exactly the same
> 

You need to read the  pandoc user guide, which should be installed with pandoc, 
or is easily findable with a search.
LyX is not set up to produce bibliographies and references with pandoc. Rather, 
there are specific ways that the references and bibliography have to be set up, 
which means that you need to find and use the appropriate pandoc options.
I've only just commenced looking at this, so I cannot help with detail, except 
to say
1. tex4ht may not be under the most active development, but it continues to 
produce good output for me with citations and bibliography.

2. It seems the easiest way to use pandoc for citations and references (until 
you work out how to modify the LyX command---under preferences>output--- to get 
what you want) is to save as a LaTeX file and run pandoc on the command line.
Bruce