I don't have to do
this every time a record gets added or dropped.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
I'd like latex not to split a paragraph environment at the end of a page. Zum
Beispiel, I'd like the "address" environment, which has protected breaks
Does anybody know of a bibtex package out there that has a cite command
appropriate for footnotes, according to the Chicago style? I looked at
frankenstein, but I only see cite commands for inline citations.
I suppose the thing to do otherwise is to put some stuff in the preamble? But I
don't
In a little more detail: I have been searching high and low, and all I find in
any document on the web are polemics by people in the sciences against the
citation styles used in the humanities (which give full citations in the
footnotes, accompanied by ibid and such).
So what about us
My paragraphs have a habit of running one or two lines over to the next page.
This is especially unfortunate with block quotes, etc. Now, I know that I can
prevent that in specific contexts using \nopagebreak, but is there a more
"global" sollution, such that latex knows its ok if there are more
Thanks. I'll be eagerly awaiting the fix :-)
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: more 1.1.6pre2 deadkeys
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:33:26 +0200
From: Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:57:32AM -0600, Christopher Jones wrote:
Anyway, I have my keymap
When I cut/copy and paste between documents, the pasted text comes with a blue
underlining. It doesn't show up in the output, but it is somewhat annoying to
look at. What is being toggled, so that I can "untoggle" it?
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for
me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped
pdf or ps file?
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a
bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal
databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not
extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to
Not completely sure I understand, but here's a stab.
A bibliography is not the same as a list of references, or a works cited. If I
understand you, then you want a References page, which can be done by using
BibTeX references.
This works by your creating a database file containing author,
I couldn't find it in mine either. When I posted, Mr. Voss sent me the file.
Here it is, passed on to the list.
I should say, though, that I was not completely happy with it. So I also got
the cd-cover.dtx file from CTAN. Run latex on it to install. However, the docs
for it are innacurate, I
Just making sure-- the item you are crossrefing must appear -after- the
crossrefing entry in your database file. Thus: your @book must appear after your
@inbook.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote:
I think I am doing a stupid error in my bibtex files.
I cannot use crossref. Both from within Lyx
Launchers and stuff are handled in several different ways by the several
different window managers out there. Both Gnome and KDE provide easy ways to
set these up, and you can tell them to use the LyX icon provided.
For window manager that don't provide launchers, less elegant solutions include
Weil dieser Discussion auf Deutsch ist, kann ich nicht viel verstehen. Aber ich
verstehe genug. Ich habe viel hilfe vom die Deutscher gehabt: zum
Beispiel, Herr Voss. Wenn ein Deutsche Liste bekommen, dann vieliecht wir haben
das nicht?
Auch glaube ich, dieser Discussion ist wichtig die
This is perhaps a stretch. But a while back I asked if there were plans to
support having documents open in multiple panes (I'm excited about this
feature!). It occurs to me that perhaps the same feature could be extended to
include showing another application in a pane? Something like the docked
Hey, in case anyone knows the frankenstein package... I have a question or two.
I'm trying to figure out the bibstyle--
1) @inbook and @incollection have crossreffs to an @book entry. The two entries
(@inbook/incollection and @book) both should appear in the References list,
seperately, even
I need to cite things in a manuscript style. Thus, a work which gets full
citation appears in the References section or in a footnote, but needs to be
cited in the text with an abbreviation, like this: "(AG 245)". No comma. And I
need the following possibility as well: "(AG 245; G 34)". Now, I
When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was
precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated.
- Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely
that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went
through
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct
all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
:
robin wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct
all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
But dangerous ;-)
why?
Herbert
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://perce.de/lyx/
obin wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A
'correct all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
But dangerous ;-)
why?
Well, think about correcting something like the word 'to' when you meant
'too' and accidentally
Aside from the good practical advice other people have offered, I would
also suggest that you chew their ears a bit.
As an aside, I was looking at the website of a local university in one
of those "Maybe I should apply for a better-paid job" moods. The
application form was a
I need to make paragraphs appear thusly:
Q. XX blah blah blah
A. blah blah blah
Q. XX blah blah blah
A. blah blah blah
...
It's something like a dialogue, where each paragraph has some preceeding mark,
like in enumerate. So I need an environment the achieves the same effect as what
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for
your suggestions.
I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to
derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My
document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence
, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
I did to
fix that. Anyway, here's the example file just for the heck of it. Maybe you
know why I have to put gv into portrait in order to see the whole thing.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
Works like a charm. Thanks again.
So here is some minor stuff left
1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry?
2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another?
2001, you wrote:
From: Christopher Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LyX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: misc. bib questions
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:56:16 -0600
1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry?
Maybe using latin1 input encoding and typing in the symbol ?
2) How do I 'include
That file should be on your cd. I am using mdk 7.1, and the file is simply
tetex-blahblah.rpm. Do a 'ls *tetex*' to see all the tetex rpms. If for some
reason it really isn't on your cd, (and its not on the other cd either) then you
can go a couple of places. Lots of ftp sites mirror sunsite:
That means that it is not in your "path", the list of directories where Linux
looks for the programs you run at the command line, or it is still not
installed. I notice that in the list of stuff you installed, there is no LyX.
Did you install LyX?
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, you wrote:
On Saturday 31
Isn't it the case that the next version of LyX will have the option to compile
with other toolkits, such as GTK? This might solve your problem, but you will
have to wait a bit.
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up
's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit
more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol
-anywhere-.
The answer to my question was, "Maybe using latin1 input
Sorry. Linux (Mandrake).
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones writes:
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up
's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit
more general than that. Problem is, I just don't
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed.
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up
's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit
more general than that. Problem is, I
I have two inputted files in my document, I need their contents to be
doublespaced rather than single spaced, which is the document default.
I tried a couple of things, searched around Herbert Voss's site and the LyX
help, but didn't find the answer.
Tried telling LyX not to typeset the file,
Hey, never mind. I found the setspace package.
Couple of things: in the paragraph dialogue, you can set vfill above and below,
and you can "keep" it. Try playing around with this.
Also, the multicol package tries to adjust stuff to fill the whole column. If
you specify \raggedcolumns then you can override this behavior and specify your
own
I found something in the archives from someone who wanted to know where LyX
gets the list of fonts that shows up in the Document popup. The answer was,
well, typical of this list ;-) -- namely, 'you don't want more fonts there--
load them by hand from the preamble'. Now, I don't want -every- font
For some reason I cannot generate complete output for one document
in particular. If I print to file, view postscript or dvi, export to postscript
or dvi, the displayed output stops at page four. If I view pdf or pdflatex, gs
comes up, stopped at page four. If I view html, I get the complete
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:04:28 -0500 wrote Christopher Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For some reason I cannot generate complete output for one document
in particular. If I print to file, view postscript or dvi, export to postscript
or dvi, the displayed output sto
Edit-Preferences-Screen Fonts
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Hello,
I have recently installed RH6.2 and Lyx1.1.6fix1 on an old Compaq
laptop. Lyx's on-screen font is very strange (looks like a combination
or westminster and playbill fonts in Word2000) and is very hard on the
eyes. Is
Have a look at jurabib: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jberger/ for the
footnotes. You will find that it handles citations in footnotes in a relatively
flexible way. You can also download the bst file jachicago, which is a
modification of achicago.bst made to work with the jurabib.sty file.
4.
Since there has been some discussion of incorporation of Python into LyX, let
me say that I think this is something like what I wanted when I posted that
strange request some time ago (I don't remember how I put it: I think I talked
about having the ability to integrate other applications' guis
Is that what a troll is! I always wondered what people were talking about when
they complained about them.
Thanks for the heads up on the menus being configurable--probably an obvious
thing that I have never had the occasion to need, and therefore to know about.
But I perhaps should have
I have been trying Herbert Voss's solution for widow and orphan control
(http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/widows.html). I tried the
first solution, and I tried the second as an addition to the first, which is
what I understood I was supposed to do if the first didn't work.
The
I don't have to do
this every time a record gets added or dropped.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
I'd like latex not to split a paragraph environment at the end of a page. Zum
Beispiel, I'd like the "address" environment, which has protected breaks
Does anybody know of a bibtex package out there that has a cite command
appropriate for footnotes, according to the Chicago style? I looked at
frankenstein, but I only see cite commands for inline citations.
I suppose the thing to do otherwise is to put some stuff in the preamble? But I
don't
In a little more detail: I have been searching high and low, and all I find in
any document on the web are polemics by people in the sciences against the
citation styles used in the humanities (which give full citations in the
footnotes, accompanied by ibid and such).
So what about us
My paragraphs have a habit of running one or two lines over to the next page.
This is especially unfortunate with block quotes, etc. Now, I know that I can
prevent that in specific contexts using \nopagebreak, but is there a more
"global" sollution, such that latex knows its ok if there are more
Thanks. I'll be eagerly awaiting the fix :-)
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: more 1.1.6pre2 deadkeys
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:33:26 +0200
From: Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:57:32AM -0600, Christopher Jones wrote:
Anyway, I have my keymap
When I cut/copy and paste between documents, the pasted text comes with a blue
underlining. It doesn't show up in the output, but it is somewhat annoying to
look at. What is being toggled, so that I can "untoggle" it?
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for
me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped
pdf or ps file?
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a
bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal
databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not
extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to
Not completely sure I understand, but here's a stab.
A bibliography is not the same as a list of references, or a works cited. If I
understand you, then you want a References page, which can be done by using
BibTeX references.
This works by your creating a database file containing author,
I couldn't find it in mine either. When I posted, Mr. Voss sent me the file.
Here it is, passed on to the list.
I should say, though, that I was not completely happy with it. So I also got
the cd-cover.dtx file from CTAN. Run latex on it to install. However, the docs
for it are innacurate, I
Just making sure-- the item you are crossrefing must appear -after- the
crossrefing entry in your database file. Thus: your @book must appear after your
@inbook.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote:
I think I am doing a stupid error in my bibtex files.
I cannot use crossref. Both from within Lyx
Launchers and stuff are handled in several different ways by the several
different window managers out there. Both Gnome and KDE provide easy ways to
set these up, and you can tell them to use the LyX icon provided.
For window manager that don't provide launchers, less elegant solutions include
Weil dieser Discussion auf Deutsch ist, kann ich nicht viel verstehen. Aber ich
verstehe genug. Ich habe viel hilfe vom die Deutscher gehabt: zum
Beispiel, Herr Voss. Wenn ein Deutsche Liste bekommen, dann vieliecht wir haben
das nicht?
Auch glaube ich, dieser Discussion ist wichtig die
This is perhaps a stretch. But a while back I asked if there were plans to
support having documents open in multiple panes (I'm excited about this
feature!). It occurs to me that perhaps the same feature could be extended to
include showing another application in a pane? Something like the docked
Hey, in case anyone knows the frankenstein package... I have a question or two.
I'm trying to figure out the bibstyle--
1) @inbook and @incollection have crossreffs to an @book entry. The two entries
(@inbook/incollection and @book) both should appear in the References list,
seperately, even
I need to cite things in a manuscript style. Thus, a work which gets full
citation appears in the References section or in a footnote, but needs to be
cited in the text with an abbreviation, like this: "(AG 245)". No comma. And I
need the following possibility as well: "(AG 245; G 34)". Now, I
When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was
precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated.
- Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely
that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went
through
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct
all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
:
robin wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct
all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
But dangerous ;-)
why?
Herbert
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://perce.de/lyx/
obin wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A
'correct all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.
But dangerous ;-)
why?
Well, think about correcting something like the word 'to' when you meant
'too' and accidentally
Aside from the good practical advice other people have offered, I would
also suggest that you chew their ears a bit.
As an aside, I was looking at the website of a local university in one
of those "Maybe I should apply for a better-paid job" moods. The
application form was a
I need to make paragraphs appear thusly:
Q. XX blah blah blah
A. blah blah blah
Q. XX blah blah blah
A. blah blah blah
...
It's something like a dialogue, where each paragraph has some preceeding mark,
like in enumerate. So I need an environment the achieves the same effect as what
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for
your suggestions.
I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to
derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My
document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence
, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
I did to
fix that. Anyway, here's the example file just for the heck of it. Maybe you
know why I have to put gv into portrait in order to see the whole thing.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
Works like a charm. Thanks again.
So here is some minor stuff left
1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry?
2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another?
2001, you wrote:
From: Christopher Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LyX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: misc. bib questions
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:56:16 -0600
1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry?
Maybe using latin1 input encoding and typing in the symbol ?
2) How do I 'include
That file should be on your cd. I am using mdk 7.1, and the file is simply
tetex-blahblah.rpm. Do a 'ls *tetex*' to see all the tetex rpms. If for some
reason it really isn't on your cd, (and its not on the other cd either) then you
can go a couple of places. Lots of ftp sites mirror sunsite:
That means that it is not in your "path", the list of directories where Linux
looks for the programs you run at the command line, or it is still not
installed. I notice that in the list of stuff you installed, there is no LyX.
Did you install LyX?
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, you wrote:
On Saturday 31
Isn't it the case that the next version of LyX will have the option to compile
with other toolkits, such as GTK? This might solve your problem, but you will
have to wait a bit.
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up
's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit
more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol
-anywhere-.
The answer to my question was, "Maybe using latin1 input
Sorry. Linux (Mandrake).
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones writes:
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up
's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit
more general than that. Problem is, I just don't
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed.
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up
's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit
more general than that. Problem is, I
I have two inputted files in my document, I need their contents to be
doublespaced rather than single spaced, which is the document default.
I tried a couple of things, searched around Herbert Voss's site and the LyX
help, but didn't find the answer.
Tried telling LyX not to typeset the file,
Hey, never mind. I found the setspace package.
Couple of things: in the paragraph dialogue, you can set vfill above and below,
and you can "keep" it. Try playing around with this.
Also, the multicol package tries to adjust stuff to fill the whole column. If
you specify \raggedcolumns then you can override this behavior and specify your
own
I found something in the archives from someone who wanted to know where LyX
gets the list of fonts that shows up in the Document popup. The answer was,
well, typical of this list ;-) -- namely, 'you don't want more fonts there--
load them by hand from the preamble'. Now, I don't want -every- font
For some reason I cannot generate complete output for one document
in particular. If I print to file, view postscript or dvi, export to postscript
or dvi, the displayed output stops at page four. If I view pdf or pdflatex, gs
comes up, stopped at page four. If I view html, I get the complete
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:04:28 -0500 wrote Christopher Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For some reason I cannot generate complete output for one document
in particular. If I print to file, view postscript or dvi, export to postscript
or dvi, the displayed output sto
Edit-Preferences-Screen Fonts
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Hello,
I have recently installed RH6.2 and Lyx1.1.6fix1 on an old Compaq
laptop. Lyx's on-screen font is very strange (looks like a combination
or westminster and playbill fonts in Word2000) and is very hard on the
eyes. Is
Have a look at jurabib: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jberger/ for the
footnotes. You will find that it handles citations in footnotes in a relatively
flexible way. You can also download the bst file jachicago, which is a
modification of achicago.bst made to work with the jurabib.sty file.
4.
Since there has been some discussion of incorporation of Python into LyX, let
me say that I think this is something like what I wanted when I posted that
strange request some time ago (I don't remember how I put it: I think I talked
about having the ability to integrate other applications' guis
Is that what a troll is! I always wondered what people were talking about when
they complained about them.
Thanks for the heads up on the menus being configurable--probably an obvious
thing that I have never had the occasion to need, and therefore to know about.
But I perhaps should have
I have been trying Herbert Voss's solution for widow and orphan control
(http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/widows.html). I tried the
first solution, and I tried the second as an addition to the first, which is
what I understood I was supposed to do if the first didn't work.
The
I don't have to do
this every time a record gets added or dropped.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Christopher Jones wrote:
> >
> > I'd like latex not to split a paragraph environment at the end of a page. Zum
> > Beispiel, I'd like the "address" environm
Does anybody know of a bibtex package out there that has a cite command
appropriate for footnotes, according to the Chicago style? I looked at
frankenstein, but I only see cite commands for inline citations.
I suppose the thing to do otherwise is to put some stuff in the preamble? But I
don't
In a little more detail: I have been searching high and low, and all I find in
any document on the web are polemics by people in the sciences against the
citation styles used in the humanities (which give full citations in the
footnotes, accompanied by ibid and such).
So what about us
My paragraphs have a habit of running one or two lines over to the next page.
This is especially unfortunate with block quotes, etc. Now, I know that I can
prevent that in specific contexts using \nopagebreak, but is there a more
"global" sollution, such that latex knows its ok if there are more
Thanks. I'll be eagerly awaiting the fix :-)
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: more 1.1.6pre2 deadkeys
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:33:26 +0200
From: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:57:32AM -0600, Christopher Jones wrote:
> Anyway, I have
When I cut/copy and paste between documents, the pasted text comes with a blue
underlining. It doesn't show up in the output, but it is somewhat annoying to
look at. What is being toggled, so that I can "untoggle" it?
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for
me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped
pdf or ps file?
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a
bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal
databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not
extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to
Not completely sure I understand, but here's a stab.
A bibliography is not the same as a list of references, or a works cited. If I
understand you, then you want a References page, which can be done by using
BibTeX references.
This works by your creating a database file containing author,
I couldn't find it in mine either. When I posted, Mr. Voss sent me the file.
Here it is, passed on to the list.
I should say, though, that I was not completely happy with it. So I also got
the cd-cover.dtx file from CTAN. Run latex on it to install. However, the docs
for it are innacurate, I
Just making sure-- the item you are crossrefing must appear -after- the
crossrefing entry in your database file. Thus: your @book must appear after your
@inbook.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> I think I am doing a stupid error in my bibtex files.
> I cannot use crossref. Both from within
Launchers and stuff are handled in several different ways by the several
different window managers out there. Both Gnome and KDE provide easy ways to
set these up, and you can tell them to use the LyX icon provided.
For window manager that don't provide launchers, less elegant solutions include
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