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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: How do I decrease the space between bullets (1.6.2, all settings at default)

You can use the enumitem package/module, see here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem If for example you don't want extra space between bullets you can use the option nolistsep. You can also set specific list separation.

Latex export

General request: LyX should have the option of exporting just the latex code, without trying to convert pictures. Now if a picture already exists, it just gives the option of 'overwrite', 'overwrite all' or 'cancel', but no option to skip the export of that particular image. Specific problem: I

Re: Latex export

Thanks, those two tickets exactly describe my problems. Hopefully they will get fixed in some future release To me, latex export is essential, a precondition for using LyX. I export all my LyX document to Latex. The reason is that I want to make sure that I can also edit them 20 years from now.

Re: Fancyhdr trouble

Did you select two-sided document in the page layout setting? In that case it ought to work.

how to set path for bibtex

This is mostly a LaTex question. How do I set a path for bibtex so that my bibtex files are found by both LaTeX and LyX? Currently, I give an absolute path to my bibtex files, which works poorly when I send the file to collaborators. How do I set a bibtex path in Mac (texshop)? How do I set a

Re: how to set path for bibtex

rgheck rgh...@... writes: I think in both cases you want to set the BIBINPUTS environment variable. Thanks, that worked. In case anybody else is interested, here are step by step instructions Windows (Vista) Right click on computer, choose properties Choose advanced systems settings Click

Re: Citation order wrong in table

One (primitive) idea, which I don't know will work or not, is to use a \nocite command with the authors in the order you want the citations to appear.

Re: A question

There is also the enumitem package/module: wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem

Re: cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

Richard Talley rich.tal...@... writes: Any suggestions? Anybody on the list successfully using cocoAspell with LyX on Leopard? It works fine for me under Leopard. I don't believe I did anything specialto install it, just follow the instructions. Maybe try to uninstall and reinstall?

Re: Can I please have an example of conditional ERT in LyX

I use ifthenelse in my exams. That way I can have one version of the exam without solutions, and one with solution, without having to have two documents. If you want, I can send you one of my exams.

Re: Can I please have an example of conditional ERT in LyX

I use branches for this purpose as well (creating exams). They work very well, and are scalable to any number of branches that you can turn on and off to create different compiled documents... Maybe that's an easier, and more elegant, solution than using ifthenelse. You learn something

Re: Can I please have an example of conditional ERT in LyX

Steve Litt sl...@... writes: I'm (very slowly) writing a math book with multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter. I plan on having the correct choice be a different environment, but only in certain cases do I want it to look differently. As I said below (or above, depending on

Re: LyX 1.6.3 + Mac OS 10.6 + Revision Control [solved]

Yes, I'm also curious about the experiences with Snow Leopard. I want to upgrade, but as LyX has become the main program I use (yes, it's that great), I won't upgrade until I'm sure LyX works fairly well.

Re: Yosemite problems...

I have exactly the same problem. I also have the problem that LyX does not preview math as LaTeX typeset equations anymore.

Re: Yosemite problems...

I have the same problem on one of my computers. Also, it does not show math preview. The other computer I just updated to the latest version of MacTeX and LyX, and on that computer both preview of graphics and math now works.

Re: Yosemite problems...

I have the same problem on one of my computers. Additionally, LyX does not preview equations. On my other computer, I just updated to latest version of MacTeX, and latest version of LyX, and that solved the problem on that computer.

Re: Yosemite problems...

I have the same problem on one of my computers. Additionally, LyX does not preview equations. On my other computer, I just updated to latest version of MacTeX, and latest version of LyX, and that solved the problem on that computer.

Re: Yosemite blues again?

I had the same problem. I think it has to do with the Yosemite bug that environments are not copied. It seems updating to 2.1.2.2 solved the problem for me.

No math preview in Yosemite

After updating to Yosemite, math preview does not work. I have two computers. iMac: updating to latest version of MacTeX and LyX solved problem. MacBook Air: updating did NOT solve the problem. I don't know how to solve the problem then.

(Math) preview does not work in Yosemite

After upgrading to Yosemite, math and figure preview do not work. Kind of. On my iMac I upgraded to the latest versions of MacTeX and LyX, and that solved the problem. But on my MacBook, even after upgrading both MacTeX and LyX, preview STILL does not work, neither for equations nor pdf figures.

Re: On screen math fonts

I can confirm this, also in 2.1.2.2. I also have had the problem with a one other symbol, but now I don't remember which.

Re: (Math) preview does not work in Yosemite

It seems now both my posts finally appeared on gmane. Just to complete this thread. Upgrading to the latest version of MacTeX solved the problem on both my computers.

LyX for iPad?

Will there ever be a LyX for iPad? There is LaTeX for iPad (works quite well), MS Word for iPad (quite impressive), and lot's of other document editors. While the iPad is not good for extended writing, it's very convenient to do a little editing on the go. Even a very basic LyX editor would be

SIG Alternate

I'm trying to write a paper with the SIG Alternate class. It seems LyX has a layout for this class. The problem I have run into so far is the following. The SIG Alternate layout file does not have any theorem-like styles. This can be solved by adding the Theorem module. But then I run into the

Re: SIG Alternate

I can compile my document by exporting to latex, commenting out the theorem model, and redefining theorem style: %\usepackage{amsthm} \newcommand{\theoremstyle}[1]{} but of course I still cannot preview directly from lyx. Any other ideas?

How to use align inside table?

How can you put an align or align* environment inside a table? There seems to be some pure latex solutions, i.e., using tabularx instead of tabular or aligned instead of align (I haven't tried), but they appear to be incompatible with lyx.

Re: How to use align inside table?

Paul A. Rubin rubin at msu.edu writes: You can try putting a parbox in a table cell and putting the align environment in the parbox. I think you will need to set the column width for the table, then set the parbox width to match. Here is a small example: Thank you, that works. I used a

Re: item list

Patrick Dupre pdupre at gmx.com writes: Hello, How could I reduce the indent before the item in an itemized list? Thank You can also use the enumitem package, which is supported by lyx.

Re: item list

Sorry, I'm not really a latex expert. However, I would do the following. Make a small latex document that uses the enumitem package, and check if latex can compile it. If it cannot, it means that latex cannot find the .sty file, and latex need to be reconfigured. Worst case, it should work to put

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.

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

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

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

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

This is great. Now I will finally upgrade to Snow Leopard.

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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 comcast.net> writes: Thanks, I will try that.

Mac: cannot see graphics, classes

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

? - 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

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

Re: How to post reply?

Piero Faustini 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 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

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

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck 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).

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

Jens Noeckel 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 >

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck 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

Re: how to put an image

Yakup Ayvaz 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

Re: how to put an image

Nikos Alexandris 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,

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