Page numbering query
Hi,
I'm just learing to use LyX, so I'm sorry if this is a bit of a
gumby-type question. I'm writing a large-ish report, and including
individual chapters as files in a 'master' file.
When I generate tables of contents, figures and lists, page numbers begin
from the beginning of the page of contents. I would like page numbering
to start at the beginning of my first chapter, and my title page,
abstract, and tables of contents, figures and tables to be numbered
consecutively with lower case roman numerals.
I have tried the LayTeX command
\pagenumbering
to restart page numbers at the beginning of my first chapter, but this
didn't seem to work.
I then tried the command
\pagenumbering{roman}
to try and convert numbering in selected sections to roman numerals, and
when this didn't work, I tried
renewcommand\thepage{roman}
(as per advice on the website), bt this didn't work either. Not sure If
I've got the wrong commands, or am putting them in the wrong place, or if
my approach is totally wrong. I have no prior knowledge of LayTeX, so I'm
not sure how to go about it.
Any tips?
James
Re: pagenumbering
Hi James
In the very beginning of the doc enter:
\pagenumbering{roman}
and on the top of the first page with arabic-numbers
enter:
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{7}
where the 7 of course is to be replaced with whatever page
you're at.
I didn't find the automatic way of seetting that number
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Antwort: Re: pagenumbering
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{7}
where the 7 of course is to be replaced with whatever page
you're at.
I didn't find the automatic way of seetting that number
You don't need to. Just use the command \pagenumbering{arabic} in ERT where you
want it to start.
Regards
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Re: What's the real name??
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:46:45AM +0100, Ivan Marchesini wrote: Hi to all. I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex (Latec) or simply like: Lycs.. thank you very much!!! Depends on you local dialect. José says Licks, I say Lücks (ü is something like i when the lips are formed for an u) and Lars something in between. I guess this covers the whole range ;-) Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: What's the real name??
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: We really need that .au file ``My name is Matthias Ettrich and I pronounce LyX LyX.'' I believe that correct pronounciation is the second one (American-like not Greek-like). After-all we shoot for higher goal than to be just LaTeX front-end and so the unnecessary connections to LaTeX are slightly harmfull. BTW, LaTeX is correctly pronounced [Laitech]. Is it? Where does the 'i' come from? From Laimport? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: copy/paste between two lyx.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:43:59PM -0600, |b|c|r| wrote: this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more about it? Why can't you copy it into a text editor, then copy it again from there? Because the internal structure of the part is lost and LyX is currently unable to retrieve a new structure when stuff is pasted. Andre', who prefers talking to people with pronounceable names in any case. -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: Which drawing program?
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? Try dia, it's great. I used it for preparing pictures for LyX documents. -- http://decopter.sf.net - free unrealistic helicopter simulator
Re: SpellChecker
Pierre == Pierre Lescanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pierre I my case when I tried to start the spellchecker on a French Pierre (francais) document (french-gutenberg to be more precise). It Pierre just hangs and stays blocked for a while I imagine it runs Pierre into an infinite loop until a time out is reached. How is the ispell dictionary named? You should be sure that it is named 'french', since this is the name that the spellchecker wil try. A solution is to make a symbolic link in the directory where the dictionaries are located francais-franch. JMarc
Re: path to templates directory
Dekel == Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dekel On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m Dekel wrote: Can you specify several directories for LyX to search for templates? Dekel No, as far as I know. It would not be very difficult to change. Christian, if you feel like investigating the places where this would be useful, we have a function that does the replacement (ReplaceEnvPath) [*] and we would just have to use it at the right places. JMarc [*] OK, the function is broken currently, but we will have to fix it before 1.3.0 anyway.
document exchange between lyx 1.1.6fix4 and 1.2.0pre4 works?!
Hello, I am an windows user who uses lyx 1.1.6fix4 on a linuxServer via winserver remote login. On this server ispell does not work corretly and so I am tried another server on which lyx 1.2.0pre4 is installed. But there I get lyx closes due to a bug everytime I try to insert a bib reference. Now I thought about this: writing on lyx 1.1.6fix4 and spell-checking on the other server (and going back to the first server). Are there any known problems that could occur when I exchange documents between these two versions? (I think I have read about a problem concerning figures in lyx...) Best wishes, Jörn
Re: document exchange between lyx 1.1.6fix4 and 1.2.0pre4 works?!
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Jörn Lindmaier wrote: Now I thought about this: writing on lyx 1.1.6fix4 and spell-checking on the other server (and going back to the first server). Are there any known problems that could occur when I exchange documents between these two versions? (I think I have read about a problem concerning figures in lyx...) 1.1.6 probably won't read docs created with 1.2. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: path to templates directory
On 18 Nov 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Dekel == Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dekel On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m Dekel wrote: Can you specify several directories for LyX to search for templates? Dekel No, as far as I know. It would not be very difficult to change. Christian, if you feel like investigating the places where this would be useful, we have a function that does the replacement (ReplaceEnvPath) [*] and we would just have to use it at the right places. JMarc [*] OK, the function is broken currently, but we will have to fix it before 1.3.0 anyway. Ok, I'll put that on my todo list :-), but I should probably finish my thesis first. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: SpellChecker
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
Pierre == Pierre Lescanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pierre I my case when I tried to start the spellchecker on a French
Pierre (francais) document (french-gutenberg to be more precise). It
Pierre just hangs and stays blocked for a while I imagine it runs
Pierre into an infinite loop until a time out is reached.
How is the ispell dictionary named? You should be sure that it is
named 'french', since this is the name that the spellchecker wil try.
A solution is to make a symbolic link in the directory where the
dictionaries are located francais-franch.
JMarc
I have done what you said, but this was not sufficient. Thanks to my
knowledge on LaTeX, I was able to visit the LaTeX file and to see that
the first declaration on the first line was
\documentclass[frenchb,dvips]{article}
I do not know why. I changed it to
\documentclass[french,dvips]{article}
without the b and now it works.
Pierre
LyX not rendering graphics
Since more than a year I have watched the list and the discussion concerning the problem that LyX renders graphics only sporadically on fast computers - I still have the problem and tried the sporadic tips to solve the problem - without success for SuSE 7.3 and SuSE 8.0. I have tried to update from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1, but was unable to compile the sources - because of the cc1plus error. Now I have succeeded in part and feel that there might be somebody out there knowing the ultimate solution. Here is what I did: When I asked to check the dependencies, the output was: # rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: tetex-xdvi is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(Cwd) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(File::Basename) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(FileHandle) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(lib) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(strict) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(vars) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 So I installed 1.2.1 from the binary rpm using --nodeps and supplied both libstdc++.so.5.0.0 and libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib (moreover, a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.5 was generated and ldconfig was run). Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Norbert -- Dr. Norbert StribeckUniversity of Hamburgvoice +49-40-42838-3615 - polymer physicist -Institute TMCfax +49-40-42838-6008 http://www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/tmc/stribeck http://www.stribeck.de
Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?
Nirmal Govind wrote: [...] So I did that but my itemize environment was too long to fit on a page... so now I have a lot of empty space on one page and the minipage starts on the next... I can send you an example file if you'd like to take a look.. hm. I tried using a minipage for the first few items and then nested itemize for the rest, but it didn't line up perfectly. It may be ok if the change happens in a page break, then nobody will see it. (Assuming the next description don't have an itemize too of course) Sort of a emergency hack. Helge Hafting
LyX not rendering graphics
I sent a request for help some minutes ago --- the problem is solved! I had to disable my ~/.lyx directory, and now it works and I see all the graphics displayed. My beloved keybinding files blocked both the rendering of graphics and the possibility to input keystrokes from the keyboard. Norbert -- Dr. Norbert StribeckUniversity of Hamburgvoice +49-40-42838-3615 - polymer physicist -Institute TMCfax +49-40-42838-6008 http://www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/tmc/stribeck http://www.stribeck.de
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: froze while open a lyx file
linuxman == linuxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: linuxman hi, I compiled and installed cjk-lyx 1.2.1 on debian/woody, linuxman linked with xforms 0.88-1. But when open some files(about 10 linuxman pages long) I wrote with this version cjk-lyx, lyx froze and linuxman the status bar told me formatting document. I have linuxman waited for long time, but no result, so killed lyx:-) linuxman I have tested some very simple file, but no problem. linuxman How can I resolve this problem? Thanks in advance! It is not very easy, especially since most of us do not run cjk-lyx, so it is difficult to know whether this is a lyx bug of a cjk-lyx bug. You could try to run cjk-lyx under gdb, interrupt it with Ctrl-c and look at the backtrace to see where it is stuck. JMarc
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Norbert Stribeck wrote: Since more than a year I have watched the list and the discussion concerning the problem that LyX renders graphics only sporadically on fast computers - I still have the problem and tried the sporadic tips to solve the problem - without success for SuSE 7.3 and SuSE 8.0. I have tried to update from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1, but was unable to compile the sources - because of the cc1plus error. Now I have succeeded in part and feel that there might be somebody out there knowing the ultimate solution. Here is what I did: When I asked to check the dependencies, the output was: # rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: tetex-xdvi is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(Cwd) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(File::Basename) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(FileHandle) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(lib) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(strict) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(vars) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 So I installed 1.2.1 from the binary rpm using --nodeps and supplied both libstdc++.so.5.0.0 and libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib (moreover, a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.5 was generated and ldconfig was run). Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Norbert I'm in a similar (sinking) boat. In previous versions of LyX, the graphics would almost always render. At most, I would just have to restart LyX and rendering would work again. Now that I've installed 1.2.1 for RH 8.0 and using xforms 0.89 (after upgrading to RH 8.0), rendering just does NOT work at all. (Not quite true - it doesn't work on eps files created by R.) This is on three Intel PCs all running RH 8.0 (one is a laptop, the other two are desktop systems). I can't be sure the problem doesn't have something to do with Redhat 8.0. Or it may be that all the eps files I'm creating come from R (they used to render OK and they are eps files.) But I cannot fix it and have seen NOTHING on the list that has helped. Someone did suggest turning on debuggind (lyx -dbg graphics or lyx -dbg any) but that just tells me the conversion doesn't work - even though all the software needed for the conversion is readily available on all three systems - I can do it manually - and if the conversion wasn't in the preferences I added it. LyX installed differently on each system. On at least one I had to even get it to just view in PS and PDF. Viewing in HTML gives a screwy message about the file name having more than one period and that dvips can't handle it. I have to rename the file so there is only one period. Fortunately I guess I can live without rendering in LyX just so long as it prints and views OK. Just for your information, I always use rpm -U --test before actually installing the binary. rpm never reported any problem either in test mode or when I actually installed the software. There were no conflicts and it didn't complain about any missing software - LyX installed (as it had in the past) without any error messages or warnings. Everything seems to work except for rendering (and viewing on one system) out of the box. At least for me, the rendering error message is in English. I miss the days when I could just install a new version of LyX and continue doing actual work. If anyone can explain how to fix this I would certainly appreciate it. Rick B.
Re:re: hypenation in Dutch
Hmmm, I don't seem to have 'dutch hyphenation patterns' in my texconfig menu. Do I need to install something extra for that? Cheers, Jeroen. On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:14:56PM +0100, Jeroen Vriesman wrote: But the hyphenation babel dutch thing keeps making one serious mistake, almost all the words with 'ij' in it get split between the i and the j, like: Do you have the Dutch hyphenation patterns enabled ? If not, you can change this with texconfig.
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' ImageMagick 5.4.7 is installed and reconfiguring does not help. Nor does disabling the .lyx file. Rick B.
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
I had a similar problem, but I was under RH 7.0: graphics would *never* show up under Lyx 1.2.1. This weekend I got pissed about it and after a while I came to the idea of reinstalling ImageMagick, uploading from 5.3.3. to 5.5.*. It worked... seems that convert was failing before. In any case there is room for improvement in the way images are handled now, because the text jumps to the beginning when a new image is rendered, and the conversion process takes a long time in a document with several of them. Maybe the procedures should be reviewed somehow.. jb Since more than a year I have watched the list and the discussion concerning the problem that LyX renders graphics only sporadically on fast computers - I still have the problem and tried the sporadic tips to solve the problem - without success for SuSE 7.3 and SuSE 8.0. I have tried to update from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1, but was unable to compile the sources - because of the cc1plus error. Now I have succeeded in part and feel that there might be somebody ou t there knowing the ultimate solution. Here is what I did: When I asked to check the dependencies, the output was: # rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: tetex-xdvi is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(Cwd) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(File::Basename) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(FileHandle) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(lib) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(strict) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(vars) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 So I installed 1.2.1 from the binary rpm using --nodeps and supplied both libstdc++.so.5.0.0 and libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib (moreover, a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.5 was generated and ldconfig was run). Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ei n darstellbares Format Norbert I'm in a similar (sinking) boat. In previous versions of LyX, the graphics would almost always render. At most, I would just have to restart LyX and rendering would work again. Now that I've installed 1.2.1 for RH 8.0 and using xforms 0.89 (after upgrading to RH 8.0), rendering just does NOT work at all. (Not quite true - it doesn't work on eps files created by R.) This is on three Intel PCs all running RH 8.0 (one is a laptop, the other two are desktop systems). I can't be sure the problem doesn't have something to do with Redhat 8.0. Or it may be that all the eps files I'm creating come from R (they used to render OK and they are eps files.) But I cannot fix it and have seen NOTHING on the list that has helped. Someone did suggest turning on debuggind (lyx -dbg graphics or lyx -dbg any) but that just tells me the conversion doesn't work - even though all the software needed for the conversion is readily available on all three systems - I can do it manually - and if the conversion wasn't in the preferences I added it. LyX installed differently on each system. On at least one I had to even get it to just view in PS and PDF. Viewing in HTML gives a screwy message about the file name having more than one period and that dvips can't handle it. I have to rename the file so there is only one period. Fortunately I guess I can live without rendering in LyX just so long as it prints and views OK. Just for your information, I always use rpm -U --test before actually installing the binary. rpm never reported any problem either in test mode or when I actually installed the software. There were no conflicts and it didn't complain about any missing software - LyX installed (as it had in the past) without any error messages or warnings. Everything seems to work except for rendering (and viewing on one system) out of the box. At least for me, the rendering error message is in English. I miss the days when I could just install a new version of LyX and continue doing actual work. If anyone can explain how to fix this I would certainly appreciate it. Rick B.
eps figures
i just recently switched to 1.2.1 from 1.0.9(i think) and noticed that the new version doesn't seem to recognize eps figures as viable graphics files. the browse options for insert-graphics gives only gif|jpg|gif|jpg|gz as options and all of my figures(eps) display the message error converting to loadable format. i remember this working last night on my laptop (which also has 1.2.1). the dvi looks fine, but i would like to be able to see the figures in the lyx document. any idea how to fix this? thanks, alex.
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. Rick B. pm2.5.time.plot.eps Description: PostScript document
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:10:13AM -0500, Richard A. Bilonick wrote: To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that it will display in LyX? I believe .xpm Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: Waiting for draw request to start loading
rab == rab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rab I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, rab and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone rab suggested turning on debugging using lyx -dbg any or lyx -dbg rab graphics. This shows that there is a problem in converting the rab eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software rab is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use convert from rab ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just rab doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX rab help document, it displays the eps figures. We are certainly aware of some of these problems, but we have difficulties to understand what they actually are, and how to solve them. It seems that various version of various utilities do not mix well together (notice the precision of this statement %-|). This problem is one reason why 1.2.2 has not been released yet, although it contains many important fixes. But, as the maintainer of the 1.2.x versions, I cannot afford to spend much time on this problem. I just do what I can. Nevertheless, I hear the complaints on lyx-users :) rab LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to rab just install the latest version and everything would basically rab work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of rab the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, rab the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in rab as root, it would not work. This happens if latex is not configured properly for the user 'root', for example. I would be surprised if it was LyX' fault (but anything can happen...). rab Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error rab message about the document name if it has more than one .. rab Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has rab always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so rab it has only one ., then it makes a nice html document and rab displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. This will be fixed in 1.2.2 rab In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an rab error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure rab LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something rab to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I have a fix for that that has been applied to the development version, and I will maybe apply it to 1.2.2, since we had many requests (I try to be conservative as to which fixes go to stable versions). rab I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for rab helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of rab them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are rab so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it rab but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH rab 8.0). This has probably to do with the versions of some utilities shipped with rh8. Not necessarily that they are broken, but bad interaction. JMarc
Re: eps figures
Alex == Olivas, Alexander Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex i just recently switched to 1.2.1 from 1.0.9(i think) and Alex noticed that the new version doesn't seem to recognize eps Alex figures as viable graphics files. the browse options for Alex insert-graphics gives only gif|jpg|gif|jpg|gz as options and Alex all of my figures(eps) display the message error converting to Alex loadable format. i remember this working last night on my Alex laptop (which also has 1.2.1). the dvi looks fine, but i would Alex like to be able to see the figures in the lyx document. any idea Alex how to fix this? thanks, alex. Try to do EditReconfigure JMarc
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Richard A. Bilonick wrote: To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. Rick B. LyX has problems to convert files with more than one point in their names. Rename your file to pm25timeplot.eps and it will show up. This seems to be a LyX-bug similar to that with underscores in math formular names. Ronald
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Richard == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' Richard To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that Richard it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file Richard that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 Richard pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. Richard I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to Richard know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. It works fine for me with 1.2.2cvs, in two different environments: - redhat 7.1, xforms 0.89.5, ImageMagick 5.2.7, ghostscript 7.0 - tru64 4.0f, xforms 0.88.1, ImageMagick 3.7.8, ghostscript 7.0 Do you still have this problem if the file name does not contain multiple dots? JMarc
trouble viewing dvi (textcomp)
I am pulling out what hair I have left over an issue with \textcelsius on lyx 1.2.1 I have attached two lyx files one was generated by H. Voss (textcelsius.yes.lyx) and works perfectly on my machine (ie view dvi displays the degree C symbol just fine). The second file (textcelsius.no.lyx) was generated on my machine and gives an error on view-dvi. There has got to be a critical difference between these files. Has anyone else run up against this? Kirk -- Kirk R. Wythers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Minnesota tel: 612.625.2261 Department of Forest Resources fax: 612.625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
Re: re: hypenation in Dutch
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:54:22PM +0100, Jeroen Vriesman wrote: I don't seem to have 'dutch hyphenation patterns' in my texconfig menu. Do I need to install something extra for that? Run texconfig. Select hyphenation, then select latex, and then a text editor opens, and you need to uncomment the line %dutch nehyph.tex and save the file.
pdflatex logo
Hi, I am trying to place a logo in my presentation using pdflatex, but the logo doesn't seem to be placed. The pdflatex output is there though, everything but the logo. Any idea? Remzi
Re: Waiting for draw request to start loading
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: rab == rab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rab I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, rab and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone rab suggested turning on debugging using lyx -dbg any or lyx -dbg rab graphics. This shows that there is a problem in converting the rab eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software rab is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use convert from rab ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just rab doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX rab help document, it displays the eps figures. We are certainly aware of some of these problems, but we have difficulties to understand what they actually are, and how to solve them. It seems that various version of various utilities do not mix well together (notice the precision of this statement %-|). This problem is one reason why 1.2.2 has not been released yet, although it contains many important fixes. But, as the maintainer of the 1.2.x versions, I cannot afford to spend much time on this problem. I just do what I can. Nevertheless, I hear the complaints on lyx-users :) rab LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to rab just install the latest version and everything would basically rab work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of rab the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, rab the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in rab as root, it would not work. This happens if latex is not configured properly for the user 'root', for example. I would be surprised if it was LyX' fault (but anything can happen...). rab Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error rab message about the document name if it has more than one .. rab Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has rab always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so rab it has only one ., then it makes a nice html document and rab displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. This will be fixed in 1.2.2 rab In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an rab error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure rab LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something rab to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I have a fix for that that has been applied to the development version, and I will maybe apply it to 1.2.2, since we had many requests (I try to be conservative as to which fixes go to stable versions). rab I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for rab helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of rab them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are rab so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it rab but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH rab 8.0). This has probably to do with the versions of some utilities shipped with rh8. Not necessarily that they are broken, but bad interaction. JMarc Well now that I know I didn't (necessarily) screw things up, I can just wait until the next version pr whenever it gets fixed. It was thinking that I could fix it that made me obsess about this. Thanks for letting me know. Rick B. P. S. I did upload a file produced by R you might want to use to test. I can get some eps files to render but none (so far) from R 1.6.1. I just checked and LyX 1.2.1 does render eps files from versions of R prior to 1.6.1. Unfortunately I cannot tell what is the version of R. If anyone needs an example file for comparison, please let me know.
Re: What's the real name??
Andre Poenitz wrote: Where does the 'i' come from? From Laimport? Not from the lazy American pronounciation :-). Read it as you wish. Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30)
Re: SpellChecker
Pierre Lescanne wrote:
\documentclass[frenchb,dvips]{article}
I do not know why. I changed it to
\documentclass[french,dvips]{article}
without the b and now it works.
frenchb.sty is -- beneath francais.sty and french.sty -- a valid babel file (I
don't know the differences)
So the best solution to fix this is not to change the babel sty name or a
symlink, but the use alternative language field in
Preferences-Language-Spellchecker. There you should enter the name of the
ispell dictionary (e.g. french)
Regards,
Jürgen.
removing date from article class
Hi I'm writing a document using the doc class article and I don't want the date to be printed. How can I do it ? Regards EJ
Re: removing date from article class
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:59:54PM +, Ernesto Jardim wrote: I'm writing a document using the doc class article and I don't want the date to be printed. How can I do it ? Put a protected space in a paragraph with layout Date. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: SpellChecker
Marc Levivier wrote: I have also a problem with the spell checker of LyX 1.2.1. When I cliked on the button : nothing (in francais). I changed things I don't understand in language (options documents), language (preferences) and language (for using an other language with the spell checker), and then it works. The solution I have is : selecting, tree times the same language... For the spellchecker, only the third option (use alternative language in the spellchecker options) is relevant. LyX tries to be clever and takes the name of the document language as ispell language option. This works sometimes, if the name of the babel file and the name of the ispell/aspell dictionary are identical. Often, they are not (cf. german vs. deutsch), and spell checking fails, unless you tell LyX the actual name of the dictionary. Jürgen
Re: removing date from article class
Ernesto Jardim wrote:
I'm writing a document using the doc class article and I don't want
the date to be printed. How can I do it ?
Most simple solution is to put unbreakable space and on the
special line and give it environment Date. However, the result is
ugly (you get one more blank line in the title). The right
solution is to put this into Layout/Preamble (but you may break
something):
\def\@maketitle{%
\newpage
\null
\vskip 2em%
\begin{center}%
\let \footnote \thanks
{\LARGE \@title \par}%
\vskip 1.5em%
{\large
\lineskip .5em%
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
\@author
\end{tabular}\par}%
% comment out printing of date
% and improper vertical space
%\vskip 1em%
%{\large \@date}%
\end{center}%
\par
\vskip 1.5em}
Happy LyXing!
Matej
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Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse
every time Congress meets
-- Will Rogers
Re: SpellChecker
Juergen Spitzmueller writes:
Pierre Lescanne wrote:
\documentclass[frenchb,dvips]{article}
I do not know why. I changed it to
\documentclass[french,dvips]{article}
without the b and now it works.
frenchb.sty is -- beneath francais.sty and french.sty -- a valid babel file (I
don't know the differences)
So the best solution to fix this is not to change the babel sty name or a
symlink, but the use alternative language field in
Preferences-Language-Spellchecker. There you should enter the name of the
ispell dictionary (e.g. french)
I would have been happy to have done as you suggested, but with
frenchb, Preferences-Language-Spellchecker was locked and removing
the b was the way I have found to unlock the process.
Pierre
Re: What's the real name??
My two cents... First, quoting from: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXpronounce How should I pronounce TeX? The 'X' stands for the lower case Greek letter Chi (the upper-case Greek letter doesn't look in the least like a letter X) and is pronounced by English-speakers either a bit like the 'ch' in the Scots word 'loch' ([x] in the IPA) or like 'k'. It definitely is not pronounced 'ks'. and then quoting from http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latexpronounce How should I pronounce LaTeX(2e)? Lamport never recommended how one should pronounce LaTeX, but a lot of people pronounce it 'Lay TeX' or perhaps 'Lah TeX' (with TeX pronounced as the program itself; see the rules for TeX). It is definitely not to be pronounced in the same way as the rubber-tree gum. The 'epsilon' in 'LaTeX2e' is supposed to be suggestive of a small improvement over the old LaTeX 2.09. Nevertheless, most people pronounce the name as 'LaTeX-two-ee'. and about LyX, I got the tip from someone that as Swede I can just pronounce it as the Swedish word for luxury which happens to be lyx. (And I know from experience too that Americans find it hard to distinguish between [licks] and [lyx] :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Ronald Pagel wrote: Richard A. Bilonick wrote: To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. Rick B. LyX has problems to convert files with more than one point in their names. Rename your file to pm25timeplot.eps and it will show up. This seems to be a LyX-bug similar to that with underscores in math formular names. Ronald I tried Ronalds tip and then LyX rendered the plot properly, before that it didn't. Has anybody filed a bug report on this? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: SpellChecker
Pierre Lescanne wrote: I would have been happy to have done as you suggested, but with frenchb, Preferences-Language-Spellchecker was locked and removing the b was the way I have found to unlock the process. The *preferences* dialog was locked? I cannot imagine that. Note that I do not refer to the spellchecker dialog! Jürgen.
shortcut for selection of textformats
Hello, as one (I certainly do) has to select different kinds of textformats (standart, section, itemize, etc) very often during the writing process, I wonder whether this can not be done with a shortcut, too?! At least to open the pulldown menue and then be able to use the up and down arrows... Wouldn't you find that very helpfull? Greetings, Joern
Re: shortcut for selection of textformats
Jörn Lindmaier wrote: as one (I certainly do) has to select different kinds of textformats (standart, section, itemize, etc) very often during the writing process, I wonder whether this can not be done with a shortcut, too?! At least to open the pulldown menue and then be able to use the up and down arrows... It is already. If you use german localization: M-a 1 Chapter M-a 2 Section ... M-a-* Chapter* etc. Have a look at your prefered *.bind file for details. Jürgen
Re: shortcut for selection of textformats
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:59:18PM +0100, Jörn Lindmaier wrote: as one (I certainly do) has to select different kinds of textformats (standart, section, itemize, etc) very often during the writing process, I wonder whether this can not be done with a shortcut, too?! Like M-p s for 'Standard' M-p i for 'Itemize' M-p 2 for 'Section' ? Looks like your .bind files are broken... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: SpellChecker
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: Pierre Lescanne wrote: I would have been happy to have done as you suggested, but with frenchb, Preferences-Language-Spellchecker was locked and removing the b was the way I have found to unlock the process. The *preferences* dialog was locked? I cannot imagine that. Note that I do not refer to the spellchecker dialog! Jürgen. You are right I was talking about a button you call from the windows of the spellchecker and called option of the spellchecker. That is right there are three places where you can choose the language, among them two for choosing the language of the spellchecker. Pierre
Re: SpellChecker
Pierre Lescanne wrote: That is right there are three places where you can choose the language, among them two for choosing the language of the spellchecker. And as I pointed out above, only the field use alternative language is of interest. Jürgen.
hyperref package conflicts
Hello:
I have problems with the hyperref package.
It seems like it must have conflicts with a lot of packages.
I have it loaded *last* in the preamble, but even so it does
not allow me to export to pdflatex.
I get all these errors such as
\begin{document} ended with \end{table}
and such things.
Obviously that isn't really true because it only happens when I try
to use the hyperref package if i try to modify the output by using options
or a config file for hyperref.
Attached is the config file i was using, and the beginning of the lyx file
(note that it is a long, compound document and I only am sending a small
part of the base file).
Thanks,
bruce.
And thanks for past help on my questions!
--
**Bruce Tyler*
Field of Development Sociology
**Cornell University**
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
my hyperref.cfg placed in ~/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref
(note: when I remove this file, hyperref does work okay.
The thing is I don't like having the red boxes around the links.
I want them some nice color like i've seen other people make them!
\hypersetup{backref=false,
colorlinks=true,
plainpages=false,
breaklinks=true,
colorlinks=true,
urlcolor=blue,
citecolor=blue,
linkcolor=blue,
bookmarks=true,
pdfstartview=FitV}
excerpt from my lyx file:
#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 220
\textclass cornell
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{chicago}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
\clubpenalty=1
\widowpenalty=1
\displaywidowpenalty=1
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{doublespace}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{ccaption}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{dialogue,attrib,lips}
%\usepackage{nameref}
%\usepackage{hyperref}
\end_preamble
\options cornellheadings,phd,tocprelim
\language english
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme palatino
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 12
\spacing single
\papersize letterpaper
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
SNIP
\the_end
- End -
--
**Bruce Tyler*
Field of Development Sociology
**Cornell University**
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
chapter numbering
Hi, finally -thanks to this list- I'm getting a bit used to lyx/tex. Yet another question -within a few incarnations I hope to actually be able to answer questions on this list- : I have a book with AMS-book style, but I would like the chapters to be numbered with roman numbers, like; chapter I, chapter II, ... chapter XI etc. In stead of 1,2,3.. How do I do that? Cheers, Jeroen.
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' Richard To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that Richard it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file Richard that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 Richard pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. Richard I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to Richard know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. It works fine for me with 1.2.2cvs, in two different environments: - redhat 7.1, xforms 0.89.5, ImageMagick 5.2.7, ghostscript 7.0 - tru64 4.0f, xforms 0.88.1, ImageMagick 3.7.8, ghostscript 7.0 Do you still have this problem if the file name does not contain multiple dots? JMarc Removing the extra periods allows the graphic to render. I hope this will be fixed eventually because it will be very inconvenient not to be able to use periods to make the file names more readable. With hundreds of files, it is difficult to keep track of them with dos-like names. Thanks. Rick B.
New More Serious Problems with 1.2.1 - Partial Printing
I have a 20 page document that I was previously working on using LyX 1.1.6fix3. It would print just fine - all 20 pages via postscript. If I tried to view it through pdf, it would screw up some figure captions. Using ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13 manually rather than using ps2pdf seemed to fix the problem. Now in 1.2.1, only the first 8 pages will print - EVEN THOUGH all 20 pages show quite nicely in gv. If I try to print directly from gv, again only the first 8 pages will print. I can send the document if someone needs it to help diagnose the problem. This is a much more serious problem because I need to be able to print the documents and make them into pdf's. If I can't do that, there is not much point to using LyX. Why can gv view the entire document but not print it??? Rick B.
Re: chapter numbering
Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
I have a book with AMS-book style, but I would like the
chapters to be numbered with roman numbers, like; chapter I,
chapter II, ... chapter XI etc. In stead of 1,2,3..
What does these command put into Layout/Preamble do?
\renewcommand*{\labelchapter}{\Roman{\thechapter}}
Matej
--
Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name
of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The
Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last
place in the world you'd want to live.
-- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam
(http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
Re: New More Serious Problems with 1.2.1 - Partial Printing
Richard A. Bilonick wrote: I have a 20 page document that I was previously working on using LyX 1.1.6fix3. It would print just fine - all 20 pages via postscript. If I tried to view it through pdf, it would screw up some figure captions. Using ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13 manually rather than using ps2pdf seemed to fix the problem. Now in 1.2.1, only the first 8 pages will print - EVEN THOUGH all 20 pages show quite nicely in gv. If I try to print directly from gv, again only the first 8 pages will print. Does using pdflatex help? (View PDF (pdflatex) or File/Export/PDF (pdflatex)) Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. -- Hebrew Proverb
Re: New More Serious Problems with 1.2.1 - Partial Printing
Matej Cepl wrote: Richard A. Bilonick wrote: I have a 20 page document that I was previously working on using LyX 1.1.6fix3. It would print just fine - all 20 pages via postscript. If I tried to view it through pdf, it would screw up some figure captions. Using ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13 manually rather than using ps2pdf seemed to fix the problem. Now in 1.2.1, only the first 8 pages will print - EVEN THOUGH all 20 pages show quite nicely in gv. If I try to print directly from gv, again only the first 8 pages will print. Does using pdflatex help? (View PDF (pdflatex) or File/Export/PDF (pdflatex)) Matej No, neither work. An error message pops up saying error while executing eps2pdf outfile='projects_PS_pm2. Rick B.
Re: chapter numbering
It gives a LaTeX error:
\labelchapter undefined
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:07:44 -0500
Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
I have a book with AMS-book style, but I would like the
chapters to be numbered with roman numbers, like; chapter I,
chapter II, ... chapter XI etc. In stead of 1,2,3..
What does these command put into Layout/Preamble do?
\renewcommand*{\labelchapter}{\Roman{\thechapter}}
Matej
--
Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name
of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The
Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last
place in the world you'd want to live.
-- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam
(http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
Re: chapter numbering
Jeroen Vriesman schrieb:
It gives a LaTeX error:
\labelchapter undefined
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:07:44 -0500
Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
I have a book with AMS-book style, but I would like the
chapters to be numbered with roman numbers, like; chapter I,
chapter II, ... chapter XI etc. In stead of 1,2,3..
What does these command put into Layout/Preamble do?
\renewcommand*{\labelchapter}{\Roman{\thechapter}}
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Roman{chapter}}
Herbert
Re: New More Serious Problems with 1.2.1 - Partial Printing
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:04, Richard A. Bilonick wrote: I have a 20 page document that I was previously working on using LyX 1.1.6fix3. It would print just fine - all 20 pages via postscript. If I tried to view it through pdf, it would screw up some figure captions. Using ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13 manually rather than using ps2pdf seemed to fix the problem. Now in 1.2.1, only the first 8 pages will print - EVEN THOUGH all 20 pages show quite nicely in gv. If I try to print directly from gv, again only the first 8 pages will print. I can send the document if someone needs it to help diagnose the problem. This is a much more serious problem because I need to be able to print the documents and make them into pdf's. If I can't do that, there is not much point to using LyX. Why can gv view the entire document but not print it??? Rick B. If it's a postscript printer, then there is probably some non-standard/printer-incompatible postscript in your output --- this is why the latest is not always the greatest. Star/OpenOffice have serious problems here. With latex, I found that ps printers (HP lasers) can't handle some compressed image formats (png, jpeg) that have been converted to eps (with ImageMagik convert or the Gimp). So I always convert images to xpm before converting to eps. Steve -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University VIC 3800 Australia Tel: INT +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: INT +61 3 9905 3637
keeping words together
Hi.. have a really simple question ... if I'm trying to get all parts of a name, say First M. Last to stay together on the same line, then how do I do it in LyX? Basically, I'm trying to avoid getting First at the end of one line and then M. Last at the beginning of the next line. I vaguely remember something of this sort exists in Latex but is there a way in LyX to do this? Thanks, nirmal
Re: removing date from article class
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Matej Cepl wrote:
Ernesto Jardim wrote:
I'm writing a document using the doc class article and I don't want
the date to be printed. How can I do it ?
Most simple solution is to put unbreakable space and on the
special line and give it environment Date. However, the result is
ugly (you get one more blank line in the title). The right
solution is to put this into Layout/Preamble (but you may break
What's wrong with adding \date{} in ERT? Does that produce unwanted
vertical space?
/Christian
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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Re: keeping words together
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:39, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. have a really simple question ... if I'm trying to get all parts of a name, say First M. Last to stay together on the same line, then how do I do it in LyX? Basically, I'm trying to avoid getting First at the end of one line and then M. Last at the beginning of the next line. I vaguely remember something of this sort exists in Latex but is there a way in LyX to do this? Thanks, nirmal Use protected spaces: CTRL-SPACE, like First_M._Last where _ is a protected space (CTRL-SPACE) If that still splits your word_with_spaces (e.g. through hyphenation) you can do an less elegant thing and type it in math-mode as text. Steve -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University VIC 3800 Australia Tel: INT +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: INT +61 3 9905 3637
Re: keeping words together
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:39:58PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. have a really simple question ... if I'm trying to get all parts of a name, say First M. Last to stay together on the same line, then how do I do it in LyX? Basically, I'm trying to avoid getting First at the end of one line and then M. Last at the beginning of the next line. I vaguely remember something of this sort exists in Latex but is there a way in LyX to do this? Instead of typing a normal space, hold ctrl and hit space for a protected blank. It won't be broken across lines. (Hey, finally a question I can answer.)
Re: keeping words together
Thanks everyone for the prompt replies.. the protected space does hyphenate words so I get Fi- on one line and rst M. Last on the next line.. the text-within-math-editor works but shouldn't there be a more elegant way of doing this? Thanks, nirmal
Re: keeping words together
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:51, Nirmal Govind wrote: Thanks everyone for the prompt replies.. the protected space does hyphenate words so I get Fi- on one line and rst M. Last on the next line.. the text-within-math-editor works but shouldn't there be a more elegant way of doing this? Thanks, nirmal There is a way to prevent hyphenation/set hyphenation points in latex. I remember reading sg. about it in the lyx documentation. I think it will be much easier to just use text in mathed. Steve -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University VIC 3800 Australia Tel: INT +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: INT +61 3 9905 3637
Re: keeping words together
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 06:59, Steven Homolya wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:51, Nirmal Govind wrote: Thanks everyone for the prompt replies.. the protected space does hyphenate words so I get Fi- on one line and rst M. Last on the next line.. the text-within-math-editor works but shouldn't there be a more elegant way of doing this? [...] There is a way to prevent hyphenation/set hyphenation points in latex. I remember reading sg. about it in the lyx documentation. I think it will be much easier to just use text in mathed. [...] The hyphenation package may help: http://www.dante.de/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyphenat/ I've never used it up to now, may be I should have a closer look on it :) bye, Thomas
Page numbering query
Hi,
I'm just learing to use LyX, so I'm sorry if this is a bit of a
gumby-type question. I'm writing a large-ish report, and including
individual chapters as files in a 'master' file.
When I generate tables of contents, figures and lists, page numbers begin
from the beginning of the page of contents. I would like page numbering
to start at the beginning of my first chapter, and my title page,
abstract, and tables of contents, figures and tables to be numbered
consecutively with lower case roman numerals.
I have tried the LayTeX command
\pagenumbering
to restart page numbers at the beginning of my first chapter, but this
didn't seem to work.
I then tried the command
\pagenumbering{roman}
to try and convert numbering in selected sections to roman numerals, and
when this didn't work, I tried
renewcommand\thepage{roman}
(as per advice on the website), bt this didn't work either. Not sure If
I've got the wrong commands, or am putting them in the wrong place, or if
my approach is totally wrong. I have no prior knowledge of LayTeX, so I'm
not sure how to go about it.
Any tips?
James
Re: pagenumbering
Hi James
In the very beginning of the doc enter:
\pagenumbering{roman}
and on the top of the first page with arabic-numbers
enter:
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{7}
where the 7 of course is to be replaced with whatever page
you're at.
I didn't find the automatic way of seetting that number
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Antwort: Re: pagenumbering
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{7}
where the 7 of course is to be replaced with whatever page
you're at.
I didn't find the automatic way of seetting that number
You don't need to. Just use the command \pagenumbering{arabic} in ERT where you
want it to start.
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Re: What's the real name??
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:46:45AM +0100, Ivan Marchesini wrote: Hi to all. I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex (Latec) or simply like: Lycs.. thank you very much!!! Depends on you local dialect. José says Licks, I say Lücks (ü is something like i when the lips are formed for an u) and Lars something in between. I guess this covers the whole range ;-) Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: What's the real name??
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: We really need that .au file ``My name is Matthias Ettrich and I pronounce LyX LyX.'' I believe that correct pronounciation is the second one (American-like not Greek-like). After-all we shoot for higher goal than to be just LaTeX front-end and so the unnecessary connections to LaTeX are slightly harmfull. BTW, LaTeX is correctly pronounced [Laitech]. Is it? Where does the 'i' come from? From Laimport? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: copy/paste between two lyx.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:43:59PM -0600, |b|c|r| wrote: this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more about it? Why can't you copy it into a text editor, then copy it again from there? Because the internal structure of the part is lost and LyX is currently unable to retrieve a new structure when stuff is pasted. Andre', who prefers talking to people with pronounceable names in any case. -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: Which drawing program?
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? Try dia, it's great. I used it for preparing pictures for LyX documents. -- http://decopter.sf.net - free unrealistic helicopter simulator
Re: SpellChecker
Pierre == Pierre Lescanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pierre I my case when I tried to start the spellchecker on a French Pierre (francais) document (french-gutenberg to be more precise). It Pierre just hangs and stays blocked for a while I imagine it runs Pierre into an infinite loop until a time out is reached. How is the ispell dictionary named? You should be sure that it is named 'french', since this is the name that the spellchecker wil try. A solution is to make a symbolic link in the directory where the dictionaries are located francais-franch. JMarc
Re: path to templates directory
Dekel == Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dekel On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m Dekel wrote: Can you specify several directories for LyX to search for templates? Dekel No, as far as I know. It would not be very difficult to change. Christian, if you feel like investigating the places where this would be useful, we have a function that does the replacement (ReplaceEnvPath) [*] and we would just have to use it at the right places. JMarc [*] OK, the function is broken currently, but we will have to fix it before 1.3.0 anyway.
document exchange between lyx 1.1.6fix4 and 1.2.0pre4 works?!
Hello, I am an windows user who uses lyx 1.1.6fix4 on a linuxServer via winserver remote login. On this server ispell does not work corretly and so I am tried another server on which lyx 1.2.0pre4 is installed. But there I get lyx closes due to a bug everytime I try to insert a bib reference. Now I thought about this: writing on lyx 1.1.6fix4 and spell-checking on the other server (and going back to the first server). Are there any known problems that could occur when I exchange documents between these two versions? (I think I have read about a problem concerning figures in lyx...) Best wishes, Jörn
Re: document exchange between lyx 1.1.6fix4 and 1.2.0pre4 works?!
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Jörn Lindmaier wrote: Now I thought about this: writing on lyx 1.1.6fix4 and spell-checking on the other server (and going back to the first server). Are there any known problems that could occur when I exchange documents between these two versions? (I think I have read about a problem concerning figures in lyx...) 1.1.6 probably won't read docs created with 1.2. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: path to templates directory
On 18 Nov 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Dekel == Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dekel On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m Dekel wrote: Can you specify several directories for LyX to search for templates? Dekel No, as far as I know. It would not be very difficult to change. Christian, if you feel like investigating the places where this would be useful, we have a function that does the replacement (ReplaceEnvPath) [*] and we would just have to use it at the right places. JMarc [*] OK, the function is broken currently, but we will have to fix it before 1.3.0 anyway. Ok, I'll put that on my todo list :-), but I should probably finish my thesis first. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: SpellChecker
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
Pierre == Pierre Lescanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pierre I my case when I tried to start the spellchecker on a French
Pierre (francais) document (french-gutenberg to be more precise). It
Pierre just hangs and stays blocked for a while I imagine it runs
Pierre into an infinite loop until a time out is reached.
How is the ispell dictionary named? You should be sure that it is
named 'french', since this is the name that the spellchecker wil try.
A solution is to make a symbolic link in the directory where the
dictionaries are located francais-franch.
JMarc
I have done what you said, but this was not sufficient. Thanks to my
knowledge on LaTeX, I was able to visit the LaTeX file and to see that
the first declaration on the first line was
\documentclass[frenchb,dvips]{article}
I do not know why. I changed it to
\documentclass[french,dvips]{article}
without the b and now it works.
Pierre
LyX not rendering graphics
Since more than a year I have watched the list and the discussion concerning the problem that LyX renders graphics only sporadically on fast computers - I still have the problem and tried the sporadic tips to solve the problem - without success for SuSE 7.3 and SuSE 8.0. I have tried to update from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1, but was unable to compile the sources - because of the cc1plus error. Now I have succeeded in part and feel that there might be somebody out there knowing the ultimate solution. Here is what I did: When I asked to check the dependencies, the output was: # rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: tetex-xdvi is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(Cwd) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(File::Basename) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(FileHandle) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(lib) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(strict) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(vars) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 So I installed 1.2.1 from the binary rpm using --nodeps and supplied both libstdc++.so.5.0.0 and libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib (moreover, a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.5 was generated and ldconfig was run). Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Norbert -- Dr. Norbert StribeckUniversity of Hamburgvoice +49-40-42838-3615 - polymer physicist -Institute TMCfax +49-40-42838-6008 http://www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/tmc/stribeck http://www.stribeck.de
Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?
Nirmal Govind wrote: [...] So I did that but my itemize environment was too long to fit on a page... so now I have a lot of empty space on one page and the minipage starts on the next... I can send you an example file if you'd like to take a look.. hm. I tried using a minipage for the first few items and then nested itemize for the rest, but it didn't line up perfectly. It may be ok if the change happens in a page break, then nobody will see it. (Assuming the next description don't have an itemize too of course) Sort of a emergency hack. Helge Hafting
LyX not rendering graphics
I sent a request for help some minutes ago --- the problem is solved! I had to disable my ~/.lyx directory, and now it works and I see all the graphics displayed. My beloved keybinding files blocked both the rendering of graphics and the possibility to input keystrokes from the keyboard. Norbert -- Dr. Norbert StribeckUniversity of Hamburgvoice +49-40-42838-3615 - polymer physicist -Institute TMCfax +49-40-42838-6008 http://www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/tmc/stribeck http://www.stribeck.de
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: froze while open a lyx file
linuxman == linuxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: linuxman hi, I compiled and installed cjk-lyx 1.2.1 on debian/woody, linuxman linked with xforms 0.88-1. But when open some files(about 10 linuxman pages long) I wrote with this version cjk-lyx, lyx froze and linuxman the status bar told me formatting document. I have linuxman waited for long time, but no result, so killed lyx:-) linuxman I have tested some very simple file, but no problem. linuxman How can I resolve this problem? Thanks in advance! It is not very easy, especially since most of us do not run cjk-lyx, so it is difficult to know whether this is a lyx bug of a cjk-lyx bug. You could try to run cjk-lyx under gdb, interrupt it with Ctrl-c and look at the backtrace to see where it is stuck. JMarc
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Norbert Stribeck wrote: Since more than a year I have watched the list and the discussion concerning the problem that LyX renders graphics only sporadically on fast computers - I still have the problem and tried the sporadic tips to solve the problem - without success for SuSE 7.3 and SuSE 8.0. I have tried to update from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1, but was unable to compile the sources - because of the cc1plus error. Now I have succeeded in part and feel that there might be somebody out there knowing the ultimate solution. Here is what I did: When I asked to check the dependencies, the output was: # rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: tetex-xdvi is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(Cwd) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(File::Basename) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(FileHandle) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(lib) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(strict) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(vars) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 So I installed 1.2.1 from the binary rpm using --nodeps and supplied both libstdc++.so.5.0.0 and libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib (moreover, a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.5 was generated and ldconfig was run). Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Norbert I'm in a similar (sinking) boat. In previous versions of LyX, the graphics would almost always render. At most, I would just have to restart LyX and rendering would work again. Now that I've installed 1.2.1 for RH 8.0 and using xforms 0.89 (after upgrading to RH 8.0), rendering just does NOT work at all. (Not quite true - it doesn't work on eps files created by R.) This is on three Intel PCs all running RH 8.0 (one is a laptop, the other two are desktop systems). I can't be sure the problem doesn't have something to do with Redhat 8.0. Or it may be that all the eps files I'm creating come from R (they used to render OK and they are eps files.) But I cannot fix it and have seen NOTHING on the list that has helped. Someone did suggest turning on debuggind (lyx -dbg graphics or lyx -dbg any) but that just tells me the conversion doesn't work - even though all the software needed for the conversion is readily available on all three systems - I can do it manually - and if the conversion wasn't in the preferences I added it. LyX installed differently on each system. On at least one I had to even get it to just view in PS and PDF. Viewing in HTML gives a screwy message about the file name having more than one period and that dvips can't handle it. I have to rename the file so there is only one period. Fortunately I guess I can live without rendering in LyX just so long as it prints and views OK. Just for your information, I always use rpm -U --test before actually installing the binary. rpm never reported any problem either in test mode or when I actually installed the software. There were no conflicts and it didn't complain about any missing software - LyX installed (as it had in the past) without any error messages or warnings. Everything seems to work except for rendering (and viewing on one system) out of the box. At least for me, the rendering error message is in English. I miss the days when I could just install a new version of LyX and continue doing actual work. If anyone can explain how to fix this I would certainly appreciate it. Rick B.
Re:re: hypenation in Dutch
Hmmm, I don't seem to have 'dutch hyphenation patterns' in my texconfig menu. Do I need to install something extra for that? Cheers, Jeroen. On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:14:56PM +0100, Jeroen Vriesman wrote: But the hyphenation babel dutch thing keeps making one serious mistake, almost all the words with 'ij' in it get split between the i and the j, like: Do you have the Dutch hyphenation patterns enabled ? If not, you can change this with texconfig.
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' ImageMagick 5.4.7 is installed and reconfiguring does not help. Nor does disabling the .lyx file. Rick B.
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
I had a similar problem, but I was under RH 7.0: graphics would *never* show up under Lyx 1.2.1. This weekend I got pissed about it and after a while I came to the idea of reinstalling ImageMagick, uploading from 5.3.3. to 5.5.*. It worked... seems that convert was failing before. In any case there is room for improvement in the way images are handled now, because the text jumps to the beginning when a new image is rendered, and the conversion process takes a long time in a document with several of them. Maybe the procedures should be reviewed somehow.. jb Since more than a year I have watched the list and the discussion concerning the problem that LyX renders graphics only sporadically on fast computers - I still have the problem and tried the sporadic tips to solve the problem - without success for SuSE 7.3 and SuSE 8.0. I have tried to update from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1, but was unable to compile the sources - because of the cc1plus error. Now I have succeeded in part and feel that there might be somebody ou t there knowing the ultimate solution. Here is what I did: When I asked to check the dependencies, the output was: # rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: tetex-xdvi is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(Cwd) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(File::Basename) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(FileHandle) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(lib) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(strict) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 perl(vars) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 So I installed 1.2.1 from the binary rpm using --nodeps and supplied both libstdc++.so.5.0.0 and libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib (moreover, a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.5 was generated and ldconfig was run). Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ei n darstellbares Format Norbert I'm in a similar (sinking) boat. In previous versions of LyX, the graphics would almost always render. At most, I would just have to restart LyX and rendering would work again. Now that I've installed 1.2.1 for RH 8.0 and using xforms 0.89 (after upgrading to RH 8.0), rendering just does NOT work at all. (Not quite true - it doesn't work on eps files created by R.) This is on three Intel PCs all running RH 8.0 (one is a laptop, the other two are desktop systems). I can't be sure the problem doesn't have something to do with Redhat 8.0. Or it may be that all the eps files I'm creating come from R (they used to render OK and they are eps files.) But I cannot fix it and have seen NOTHING on the list that has helped. Someone did suggest turning on debuggind (lyx -dbg graphics or lyx -dbg any) but that just tells me the conversion doesn't work - even though all the software needed for the conversion is readily available on all three systems - I can do it manually - and if the conversion wasn't in the preferences I added it. LyX installed differently on each system. On at least one I had to even get it to just view in PS and PDF. Viewing in HTML gives a screwy message about the file name having more than one period and that dvips can't handle it. I have to rename the file so there is only one period. Fortunately I guess I can live without rendering in LyX just so long as it prints and views OK. Just for your information, I always use rpm -U --test before actually installing the binary. rpm never reported any problem either in test mode or when I actually installed the software. There were no conflicts and it didn't complain about any missing software - LyX installed (as it had in the past) without any error messages or warnings. Everything seems to work except for rendering (and viewing on one system) out of the box. At least for me, the rendering error message is in English. I miss the days when I could just install a new version of LyX and continue doing actual work. If anyone can explain how to fix this I would certainly appreciate it. Rick B.
eps figures
i just recently switched to 1.2.1 from 1.0.9(i think) and noticed that the new version doesn't seem to recognize eps figures as viable graphics files. the browse options for insert-graphics gives only gif|jpg|gif|jpg|gz as options and all of my figures(eps) display the message error converting to loadable format. i remember this working last night on my laptop (which also has 1.2.1). the dvi looks fine, but i would like to be able to see the figures in the lyx document. any idea how to fix this? thanks, alex.
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. Rick B. pm2.5.time.plot.eps Description: PostScript document
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:10:13AM -0500, Richard A. Bilonick wrote: To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that it will display in LyX? I believe .xpm Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: Waiting for draw request to start loading
rab == rab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rab I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, rab and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone rab suggested turning on debugging using lyx -dbg any or lyx -dbg rab graphics. This shows that there is a problem in converting the rab eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software rab is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use convert from rab ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just rab doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX rab help document, it displays the eps figures. We are certainly aware of some of these problems, but we have difficulties to understand what they actually are, and how to solve them. It seems that various version of various utilities do not mix well together (notice the precision of this statement %-|). This problem is one reason why 1.2.2 has not been released yet, although it contains many important fixes. But, as the maintainer of the 1.2.x versions, I cannot afford to spend much time on this problem. I just do what I can. Nevertheless, I hear the complaints on lyx-users :) rab LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to rab just install the latest version and everything would basically rab work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of rab the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, rab the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in rab as root, it would not work. This happens if latex is not configured properly for the user 'root', for example. I would be surprised if it was LyX' fault (but anything can happen...). rab Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error rab message about the document name if it has more than one .. rab Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has rab always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so rab it has only one ., then it makes a nice html document and rab displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. This will be fixed in 1.2.2 rab In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an rab error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure rab LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something rab to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I have a fix for that that has been applied to the development version, and I will maybe apply it to 1.2.2, since we had many requests (I try to be conservative as to which fixes go to stable versions). rab I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for rab helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of rab them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are rab so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it rab but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH rab 8.0). This has probably to do with the versions of some utilities shipped with rh8. Not necessarily that they are broken, but bad interaction. JMarc
Re: eps figures
Alex == Olivas, Alexander Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex i just recently switched to 1.2.1 from 1.0.9(i think) and Alex noticed that the new version doesn't seem to recognize eps Alex figures as viable graphics files. the browse options for Alex insert-graphics gives only gif|jpg|gif|jpg|gz as options and Alex all of my figures(eps) display the message error converting to Alex loadable format. i remember this working last night on my Alex laptop (which also has 1.2.1). the dvi looks fine, but i would Alex like to be able to see the figures in the lyx document. any idea Alex how to fix this? thanks, alex. Try to do EditReconfigure JMarc
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Richard A. Bilonick wrote: To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. Rick B. LyX has problems to convert files with more than one point in their names. Rename your file to pm25timeplot.eps and it will show up. This seems to be a LyX-bug similar to that with underscores in math formular names. Ronald
Re: LyX not rendering graphics
Richard == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:20:07PM +0100, Norbert Stribeck wrote: Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In fact, the message is in German and reads Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein darstellbares Format Try to install ImageMagick and run Edit-Reconfigure Andre' Richard To what format does the eps file have to be converted so that Richard it will display in LyX? I am able to display the eps file Richard that Myriam Abramson (help with graphics, 11/17/02 04:39 Richard pm) uploaded. But lyx cannot seem to handle eps files from R. Richard I am attaching one example for people to try. I would like to Richard know if LyX can render this eps - my LyX 1.2.1 doesn't. It works fine for me with 1.2.2cvs, in two different environments: - redhat 7.1, xforms 0.89.5, ImageMagick 5.2.7, ghostscript 7.0 - tru64 4.0f, xforms 0.88.1, ImageMagick 3.7.8, ghostscript 7.0 Do you still have this problem if the file name does not contain multiple dots? JMarc
trouble viewing dvi (textcomp)
I am pulling out what hair I have left over an issue with \textcelsius on lyx 1.2.1 I have attached two lyx files one was generated by H. Voss (textcelsius.yes.lyx) and works perfectly on my machine (ie view dvi displays the degree C symbol just fine). The second file (textcelsius.no.lyx) was generated on my machine and gives an error on view-dvi. There has got to be a critical difference between these files. Has anyone else run up against this? Kirk -- Kirk R. Wythers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Minnesota tel: 612.625.2261 Department of Forest Resources fax: 612.625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
Re: re: hypenation in Dutch
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:54:22PM +0100, Jeroen Vriesman wrote: I don't seem to have 'dutch hyphenation patterns' in my texconfig menu. Do I need to install something extra for that? Run texconfig. Select hyphenation, then select latex, and then a text editor opens, and you need to uncomment the line %dutch nehyph.tex and save the file.
pdflatex logo
Hi, I am trying to place a logo in my presentation using pdflatex, but the logo doesn't seem to be placed. The pdflatex output is there though, everything but the logo. Any idea? Remzi
Re: Waiting for draw request to start loading
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: rab == rab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rab I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, rab and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone rab suggested turning on debugging using lyx -dbg any or lyx -dbg rab graphics. This shows that there is a problem in converting the rab eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software rab is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use convert from rab ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just rab doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX rab help document, it displays the eps figures. We are certainly aware of some of these problems, but we have difficulties to understand what they actually are, and how to solve them. It seems that various version of various utilities do not mix well together (notice the precision of this statement %-|). This problem is one reason why 1.2.2 has not been released yet, although it contains many important fixes. But, as the maintainer of the 1.2.x versions, I cannot afford to spend much time on this problem. I just do what I can. Nevertheless, I hear the complaints on lyx-users :) rab LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to rab just install the latest version and everything would basically rab work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of rab the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, rab the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in rab as root, it would not work. This happens if latex is not configured properly for the user 'root', for example. I would be surprised if it was LyX' fault (but anything can happen...). rab Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error rab message about the document name if it has more than one .. rab Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has rab always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so rab it has only one ., then it makes a nice html document and rab displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. This will be fixed in 1.2.2 rab In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an rab error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure rab LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something rab to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I have a fix for that that has been applied to the development version, and I will maybe apply it to 1.2.2, since we had many requests (I try to be conservative as to which fixes go to stable versions). rab I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for rab helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of rab them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are rab so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it rab but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH rab 8.0). This has probably to do with the versions of some utilities shipped with rh8. Not necessarily that they are broken, but bad interaction. JMarc Well now that I know I didn't (necessarily) screw things up, I can just wait until the next version pr whenever it gets fixed. It was thinking that I could fix it that made me obsess about this. Thanks for letting me know. Rick B. P. S. I did upload a file produced by R you might want to use to test. I can get some eps files to render but none (so far) from R 1.6.1. I just checked and LyX 1.2.1 does render eps files from versions of R prior to 1.6.1. Unfortunately I cannot tell what is the version of R. If anyone needs an example file for comparison, please let me know.
Re: What's the real name??
Andre Poenitz wrote: Where does the 'i' come from? From Laimport? Not from the lazy American pronounciation :-). Read it as you wish. Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30)
Re: SpellChecker
Pierre Lescanne wrote:
\documentclass[frenchb,dvips]{article}
I do not know why. I changed it to
\documentclass[french,dvips]{article}
without the b and now it works.
frenchb.sty is -- beneath francais.sty and french.sty -- a valid babel file (I
don't know the differences)
So the best solution to fix this is not to change the babel sty name or a
symlink, but the use alternative language field in
Preferences-Language-Spellchecker. There you should enter the name of the
ispell dictionary (e.g. french)
Regards,
Jürgen.
