Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex
My ability to make documents look the way I want them to is limited. In my personal opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX. LaTeX is great when you write for a medium with a defined formatting, e.g., a journal, and they give you a style file to use. Then you just fill out the contents. But if you a free to format your document, and have specific ideas on how it should look like, it's not that convenient. I found the easiest way is to use LaTeX packages such as enumitem, fancyhdr, and titlesec. Once you have formatted one document, you can use it as template for following documents.
Lion
Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can run under Lion.
Re: A period after section number
You should be able to do this with the titlesec package.
For example, it has the following command:
and you may add a dot after the counter simply with
\titlelabel{\thetitle.\quad}
My experience is that trying to change the section labels
manually gives headaches.
Missing templates
I use LyX 2.0 on Mac. But I cannot find any templates. One one computer I installed on top of LyX 1.6, on the other computer it was a fresh install of 2.0. In either, no templates. What can I do?
Re: Missing templates
Thanks, that solved the problem!
Re: Missing templates
I did this: copy them from there (e. g. /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/templates) to ~/Library/Application Support/LyX/templates Of course, that is not very user friendly. In particular now that Apple has decided to hide Library. Would it be possible to run some kind of installation script that does this automatically?
Re: converting from doc (doc import) - html and LaTeX approach failed
It depends on whether or not you want to import equations as well. I have been using Word2tex to convert word documents with mainly equations, and it works fairly well. Some hand-editing is required, but it is fairly limited. Word2tex is not free, though. Still, I have found that all the free approaches work very poorly for equations.
Re: How to select via keyboard?
You can hold down the shift key while you use the arrow keys, at least on Mac.
Re: copying from MS Word to LyX
My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with lots of math equations. But over the years, Word has handled math in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version first, and making sure it works for your particular word documents. I agree. I also bought word2tex after trying all the free options. The problem with OpenOffice, at least when I tried it, was that it tried to copy the exact style of equations into latex, so the resulting latex was a terrible mess. Word2tex has worked quite well to me. It is not completely automatic. I usually do some hand editing of the latex code before finally converting it into LyX.
Mountain Lion
Did anyone try to run LyX under Mountain Lion? Any problems? Thanks.
Re: lyx and pdf fonts
I get great PDF output, that can be scaled to any size. The only thing I did was to set the encoding to OT1. If you don't use international characters, that should enable LaTeX to use vector fonts.
side-by-side figures
This is possibly more of a latex question. Is there some packet that can place figures side by side? I know of wrap figure, but I have never made it work very well. I always have to manually manipulate the figure placement and settings, which is somewhat contrary to the idea of LyX/LaTeX. I'm asking for something more modest. In Latex, as far as I can see, a figure always takes up the whole width of a page (or column). What I want is figures that have less width, and are then AUTOMATICALLY placed side-by-side (e.g., in groups of two). I don't need text to wrap around, just the figures grouped and placed side-by-side. There is the package subfig, which does something like that, but that requires manually grouping figures.
Re: side-by-side figures
Follow up question: even if I use subfig, it's not clear how to do that from within lyx, unless I put the figure as ERT. But then I cannot see a preview in LyX.
Re: side-by-side figures
Follow up question: even if I use subfig, it's not clear how to do that from within lyx, unless I put the figure as ERT. But then I cannot see a preview in LyX. Oh, I see, this is actually in the manual. But not my original question.
Re: side-by-side figures
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FiguresSideBySide I've been using this trick to typeset code examples and latex output and I've been very happy so far. Thanks. Both of these solution (minipages, subfigures) are similar to what I have been doing so far, placing two figures (graphics) together inside a float. However, what I hoped for was a package that automatically would place two floats side by side, if it fits on the width of the page. The issue is like this: suppose you want figures side by side just to save space. So, you group unrelated figures together. But, then if you move sections around you may have to regroup figures. Or if you change to a two column layout, you will have to ungroup figures again. This can easily be done in the final layout, but it's not very elegant, and it is not in the spirit of LaTeX, where the author should care about contents, not formatting.
Re: 'quadratic' problem
An alternative that I use is to use \Box in math mode. That way font problems are avoided.
Subfloats alignment
I have two figures of different height that I want side-by-side. I use subfloats. LyX (and Latex) always aligns them at the bottom edge. How can I align them at the top edge (or center them)? I have tried to insert vspace on either side, but it has no effect. Any suggestions?
Re: Subfloats alignment
Thanks for your help. The second example (with a table cell) does work. I'm not sure it does exactly what I wanted, as it also moves up the caption. My idea was probably more to have the images themselves centered, but the (sub)captions aligned. However, it's all about the visual impression, and this looks better than before. Again, thanks for your help.
Re: Change order of bibliography entries
A suggestion: You could use the unsrt bibliography style. That will put the references in order of appearance. You can then use the \nocite command in the beginning of the document to get the order you want. I haven't tried this, but it should work -- but you have to manually sort the references, which is a hassle if you have many.
Redefining sections
This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.
I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}
It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).
What do I do wrong?
Re: Redefining sections
Thanks, it seems the titlesec package is quite flexible. The secsty package seems limited; for example it cannot redefine spacing before and after section headings, which was exactly what I wanted here (I needed a document to fit 15 pages). I will try to use the titlesec package.
Re: Redefining sections
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec} does exactly what I want, so
that was easy.
Weird disappearance of references
I have one particular document where LyX just will not include certain
references from my bibtex file. When I do insert citation, they do not
show up in the list. If I insert them anyway (copying from another file),
the \cite{..} show as ?? in the pdf file. However, it's only for some
references from the bibtex file; others work fine. Here is the weird thing
1) If I export to LaTeX and compile, the broken references work fine.
2) They work fine in other LyX documents. I can also create
a new LyX document, copy the bibtex statement from the
old document, and the references work.
3) But if I create a new document and copy the text from
the old document, the references stop working.
I just don't understand how this can happen. I have tried
both on a Mac and a PC, and I get exactly the same result,
so it's nothing in my system setup, but something with the
document.
For now I can solve it by simply exporting to latex and compile,
but it's somewhat annoying.
Any ideas?
Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class
Just a comment here, not a solution. A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather than making the contents the same. That is, they are trying to 'finger-paint' with latex, directly opposed to the philosophy of LyX. I tried to use open office to convert MS Word documents into lyx (MS Word-OO-Latex-LyX), but had to give up because the latex produced by OO was so poor.
Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class
Thanks, maybe I'll try this. I have a lot of documents in MS Word that I continually update, and ideally I would like to convert all of those to LyX. So far, though, it has been too cumbersome to be worth the while, so I continue to use MS Word.
Re: Word Import
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes: What I'd propose is that someone begin a proper word2lyx project based upon Rob's ideas. That would be great. I would be happy to donate to such a project if it was set up as a 'donation project' as other projects on LyX's homepage. A lyx2word converter would also be nice. The situation is this: you have material in LyX, but the agency/publisher/collaborator requires a word document.
LyX theorem environment
I have a lyx and a latex question First, is it possible to define new theorem environments in LyX? I looked through the help manuals, but could not find anything. If not possible in LyX, of course I can use latex \newtheorem. Here the question is, is it possible to make this follow the style of an already defined theorem environment? Specifically, I want my environment to look like the theorem style in the IEEETran class, but if I just use \newtheorem it has a completely different style.
Re: LyX theorem environment
Sorry, I think I was not quite clear about what I would like to do. I'm using the IEEETran class. I would like to define a new type of theorem (a property) that looks the same was as theorems look in the IEEETran class.
Re: LyX theorem environment
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes: Thanks, I will try that.
BIBINPUTS
This is more of a latex question. Bibtex finds the location of BIB files from the environmental variable BIBINPUTS. This is true on both Windows and Mac, and has worked so far. But suddenly, today, it doesn't work on Mac anymore. What I have used until now is the following method In finder, choose Go-go to folder... ~/.MacOSX Edit environment.plist Add BIBINPUTS as a new key, and put path(s). Restart computer (seems necessary). But again, this doesn't work anymore. Any suggestions? I did some search on the internet, and it seems the /.MacOSX doesn't work any longer in Mountain Lion (but I'm pretty sure I did compile after installing mountain lion). People say things should now be set in launchd. But, hey, that's too technical for me. Anyone have a solution for directing bibtex to look for bib files in a central location?
Re: BIBINPUTS
The alternative is to give direct paths to the BIB files. However, that is an issue when you collaborate with people on a document. Furthermore, it seems there is a bug in LyX. When I give direct paths to the BIB files, the citation dialog box becomes superwide, stretching beyond the width of my large screen. How can I solve that?
Re: BIBINPUTS
Sorry for posting to quick, the last issue with wide citation dialog box solved itself. But still, the question is how to set the path for bibtex.
Re: BIBINPUTS
I solved the problem through help on the Apple discussions. I will post the solution here for reference in case others have the same issue. Perhaps I can put it on a wiki? 1) In finder, choose Go-go to folder... /etc 2) Edit launchd.conf This file may not exist. In that case create it. Make sure it's called launchd.conf and not lauchd.conf.txt 3) add setenv BIBINPUTS path(s). Separate multiple paths with : Notice that the string after BIBINPUTS cannot contain spaces. 4) Restart computer.
Re: Track changes but don't show them in LyX?
This is also a feature I sorely miss. Unless you only have a few changes, the LyX display quickly becomes unreadable. The consequence is that the the resulting pdf can have errors that are overlooked in LyX, a typical example being missing spaces.
Re: Wrapfigure placing figures at beginning
karl at linek.at karl at linek.at writes: Hi, I'm using wrapfigure. I would like to have the top of a figure adjusted with the paragraph. Although I place the wrapfigure environment at the beginning of the paragraph, lyx places the figure about one line below the first line. In my experience, wrapfigure doesn't work very well. I think you have to experiment with manual adjustments. You can insert a negative vertical space before the graphic (i.e., inside the wrapfigure environment) and adjust it so you get alignment. After this you may have to manually adjust the length of the wrapfigure environment to avoid too much space below.
documentclass{sig-alternate}
I need to produce a paper using the ACM sig-alternate document class. Is there anyway I can do that in LyX? I tried to import an example file to LyX, but it gave an error. For now it seems the only option is to write a draft in LyX, export to Latex and then continue working there.
Re: documentclass{sig-alternate}
I found one LyX layout file at: http://krono.act.uji.es/people/ismael/lyx-templates-1 This helps, but it lacks theorems (which is key to what I write). Any other suggestions?
Automatic save of PDF
Is it possible to configure/program LyX so that whenever the LyX files is saved by the user (not auto-save) the pdf version (and latex) version is also saved (without the warning about overwrite)? I realized I do this hundred of times every day: save the LyX file then export it to pdf. It would be nice if it could be done automatically.
LyX very slow on Mac
I have been using LyX for quite a while now, mainly on Mac. But these days for many of my documents LyX is just extremely slow. When I scroll, LyX just slowly scrolls line by line. I can wait for long time while it just continues to slowly scroll. And to insert math, it can take several seconds to open the math box, and then there is a long wait for every keystroke. I have two Macs: a slower MacBook Air, and a one year top of the line iMac (the absolute fastest configuration available), and on both LyX is just behaving like a snail. It seems to be fairly recent. I doesn't seem to be every document, but I cannot find a clear reason for what makes a document slow, except for length (but we are talking 5 page documents versus one page). Perhaps one thing: many LyX comments? Has anyone else experienced this. Any ideas what I can do?
Re: LyX very slow on Mac
I'm running LyX 2.0.6 and OS X 10.9.1, latest version of both. I'm downloading the beta and will try if that solves the problem.
Re: LyX very slow on Mac
Yes, it seems LyX 2.1 solves the problem. It is definitely faster than LyX 2.0.6. Very good. LyX had become so slow that I almost couldn't use it.
Re: LyX very slow on Mac
Hi Jerry, I just tested again. On my computer there IS a considerable speed up in 2.1. In 2.0.6 I do the two finger scroll and then wait and wait. In 2.1 the scroll is quite fluent. Not as fast as, for example, MS Word, but acceptable. But then, it could be a different problem. In my case it was not only the scroll that got slower. Everything in LyX was slow, for example insert math. That seems to have been solved with 2.1.
Re: set default bibliography path on Mac
This should work: Mac 1) In finder, choose Go-go to folder... /etc 2) Edit launchd.conf This file may not exist. In that case create it. Make sure it's called launchd.conf and not lauchd.conf.txt 3) add setenv BIBINPUTS path(s). Separate multiple paths with : Notice that the string after BIBINPUTS cannot contain spaces. 4) Restart computer.
BiBTeX and LyX 2.1.0rc1
I would like to weigh in on this (not sure if this is the right place). I really hope it would be possible to compile in spite of bibtex errors. I have hundreds of LyX files, and none of them compile any more. Let's say I collaborate with a colleague (who uses LaTeX). The colleague gives me a BiBTeX file. I use a few references from there. But the file has problems with other entries. Now I have to go in and correct my colleagues numerous (non-important) errors just to get these few reference. One idea of LyX is that it's a front-end to LaTeX. But now suddenly, things that compile fine in LaTeX (many BibTeX errors are non-essential) no longer works in LyX. That makes it difficult to collaborate with people who use LaTeX (I certainly try to sell LyX to my colleagues, but many are too used to pure LaTeX).
Re: BiBTeX and LyX 2.1.0rc1
To elaborate a little further. So, to compile my file I have to correct my colleagues bibtex errors. But when he then sends me an updated bibtex file, I have to make the corrections all over again. Of course I could send him back his corrected bibtex file, but that has its own set of issues, and might not be popular. As long as all collaborators use LyX (2.1) it's not a problem. They will get the bibtex errors, and will have to correct them. But if some collaborators use LaTeX, this can cause problems. The issue with bibtex somewhat breaks the compatibility between LaTeX and LyX.
Re: BiBTeX and LyX 2.1.0rc1
Sorry, another example. I'm trying to make 2.1.0 work, and correcting in BiBTeX, so I continually encounter issues. Say you have two bibtex files X.bib and Y.bib. Some documents use X.bib, some use Y.bib. Now you make a new document that uses both X.bib and Y.bib, but they have some entries repeated. It will not compile. You could delete those entries from X.bib or Y.bib, but then files that rely on only X.bib or Y.bib will no longer compile. I feel there needs to be at least a preference to disable checking bibtex errors, although this has been rejected in previous emails. This is really needed to collaborate with people who use only LaTeX.
Re: BiBTeX and LyX 2.1.0rc1
Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org writes: It is, the change was reverted for final 2.1.0. Pavel OK, thanks. It has given my a lot of headache.
Re: Ctrl-Enter handling is different whether AMS math is used explicitly or automatically
Thanks for the tip. That solved one mystery for me.
Re: Ctrl-Enter handling is different whether AMS math is used explicitly or automatically
Thanks for the tip. I was also confused about the different behavior in different documents. This clears it up.
Re: Wrapped figure
Unfortunately, wrapfig in latex works very poorly. Even when letting wrapped figures float, they are often placed unfortunate. What I do is in the final version of a document, I manually move wrapped figures around, reduce spaces etc. so that it looks right. This is of course against the latex philosophy.
Enumitem and IEEETran
It seems enumitem and IEEETran.cls are not compatible. I found the following solution on the web. Insert \let\labelindent\relax BEFORE enuitem is included. That works. The issue is that in LyX, the latex preamble comes after enumitem is called. Any way to include the above statement before enumitem is called?
BIBINPUTS and Yosemite
Every time Apple comes out with a new version of OS X, BIBINPUTS gets broken, and a new workaround has to be found. I found the following works for Yosemite, so I post here (I should I put it on a wiki)? Mac Yosemite Adapted from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/ yosemite-launchd-conf-no-longer-work launch AppleScript Editor, enter: do shell script launchctl setenv setenv BIBINPUTS path(s). Separate multiple paths with : Notice that the string after BIBINPUTS cannot contain spaces. Now save (⌘+s) as File format: Application. Finally open System Settings → Users Groups → Login Items and add your new application. Notice that if LyX starts before the script is run, the environment will not be active. Then restart LyX.
LyX cannot find any TeX classes!
I installed LyX 2.1.2 from 2.1.0. Now LyX cannot find any classes. I kept 2.1.0, but when I run that it cannot find any classes either. But the classes are there. It worked with 2.1.0 before I installed 2.1.2. And if I compile directly in TeXShop, there is not problem, all the classes are there. What can I do? Probably it's some kind of path problem.
Re: LyX cannot find any TeX classes!
Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at yahoo.com writes: I installed LyX 2.1.2 from 2.1.0. Now LyX cannot find any classes. I kept 2.1.0, but when I run that it cannot find any classes either. But the classes are there. It worked with 2.1.0 before I installed 2.1.2. And if I compile directly in TeXShop, there is not problem, all the classes are there. What can I do? Probably it's some kind of path problem. Well, the problem seems to have been with Yosemite. The solution was in a previous email thread: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/203810/lyx-2-x-document-class-not-available-mac-os- x-10-10-yosemite-pb-3
Re: Lagging in math command completion combo box
You can press the tab key.
Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite
After I upgraded to Yosemite, instant preview of math no longer works. Is that a general issue?
Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite
Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net writes: Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at yahoo.com: 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 OK, thanks. Then it might be fixed in some future update. It is not a huge issue, so I can wait. Sometimes I wonder if these Apple updates are worth it. So little new, but so many things (LyX, Matlab, Mathematica, BiBTeX, VNC) don't work without a lot of fiddling.
Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite
I'm afraid you're talking about different things. The math preview fails silently if enabled but non-functioning. The document preview raises an error - your case? I'd like to help you solving this Yosemite problems. But I don't have enough machines to try and install all releases. At the moment I am bound to 10.8 and 10.9. I'll see what I can do with an external disk if I find the time. Stephan Yes, I think we're discussing two different things. I'm talking about instantpreview of math inside the LyX document. The view command (cmd-R) works finefor me. I tried to start LyX from the command line to see if that fixed the instant previewproblem, but that does not seem to be the case.
Re: BIBINPUTS and Yosemite
The above works for LaTeX, but not inside LyX. When the file is compiled, it finds the bib files in the path. However, Insert Citation inside LyX does not respect the BIBINPUTS path. How can this be fixed?
Re: BIBINPUTS and Yosemite [FIXED -- I think]
Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at yahoo.com writes: The above works for LaTeX, but not inside LyX. When the file is compiled, it finds the bib files in the path. However, Insert Citation inside LyX does not respect the BIBINPUTS path. How can this be fixed? I added the latex path to the TEXINPUTS prefix. That seems to solve the problem inside LyX.
Re: BIBINPUTS and Yosemite [NOT Fixed]
Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at yahoo.com writes: I added the latex path to the TEXINPUTS prefix. That seems to solve the problem inside LyX. Sorry, it didn't work. Only gave me the references from bib files in the current directory. So, I hope someone can find a solution.
Mac: cannot see graphics, classes
I just discovered LyX. What a great program! I have been using LateX and MS Word for many years, but never been happy. This looks just like what I have been looking for. I have some basic questions 1. I use LyX on OS X 10.5.6. Graphics (eps and pdf) never show up. It just says 'error converting...' This is true even for the LyX user manual. When I typeset using latex, the figures look fine. What could be the problem? 2. Many classes show Unavailable: specifically, I'm interested in the IEEETran.cls. I have the IEEETran.cls file, but how do I get it into the system so that LyX can use it? It may be an issue of installing it in my Latex installation. I use gwtex. - Anders Host-Madsen, Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
Problem showing graphics
Sorry, this is actually I follow up to my previous posting. I did not figure out how to post replies. So Thanks to Konrad Hofbauer I found out how to use the IEEEtran class. Now I know how to install new classes (run sudo texhash and reconfigure LyX). But graphics is still hit and miss. I installed imagemagic, as adviced, and now it shows some graphics. pdf works, some .eps files work (e.g., the one in the documentation), but most of my .eps files do not show up (funny, the one .eps I could make work does not work if it's in another directory). Any idea what could be the problem? - Anders Host-Madsen, Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
Re: Copy and Paste Latex
I don't really understand how to post replies to messages on the mailing list, so excuse me if this appears as a separate thread. Thanks to Guenter Milde for the trick about converting latex formulas into lyx. That should work for short pieces of latex code: just select the equation parts and convert that. For longer pieces, a conversion would be usefull. I will try to post this on bugzilla.
How to post reply?
Maybe this is not the right place to ask: I just don't understand how to post replies to previous messages (including my own, and answers to my questions) on this kind of mail forum. Could someone let me know where to find help? I tried mailing lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org for help, but it doesn't say how to post replies. Maybe that's too obvious?
Re: How to post reply?
Piero Faustini pierofaust...@... writes: Yes, now I see, I can use gmane to post. There is some action menu in the upper right corner.
Re: I: paste latex code into lyx?
Giovanni Bedetti giovanni_bede...@... writes: What i mean is that i paste LaTeX code and see the layout. I'd like to paste it in the source view. I just started using LyX, and I had exactly the same question, see the list below. I feel that would be one of the most useful additions to LyX. I will copy and paste one answer I got from Guenter Milde. Especially c) I find useful: you can paste your text into LyX and then convert each equation to math. What you can do is... a) take the code and make it into a full latex document by adding things, import to LyX, and then copy and paste, but that seems cumbersome. b) use the tex2lyx command with option -p on a file with incomplete LaTeX (you will need to specify the documentclass with -c too), c) for Math (and only math): paste normally, select and press Ctrl-M: LyX will convert it into math in a math-box. d) for your old LaTeX files: let lyx convert everything into a lyx file in a batch job.
MS Word to LyX
LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to convert my old MS Word documents -- with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion to LaTeX: Grind EQ and Word2Tex. They are expensive, and the results are so-so. Definitely requires a lot of hand editing of the LaTeX code. Any experiences with these programs? It appears to me the results from Word2Tex is a little more faithful to the source, but it's hard to evaluate from the trial version.
Re: MS Word to LyX
Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: OpenOffice will export LaTeX. You should be able to load your Word docs there, and then export. Might be no worse. You WILL have to do hand editing, one way or the other. There's just no way around it. I tried to install open office (neo office). It does convert to LaTeX. But the issue is that it seems the philosophy in the OO converter is to make the typeset LaTeX document look like the OO document, rather than conveying the meaning/contents of the document -- WYSIWYG rather than WYSIWYM. The results is terrible, terrible LaTeX code. Maybe there is some option to set so that it's converted to nice latex code, that does not try to reproduce the formatting of the OO document? At least the commercial programs produce LaTeX code that reproduce the meaning of the original document fairly.
Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.
Jens Noeckel noec...@... writes: Hi, yes, some of the lfun names have changed over time. For cross- references, you now have to invoke the lengthy command dialog-show- new-inset ref... In LyX 1.6.x you can find these function names by searching in the Preferences Editing Shortcuts panels. I have wondered about the same thing. At least on Mac, when I search for ref in the shortcuts, the only thing coming up is reference-next, no insert-ref. If I search on ins there are lots of inserts (citation, quotation), but no cross reference. Could this be a bug in the Mac version?
Re: MS Word to LyX
Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord, But I couldn't make AbiWord convert equations at all. So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard to judge from the trial version, and the real version is quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is non-existent).
Re: how to put an image
Yakup Ayvaz yaka...@... writes: I inserted an images, which also shows the image correctly in lyx, but then I try to export in pdf format I get an error like ... cannot determine size of graphic. I would suggest specifying width and height in the LyX graphics dialog box. This sounds like the type of Latex error you could get if you don't set those parameters.
Re: how to put an image
Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@... writes: Hi Yego. Hmm, that's a bit strange to me. I use .eps all the time without any problem and hit the pdf button (or export PDF (pdlatex) ) and never experienced conflicts. Perhaps I don't understand the problem of Yakup very well, but I think it's probably a size problem. Kind regards, Nikos Yes, I agree, LyX can handle eps, but you need the imagemagick package. However, I think the problem here is that the size cannot be determined. I had that kind of problem before in Latex, and I solved it by setting the width in Latex, which I believe is equivalent to setting width in lyx.
Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX
I believe you need to run sudo texhash from the terminal after installing new packages.
Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX
jezZiFeR jezzi...@... writes: From a few weeks of usage of LyX I find that the error messages I get from LyX is rather meaningless. It appears to my that LyX cuts away exactly the important parts. I would suggest you look at the LaTeX log, or try to export to LaTeX and compile to see what exactly happens in LaTeX. That might give you a clue to what exactly is wrong.
Re: Spell checking
OK, I can see that there is an answer to my question on the LyX wiki. Didn't realize that before asking here.
Re: Spell checking
Installing cocoAspell worked. Great.
Spell checking
I badly need spell checking for my typing. LyX relies on aspell, which I don't have. I went to the aspell web page and downloaded, but I find no installation instructions. I'm lost. I use LyX on a Mac, and it seems aspell is some kind of unix thing. I can see that cocoAspell is a Mac version of aspell. If I install that, will it also work from LyX? Thanks.
Re: How to edit
I ran into the same problem. I just started using spellcheck. There is a more direct solution. In Finder you can select GoGo To Folder (or shift-command-G). Then you can type /usr/local/etc (or just /usr and then navigate from there). You can then change the access privileges for aspell.conf. However, in my case I also had to change the access privileges for the etc folder. Once you have done that you can edit the aspell.conf file. Maybe this should be added to the wiki?
Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation
First, a question to someone knowledgeable. How does LyX do it's compilation of LaTeX? Does it leave .aux files between compilations? I have had this kind of errors with LaTeX. An error in compilation leaves an invalid .aux file. That prevents compilation next time. I have had to manually delete the .aux file. If LyX leaves the .aux file, this could be a reason for an error like this.
Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718
Mac already has this feature as part of the operating system. I wonder if it would be possible without too much trouble to activate this in the Mac interface? For a Mac user this would be better, since it's nice to have one systemwide dictionary.
Search and replace in equations
Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. If not, is there any plans to implement this? One of the advantages of using Latex is that it's plain text, so it's possible to search and replace in equations. Is it a bad idea to export LyX to Latex, then search and replace, and re-import in LyX?
Re: Search and replace in equations
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a text editor and then use find and replace. Thanks, I didn't think about the fact that LyX files are text files. That seems a better solution than exporting to Latex and then re-importing to LyX. It appears that equations in the LyX files are standard Latex. This feature has been implemented for the next major LyX release LyX 2.0.0, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 Excellent! LyX is really a great program.
Re: elsevier natbib author-year problem
Did you specify the elsart-harv.bst in the bibtex insert (as style file)? Otherwise, that would seem an obvious problem.
LyX to HTML?
Is there any good way to convert LyX (or LaTeX perhaps more to the point) to HTML? I do know LyX can export to HTML, but the result is not pretty; it looks so last century. Also, many packages seems to be stripped away (such as enumitem). There is no options to format the HTML to look nice. I tried to google for LaTeX to HTML converters, but it seems few are actively maintained. Perhaps hyperlatex would be an option? There is also elyxer, which produces nice looking output, but has too many missing features. Any ideas? I want to move all my word processing from MS Word to LyX, but one of the things that keeps me with Word is that it can do fair (not great, but fair) HTML conversion.
Re: LyX to HTML?
Iain Mac Donald iainj...@... writes: Thanks, as I stated, I did try elyxer. That actually produces nice output, but it seems to support a very limited set of latex/lyx. None of my equations or numbered lists come out correctly. But maybe this will one day be a good tool. It appears to be new. I do like the philosophy of hyperlatex: you insert some special commands to modify the html. That way you can maintain and update a document that you want to publish both as pdf/print and html.
Re: LyX to HTML?
Robert Orr philip_...@... writes: One means that I've found as an alternative has been to export .pdf, then convert it to html by sending it to adobe. I actually did try this earlier, using Acrobat Pro. But the result was terrible, absolutely terrible. Any tricks?
Re: LyX to HTML?
Typhoon typh...@... writes: I use tex4ht or hevea. I find that either one of them does a reasonable job if you then apply a custom CSS. But my work is always plain text, no images. I'm using Debian Lenny. Thanks, hevea does look interesting. But it seems to be a unix thing. How can I use it on a Mac?
Re: LyX to HTML?
Alex Fernandez ely...@... writes: Thanks for making this available. I will experiment a little more with it, and possibly send you some files.
Re: LyX to HTML?
tex4ht works on all platforms. It is normally accessed when you view your document as HTML from LyX. If this is not the case tex4ht is not installed. (it is often part of the LaTeX distribution). Yes, the translation from within lyx works (htlatex is there). But I'm not very satisfied with the result. Maybe it's possible to customize, as in heava? The documentation page seems to be down.
Re: LyX to HTML?
BH bewih...@... writes: I haven't used hevea, but I have used tex4ht, which is a part of TeXLive; LyX should already recognize it. Bennett I tried using tex4ht on some other documents, and the result is better than my initial judgement made them. Equations are actually rendered quite faithfully. But, although this might not be the right place, I wonder if anybody has some answers to these questions 1. How do I change formatting, in particular font size? 2. Similar, how to I change the margins (i.e., so that if I make the browser window very wide, the text does not continue to expand) In general, I have a hard time finding documentation for tex4ht. The web site says it's highly configurable, but I cannot figure out how. My knowledge of CSS is limited to knowing what the acronym stands for. 3. It seems tex4ht uses latex to compile, and then translates. That sounds good as it should respect the packages you use. But, for example, I use enumitem, but that never seems to work. How come? 4. Tables come out very poorly. Is that a general problem?
Re: LyX to HTML?
rgheck rgh...@... writes: The other possibility is plastex, which I haven't used but keep meaning to investigate. It's pure python, so should run anywhere LyX does. Now I tried out Plastex. The concept is a little different. It makes the latex document into a complete, hierarchical web page. The result is quite good (e.g., tables are rendered well, as opposed to Tex4ht). I my case, though, I just want to embed the html into an existing web page, with its own navigational tools, so this is not exactly what I want. But the documentation is comprehensive, so maybe it can be configured to makes the document into a single web page.
Re: LyX to HTML?
john j...@... writes: But looking at the web site, it looks like latex2html was not updated since 2001. That makes me somewhat reluctant to rely on it.
Re: Error converting to loadable format for EPS
I have the same problem. However, only with SOME eps files. In my case EPS files generated by Matlab just don't show in LyX, but those from some other sources do show in LyX (for example those in the user guide). My only workaround has been to convert the EPS into PDF manually (in OS X just use preview). If you need to export as LaTeX/eps, you can just export as pdflatex, but compile with plain latex (if you export as plain latex, LyX will try to convert the PDF files back to EPS and overwrite the original files).
Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors
Steve Litt sl...@... writes: I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues First, it's much easier not to use styles. Personally, I always used styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put together documents from groups of people it's always a mess because people used their personal formatting. Want a header? Increase font size and make bold. Furthermore, when copying between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as expected, even if styles are used consistently. On the other hand, I never had problem putting together documents from groups of people in Latex. MS Word also tends to make anything into a style. Often document templates have both a 'normal' style and a 'body' style, and if you just write you never know which style is used. Take for example the IEEE MS Word template. There are hundreds of styles in that which makes it very hard to use. And try to switch back and forth between a single column an multicolumn document in MS Word. In Latex it's just changing a single option. In my opinion, when I started using MS Word many year ago it was more geared toward using styles. But MS seems to have accepted that nobody uses styles, and made it more and more difficult to use styles, while easier to use finger painting. In Latex you can write a document focusing on the contents without any thoughts to formatting, and the result is good. In MS Word that is just impossible (for example, MS Word has no mechanism for automatic placement of floats).
Importing tables
Talking about tables. I'm trying to import a table from excel. I get the error this file is from an earlier version of LyX, but LyX failed to convert it. If I try to open the file lyx created from the CSV, LyX crashes. I tried to shorten my csv file to a few lines, and then LyX managed to import it. It seems to be purely a function of the length, I don't think the rest of the table has any different kind of data than the first part.
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous posting), but it didn't work. This does work, but it should be added that it is necessary to paste as plain text, otherwise the tabs are ignored.
Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material
Giovanni giovanni...@... writes: It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph? Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic? Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until you posting. This solved my problem, thanks.
Re: Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template
I cannot confirm this either. In my 1.6.1 Lyx, the save as location is my working directory. There must be something amiss in your installation.
Re: Importing tables
Problem solved: There was an apostrophe (') that had been converted to a
weird character when Excel saved the file (Excel for Mac, it seems, only
has the options of Windows
format or MS-DOS format, both incompatible with Mac). After removing that,
it converted correctly. So, it was Excel's problem, although the error
message from LyX was not informative.
