Unavailable Document Class

[Guillaume SANTINI]

Hello,
I'm a new french lyx user.
I have installed lyx v. 1.3.5 without problems using qt frontend.
Lyx seems to works well, but class's documents remains unvailable in the 
Format-Document-Format menu. I search for config files of format class 
and i found what i suppose related files in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts 
directory with .inc and .layout extensions.
What did i do wrong? Why these class remains unvailables and unselectables?
Anybody could help me ?

Thanck you
Guillaume SANTINI

Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Chris Menzel]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:32:28PM -0800, Sang Oh wrote:
 i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
 lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi, pdf, 
 ps...)  none works.
 
 i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
 my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx

Not a lot to work with here! :-)  If you go to LyX - Preferences -
File formats, what do you find in the Viewer field when you highlight
PDF (pdflatex)?

Chris Menzel

Re: Unavailable Document Class

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:38:11 +0100, Guillaume SANTINI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have installed lyx v. 1.3.5 without problems using qt frontend.
 Lyx seems to works well, but class's documents remains unvailable in the
 Format-Document-Format menu. I search for config files of format class
 and i found what i suppose related files in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts
 directory with .inc and .layout extensions.
 What did i do wrong? Why these class remains unvailables and unselectables?
 Anybody could help me ?

Guillaume,

You have first to install the LaTeX class that you want. Then, as
root, run texhash and, afterwards, go to LyX (not as root, now) and
Edit -- Reconfigure. Finally, restart LyX. If the class that you want
has LyX support, then it will become available.

I hope this helps.

Paul

[Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Johannes Behr]

Hi,

I know you can do it in latex but I just
can not figure out how to do hierarchical
descriptions or items in lyx. Something
like:

* foo1
  * bar1
  * bar2 
* foo2

Could somebody please give me a hint.
  Johannes

Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
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Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

  For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?
Thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
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Re: [Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Johannes Behr wrote:
I know you can do it in latex but I just can not figure out how to do
hierarchical descriptions or items in lyx. Something like:
* foo1
  ctrl-right_arrow (or menu to increase depth)
 * bar1
 * bar2
  ctrl-left_arrow (or menu to decrease depth)
* foo2
Rich
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Re: Counting Words

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 05:57:21 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.

Rich,

If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in
other word processor), which easily counts the number of words.
Afterwards, you can copy your abstract into LyX.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
I typically write the abstract in LyX and the copy  paste it to
Nedit, which can count the words.

Re: Counting Words

[Lyx User]

- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
- first convert to pdf, then
  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
  This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rich

Re: [Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Angus Leeming]

Johannes Behr wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I know you can do it in latex but I just
 can not figure out how to do hierarchical
 descriptions or items in lyx. Something
 like:
 
 * foo1
   * bar1
   * bar2
 * foo2
 
 Could somebody please give me a hint.
   Johannes

Hi, Johannes.

To create an itemized list in LyX you need to set the paragraph style to 
Itemize using the drop down choice menu on the left hand side of the 
toolbar. (It should usually say Standard).

You should now find it easy to produce:

* foo1
* bar1
* bar2
* foo2
Back to normal.

In order to indent the two bar items further, hightlight them with the 
cursor and select the Layout-Increase Environment Depth menu item.

-- 
Angus

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

Rich,

The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in other
word processor), which easily counts the number of words. Afterwards, you
can copy your abstract into LyX.
Paul,
  I planned on writing it in emacs then importing the final version into
LyX. But, I still wondered if LyX had the ability to count words.
Thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
 to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
  This will count the title, author's name and all markup as well as the
body text.
- first convert to pdf, then
 use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
 http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
 http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
 in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
 This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?
  Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and you've all confirmed
that. Off to emacs it is.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations.
I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread 
has a full-screen projection mode.

The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT 
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't 
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get 
you started.

-- 
Angus

esb2004.lyx.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.
Paul,
  Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread
has a full-screen projection mode.
Angus,
  As I wrote to Paul, Aha!. I've not used acroread for this so it didn't
occur to me.
The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get you
started.
  OK. I'll give it a try.
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
me.
  Anyway, I'll put together a test case and see how it goes. The advantage I
see to using beemer and acroread is that I can provide the presentation to
others -- particularly those stuck with Microsoft -- and they can view it to
their ultimate boredom.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words

$ lyx -export ascii yourfile.lyx; wc -w yourfile.txt; rm -f yourfile.txt

-- 
Angus

Re: Counting Words

[Gerhard Lindel]

Rich Shepard schrieb:
  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi,
in such cases I use the spell-checker. This tells you how much words the 
file has.
Gerhard

Re: Counting Words

[Robert Orr]

Perhaps you could try something like this using AWK
BEGIN{
}
/^#/ {
next
}
/^\\/ {
next
}
{
words += NF
}
END {
printf (I think there are about %d words in that LyX
file.\n,words)
}
--- Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
 
  - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc
 yourfile.lyx
   to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
 
This will count the title, author's name and all
 markup as well as the
 body text.
 
  - first convert to pdf, then
   use a tool that can count words in pdf documents,
 e.g.
   http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
   http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
  - let someone or yourself implement this great
 feature
   in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested
 feature.
   This would be easy, just integrate one of the
 previous programs?
 
Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and
 you've all confirmed
 that. Off to emacs it is.
 
 Rich
 
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 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517  
 Fax: 503-667-8863
 





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Re: caption for long table

[Herbert Voss]

jorgen johansson wrote:
I have been trying to figure out how to add caption to a long table 
(spanning several pages) within lyx.

Herbert's tips and tricks has an example in latex. Is it possible to do 
it with lyx and possibly some ERT? ( I am using 1.3.3 for win32)
some time ago, I posted a lyx example. Search in the
archive. But it is extremely tricky, because it is a
bug that LyX has a longtable button, but no possibility
to insert a caption.
Herbert
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http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
 was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
 mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
 stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
 computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
 how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
 me.

OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?

Matej

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trivial.
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Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Herbert Voss]

Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
read the beamer documentation 86 pages ...
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
Matej,
  Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions
offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer
slides.
  Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
first few look promising.
  Major tips:
  1.) Don't read your slides; the audience can read and will do so.
  2.) Use the slides to illustrate your points (e.g., a figure, table or
bullet points).
  3.) Never turn your back on the audience. If you're to the right of the
screen, use your left hand to point; don't cross your body with your
pointing arm.
  4.) Speak slowly and clearly.
  5.) If you want to reach an intellectual audience use blues and greens for
your slide backgrounds.
  6.) If you want to rouse emotions among your listeners, use red, orange or
yellow.
  7.) Keep text simple on each slide; no crowding. Use a large font; your
audience may include those older than 40 years sitting far from the screen.
  8.) Make sure that there is high contrast between text and background.
  9.) If you feel compelled to say, I know you can't read all the tiny
print on this slide ..., don't show it.
  10.) Respect your audiences' intelligence, time and willingness to listen
to you. Make it worth their while. Have them leave thinking, I'm glad I
listened to him.
Rich
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double-side book and margins

[Leo Gürtler]

Hi alltogether,
how can one arrange the margins so that on the print-out odd and even 
pages are scaled and the margins fit ?
This is needed for a master-copy of a text for a print office.
I tried with manual calibration, but if

right margin = 45mm
left margin = 45mm
and
A4 size
is set, on the print-out the pages do not fit together if they are laid 
on each other.
That means - how to center odd and even pages ?

thanks,
Leo
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Department of Educational Psychology
University of Tübingen
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fax:   +(0049) (0)7071 - 294954

Re: caption for long table

[jorgen johansson]

Herbert Voss wrote:
some time ago, I posted a lyx example. Search in the
archive. But it is extremely tricky, because it is a
bug that LyX has a longtable button, but no possibility
to insert a caption.
Thanks.
Leo Guertler has kindly sent me an example lyx-file in a private mail.
Thank you for your quick replies.
jorgen

Changing PDF version generated

[Jane McKean]

Hi:

I'm running LyX 1.3.4 on Linux Red Hat 9 and generating our
documentation set using the View  PDF (pdflatex) option from the menu.
(I use the View  PDF option when I'm generating review copies with
change bars.) The final docs include separate PDF covers.

The final PDFs are PDF version 1.5. Some of our users use xpdf to view
the docs and xpdf supports version 1.4 not version 1.5. The PDFs look
very bad when viewed with xpdf. 

I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. 

How would I go about doing this? What do I need to change?

Many thanks in advance!
--jane
-- 
Jane McKean
Technical Documentation
PathScale, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 408-746-9100 x227
Fax: 408-746-9150

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Fernando Perez]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
 
 Rich Shepard wrote:
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
  was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
  mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
  stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
  computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
  how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
  me.
 
 OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
 presentations well?

The beamer manual actually has a section discussing these issues (good
presentation technique, independently of the tool used for the job).
 
 OT remark: A lyx-example for using beamer would be nice to add to the
 wiki. Links for doing presentations well would also fit in nicely there :-)

Note that beamer comes with extensive LyX examples, and many LyX-specific notes
(nicely highlighted by a blue LyX symbol in the margin) in the very detailed
200+ pages manual.  So anyone who actually downloads beamer will immediately
have far more documentation and examples than they can read.

The supplied examples are lyx files, and range from very simple to quite
complex, highlighting just about any task you may want to do in beamer.

Beamer is absolutely superb.  I just started using it recently, and I've been
really blown away by both the visual quality of the output, and how well put
together the whole thing is (documentation, examples, attention to detail). 
If anyone wants to see an example right away, written using lyx, here is one:

http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/talks/0411_python_scicomp.pdf

Cheers,

f

Re: Changing PDF version generated

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jane McKean wrote:
The final PDFs are PDF version 1.5. Some of our users use xpdf to view the
docs and xpdf supports version 1.4 not version 1.5. The PDFs look very bad
when viewed with xpdf.
Jane,
  That's interesting. I'm running LyX-1.3.5 on Slackware-10.0 and export
using pdflatex, too. Almost always I use xpdf rather than acroread because
it's so much faster loading and I can move around in the document using only
the keyboard. I don't notice any difference in display quality between
xpdf-3.0 and acroread-5.09.
  Perhaps your folks need to upgrade xpdf.
HTH,
Rich
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Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Tomoharu Nishino]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Sang Oh wrote:
hello...
i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi, 
pdf, ps...)  none works.

i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx
thanks,
sang
Could you provide more info?  For example, have you installed the 
required TeX related packages?

For more info on what other than LyX needs to be installed, please see 
for some good info:

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac
But a quick summary:  You need to install teTeX (TeX), ghostscript, 
Freetype2, WMF, iconv, ImageMagick and CM Super (optional) packages.  
You can use the nice GUI installer i-Installer 
(http://www.rna.nl/ii.html) or use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)

After you have done this, do Edit-Reconfigure, and then restart LyX
Then, go to Preferences, and look under File formats.  You will find 
a couple of entries for PDF documents.  Make sure that you have the 
viewer set to whatever PDF viewer (Acrobat, Preview, etc.) you are 
using.

Hope this helps.
Tn

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
 first few look promising.
 
 Major tips:

Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get.

matej

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Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Sang Oh]

Hi,
I think I have everything installed.  xdvi, gv, etc... and they run
fine from the command line.
i can file-export-dvi, and i can open it from the command line.
everything looks good.
but i still want to be able to launch dvi preview by view-dvi or
view-postscript (or by issuing c-d and c-t command).
all installation paths to lyx, xdvi, gv are defaults and they are 
callable
from the shell window.

maybe i should change the viewer from gv to /sw/bin/gv?
Thanks,
Sang
On Dec 8, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Tomoharu Nishino wrote:
excerpt
On Dec 7, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Sang Oh wrote:
excerpthello...
i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi,
pdf, ps...)  none works.
i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx
thanks,
sang
/excerpt
Could you provide more info?  For example, have you installed the
required TeX related packages?
For more info on what other than LyX needs to be installed, please see
for some good info:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac
But a quick summary:  You need to install teTeX (TeX), ghostscript,
Freetype2, WMF, iconv, ImageMagick and CM Super (optional) packages.
You can use the nice GUI installer i-Installer
(http://www.rna.nl/ii.html) or use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)
After you have done this, do Edit-Reconfigure, and then restart LyX
Then, go to Preferences, and look under File formats.  You will find
a couple of entries for PDF documents.  Make sure that you have the
viewer set to whatever PDF viewer (Acrobat, Preview, etc.) you are
using.
Hope this helps.
Tn
/excerpt

Re: double-side book and margins

[Uwe Stöhr]

Leo Gürtler schrieb:
how can one arrange the margins so that on the print-out odd and even 
pages are scaled and the margins fit ?
Page margins are explained at
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/PaperLayout
regards Uwe

Re: text on pages with figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Leo Gürtler schrieb:
how can I force lyx/latex to put text on pages on which (floating) 
figures are placed that are greater than half of the page size ?
It seems that at some size figures are alone on a page. How can I 
change that to use every part of a page ?
You can change the values for the values \xxxfraction. E.g. insert to 
your preamble the command

\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.7}
to increase the threshold since LaTeX puts a float alone on a page. (If 
the float has = 70% of the page height, it will appear alone on the page.)

LaTeX's float placement is a bit difficult, but it is well explained in 
chapters 6.1/6.2 of the book The LaTeX Companion second edition.

regards Uwe

Re: Changing PDF version generated

[Paul Medwell]

Jane McKean wrote:
«SNIP»
I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. 

It probably depends a bit on what converters you use to generate your 
PDF. Perhaps start by looking at the Postscript - PDF converter  (Edit 
- Preferences - Converters). I'm running LyX 1.3.5 (qt) on Fedora Core 
2, and the converter used is ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 $$i. I'd 
guess you should be able to change the compatability level this way.

HTH
Lata,
Paul

Unavailable Document Class

[Guillaume SANTINI]

Hello,
I'm a new french lyx user.
I have installed lyx v. 1.3.5 without problems using qt frontend.
Lyx seems to works well, but class's documents remains unvailable in the 
Format-Document-Format menu. I search for config files of format class 
and i found what i suppose related files in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts 
directory with .inc and .layout extensions.
What did i do wrong? Why these class remains unvailables and unselectables?
Anybody could help me ?

Thanck you
Guillaume SANTINI

Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Chris Menzel]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:32:28PM -0800, Sang Oh wrote:
 i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
 lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi, pdf, 
 ps...)  none works.
 
 i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
 my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx

Not a lot to work with here! :-)  If you go to LyX - Preferences -
File formats, what do you find in the Viewer field when you highlight
PDF (pdflatex)?

Chris Menzel

Re: Unavailable Document Class

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:38:11 +0100, Guillaume SANTINI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have installed lyx v. 1.3.5 without problems using qt frontend.
 Lyx seems to works well, but class's documents remains unvailable in the
 Format-Document-Format menu. I search for config files of format class
 and i found what i suppose related files in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts
 directory with .inc and .layout extensions.
 What did i do wrong? Why these class remains unvailables and unselectables?
 Anybody could help me ?

Guillaume,

You have first to install the LaTeX class that you want. Then, as
root, run texhash and, afterwards, go to LyX (not as root, now) and
Edit -- Reconfigure. Finally, restart LyX. If the class that you want
has LyX support, then it will become available.

I hope this helps.

Paul

[Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Johannes Behr]

Hi,

I know you can do it in latex but I just
can not figure out how to do hierarchical
descriptions or items in lyx. Something
like:

* foo1
  * bar1
  * bar2 
* foo2

Could somebody please give me a hint.
  Johannes

Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

  For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?
Thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: [Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Johannes Behr wrote:
I know you can do it in latex but I just can not figure out how to do
hierarchical descriptions or items in lyx. Something like:
* foo1
  ctrl-right_arrow (or menu to increase depth)
 * bar1
 * bar2
  ctrl-left_arrow (or menu to decrease depth)
* foo2
Rich
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Re: Counting Words

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 05:57:21 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.

Rich,

If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in
other word processor), which easily counts the number of words.
Afterwards, you can copy your abstract into LyX.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
I typically write the abstract in LyX and the copy  paste it to
Nedit, which can count the words.

Re: Counting Words

[Lyx User]

- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
- first convert to pdf, then
  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
  This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rich

Re: [Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Angus Leeming]

Johannes Behr wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I know you can do it in latex but I just
 can not figure out how to do hierarchical
 descriptions or items in lyx. Something
 like:
 
 * foo1
   * bar1
   * bar2
 * foo2
 
 Could somebody please give me a hint.
   Johannes

Hi, Johannes.

To create an itemized list in LyX you need to set the paragraph style to 
Itemize using the drop down choice menu on the left hand side of the 
toolbar. (It should usually say Standard).

You should now find it easy to produce:

* foo1
* bar1
* bar2
* foo2
Back to normal.

In order to indent the two bar items further, hightlight them with the 
cursor and select the Layout-Increase Environment Depth menu item.

-- 
Angus

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

Rich,

The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in other
word processor), which easily counts the number of words. Afterwards, you
can copy your abstract into LyX.
Paul,
  I planned on writing it in emacs then importing the final version into
LyX. But, I still wondered if LyX had the ability to count words.
Thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
 to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
  This will count the title, author's name and all markup as well as the
body text.
- first convert to pdf, then
 use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
 http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
 http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
 in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
 This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?
  Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and you've all confirmed
that. Off to emacs it is.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations.
I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread 
has a full-screen projection mode.

The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT 
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't 
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get 
you started.

-- 
Angus

esb2004.lyx.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.
Paul,
  Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread
has a full-screen projection mode.
Angus,
  As I wrote to Paul, Aha!. I've not used acroread for this so it didn't
occur to me.
The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get you
started.
  OK. I'll give it a try.
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
me.
  Anyway, I'll put together a test case and see how it goes. The advantage I
see to using beemer and acroread is that I can provide the presentation to
others -- particularly those stuck with Microsoft -- and they can view it to
their ultimate boredom.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words

$ lyx -export ascii yourfile.lyx; wc -w yourfile.txt; rm -f yourfile.txt

-- 
Angus

Re: Counting Words

[Gerhard Lindel]

Rich Shepard schrieb:
  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi,
in such cases I use the spell-checker. This tells you how much words the 
file has.
Gerhard

Re: Counting Words

[Robert Orr]

Perhaps you could try something like this using AWK
BEGIN{
}
/^#/ {
next
}
/^\\/ {
next
}
{
words += NF
}
END {
printf (I think there are about %d words in that LyX
file.\n,words)
}
--- Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
 
  - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc
 yourfile.lyx
   to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
 
This will count the title, author's name and all
 markup as well as the
 body text.
 
  - first convert to pdf, then
   use a tool that can count words in pdf documents,
 e.g.
   http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
   http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
  - let someone or yourself implement this great
 feature
   in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested
 feature.
   This would be easy, just integrate one of the
 previous programs?
 
Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and
 you've all confirmed
 that. Off to emacs it is.
 
 Rich
 
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 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517  
 Fax: 503-667-8863
 





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Re: caption for long table

[Herbert Voss]

jorgen johansson wrote:
I have been trying to figure out how to add caption to a long table 
(spanning several pages) within lyx.

Herbert's tips and tricks has an example in latex. Is it possible to do 
it with lyx and possibly some ERT? ( I am using 1.3.3 for win32)
some time ago, I posted a lyx example. Search in the
archive. But it is extremely tricky, because it is a
bug that LyX has a longtable button, but no possibility
to insert a caption.
Herbert
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http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
 was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
 mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
 stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
 computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
 how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
 me.

OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?

Matej

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trivial.
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Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Herbert Voss]

Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
read the beamer documentation 86 pages ...
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
Matej,
  Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions
offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer
slides.
  Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
first few look promising.
  Major tips:
  1.) Don't read your slides; the audience can read and will do so.
  2.) Use the slides to illustrate your points (e.g., a figure, table or
bullet points).
  3.) Never turn your back on the audience. If you're to the right of the
screen, use your left hand to point; don't cross your body with your
pointing arm.
  4.) Speak slowly and clearly.
  5.) If you want to reach an intellectual audience use blues and greens for
your slide backgrounds.
  6.) If you want to rouse emotions among your listeners, use red, orange or
yellow.
  7.) Keep text simple on each slide; no crowding. Use a large font; your
audience may include those older than 40 years sitting far from the screen.
  8.) Make sure that there is high contrast between text and background.
  9.) If you feel compelled to say, I know you can't read all the tiny
print on this slide ..., don't show it.
  10.) Respect your audiences' intelligence, time and willingness to listen
to you. Make it worth their while. Have them leave thinking, I'm glad I
listened to him.
Rich
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double-side book and margins

[Leo Gürtler]

Hi alltogether,
how can one arrange the margins so that on the print-out odd and even 
pages are scaled and the margins fit ?
This is needed for a master-copy of a text for a print office.
I tried with manual calibration, but if

right margin = 45mm
left margin = 45mm
and
A4 size
is set, on the print-out the pages do not fit together if they are laid 
on each other.
That means - how to center odd and even pages ?

thanks,
Leo
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School for Education
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Tübingen
Münzgasse 22-30, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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fax:   +(0049) (0)7071 - 294954

Re: caption for long table

[jorgen johansson]

Herbert Voss wrote:
some time ago, I posted a lyx example. Search in the
archive. But it is extremely tricky, because it is a
bug that LyX has a longtable button, but no possibility
to insert a caption.
Thanks.
Leo Guertler has kindly sent me an example lyx-file in a private mail.
Thank you for your quick replies.
jorgen

Changing PDF version generated

[Jane McKean]

Hi:

I'm running LyX 1.3.4 on Linux Red Hat 9 and generating our
documentation set using the View  PDF (pdflatex) option from the menu.
(I use the View  PDF option when I'm generating review copies with
change bars.) The final docs include separate PDF covers.

The final PDFs are PDF version 1.5. Some of our users use xpdf to view
the docs and xpdf supports version 1.4 not version 1.5. The PDFs look
very bad when viewed with xpdf. 

I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. 

How would I go about doing this? What do I need to change?

Many thanks in advance!
--jane
-- 
Jane McKean
Technical Documentation
PathScale, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 408-746-9100 x227
Fax: 408-746-9150

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Fernando Perez]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
 
 Rich Shepard wrote:
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
  was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
  mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
  stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
  computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
  how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
  me.
 
 OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
 presentations well?

The beamer manual actually has a section discussing these issues (good
presentation technique, independently of the tool used for the job).
 
 OT remark: A lyx-example for using beamer would be nice to add to the
 wiki. Links for doing presentations well would also fit in nicely there :-)

Note that beamer comes with extensive LyX examples, and many LyX-specific notes
(nicely highlighted by a blue LyX symbol in the margin) in the very detailed
200+ pages manual.  So anyone who actually downloads beamer will immediately
have far more documentation and examples than they can read.

The supplied examples are lyx files, and range from very simple to quite
complex, highlighting just about any task you may want to do in beamer.

Beamer is absolutely superb.  I just started using it recently, and I've been
really blown away by both the visual quality of the output, and how well put
together the whole thing is (documentation, examples, attention to detail). 
If anyone wants to see an example right away, written using lyx, here is one:

http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/talks/0411_python_scicomp.pdf

Cheers,

f

Re: Changing PDF version generated

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jane McKean wrote:
The final PDFs are PDF version 1.5. Some of our users use xpdf to view the
docs and xpdf supports version 1.4 not version 1.5. The PDFs look very bad
when viewed with xpdf.
Jane,
  That's interesting. I'm running LyX-1.3.5 on Slackware-10.0 and export
using pdflatex, too. Almost always I use xpdf rather than acroread because
it's so much faster loading and I can move around in the document using only
the keyboard. I don't notice any difference in display quality between
xpdf-3.0 and acroread-5.09.
  Perhaps your folks need to upgrade xpdf.
HTH,
Rich
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Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Tomoharu Nishino]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Sang Oh wrote:
hello...
i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi, 
pdf, ps...)  none works.

i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx
thanks,
sang
Could you provide more info?  For example, have you installed the 
required TeX related packages?

For more info on what other than LyX needs to be installed, please see 
for some good info:

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac
But a quick summary:  You need to install teTeX (TeX), ghostscript, 
Freetype2, WMF, iconv, ImageMagick and CM Super (optional) packages.  
You can use the nice GUI installer i-Installer 
(http://www.rna.nl/ii.html) or use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)

After you have done this, do Edit-Reconfigure, and then restart LyX
Then, go to Preferences, and look under File formats.  You will find 
a couple of entries for PDF documents.  Make sure that you have the 
viewer set to whatever PDF viewer (Acrobat, Preview, etc.) you are 
using.

Hope this helps.
Tn

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
 first few look promising.
 
 Major tips:

Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get.

matej

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 (when describing re-compilation of kernel :-)

Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Sang Oh]

Hi,
I think I have everything installed.  xdvi, gv, etc... and they run
fine from the command line.
i can file-export-dvi, and i can open it from the command line.
everything looks good.
but i still want to be able to launch dvi preview by view-dvi or
view-postscript (or by issuing c-d and c-t command).
all installation paths to lyx, xdvi, gv are defaults and they are 
callable
from the shell window.

maybe i should change the viewer from gv to /sw/bin/gv?
Thanks,
Sang
On Dec 8, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Tomoharu Nishino wrote:
excerpt
On Dec 7, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Sang Oh wrote:
excerpthello...
i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi,
pdf, ps...)  none works.
i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx
thanks,
sang
/excerpt
Could you provide more info?  For example, have you installed the
required TeX related packages?
For more info on what other than LyX needs to be installed, please see
for some good info:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac
But a quick summary:  You need to install teTeX (TeX), ghostscript,
Freetype2, WMF, iconv, ImageMagick and CM Super (optional) packages.
You can use the nice GUI installer i-Installer
(http://www.rna.nl/ii.html) or use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)
After you have done this, do Edit-Reconfigure, and then restart LyX
Then, go to Preferences, and look under File formats.  You will find
a couple of entries for PDF documents.  Make sure that you have the
viewer set to whatever PDF viewer (Acrobat, Preview, etc.) you are
using.
Hope this helps.
Tn
/excerpt

Re: double-side book and margins

[Uwe Stöhr]

Leo Gürtler schrieb:
how can one arrange the margins so that on the print-out odd and even 
pages are scaled and the margins fit ?
Page margins are explained at
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/PaperLayout
regards Uwe

Re: text on pages with figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Leo Gürtler schrieb:
how can I force lyx/latex to put text on pages on which (floating) 
figures are placed that are greater than half of the page size ?
It seems that at some size figures are alone on a page. How can I 
change that to use every part of a page ?
You can change the values for the values \xxxfraction. E.g. insert to 
your preamble the command

\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.7}
to increase the threshold since LaTeX puts a float alone on a page. (If 
the float has = 70% of the page height, it will appear alone on the page.)

LaTeX's float placement is a bit difficult, but it is well explained in 
chapters 6.1/6.2 of the book The LaTeX Companion second edition.

regards Uwe

Re: Changing PDF version generated

[Paul Medwell]

Jane McKean wrote:
«SNIP»
I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. 

It probably depends a bit on what converters you use to generate your 
PDF. Perhaps start by looking at the Postscript - PDF converter  (Edit 
- Preferences - Converters). I'm running LyX 1.3.5 (qt) on Fedora Core 
2, and the converter used is ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 $$i. I'd 
guess you should be able to change the compatability level this way.

HTH
Lata,
Paul

Unavailable Document Class

[Guillaume SANTINI]

Hello,
I'm a new french lyx user.
I have installed lyx v. 1.3.5 without problems using qt frontend.
Lyx seems to works well, but class's documents remains unvailable in the 
Format->Document->Format menu. I search for config files of format class 
and i found what i suppose related files in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts 
directory with .inc and .layout extensions.
What did i do wrong? Why these class remains unvailables and unselectables?
Anybody could help me ?

Thanck you
Guillaume SANTINI

Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Chris Menzel]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:32:28PM -0800, Sang Oh wrote:
> i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
> lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi, pdf, 
> ps...)  none works.
> 
> i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
> my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx

Not a lot to work with here! :-)  If you go to LyX -> Preferences ->
File formats, what do you find in the "Viewer" field when you highlight
"PDF (pdflatex)"?

Chris Menzel

Re: Unavailable Document Class

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:38:11 +0100, Guillaume SANTINI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed lyx v. 1.3.5 without problems using qt frontend.
> Lyx seems to works well, but class's documents remains unvailable in the
> Format->Document->Format menu. I search for config files of format class
> and i found what i suppose related files in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts
> directory with .inc and .layout extensions.
> What did i do wrong? Why these class remains unvailables and unselectables?
> Anybody could help me ?

Guillaume,

You have first to install the LaTeX class that you want. Then, as
root, run texhash and, afterwards, go to LyX (not as root, now) and
Edit --> Reconfigure. Finally, restart LyX. If the class that you want
has LyX support, then it will become available.

I hope this helps.

Paul

[Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Johannes Behr]

Hi,

I know you can do it in latex but I just
can not figure out how to do hierarchical
descriptions or items in lyx. Something
like:

* foo1
  * bar1
  * bar2 
* foo2

Could somebody please give me a hint.
  Johannes

Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
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Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

  For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these
shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?
Thanks,
Rich
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: [Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Johannes Behr wrote:
I know you can do it in latex but I just can not figure out how to do
hierarchical descriptions or items in lyx. Something like:
* foo1
  ctrl- (or menu to increase depth)
 * bar1
 * bar2
  ctrl- (or menu to decrease depth)
* foo2
Rich
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Re: Counting Words

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 05:57:21 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
> words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
> 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
> (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.

Rich,

If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in
other word processor), which easily counts the number of words.
Afterwards, you can copy your abstract into LyX.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
I typically write the abstract in LyX and the copy & paste it to
Nedit, which can count the words.

Re: Counting Words

[Lyx User]

- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx"
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
- first convert to pdf, then
  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
  This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
> words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
> 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
> (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich

Re: [Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

[Angus Leeming]

Johannes Behr wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I know you can do it in latex but I just
> can not figure out how to do hierarchical
> descriptions or items in lyx. Something
> like:
> 
> * foo1
>   * bar1
>   * bar2
> * foo2
> 
> Could somebody please give me a hint.
>   Johannes

Hi, Johannes.

To create an itemized list in LyX you need to set the paragraph style to 
"Itemize" using the drop down choice menu on the left hand side of the 
toolbar. (It should usually say "Standard").

You should now find it easy to produce:

* foo1
* bar1
* bar2
* foo2
Back to normal.

In order to indent the two "bar" items further, hightlight them with the 
cursor and select the "Layout->Increase Environment Depth" menu item.

-- 
Angus

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
> like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these
> shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

Rich,

The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View --> Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys "pagedown", "pageup" and "escape".

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in other
word processor), which easily counts the number of words. Afterwards, you
can copy your abstract into LyX.
Paul,
  I planned on writing it in emacs then importing the final version into
LyX. But, I still wondered if LyX had the ability to count words.
Thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx"
 to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
  This will count the title, author's name and all markup as well as the
body text.
- first convert to pdf, then
 use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
 http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
 http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
 in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
 This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?
  Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was "no" and you've all confirmed
that. Off to emacs it is.
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations.
>I'd
> like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these
> shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread 
has a full-screen projection mode.

The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT 
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't 
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get 
you started.

-- 
Angus

esb2004.lyx.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View --> Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys "pagedown", "pageup" and "escape".
Paul,
  Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread
has a full-screen projection mode.
Angus,
  As I wrote to Paul, "Aha!". I've not used acroread for this so it didn't
occur to me.
The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get you
started.
  OK. I'll give it a try.
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their "PowerPoint"
stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her "slides" to
me.
  Anyway, I'll put together a test case and see how it goes. The advantage I
see to using beemer and acroread is that I can provide the presentation to
others -- particularly those stuck with Microsoft -- and they can view it to
their ultimate boredom.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>> - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx"
>>  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words

$ lyx -export ascii yourfile.lyx; wc -w yourfile.txt; rm -f yourfile.txt

-- 
Angus

Re: Counting Words

[Gerhard Lindel]

Rich Shepard schrieb:
  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi,
in such cases I use the spell-checker. This tells you how much words the 
file has.
Gerhard

Re: Counting Words

[Robert Orr]

Perhaps you could try something like this using AWK
BEGIN{
}
/^#/ {
next
}
/^\\/ {
next
}
{
words += NF
}
END {
printf ("I think there are about %d words in that LyX
file.\n",words)
}
--- Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
> 
> > - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc
> yourfile.lyx"
> >  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
> 
>This will count the title, author's name and all
> markup as well as the
> body text.
> 
> > - first convert to pdf, then
> >  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents,
> e.g.
> >  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
> >  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
> > - let someone or yourself implement this great
> feature
> >  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested
> feature.
> >  This would be easy, just integrate one of the
> previous programs?
> 
>Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was "no" and
> you've all confirmed
> that. Off to emacs it is.
> 
> Rich
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
>    Voice: 503-667-4517  
> Fax: 503-667-8863
> 





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Re: caption for long table

[Herbert Voss]

jorgen johansson wrote:
I have been trying to figure out how to add caption to a long table 
(spanning several pages) within lyx.

Herbert's tips and tricks has an example in latex. Is it possible to do 
it with lyx and possibly some ERT? ( I am using 1.3.3 for win32)
some time ago, I posted a lyx example. Search in the
archive. But it is extremely tricky, because it is a
bug that LyX has a longtable button, but no possibility
to insert a caption.
Herbert
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http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
> was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
> mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their "PowerPoint"
> stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
> computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
> how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her "slides" to
> me.

OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?

Matej

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Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Herbert Voss]

Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
read the beamer documentation 86 pages ...
Herbert
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http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
Matej,
  Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions
offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer
"slides".
  Google search terms "giving presentations" returned 3,370,000 hits. The
first few look promising.
  Major tips:
  1.) Don't read your slides; the audience can read and will do so.
  2.) Use the slides to illustrate your points (e.g., a figure, table or
bullet points).
  3.) Never turn your back on the audience. If you're to the right of the
screen, use your left hand to point; don't cross your body with your
pointing arm.
  4.) Speak slowly and clearly.
  5.) If you want to reach an intellectual audience use blues and greens for
your slide backgrounds.
  6.) If you want to rouse emotions among your listeners, use red, orange or
yellow.
  7.) Keep text simple on each slide; no crowding. Use a large font; your
audience may include those older than 40 years sitting far from the screen.
  8.) Make sure that there is high contrast between text and background.
  9.) If you feel compelled to say, "I know you can't read all the tiny
print on this slide ...", don't show it.
  10.) Respect your audiences' intelligence, time and willingness to listen
to you. Make it worth their while. Have them leave thinking, "I'm glad I
listened to him."
Rich
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double-side book and margins

[Leo Gürtler]

Hi alltogether,
how can one arrange the margins so that on the print-out odd and even 
pages are scaled and the margins fit ?
This is needed for a master-copy of a text for a print office.
I tried with manual calibration, but if

right margin = 45mm
left margin = 45mm
and
A4 size
is set, on the print-out the pages do not fit together if they are laid 
on each other.
That means -> how to center odd and even pages ?

thanks,
Leo
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Department of Educational Psychology
University of Tübingen
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Re: caption for long table

[jorgen johansson]

Herbert Voss wrote:
some time ago, I posted a lyx example. Search in the
archive. But it is extremely tricky, because it is a
bug that LyX has a longtable button, but no possibility
to insert a caption.
Thanks.
Leo Guertler has kindly sent me an example lyx-file in a private mail.
Thank you for your quick replies.
jorgen

Changing PDF version generated

[Jane McKean]

Hi:

I'm running LyX 1.3.4 on Linux Red Hat 9 and generating our
documentation set using the View > PDF (pdflatex) option from the menu.
(I use the View > PDF option when I'm generating review copies with
change bars.) The final docs include separate PDF covers.

The final PDFs are PDF version 1.5. Some of our users use xpdf to view
the docs and xpdf supports version 1.4 not version 1.5. The PDFs look
very bad when viewed with xpdf. 

I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. 

How would I go about doing this? What do I need to change?

Many thanks in advance!
--jane
-- 
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Technical Documentation
PathScale, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 408-746-9100 x227
Fax: 408-746-9150

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Fernando Perez]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
> 
>> Rich Shepard wrote:
>> > I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
>> > was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
>> > mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their "PowerPoint"
>> > stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
>> > computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
>> > how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her "slides" to
>> > me.
>> 
>> OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
>> presentations well?

The beamer manual actually has a section discussing these issues (good
presentation technique, independently of the tool used for the job).
 
> OT remark: A lyx-example for using beamer would be nice to add to the
> wiki. Links for doing presentations well would also fit in nicely there :-)

Note that beamer comes with extensive LyX examples, and many LyX-specific notes
(nicely highlighted by a blue LyX symbol in the margin) in the very detailed
200+ pages manual.  So anyone who actually downloads beamer will immediately
have far more documentation and examples than they can read.

The supplied examples are lyx files, and range from very simple to quite
complex, highlighting just about any task you may want to do in beamer.

Beamer is absolutely superb.  I just started using it recently, and I've been
really blown away by both the visual quality of the output, and how well put
together the whole thing is (documentation, examples, attention to detail). 
If anyone wants to see an example right away, written using lyx, here is one:

http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/talks/0411_python_scicomp.pdf

Cheers,

f

Re: Changing PDF version generated

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jane McKean wrote:
The final PDFs are PDF version 1.5. Some of our users use xpdf to view the
docs and xpdf supports version 1.4 not version 1.5. The PDFs look very bad
when viewed with xpdf.
Jane,
  That's interesting. I'm running LyX-1.3.5 on Slackware-10.0 and export
using pdflatex, too. Almost always I use xpdf rather than acroread because
it's so much faster loading and I can move around in the document using only
the keyboard. I don't notice any difference in display quality between
xpdf-3.0 and acroread-5.09.
  Perhaps your folks need to upgrade xpdf.
HTH,
Rich
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Re: lyx/mac installation questions.

[Tomoharu Nishino]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Sang Oh wrote:
hello...
i just installed the lyx/mac binaries.
lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working.  (dvi, 
pdf, ps...)  none works.

i did a default installation.  (defalut install path)
my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx
thanks,
sang
Could you provide more info?  For example, have you installed the 
required TeX related packages?

For more info on what other than LyX needs to be installed, please see 
for some good info:

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac
But a quick summary:  You need to install teTeX (TeX), ghostscript, 
Freetype2, WMF, iconv, ImageMagick and CM Super (optional) packages.  
You can use the nice GUI installer i-Installer 
(http://www.rna.nl/ii.html) or use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)

After you have done this, do Edit->Reconfigure, and then restart LyX
Then, go to Preferences, and look under "File formats".  You will find 
a couple of entries for PDF documents.  Make sure that you have the 
"viewer" set to whatever PDF viewer (Acrobat, Preview, etc.) you are 
using.

Hope this helps.
Tn