I'm in the process of trying to get going with LyX again after a year's
lack of use. I have a few problems:
1. The last document I wrote made two references to the same footnote.
I used the LaTeX font to surround a LyX reference to the footnote
with "\footnotemark[" on one side and "]" on the other. LaTeX
doesn't seem to like LyX's output for that anymore. The error box
says
Missing number, treated as zero.
...\_host\_key\footnotemark[\ref{foot:etc}]
A number should have been here; I inserted '0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see an number,
look up `wienr error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
2. When I ask to view a landscape (FoilTeX) image in DVI, Xdvi displays
the landscape mode slide with a portrait mode page outline
superimposed upon it, even though LyX's Layout --> Document ... -->
Paper Orientation is set to Landscape (and Letter).
3. How PDF output is generally unacceptable, and its detailed
appearence seems to depend upon which PDF option I first select from
the View menu.
a. If I first choose "PDF (pdflatex)" then the full screen acroread
display comes out aparently in A3 proportions and portrait
orientation, in spite of my selections of letter and landscape
within LyX. Stuff gets cut off and EPS graphics don't get
rendered at all.
If instead I choose either of the other two PDF engines first,
I get their output instead when I later choose "PDF (pdflatex)".
b. If I choose "PDF (dvipdfm)" then the full screen acroread
display comes out in landscape mode and letter proportions
alright, and EPS graphics are displayed (if somewhat roughly),
but all text areas on pages containing any EPS graphics are
rendered with dark gray text against a black background. The
backgrounds of second and succeeding EPS graphics on a page
are also black.
If toolbars, etc. are displayed as well, instead of using full
screen display, rendering of both text and EPS graphics is
normal, though the graphics are still rough.
c. If I first choose "PDF" then the full screen acroread display
looks much like b), above, except the text areas are black on
black instead of dark gray on black.
Again, less than full screen display is normal, though the EPS
is rough.
4. EPS graphics and text fonts are crisp and beautiful and displayed
with the proper propostions and orientation when displayed in gv,
but it doesn't seem to have any way of doing a full-screen display.
The upshot of 2, 3, and 4, above, is that there no longer seems to be any
way, much less a good looking way, to drive a projector with a laptop full
screen display.
The specifications:
IBM T23 ThinkPad
FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
LyX 1.3.3
Xforms 1.0_3,1
Acroread 5.08
teTeX 2.0.2_2
All applications software is the latest from the FreeBSD Ports collection.
Can anyone help me make sense of this? I have two more days before I have
to demo LyX to a sceptical crowd of Unix/Linux, Windows, and MacOS X users
to pursuade them that we should use it to develop a set of long-lived
documents.
Thanks for your efforts.
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