Re: Instant Preview working in LyX 1.4.1?
On Saturday 10 June 2006 00:34, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Is Instant Preview working at all in LyX 1.4.1? Yes. I upgraded from 1.3.7 to 1.4.1 on my Fedora 5 box and mathematical expression are not rendered with Instant Preview. Then, I removed 1.4.1 and installed 1.3.7 back and it worked again... How did you install the different components? I am running FC-5 and everything works as expected. $ rpm -q --requires lyx ... ghostscript htmlview lyx-frontend = 1.4.1 mathml-fonts tetex-dvipost tetex-dvips tetex-fonts tetex-fonts tetex-latex tetex-preview I have these packages installed, so it works... Rudi Gaelzer -- José Abílio
frenchb problem
Hi all, How do I tell lyx 1.4.1 to use the frenchb language option. The only thing I can find is french and that's incompatible with the rest of my options Thanks, Jouke
Re: Algorithm and Spanish
Hello Julio,
Insert this code into the preamble:
\floatname{algorithm}{Algoritmo}
Julio Rojas escribió:
Hi, I'm inserting and Algorithm in my document and in the DVI output,
instead of the word Algoritmo (in spanish) appears the word Algorithm
(in english). Any easy way to solve this???
Re: frenchb problem
jouke hijlkema wrote: Hi all, How do I tell lyx 1.4.1 to use the frenchb language option. The only thing I can find is french and that's incompatible with the rest of my options What LaTeX distribution are you using. With teTeX 3.0, french option works well. Frenchb is something obsolete. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Bakoma font update for Fedora
Rex Dieter has considerately updated the mathml font package for Fedora Core 4 and 5, it was missing eufm10.ttf. mathml-fonts-1.0-20 updates mathml-fonts-1.0-19.fc4.noarch.rpm Thanks Rex, Stephen Topic ontology recapitulates entropic philology.
Re: Separate articles into book chapters
On Sunday 11 June 2006 05:52 pm, Eric Fuchs wrote: Hello all: I am writing a book, which originally started out as a bunch of articles written for a class. Every article was written using LyX's article layout. Now, I want to put them all into a single book, using the book layout. This is what I've done for every article: 1. Eliminated the author environment 2. Transformed the article-layout to book layout 3. Transformed the title of the article to chapter I want now, to just copy-paste each chapter in consecutive order to create a book. My problem lies with the tables. All the tables give out errors when compiling. If I create the table again (even with the same data) the problems goes away. Does the error occur when compiling a single converted article, or when compiling the whole concatination? Further diagnosis would require the error messages thrown during compilation. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way of doing this? My first thought was to use Vim to cut out each article minus its preamble, paste it onto the end of the book (with preamble), and put in a chapter mark. Also, you'd need to do something about any Part or Part* environments in your articles so they don't clash with the book's Part and Part*, since they clearly would not be used for the same purpose. When I start a new book, I lay out the structure in VimOutliner, and then use a script to convert VimOutliner to a book document class's Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, SubSubsection, Paragraph and SubParagraph environments, and then paste that into an empty document preamble. Also, I frequently make small tweaks to a LyX document in Vim. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: Oh, and Christian--I would suggest you be sure to make the copyright info static with editing disallowed. Legal boilerplate is *not* the place for community-wide editing! Hmm... ok, I just tried setting the password for editing that page to 'LyXers' (same as for uploading). My browser rememberes the password, so I'm 100% sure it's actually activated, but it should be. OTOH, I'm not really worried about changes as these are all tracked. I alos monitor what pages are changed, so I notice if that particular page was edited. The main reason I prefer it editable is so that people could add questions/comments to it. Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, or similar. Layout files are code, so the GPL fits them well. Speaking for myself, I'd be hesitant to contribute anything without GPL'ling it, because some licenses leave open the door for a big bad company to change my layout just a little bit and take it proprietary, and who knows, some day sue me for using code derived from their code, and then I have to prove that mine preceded theirs. Others might like the BSD license, or the Mozilla license, or whatever -- wouldn't it be their option rather than that of the Wiki? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: I've noticed with other wikis that it takes a considerable effort before the average user is sold on the concept, enough to go through the learning curve for the various tags. Unfortunately, IIRC wiki tags are just enough different from HTML and other tagging taxonomies that it can be confusing at first. Yes, the tags are certainly a part of the problem. Then I also think many people are simply reluctant to write something that'll end up being so visible. (Which is kind of strange since everything on this list is equally visible... OTOH, I was quite reluctant the first few messages I posted to this list). In my case it's 100% the former. I have no problem with revealing my mistakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
LaTex - Image Credit
Dear List members, Almost finished with my thesis, there remains one tiny, simple question: How to add image credit to the list of figures? Thanks in advance, Andy
Printing and fonts
When I try printing any document from inside LyX nothing happens. I can print from inside xdvi and gs and all the rest, what's up with LyX? I'm guessing that the printer name isn't correct in the printer dialog. I'm not sure what it is wanting. It's obviously not wanting the print command. What's it wanting? Also about the font size. How do you change the printed font sizes when printing from xdvi? It prints so small that I can barely read it. Thanks fo any info. -- LINUX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
Re: Printing and fonts
When I try printing any document from inside LyX nothing happens. I can print from inside xdvi and gs and all the rest, what's up with LyX? I'm guessing that the printer name isn't correct in the printer dialog. I'm not sure what it is wanting. It's obviously not wanting the print command. What's it wanting? By default, it uses lpr. Look at Preferences for Outputs -- Printer for some command options. Does your lpr work? I guess it does, since xdvi and your gs probably use it also. Run your lyx from a command-line shell so you can see the output. For example, I have error like: /usr/bin/lpr: lp: unknown printer Because my spool command is wrong. Jeremy C. Reed echo ':6DB6=88?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
Comments within On 6/12/06, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, or similar. Layout files are code, so the GPL fits them well. Speaking for myself, I'd be hesitant to contribute anything without GPL'ling it, because some licenses leave open the door for a big bad company to change my layout just a little bit and take it proprietary, and who knows, some day sue me for using code derived from their code, and then I have to prove that mine preceded theirs. **No, that is not a realistic worry. Your version would obviously predate theirs, so yours would be prior art in the language of intellectual property law. The resource may specify the license under which contributed layouts are to be governed by, the authors may specify (or simply fail to submit any if there is a license they don't care for!), or the site may have language that those layouts contributed that do not otherwise specify a license are governed by the xyz license at this link. That would cover the bases, I think. There is a considerable debate, as you probably know, about whether the GPL is a good idea for areas such as these in which a layout may be used to create commercial documents. That is why I would suggest something like the BSD approach that permits commercial use. As a practical matter, I do not believe that these layout files would be a problem in any event. As I stated previously, there are only so many ways a given effect can be attained to result in a particular layout feature. Thus, this is not something that can easily be licensed as any sort of exclusive thing. I likened it to fonts, wherein the actual outline files cannot be copyrighted, but the names can be. Unlike original program code, a layout file is constrained by the existing application. Finally, it is unlikely that layout files themselves would be an issue--since the objective is the documents created with that layout file and not the layout file itself. I really think that this discussion is largely the result of worry over what is very unlikely to happen to begin with--but a reasonable application of a license is certainly not a bad idea at all. David
Exporting to DVI in Windows
Hello, I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix this? Why doesn't it just use the current directory in which the figures are located? Thank you. Adrian
Font size
How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Thanks -- LINUX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
custom ui colors
it is possible to redefine the ui colors... for example, set-color background black set-color foreground grey etc. but how would i go about having these the defaults ... ie. which config file in ~/.lyx should these configurations be entered -- if at all possible.
Re: custom ui colors
Dennis == Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis it is possible to redefine the ui colors... for example, Dennis set-color background black set-color foreground grey etc. Dennis but how would i go about having these the defaults ... ie. Dennis which config file in ~/.lyx should these configurations be Dennis entered -- if at all possible. Why don't you do that directly from ToolsPreferences? JMarc
Re: Instant Preview working in LyX 1.4.1?
On Saturday 10 June 2006 00:34, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Is Instant Preview working at all in LyX 1.4.1? Yes. I upgraded from 1.3.7 to 1.4.1 on my Fedora 5 box and mathematical expression are not rendered with Instant Preview. Then, I removed 1.4.1 and installed 1.3.7 back and it worked again... How did you install the different components? I am running FC-5 and everything works as expected. $ rpm -q --requires lyx ... ghostscript htmlview lyx-frontend = 1.4.1 mathml-fonts tetex-dvipost tetex-dvips tetex-fonts tetex-fonts tetex-latex tetex-preview I have these packages installed, so it works... Rudi Gaelzer -- José Abílio
frenchb problem
Hi all, How do I tell lyx 1.4.1 to use the frenchb language option. The only thing I can find is french and that's incompatible with the rest of my options Thanks, Jouke
Re: Algorithm and Spanish
Hello Julio,
Insert this code into the preamble:
\floatname{algorithm}{Algoritmo}
Julio Rojas escribió:
Hi, I'm inserting and Algorithm in my document and in the DVI output,
instead of the word Algoritmo (in spanish) appears the word Algorithm
(in english). Any easy way to solve this???
Re: frenchb problem
jouke hijlkema wrote: Hi all, How do I tell lyx 1.4.1 to use the frenchb language option. The only thing I can find is french and that's incompatible with the rest of my options What LaTeX distribution are you using. With teTeX 3.0, french option works well. Frenchb is something obsolete. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Bakoma font update for Fedora
Rex Dieter has considerately updated the mathml font package for Fedora Core 4 and 5, it was missing eufm10.ttf. mathml-fonts-1.0-20 updates mathml-fonts-1.0-19.fc4.noarch.rpm Thanks Rex, Stephen Topic ontology recapitulates entropic philology.
Re: Separate articles into book chapters
On Sunday 11 June 2006 05:52 pm, Eric Fuchs wrote: Hello all: I am writing a book, which originally started out as a bunch of articles written for a class. Every article was written using LyX's article layout. Now, I want to put them all into a single book, using the book layout. This is what I've done for every article: 1. Eliminated the author environment 2. Transformed the article-layout to book layout 3. Transformed the title of the article to chapter I want now, to just copy-paste each chapter in consecutive order to create a book. My problem lies with the tables. All the tables give out errors when compiling. If I create the table again (even with the same data) the problems goes away. Does the error occur when compiling a single converted article, or when compiling the whole concatination? Further diagnosis would require the error messages thrown during compilation. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way of doing this? My first thought was to use Vim to cut out each article minus its preamble, paste it onto the end of the book (with preamble), and put in a chapter mark. Also, you'd need to do something about any Part or Part* environments in your articles so they don't clash with the book's Part and Part*, since they clearly would not be used for the same purpose. When I start a new book, I lay out the structure in VimOutliner, and then use a script to convert VimOutliner to a book document class's Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, SubSubsection, Paragraph and SubParagraph environments, and then paste that into an empty document preamble. Also, I frequently make small tweaks to a LyX document in Vim. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: Oh, and Christian--I would suggest you be sure to make the copyright info static with editing disallowed. Legal boilerplate is *not* the place for community-wide editing! Hmm... ok, I just tried setting the password for editing that page to 'LyXers' (same as for uploading). My browser rememberes the password, so I'm 100% sure it's actually activated, but it should be. OTOH, I'm not really worried about changes as these are all tracked. I alos monitor what pages are changed, so I notice if that particular page was edited. The main reason I prefer it editable is so that people could add questions/comments to it. Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, or similar. Layout files are code, so the GPL fits them well. Speaking for myself, I'd be hesitant to contribute anything without GPL'ling it, because some licenses leave open the door for a big bad company to change my layout just a little bit and take it proprietary, and who knows, some day sue me for using code derived from their code, and then I have to prove that mine preceded theirs. Others might like the BSD license, or the Mozilla license, or whatever -- wouldn't it be their option rather than that of the Wiki? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: I've noticed with other wikis that it takes a considerable effort before the average user is sold on the concept, enough to go through the learning curve for the various tags. Unfortunately, IIRC wiki tags are just enough different from HTML and other tagging taxonomies that it can be confusing at first. Yes, the tags are certainly a part of the problem. Then I also think many people are simply reluctant to write something that'll end up being so visible. (Which is kind of strange since everything on this list is equally visible... OTOH, I was quite reluctant the first few messages I posted to this list). In my case it's 100% the former. I have no problem with revealing my mistakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
LaTex - Image Credit
Dear List members, Almost finished with my thesis, there remains one tiny, simple question: How to add image credit to the list of figures? Thanks in advance, Andy
Printing and fonts
When I try printing any document from inside LyX nothing happens. I can print from inside xdvi and gs and all the rest, what's up with LyX? I'm guessing that the printer name isn't correct in the printer dialog. I'm not sure what it is wanting. It's obviously not wanting the print command. What's it wanting? Also about the font size. How do you change the printed font sizes when printing from xdvi? It prints so small that I can barely read it. Thanks fo any info. -- LINUX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
Re: Printing and fonts
When I try printing any document from inside LyX nothing happens. I can print from inside xdvi and gs and all the rest, what's up with LyX? I'm guessing that the printer name isn't correct in the printer dialog. I'm not sure what it is wanting. It's obviously not wanting the print command. What's it wanting? By default, it uses lpr. Look at Preferences for Outputs -- Printer for some command options. Does your lpr work? I guess it does, since xdvi and your gs probably use it also. Run your lyx from a command-line shell so you can see the output. For example, I have error like: /usr/bin/lpr: lp: unknown printer Because my spool command is wrong. Jeremy C. Reed echo ':6DB6=88?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
Comments within On 6/12/06, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, or similar. Layout files are code, so the GPL fits them well. Speaking for myself, I'd be hesitant to contribute anything without GPL'ling it, because some licenses leave open the door for a big bad company to change my layout just a little bit and take it proprietary, and who knows, some day sue me for using code derived from their code, and then I have to prove that mine preceded theirs. **No, that is not a realistic worry. Your version would obviously predate theirs, so yours would be prior art in the language of intellectual property law. The resource may specify the license under which contributed layouts are to be governed by, the authors may specify (or simply fail to submit any if there is a license they don't care for!), or the site may have language that those layouts contributed that do not otherwise specify a license are governed by the xyz license at this link. That would cover the bases, I think. There is a considerable debate, as you probably know, about whether the GPL is a good idea for areas such as these in which a layout may be used to create commercial documents. That is why I would suggest something like the BSD approach that permits commercial use. As a practical matter, I do not believe that these layout files would be a problem in any event. As I stated previously, there are only so many ways a given effect can be attained to result in a particular layout feature. Thus, this is not something that can easily be licensed as any sort of exclusive thing. I likened it to fonts, wherein the actual outline files cannot be copyrighted, but the names can be. Unlike original program code, a layout file is constrained by the existing application. Finally, it is unlikely that layout files themselves would be an issue--since the objective is the documents created with that layout file and not the layout file itself. I really think that this discussion is largely the result of worry over what is very unlikely to happen to begin with--but a reasonable application of a license is certainly not a bad idea at all. David
Exporting to DVI in Windows
Hello, I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix this? Why doesn't it just use the current directory in which the figures are located? Thank you. Adrian
Font size
How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Thanks -- LINUX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
custom ui colors
it is possible to redefine the ui colors... for example, set-color background black set-color foreground grey etc. but how would i go about having these the defaults ... ie. which config file in ~/.lyx should these configurations be entered -- if at all possible.
Re: custom ui colors
Dennis == Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis it is possible to redefine the ui colors... for example, Dennis set-color background black set-color foreground grey etc. Dennis but how would i go about having these the defaults ... ie. Dennis which config file in ~/.lyx should these configurations be Dennis entered -- if at all possible. Why don't you do that directly from ToolsPreferences? JMarc
Re: Instant Preview working in LyX 1.4.1?
On Saturday 10 June 2006 00:34, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Is Instant Preview working at all in LyX 1.4.1? Yes. > I upgraded from 1.3.7 to 1.4.1 on my Fedora 5 box and mathematical > expression are not rendered with Instant Preview. Then, I removed 1.4.1 > and installed 1.3.7 back and it worked again... How did you install the different components? I am running FC-5 and everything works as expected. $ rpm -q --requires lyx ... ghostscript htmlview lyx-frontend = 1.4.1 mathml-fonts tetex-dvipost tetex-dvips tetex-fonts tetex-fonts tetex-latex tetex-preview I have these packages installed, so it works... > Rudi Gaelzer -- José Abílio
frenchb problem
Hi all, How do I tell lyx 1.4.1 to use the frenchb language option. The only thing I can find is french and that's incompatible with the rest of my options Thanks, Jouke
Re: Algorithm and Spanish
Hello Julio,
Insert this code into the preamble:
\floatname{algorithm}{Algoritmo}
Julio Rojas escribió:
> Hi, I'm inserting and Algorithm in my document and in the DVI output,
> instead of the word "Algoritmo" (in spanish) appears the word "Algorithm"
> (in english). Any easy way to solve this???
>
Re: frenchb problem
jouke hijlkema wrote: > Hi all, > > How do I tell lyx 1.4.1 to use the frenchb language option. The only > thing I can find is french and that's incompatible with the rest of my > options > What LaTeX distribution are you using. With teTeX 3.0, french option works well. Frenchb is something obsolete. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Bakoma font update for Fedora
Rex Dieter has considerately updated the mathml font package for Fedora Core 4 and 5, it was missing "eufm10.ttf". mathml-fonts-1.0-20 updates mathml-fonts-1.0-19.fc4.noarch.rpm Thanks Rex, Stephen Topic ontology recapitulates entropic philology.
Re: Separate articles into book chapters
On Sunday 11 June 2006 05:52 pm, Eric Fuchs wrote: > Hello all: > > I am writing a book, which originally started out as > a bunch of articles written for a class. Every article > was written using LyX's article layout. Now, I want to > put them all into a single book, using the book > layout. This is what I've done for every article: > 1. Eliminated the author environment > 2. Transformed the article-layout to book layout > 3. Transformed the title of the article to chapter > > I want now, to just copy-paste each chapter in > consecutive order to create a book. My problem lies > with the tables. All the tables give out errors when > compiling. If I create the table again (even with the > same data) the problems goes away. Does the error occur when compiling a single converted article, or when compiling the whole concatination? Further diagnosis would require the error messages thrown during compilation. > > Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way of > doing this? My first thought was to use Vim to cut out each article minus its preamble, paste it onto the end of the book (with preamble), and put in a chapter mark. Also, you'd need to do something about any Part or Part* environments in your articles so they don't clash with the book's Part and Part*, since they clearly would not be used for the same purpose. When I start a new book, I lay out the structure in VimOutliner, and then use a script to convert VimOutliner to a book document class's Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, SubSubsection, Paragraph and SubParagraph environments, and then paste that into an empty document preamble. Also, I frequently make small tweaks to a LyX document in Vim. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: > > Oh, and Christian--I would suggest you be sure to make the copyright > > info static with editing disallowed. Legal boilerplate is *not* the > > place for community-wide editing! > > Hmm... ok, I just tried setting the password for editing that page to > 'LyXers' (same as for uploading). My browser rememberes the password, so > I'm 100% sure it's actually activated, but it should be. OTOH, I'm not > really worried about changes as these are all tracked. I alos monitor what > pages are changed, so I notice if that particular page was edited. The > main reason I prefer it editable is so that people could add > questions/comments to it. Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as "Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2", or similar. Layout files are code, so the GPL fits them well. Speaking for myself, I'd be hesitant to contribute anything without GPL'ling it, because some licenses leave open the door for a big bad company to change my layout just a little bit and take it proprietary, and who knows, some day sue me for using code derived from their code, and then I have to prove that mine preceded theirs. Others might like the BSD license, or the Mozilla license, or whatever -- wouldn't it be their option rather than that of the Wiki? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: > > I've noticed with other wikis that it takes a considerable effort before > > the average user is "sold" on the concept, enough to go through the > > learning curve for the various tags. Unfortunately, IIRC wiki tags are > > just enough different from HTML and other tagging taxonomies that it can > > be confusing at first. > > Yes, the tags are certainly a part of the problem. Then I also think many > people are simply reluctant to write something that'll end up being so > visible. (Which is kind of strange since everything on this list is > equally visible... OTOH, I was quite reluctant the first few messages I > posted to this list). In my case it's 100% the former. I have no problem with revealing my mistakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
LaTex - Image Credit
Dear List members, Almost finished with my thesis, there remains one tiny, simple question: How to add image credit to the list of figures? Thanks in advance, Andy
Printing and fonts
When I try printing any document from inside LyX nothing happens. I can print from inside xdvi and gs and all the rest, what's up with LyX? I'm guessing that the printer name isn't correct in the printer dialog. I'm not sure what it is wanting. It's obviously not wanting the print command. What's it wanting? Also about the font size. How do you change the printed font sizes when printing from xdvi? It prints so small that I can barely read it. Thanks fo any info. -- LINUX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
Re: Printing and fonts
> When I try printing any document from inside LyX nothing happens. > > I can print from inside xdvi and gs and all the rest, what's up with > LyX? I'm guessing that the printer name isn't correct in the printer > dialog. I'm not sure what it is wanting. It's obviously not wanting the > print command. What's it wanting? By default, it uses "lpr". Look at Preferences for Outputs --> Printer for some command options. Does your "lpr" work? I guess it does, since xdvi and your gs probably use it also. Run your lyx from a command-line shell so you can see the output. For example, I have error like: /usr/bin/lpr: lp: unknown printer Because my spool command is wrong. Jeremy C. Reed echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files
Comments within On 6/12/06, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as "Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2", or similar. Layout files are code, so the GPL fits them well. Speaking for myself, I'd be hesitant to contribute anything without GPL'ling it, because some licenses leave open the door for a big bad company to change my layout just a little bit and take it proprietary, and who knows, some day sue me for using code derived from their code, and then I have to prove that mine preceded theirs. **No, that is not a realistic worry. Your version would obviously predate theirs, so yours would be "prior art" in the language of intellectual property law. The resource may specify the license under which contributed layouts are to be governed by, the authors may specify (or simply fail to submit any if there is a license they don't care for!), or the site may have language that "those layouts contributed that do not otherwise specify a license are governed by the xyz license at this link." That would cover the bases, I think. There is a considerable debate, as you probably know, about whether the GPL is a good idea for areas such as these in which a layout may be used to create commercial documents. That is why I would suggest something like the BSD approach that permits commercial use. As a practical matter, I do not believe that these layout files would be a problem in any event. As I stated previously, there are only so many ways a given effect can be attained to result in a particular layout feature. Thus, this is not something that can easily be licensed as any sort of exclusive thing. I likened it to fonts, wherein the actual outline files cannot be copyrighted, but the names can be. Unlike original program code, a layout file is constrained by the existing application. Finally, it is unlikely that layout files themselves would be an issue--since the objective is the documents created with that layout file and not the layout file itself. I really think that this discussion is largely the result of worry over what is very unlikely to happen to begin with--but a reasonable application of a license is certainly not a bad idea at all. David
Exporting to DVI in Windows
Hello, I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix this? Why doesn't it just use the current directory in which the figures are located? Thank you. Adrian
Font size
How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Thanks -- LINUX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
custom ui colors
it is possible to redefine the ui colors... for example, "set-color background black" "set-color foreground grey" etc. but how would i go about having these the defaults ... ie. which config file in ~/.lyx should these configurations be entered -- if at all possible.
Re: custom ui colors
> "Dennis" == Dennis Nezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dennis> it is possible to redefine the ui colors... for example, Dennis> "set-color background black" "set-color foreground grey" etc. Dennis> but how would i go about having these the defaults ... ie. Dennis> which config file in ~/.lyx should these configurations be Dennis> entered -- if at all possible. Why don't you do that directly from Tools>Preferences? JMarc
