Re: TOC for Appendix
On Mittwoch, 15. November 2000 14:26, you wrote:
> I am trying to write my thesis with LyX, but I think I may have to
> switch to Latex in the near future...
>
> Lyx doesn't create a table of contents for the appendix. Furthermore it
> doesn't include TOC for unnumbered sections. All I can think of as a
> remedy, is to write additional lines (for the appendix headers, page
> numbers etc) after the TOC insertion point and tex it.
>
Whats about typing
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Appendix}
in Latex-Mode into Lyx ?
CU,
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Re: form document
Ha! I'll have to give that one a try. I've fallen in love with Lyx after finding out how easy it is to create very complex exams in my field (chemistry). And there's so much more to learn... Kenward On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Roger Williams wrote: ... > My favourite approach to True/False and multiple-choice is to use > itemised lists with box-shaped bullet symbols (e.g. \large(\Box)). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --
Re: form document
Alberto Meroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SOrry to ask such a stupid thing but how can I create a form document
> with underlined space to fill, box to check and so on? I need it for
> a school test document.
> Thank yoy very much
> Alberto Meroni
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some Elements:
\newsavebox{\mybox}
\sbox{\mybox}{\framebox[4mm]{\rule{0mm}{3mm}}}
\hspace*{3cm} Write \rule[-1ex]{1cm}{0.1mm}
\hspace{3cm} Check \usebox{\mybox} Again \usebox{\mybox}
\hrulefill
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Re: form document
> Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My "find" of the week was discovering that these [underlined > spaces] work well in concert with List mode to create great > True/False questions on my exams. :-) My favourite approach to True/False and multiple-choice is to use itemised lists with box-shaped bullet symbols (e.g. \large(\Box)). -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireless * datacomm * DSP * ATE tel +1 508 947-5585 * fax +1 508 861-0278 * http://www.coelacanth.com/
Re: Overword package
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >trying to get up camel package, but it needs overword package, >which should be but it is not available on CTAN (there is a >broken link in CTAN Catalogue). Is this the one? ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/overword.dtx -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
English thesaurus?
Does anybody know about something like %subj% for Linux? If there already is such animal, are there plans for its linking to LyX (in similar manner as [ia]spell is)? Thanx Matej
Overword package
Hi, trying to get up camel package, but it needs overword package, which should be but it is not available on CTAN (there is a broken link in CTAN Catalogue). Would anybody have an idea, where to find it? Matej
Re: form document
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:17:55PM +0100, Alberto Meroni wrote: > SOrry to ask such a stupid thing but how can I create a form document > with underlined space to fill, box to check and so on? I need it for > a school test document. My "hack" for underlined spaces is to define them using Ctrl-space followed by changing their characteristics to underbar (Layout->Character->Misc). My "find" of the week was discovering that these work well in concert with List mode to create great True/False questions on my exams. :-) Kenward -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --
Re: form document
Alberto Meroni wrote:
>
> SOrry to ask such a stupid thing but how can I create a form document
> with underlined space to fill, box to check and so on? I need it for
> a school test document.
\underline{\hspace{3cm}} is for example a line of 3cm
for checkboxes and other symbols look at wasysym
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/symbols/wasysym.html
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form document
SOrry to ask such a stupid thing but how can I create a form document with underlined space to fill, box to check and so on? I need it for a school test document. Thank yoy very much Alberto Meroni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TOC for Appendix
I am trying to write my thesis with LyX, but I think I may have to switch to Latex in the near future... Lyx doesn't create a table of contents for the appendix. Furthermore it doesn't include TOC for unnumbered sections. All I can think of as a remedy, is to write additional lines (for the appendix headers, page numbers etc) after the TOC insertion point and tex it. Is there anybody who knows a better way to do it? Thanks Gursoy Note: The grad college supplies a sty package for the thesis preparation, but LyX doesn't seem to like it. And when I export my LyX files to Latex and run Latex on it (without modifying) I get a bunch of error messages. I wonder if its worth fixing these errors, or continue on with LyX?
Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
> So, I ask you fellow LyX'ers who have been LaTeX'ing since the > pre-LyX era, where do I begin? Get yourself a good book like the "LaTeX Companion" or Kopka's "Einfuehrung" (don't know whether this is available in English). Have a look at www.ctan.whatever. Andre' PS: > Of course, my editor of choice is Emacs, Apage! You won't get advice on this from me ;-) -- André Pönitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
Since lyx performs most of the basic tasks, you'll probably need more latex-tips than actual latex by itself. A nice FAQ in French http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/FAQ-LaTeX/ Some help in English http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/ Don't forget H. Voss' Tips, which heavily rely on LaTeX http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/LyXTips.html But if you REALLY are curious about how things work, you'd probably wanna dive into TeX ITSELF. Then, good luck...
Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
Thank you all for you input. For now I will read the essential.dvi document, and try looking at some of my LyX documents with (X)Emacs and AucTeX. Soon, I will get copies of both Lamport and Kopka. Thank you all again, I appreciate your help! -- Seeya, Paul I'm in shape, my shape just happens to be pear! If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
> my way was to write from the beginning with lyx :-), too. and > than i solved all the special latex problems only with the book > of kopka (maybe that there is an english translation) and the rest > with the newsgroups: > de.comp.text.tex (the german one) > comp.text.tex (the english one) > > Herbert There is indeed an english translation for the Kopka and Daly book "A Guide to Latex 2e", and I found the second edition (published by Addison Wesley) an excelent way to learn latex, as did the majority of my collegues. There is now a third edition available. - Phil Scordis Room 2.19, School of Biological Sciences, Stopford Building University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT -
Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
Paul Lussier wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been using LyX for quite some time now (since pre-1.0 days) and I > absolutely love it. However, in using it, I've gotten the distinct feeling > that I'd appreciate it even more if I knew LaTeX itself. I guess it has to do > with my insatiable curiosity about how things work :) > > So, I want to learn LaTeX. I don't plan on becoming an expert, or abandoning > LyX, though. So, I ask you fellow LyX'ers who have been LaTeX'ing since the > pre-LyX era, where do I begin? > > Of course, my editor of choice is Emacs, so I'm also interested in learning > how to LaTeX within Emacs. I think the learning LaTeX seems to be easier to > figure out than how to do it with Emacs :) > > Any good pointers on where to find an Intro to LaTeX with Emacs? my way was to write from the beginning with lyx :-), too. and than i solved all the special latex problems only with the book of kopka (maybe that there is an english translation) and the rest with the newsgroups: de.comp.text.tex (the german one) comp.text.tex (the english one) Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
Hello, On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > So, I want to learn LaTeX. I don't plan on becoming an expert, or abandoning > LyX, though. So, I ask you fellow LyX'ers who have been LaTeX'ing since the > pre-LyX era, where do I begin? > > Of course, my editor of choice is Emacs, so I'm also interested in learning > how to LaTeX within Emacs. I think the learning LaTeX seems to be easier to > figure out than how to do it with Emacs :) > > Any good pointers on where to find an Intro to LaTeX with Emacs? Don't be afraid, LaTeX isn't so complicated as it seems, at least for easy documents. So export an document in lyx to LaTeX and look at it in the emacs (did xou have auctex installed, is lovely) and i guess you understand a lot. And then learning by doing :) Best wishes jan -- +--- Jan Goebel (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) DIW Berlin Longitudinal Data and Microanalysis Königin-Luise-Str. 5 D-14195 Berlin -- Germany -- phone: 49 30 89789-377 +---
Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > So, I want to learn LaTeX. I don't plan on becoming an expert, or abandoning If you're using some unix and some reasonable LaTeX distribution, the distribution should come with reasonable set of documentation. For example, in this RedHat system with teTeX the documentation is under directory /usr/share/texmf/doc/. Probably one of the best documents to start reading is /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/general/essential.dvi, or look other documents in /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/general/. You may read dvi files with xdvi. If your system is different, try looking for documentation with "locate essential" or something.
Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?
Hi all, I've been using LyX for quite some time now (since pre-1.0 days) and I absolutely love it. However, in using it, I've gotten the distinct feeling that I'd appreciate it even more if I knew LaTeX itself. I guess it has to do with my insatiable curiosity about how things work :) So, I want to learn LaTeX. I don't plan on becoming an expert, or abandoning LyX, though. So, I ask you fellow LyX'ers who have been LaTeX'ing since the pre-LyX era, where do I begin? Of course, my editor of choice is Emacs, so I'm also interested in learning how to LaTeX within Emacs. I think the learning LaTeX seems to be easier to figure out than how to do it with Emacs :) Any good pointers on where to find an Intro to LaTeX with Emacs? Thanks a lot, -- Seeya, Paul I'm in shape, my shape just happens to be pear! If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Re: Documenting software
>>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:31:52 +0100 >>From: "Idar Tollefsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Documenting software >> >>Hello, >> >>As some of you might know, documentation is not the highest priority in many >>software projects. My new workplace is no exception. I therefore want to try and >>set a standard here for how documentation is supposed to be done. >> >>We use WinNT, and I'm therefore using LyX for Win32 (1.1.5fix2). I have >>an initial question about this environment: If I want to introduce LyX to these >>people, it is important that I can get it running with a, preferably, free X-Server, >>or at least a low cost one. Could anyone recommend one? I am personaly using >>ReflectionX from WRQ, and I'm _very_ happy with it, but it costs too much. >> >>But my real question what type of document to use? >> >>I have written one user's manual using the Book class. These seem to work >>well, but I would like som input from others who have uses LyX or LaTeX to >>document software. >> >>I need both to document the code and write manuals for the users. We need >>conversion to PDF (no problem) and to PS for printing (also no problem). We also >>require conversion to HTML to be able to publish our documentation on our >>Intranett (this place has over 7000 employees, and some of our systems has >>about 2000 users). I am now in the process of trying to install ans use >>LaTeX2HTML, which I hope will do the trick. >> >>If possible, conversion to "help" formats would be great. Does anyone know of >>a LaTeX to WinHelp or HTML Help converter? If I get LaTeX2HTML to work, >>we could possibly assemble the HTML Help files ourselves, but it would be >>great to get them ready made. >> >>Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated. >> >> >>- IT >> >> My usual solution to intranet access to documents: - write it in LateX or easy-to-turn in LaTeX tool (obviously Lyx does it) - turn it in HTML with maximum split-up (i.e. one file per sheet of the logical tree in the TOC) - index it to give direct access to elementary pages upon a search equation. Quite easy to set up, but the query part is more difficult to popularize, du to the fact that it needs a understanding of of the basic query mechanism properties. Answers to queries feeds back HTML pages so that you can interlace query navigation with hypertext navigation. Of course you may hack the building procedure to include particular features (e.g. make all images thumbnails by default with hyperlink on full image). LaTeX2HTML can be paraemtrized to a really complex level, and allows to insert hypertextual instructions ignored by the TeX typography (which remains available from the LaTeX or LyX source). Obviouly also, the query page can explore one or more docs (even distributed in the Intranet) upon checkbox selection. I used this on Lyx doc to provide the indexed access in parallel with the acees from inside LyX; it fails only on constructs of the LyX docs which are intended to show the result in LyX itself (mathed mostly) but remains usable. -- Jean-Pierre
BiBTeX and nocite
Hi I had the same problem as described by Marc below. > > "Marc" == Marc Van Droogenbroek writes: > > Marc> Hello! I have to write a document that only contains \nocite > Marc> references. The \nocite references were included as LaTeX > Marc> commands. Apparently therefore LyX doesn't launch BibTeX. > > Marc> The solution I found was to include a \cite reference (from the > Marc> menu) and to remove it afterwards. > > Marc> Is there a better solution to this? > > There is no direct support for nocite currently. The only solution I > can think about is to add all the \nocite'd entries as notmal citation > insets, but with a % marked as TeX just before (therefore, they will > be in comments for LaTeX, but visible for LyX). > > Hope this helps. > > JMarc > > - > Assuming that this problem has not been fixed in versions of LyX later than 1.1.2, I'd like to suggest the following: Add an option to the dialog box for inserting BiBTeX-citations that allows the user to mark it as of the type: "nocite" I also tried the suggested solution of putting a '%' in TeX-mode just in front of a normal citation, but that didn't produce anything either. If anyone knows of a different workaround to this problem, I'd be grateful. /Christian Ridderström
Re: Documenting software
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Idar Tollefsen wrote: > LaTeX2HTML, which I hope will do the trick. Sure it works, but you might also evaluate other latex->html converters. tth makes very good job, especially with equations (though you might not need those so much).
Documenting software
Hello, As some of you might know, documentation is not the highest priority in many software projects. My new workplace is no exception. I therefore want to try and set a standard here for how documentation is supposed to be done. We use WinNT, and I'm therefore using LyX for Win32 (1.1.5fix2). I have an initial question about this environment: If I want to introduce LyX to these people, it is important that I can get it running with a, preferably, free X-Server, or at least a low cost one. Could anyone recommend one? I am personaly using ReflectionX from WRQ, and I'm _very_ happy with it, but it costs too much. But my real question what type of document to use? I have written one user's manual using the Book class. These seem to work well, but I would like som input from others who have uses LyX or LaTeX to document software. I need both to document the code and write manuals for the users. We need conversion to PDF (no problem) and to PS for printing (also no problem). We also require conversion to HTML to be able to publish our documentation on our Intranett (this place has over 7000 employees, and some of our systems has about 2000 users). I am now in the process of trying to install ans use LaTeX2HTML, which I hope will do the trick. If possible, conversion to "help" formats would be great. Does anyone know of a LaTeX to WinHelp or HTML Help converter? If I get LaTeX2HTML to work, we could possibly assemble the HTML Help files ourselves, but it would be great to get them ready made. Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated. - IT
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