Lines and decorative separations
Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things? I have scoured the help and the web, but I keep going down dead ends. \d -- Atheism is myth understood. -- unknown
Re: Lines and decorative separations
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt}
Great, already a huge improvement. Thanks.
\d
Re: Lines and decorative separations
Donn wrote:
Hello list.
I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to:
1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also,
perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick
part under it.
2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know
the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things?
I have scoured the help and the web, but I keep going down dead ends
LyX can insert a line with fixed thickness between paragraphs.
You find it on the insert menu. It is the width of the text, but
if you put it in a minipage, you can have different lengths by
varying the minipage width.
Anything else require some latex code.
Horizontal lines of varying length and thickness is the easiest,
insert-TeX and then type
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt}
Helge Hafting
Re: configure default paragraph alignment
--- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Check their documentation.) Changing the display in LyX is a matter of editing the layout file, in which alignment is controlled by the Align directive. If you're using, say, book.cls, then copy book.layout to your local LyX directory (where it is is system-dependent), open it, and then add to the end of the file: Style Standard Align Left End This will override the usual declaration. If you want this also for other paragraph types, you'll need to add corresponding declarations for the other paragraphs. But again: Changing this in the layout file won't change it in the output; these are different beasts. Richard Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Regards Marcelo Los referentes más importantes en compra/ venta de autos se juntaron: Demotores y Yahoo! Ahora comprar o vender tu auto es más fácil. Vistá ar.autos.yahoo.com/
Re: lyx-1.5.1 apa style question
Mirko Briemle wrote:
Thanks for your response. That helped a lot. I installed the apa and the
apacite package
but I receive a Missing \begin{document} Error when trying to preview the apa
document. What can I do to fix this? (By the way I am using lyx-1.5.2 now too.
It looks
great.)
That message can be caused by all sorts of problems. If you can strip
down your document to a fairly small example where the error occurs and
then post the example here, we can diagnose it.
/Paul
Re: Fwd: exercise support in LyX
What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into
LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working.
I use
\usepackage{answers}
To get it working more easy, I put the stuff below into my lyx configuration
files. With this I can just press M-g u to insert an exercise, and then M-g
a to insert ERT (two greyblocks) so I can write the answer between the grey
blocks.
I'm sorry for the bad explaination of how it works, but I'm quite satisfied
with it.
Here is the stuff I use:
---
in the LaTeX preamble
\Newassociation{sol}{Svar}{ans}
{\theorembodyfont{\upshape} \newtheorem{uppg}{Uppgift}}
\newenvironment{ug}{\begin{uppg}\normalfont}{\end{uppg}}
and in the bind files
\bind M-g u layout GGGUG
\bind M-g a command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \begin{sol};
next-inset-toggle; ert-insert; self-insert \end{sol}; next-inset-toggle;
char-backward;
and in the layouts file
# Uppgift style definition
Style GGGUG
LatexType Environment
LatexName ug
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep0.4
TopSep0.4
Align Left
AlignPossible Left
LabelTypeTop_Environment
LabelStringUppgift
OptionalArgs 1
# label font definition
LabelFont
Series Bold
EndFont
End
Fwd: exercise support in LyX
Hi, I've tried various packages for including exercises in a book I'm writing in LyX. I settled on exercise.sty which is nice because you write all the exercises and their answers, then the command \shipout spews out all the answers since the previous \shipout. This means I can easily put all the answers to exercises at the end of each chapter. But... it seems to not space things properly. What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working. Thanks, Ramin.
bug using lyx-1.5.2 export at the command line?
Hello When I try to export a pdf file using the command line at my linux box the I get the following message % lyx -e pdf2 file.lyx lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks ! Bye. Does anybody experience the same problem? Is this a know bug? If it helps I compiled the tar.gz file and % lyx --version LyX 1.5.2 (Fri, Oct 5, 2007) Built on Oct 10 2007, 18:21:05 Configuration Host type:i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: aiksaurus pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (4.0.3) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -O2 Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.1.2 Packaging:posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx Thanks for your help Best regards
Toggle between documents
Hi! In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX? Cheers, Nicolás
I have a problem with language
Hello, When I try to get a solution (before Ignacio's letter) for page numbering in roman instead Roman I changed language from Spanish to American in Document Config Language. I can see that roman problem was solved but now I have several titles like Index and Contents in English instead Spanish, and I lost hyphenation in Spanish. Then I return to Spanish language but American remains. Now I have all text underlined, and I can't compile without errors. I have Spanish in Document Config Language and Preferences but if I see Latex Source I have [american, spanish] in my srcbook. I can't get out American any more (perhaps we have a deep political lesson here ;-) How I can get Spanish only? Regards Marcelo Los referentes más importantes en compra/ venta de autos se juntaron: Demotores y Yahoo! Ahora comprar o vender tu auto es más fácil. Vistá ar.autos.yahoo.com/
Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:40:51 Paul A. Rubin wrote: No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like you, I have a bunch of them). The format for LyX document files evolves with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to convert older format LyX files to the current format. It works pretty well but perhaps not perfectly; it may have tripped over something a bit unusual in your presentation file. Whether it will have similar problems with other presentations is hard to predict. I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. If you have any problem with convertions from previous version please report them here. :-) -- José Abílio
Re: Lines and decorative separations
These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Ah, thanks for the keyword. Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out ornament fonts. I have a lot of free/open fonts that I installed via apt-get but I'm not sure why they are not listed in Lyx. I have not had the time to go on a quest. Memoir has explicit support for these, see ``plainfancybreak'' in the manual. Great, thanks again. \d
Re: Lines and decorative separations
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Donn wrote: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out ornament fonts. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things? Memoir has explicit support for these, see ``plainfancybreak'' in the manual. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x
José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. Please could you elaborate more on that? I mean, I have tried to produce, using lyx-1.5.2, a minimal example showing the problem and I haven't succeeded. I put a note inlined within the text (using lyx-1.5.2), this is what lyx-1.5.2 (latex) complains, and everything is fine. However the old beamer lyx files with that produces latex errors. What is the bug you refer to? If you have any problem with convertions from previous version please report them here. Thanks Best regards
Re: configure default paragraph alignment
Marcelo Acuña wrote: --- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Yes, you can change the way the alignment appears on the screen in LyX by editing the layout files, which you'll find in (e.g.) /usr/share/lyx/layouts/. Copy these to your local LyX directory (e.g., /home/marcelo/.lyx/layouts/) and so as you wish. You may want to change the filename to something else, and change the first line of the layout file, so your changes appear as a new choice in DocumentSettings rather than over-writing an old one. See the Customization manual for the details. rh
Nested environments in LyX?
Hi all,
You can nest environments within LaTeX:
\begin{parent}
\begin{child}Kid #1\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #2\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #3\end{child}
\end{parent}
Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how?
Thanks
StevET
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
What's the problem with encoding?
Hello!
I am trying to get through with Latex using Lyx to type a document in
portuguese.
I had a document previously typed with a WYSIWYG. When I imported it to
Lyx lots af characters were lost. So I had to do find replace to restore
de accented characters.
I tried many options: switched betweenn
\usepackage[iso-8859-1]{oberdiek}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}
I even tried to change the setting s of the document (changing language to
portuguese and encondint to UTF-8)
In every case I ended up with the same message (latin1.sty not found)
I have tried to do the same with another processor the result was the same.
I have MiKTeX installed (Windows XP).
Thanks for your help.
Armando Duarte Senra Martins
Universidade de Évora
Departamento de Linguística e Literaturas
Ap. 94
7002-554 ÉVORA
Re: New docs on making your own list
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian
More on nesting environments
Hi all,
Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within
those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below:
===
#LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 245
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\papersize default
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\end_header
\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
Steve was here
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.
and now is gone
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
but left nis name
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.
to carry on
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
I am the walrus
\end_layout
\end_body
\end_document
===
I exported it to LaTeX, and here's what came out:
===
%% LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\makeatletter
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\newenvironment{lyxlist}[1]
{\begin{list}{}
{\settowidth{\labelwidth}{#1}
\setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}
\addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}
\renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{##1\hfil}}}
{\end{list}}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Steve was here
\begin{lyxlist}{00.00.}
\item [{and}] now is gone
\end{lyxlist}
\begin{itemize}
\item but left nis name
\end{itemize}
\begin{lyxlist}{00.00.}
\item [{to}] carry on
\end{lyxlist}
I am the walrus
\end{document}
===
As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment,
instead of nesting.
Does anyone know how I can force nesting?
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: More on nesting environments
Steve Litt wrote: Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: [snip] As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment, instead of nesting. Does anyone know how I can force nesting? With the cursor in the itemize environment you wish to nest, S-M-right arrrow or Edit - Increase List Depth or click the Increase Depth tool button (looks like a bullet list with an arrow pointing to the right). When it's nested, LyX will draw a bracket in the GUI to the left of the nested lines to indicate the nesting. /Paul
Re: Nested environments in LyX?
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
You can nest environments within LaTeX:
\begin{parent}
\begin{child}Kid #1\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #2\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #3\end{child}
\end{parent}
Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how?
Yes -- see response to your second message (which I read first; I'm a
bottom-up kind of guy).
/Paul
Re: LyxWinInstaller Update issue
Dave Hewitt schrieb: Can you elaborate on what we need to do to fix our ImageMagick problems when we've used the updater. I did and images aren't handled, just as you indicate. Should I uninstall LyX 1.5.2 from the Add/Remove Programs interface and then just run the small installer for 1.5.2? Yes, exactly. regards Uwe
Lines and decorative separations
Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things? I have scoured the help and the web, but I keep going down dead ends. \d -- Atheism is myth understood. -- unknown
Re: Lines and decorative separations
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt}
Great, already a huge improvement. Thanks.
\d
Re: Lines and decorative separations
Donn wrote:
Hello list.
I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to:
1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also,
perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick
part under it.
2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know
the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things?
I have scoured the help and the web, but I keep going down dead ends
LyX can insert a line with fixed thickness between paragraphs.
You find it on the insert menu. It is the width of the text, but
if you put it in a minipage, you can have different lengths by
varying the minipage width.
Anything else require some latex code.
Horizontal lines of varying length and thickness is the easiest,
insert-TeX and then type
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt}
Helge Hafting
Re: configure default paragraph alignment
--- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Check their documentation.) Changing the display in LyX is a matter of editing the layout file, in which alignment is controlled by the Align directive. If you're using, say, book.cls, then copy book.layout to your local LyX directory (where it is is system-dependent), open it, and then add to the end of the file: Style Standard Align Left End This will override the usual declaration. If you want this also for other paragraph types, you'll need to add corresponding declarations for the other paragraphs. But again: Changing this in the layout file won't change it in the output; these are different beasts. Richard Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Regards Marcelo Los referentes más importantes en compra/ venta de autos se juntaron: Demotores y Yahoo! Ahora comprar o vender tu auto es más fácil. Vistá ar.autos.yahoo.com/
Re: lyx-1.5.1 apa style question
Mirko Briemle wrote:
Thanks for your response. That helped a lot. I installed the apa and the
apacite package
but I receive a Missing \begin{document} Error when trying to preview the apa
document. What can I do to fix this? (By the way I am using lyx-1.5.2 now too.
It looks
great.)
That message can be caused by all sorts of problems. If you can strip
down your document to a fairly small example where the error occurs and
then post the example here, we can diagnose it.
/Paul
Re: Fwd: exercise support in LyX
What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into
LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working.
I use
\usepackage{answers}
To get it working more easy, I put the stuff below into my lyx configuration
files. With this I can just press M-g u to insert an exercise, and then M-g
a to insert ERT (two greyblocks) so I can write the answer between the grey
blocks.
I'm sorry for the bad explaination of how it works, but I'm quite satisfied
with it.
Here is the stuff I use:
---
in the LaTeX preamble
\Newassociation{sol}{Svar}{ans}
{\theorembodyfont{\upshape} \newtheorem{uppg}{Uppgift}}
\newenvironment{ug}{\begin{uppg}\normalfont}{\end{uppg}}
and in the bind files
\bind M-g u layout GGGUG
\bind M-g a command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \begin{sol};
next-inset-toggle; ert-insert; self-insert \end{sol}; next-inset-toggle;
char-backward;
and in the layouts file
# Uppgift style definition
Style GGGUG
LatexType Environment
LatexName ug
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep0.4
TopSep0.4
Align Left
AlignPossible Left
LabelTypeTop_Environment
LabelStringUppgift
OptionalArgs 1
# label font definition
LabelFont
Series Bold
EndFont
End
Fwd: exercise support in LyX
Hi, I've tried various packages for including exercises in a book I'm writing in LyX. I settled on exercise.sty which is nice because you write all the exercises and their answers, then the command \shipout spews out all the answers since the previous \shipout. This means I can easily put all the answers to exercises at the end of each chapter. But... it seems to not space things properly. What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working. Thanks, Ramin.
bug using lyx-1.5.2 export at the command line?
Hello When I try to export a pdf file using the command line at my linux box the I get the following message % lyx -e pdf2 file.lyx lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks ! Bye. Does anybody experience the same problem? Is this a know bug? If it helps I compiled the tar.gz file and % lyx --version LyX 1.5.2 (Fri, Oct 5, 2007) Built on Oct 10 2007, 18:21:05 Configuration Host type:i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: aiksaurus pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (4.0.3) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -O2 Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.1.2 Packaging:posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx Thanks for your help Best regards
Toggle between documents
Hi! In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX? Cheers, Nicolás
I have a problem with language
Hello, When I try to get a solution (before Ignacio's letter) for page numbering in roman instead Roman I changed language from Spanish to American in Document Config Language. I can see that roman problem was solved but now I have several titles like Index and Contents in English instead Spanish, and I lost hyphenation in Spanish. Then I return to Spanish language but American remains. Now I have all text underlined, and I can't compile without errors. I have Spanish in Document Config Language and Preferences but if I see Latex Source I have [american, spanish] in my srcbook. I can't get out American any more (perhaps we have a deep political lesson here ;-) How I can get Spanish only? Regards Marcelo Los referentes más importantes en compra/ venta de autos se juntaron: Demotores y Yahoo! Ahora comprar o vender tu auto es más fácil. Vistá ar.autos.yahoo.com/
Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:40:51 Paul A. Rubin wrote: No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like you, I have a bunch of them). The format for LyX document files evolves with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to convert older format LyX files to the current format. It works pretty well but perhaps not perfectly; it may have tripped over something a bit unusual in your presentation file. Whether it will have similar problems with other presentations is hard to predict. I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. If you have any problem with convertions from previous version please report them here. :-) -- José Abílio
Re: Lines and decorative separations
These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Ah, thanks for the keyword. Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out ornament fonts. I have a lot of free/open fonts that I installed via apt-get but I'm not sure why they are not listed in Lyx. I have not had the time to go on a quest. Memoir has explicit support for these, see ``plainfancybreak'' in the manual. Great, thanks again. \d
Re: Lines and decorative separations
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Donn wrote: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out ornament fonts. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things? Memoir has explicit support for these, see ``plainfancybreak'' in the manual. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x
José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. Please could you elaborate more on that? I mean, I have tried to produce, using lyx-1.5.2, a minimal example showing the problem and I haven't succeeded. I put a note inlined within the text (using lyx-1.5.2), this is what lyx-1.5.2 (latex) complains, and everything is fine. However the old beamer lyx files with that produces latex errors. What is the bug you refer to? If you have any problem with convertions from previous version please report them here. Thanks Best regards
Re: configure default paragraph alignment
Marcelo Acuña wrote: --- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Yes, you can change the way the alignment appears on the screen in LyX by editing the layout files, which you'll find in (e.g.) /usr/share/lyx/layouts/. Copy these to your local LyX directory (e.g., /home/marcelo/.lyx/layouts/) and so as you wish. You may want to change the filename to something else, and change the first line of the layout file, so your changes appear as a new choice in DocumentSettings rather than over-writing an old one. See the Customization manual for the details. rh
Nested environments in LyX?
Hi all,
You can nest environments within LaTeX:
\begin{parent}
\begin{child}Kid #1\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #2\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #3\end{child}
\end{parent}
Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how?
Thanks
StevET
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
What's the problem with encoding?
Hello!
I am trying to get through with Latex using Lyx to type a document in
portuguese.
I had a document previously typed with a WYSIWYG. When I imported it to
Lyx lots af characters were lost. So I had to do find replace to restore
de accented characters.
I tried many options: switched betweenn
\usepackage[iso-8859-1]{oberdiek}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}
I even tried to change the setting s of the document (changing language to
portuguese and encondint to UTF-8)
In every case I ended up with the same message (latin1.sty not found)
I have tried to do the same with another processor the result was the same.
I have MiKTeX installed (Windows XP).
Thanks for your help.
Armando Duarte Senra Martins
Universidade de Évora
Departamento de Linguística e Literaturas
Ap. 94
7002-554 ÉVORA
Re: New docs on making your own list
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian
More on nesting environments
Hi all,
Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within
those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below:
===
#LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 245
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\papersize default
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\end_header
\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
Steve was here
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.
and now is gone
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
but left nis name
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.
to carry on
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
I am the walrus
\end_layout
\end_body
\end_document
===
I exported it to LaTeX, and here's what came out:
===
%% LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\makeatletter
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\newenvironment{lyxlist}[1]
{\begin{list}{}
{\settowidth{\labelwidth}{#1}
\setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}
\addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}
\renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{##1\hfil}}}
{\end{list}}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Steve was here
\begin{lyxlist}{00.00.}
\item [{and}] now is gone
\end{lyxlist}
\begin{itemize}
\item but left nis name
\end{itemize}
\begin{lyxlist}{00.00.}
\item [{to}] carry on
\end{lyxlist}
I am the walrus
\end{document}
===
As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment,
instead of nesting.
Does anyone know how I can force nesting?
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: More on nesting environments
Steve Litt wrote: Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: [snip] As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment, instead of nesting. Does anyone know how I can force nesting? With the cursor in the itemize environment you wish to nest, S-M-right arrrow or Edit - Increase List Depth or click the Increase Depth tool button (looks like a bullet list with an arrow pointing to the right). When it's nested, LyX will draw a bracket in the GUI to the left of the nested lines to indicate the nesting. /Paul
Re: Nested environments in LyX?
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
You can nest environments within LaTeX:
\begin{parent}
\begin{child}Kid #1\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #2\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #3\end{child}
\end{parent}
Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how?
Yes -- see response to your second message (which I read first; I'm a
bottom-up kind of guy).
/Paul
Re: LyxWinInstaller Update issue
Dave Hewitt schrieb: Can you elaborate on what we need to do to fix our ImageMagick problems when we've used the updater. I did and images aren't handled, just as you indicate. Should I uninstall LyX 1.5.2 from the Add/Remove Programs interface and then just run the small installer for 1.5.2? Yes, exactly. regards Uwe
Lines and decorative separations
Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things? I have scoured the help and the web, but I keep going down dead ends. \d -- Atheism is myth understood. -- unknown
Re: Lines and decorative separations
> \rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt}
Great, already a huge improvement. Thanks.
\d
Re: Lines and decorative separations
Donn wrote:
Hello list.
I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to:
1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also,
perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick
part under it.
2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know
the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things?
I have scoured the help and the web, but I keep going down dead ends
LyX can insert a line with fixed thickness between paragraphs.
You find it on the insert menu. It is the width of the text, but
if you put it in a minipage, you can have different lengths by
varying the minipage width.
Anything else require some latex code.
Horizontal lines of varying length and thickness is the easiest,
insert->TeX and then type
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt}
Helge Hafting
Re: configure default paragraph alignment
--- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Check their documentation.) Changing > the display in LyX > is a matter of editing the layout file, in which > alignment is controlled > by the Align directive. If you're using, say, > book.cls, then copy > book.layout to your local LyX directory (where it is > is > system-dependent), open it, and then add to the end > of the file: > Style Standard > Align Left > End > This will override the usual declaration. If you > want this also for > other paragraph types, you'll need to add > corresponding declarations for > the other paragraphs. But again: Changing this in > the layout file won't > change it in the output; these are different beasts. > > Richard Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Regards Marcelo Los referentes más importantes en compra/ venta de autos se juntaron: Demotores y Yahoo! Ahora comprar o vender tu auto es más fácil. Vistá ar.autos.yahoo.com/
Re: lyx-1.5.1 apa style question
Mirko Briemle wrote:
Thanks for your response. That helped a lot. I installed the apa and the
apacite package
but I receive a "Missing \begin{document}" Error when trying to preview the apa
document. What can I do to fix this? (By the way I am using lyx-1.5.2 now too.
It looks
great.)
That message can be caused by all sorts of problems. If you can strip
down your document to a fairly small example where the error occurs and
then post the example here, we can diagnose it.
/Paul
Re: Fwd: exercise support in LyX
> What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into
> LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working.
I use
\usepackage{answers}
To get it working more easy, I put the stuff below into my lyx configuration
files. With this I can just press M-g u to insert an exercise, and then M-g
a to insert ERT (two greyblocks) so I can write the answer between the grey
blocks.
I'm sorry for the bad explaination of how it works, but I'm quite satisfied
with it.
Here is the stuff I use:
---
in the LaTeX preamble
\Newassociation{sol}{Svar}{ans}
{\theorembodyfont{\upshape} \newtheorem{uppg}{Uppgift}}
\newenvironment{ug}{\begin{uppg}\normalfont}{\end{uppg}}
and in the bind files
\bind "M-g u" "layout GGGUG"
\bind "M-g a" "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \begin{sol};
next-inset-toggle; ert-insert; self-insert \end{sol}; next-inset-toggle;
char-backward;"
and in the layouts file
# Uppgift style definition
Style GGGUG
LatexType Environment
LatexName ug
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep0.4
TopSep0.4
Align Left
AlignPossible Left
LabelTypeTop_Environment
LabelString"Uppgift "
OptionalArgs 1
# label font definition
LabelFont
Series Bold
EndFont
End
Fwd: exercise support in LyX
Hi, I've tried various packages for including exercises in a book I'm writing in LyX. I settled on exercise.sty which is nice because you write all the exercises and their answers, then the command \shipout spews out all the answers since the previous \shipout. This means I can easily put all the answers to exercises at the end of each chapter. But... it seems to not space things properly. What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working. Thanks, Ramin.
bug using lyx-1.5.2 export at the command line?
Hello When I try to export a pdf file using the command line at my linux box the I get the following message % lyx -e pdf2 file.lyx lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks ! Bye. Does anybody experience the same problem? Is this a know bug? If it helps I compiled the tar.gz file and % lyx --version LyX 1.5.2 (Fri, Oct 5, 2007) Built on Oct 10 2007, 18:21:05 Configuration Host type:i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: aiksaurus pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (4.0.3) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -O2 Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.1.2 Packaging:posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx Thanks for your help Best regards
Toggle between documents
Hi! In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX? Cheers, Nicolás
I have a problem with language
Hello, When I try to get a solution (before Ignacio's letter) for page numbering in roman instead Roman I changed language from Spanish to American in Document > Config > Language. I can see that roman problem was solved but now I have several titles like Index and Contents in English instead Spanish, and I lost hyphenation in Spanish. Then I return to Spanish language but American remains. Now I have all text underlined, and I can't compile without errors. I have Spanish in Document > Config > Language and Preferences but if I see Latex Source I have [american, spanish] in my srcbook. I can't get out American any more (perhaps we have a deep political lesson here ;-) How I can get Spanish only? Regards Marcelo Los referentes más importantes en compra/ venta de autos se juntaron: Demotores y Yahoo! Ahora comprar o vender tu auto es más fácil. Vistá ar.autos.yahoo.com/
Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:40:51 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like > you, I have a bunch of them). The format for LyX document files evolves > with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to > convert older format LyX files to the current format. It works pretty > well but perhaps not perfectly; it may have tripped over something a bit > unusual in your presentation file. Whether it will have similar > problems with other presentations is hard to predict. I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. If you have any problem with convertions from previous version please report them here. :-) -- José Abílio
Re: Lines and decorative separations
> These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Ah, thanks for the keyword. > Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out > ornament fonts. I have a lot of free/open fonts that I installed via apt-get but I'm not sure why they are not listed in Lyx. I have not had the time to go on a quest. > Memoir has explicit support for these, see ``plainfancybreak'' in the > manual. Great, thanks again. \d
Re: Lines and decorative separations
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Donn wrote: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out ornament fonts. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or on-demand. You know the kind of thing, three stars or a leaf to break/mark spaces between things? Memoir has explicit support for these, see ``plainfancybreak'' in the manual. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x
José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is > scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. Please could you elaborate more on that? I mean, I have tried to produce, using lyx-1.5.2, a minimal example showing the problem and I haven't succeeded. I put a note inlined within the text (using lyx-1.5.2), this is what lyx-1.5.2 (latex) complains, and everything is fine. However the old beamer lyx files with that produces latex errors. What is the bug you refer to? > If you have any problem with convertions from previous version please report > them here. Thanks Best regards
Re: configure default paragraph alignment
Marcelo Acuña wrote: --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Yes, you can change the way the alignment appears on the screen in LyX by editing the layout files, which you'll find in (e.g.) /usr/share/lyx/layouts/. Copy these to your local LyX directory (e.g., /home/marcelo/.lyx/layouts/) and so as you wish. You may want to change the filename to something else, and change the first line of the layout file, so your changes appear as a new choice in Document>Settings rather than over-writing an old one. See the Customization manual for the details. rh
Nested environments in LyX?
Hi all,
You can nest environments within LaTeX:
\begin{parent}
\begin{child}Kid #1\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #2\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #3\end{child}
\end{parent}
Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how?
Thanks
StevET
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
What's the problem with encoding?
Hello!
I am trying to get through with Latex using Lyx to type a document in
portuguese.
I had a document previously typed with a WYSIWYG. When I imported it to
Lyx lots af characters were lost. So I had to do find & replace to restore
de accented characters.
I tried many options: switched betweenn
\usepackage[iso-8859-1]{oberdiek}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}
I even tried to change the setting s of the document (changing language to
portuguese and encondint to UTF-8)
In every case I ended up with the same message (latin1.sty not found)
I have tried to do the same with another processor the result was the same.
I have MiKTeX installed (Windows XP).
Thanks for your help.
Armando Duarte Senra Martins
Universidade de Évora
Departamento de Linguística e Literaturas
Ap. 94
7002-554 ÉVORA
Re: New docs on making your own list
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian
More on nesting environments
Hi all,
Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within
those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below:
===
#LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 245
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\papersize default
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\end_header
\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
Steve was here
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.
and now is gone
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
but left nis name
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.
to carry on
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
I am the walrus
\end_layout
\end_body
\end_document
===
I exported it to LaTeX, and here's what came out:
===
%% LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\makeatletter
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\newenvironment{lyxlist}[1]
{\begin{list}{}
{\settowidth{\labelwidth}{#1}
\setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}
\addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}
\renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{##1\hfil}}}
{\end{list}}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Steve was here
\begin{lyxlist}{00.00.}
\item [{and}] now is gone
\end{lyxlist}
\begin{itemize}
\item but left nis name
\end{itemize}
\begin{lyxlist}{00.00.}
\item [{to}] carry on
\end{lyxlist}
I am the walrus
\end{document}
===
As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment,
instead of nesting.
Does anyone know how I can force nesting?
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: More on nesting environments
Steve Litt wrote: Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: [snip] As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment, instead of nesting. Does anyone know how I can force nesting? With the cursor in the itemize environment you wish to nest, S-M-right arrrow or Edit -> Increase List Depth or click the "Increase Depth" tool button (looks like a bullet list with an arrow pointing to the right). When it's nested, LyX will draw a bracket in the GUI to the left of the nested lines to indicate the nesting. /Paul
Re: Nested environments in LyX?
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
You can nest environments within LaTeX:
\begin{parent}
\begin{child}Kid #1\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #2\end{child}
\begin{child}Kid #3\end{child}
\end{parent}
Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how?
Yes -- see response to your second message (which I read first; I'm a
bottom-up kind of guy).
/Paul
Re: LyxWinInstaller Update issue
Dave Hewitt schrieb: Can you elaborate on what we need to do to fix our ImageMagick problems when we've used the updater. I did and images aren't handled, just as you indicate. Should I uninstall LyX 1.5.2 from the Add/Remove Programs interface and then just run the small installer for 1.5.2? Yes, exactly. regards Uwe
