Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped like this X But we want to control both the indentation of the lines 2-3 as well as the negative indentation of line 1. A negative

Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped like this X But we want

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Be Cautious! IF you edit a document with Lyx-1.4, then you will not be able to edit with Lyx-1.3.X. pj On 1/16/06, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 20:56 schrieb Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez: I would like to install this new version in my system without

Re: LyX 1.3.7pre6 available

2006-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
I don't use Windows, so please pardon me if this is too obvious. I'm installing LyX/Win for a friend. This may fall under the cleaning out redundant programs category. Does installing a newer LyX replace the older LyX in Windows (as it may in Linux)? A few months ago, I installed lyx-1.3.6 with

Method to deliver converter preferences with document? (Using Lyx as literate programming tool with R statistical software)

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Hey, everybody: I've been using Lyx in conjunction with noweb and R to make statistical writeups. I've boiled this down to a pretty simple thing, described here: http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/latex/lyxAndSweave.txt And I've got example lyx documents where you can test this yourself.

Lyx with R in wiki; why don't my lines wrap?

2006-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Some list members suggested I write this up, so I just inserted this in your Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave When I browse that, the lines of text don't wrap, they just go on and on. Do you see that too? I've only worked in the TWiki Wiki very much, so I may accidentally

quotation marks don't work in Lyx-Code when using article (Noweb) document

2006-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Strange, but true. Does it happen to you? Make a new lyx document in default article type. Insert some text in the environment Lyx-Code. Type a quotation mark or two. The document turns into dvi just fine. Then change the document type to article(noweb) Now the quotation marks show on the

Lyx 1.4.0 won'http://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?list=6;ticket_level=2t allow quotation marks inside ERT boxes

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm writing NoWeb documents using LyX and the statistical program R. In my Fedora Core 5 systems, I notice lyx updated to 1.4.0 from the Fedora Extras and most things work well (thanks!). The guide we prepared for LyX to weave statistical results into documents still works great. However, LyX

How about giving us snapshots? Or, If I build from CVS should I expect huge problems?

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Johnson
I built lyx from CVS (on Fedora Core 5) because I wanted to use quotation marks in ERT (a bug in 1.4.0), and I find that problem is solved. This version of lyx runs fine. Thanks very much. Ihave not seen major bugs in this CVS version. But they may hide from me. I would feel more confident

Re: lyx 1.4.1 FC4

2006-04-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Assuming there are not additional tetex packages you are missing, then you have to do the installs by hand. Install the LaTeX class files you need, probably under /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex, then run texhash to make the LaTeX system recognize them, then re-run the lyx reconfigure command

Re: APA.cls missing, not apa.layout

2006-04-30 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, I just saw this second message about apa and got curious why anybody would want it, so I installed it. Here is the step-by-step instruction on how you can install apa and apacite. # su (assuming you don't have the directory already: ) # mkdir -p /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex # cd

Re: Vector graphics in Lyx

2006-04-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On 4/29/06, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all your suggestions I found what works efficiently is 1) use raw data to make graph in gnumeric 2) export graph as svg 3) open inkscape and edit svg 4) save graphic as eps 5) insert graphic into Lyx Thanks to all who helped with

paste into ERT box from Emacs destroys line returns

2006-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Using Lyx-1.4.1 on Fedora Core Linux 5, we ran into a problem. We do statistical analysis in Emacs (via R) and the results appear in LaTeX markup in the Emacs buffer. WHen we cut and paste with the mouse (highlight left button, paste with middle mouse button) into the LyX ERT, the pasted

Trouble with eps inclusions in lyx-1.4.1

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
I just ran into a really weird lyx problem on Fedora Core 5 and tetex-3.0-19. It is so interesting I want to share and ask for help: http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/weirdRotations-lyx.tar.gz That tarball has a lyx file and 3 eps files that I generated with R. Two of the eps files are in

Re: Trouble with eps inclusions in lyx-1.4.1

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Well, this seems like a serious problem, not one where we should say there's nothing to do. I'd suggest that LyX SHOULD NOT offer to export documents to pdf when they have eps files in them, or at least users need a VERY BIG warning because a lot of users will get in trouble unless they proof

Re: Inserting a tab indented outline into a lyx document

2006-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Seems easier to just use the itemize environment with customized bullet symbols. if you use the Document/Settings/Bullets options, you can eliminate the symbols and then the output looks exactly the way you want. It would drive me nuts to keep turning the stevelist special environment on and

noweb book child documents: don't get processed through the noweb handler

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Hello, everybody. If I have a book chapter in book-noweb document class, I can view it and the R/Noweb linkage is fine--the code chunks run through R and the documents are displayed. If I take the same book chapter, and put it in as a child document inside the whole book the Noweb processing is

Re: TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Johnson
Just wanted to let you know the TeXLive works great on my Fedora 8 system. I notice no diamage compared to tetex. In fact, if TeXLive would just use the same configuration commands (no more texhash) I expect most people would never notice the difference. Do my eyes deceive me? With LyX 1.5.2

Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports

2008-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 4, 2008 7:32 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gorjanc Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: take a look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do that, since I was not the original poster. FWIW,

what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?

2008-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
In Fedora 8 Linux, I'm using the TexLive version of latex that is now available fore testing. I can ask there about this trouble, but I'm pretty sure they will send me back here to ask why does LyX do that?. The problem: I get weird output. In a simple document created from the default

Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 22, 2008 11:59 AM, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two LyX documents? Open both files in Emacs. Then choose tools/compare and you get an awesome point by point display of differences (output from diff, I think,

Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 13, 2008 3:13 PM, David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I produce most of my statistical graphics in R and move them into LyX floats. I've been exporting them as JPGs from R. Is there a better format that plays well with LyX/LaTeX? Any suggestions are appreciated. - If you want

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 14, 2008 11:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an

easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
I've seen people asking for a simple way to enter accents and graves, and the discussion here goes off into a configuration of the keyboard and the X server. I think you are misleading people a little bit. I'm here to remind users that reconfiguring to use COMPOSE is unnecessary, at least if you

Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 22, 2008 5:17 PM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, You might be interested in using Sweave. There, you only need to write the code. No export - import. Recent threads on Sweave contain all the pertinent information. Basically, you need to use the noweb class, tweak

Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On 1/24/08, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/23/08, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brief correction. I worked out a way in which to use Sweave within lyx. The instruction is posted in the Lyx Wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave Based on Gregor's article

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 25, 2008 7:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Hewitt wrote: Responding to myself... I had reason to just now try an EPS figure in LyX and it worked fine. Is this known problem restricted to Linux, or specifically Kubuntu? Well, you need to have KDE 4

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Nobody cautioned you yet in this thread. Delete the source tree and untar a fresh copy before re-setting the environment and re-running configure. Otherwise, same old mistakes just happen again and again. I did this recompile myself a few weeks ago on Scientific Linux and I ended up setting

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 12:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. Here's the explanation from a kdelibs developer: [...] Qt uses the QImageIO Plugins for rendering images. Since KDE installs such a plugin

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre' Yes, that is what I said at the start. Then how in the world can

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Oh, please. The suspense is killing me. Did Steve succeed in building the LyX he wants? If not, lets help him do it. The troubles that were posted early on were common errors in configure/make stages of building software. My recollection is that Mandriva is an RPM based system that branched

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 1:38 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but

Inserting graphics of the appropriate type: how to?

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Johnson
For many plots in a sub directory PlotFigures, I have 2 versions, one in eps version and one in pdf version. With Lyx-1.5.3 on Fedora Linux 8, I'm using a koma-script book format. I've run up against this problem inserting graphics. When I insert a pdf figure, then in the DVI/postscript

Re: Inserting graphics of the appropriate type: how to?

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: For many plots in a sub directory PlotFigures, I have 2 versions, one in eps version and one in pdf version. With Lyx-1.5.3 on Fedora Linux 8, I'm using a koma-script book format. I've run

top margin disappearing in printout with lyx-1.5.4 on Fedora 8

2008-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Overnight, Lyx-1.5.4 installed from Fedora Linux updates. Today I opened lyx and saw it re-scanning for preferences, so I realized something was new. I opened an old document and printed it on a post script printer. The top margin was really small, the bottom margin was really big. The margin

noweb book chapter include problem. How about external material strategy?

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
I've asked before, but have new enthusiasm because I just learned about the ExternalMaterial handling in lyx-1.5.4. I succeed using NoWeb strategy in LyX to interact with the statistics program R. There has been some posting about that in here lately by other people doing it too and I see Gregor

Re: Converter failure with Sweave

2008-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Original Message Subject:Re: Rweave for Windows Lyx (problem solved!) Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:06:22 -0600 From: Cheng-shan (Frank) Liu Thank you, Nicolás. Also thank Uwe Ligges, Brian D. Ripley, and Paul Johnson for their advices. Here is a summary of the advices about

Re: Converter failure with Sweave

2008-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
. In the R preferences dialog, look for Noweb- latex. If you now have R CMD Sweave $$i replace that with the name of the bat file I give, Rweave $$i. No need to insert bat there. I also attach sample LyX document that does view in PDF pj On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: No figures in PDF output

2008-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx (1.5.1 on WinXP) to write my thesis. When I try exporting the multi-part document as pdf (using dvipdfm) I get errors but the output pdf has no figures in it. All the captions and everything are in

Re: Math symbol displayed incorrectly on screen

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: I am using LyX 1.5.5 on Linux. In math mode, \cdot appears as \times should (as an 'X' shape) on the screen. The dvi output is fine -- \cdot appears as a centred dot. I have attached a sample

Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Johnson
I was asking about missing or incorrect symbols yesterday. I found a solution. In Lyx on Ubuntu 8.04, I noticed that SOME mathematical characters do not show properly on the screen. (Many symbols are fine.) For example, \cdot shows as x where it should have the centered dot and \succ just

double spaced documents have too much white space around display math, according to my students

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Students are having fun learning lyx and LaTeX, but some are bothered that when they use double-spaced text, the display-math equations have too much space around them. They want a single line equation to be lined up on the ordinary double-spacing, with no extra vertical space. We have fiddled

Anybody make a ScreenCast video of the LyX WIndows installation?

2011-08-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Is there a movie demonstrating the Windows install of LyX (from start to end?). Why I wish it were so: I'm using Linux, but I have installed it in the occasional Windows system. The install is not like other Windows programs, there are lots of ways people get it wrong and have to start over.

Re: Space around floats

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Lastalda lasta...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to write my diploma thesis in Lyx. So far I'm managing mostly fine, but I'm very annoyed by the huge free space Lyx creates around floats. It looks terrible - and it's most annoying when this space is the only

Lyx 2 windows install. babel missing from LyX-Installer-Bundle ??

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi I use Linux, but I tell my students who use windows to give LyX a try. We had pretty good success with LyX-1.6.x, but the students say they can't get 2.0 to work. I ignored them at first. I decided to prove that it works by filming a Screencast. I created a Windows 7 32 bit virtual machine

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Johnson
It seems to me you are working very hard there. If you are willing to write out a path, can I suggest a simpler solution? Did you try just writing in a path, as: \pgfplotstabletypeset{/home/florian/Documents/lyx/example1.dat} This is how I insert data in Sweave documents. I have no reason to

horizontal alignment of graphics and ERT table

2011-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
I wrote a test in LyX and have trouble getting a graphic to sit side by side with a LaTeX table. After fiddling around with this for quite a while, my bright idea was to nest them both in a 1x2 tabular, but it always seems like the table (inside a minibox) wants to sink to the bottom of the right

Re: horizontal alignment of graphics and ERT table

2011-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote a test in LyX and have trouble getting a graphic to sit side by side with a LaTeX table.  After fiddling around with this for quite

Re: horizontal alignment of graphics and ERT table

2011-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote a test in LyX and have trouble getting a graphic to sit

need working example of copier to customize pdf output

2012-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm generating a lot of slide shows for my statistics class. Sometimes I forget to run the followup program to create a compressed version of the presentation. It want to make that automatic.[1] When I export a document in pdf from a Beamer slides project, I also want this shell program to run.

Re: need working example of copier to customize pdf output

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/25/2012 01:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Copiers are tied to formats, so you will need to create a new format first. Call it PDF (beamer), or something of the sort. When you do, you can assign a copier program

Re: need working example of copier to customize pdf output

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Oh, heck. I broke the regular export of the one-page at a time PDF when I added my copier for the 4 sheets on one page. Details below, please advise. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/27/2012 01:11 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: When this finally seemed

helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Greetings, LyX Land: I've encouraged people to learn to use LyX, so when they run into trouble, I feel responsible to try and help. I use Linux to prepare documents, so I have not experienced this problem before. Many people still use Windows and MS word and such, and so they do things that I

Re: Indented paragraph in description list.

2007-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On 8/29/07, Rudi Gaelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Returning to this thread: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-usersm=116026623917165w=2 which concerns the creation of a multi-paragraph description list, the recipe works, but the new paragraph is not indented inside the description. It seems to me you

Re: Exporting

2007-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
I just tried export to OpenDocument format with the new LyX and have some advice that may help. Run LyX from a terminal window. That way, you can watch the error messages. emitted by the programs that do the translation. For me, the first export to ODT frailed--tex4ht crashed because it could

Paul Johnson has invited you to open a Google mail account

2007-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
the messages into the Label groups. I can show you example of Filter that works. --- Paul Johnson has invited you to open a free Gmail account. To accept this invitation and register for your account, visit http://mail.google.com/mail

Re: Exporting

2007-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
warnings instead. I have tried changing the fonts with no success. What did you change the font setting to? As before, tex file is working just fine --- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried export to OpenDocument format with the new LyX and have some advice that may help

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All I have been searching a drawing tool that generate LaTeX code then implemented (pasted) somewhere in LyX so I can get simple pictures/diagrams. I just learned about a drawing program called ipe and I'm

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

2009-12-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@earthlink.net wrote: I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm

Biblio problem: extra 'crap' at end of citation

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi, everybody. In the last year or so, I've been testing services like CiteULike and Zotero to build a biblio database as I research. This works pretty well to output the citations to a bib file and work with LyX. I notice only one substantial problem. The citations from those online services

Re: Biblio problem: extra 'crap' at end of citation

2010-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On 23/07/2010 11:17 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Hi, everybody. In the last year or so, I've been testing services like CiteULike and Zotero to build a biblio database as I research. I notice only one substantial problem. The citations from those online services have extraneous information

Noweb Sweave question: Need help to copy folder from lyx temp back to current document directory.

2010-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
In Sweave, we process a noweb document first through R to generate the tex file, and then the usual processing occurs. Because not all LyX/LaTeX systems have the noweb setup, it is necessary for me to develop my document with Sweave/Lyx, and then save the generated files (in a folder plots) and

Noweb Sweave question: Need help to copy folder from lyx temp back to current document directory.

2010-08-28 Thread Paul Johnson
gmail just sent me a message that this post was not sent through on Wednesday because it could not contact lyx-users. So I'm trying again. Sorry if it is a repost. In Sweave, we process a noweb document first through R to generate the tex file, and then the usual processing occurs. Because not

inkscape with LaTeX markup: need an external document option?

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Johnson
I've been trying to understand how LyX's new (in 1.6.7) ability to import svg via inkscape can cooperate with LaTeX markup. I've been experimenting with the inkscape textext extension, but, as others have noticed, it is a bit dicey to install and sometimes has unpredictable output. As an

Re: Copying From PDF

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and there seem

hundreds of listings, 4 custom types.

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
I have a how to document with hundreds of code listings. They do not follow standard language definitions in lyx's listings options, I have been trying to avoid doing the right-click on the listing to customize every little bit in the output. I'd like to write a lyx layout file that has the 4

Re: Ubuntu 10.10 - Unsuccessful installation

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
on Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:55 AM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: Try ./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release I haven´t tried beta4, but later svn releases compile fine on my Ubuntu 10.10 installation. I do use the same configure options Liviu

Re: Including SAS output in latex

2011-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Sid Sahgal sahga...@gmail.com wrote: Hello,     I am a new Lyx user. I want to include a latex file created by SAS ( a statistical software program). I follow the instructions on this website http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/odsmarkup/latex.html. Greetings

Re: bold matrix and vector. Need customization help.

2013-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: I would use a math macro (section 22.2 of Help Math). Create the macro somewhere near the front of the document (Insert Math Macro inside a math inset). If the symbol you are bolding is always 'x', define a macro with an

new warning about missing cls file in LyX 2.0.7 annoying

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Hey, developers. Can you make LyX look in the current working directory for class files and turn off the warnings the pop up with LyX 2.0.7? Please? For our doctoral students, I worked out a LyX example (LaTeX as well) and it uses a custom class file. I have the cls file in the document

I built some lyx160 packages for Ubuntu 8.10 you can install alongside lyx-1.5.6

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Hey, Ubuntu running lyx guys: I saw in the lyx list that it is possible to build lyx-1.6.0 from source so that it will be installed without damaging lyx-1.5.6. I wanted to try the newest lyx, but need to make sure the old faithful lyx-1.5.6 is available. The configure option that builds a

Re: Best advice on Fonts and PDF output from Lyx

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: I've run LyX on RedHat, Fedora, and Ubuntu Linux at various times for about 10 years. Until a year or so, the LaTeX distribution was TeTeX, but recently I've converted over to TeXLive. Like many other LyX users, I've

change font used in lyx-code environment ??

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
In Ubuntu 8.10 I'm running Lyx 1.6.1. In Noweb documents, I notice the problem that the typewriter font does not show double quotes. They show as black boxes, as you can see in some example output. http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/foo.pdf Until I find the problem in the weaving process that

Chinese support: What is relationship between Lyx, CJK, and xetex?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
In our Linux lab, a student asked for installation of Chinese support. We have machines with TeXLive-2007 and LyX 1.5.6 or 1.6.1. I spent most of the afternoon and evening trying to figure out what might be the bare minimum change needed so that a person can write print documents in Chinese via

Want to write Chinese in LyX? Please give me some feedback on this HOWTO

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
I've worked out a little update for the XeTeX page on the LyX Wiki. (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX) After obtaining feedback from prospective users of Chinese or other languages that require non-roman character sets, I'd like to add this to the LyX wiki page on Xetex. In case you don't know,

I want to create a literate scrbook, not just a literate book

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Dear everybody: Can I use the Lyx literate-book textclass to create a KOMA script book, rather than just a boring old book? For that matter, if one is using a literate-article textclass, isn't there a way to specify the *type* of article? I realize I can output the tex file from the noweb

Re: Lyx/ Biblatex import Problems

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Christofer Zwanzig christo...@zwanzig-online.de wrote: Hello, trying to import a tex-file with the biblatex-command \Cite (with capitals) into lyx file occures the following problem: For example the command \Cite[Vgl. z.B.][52]{Holzfurtner:1984} is imported

Re: Big document

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Piero Faustini pierofaust...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS Windows. I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the students that they were using some weird, minority operating system :). I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing. We installed the lyx bundle

need advice about html to latex conversion

2009-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Here's a Linux (ubuntu) system administration question for you. What is the best html - latex converter? To help LyX users access the htmltolatex program,what is the best approach? Explanation: I never tried to import an html file until yesterday, and I got the error from LyX indicating that

Re: Usinr Sweave / noweb in BEamer presentation

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Hello, I don't have any answers, but I have some questions for you.. I have an interest because I have been using LyX with Sweave a long time, but have not yet needed a beamer Sweave. I've only spent 40 minutes looking at your case. I don't know what a fragile frame is for, but I'll go read

Re: Usinr Sweave / noweb in BEamer presentation

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I don't have any answers, but I have some questions for you.. I have an interest because I have been using LyX with Sweave a long time

branch users: some howto advice?

2009-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi! I'm running LyX 1.6.1 on a variety of Linux platforms. I never used branches before, but now I'm trying to use a branch in a book project I'm writing. I hope you find it entertaining that my book is called Stuff Worth Knowing (And Not Much More). It includes tips for people who are beginning

Parbox footnote disappears. LyX example attached

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
I have been testing the LyX box insert. I don't know much about minipages, but I can see one major advantage is that footnotes in them are not numbered with the notes in the rest of the document and they print at the bottom of the minipage. Neat! The test document is attached. Inside a parbox, I

Re: Parbox footnote disappears. LyX example attached

2009-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Paul Johnson schrieb: I have been testing the LyX box insert.  I don't know much about minipages, but I can see one major advantage is that footnotes in them are not numbered with the notes in the rest of the document

Can I please have an example of conditional ERT in LyX

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Can I please have an example of how to use the ifelse package for LaTeX with LyX? I want to manage a NoWeb/Literate programming document so that some commands are included in the document only sometimes. (I'm sending LyX documents to R through Sweave:

Writing an old fashioned paper: ever try biblatex and biblatex style customization?

2009-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
I took a contract that requires old fashioned citations in footnotes, not in-text citations with an attached set of references. I've not written a paper in that format in 25 years and I've been digging about for the best way to get it done. I first checked into jurabib, but learned that it is no

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Graham M Smithgraham.sm...@myotis.co.uk wrote: Paul I could of course add a line for the margins in the preamble that I comment out and in depending on the output, but I was hoping for something a bit more automated than that. I thank you for bringing the

Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Lohmanndaniel.lohm...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Hi, So here is what I want to achieve: I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX-documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the source, but the PDF/EPS

Re: bibLatex with Lyx

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Johnson
you did not make a complete install of biblatex. It is much more than just that one style file. In linux, these are the installed files from biblatex: usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex

Re: Anyone used Lytex?

2009-09-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Sharma, Vivek shar...@upmc.edu wrote: Hi I do not have administrative privileges at work computers but am so dependent on using lyx for my writing and want to be able to use it on a USB drive or a network drive that I have access to. I wondered if anyone has

Lyx works with R Sweave. Followup question enclosed

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
I followed along with the LyX noweb instructions and have succeeded in using LyX to create NoWeb documents that can be sent to the statistical program R and turned into LaTex by R's Sweave program. I was using Emacs for things like this, but found I made about 9 times more errors writing

Re: PDF Generation - URL problem

2004-11-22 Thread Paul Johnson
I have had the too long URL problem in the past and was monitoring this thread. I changed Herbert's test file just slightly (attached), and I don't see any difference in the way the 2 urls are treated. Both are broken correctly with pdflatex, but in the other pdf and xdvi output, they run off

relyx, book format, dissertation example trouble

2004-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Hello LyX users. I'm trying to coach a student through a dissertation using LyX, and I've not used LyX for anything bigger than an article (so far). I found online at the U of Texas a dissertation format for LaTeX, and I can make it work with LaTeX, but when I use relyx to grab it into Lyx, I

lyx/latex works on some computers, not others

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
I have 2 Fedora Core 3 systems. On one, everything is fine. In the other, Latex processing on document fails because the bibliogrphy has some accented characters in it. The LaTeX error in the Lyx document is Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character is undefined [then it lists a snip from the

Weird Inconsitencies in handling of xfig drawings (converter preference question)

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
I have a little back end trouble with output of xfig drawings. I wrote a chapter and in the process discovered that LyX can directly import xfig drawings. I previously was using EPS export versions of the drawings. but it was very very convenient to leave them in fig format, so I can edit them

Re: Harvard referencing style with Bibdesk

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
I've recently been through the learning experience trying to use Harvard, and gave up because it doesn't work with natbib. So I made some notes about customizing bst files and hope people think the notes are useful. http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/latex/LaTeX_Bibliographies.html In that same

Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
If pstricks things don't display in pdflatex output, don't you think you should put out a big warning to everybody on your wiki? To me, that's a pretty big danger of using pstricks. pj Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:03:50 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can send you an

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script tex2pdf does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so the pstricks do not

Re: Dead keys problem, v. 1.3.5 Spanish accents

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
I don't have luck getting the compose key to work on my FC3 systems either. For me it is a matter of keyboard setup and compose key not working well with other elements. However, in the online Lyx reference manual, I find I can get the symbols with accents in another way

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