I've tried it. If it works for you, I think that's great. It generated
really bad formatting for me in my use cases, which is why I forgot about
it.
Thanks,
Ben
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 8:51 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2023, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>
> > Have you tried Libre Office an
>From experience, no. It is really not hard to format a docx to latex though.
Really, you are only thinking about lines and some special formatting.
Tables, images, headers, footers, and more make it very complicated. The
formats are diametrically opposite. Docx keeps information on every glif on
It's working to demonstrate the problem. I don't see a significant problem
with it.
Thanks,
Ben
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 3:32 PM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users <
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> wrote:
> Le 14/12/2021 à 21:05, Steve Litt via lyx-users a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here on the LyX list
through code, I dont know what the point of using a code debugger would
be.
Thanks,
~Ben
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 8:45 AM Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 13. August 2019, 13:20:52 CEST schrieb Pavel Sanda:
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 06:10:19PM -0400, Benedict Holland wrote:
> >
You probably need to compile lyx though. I assume that Lyx uses the O2 flag
for production builds so while error messages and logs are a huge help
(minimum working example is the best), unless you can compile with the O0
flag for gcc, gdb will just return a mess.
The good news is that you mostly d
I want to reiterate the ERT of \nocite{*} and you can probably put it in
your preamble if you want it for all parts in your document. This is your
answer:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17653/how-to-list-all-bibliography-entries-without-citing
Then you just have to create a references/b
If you don't include biblatex in the UI (remove any bibliography settings
in Lyx), it shouldn't load anything. Of course, then it is on you to
include biblatex with all options and customizations you would like.
Does that work?
Thanks,
~Ben
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:13 AM Bert Lloyd wrote:
> D
For automation, I include a tex file within Lyx. I then create all of my
latex tables using python or whatever. It produces valid latex. This is
very hard to do without a heavy level of conformity. For example, I can
write a quick script that will take 95 rows of 4 column data quite quickly.
I have
Oh. My apologies. LibreOffice or Excel can split text based on a character.
In this case, I would bring your text into excel, split to columns on | and
copy it into a defined table within Lyx. Lyx accepts Excel "copy and paste"
as long as you have the table already defined. You would want Excel to
Create a table that is 5 columns and 84 rows (assuming you want a header).
Copy from excel into the table. You can specify rows and columns of your
table.
Next comes orientation. From the table, select properties and I would chose
fancy table options, long table, and then orient the page as landsc
I have lyx working with texlive and it is awesome. No issues. TexLive is
really hard to install though.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:16 PM Richard Kimberly Heck
wrote:
> On 10/15/18 12:13 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I was trying to compile texinfo on Windows, if you succeed, let me know
I don't want to be one of "those people" but does the problem still persist
in 2.3.1? Typically the first response for issues is to ask that the user
upgrades to the latest stable version. I have breaks in my PDF and it seems
fine.
Thanks,
~Ben
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 7:48 AM Daniel Goya wrote:
I would be in disagreement with Charles. Lyx has a massive range of users
from latex experts to novices. Power users will be incredibly upset if Lyx
does something that changes a working configuration without notifying them
first. It is even more important to get it right before release since it
af
I would say that the only people who would update MiKTeX outside of a Lyx
install are power users.
I would simply state something like:
Lyx requires MikTeX 2.9 or later. Your version is X.X. Chose "Continue" to
automatically update MiKTeX to version X.X or cancel the LyX installation
and update M
Hi Katrin,
My guess is you want something like this.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150314/change-table-caption-numbering
You will probably need to create the tables using latex. I am unsure if Lyx
has a specific way of doing what you want. My guess is that you want to
renew the thetable
Is this a problem with Lyx or the parser? What reference engine are you
using? Can you replicate it with biber and biblatex? I only harp on this a
bit because I ended up with huge problems with my .bib file and the
solution was to switch to biber (which AFAIK) is unsupported by lyx, though
that mig
In a perfect world, yes. From my understanding, the lyx integration of
beamer is quite complicated. Also, this makes a great deal of sense. The
itemized lists are under a frame object, so they are essentially treated as
a sub-object when the user hits tab, as they should be. It also clearly
denotes
My guess is that would be the cause. Since you do not have a common (in a
typical citation style of last_name, first and first_name last_name and
first_name last_name), I believe it would treat "Rana A. Find AND Frank J."
as the first name and Millero as the last name. Also, this isn't a lyx
issue.
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Benedict Holland
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a strange bug and don't know if it is already known. When I
> install
> > lyx from the Ubuntu release repo, I start up lyx and continuous spell
> check
> &
Hi everyone,
I have a strange bug and don't know if it is already known. When I install
lyx from the Ubuntu release repo, I start up lyx and continuous spell check
is not enabled. I enable it, close down lyx, start up lyx, and continuous
spell check is not enabled. This is despite the checked box
You get the privilege of giving money to Microsoft. Also, I think it
prevents that really annoying pop-up saying THIS MIGHT BE UNSAFE RUN RUN
RUN~ OR YOUR COMPUTER WILL CRASH AND DIE HORRIBLY. NEVER TRUST
ANYTHING NOT VERIFIED BY US. Do you wish to install the application anyway?
AFAIK, th
great.
thank you,
~Ben
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 08/04/2015 09:41 PM, Benedict Holland wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am on Ubuntu 15.04. I did not experience this on 14.04. I am doing the
> workaround. It works. I am willing and happy to test this. T
Hi Everyone,
I am on Ubuntu 15.04. I did not experience this on 14.04. I am doing the
workaround. It works. I am willing and happy to test this. This is really
bad, as if that needed to be said. Let me know when or if I can help.
Thanks,
~Ben
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Scott Kostyshak wro
I find, from experience, that the best thing you can do is learn biblatex.
Is this something you are willing to do? It has a very steep learning curve
but is very well documented and supported. Your problem is trivially solved
as well. Lyx can also use biblatex with a small amount of work that also
If you have generated the tex file in Stata, use ERT. It is much easier.
The command you want to look up is \input as in \input{table.tex}. This is
the only way I generate, edit, and include tables now. This should also be
the command that lyx uses... either that or include but I assume input
would
ious usability tests that should be performed or is it just ad-hoc
testing and report bugs to the channel?
~Ben
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 07/02/2015 03:24 PM, Benedict Holland wrote:
>
>> Just curious, why are we testing old versions of an application
I have been working with biblatex now for over a year. It is exceptionally
complex. It might actually be too complex to automate. I can't even think
up a decent UI to present the hundreds of different configuration options,
and there are probably even more than I use. The documentation alone is
sev
Just curious, why are we testing old versions of an application with known
catastrophic bugs? Wasn't the uncorrupted save feature implemented in the
2.1 branch? Also, I have been using the 2.1.3 exclusively for a long time
and I admit that I am a power user. It is stable as anything I use and when
I have to plug emacs for native lyx support. That application is awesome at
parsing raw Latex. As Richard said, this is the antithesis of why anyone
would use Lyx. I have become a huge fan of seamlessly integrating my latex
documents, mostly tables, using the input command and editing the .tex file
I do not know about multiple versions but I can say that typing in 3 dashes
will produce an em-dash and 2 dashes will produce an en-dash. I would be so
bold as to say that if this works other than expected it would be a bug. It
is also possible that multiple versions of the same character will be
c
It is my understanding that if a selected font has math characters with it,
that will automatically be used. Most fonts do not so it falls back to the
default. There are a series of default options which are quite good and if
it makes you feel better, having greek letters in one font and normal tex
Hello,
So you want to label each of the lines in order? If you are in the math
environment, right click and select "Displayed Formula". That will center
the entire math block. Then you can right click and number the whole
formula or each line. It is true that it will not number each line 1-4 and
e
Hi everyone,
I am going to take a strong line on this one and say it works as designed
and the design is very well done. The reason for is it that you do have
references and labels, under the table, that lyx is managing for you. You
have an equation, you number the question, you label the equation
alse,backend=biber]{biblatex}
>
> Should I modify something?
>
> Thank you
> Jess
>
> Benedict Holland
> 5. Februar 2015 17:55
> In that case, can you post your call to biblatex located in the preamble?
>
> ~Ben
>
>
> jezZiFeR
> 5. Februar 2015 12
;
> Best
> Jess
>
>
>
>
> Benedict Holland
> 4. Februar 2015 17:56
> Are you using biblatex and biber as a backend? I don't think bibtex and
> bibtex8 displays URLs by default. Biber does however. If this is something
> which you need, perhaps biber is an option you want
Are you using biblatex and biber as a backend? I don't think bibtex and
bibtex8 displays URLs by default. Biber does however. If this is something
which you need, perhaps biber is an option you want?
~Ben
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:18 PM, jezZiFeR wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding
nymore as latex includes many
many ways to integrate PDF images within a document. Generating the PDF
outside of the document and importing it seems like far less work than
trying to get it all working in Lyx.
~Ben
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Jerry wrote:
>
> On Jan 25, 2015, at 2:56
in Matlab I
> simply write:
>
> x(3,1)=5
>
> and I obtain the matrix:
>
> [0 0
> 0 10
> 5 0]
>
> while in R I cannot do that, because x has already been defined as a 2 by
> 2 matrix.
> I find all this very inefficient for dealig with matrices.
> This is my point :
R is not so easy to use for big matrix computations? This is a first for
me. R is extremely efficient at dealing with matrices. If you have huge
matrices, I don't think it would perform much better than anything else. If
you need sparse matrix functionality, R comes with it built in. Python is
actu
possible that there is a bug with lyx if this occurs. BTW, I have no
affiliation with Adobe at all but everyone uses it and if I don't use it, I
can easily run into problems where it will view in one browser but not in
others. I can't afford that issue.
~Ben
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:31 AM
Be very careful when viewing Beamer presentations with anything other than
Adobe. I have found that the presentations never display correctly and when
giving a presentation, it is almost a guarantee that you will be presenting
on Adobe. If you are not using Beamer, anything else should work. I stic
I use dropbox for something similar. That also means that your .lyx folder
should also be on there and any changes you make to the default
configuration are synced.
~Ben
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> Den 25. sep. 2014 12:06, skrev Renato Pontefice:
>
> Hi,
> I woul
Wouldn't that change the default for every document using that particular
style though? If this is only for one journal, modification of style files
would not only be overkill, but would impact future work in unexpected
ways. To get the desired results, it would be best to limit it to document
spec
You might have to get your configuration with ERT. I find a lot of
formatting is complicated with koma. You could also play around with your
din.lco file. That is where all of the spacing is defined unless
overridden. I might suggest an ERT of \raggedright with the includeimage
command. It is hard
I would say that what could go wrong is your references might need to be
cleaned up. I know that was the huge shift for me. The major difference
(and in my opinion a terrible decision) is that biblatex assumed that your
bib file is valid latex code. That means that all reserved characters are
escap
You should use biblatex. It has the ability to do this. For my example,
\usepackage[
uniquename=false,
uniquelist=false,
maxcitenames=2,
mincitenames=1,
maxbibnames=200,
minbibnames=1,
natbib=true,
url=false,
doi=false,
isbn=false,
eprint=false,
backref=false,
backend=biber,
style=au
You want to use a package called fancyhdr.
This code will put the page number at the bottom left on odd numbered pages
and right on even numbered pages.
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhf{} %clears everything
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} %make header line 0 width
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth
Hi,
You want to use komascript2. http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2
You also want to look up how to modify the .lco files from koma. This is
the "local" file which will determine different margins. This is not
trivial to do and I found that is requires a great amount of tinkering to
get exa
I do not know any Croatian first of all.
The issue that you are having is that Lyx uses a 3rd party software (bibtex
by default but biblatex is much better particularly for you) to generate
references. It is taking whatever you have in your JabRef .bib file,
formatting it, and placing it into your
Yea, I was just going to say to do this. I have a quick word of warning
though. I think that biblatex and bibtex will take whatever .bib file you
have as valid latex code. I just remembered it because I personally think
this is a completely ridiculous thing to do but suffice to say, I know that
bib
I really do not typically recommend that you learn Latex this but in this
specific situation, I have not found a great way to use Lyx. Tables in
Latex are trivial to set up. They are also fully customizable and once you
get use to them, they are really easy to write well. Tables is the single
thing
I strongly encourage you to turn the SVG into a PS, EPS, or PDF file. I
think somewhere is the documentation is states that for SVG to correctly
work within the document is requires inkscape. Not at all a problem,
inkscape is one of the best vector editors out there but it is required as
Guenter st
Is is possible to install a 2.1 version? There are a ton of bug fixes
between 2.0.X and a 2.1.X version. If that doesn't work, you might not have
the beamer file installed but I would try upgrading first.
http://www.lyx.org/Download
~Ben
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Mikhail Salganik wrote
I still don't buy that. You send a printer a PDF. That is a vector graphic
document. You send it to them in a PDF so it prints exactly what you give
them. Yes, professional printers are different than home printers. They are
far more complex and yes, I did have a problem with converting from RGB to
Yes but you need to set the column width manually.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables
Check out the sections for m, p, and c.
What is happening is your header in the top row is defining your column
width. Those two strings are different lengths. I do not know if it is
possible in Lyx to u
To understand why that shouldn't happen you actually have to understand
that you are specifically doing something which is both strange and
backwards. The reason that EPS, PS, and PDF files work so well with Latex
and Lyx is because PDFs are vector based graphics. Converting an EPS and a
PS documen
Make sure though that if you chose ImageMagic that you are getting results
that you can live with. In many of my attempts to use it resulted in
horrible outputs. I use something called Poppler
http://superuser.com/questions/185880/how-to-convert-a-pdf-document-to-png
BTW. If you search for "conve
More to the point, why is a publisher unable to print a PDF? That seems
incredibly suspicious as someone who has worked with printers. There are
also lots of applications which will do this conversion. Inkscape and gimp
come to mind.
~Ben
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
en
e has the implication that each three line section is a grouping
> so that I might want to compare the first three lines against the next
> three lines or the last three lines and so on.
>
> It seems to be introducing an unintended structure to the data in the
> table.
>
> P.S I l
these bugs?
Thanks,
~Ben
On Jun 21, 2014 3:53 AM, "Jürgen Spitzmüller" wrote:
> 2014-06-20 23:47 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland:
>
>> So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract
>> of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that
with biber?
~Ben
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Benedict Holland <
benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried using biber and biblatex following the instructions here:
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
>
> I received some very strange errors like &
Hello,
I tried using biber and biblatex following the instructions here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
I received some very strange errors like "Lonely \item - perhaps a missing
list environment" when some of my references were included. It was actually
2/35 which were throwing the error e
you.
This is what Tufte argues and more importantly almost, booktabs. Booktabs
makes decent tables with the defaults. Read that document.
~Ben
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Daniel CLEMENT
wrote:
> Le vendredi 20 juin 2014 à 11:22 -0400, Benedict Holland a écrit :
> > Before yo
Sorry, completely avoidable. Check out The books by Edward Tufte for some
excellent visuals and explanations about why they are so good.
~Ben
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Benedict Holland <
benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before you do this... read this articl
Before you do this... read this article.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001IV
Zebra tables are almost always a bad idea. The correct way to solve the
problem is through typesetting and either avoiding or using horizontal
lines. You also should look at booktabs for some
0:53 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland:
>
> I think this is a problem with the default configuration, at least on
>> linux. You really need to use Bibtex8 for the bibliogrophy generation. This
>> is NOT the default. The default is bibtex which doesn't have any unicode
>> suppo
I think this is a problem with the default configuration, at least on
linux. You really need to use Bibtex8 for the bibliogrophy generation. This
is NOT the default. The default is bibtex which doesn't have any unicode
support because it actually was written in the 1980's. bibtex8 should
really be
http://flukylogs.blogspot.com/2009/09/install-style-files-in-lyx.html
The .sty file is your style file. It is used for formatting. The
sample_thesis.tex file is a raw latex file (presumably so you can test the
style to make sure you get the required output). You do not ever want to
include these.
e crash but if you can make
it work fairly easily, I would personally prefer to have a document work
with a minor hack than not have a document work at all.
~Ben
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Benedict Holland <
benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is quite
>
> Thanks,
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EPS files are not natively supported. The pdf created is a wrapper for the
EPS. Do you have the
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.eps,png} %Allowed includegraphics
Declared in the preamble? There are huge reasons to not use .jpgs in text
and an EPS should work. I know that this might be a huge p
Yea. Check your floats. Make sure that they are marked as "here
definitely". Also you might want to add a \vfill before and after the
picture. Also, make your pictures bigger unless you can't but try to.
Bigger pictures are always better.
~Ben
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller
Would you be willing to do this in ERT? I find that the first page, cover
page, etc. are notoriously difficult to get correctly specified in Lyx. The
ERT would be someting like
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/819/double-line-spacing
Also, it might be linebreak but I think it should be newli
Oh perfect! That is exactly the perfect solution!
Thank you so much. I never even knew this feature existed, particularly the
ability to configure my tex editor!
~Ben
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 05/29/2014 09:20 AM, Benedict Holland wrote:
>
>>
>
~Ben
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 04:38 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Benedict Holland
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone. Yes, I did check the archived mail and no, I didn't find an
>&
Hi everyone. Yes, I did check the archived mail and no, I didn't find an
answer. I am running lyx 2.1 and I need to spell check ERT. How can I make
this happen?
Before you ask, why he is still using ERT the answer is tables. I cannot
make lyx do what I want with tables and I am not going to go thr
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