Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 01.11.2010 23:50, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:

As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 
release. Could I be of any help to

clarify this text?


I removed now the second sentence since 90% of the LyX users won't 
understand the difference between a LaTeX-command and LaTeX-environment.


Don't you think it is worth to introduce this concept to LyX users? I 
think that many people, like me, are using LyX not only as WYSIWYM 
editor, but also as an entry point to the LaTeX ecosystem. I've found 
this document quite useful to better understand what are we speaking 
about...


http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Customizing_LaTeX


Another solution is to defined a new command that sets up the box 
for you. Then you would have to
insert this command as TeX-code instead of a box. I can define such 
a command for you, but you
need to decide what box you want to have. If you made this decision, 
send me a LyX file with your

box and I'll have a look.


I don't want anything fancy. Simply, something like that:

http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.pdf

Box has the same width as the text column and it is centred with it. 
Here the source file...


http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.lyx


In your example the box has a width of only 95% not 100%. However, I 
defined a command for your box in the preamble of the attached 
document. You can insert then your custom box by inserting the 
TeX-code command \mybox as I have shown in the example.


Great! Thank you so much. I've learnt a lot with this example. In 
general, I must thank all the people answering here. You always provide 
accurate and clear answers!


What I don't understand here is the however. Please, what do you mean? 
I see {0.95\columnwidth}, so I guess this is the parameter I must tweak 
to reach this result.


Simply: a great universe of possibilities! Thanks!

BTW: I get two errors when opening the document the first time after 
saving it from your email:


Document header error
Unknown token: \use_refstyle \use_refstyle

Document header error
Unknown token: 0 0

They disappear once I locally save the document.

Please, where these errors come from? Thanks!


The color of the box is set in the document settings.

regards Uwe


All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 01.11.2010 23:50, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:

As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 
release. Could I be of any help to

clarify this text?


I removed now the second sentence since 90% of the LyX users won't 
understand the difference between a LaTeX-command and LaTeX-environment.


Don't you think it is worth to introduce this concept to LyX users? I 
think that many people, like me, are using LyX not only as WYSIWYM 
editor, but also as an entry point to the LaTeX ecosystem. I've found 
this document quite useful to better understand what are we speaking 
about...


http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Customizing_LaTeX


Another solution is to defined a new command that sets up the box 
for you. Then you would have to
insert this command as TeX-code instead of a box. I can define such 
a command for you, but you
need to decide what box you want to have. If you made this decision, 
send me a LyX file with your

box and I'll have a look.


I don't want anything fancy. Simply, something like that:

http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.pdf

Box has the same width as the text column and it is centred with it. 
Here the source file...


http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.lyx


In your example the box has a width of only 95% not 100%. However, I 
defined a command for your box in the preamble of the attached 
document. You can insert then your custom box by inserting the 
TeX-code command \mybox as I have shown in the example.


Great! Thank you so much. I've learnt a lot with this example. In 
general, I must thank all the people answering here. You always provide 
accurate and clear answers!


What I don't understand here is the however. Please, what do you mean? 
I see {0.95\columnwidth}, so I guess this is the parameter I must tweak 
to reach this result.


Simply: a great universe of possibilities! Thanks!

BTW: I get two errors when opening the document the first time after 
saving it from your email:


Document header error
Unknown token: \use_refstyle \use_refstyle

Document header error
Unknown token: 0 0

They disappear once I locally save the document.

Please, where these errors come from? Thanks!


The color of the box is set in the document settings.

regards Uwe


All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 01.11.2010 23:50, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:

As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 
release. Could I be of any help to

clarify this text?


I removed now the second sentence since 90% of the LyX users won't 
understand the difference between a LaTeX-command and LaTeX-environment.


Don't you think it is worth to introduce this concept to LyX users? I 
think that many people, like me, are using LyX not only as WYSIWYM 
editor, but also as an entry point to the LaTeX ecosystem. I've found 
this document quite useful to better understand what are we speaking 
about...


http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Customizing_LaTeX


Another solution is to defined a new command that sets up the box 
for you. Then you would have to
insert this command as TeX-code instead of a box. I can define such 
a command for you, but you
need to decide what box you want to have. If you made this decision, 
send me a LyX file with your

box and I'll have a look.


I don't want anything fancy. Simply, something like that:

http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.pdf

Box has the same width as the text column and it is centred with it. 
Here the source file...


http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.lyx


In your example the box has a width of only 95% not 100%. However, I 
defined a command for your box in the preamble of the attached 
document. You can insert then your custom box by inserting the 
TeX-code command \mybox as I have shown in the example.


Great! Thank you so much. I've learnt a lot with this example. In 
general, I must thank all the people answering here. You always provide 
accurate and clear answers!


What I don't understand here is the "however". Please, what do you mean? 
I see {0.95\columnwidth}, so I guess this is the parameter I must tweak 
to reach this result.


Simply: a great universe of possibilities! Thanks!

BTW: I get two errors when opening the document the first time after 
saving it from your email:


Document header error
Unknown token: \use_refstyle \use_refstyle

Document header error
Unknown token: 0 0

They disappear once I locally save the document.

Please, where these errors come from? Thanks!


The color of the box is set in the document settings.

regards Uwe


All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Even though a bit late, I would like to regain access to LyX use by 
upgrading my installation to 2.0.0alpha6 and keeping track of old 
pending issues! Please, accept my excuses for being so late and see below.


Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 23.05.2010 00:23, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


Use a parbox as inner box. You can then edit the box text like any
other text.


Sorry, I don't understand this. What I read in the Embedded Objects
manual is:

Parboxes are very similar to minipages with the difference that they
cannot have footnotes. The main difference to minipages is that
minipages are in contrary to parboxes no real boxes but
LaTeX-environments.

Gosh! I am not able to understand this!


This is indeed horrible (and I'm the author of this). You can ignore 
the last sentence and I will have a look to make the difference more 
clear to new LyX users.


As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 
release. Could I be of any help to clarify this text?





Please, why I can edit the text
in a parbox as any other text and the one in a Minipage, not?


You can in both cases edit the text like any other text. I only 
propose to use a parbox here because minipages make in some special 
cases problems (when other LaTeX-packages don't support them). But 
these cases are very rare, so it's your decision what inner box you 
are using.

Sorry that I bothered you with LaTeX internals.


Thanks! It is great for me that you give me as much information as 
possible! The only problem with that is that I will come back here with 
more and more questions! Well, in fact, I am not able to figure out a 
way of avoiding that... :-)



Now I am able to set the paragraph settings for each box in a per box
basis. Please, is it possible to set this features document wide? 
Thanks!


Not via LyX. You can either copy a box as you like it to all places in 
your LyX document.
Another solution is to defined a new command that sets up the box for 
you. Then you would have to insert this command as TeX-code instead of 
a box. I can define such a command for you, but you need to decide 
what box you want to have. If you made this decision, send me a LyX 
file with your box and I'll have a look.


regards Uwe



That would be great! Your help would be really welcome.

I don't want anything fancy. Simply, something like that:

http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.pdf

Box has the same width as the text column and it is centred with it. 
Here the source file...


http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.lyx

Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Even though a bit late, I would like to regain access to LyX use by 
upgrading my installation to 2.0.0alpha6 and keeping track of old 
pending issues! Please, accept my excuses for being so late and see below.


Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 23.05.2010 00:23, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


Use a parbox as inner box. You can then edit the box text like any
other text.


Sorry, I don't understand this. What I read in the Embedded Objects
manual is:

Parboxes are very similar to minipages with the difference that they
cannot have footnotes. The main difference to minipages is that
minipages are in contrary to parboxes no real boxes but
LaTeX-environments.

Gosh! I am not able to understand this!


This is indeed horrible (and I'm the author of this). You can ignore 
the last sentence and I will have a look to make the difference more 
clear to new LyX users.


As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 
release. Could I be of any help to clarify this text?





Please, why I can edit the text
in a parbox as any other text and the one in a Minipage, not?


You can in both cases edit the text like any other text. I only 
propose to use a parbox here because minipages make in some special 
cases problems (when other LaTeX-packages don't support them). But 
these cases are very rare, so it's your decision what inner box you 
are using.

Sorry that I bothered you with LaTeX internals.


Thanks! It is great for me that you give me as much information as 
possible! The only problem with that is that I will come back here with 
more and more questions! Well, in fact, I am not able to figure out a 
way of avoiding that... :-)



Now I am able to set the paragraph settings for each box in a per box
basis. Please, is it possible to set this features document wide? 
Thanks!


Not via LyX. You can either copy a box as you like it to all places in 
your LyX document.
Another solution is to defined a new command that sets up the box for 
you. Then you would have to insert this command as TeX-code instead of 
a box. I can define such a command for you, but you need to decide 
what box you want to have. If you made this decision, send me a LyX 
file with your box and I'll have a look.


regards Uwe



That would be great! Your help would be really welcome.

I don't want anything fancy. Simply, something like that:

http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.pdf

Box has the same width as the text column and it is centred with it. 
Here the source file...


http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.lyx

Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Even though a bit late, I would like to regain access to LyX use by 
upgrading my installation to 2.0.0alpha6 and keeping track of old 
pending issues! Please, accept my excuses for being so late and see below.


Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 23.05.2010 00:23, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


Use a parbox as inner box. You can then edit the box text like any
other text.


Sorry, I don't understand this. What I read in the Embedded Objects
manual is:

"Parboxes are very similar to minipages with the difference that they
cannot have footnotes. The main difference to minipages is that
minipages are in contrary to parboxes no real boxes but
LaTeX-environments."

Gosh! I am not able to understand this!


This is indeed horrible (and I'm the author of this). You can ignore 
the last sentence and I will have a look to make the difference more 
clear to new LyX users.


As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 
release. Could I be of any help to clarify this text?





Please, why I can edit the text
in a parbox as any other text and the one in a Minipage, not?


You can in both cases edit the text like any other text. I only 
propose to use a parbox here because minipages make in some special 
cases problems (when other LaTeX-packages don't support them). But 
these cases are very rare, so it's your decision what inner box you 
are using.

Sorry that I bothered you with LaTeX internals.


Thanks! It is great for me that you give me as much information as 
possible! The only problem with that is that I will come back here with 
more and more questions! Well, in fact, I am not able to figure out a 
way of avoiding that... :-)



Now I am able to set the paragraph settings for each box in a per box
basis. Please, is it possible to set this features document wide? 
Thanks!


Not via LyX. You can either copy a box as you like it to all places in 
your LyX document.
Another solution is to defined a new command that sets up the box for 
you. Then you would have to insert this command as TeX-code instead of 
a box. I can define such a command for you, but you need to decide 
what box you want to have. If you made this decision, send me a LyX 
file with your box and I'll have a look.


regards Uwe



That would be great! Your help would be really welcome.

I don't want anything fancy. Simply, something like that:

http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.pdf

Box has the same width as the text column and it is centred with it. 
Here the source file...


http://ebiotic.net/bin/download/ICT/LyXBox/dummyTextMargins.lyx

Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

error viewing files (LyX 2.0.0alpha5)

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

I've just installed and reconfigured LyX 2.0.0alpha5 (as per 
LyX-2.0.0alpha5+qt4.dmg installed in a Mac OS X 10.5.8, MacTeX) and I am 
facing some weird problem when trying to view newly created files. I'm 
not able to find a clear path to the error. I thought it only affected 
to files based on Noweb class, but it seems to happen with any other 
file as well. Here what I found in the console:


08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Writing to file 
newfile1.tex

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Processing code chunks ...
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] You can now run LaTeX 
on 'newfile1.tex'
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 
/Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-2.0.0alpha5/src/support/Systemcall.cpp
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] (217): Systemcall: 
'editor 
/var/folders/6h/6hyderV4GAmSiGLPDwB16k+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex' 
did not start!
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] (217): Systemcall: 
'editor 
/var/folders/6h/6hyderV4GAmSiGLPDwB16k+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex' 
did not start!
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 
/Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-2.0.0alpha5/src/support/Systemcall.cpp(218): 
error The process failed to start. Either the invoked program is 
missing, or you may have insufficient permissions to invoke the program.

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Error: Cannot view file
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] An error occurred 
whilst running .../-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex


Do these messages make any sense for you? I don't know if I've messed up 
things. If yes, I don't know where! Thanks!


Thanks for your help!

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

error viewing files (LyX 2.0.0alpha5)

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

I've just installed and reconfigured LyX 2.0.0alpha5 (as per 
LyX-2.0.0alpha5+qt4.dmg installed in a Mac OS X 10.5.8, MacTeX) and I am 
facing some weird problem when trying to view newly created files. I'm 
not able to find a clear path to the error. I thought it only affected 
to files based on Noweb class, but it seems to happen with any other 
file as well. Here what I found in the console:


08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Writing to file 
newfile1.tex

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Processing code chunks ...
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] You can now run LaTeX 
on 'newfile1.tex'
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 
/Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-2.0.0alpha5/src/support/Systemcall.cpp
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] (217): Systemcall: 
'editor 
/var/folders/6h/6hyderV4GAmSiGLPDwB16k+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex' 
did not start!
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] (217): Systemcall: 
'editor 
/var/folders/6h/6hyderV4GAmSiGLPDwB16k+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex' 
did not start!
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 
/Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-2.0.0alpha5/src/support/Systemcall.cpp(218): 
error The process failed to start. Either the invoked program is 
missing, or you may have insufficient permissions to invoke the program.

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Error: Cannot view file
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] An error occurred 
whilst running .../-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex


Do these messages make any sense for you? I don't know if I've messed up 
things. If yes, I don't know where! Thanks!


Thanks for your help!

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

error viewing files (LyX 2.0.0alpha5)

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

I've just installed and reconfigured LyX 2.0.0alpha5 (as per 
LyX-2.0.0alpha5+qt4.dmg installed in a Mac OS X 10.5.8, MacTeX) and I am 
facing some weird problem when trying to view newly created files. I'm 
not able to find a clear path to the error. I thought it only affected 
to files based on Noweb class, but it seems to happen with any other 
file as well. Here what I found in the console:


08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Writing to file 
newfile1.tex

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Processing code chunks ...
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] You can now run LaTeX 
on 'newfile1.tex'
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 
/Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-2.0.0alpha5/src/support/Systemcall.cpp
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] (217): Systemcall: 
'editor 
"/var/folders/6h/6hyderV4GAmSiGLPDwB16k+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex"' 
did not start!
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] (217): Systemcall: 
'editor 
"/var/folders/6h/6hyderV4GAmSiGLPDwB16k+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex"' 
did not start!
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 
/Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-2.0.0alpha5/src/support/Systemcall.cpp(218): 
error The process failed to start. Either the invoked program is 
missing, or you may have insufficient permissions to invoke the program.

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] Error: Cannot view file
08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] 

08/09/10 9:45:21 [0x0-0x5b05b].org.lyx.lyx[1879] An error occurred 
whilst running .../-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1879/lyx_tmpbuf0/newfile1.tex"


Do these messages make any sense for you? I don't know if I've messed up 
things. If yes, I don't know where! Thanks!


Thanks for your help!

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: DUDA LYNX

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Ana!

Please, take into account that this is an English speaking list!

Find below a tentative translation of your question:

I would like to use LyX to write my Ph.D. Thesis on Systems 
engineering. May I customize LyX to fit the requirements of my institution?


And here a tentative answer:

Yes, you can! I think the best path is to look for classes and packages 
a available for writing thesis and, once you get a clear idea about how 
LyX behaves, go to the Customization manual available in the LyX's help 
menu.


This could be a good starting point...

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis

I am new to LyX myself and I've found LyX wiki, documentation and great 
users' list really helpful. Nevertheless, none of these sources of 
information would avoid that you must spent a number of ours working out 
entry level problems and doubts! Feel free to contact me in Spanish is 
you want, but would consider this English speaking list as the right 
place to get answers!


Hope this helps,

Ricardo



Ana Guerrero wrote:
HOLA, SALUDOS CORDIALES, ESTOY TRATANDO DE ESCRIBIR MI TESIS DOCTORAL 
DEL AREA DE INGENIERIA EN SISTEMAS CON LYNX PERO RESPECTO A LAS CLASES 
COMO PUEDO DECIRLE A LYNX QUE EL TRABAJO QUE DESEO HACER ES UNA TESIS 
DOCTORAL, SOY DE MEXICO Y MI ASESOR TIENE SU ESTILO PROPIO, PUEDE 
AYUDARME LYNX, AGRADEZCO SU TIEMPO Y ATENCIONES Y APOYO, GRACIAS, LO 
QUE PASA ES QUE NO ME QUEDA CLARO EL MODELO DE LO QUE VES ES A LO QUE 
TE REFIERES, QUIERO REFERIRME A TESIS DOCTORAL DE INGENIERIA CON EL 
ESTILO PROPIO DE EL ASESOR O DIRECTOR DE TESIS. MUCHAS GRACIAS. 
DISCULPEN LAS MOLESTIAS.


Más herramientas para una vida más práctica. Estamos reinventando un 
nuevo Hotmail. Ver más http://www.nuevohotmail.com


--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: DUDA LYNX

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Ana!

Please, take into account that this is an English speaking list!

Find below a tentative translation of your question:

I would like to use LyX to write my Ph.D. Thesis on Systems 
engineering. May I customize LyX to fit the requirements of my institution?


And here a tentative answer:

Yes, you can! I think the best path is to look for classes and packages 
a available for writing thesis and, once you get a clear idea about how 
LyX behaves, go to the Customization manual available in the LyX's help 
menu.


This could be a good starting point...

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis

I am new to LyX myself and I've found LyX wiki, documentation and great 
users' list really helpful. Nevertheless, none of these sources of 
information would avoid that you must spent a number of ours working out 
entry level problems and doubts! Feel free to contact me in Spanish is 
you want, but would consider this English speaking list as the right 
place to get answers!


Hope this helps,

Ricardo



Ana Guerrero wrote:
HOLA, SALUDOS CORDIALES, ESTOY TRATANDO DE ESCRIBIR MI TESIS DOCTORAL 
DEL AREA DE INGENIERIA EN SISTEMAS CON LYNX PERO RESPECTO A LAS CLASES 
COMO PUEDO DECIRLE A LYNX QUE EL TRABAJO QUE DESEO HACER ES UNA TESIS 
DOCTORAL, SOY DE MEXICO Y MI ASESOR TIENE SU ESTILO PROPIO, PUEDE 
AYUDARME LYNX, AGRADEZCO SU TIEMPO Y ATENCIONES Y APOYO, GRACIAS, LO 
QUE PASA ES QUE NO ME QUEDA CLARO EL MODELO DE LO QUE VES ES A LO QUE 
TE REFIERES, QUIERO REFERIRME A TESIS DOCTORAL DE INGENIERIA CON EL 
ESTILO PROPIO DE EL ASESOR O DIRECTOR DE TESIS. MUCHAS GRACIAS. 
DISCULPEN LAS MOLESTIAS.


Más herramientas para una vida más práctica. Estamos reinventando un 
nuevo Hotmail. Ver más http://www.nuevohotmail.com


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CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: DUDA LYNX

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Ana!

Please, take into account that this is an English "speaking" list!

Find below a tentative translation of your question:

"I would like to use LyX to write my Ph.D. Thesis on Systems 
engineering. May I customize LyX to fit the requirements of my institution?"


And here a tentative answer:

Yes, you can! I think the best path is to look for classes and packages 
a available for writing thesis and, once you get a clear idea about how 
LyX behaves, go to the Customization manual available in the LyX's help 
menu.


This could be a good starting point...

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis

I am new to LyX myself and I've found LyX wiki, documentation and great 
users' list really helpful. Nevertheless, none of these sources of 
information would avoid that you must spent a number of ours working out 
entry level problems and doubts! Feel free to contact me in Spanish is 
you want, but would consider this English speaking list as the right 
place to get answers!


Hope this helps,

Ricardo



Ana Guerrero wrote:
HOLA, SALUDOS CORDIALES, ESTOY TRATANDO DE ESCRIBIR MI TESIS DOCTORAL 
DEL AREA DE INGENIERIA EN SISTEMAS CON LYNX PERO RESPECTO A LAS CLASES 
COMO PUEDO DECIRLE A LYNX QUE EL TRABAJO QUE DESEO HACER ES UNA TESIS 
DOCTORAL, SOY DE MEXICO Y MI ASESOR TIENE SU ESTILO PROPIO, PUEDE 
AYUDARME LYNX, AGRADEZCO SU TIEMPO Y ATENCIONES Y APOYO, GRACIAS, LO 
QUE PASA ES QUE NO ME QUEDA CLARO EL MODELO DE LO QUE VES ES A LO QUE 
TE REFIERES, QUIERO REFERIRME A TESIS DOCTORAL DE INGENIERIA CON EL 
ESTILO PROPIO DE EL ASESOR O DIRECTOR DE TESIS. MUCHAS GRACIAS. 
DISCULPEN LAS MOLESTIAS.


Más herramientas para una vida más práctica. Estamos reinventando un 
nuevo Hotmail. Ver más 


--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

Jose Quesada wrote:

ok, attached is an example.
At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work.

Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off 
inline spelling.
htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades 
lineally with number of headings.


If you could reproduce this on other systems, then I think we have a bug.


I am not able to reproduce this behaviour in a 2.0.0alpha3 (MacTeX-2009) 
installation running on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Reaction to 
typing is quite normal here.


What I've not installed here is Springer LNCS article class. Could this 
make a difference?


HTH,

Ricardo

--
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CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

Jose Quesada wrote:

ok, attached is an example.
At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work.

Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off 
inline spelling.
htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades 
lineally with number of headings.


If you could reproduce this on other systems, then I think we have a bug.


I am not able to reproduce this behaviour in a 2.0.0alpha3 (MacTeX-2009) 
installation running on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Reaction to 
typing is quite normal here.


What I've not installed here is Springer LNCS article class. Could this 
make a difference?


HTH,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

Jose Quesada wrote:

ok, attached is an example.
At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work.

Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off 
inline spelling.
htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades 
lineally with number of headings.


If you could reproduce this on other systems, then I think we have a bug.


I am not able to reproduce this behaviour in a 2.0.0alpha3 (MacTeX-2009) 
installation running on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Reaction to 
typing is quite normal here.


What I've not installed here is Springer LNCS article class. Could this 
make a difference?


HTH,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks Uwe.

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 23.05.2010 09:45, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:

Simply use a shaded box (or use a framed outer box, no inner box, the 
option Allow page breaks if you don't need a background color). 
Attached is an example LyX file.


The point with this option is that I am not able to understand when it 
is available and when greyed out for one or other reason. For instance, 
look at this image from the sample file you have sent to me...


http://xen.net/onLyX/allowPageBreakGO.png

The shaded box is split into a number of pages although Allow page 
breaks is greyed out and it is not checked. Please, why? Does a shaded 
box flow from one page to the next if required by default?


Please, why this is not de default behaviour for other boxes as, for 
instance, a simple frame?


Thanks!

Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Shaded boxes are in general able to split across pages. The other 
boxes are not, except of those types where the Allow page breaks is 
enabled.


regards Uwe

Sorry if I seam, or I am!, a bit pigheaded but, please, why are there 
boxes where Allow page breaks can be enable and other where it can't?


Thank you so much!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks Uwe.

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 23.05.2010 09:45, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:

Simply use a shaded box (or use a framed outer box, no inner box, the 
option Allow page breaks if you don't need a background color). 
Attached is an example LyX file.


The point with this option is that I am not able to understand when it 
is available and when greyed out for one or other reason. For instance, 
look at this image from the sample file you have sent to me...


http://xen.net/onLyX/allowPageBreakGO.png

The shaded box is split into a number of pages although Allow page 
breaks is greyed out and it is not checked. Please, why? Does a shaded 
box flow from one page to the next if required by default?


Please, why this is not de default behaviour for other boxes as, for 
instance, a simple frame?


Thanks!

Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Shaded boxes are in general able to split across pages. The other 
boxes are not, except of those types where the Allow page breaks is 
enabled.


regards Uwe

Sorry if I seam, or I am!, a bit pigheaded but, please, why are there 
boxes where Allow page breaks can be enable and other where it can't?


Thank you so much!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks Uwe.

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 23.05.2010 09:45, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:

Simply use a shaded box (or use a framed outer box, no inner box, the 
option "Allow page breaks" if you don't need a background color). 
Attached is an example LyX file.


The point with this option is that I am not able to understand when it 
is available and when greyed out for one or other reason. For instance, 
look at this image from the sample file you have sent to me...


http://xen.net/onLyX/allowPageBreakGO.png

The shaded box is split into a number of pages although "Allow page 
breaks" is greyed out and it is not checked. Please, why? Does a shaded 
box flow from one page to the next if required by default?


Please, why this is not de default behaviour for other boxes as, for 
instance, a simple frame?


Thanks!

Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Shaded boxes are in general able to split across pages. The other 
boxes are not, except of those types where the "Allow page breaks" is 
enabled.


regards Uwe

Sorry if I seam, or I am!, a bit pigheaded but, please, why are there 
boxes where "Allow page breaks" can be enable and other where it can't?


Thank you so much!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all!

I've been looking for information about how to draw a frame/set a 
background colour for a groups of paragraphs that split into multiple pages.


I've read chapter 5 of the Embedded Objects manual where I was not able 
to find the answer and found this in LaTeX Community...


http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5t=2577start=0st=0sk=tsd=a

This link refers to http://www.ctan.org/pkg/framed.

Please, is there any way of getting a frame splitting into several pages 
by using LyX graphic UI or must I go into details and first of all 
understand how to load and use this LaTeX framed package? Thanks!


All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all!

I've been looking for information about how to draw a frame/set a 
background colour for a groups of paragraphs that split into multiple pages.


I've read chapter 5 of the Embedded Objects manual where I was not able 
to find the answer and found this in LaTeX Community...


http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5t=2577start=0st=0sk=tsd=a

This link refers to http://www.ctan.org/pkg/framed.

Please, is there any way of getting a frame splitting into several pages 
by using LyX graphic UI or must I go into details and first of all 
understand how to load and use this LaTeX framed package? Thanks!


All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

a box around text on multiple pages

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all!

I've been looking for information about how to draw a frame/set a 
background colour for a groups of paragraphs that split into multiple pages.


I've read chapter 5 of the Embedded Objects manual where I was not able 
to find the answer and found this in LaTeX Community...


http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5=2577=0=0=t=a

This link refers to http://www.ctan.org/pkg/framed.

Please, is there any way of getting a frame splitting into several pages 
by using LyX graphic UI or must I go into details and first of all 
understand how to load and use this LaTeX framed package? Thanks!


All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Ghostscript error running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3 on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS X 10.5.8. I've 
installed GhostScript as per...


http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/imaxima/Site/Easy_Install_on_Mac_OS_X.html
http://idisk.mac.com/yhonda-Public/ghostscript.dmg

When I try to preview the Embedded Objects Help manual, I get an error. 
These lines are recorded in the Mac OS X Console.


22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] GPL Ghostscript 
8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] GPL Ghostscript 
8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript GPL 
Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript GPL 
Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


GS seems to be correctly installed:

sh-3.2# gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
Copyright (C) 2007 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS

Please, could you help me with this issue? Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Ghostscript error running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 22.05.2010 16:41, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


It should work if you upgrade to Ghostscript 8.71 (note that version 
8.70 is also buggy in this respect.).


regards Uwe


Updated to 8.71...

sh-3.2# gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS


But view keeps failing:

23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:50 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


Please, Pavel, are you using 8.71 on Linux? I think I must now create a 
new ticket, musn't I? Thanks!


Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks! Please, see below.

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 21.05.2010 08:38, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


I know I must read through the manuals!


Yes, in your case the section Colored Boxes of the EmbeddedObjects 
manual.



But some help will be welcome as
I am still trying to understand the whole scenario. At what point
changes area allowed by using LyX WYSIWYM interface or I must play with
configuration/customization files is not clear for me yet!


Configuration is to configure LyX#s defaults, look and feel, etc. This 
is independent of your text features.


OK! I got the point! Thanks.



As for this doubt, please have a look at this simple file generated
using article Document class.

http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.pdf
http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.lyx

What I want to control in this file, is the margins of the box: I would
like that it is aligned with the previous paragraph: same margin on the
left, same margin on the right.


Then turn off the paragraph indentation. (Set the cursor in front of 
the box and use the paragraph settings menu. There uncheck the open 
Indent Paragraph.)


What I was doing was to put the cursor within the box or over the 
label. I got the point now. Thanks!


Note that a box always has a border which is of course wider than the 
box content. The border can be visible or invisible. So when you want 
to have the same overall width for the box than for the text column, 
you need to decrease its with to e.g. 98 column%.


Please nevertheless have a look at the box chapter in the 
EmbeddedObjects manual to learn more about the box handling.



The same with the text within the box.


Use a parbox as inner box. You can then edit the box text like any 
other text.


Sorry, I don't understand this. What I read in the Embedded Objects 
manual is:


Parboxes are very similar to minipages with the difference that they 
cannot have footnotes. The main difference to minipages is that 
minipages are in contrary to parboxes no real boxes but LaTeX-environments.


Gosh! I am not able to understand this! Please, why I can edit the text 
in a parbox as any other text and the one in a Minipage, not? Is it 
because being a LaTeX-environment, text in a MiniPage doesn't answer 
to LyX commands?



Attached is a LyX example file.

regards Uwe



Now I am able to set the paragraph settings for each box in a per box 
basis. Please, is it possible to set this features document wide? Thanks!


Best regards,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Ghostscript error running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3 on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS X 10.5.8. I've 
installed GhostScript as per...


http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/imaxima/Site/Easy_Install_on_Mac_OS_X.html
http://idisk.mac.com/yhonda-Public/ghostscript.dmg

When I try to preview the Embedded Objects Help manual, I get an error. 
These lines are recorded in the Mac OS X Console.


22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] GPL Ghostscript 
8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] GPL Ghostscript 
8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript GPL 
Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript GPL 
Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


GS seems to be correctly installed:

sh-3.2# gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
Copyright (C) 2007 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS

Please, could you help me with this issue? Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Ghostscript error running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 22.05.2010 16:41, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


It should work if you upgrade to Ghostscript 8.71 (note that version 
8.70 is also buggy in this respect.).


regards Uwe


Updated to 8.71...

sh-3.2# gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS


But view keeps failing:

23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:50 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


Please, Pavel, are you using 8.71 on Linux? I think I must now create a 
new ticket, musn't I? Thanks!


Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks! Please, see below.

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 21.05.2010 08:38, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


I know I must read through the manuals!


Yes, in your case the section Colored Boxes of the EmbeddedObjects 
manual.



But some help will be welcome as
I am still trying to understand the whole scenario. At what point
changes area allowed by using LyX WYSIWYM interface or I must play with
configuration/customization files is not clear for me yet!


Configuration is to configure LyX#s defaults, look and feel, etc. This 
is independent of your text features.


OK! I got the point! Thanks.



As for this doubt, please have a look at this simple file generated
using article Document class.

http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.pdf
http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.lyx

What I want to control in this file, is the margins of the box: I would
like that it is aligned with the previous paragraph: same margin on the
left, same margin on the right.


Then turn off the paragraph indentation. (Set the cursor in front of 
the box and use the paragraph settings menu. There uncheck the open 
Indent Paragraph.)


What I was doing was to put the cursor within the box or over the 
label. I got the point now. Thanks!


Note that a box always has a border which is of course wider than the 
box content. The border can be visible or invisible. So when you want 
to have the same overall width for the box than for the text column, 
you need to decrease its with to e.g. 98 column%.


Please nevertheless have a look at the box chapter in the 
EmbeddedObjects manual to learn more about the box handling.



The same with the text within the box.


Use a parbox as inner box. You can then edit the box text like any 
other text.


Sorry, I don't understand this. What I read in the Embedded Objects 
manual is:


Parboxes are very similar to minipages with the difference that they 
cannot have footnotes. The main difference to minipages is that 
minipages are in contrary to parboxes no real boxes but LaTeX-environments.


Gosh! I am not able to understand this! Please, why I can edit the text 
in a parbox as any other text and the one in a Minipage, not? Is it 
because being a LaTeX-environment, text in a MiniPage doesn't answer 
to LyX commands?



Attached is a LyX example file.

regards Uwe



Now I am able to set the paragraph settings for each box in a per box 
basis. Please, is it possible to set this features document wide? Thanks!


Best regards,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Ghostscript error running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3 on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS X 10.5.8. I've 
installed GhostScript as per...


http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/imaxima/Site/Easy_Install_on_Mac_OS_X.html
http://idisk.mac.com/yhonda-Public/ghostscript.dmg

When I try to preview the Embedded Objects Help manual, I get an error. 
These lines are recorded in the Mac OS X Console.


22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] GPL Ghostscript 
8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] GPL Ghostscript 
8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript GPL 
Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22/05/10 16:34:11 [0x0-0x6a06a0].org.lyx.lyx[79249] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript GPL 
Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


GS seems to be correctly installed:

sh-3.2# gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
Copyright (C) 2007 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS>

Please, could you help me with this issue? Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Ghostscript error running LyX 2.0.0 alpha3

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 22.05.2010 16:41, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


It should work if you upgrade to Ghostscript 8.71 (note that version 
8.70 is also buggy in this respect.).


regards Uwe


Updated to 8.71...

sh-3.2# gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS>


But view keeps failing:

23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
23/05/10 0:03:49 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] dvipng warning: No 
GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
23/05/10 0:03:50 [0x0-0x70a70a].org.lyx.lyx[13122] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


Please, Pavel, are you using 8.71 on Linux? I think I must now create a 
new ticket, musn't I? Thanks!


Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks! Please, see below.

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 21.05.2010 08:38, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.:


I know I must read through the manuals!


Yes, in your case the section "Colored Boxes" of the EmbeddedObjects 
manual.



But some help will be welcome as
I am still trying to understand the whole scenario. At what point
changes area allowed by using LyX WYSIWYM interface or I must play with
configuration/customization files is not clear for me yet!


Configuration is to configure LyX#s defaults, look and feel, etc. This 
is independent of your text features.


OK! I got the point! Thanks.



As for this doubt, please have a look at this simple file generated
using article Document class.

http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.pdf
http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.lyx

What I want to control in this file, is the margins of the box: I would
like that it is aligned with the previous paragraph: same margin on the
left, same margin on the right.


Then turn off the paragraph indentation. (Set the cursor in front of 
the box and use the paragraph settings menu. There uncheck the open 
"Indent Paragraph".)


What I was doing was to put the cursor within the box or over the 
"label". I got the point now. Thanks!


Note that a box always has a border which is of course wider than the 
box content. The border can be visible or invisible. So when you want 
to have the same overall width for the box than for the text column, 
you need to decrease its with to e.g. 98 column%.


Please nevertheless have a look at the box chapter in the 
EmbeddedObjects manual to learn more about the box handling.



The same with the text within the box.


Use a parbox as inner box. You can then edit the box text like any 
other text.


Sorry, I don't understand this. What I read in the Embedded Objects 
manual is:


"Parboxes are very similar to minipages with the difference that they 
cannot have footnotes. The main difference to minipages is that 
minipages are in contrary to parboxes no real boxes but LaTeX-environments."


Gosh! I am not able to understand this! Please, why I can edit the text 
in a parbox as any other text and the one in a Minipage, not? Is it 
because being a "LaTeX-environment", text in a MiniPage doesn't answer 
to LyX "commands"?



Attached is a LyX example file.

regards Uwe



Now I am able to set the paragraph settings for each box in a per box 
basis. Please, is it possible to set this features document wide? Thanks!


Best regards,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Uwe!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

I don't understand what you mean.

regards Uwe



I know I must read through the manuals! But some help will be welcome as 
I am still trying to understand the whole scenario. At what point 
changes area allowed by using LyX WYSIWYM interface or I must play with 
configuration/customization files is not clear for me yet!


As for this doubt, please have a look at this simple file generated 
using article Document class.


http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.pdf
http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.lyx

What I want to control in this file, is the margins of the box: I would 
like that it is aligned with the previous paragraph: same margin on the 
left, same margin on the right. The same with the text within the box.


Please, could this be done my using the options available in the graphic 
interface or I must play with other configuration files?


I'm currently working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3 running on Mac OS X, Leopard 
and Snow Leopard.


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

update doesn't work

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

I've seen this before with LyX 1.6.5 on Mac OS X but never reported it. 
Now, working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3, I have the same problem: View works 
fine, but I've never got Update working. I've to close the current view 
(whatever PDF viewer I am using, Adobe or Skim, for instance), to get an 
updated view.


Please, am I missing something obvious? Thanks!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Lower-res PDFs

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Frederick!

Frederick Noronha wrote:

Many thanks Uwe for all your useful tips. Wouldn't it be better for
Lyx itself to allow for low-res PDF output, printable PDF output and
what not?

Do Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor work with GNU/Linux? FN
  


To the best of my knowledge, Foxit PDF Editor runs only on Windows 
platforms. Adobe Acrobat Professional runs on Windows and Mac.


This is the only tool I've heard about for Linux. But I've not tested it 
though!


http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/download.html

HTH,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: update doesn't work

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Done! It works great! Thanks.

BH wrote:


The distinction between View and Update doesn't make much difference
on Mac. What you need to do is set up your pdf viewer to pay attention
to changes in the .pdf file. In Skim, you can do that via Skim 
Preferences  Sync  Check for file changes.

BH

  
I guess it has to be with how Mac builds images on screen. Being this 
truth, doesn't make it sense to remove the update button from the Mac 
version?


I've no idea about how tough this action would be!

Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Uwe!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

I don't understand what you mean.

regards Uwe



I know I must read through the manuals! But some help will be welcome as 
I am still trying to understand the whole scenario. At what point 
changes area allowed by using LyX WYSIWYM interface or I must play with 
configuration/customization files is not clear for me yet!


As for this doubt, please have a look at this simple file generated 
using article Document class.


http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.pdf
http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.lyx

What I want to control in this file, is the margins of the box: I would 
like that it is aligned with the previous paragraph: same margin on the 
left, same margin on the right. The same with the text within the box.


Please, could this be done my using the options available in the graphic 
interface or I must play with other configuration files?


I'm currently working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3 running on Mac OS X, Leopard 
and Snow Leopard.


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

update doesn't work

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

I've seen this before with LyX 1.6.5 on Mac OS X but never reported it. 
Now, working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3, I have the same problem: View works 
fine, but I've never got Update working. I've to close the current view 
(whatever PDF viewer I am using, Adobe or Skim, for instance), to get an 
updated view.


Please, am I missing something obvious? Thanks!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Lower-res PDFs

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Frederick!

Frederick Noronha wrote:

Many thanks Uwe for all your useful tips. Wouldn't it be better for
Lyx itself to allow for low-res PDF output, printable PDF output and
what not?

Do Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor work with GNU/Linux? FN
  


To the best of my knowledge, Foxit PDF Editor runs only on Windows 
platforms. Adobe Acrobat Professional runs on Windows and Mac.


This is the only tool I've heard about for Linux. But I've not tested it 
though!


http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/download.html

HTH,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: update doesn't work

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Done! It works great! Thanks.

BH wrote:


The distinction between View and Update doesn't make much difference
on Mac. What you need to do is set up your pdf viewer to pay attention
to changes in the .pdf file. In Skim, you can do that via Skim 
Preferences  Sync  Check for file changes.

BH

  
I guess it has to be with how Mac builds images on screen. Being this 
truth, doesn't make it sense to remove the update button from the Mac 
version?


I've no idea about how tough this action would be!

Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: box alignment

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Uwe!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

I don't understand what you mean.

regards Uwe



I know I must read through the manuals! But some help will be welcome as 
I am still trying to understand the whole scenario. At what point 
changes area allowed by using LyX WYSIWYM interface or I must play with 
configuration/customization files is not clear for me yet!


As for this doubt, please have a look at this simple file generated 
using article Document class.


http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.pdf
http://xen.net/onLyX/dummyTextMargins.lyx

What I want to control in this file, is the margins of the box: I would 
like that it is aligned with the previous paragraph: same margin on the 
left, same margin on the right. The same with the text within the box.


Please, could this be done my using the options available in the graphic 
interface or I must play with other configuration files?


I'm currently working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3 running on Mac OS X, Leopard 
and Snow Leopard.


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

update doesn't work

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

I've seen this before with LyX 1.6.5 on Mac OS X but never reported it. 
Now, working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3, I have the same problem: View works 
fine, but I've never got Update working. I've to close the current view 
(whatever PDF viewer I am using, Adobe or Skim, for instance), to get an 
updated view.


Please, am I missing something obvious? Thanks!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Lower-res PDFs

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Frederick!

Frederick Noronha wrote:

Many thanks Uwe for all your useful tips. Wouldn't it be better for
Lyx itself to allow for low-res PDF output, printable PDF output and
what not?

Do Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor work with GNU/Linux? FN
  


To the best of my knowledge, Foxit PDF Editor runs only on Windows 
platforms. Adobe Acrobat Professional runs on Windows and Mac.


This is the only tool I've heard about for Linux. But I've not tested it 
though!


http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/download.html

HTH,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: update doesn't work

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Done! It works great! Thanks.

BH wrote:


The distinction between View and Update doesn't make much difference
on Mac. What you need to do is set up your pdf viewer to pay attention
to changes in the .pdf file. In Skim, you can do that via Skim >
Preferences > Sync > Check for file changes.

BH

  
I guess it has to be with how Mac builds images on screen. Being this 
truth, doesn't make it sense to remove the update button from the Mac 
version?


I've no idea about how tough this action would be!

Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

entry-level question

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all,

New to this incredible edition framework, please, forgive me if I am 
missing something obvious.


One the most difficult decisions I'm facing while starting to work with 
LyX is to chose what Document class I must use for a given work. It 
seems to me really hard do decide between the multiple options without 
having an in depth knowledge of the whole LyX ecosystem.


So, please, could you advice me on what Document class I must use to 
edit a problems book?


It will accompany a Quantitative Genetics essay. It will include text 
paragraphs presenting the problems by themselves, each of them composed 
of several parts. After each part, some text paragraphs explaining the 
theoretical basis of the proposed solution will appear followed by the 
solution by itself that will include numbered mathematical formulas 
(they will be cross-referenced in the text) and some more text 
explaining the reasoning.


Must I use book? book (KOMA-Script)? Any other Document class?

Thank you so much for your help!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

entry-level question

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all,

New to this incredible edition framework, please, forgive me if I am 
missing something obvious.


One the most difficult decisions I'm facing while starting to work with 
LyX is to chose what Document class I must use for a given work. It 
seems to me really hard do decide between the multiple options without 
having an in depth knowledge of the whole LyX ecosystem.


So, please, could you advice me on what Document class I must use to 
edit a problems book?


It will accompany a Quantitative Genetics essay. It will include text 
paragraphs presenting the problems by themselves, each of them composed 
of several parts. After each part, some text paragraphs explaining the 
theoretical basis of the proposed solution will appear followed by the 
solution by itself that will include numbered mathematical formulas 
(they will be cross-referenced in the text) and some more text 
explaining the reasoning.


Must I use book? book (KOMA-Script)? Any other Document class?

Thank you so much for your help!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

entry-level question

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all,

New to this incredible edition framework, please, forgive me if I am 
missing something obvious.


One the most difficult decisions I'm facing while starting to work with 
LyX is to chose what Document class I must use for a given work. It 
seems to me really hard do decide between the multiple options without 
having an in depth knowledge of the whole LyX ecosystem.


So, please, could you advice me on what Document class I must use to 
edit a problems book?


It will accompany a Quantitative Genetics essay. It will include text 
paragraphs presenting the problems by themselves, each of them composed 
of several parts. After each part, some text paragraphs explaining the 
theoretical basis of the proposed solution will appear followed by the 
solution by itself that will include numbered mathematical formulas 
(they will be cross-referenced in the text) and some more text 
explaining the reasoning.


Must I use book? book (KOMA-Script)? Any other Document class?

Thank you so much for your help!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBioTIC.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

To satisfy my curiosity, what are your key features?


Main of all, the improved Sweave/R support.

Spell-checking on the fly and multilingual Thesaurus are both really 
important to ease life of Spanish speaking/writing users

I would like to contribute to the development
of the new releases tough I'm far from being a programmer!


What you can always do is to spread LyX by tellig others how much it 
can help when writing texts. 


That's what I'm struggling to do! Each day I discover tones of new 
wonderful possibilities :-)


What I've not had time yet is to explore the possibilities of LyX for 
guided editing, that is, for me at least, to use LyX as an interface 
to create structured documents. Another research line will be the 
integration with a wiki system. XWiki is our option. The XWiki Team is 
currently working with Word and Open Office integration with XWiki. I 
would like to propose to use LyX as another interface to XWiki to take 
profit of both worlds!


Thank you so much for your great work!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Another research line will be the
integration with a wiki system. XWiki is our option. The XWiki Team is
currently working with Word and Open Office integration with XWiki. I
would like to propose to use LyX as another interface to XWiki to take
profit of both worlds!


This would be difficult because our file format changes with every 
major release.


I get the point, but even though if in a first time XWiki is not capable 
of rendering documents, I think one point could be to be able to use 
XWiki as backend for LyX. I mean, LyX code will be stored in XWiki, thus 
it could be edited/rendered by any other LyX installation or edited 
directly within XWiki.
We are also using XWiki at my work and I managed to create wiki files 
by exporting LyX files as HTML (via eLyXer) and then import the result 
to XWiki. But in most cases I simply attach the PDF created with LyX 
to the Wiki page in XWiki. We found out that this is often the best 
solution also for Word documents.


Of course this is an option, but barely uses XWiki capabilities other 
than the attachment's historical.


regards Uwe

p.s. If you use my LyX for Windows installer 
(http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller), eLyXer is the default 
LyX to HTML converter.


I'm currently working on Mac OS X platforms like most of the team core, 
but we must be able to support Windows and at least one/two Linux 
flavours to be inclusive with as much people as possible in our 
proposals for different kind of tools. So, any information about Mac, 
Windows or Linux platforms is extremely welcome!


Greetings,

Ricardo


--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

To satisfy my curiosity, what are your key features?


Main of all, the improved Sweave/R support.

Spell-checking on the fly and multilingual Thesaurus are both really 
important to ease life of Spanish speaking/writing users

I would like to contribute to the development
of the new releases tough I'm far from being a programmer!


What you can always do is to spread LyX by tellig others how much it 
can help when writing texts. 


That's what I'm struggling to do! Each day I discover tones of new 
wonderful possibilities :-)


What I've not had time yet is to explore the possibilities of LyX for 
guided editing, that is, for me at least, to use LyX as an interface 
to create structured documents. Another research line will be the 
integration with a wiki system. XWiki is our option. The XWiki Team is 
currently working with Word and Open Office integration with XWiki. I 
would like to propose to use LyX as another interface to XWiki to take 
profit of both worlds!


Thank you so much for your great work!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Another research line will be the
integration with a wiki system. XWiki is our option. The XWiki Team is
currently working with Word and Open Office integration with XWiki. I
would like to propose to use LyX as another interface to XWiki to take
profit of both worlds!


This would be difficult because our file format changes with every 
major release.


I get the point, but even though if in a first time XWiki is not capable 
of rendering documents, I think one point could be to be able to use 
XWiki as backend for LyX. I mean, LyX code will be stored in XWiki, thus 
it could be edited/rendered by any other LyX installation or edited 
directly within XWiki.
We are also using XWiki at my work and I managed to create wiki files 
by exporting LyX files as HTML (via eLyXer) and then import the result 
to XWiki. But in most cases I simply attach the PDF created with LyX 
to the Wiki page in XWiki. We found out that this is often the best 
solution also for Word documents.


Of course this is an option, but barely uses XWiki capabilities other 
than the attachment's historical.


regards Uwe

p.s. If you use my LyX for Windows installer 
(http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller), eLyXer is the default 
LyX to HTML converter.


I'm currently working on Mac OS X platforms like most of the team core, 
but we must be able to support Windows and at least one/two Linux 
flavours to be inclusive with as much people as possible in our 
proposals for different kind of tools. So, any information about Mac, 
Windows or Linux platforms is extremely welcome!


Greetings,

Ricardo


--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

To satisfy my curiosity, what are your key features?


Main of all, the improved Sweave/R support.

Spell-checking on the fly and multilingual Thesaurus are both really 
important to ease life of Spanish speaking/writing users

I would like to contribute to the development
of the new releases tough I'm far from being a programmer!


What you can always do is to spread LyX by tellig others how much it 
can help when writing texts. 


That's what I'm struggling to do! Each day I discover tones of new 
wonderful possibilities :-)


What I've not had time yet is to explore the possibilities of LyX for 
"guided editing", that is, for me at least, to use LyX as an interface 
to create structured documents. Another "research" line will be the 
integration with a wiki system. XWiki is our option. The XWiki Team is 
currently working with Word and Open Office integration with XWiki. I 
would like to propose to use LyX as another interface to XWiki to take 
profit of both worlds!


Thank you so much for your great work!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
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CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Another "research" line will be the
integration with a wiki system. XWiki is our option. The XWiki Team is
currently working with Word and Open Office integration with XWiki. I
would like to propose to use LyX as another interface to XWiki to take
profit of both worlds!


This would be difficult because our file format changes with every 
major release.


I get the point, but even though if in a first time XWiki is not capable 
of rendering documents, I think one point could be to be able to use 
XWiki as backend for LyX. I mean, LyX code will be stored in XWiki, thus 
it could be edited/rendered by any other LyX installation or edited 
directly within XWiki.
We are also using XWiki at my work and I managed to create wiki files 
by exporting LyX files as HTML (via eLyXer) and then import the result 
to XWiki. But in most cases I simply attach the PDF created with LyX 
to the Wiki page in XWiki. We found out that this is often the best 
solution also for Word documents.


Of course this is an option, but barely uses XWiki capabilities other 
than the attachment's historical.


regards Uwe

p.s. If you use my LyX for Windows installer 
(http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller), eLyXer is the default 
LyX to HTML converter.


I'm currently working on Mac OS X platforms like most of the team core, 
but we must be able to support Windows and at least one/two Linux 
flavours to be inclusive with as much people as possible in our 
proposals for different kind of tools. So, any information about Mac, 
Windows or Linux platforms is extremely welcome!


Greetings,

Ricardo


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CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Running a LyX 2.0.0 alpha 3 release on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8.

As far as I know and found in the documentation I can change the 
background color of a, for instance, simple frame I must go to LyX  
Preferences  Look  Feel  Colors and select and change the option for 
shaded text.


I'm not able to find this option in this installation. Please, could you 
help me? Thanks!!


Best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Note that LyX 2 is still in alpha state - so not even stable enough 
for a beta release. Therefore the documentation is not yet up to date.



I'm not able to find this option in this installation.


Menu Document-Settings-Colors

regards Uwe



I'm aware of the situation, but there are several new features that are 
of key importance for us! I would like to contribute to the development 
of the new releases tough I'm far from being a programmer!


Cheers,

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Running a LyX 2.0.0 alpha 3 release on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8.

As far as I know and found in the documentation I can change the 
background color of a, for instance, simple frame I must go to LyX  
Preferences  Look  Feel  Colors and select and change the option for 
shaded text.


I'm not able to find this option in this installation. Please, could you 
help me? Thanks!!


Best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Note that LyX 2 is still in alpha state - so not even stable enough 
for a beta release. Therefore the documentation is not yet up to date.



I'm not able to find this option in this installation.


Menu Document-Settings-Colors

regards Uwe



I'm aware of the situation, but there are several new features that are 
of key importance for us! I would like to contribute to the development 
of the new releases tough I'm far from being a programmer!


Cheers,

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Running a LyX 2.0.0 alpha 3 release on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8.

As far as I know and found in the documentation I can change the 
background color of a, for instance, simple frame I must go to LyX > 
Preferences > Look & Feel > Colors and select and change the option for 
"shaded text".


I'm not able to find this option in this installation. Please, could you 
help me? Thanks!!


Best,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: shaded background color

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks!

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Note that LyX 2 is still in alpha state - so not even stable enough 
for a beta release. Therefore the documentation is not yet up to date.



I'm not able to find this option in this installation.


Menu Document->Settings->Colors

regards Uwe



I'm aware of the situation, but there are several new features that are 
of key importance for us! I would like to contribute to the development 
of the new releases tough I'm far from being a programmer!


Cheers,

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: how to set the table column width

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

zhangdavid37 wrote:
 Hi,
 I would like to change the default column width, because it is too wide.
 Can anyone tell me how to make this? The attachment is an example.
 Thanks.

Have you tried to right-click a cell/column, choose Settings and to play
with Table Settings?

Even though I am brand new for this list, I guess some information about
your environment will be always welcome! At least: LyX release number,
OS and LaTeX installation. Thanks!

HTH,

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

I've been trying to learn a bit more about LyX, LaTeX, R and Sweave to 
better understand this issue :-)


Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:


It is expected (by me at least) that either:

1/ the installation of R installs Sweave.sty at the right place (was
MaxTeX already installed when you installed R?)
  


Yes, MacTex was installed when I installed R. Please, what does it mean? 
Must I get a different result if MacTex was not installed before R 
installation?

or

2/ Sweave is set up in such a way that it puts the full path to the
Sweave.sty file in the \usepackage command.
  
The point is that there is no Sweave.sty in the system. Neither before R 
installation, nor before after it.


As far as I understand, and read, it is expected that R copy Sweave.sty 
on my system although I don't know yet if I must also expect that the 
texmf tree is modified with the same installation or the user must 
customize the installation on his/her own.


Actually, with the new LyX 2.0 releases, I don't know if Sweave.sty is 
required by LyX at all!


Sorry, I am still a bit puzzle with this issue!

Thanks!

Ricardo



--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: how to set the table column width

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi David!

zhangdavid37 wrote:
 Hi,
 I use LyX 1.65, Windows XP SP3. I did do that by right-clicking the
 table/cell and set the column width.
 But it does not seem to work even I set the width to 2 em.
 Regards

Please, reply to the list as well! I'm brand new to LyX and I am sure
you will be get more and better answers by keeping the thread on the list.

I usually use absolute units as cm, px or in and they work without a
glitch. % does also fine. No experience with em though! Same LyX
release, but running on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Greetings!

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Rob Oakes wrote:

This is clearly either a problem in the way that R installs itself, or
the way that LaTeX installs itself.  I'm not actually sure which though
and I don't know where to file the bug report.
  


It Sweave.sty is required by LaTeX only when used with R, who must we 
take care of the correct installation of the style file? Sorry, I don't 
know LaTeX as for being able to answer this question!

When I just checked, I was not able to find a sweave package for R,
nor was I able to find one for TeXLive 2009 (don't know about MikTeX).
But I've experienced a similar problem on Mac OS X and on Linux, which
provides some evidence that it's not getting packaged.
  


As far as I can find, Sweave is included with R at least as of R 2.4.1 
In R, ...


help(Sweave, package=utils)

Read this from http://tinyurl.com/346jrnu ...

Unfortunately, Sweave hard-codes the absolute path to its style files 
in its LaTeX output. The path to the style files depends on where R was 
installed on the local system. This means that while an Sweave document 
may be portable, the LaTeX file it produces is not. If you receive a 
LaTeX document produced by Sweave on someone else's computer, you will 
need to edit the path inside the \usepackage statement so that it points 
to the Sweave style file location on your computer. If you want to give 
your LaTeX file to someone who does not have R, you can delete the 
reference to Sweave and paste in the contents of the Sweave.sty file. 

Because out of the box support for Sweave is one of LyX 2's newest (and
IMHO, killer) features, it might make sense to include a copy of
Sweave.sty with the installation script and have it installed at the
time of LyX configuration.  LyX already does this with a few specialty
document classes anyway (broadway, hollywood).

  
As Sweave.sty file will be only required by people not running R, I 
think it must be maintained by LyX and/or LaTeX bundles.


But I'm just a newbie here! Please, any insight will be extremely 
welcome! Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: how to set the table column width

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

zhangdavid37 wrote:
 Hi,
 I would like to change the default column width, because it is too wide.
 Can anyone tell me how to make this? The attachment is an example.
 Thanks.

Have you tried to right-click a cell/column, choose Settings and to play
with Table Settings?

Even though I am brand new for this list, I guess some information about
your environment will be always welcome! At least: LyX release number,
OS and LaTeX installation. Thanks!

HTH,

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

I've been trying to learn a bit more about LyX, LaTeX, R and Sweave to 
better understand this issue :-)


Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:


It is expected (by me at least) that either:

1/ the installation of R installs Sweave.sty at the right place (was
MaxTeX already installed when you installed R?)
  


Yes, MacTex was installed when I installed R. Please, what does it mean? 
Must I get a different result if MacTex was not installed before R 
installation?

or

2/ Sweave is set up in such a way that it puts the full path to the
Sweave.sty file in the \usepackage command.
  
The point is that there is no Sweave.sty in the system. Neither before R 
installation, nor before after it.


As far as I understand, and read, it is expected that R copy Sweave.sty 
on my system although I don't know yet if I must also expect that the 
texmf tree is modified with the same installation or the user must 
customize the installation on his/her own.


Actually, with the new LyX 2.0 releases, I don't know if Sweave.sty is 
required by LyX at all!


Sorry, I am still a bit puzzle with this issue!

Thanks!

Ricardo



--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: how to set the table column width

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi David!

zhangdavid37 wrote:
 Hi,
 I use LyX 1.65, Windows XP SP3. I did do that by right-clicking the
 table/cell and set the column width.
 But it does not seem to work even I set the width to 2 em.
 Regards

Please, reply to the list as well! I'm brand new to LyX and I am sure
you will be get more and better answers by keeping the thread on the list.

I usually use absolute units as cm, px or in and they work without a
glitch. % does also fine. No experience with em though! Same LyX
release, but running on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Greetings!

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Rob Oakes wrote:

This is clearly either a problem in the way that R installs itself, or
the way that LaTeX installs itself.  I'm not actually sure which though
and I don't know where to file the bug report.
  


It Sweave.sty is required by LaTeX only when used with R, who must we 
take care of the correct installation of the style file? Sorry, I don't 
know LaTeX as for being able to answer this question!

When I just checked, I was not able to find a sweave package for R,
nor was I able to find one for TeXLive 2009 (don't know about MikTeX).
But I've experienced a similar problem on Mac OS X and on Linux, which
provides some evidence that it's not getting packaged.
  


As far as I can find, Sweave is included with R at least as of R 2.4.1 
In R, ...


help(Sweave, package=utils)

Read this from http://tinyurl.com/346jrnu ...

Unfortunately, Sweave hard-codes the absolute path to its style files 
in its LaTeX output. The path to the style files depends on where R was 
installed on the local system. This means that while an Sweave document 
may be portable, the LaTeX file it produces is not. If you receive a 
LaTeX document produced by Sweave on someone else's computer, you will 
need to edit the path inside the \usepackage statement so that it points 
to the Sweave style file location on your computer. If you want to give 
your LaTeX file to someone who does not have R, you can delete the 
reference to Sweave and paste in the contents of the Sweave.sty file. 

Because out of the box support for Sweave is one of LyX 2's newest (and
IMHO, killer) features, it might make sense to include a copy of
Sweave.sty with the installation script and have it installed at the
time of LyX configuration.  LyX already does this with a few specialty
document classes anyway (broadway, hollywood).

  
As Sweave.sty file will be only required by people not running R, I 
think it must be maintained by LyX and/or LaTeX bundles.


But I'm just a newbie here! Please, any insight will be extremely 
welcome! Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: how to set the table column width

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

zhangdavid37 wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to change the default column width, because it is too wide.
> Can anyone tell me how to make this? The attachment is an example.
> Thanks.

Have you tried to right-click a cell/column, choose Settings and to play
with Table Settings?

Even though I am brand new for this list, I guess some information about
your environment will be always welcome! At least: LyX release number,
OS and LaTeX installation. Thanks!

HTH,

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

I've been trying to learn a bit more about LyX, LaTeX, R and Sweave to 
better understand this issue :-)


Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:


It is expected (by me at least) that either:

1/ the installation of R installs Sweave.sty at the right place (was
MaxTeX already installed when you installed R?)
  


Yes, MacTex was installed when I installed R. Please, what does it mean? 
Must I get a different result if MacTex was not installed before R 
installation?

or

2/ Sweave is set up in such a way that it puts the full path to the
Sweave.sty file in the \usepackage command.
  
The point is that there is no Sweave.sty in the system. Neither before R 
installation, nor before after it.


As far as I understand, and read, it is expected that R copy Sweave.sty 
on my system although I don't know yet if I must also expect that the 
texmf tree is modified with the same installation or the user must 
customize the installation on his/her own.


Actually, with the new LyX 2.0 releases, I don't know if Sweave.sty is 
required by LyX at all!


Sorry, I am still a bit puzzle with this issue!

Thanks!

Ricardo



--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: how to set the table column width

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi David!

zhangdavid37 wrote:
> Hi,
> I use LyX 1.65, Windows XP SP3. I did do that by right-clicking the
> table/cell and set the column width.
> But it does not seem to work even I set the width to 2 em.
> Regards

Please, reply to the list as well! I'm brand new to LyX and I am sure
you will be get more and better answers by keeping the thread on the list.

I usually use absolute units as cm, px or in and they work without a
glitch. % does also fine. No experience with em though! Same LyX
release, but running on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Greetings!

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Rob Oakes wrote:

This is clearly either a problem in the way that R installs itself, or
the way that LaTeX installs itself.  I'm not actually sure which though
and I don't know where to file the bug report.
  


It Sweave.sty is required by LaTeX only when used with R, who must we 
take care of the correct installation of the style file? Sorry, I don't 
know LaTeX as for being able to answer this question!

When I just checked, I was not able to find a "sweave" package for R,
nor was I able to find one for TeXLive 2009 (don't know about MikTeX).
But I've experienced a similar problem on Mac OS X and on Linux, which
provides some evidence that it's not getting packaged.
  


As far as I can find, Sweave is included with R at least as of R 2.4.1 
In R, ...


help("Sweave", package="utils")

Read this from http://tinyurl.com/346jrnu ...

"Unfortunately, Sweave hard-codes the absolute path to its style files 
in its LaTeX output. The path to the style files depends on where R was 
installed on the local system. This means that while an Sweave document 
may be portable, the LaTeX file it produces is not. If you receive a 
LaTeX document produced by Sweave on someone else's computer, you will 
need to edit the path inside the \usepackage statement so that it points 
to the Sweave style file location on your computer. If you want to give 
your LaTeX file to someone who does not have R, you can delete the 
reference to Sweave and paste in the contents of the Sweave.sty file. "

Because out of the box support for Sweave is one of LyX 2's newest (and
IMHO, killer) features, it might make sense to include a copy of
Sweave.sty with the installation script and have it installed at the
time of LyX configuration.  LyX already does this with a few specialty
document classes anyway (broadway, hollywood).

  
As Sweave.sty file will be only required by people not running R, I 
think it must be "maintained" by LyX and/or LaTeX bundles.


But I'm just a newbie here! Please, any insight will be extremely 
welcome! Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Rob!

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

Just one thought, make sure that there is a copy of Sweave.sty installed
in your LaTeX path (and make sure that LyX can find it).  I was having
some troubles with Sweave and LyX 2.0 on Mac a while ago, and this is
what ultimately fixed it.

  


Nope, it is not! In fact Sweave.sty is no where in the path. It seems it 
looks for R! R was not installed in this box! Shame on me! Once 
installed, LyX 2.0 no longer crashes while loading Sweave module.


Thanks for your help!



But, to be honest, I haven't really played with LyX 2.0 on my Mac
recently.  I've been on a book deadline and it just felt to unstable to
any real work.  On Linux, though, it's been very reliable.

  
I will keep an eye on new releases and maintain this experimental 
installation on the MacPro running Mac OS X 10.6.3 and at the same time 
keep running a stable a 1.6.5 release in a 10.5.8 MacBook Pro. I have 
not two available boxes with the same SO. Please, let me know if I can 
be of any further help to debug this or any other issue. Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Oops!

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us writes:
  

Just one thought, make sure that there is a copy of Sweave.sty installed
in your LaTeX path (and make sure that LyX can find it).  I was having
some troubles with Sweave and LyX 2.0 on Mac a while ago, and this is
what ultimately fixed it.



Are you sure? It should not be necessary on 2.0. What is needed though
is to have R installed and available in the path. The module tests the
availability of a Rnwtex converter (aka R CMD Sweave).
  


Sorry, I replied to Rob's message before reading this one! That's what 
I've found here: Sweave.sty as is is not longer in the path and LyX 
looks for R libraries instead. Is it ok this interpretation? Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:

Hi JMarc,

Reasonably sure.  I was having the problems back in November.  And there
were two separate issues.  The first was getting LyX 2 to work, the second
was related to getting R + Sweave to work.

The problems that eventually required Sweave.sty were related to getting
documents to compile correctly.  Without it, the compilation would simply
terminate with There was an R error or some such.  After placing
Sweave.sty in the tex path, this resolved itself.
  


Being truth what I've said before and what JMarc said about LyX checking 
R availability to load Sweave module, I'm facing the same problem Rob 
describes when trying to compile a new document including S/R 
expressions. I will try to describe the situation:



*1.* A LyX 2.0.0 alpha2 installation crashes when trying to load Sweave 
module if R is not installed in the same box. In this case, I guess it 
will be advisable to trigger a warning saying that R is required instead 
of causing an exception that crashes LyX. I'm sure developers are 
consciences of this and the only problem here is time to make the 
required changes! :-)


*2. *Once R is installed, Sweave module loads without a glitch.

*3.* If I try to compile a new document including S/R expressions, 
compilation fails throwing the following error:


! LaTeX Error: File `Sweave.sty' not found.

Here the full stack to further reference:

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxSweaveStyNotFound.html

As stated in a previous message, the LaTeX environment here was created 
as per...


http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/
[ approximately 1.3G - 12 March 2010 ]
MacTeX-2009.mpkg
MacTeX.mpkg.zip

*4. *Until I copy Sweave.sty to the TeX path and reconfigure LyX, 
compilation fails.


I copied Sweave.sty from a older box with a running LyX 1.6.5/Sweave/R 
installation.


GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$ kpsewhich Sweave.sty
/Users/rrodriguez/Library/texmf/tex/latex/R/Sweave.sty



Please, provided its module is loaded, must Sweave work out of the box 
in LyX 2.0? Is it expected that Sweave.sty is included with LaTeX? I 
guess a warning will be required some where to avoid the problem we are 
facing here! Thanks!


Let me know if I can be of any further help!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Rob!

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

Just one thought, make sure that there is a copy of Sweave.sty installed
in your LaTeX path (and make sure that LyX can find it).  I was having
some troubles with Sweave and LyX 2.0 on Mac a while ago, and this is
what ultimately fixed it.

  


Nope, it is not! In fact Sweave.sty is no where in the path. It seems it 
looks for R! R was not installed in this box! Shame on me! Once 
installed, LyX 2.0 no longer crashes while loading Sweave module.


Thanks for your help!



But, to be honest, I haven't really played with LyX 2.0 on my Mac
recently.  I've been on a book deadline and it just felt to unstable to
any real work.  On Linux, though, it's been very reliable.

  
I will keep an eye on new releases and maintain this experimental 
installation on the MacPro running Mac OS X 10.6.3 and at the same time 
keep running a stable a 1.6.5 release in a 10.5.8 MacBook Pro. I have 
not two available boxes with the same SO. Please, let me know if I can 
be of any further help to debug this or any other issue. Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Oops!

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us writes:
  

Just one thought, make sure that there is a copy of Sweave.sty installed
in your LaTeX path (and make sure that LyX can find it).  I was having
some troubles with Sweave and LyX 2.0 on Mac a while ago, and this is
what ultimately fixed it.



Are you sure? It should not be necessary on 2.0. What is needed though
is to have R installed and available in the path. The module tests the
availability of a Rnwtex converter (aka R CMD Sweave).
  


Sorry, I replied to Rob's message before reading this one! That's what 
I've found here: Sweave.sty as is is not longer in the path and LyX 
looks for R libraries instead. Is it ok this interpretation? Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:

Hi JMarc,

Reasonably sure.  I was having the problems back in November.  And there
were two separate issues.  The first was getting LyX 2 to work, the second
was related to getting R + Sweave to work.

The problems that eventually required Sweave.sty were related to getting
documents to compile correctly.  Without it, the compilation would simply
terminate with There was an R error or some such.  After placing
Sweave.sty in the tex path, this resolved itself.
  


Being truth what I've said before and what JMarc said about LyX checking 
R availability to load Sweave module, I'm facing the same problem Rob 
describes when trying to compile a new document including S/R 
expressions. I will try to describe the situation:



*1.* A LyX 2.0.0 alpha2 installation crashes when trying to load Sweave 
module if R is not installed in the same box. In this case, I guess it 
will be advisable to trigger a warning saying that R is required instead 
of causing an exception that crashes LyX. I'm sure developers are 
consciences of this and the only problem here is time to make the 
required changes! :-)


*2. *Once R is installed, Sweave module loads without a glitch.

*3.* If I try to compile a new document including S/R expressions, 
compilation fails throwing the following error:


! LaTeX Error: File `Sweave.sty' not found.

Here the full stack to further reference:

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxSweaveStyNotFound.html

As stated in a previous message, the LaTeX environment here was created 
as per...


http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/
[ approximately 1.3G - 12 March 2010 ]
MacTeX-2009.mpkg
MacTeX.mpkg.zip

*4. *Until I copy Sweave.sty to the TeX path and reconfigure LyX, 
compilation fails.


I copied Sweave.sty from a older box with a running LyX 1.6.5/Sweave/R 
installation.


GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$ kpsewhich Sweave.sty
/Users/rrodriguez/Library/texmf/tex/latex/R/Sweave.sty



Please, provided its module is loaded, must Sweave work out of the box 
in LyX 2.0? Is it expected that Sweave.sty is included with LaTeX? I 
guess a warning will be required some where to avoid the problem we are 
facing here! Thanks!


Let me know if I can be of any further help!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi Rob!

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

Just one thought, make sure that there is a copy of Sweave.sty installed
in your LaTeX path (and make sure that LyX can find it).  I was having
some troubles with Sweave and LyX 2.0 on Mac a while ago, and this is
what ultimately fixed it.

  


Nope, it is not! In fact Sweave.sty is no where in the path. It seems it 
looks for R! R was not installed in this box! Shame on me! Once 
installed, LyX 2.0 no longer crashes while loading Sweave module.


Thanks for your help!



But, to be honest, I haven't really played with LyX 2.0 on my Mac
recently.  I've been on a book deadline and it just felt to unstable to
any real work.  On Linux, though, it's been very reliable.

  
I will keep an eye on new releases and maintain this experimental 
installation on the MacPro running Mac OS X 10.6.3 and at the same time 
keep running a stable a 1.6.5 release in a 10.5.8 MacBook Pro. I have 
not two available boxes with the same SO. Please, let me know if I can 
be of any further help to debug this or any other issue. Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Oops!

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

Rob Oakes  writes:
  

Just one thought, make sure that there is a copy of Sweave.sty installed
in your LaTeX path (and make sure that LyX can find it).  I was having
some troubles with Sweave and LyX 2.0 on Mac a while ago, and this is
what ultimately fixed it.



Are you sure? It should not be necessary on 2.0. What is needed though
is to have R installed and available in the path. The module tests the
availability of a Rnw>tex converter (aka R CMD Sweave).
  


Sorry, I replied to Rob's message before reading this one! That's what 
I've found here: Sweave.sty as is is not longer in the path and LyX 
looks for R libraries instead. Is it ok this interpretation? Thanks!


Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:

Hi JMarc,

Reasonably sure.  I was having the problems back in November.  And there
were two separate issues.  The first was getting LyX 2 to work, the second
was related to getting R + Sweave to work.

The problems that eventually required Sweave.sty were related to getting
documents to compile correctly.  Without it, the compilation would simply
terminate with "There was an R error" or some such.  After placing
Sweave.sty in the tex path, this resolved itself.
  


Being truth what I've said before and what JMarc said about LyX checking 
R availability to load Sweave module, I'm facing the same problem Rob 
describes when trying to compile a new document including S/R 
expressions. I will try to describe the situation:



*1.* A LyX 2.0.0 alpha2 installation crashes when trying to load Sweave 
module if R is not installed in the same box. In this case, I guess it 
will be advisable to trigger a warning saying that R is required instead 
of causing an exception that crashes LyX. I'm sure developers are 
consciences of this and the only problem here is time to make the 
required changes! :-)


*2. *Once R is installed, Sweave module loads without a glitch.

*3.* If I try to compile a new document including S/R expressions, 
compilation fails throwing the following error:


! LaTeX Error: File `Sweave.sty' not found.

Here the full stack to further reference:

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxSweaveStyNotFound.html

As stated in a previous message, the LaTeX environment here was created 
as per...


http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/
[ approximately 1.3G - 12 March 2010 ]
MacTeX-2009.mpkg
MacTeX.mpkg.zip

*4. *Until I copy Sweave.sty to the TeX path and reconfigure LyX, 
compilation fails.


I copied Sweave.sty from a older box with a running LyX 1.6.5/Sweave/R 
installation.


GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$ kpsewhich Sweave.sty
/Users/rrodriguez/Library/texmf/tex/latex/R/Sweave.sty



Please, provided its module is loaded, must Sweave work out of the box 
in LyX 2.0? Is it expected that Sweave.sty is included with LaTeX? I 
guess a warning will be required some where to avoid the problem we are 
facing here! Thanks!


Let me know if I can be of any further help!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks Julien and Rob,

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

Sweave in LyX 2.0 works a little different.  Instead of being relegated
to a single document class, it has instead been implemented as a module.
The upside is that you can now use Sweave with any document class and
with any LaTeX variant (my personal favorite class is the Tufte
Handout).  This wasn't possible in LyX 1.6 (or, I should say, it was
possible but much more difficult).

But before you can use the module, you need to add it to your document.
This is done from the Document-Settings-Modules pane.  Once the pane
is loaded, simply scroll down to Sweave and add it to your dodcument.
Then click on Ok or Apply.

Once you have done this, a couple of new inset options should appear in
the Inset-Custom menu.  If you have any problems, go ahead and shoot me
an email.
  


I'm afraid I am facing some kind of problem here. I've downloaded the 
2.0 alfa release and installed in on an MacPro running Mac OS X 10.6.3 
and on top of a LyX 1.6.5 installation running fine.


First of all, please, after copying the new LyX to Applications, must I 
perform some new action before using the new release? I am afraid I  am 
missing some basic step due to my lack of understanding of the whole 
system. The new *.dmg doesn't content any install file to configure LyX 
on a per user basis.


Without doing any other step, if I create a new document and go to 
DocumentSettingsModules and try to add Sweave module, LyX crashes. I 
am nevertheless able to add other modules like Braille or EndNote.


Please, does this make any sense for you? Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo


--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

Without doing any other step, if I create a new document and go to
DocumentSettingsModules and try to add Sweave module, LyX crashes. I
am nevertheless able to add other modules like Braille or EndNote.



This is bad. However, I do not see where it comes from. Do you have
messages in the console (launch Console.app and look for messages that
may come from LyX).

  


Sorry, I've not been able to regain access to the concerned box until 
late in the afternoon. Here what I've found:


These are the lines recorded in the console log each time LyX crashes 
after trying to load Sweave module:


*
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] terminate called after 
throwing an instance of 'lyx::support::ExceptionMessage'
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685]   what():  Package not 
available
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] The module sweave 
requires a package that is
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] not available in your 
LaTeX installation. LaTeX output

5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] may not be possible.
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121] 
([0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM ReportCrash[907] Saved crash report for lyx[685] 
version 2.0.0alpha2 (???) to 
/Users/rrodriguez/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/lyx_2010-05-10-190609_Ricardo-Rodriguezs-Mac-Pro.crash

*

For easier reference...

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxCrashConsoleMessages.html

The full report generated by Mac OS X is available here...

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxCrashProbReport.html

The box has a fresh and fully updated Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)

I've installed MacTeX (as per section 2.2 at 
http://www.lyx.org/Download) prior to install LyX 1.6.5, then to install 
LyX 2.0.0 alpha2


The link at the LyX download page drove me to...
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/
[ approximately 1.3G - 12 March 2010 ]
MacTeX-2009.mpkg
MacTeX.mpkg.zip

Please, does this make any sense for you? Let me know how I can be of 
any further help. Thanks!


Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks Julien and Rob,

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

Sweave in LyX 2.0 works a little different.  Instead of being relegated
to a single document class, it has instead been implemented as a module.
The upside is that you can now use Sweave with any document class and
with any LaTeX variant (my personal favorite class is the Tufte
Handout).  This wasn't possible in LyX 1.6 (or, I should say, it was
possible but much more difficult).

But before you can use the module, you need to add it to your document.
This is done from the Document-Settings-Modules pane.  Once the pane
is loaded, simply scroll down to Sweave and add it to your dodcument.
Then click on Ok or Apply.

Once you have done this, a couple of new inset options should appear in
the Inset-Custom menu.  If you have any problems, go ahead and shoot me
an email.
  


I'm afraid I am facing some kind of problem here. I've downloaded the 
2.0 alfa release and installed in on an MacPro running Mac OS X 10.6.3 
and on top of a LyX 1.6.5 installation running fine.


First of all, please, after copying the new LyX to Applications, must I 
perform some new action before using the new release? I am afraid I  am 
missing some basic step due to my lack of understanding of the whole 
system. The new *.dmg doesn't content any install file to configure LyX 
on a per user basis.


Without doing any other step, if I create a new document and go to 
DocumentSettingsModules and try to add Sweave module, LyX crashes. I 
am nevertheless able to add other modules like Braille or EndNote.


Please, does this make any sense for you? Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo


--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

Without doing any other step, if I create a new document and go to
DocumentSettingsModules and try to add Sweave module, LyX crashes. I
am nevertheless able to add other modules like Braille or EndNote.



This is bad. However, I do not see where it comes from. Do you have
messages in the console (launch Console.app and look for messages that
may come from LyX).

  


Sorry, I've not been able to regain access to the concerned box until 
late in the afternoon. Here what I've found:


These are the lines recorded in the console log each time LyX crashes 
after trying to load Sweave module:


*
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] terminate called after 
throwing an instance of 'lyx::support::ExceptionMessage'
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685]   what():  Package not 
available
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] The module sweave 
requires a package that is
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] not available in your 
LaTeX installation. LaTeX output

5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] may not be possible.
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121] 
([0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM ReportCrash[907] Saved crash report for lyx[685] 
version 2.0.0alpha2 (???) to 
/Users/rrodriguez/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/lyx_2010-05-10-190609_Ricardo-Rodriguezs-Mac-Pro.crash

*

For easier reference...

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxCrashConsoleMessages.html

The full report generated by Mac OS X is available here...

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxCrashProbReport.html

The box has a fresh and fully updated Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)

I've installed MacTeX (as per section 2.2 at 
http://www.lyx.org/Download) prior to install LyX 1.6.5, then to install 
LyX 2.0.0 alpha2


The link at the LyX download page drove me to...
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/
[ approximately 1.3G - 12 March 2010 ]
MacTeX-2009.mpkg
MacTeX.mpkg.zip

Please, does this make any sense for you? Let me know how I can be of 
any further help. Thanks!


Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks Julien and Rob,

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

Sweave in LyX 2.0 works a little different.  Instead of being relegated
to a single document class, it has instead been implemented as a module.
The upside is that you can now use Sweave with any document class and
with any LaTeX variant (my personal favorite class is the Tufte
Handout).  This wasn't possible in LyX 1.6 (or, I should say, it was
possible but much more difficult).

But before you can use the module, you need to add it to your document.
This is done from the Document->Settings->Modules pane.  Once the pane
is loaded, simply scroll down to Sweave and add it to your dodcument.
Then click on "Ok" or "Apply".

Once you have done this, a couple of new inset options should appear in
the Inset->Custom menu.  If you have any problems, go ahead and shoot me
an email.
  


I'm afraid I am facing some kind of problem here. I've downloaded the 
2.0 alfa release and installed in on an MacPro running Mac OS X 10.6.3 
and on top of a LyX 1.6.5 installation running fine.


First of all, please, after copying the new LyX to Applications, must I 
perform some new action before using the new release? I am afraid I  am 
missing some basic step due to my lack of understanding of the whole 
system. The new *.dmg doesn't content any install file to configure LyX 
on a per user basis.


Without doing any other step, if I create a new document and go to 
Document>Settings>Modules and try to add Sweave module, LyX crashes. I 
am nevertheless able to add other modules like Braille or EndNote.


Please, does this make any sense for you? Thanks!

All the best,

Ricardo


--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

Without doing any other step, if I create a new document and go to
Document>Settings>Modules and try to add Sweave module, LyX crashes. I
am nevertheless able to add other modules like Braille or EndNote.



This is bad. However, I do not see where it comes from. Do you have
messages in the console (launch Console.app and look for messages that
may come from LyX).

  


Sorry, I've not been able to regain access to the concerned box until 
late in the afternoon. Here what I've found:


These are the lines recorded in the console log each time LyX crashes 
after trying to load Sweave module:


*
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] terminate called after 
throwing an instance of 'lyx::support::ExceptionMessage'
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685]   what():  Package not 
available
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] The module sweave 
requires a package that is
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] not available in your 
LaTeX installation. LaTeX output

5/10/10 7:06:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685] may not be possible.
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121] 
([0x0-0x57057].org.lyx.lyx[685]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap
5/10/10 7:06:09 PM ReportCrash[907] Saved crash report for lyx[685] 
version 2.0.0alpha2 (???) to 
/Users/rrodriguez/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/lyx_2010-05-10-190609_Ricardo-Rodriguezs-Mac-Pro.crash

*

For easier reference...

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxCrashConsoleMessages.html

The full report generated by Mac OS X is available here...

http://xen.net/onLyX/lyxCrashProbReport.html

The box has a fresh and fully updated Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)

I've installed MacTeX (as per section 2.2 at 
http://www.lyx.org/Download) prior to install LyX 1.6.5, then to install 
LyX 2.0.0 alpha2


The link at the LyX download page drove me to...
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/
[ approximately 1.3G - 12 March 2010 ]
MacTeX-2009.mpkg
MacTeX.mpkg.zip

Please, does this make any sense for you? Let me know how I can be of 
any further help. Thanks!


Cheers,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all,

I've posted this same message yesterday evening at 
http://www.latex-community.org LyX forum. Please, accept my apologies 
for cross-posting! I'm new to this LyX world and trying to identify the 
best way of getting/providing help! Here the issue:


I've successfully installed R 2.11.0 and LyX 1.6.5 in a MacBook Pro 
running Mac OS X 10.5.8. Some examples including more or less complex R 
code chunks run without a glitch.


But I am not able to include a R code chuck within a table.

This works fine:


% Preview source code for paragraph 10

Normal1,echo=T=
qs=1
@


But this doesn't work:


% Preview source code for paragraph 11

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline
Normal1,echo=T=
pot=2
@
\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}


The LyX literate errors window gives this information:

*
Errors:

LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

Description:

\begin{Sinput}

Try typing return to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.
*

This proposal by gmedina at http://www.latex-community.org LyX forum, 
avoids the error, but the result is a table with those lines in the 
table, not with the R results.




Please, where am I wrong? Is it not possible to include R code chunks in 
LyX tables?


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks, Rob!

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

I am not to include an R code chunk within a table.

For reasons I do not really understand, R code within tables (or figure
floats) can be very fragile.  LyX 2.0 makes this better through the
Sweave module, but it is still not perfect.

The best way I have found for overcoming the fragility is to place it
within a minipage.  You can do this by clicking on Insert-Box, and then
placing the code within there.
  


This works fine! By putting an ERT within the minipage problems are solved!

If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
(Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5.  From LyX 2.0, go to
Insert-Custom Inserts-S/R expression).
  


No Custom Insert is available out of the box with LyX 1.6.5. I guess LyX 
2.0 is in beta stage (I found some spare references to it in 
latex-community.org). I don't know why but I've not access to LyX 
website right now, I'll check it asap and move ahead to this release. 
I'm currently in an entry stage of my work with LyX, thus it is a 
perfect time for experimentation!


BTW, I see that your message has been sent to lyx-de...@oak-tree.us as 
well as to lyx-us...@lists.lux.org. Just to be polite and to respect the 
rules, is is expected that I reply to the list? Just to the sender?


Thanks for your help and advice!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Sweave errors: more explicit?

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

M. Speiser wrote:

You might try starting LyX from a console/x-terminal-emulator.

Under Unix/X11, you can see error messages in ~/.xsession-errors (for
programs not started from an x-term...




When I launch LyX from a terminal (mac os x), all LaTeX and R traces are visible
within that same terminal! Thanks for the hint.
  


I think this will be also useful for us! But, please, how must I proceed 
to launch a fully operational LyX from Mac OS C terminal? By executing 
./LyX from the LyX.app directory doesn't consider user configuration files.


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Rob,



Rob Oakes wrote:


If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
(Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5.  From LyX 2.0, go to
Insert-Custom Inserts-S/R expression). 


I've just installed LyX-2.0.0alpha2.dmg and I don't find the S/R 
expression option in InsertCustom Insets.


Must it be available out of the box?

Thanks!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all,

I've posted this same message yesterday evening at 
http://www.latex-community.org LyX forum. Please, accept my apologies 
for cross-posting! I'm new to this LyX world and trying to identify the 
best way of getting/providing help! Here the issue:


I've successfully installed R 2.11.0 and LyX 1.6.5 in a MacBook Pro 
running Mac OS X 10.5.8. Some examples including more or less complex R 
code chunks run without a glitch.


But I am not able to include a R code chuck within a table.

This works fine:


% Preview source code for paragraph 10

Normal1,echo=T=
qs=1
@


But this doesn't work:


% Preview source code for paragraph 11

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline
Normal1,echo=T=
pot=2
@
\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}


The LyX literate errors window gives this information:

*
Errors:

LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

Description:

\begin{Sinput}

Try typing return to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.
*

This proposal by gmedina at http://www.latex-community.org LyX forum, 
avoids the error, but the result is a table with those lines in the 
table, not with the R results.




Please, where am I wrong? Is it not possible to include R code chunks in 
LyX tables?


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks, Rob!

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

I am not to include an R code chunk within a table.

For reasons I do not really understand, R code within tables (or figure
floats) can be very fragile.  LyX 2.0 makes this better through the
Sweave module, but it is still not perfect.

The best way I have found for overcoming the fragility is to place it
within a minipage.  You can do this by clicking on Insert-Box, and then
placing the code within there.
  


This works fine! By putting an ERT within the minipage problems are solved!

If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
(Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5.  From LyX 2.0, go to
Insert-Custom Inserts-S/R expression).
  


No Custom Insert is available out of the box with LyX 1.6.5. I guess LyX 
2.0 is in beta stage (I found some spare references to it in 
latex-community.org). I don't know why but I've not access to LyX 
website right now, I'll check it asap and move ahead to this release. 
I'm currently in an entry stage of my work with LyX, thus it is a 
perfect time for experimentation!


BTW, I see that your message has been sent to lyx-de...@oak-tree.us as 
well as to lyx-us...@lists.lux.org. Just to be polite and to respect the 
rules, is is expected that I reply to the list? Just to the sender?


Thanks for your help and advice!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Sweave errors: more explicit?

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

M. Speiser wrote:

You might try starting LyX from a console/x-terminal-emulator.

Under Unix/X11, you can see error messages in ~/.xsession-errors (for
programs not started from an x-term...




When I launch LyX from a terminal (mac os x), all LaTeX and R traces are visible
within that same terminal! Thanks for the hint.
  


I think this will be also useful for us! But, please, how must I proceed 
to launch a fully operational LyX from Mac OS C terminal? By executing 
./LyX from the LyX.app directory doesn't consider user configuration files.


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Rob,



Rob Oakes wrote:


If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
(Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5.  From LyX 2.0, go to
Insert-Custom Inserts-S/R expression). 


I've just installed LyX-2.0.0alpha2.dmg and I don't find the S/R 
expression option in InsertCustom Insets.


Must it be available out of the box?

Thanks!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi all,

I've posted this same message yesterday evening at 
http://www.latex-community.org LyX forum. Please, accept my apologies 
for cross-posting! I'm new to this LyX world and trying to identify the 
best way of getting/providing help! Here the issue:


I've successfully installed R 2.11.0 and LyX 1.6.5 in a MacBook Pro 
running Mac OS X 10.5.8. Some examples including more or less complex R 
code chunks run without a glitch.


But I am not able to include a R code chuck within a table.

This works fine:


% Preview source code for paragraph 10

<>=
qs=1
@


But this doesn't work:


% Preview source code for paragraph 11

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline
<>=
pot=2
@
\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}


The LyX literate errors window gives this information:

*
Errors:

LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

Description:

\begin{Sinput}

Try typing  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X  to quit.
*

This proposal by gmedina at http://www.latex-community.org LyX forum, 
avoids the error, but the result is a table with those lines in the 
table, not with the R results.




Please, where am I wrong? Is it not possible to include R code chunks in 
LyX tables?


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Thanks, Rob!

Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

<>

For reasons I do not really understand, R code within tables (or figure
floats) can be very fragile.  LyX 2.0 makes this better through the
Sweave module, but it is still not perfect.

The best way I have found for overcoming the fragility is to place it
within a minipage.  You can do this by clicking on Insert->Box, and then
placing the code within there.
  


This works fine! By putting an ERT within the minipage problems are solved!

If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
(Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5.  From LyX 2.0, go to
Insert->Custom Inserts->S/R expression).
  


No Custom Insert is available out of the box with LyX 1.6.5. I guess LyX 
2.0 is in beta stage (I found some spare references to it in 
latex-community.org). I don't know why but I've not access to LyX 
website right now, I'll check it asap and move ahead to this release. 
I'm currently in an entry stage of my work with LyX, thus it is a 
perfect time for experimentation!


BTW, I see that your message has been sent to lyx-de...@oak-tree.us as 
well as to lyx-us...@lists.lux.org. Just to be polite and to respect the 
rules, is is expected that I reply to the list? Just to the sender?


Thanks for your help and advice!

Greetings,

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: Sweave errors: more explicit?

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Hi!

M. Speiser wrote:

You might try starting LyX from a console/x-terminal-emulator.

Under Unix/X11, you can see error messages in ~/.xsession-errors (for
programs not started from an x-term...




When I launch LyX from a terminal (mac os x), all LaTeX and R traces are visible
within that same terminal! Thanks for the hint.
  


I think this will be also useful for us! But, please, how must I proceed 
to launch a fully operational LyX from Mac OS C terminal? By executing 
./LyX from the LyX.app directory doesn't consider user configuration files.


Thanks for your help!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems

Re: including a Sweave/R code chunk in a LyX table cell

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.]

Rob,



Rob Oakes wrote:


If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
(Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5.  From LyX 2.0, go to
Insert->Custom Inserts->S/R expression). 


I've just installed LyX-2.0.0alpha2.dmg and I don't find the S/R 
expression option in Insert>Custom Insets.


Must it be available out of the box?

Thanks!

Ricardo

--
Ricardo Rodríguez
CTO
eBiotic.
Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems