On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> Hi, I tried to view landscape LyX slides (FoilTeX) with ghostview, but
> the right part of the slide doesn't appear: the text is cut.
> I haven't this problem with dvips, only with gv (by Johannes Plass).
> Shall I use another viewer? Is it a problem with postscript?
>
> P.S.: As is said in Extended.lyx, I set "landscape" in extra option of
> Layout->Document menu, and nothing else. Is it correct?
The docs in Extended warn that landscape doesn't do any rotations.
It expects the paper/output to go to a landscape printer. Thus
Foilhead and RotateFoilhead are effectively reversed.
Therefore if you have "landscape" set then you should use Foilhead's not
RotateFoilheads.
If you leave the dvips option in the extra_options field as well then
you'll probably get junk output.
I had similar problems preparing landscape foils when I wrote the FoilTeX
docs in Extended. I think that's why I ended up making the dvips
extra_option the default setting because it worked for me then.
The landscape option seems to be more confusing than useful.
I just used "dvips"+RotateFoilhead -- although I didn't mix portrait and
landscape foils, nobody should.
If you get a solution that works for you let me know so I can add some
more info to the docs.
Allan. (ARRae)
