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Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Steve Litt wrote:


How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief:

Age of tools when distro is created:  6 months
Age of distro when installed: 4 months
Time between distro upgrades 24 months
   -
Desireable backward compatibility:   34 months


Just for your info: LyX-1.5.0 came out Jul 31 2007 and Qt4.1.0 came out 
Aug 19 2005. So we had approximately 2 years backward compatibility at 
the time 1.5.0 went out.


Dependencies aren't fun for anyone. By going back a little farther with 
backward compatibility, especially on packages that are completely interwoven 
with large numbers of programs in the distribution, the application developer 
can make it much easier on the user who needs the features of the newer 
program (in my case, outline view).


Then you might want to go straight to 1.6.0svn: 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc26


WARNING: 1.6.0 will require Qt4.2.0 which was out Oct 04 2006. So it 
looks like we will have less than two years this time. But, before you 
ask, the switch to 4.2 enabled us to remove a lot of hacks and work 
around in the code and also to bring in some new goodies (see link 
above). At the time 1.6.0 will be out, Qt4.4 will already be out so 
requiring Qt4.2 is not too demanding IMO.


Abdel.

Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to find  
the documentation for the Beamer class.


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


Thanks,

Graham

Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[Kane Kano]

Hello everbody, 

I am working on physics thesis  and I would
like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
a certain equation. 

Thanks a lot in advance and excuse my ignorance

P.S.: I am using Lyx 1.5.2




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Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

[Peleg Michaeli]

Thank you all for your replies!

I will try ivritex's mailing list; it's quite weird, because I do have
culmus fonts installed - the problem is with ivritex, still?

Anyway, it is comfoting that you can see both in a good quality.

Yes, I am not using adobe reader (since it is not free software); I am
using just simple PDF viewer (actually, Evince 0.8.1) - for the
experiment, I have tried a different PDF viewer - KGhostView 0.2.0 - and
it looks much better - but this software is awfully slow and have
problems with zoomings.

So, thanks again - now I figure out what the problem is - and these are
the still open questions:
a. I have culmus fonts installed - is it not sufficient for tex2pdf to
use them? What should I ask ivritex?
b. Can one of you recommend a good PDF viewer, which is a free software,
for linux?

Thanks again,
Peleg.

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:31 +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote:
 Peleg Michaeli wrote:
  Hey...
  
  First of all - thanks for your reply.
  
  Before I do all of your suggested tests (which I will do) I just have to
  say: it seems like the pdf you've sent me has fuzzy Hebrew as well!
 
 Perhaps the problem is with the pdf *viewer* that you're using? Some 
 files I use look horrible in gv, but they're fine using acroread...
 
  
  Well - as I understand, PDF should embed the fonts inside it, so it's
  not impossible that we see the documents in two computers in two
  different ways; so for the example, I will add here links to two
  documents that I have generated using LyX, one while I had Windows, and
  one in my ubuntu. The two documents are generated from the same source
  file, so you'll probably see the huge differences.
  
  The link to the windows generated PDF is here:
  - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-windows.pdf
  And the link the the ubuntu generated PDF is here:
  - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-ubuntu.pdf
  
  See the difference?
 
 Hmmm, not really :( ... both files look OK to me. Of course they use 
 different fonts --- on Windows you're probably using the culmus fonts, 
 and on ubuntu the fonts that come with ivritex (which are not yet culmus 
 fonts, and not as nice) --- but in terms of quality I don't see a 
 difference... Regarding the use of culmus fonts on linux, there has been 
 some work in that direction going on in ivritex, I strongly urge you to 
 ping the mailing list there to see if there's any progress with this 
 (and I don't really know the details, they may be able to confirm 
 whether or not what I'm saying is correct).
 
  
  Here is the source for BOTH of the PDFs:
  - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16.lyx
  
  Thanks again,
  hopefully I will do the rest of the tests some other time.
  
  Peleg.

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Kane Kano wrote:
Hello everbody, 


I am working on physics thesis  and I would
like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
a certain equation. 


You should use labels for that instead of numbering. Then you can access 
to the labeled equation list via the cross reference dialog.


Abdel.

Spell checker on Mac not working

[Graham Smith]

I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.



Again, maybe my problem is being new to the Mac, but can anyone help  
me sort this out.


A web search suggested that the problem was no dictionaries selected  
in cocoaspell, but the UK English dictionaries are selected.


Many thanks,

Graham

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

[Helge Hafting]

Jorge Sampaio wrote:

I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a
colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX.
  

Usually, such conversion is not perfect and you will have
to fix some things after the conversion.

But are you sure you need to convert?

Perhaps it is less work to just install LyX on your
colleagues computer - you could offer to do that instead?
Your colleague will also need latex _if_ there is a need
to print / preview. But LyX without latex is also
an option if all those files will go back to you for
final processing anyway.

Some people worry a lot about getting a new, different word processor.
But you can point out:
1. Getting LyX does not mean loosing word. The two word
   processors coexist just fine, your colleague can simply use
   lyx for your files and word for other stuff.
2. All the software needed for LyX is free, so no money lost here.


Helge Hafting

Re: Spell checker on Mac not working

[Bennett Helm]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Graham Smith wrote:


I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.


LyX will use CocoAspell if you've properly installed it. The  
instructions were hard to find on the wiki; I've edited things to  
make it clearer:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling#toc2

Bennett

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Bennett Helm]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an appropriate .layout  
file.)


Bennett

Re: Spell checker on Mac not working

[Graham Smith]

Bennet,

Thanks for this, copying the path as described fixed it.

I'm glad it was this simple :-)

Graham

On 22 Feb 2008, at 13:10, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Graham Smith wrote:


I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.


LyX will use CocoAspell if you've properly installed it. The  
instructions were hard to find on the wiki; I've edited things to  
make it clearer:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling#toc2

Bennett

Instant Preview isn't working (LyX 1.6.0svn)

[Dominik Böhm]

Hey there,

it seems that the instant preview of math formulas isn't working for
me. LyX tells me platex.exe failed to compile 0lyxpreview.tex, while
starting platex.exe 0lyxpreview.tex tells me

platex 0lyxpreview.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7)
makefmt: The input file could be found.
initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason.
I can't find the default format file!

This happend with MiKTeX 2.6 and was the reason why I updated to
MiKTeX 2.7. But that didn't solve the problem. I already tried to
reconfigure LyX a few times, installed the preview-package and now
don't know what to do.

Maybe one of you guys can help me.

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards
Dominik

word-forward skips math expression

[Eric Shellef]

Hi,

I'm using lyx to write a math paper and am quite enjoying it (lyx, I mean).

Still, one issue that is a bit annoying is that every time I do C-Right or
C-left (word-forward and word-backward), it skips the next word and the
entire math expression following it, even if there are spaces.

Is there are any fix for this?

Thanks,
Eric

Re: Admonition paragraphs

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
  On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote:
  Is it possible to automate adminition blocks?
 
  James
 
  What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them
  in wikipedia.

 Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28

 The style of presentation can vary.

 Look at the 'info' block towards the bottom of:
 http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.resol
ve

 James

Now I understand :-)

If by automate you mean have a style for the admonition title (NOTE, TIP, 
WARNING, WHATEVERuWANT) and a style for the rest of the admonition, you can 
do it in your layout file.

The following is part of my layout file for Learn Vim Tonight: Use the Worlds 
Most Productive Editor Tomorrow. Note that these snippits don't include 
Preamble/endpreamble.

Basically there's a LaTeX command that centers the title (callouttitleL), and 
one that prints in a shaded box with reduced margins (callouttextL). That's 
the LaTeX part. LyX style CalloutTitle is a command type LyX environment, and 
calls LaTeX command callouttitleL to print the title. LyX style CalloutText 
calls LaTeX environment callouttextL to print the text of the admonition.

You can make special LyX environment NOTE, WARNING and the like that strongarm 
the title, freeing you from having to type it in, but the generalistic method 
means you can put any title you want in one of these boxes.

If you implement this, I suggest you use more obvious names for commands and 
environments. It's less than a year since I wrote this layout file, and I 
already find my code confusing.

Have fun...

% ### Callout title latex
\newcommand{\callouttitleL}[1]{\def\callouttitleT{#1}}

\newenvironment{callouttextL}
  {%
  ~\\[-0.45in]%
  \setlength\fboxsep{4pt}%
  \definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{1.00,0.90,0.90}%
  \begin{shaded}%
  \addtolength{\hsize}{-0.20\columnwidth}%
  {\centering\Large\callouttitleT\\[0.2cm]}%
  \raggedright%
  \setlength\parindent{16pt}%
  }%
  {%
  \end{shaded}%
  \par
  }%

### CALLOUT LYX STYLES
Style CalloutTitle
Font
Series  Bold
Size Larger
EndFont
LatexName   callouttitleL
LatexType   Command
  Align Center
End

Style CalloutText
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName callouttextL
  LeftMarginMM
  RightMargin   MM
  ParIndent MMM
  TopSep1.4
  ItemSep   0.7
  ParSep0.7
  BottomSep 0.7
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block

  Font 
   Series   Medium
   Size Normal
   ShapeItalic
  EndFont
End

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Mmm, this is rather strange, I cannot find a directory called /usr/ 
local/...


Spotlight isn't finding beameruserguide.pdf

I did use MacTex to install

Thanks again

Graham



On 22 Feb 2008, at 13:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)


Bennett

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Daniel Lohmann]

On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an appropriate .layout  
file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather old.  
Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update option,  
like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/pgf and  
install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you just have to  
use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel

Re: Admonition paragraphs

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 11:25, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote:
  Steve Litt wrote:
   On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote:
   Is it possible to automate adminition blocks?
  
   James
  
   What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find
   them in wikipedia.
 
  Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28
 
  The style of presentation can vary.
 
  Look at the 'info' block towards the bottom of:
  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.res
 ol ve
 
  James

 Now I understand :-)

 If by automate you mean have a style for the admonition title (NOTE, TIP,
 WARNING, WHATEVERuWANT) and a style for the rest of the admonition, you can
 do it in your layout file.

Whoops -- I just noticed you wanted the kind of thing with a graphic in the 
margin. I'm pretty sure that's doable in a similar way to what I did, but 
you'll need a character style, command environemnt or ert to tell it what 
graphic you want. If you're just hardcoding NOTE, WARNING, TIP and the like, 
it can all be done from a single environment.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 03:18, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
  How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief:
 
  Age of tools when distro is created:  6 months
  Age of distro when installed: 4 months
  Time between distro upgrades 24 months
 -
  Desireable backward compatibility:   34 months

 Just for your info: LyX-1.5.0 came out Jul 31 2007 and Qt4.1.0 came out
 Aug 19 2005. So we had approximately 2 years backward compatibility at
 the time 1.5.0 went out.

  Dependencies aren't fun for anyone. By going back a little farther with
  backward compatibility, especially on packages that are completely
  interwoven with large numbers of programs in the distribution, the
  application developer can make it much easier on the user who needs the
  features of the newer program (in my case, outline view).

 Then you might want to go straight to 1.6.0svn:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc26

 WARNING: 1.6.0 will require Qt4.2.0 which was out Oct 04 2006. So it
 looks like we will have less than two years this time. But, before you
 ask, the switch to 4.2 enabled us to remove a lot of hacks and work
 around in the code and also to bring in some new goodies (see link
 above). At the time 1.6.0 will be out, Qt4.4 will already be out so
 requiring Qt4.2 is not too demanding IMO.

 Abdel.

Looks to me like Mandriva 2008 comes with 
qt4-common-4.3.1-12mdv2008.0.i586.rpm, so that shouldn't be a problem for me, 
at any rate. I'll just upgrade Mandriva when I want LyX 1.6.

Thanks

SteveT


-- 
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Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Bjarnþór G. Kolbeins]

 In the  FInder choose from the Go menu Go to Folder, In there type / 
usr og any directory you want to go to.
Not all folders are visible int the Finder but it is possible to see  
all folders using this.

Bjarnþór
On 22.2.2008, at 17:30, Graham Smith wrote:


Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can  
be found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that  
LyX won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel




 
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Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Bjarnþór

Many thanks for this, extremely useful. I am enjoying my new Mac, but  
some things are very different.


Graham


On 22 Feb 2008, at 18:35, Bjarnþór G. Kolbeins wrote:

 In the  FInder choose from the Go menu Go to Folder, In there  
type /usr og any directory you want to go to.
Not all folders are visible int the Finder but it is possible to  
see all folders using this.

Bjarnþór
On 22.2.2008, at 17:30, Graham Smith wrote:


Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying  
to find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can  
be found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that  
LyX won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel




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Deildarstjóri í STÆRÐFRÆÐI
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vinnusími: 433-2500
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Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David Hewitt]

 I am working on physics thesis  and I would
 like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
 so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
 a certain equation. 
 
 You should use labels for that instead of numbering. Then you can access 
 to the labeled equation list via the cross reference dialog.
 

I have a related question, but it's not critical. In my dissertation LyX
file I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
PDF output is fine.

Any ideas?

It might be related that sometimes footnote references (label footnote, then
cross-reference it) also show up as '??' but output fine.

All of this is in Koma-script book class.


-
David Hewitt
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/
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Table with LyX

[Annabelle Sack]

To whom it may concern: Hello,

I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX looks 
perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can be seen.


Can anyone help?

Thanky you very much in advance,

Annabelle Sack

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David A. Case]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, David Hewitt wrote:
 
 
 I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
 However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
 will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
 number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
 used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
 PDF output is fine.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by with numbers and labels?
How did you get this?  I generally have only labels, or a # sign if I ask
for an equation number but don't have a label.  I don't see places where I
have both a number and a label.

The fact that the PDF file is fine is encouraging.  Maybe you could post a
short lyx file that illustrates the problem with view inside of LyX.

...dave case

nopagebreak before itemized list

[Tobias Krause]

Hi,

is there a way to prevent a pagebreak directly before a itemized list?

I tried the ERT [\nopagebreak] but unfortunately this does not work when 
it is used before a itemized list, while is does work perfectly without 
the itemized list. The attached minimal examples show this (the only 
difference is the paragraph settings of the last line: standard vs. 
itemized list).


Is there any other way to prevent the pagebreak?

Regards
 Toby


Minimal_nopagebreak_1.lyx
Description: application/lyx


Minimal_nopagebreak_2.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Table with LyX

[rgheck]

Annabelle Sack wrote:

To whom it may concern: Hello,

I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX 
looks perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can 
be seen.


Can anyone help?

LaTeX tables by default appear only on a single page. I think you need 
to use the longtable package. I don't know how to do this in LyX myself, 
but I'll bet there's stuff on the mailing list.


rh

Re: Table with LyX

[Dominik Böhm]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Annabelle Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX looks
 perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can be seen.


You can just right click on the table, open the tab Longtable and select
Use long table. I think that's all you got to do...

Best regards
Dominik

Option clash for package natbib.

[Bo Peng]

I have a journal-supplied .cls file that loads natbib through
\RequirePackage{natbib}. I have created a .layout file for this class
and use this class in lyx. However, when I enable natbib, I get an
error 'LaTeX Error: option clash for package natbib'. The error is
caused by a line
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
that is inserted to to the generated latex file when natbib is enabled.

Right now, I have to turn off natbib in lyx and insert \citep etc in
ERT to get around this problem. Is there any better solution?

Bo

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David Hewitt]

 I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
 However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
 will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
 number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
 used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
 PDF output is fine.

 Can you be more specific about what you mean by with numbers and labels?
 How did you get this? I generally have only labels, or a # sign if I ask
 for an equation number but don't have a label. I don't see places where I
 have both a number and a label.

Right, I should have been more complete. The numbers (followed by the
label) only display with Instant Preview turned on once I click out of
the equation. In fact, the whole mess seems related to Instant Preview
errors. I see that Dominik is having issues with it as well. I am
using LyX 1.5.3 and MikTeX 2.6. A sample file is attached that
describes (and hopefully shows in LyX view for others) the problems I
found.

-- 
Dave Hewitt
Fisheries Science
VIMS, College of William and Mary
Gloucester Point, VA


test_eqnnumbers.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Beamer and article class - have you tried it?

[Graham Smith]

I was hoping to use the Beamer class facility to embed a Handout  
(article class) in the same file as the presentation, but the user  
guide recommends against doing this if you are using Lyx.


But also says you can try

Does anyone use this facility with Beamer?

Thanks,

Graham

Photo Secrets

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Did you visit our Photo Secrets section yet ... ??

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Regards,
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Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Steve Litt wrote:


How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief:

Age of tools when distro is created:  6 months
Age of distro when installed: 4 months
Time between distro upgrades 24 months
   -
Desireable backward compatibility:   34 months


Just for your info: LyX-1.5.0 came out Jul 31 2007 and Qt4.1.0 came out 
Aug 19 2005. So we had approximately 2 years backward compatibility at 
the time 1.5.0 went out.


Dependencies aren't fun for anyone. By going back a little farther with 
backward compatibility, especially on packages that are completely interwoven 
with large numbers of programs in the distribution, the application developer 
can make it much easier on the user who needs the features of the newer 
program (in my case, outline view).


Then you might want to go straight to 1.6.0svn: 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc26


WARNING: 1.6.0 will require Qt4.2.0 which was out Oct 04 2006. So it 
looks like we will have less than two years this time. But, before you 
ask, the switch to 4.2 enabled us to remove a lot of hacks and work 
around in the code and also to bring in some new goodies (see link 
above). At the time 1.6.0 will be out, Qt4.4 will already be out so 
requiring Qt4.2 is not too demanding IMO.


Abdel.

Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to find  
the documentation for the Beamer class.


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


Thanks,

Graham

Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[Kane Kano]

Hello everbody, 

I am working on physics thesis  and I would
like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
a certain equation. 

Thanks a lot in advance and excuse my ignorance

P.S.: I am using Lyx 1.5.2




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Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

[Peleg Michaeli]

Thank you all for your replies!

I will try ivritex's mailing list; it's quite weird, because I do have
culmus fonts installed - the problem is with ivritex, still?

Anyway, it is comfoting that you can see both in a good quality.

Yes, I am not using adobe reader (since it is not free software); I am
using just simple PDF viewer (actually, Evince 0.8.1) - for the
experiment, I have tried a different PDF viewer - KGhostView 0.2.0 - and
it looks much better - but this software is awfully slow and have
problems with zoomings.

So, thanks again - now I figure out what the problem is - and these are
the still open questions:
a. I have culmus fonts installed - is it not sufficient for tex2pdf to
use them? What should I ask ivritex?
b. Can one of you recommend a good PDF viewer, which is a free software,
for linux?

Thanks again,
Peleg.

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:31 +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote:
 Peleg Michaeli wrote:
  Hey...
  
  First of all - thanks for your reply.
  
  Before I do all of your suggested tests (which I will do) I just have to
  say: it seems like the pdf you've sent me has fuzzy Hebrew as well!
 
 Perhaps the problem is with the pdf *viewer* that you're using? Some 
 files I use look horrible in gv, but they're fine using acroread...
 
  
  Well - as I understand, PDF should embed the fonts inside it, so it's
  not impossible that we see the documents in two computers in two
  different ways; so for the example, I will add here links to two
  documents that I have generated using LyX, one while I had Windows, and
  one in my ubuntu. The two documents are generated from the same source
  file, so you'll probably see the huge differences.
  
  The link to the windows generated PDF is here:
  - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-windows.pdf
  And the link the the ubuntu generated PDF is here:
  - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-ubuntu.pdf
  
  See the difference?
 
 Hmmm, not really :( ... both files look OK to me. Of course they use 
 different fonts --- on Windows you're probably using the culmus fonts, 
 and on ubuntu the fonts that come with ivritex (which are not yet culmus 
 fonts, and not as nice) --- but in terms of quality I don't see a 
 difference... Regarding the use of culmus fonts on linux, there has been 
 some work in that direction going on in ivritex, I strongly urge you to 
 ping the mailing list there to see if there's any progress with this 
 (and I don't really know the details, they may be able to confirm 
 whether or not what I'm saying is correct).
 
  
  Here is the source for BOTH of the PDFs:
  - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16.lyx
  
  Thanks again,
  hopefully I will do the rest of the tests some other time.
  
  Peleg.

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Kane Kano wrote:
Hello everbody, 


I am working on physics thesis  and I would
like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
a certain equation. 


You should use labels for that instead of numbering. Then you can access 
to the labeled equation list via the cross reference dialog.


Abdel.

Spell checker on Mac not working

[Graham Smith]

I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.



Again, maybe my problem is being new to the Mac, but can anyone help  
me sort this out.


A web search suggested that the problem was no dictionaries selected  
in cocoaspell, but the UK English dictionaries are selected.


Many thanks,

Graham

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

[Helge Hafting]

Jorge Sampaio wrote:

I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a
colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX.
  

Usually, such conversion is not perfect and you will have
to fix some things after the conversion.

But are you sure you need to convert?

Perhaps it is less work to just install LyX on your
colleagues computer - you could offer to do that instead?
Your colleague will also need latex _if_ there is a need
to print / preview. But LyX without latex is also
an option if all those files will go back to you for
final processing anyway.

Some people worry a lot about getting a new, different word processor.
But you can point out:
1. Getting LyX does not mean loosing word. The two word
   processors coexist just fine, your colleague can simply use
   lyx for your files and word for other stuff.
2. All the software needed for LyX is free, so no money lost here.


Helge Hafting

Re: Spell checker on Mac not working

[Bennett Helm]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Graham Smith wrote:


I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.


LyX will use CocoAspell if you've properly installed it. The  
instructions were hard to find on the wiki; I've edited things to  
make it clearer:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling#toc2

Bennett

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Bennett Helm]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an appropriate .layout  
file.)


Bennett

Re: Spell checker on Mac not working

[Graham Smith]

Bennet,

Thanks for this, copying the path as described fixed it.

I'm glad it was this simple :-)

Graham

On 22 Feb 2008, at 13:10, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Graham Smith wrote:


I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.


LyX will use CocoAspell if you've properly installed it. The  
instructions were hard to find on the wiki; I've edited things to  
make it clearer:


http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling#toc2

Bennett

Instant Preview isn't working (LyX 1.6.0svn)

[Dominik Böhm]

Hey there,

it seems that the instant preview of math formulas isn't working for
me. LyX tells me platex.exe failed to compile 0lyxpreview.tex, while
starting platex.exe 0lyxpreview.tex tells me

platex 0lyxpreview.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7)
makefmt: The input file could be found.
initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason.
I can't find the default format file!

This happend with MiKTeX 2.6 and was the reason why I updated to
MiKTeX 2.7. But that didn't solve the problem. I already tried to
reconfigure LyX a few times, installed the preview-package and now
don't know what to do.

Maybe one of you guys can help me.

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards
Dominik

word-forward skips math expression

[Eric Shellef]

Hi,

I'm using lyx to write a math paper and am quite enjoying it (lyx, I mean).

Still, one issue that is a bit annoying is that every time I do C-Right or
C-left (word-forward and word-backward), it skips the next word and the
entire math expression following it, even if there are spaces.

Is there are any fix for this?

Thanks,
Eric

Re: Admonition paragraphs

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
  On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote:
  Is it possible to automate adminition blocks?
 
  James
 
  What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them
  in wikipedia.

 Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28

 The style of presentation can vary.

 Look at the 'info' block towards the bottom of:
 http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.resol
ve

 James

Now I understand :-)

If by automate you mean have a style for the admonition title (NOTE, TIP, 
WARNING, WHATEVERuWANT) and a style for the rest of the admonition, you can 
do it in your layout file.

The following is part of my layout file for Learn Vim Tonight: Use the Worlds 
Most Productive Editor Tomorrow. Note that these snippits don't include 
Preamble/endpreamble.

Basically there's a LaTeX command that centers the title (callouttitleL), and 
one that prints in a shaded box with reduced margins (callouttextL). That's 
the LaTeX part. LyX style CalloutTitle is a command type LyX environment, and 
calls LaTeX command callouttitleL to print the title. LyX style CalloutText 
calls LaTeX environment callouttextL to print the text of the admonition.

You can make special LyX environment NOTE, WARNING and the like that strongarm 
the title, freeing you from having to type it in, but the generalistic method 
means you can put any title you want in one of these boxes.

If you implement this, I suggest you use more obvious names for commands and 
environments. It's less than a year since I wrote this layout file, and I 
already find my code confusing.

Have fun...

% ### Callout title latex
\newcommand{\callouttitleL}[1]{\def\callouttitleT{#1}}

\newenvironment{callouttextL}
  {%
  ~\\[-0.45in]%
  \setlength\fboxsep{4pt}%
  \definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{1.00,0.90,0.90}%
  \begin{shaded}%
  \addtolength{\hsize}{-0.20\columnwidth}%
  {\centering\Large\callouttitleT\\[0.2cm]}%
  \raggedright%
  \setlength\parindent{16pt}%
  }%
  {%
  \end{shaded}%
  \par
  }%

### CALLOUT LYX STYLES
Style CalloutTitle
Font
Series  Bold
Size Larger
EndFont
LatexName   callouttitleL
LatexType   Command
  Align Center
End

Style CalloutText
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName callouttextL
  LeftMarginMM
  RightMargin   MM
  ParIndent MMM
  TopSep1.4
  ItemSep   0.7
  ParSep0.7
  BottomSep 0.7
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block

  Font 
   Series   Medium
   Size Normal
   ShapeItalic
  EndFont
End

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Mmm, this is rather strange, I cannot find a directory called /usr/ 
local/...


Spotlight isn't finding beameruserguide.pdf

I did use MacTex to install

Thanks again

Graham



On 22 Feb 2008, at 13:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)


Bennett

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Daniel Lohmann]

On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an appropriate .layout  
file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather old.  
Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update option,  
like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/pgf and  
install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you just have to  
use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel

Re: Admonition paragraphs

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 11:25, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote:
  Steve Litt wrote:
   On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote:
   Is it possible to automate adminition blocks?
  
   James
  
   What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find
   them in wikipedia.
 
  Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28
 
  The style of presentation can vary.
 
  Look at the 'info' block towards the bottom of:
  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.res
 ol ve
 
  James

 Now I understand :-)

 If by automate you mean have a style for the admonition title (NOTE, TIP,
 WARNING, WHATEVERuWANT) and a style for the rest of the admonition, you can
 do it in your layout file.

Whoops -- I just noticed you wanted the kind of thing with a graphic in the 
margin. I'm pretty sure that's doable in a similar way to what I did, but 
you'll need a character style, command environemnt or ert to tell it what 
graphic you want. If you're just hardcoding NOTE, WARNING, TIP and the like, 
it can all be done from a single environment.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 03:18, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
  How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief:
 
  Age of tools when distro is created:  6 months
  Age of distro when installed: 4 months
  Time between distro upgrades 24 months
 -
  Desireable backward compatibility:   34 months

 Just for your info: LyX-1.5.0 came out Jul 31 2007 and Qt4.1.0 came out
 Aug 19 2005. So we had approximately 2 years backward compatibility at
 the time 1.5.0 went out.

  Dependencies aren't fun for anyone. By going back a little farther with
  backward compatibility, especially on packages that are completely
  interwoven with large numbers of programs in the distribution, the
  application developer can make it much easier on the user who needs the
  features of the newer program (in my case, outline view).

 Then you might want to go straight to 1.6.0svn:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc26

 WARNING: 1.6.0 will require Qt4.2.0 which was out Oct 04 2006. So it
 looks like we will have less than two years this time. But, before you
 ask, the switch to 4.2 enabled us to remove a lot of hacks and work
 around in the code and also to bring in some new goodies (see link
 above). At the time 1.6.0 will be out, Qt4.4 will already be out so
 requiring Qt4.2 is not too demanding IMO.

 Abdel.

Looks to me like Mandriva 2008 comes with 
qt4-common-4.3.1-12mdv2008.0.i586.rpm, so that shouldn't be a problem for me, 
at any rate. I'll just upgrade Mandriva when I want LyX 1.6.

Thanks

SteveT


-- 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Bjarnþór G. Kolbeins]

 In the  FInder choose from the Go menu Go to Folder, In there type / 
usr og any directory you want to go to.
Not all folders are visible int the Finder but it is possible to see  
all folders using this.

Bjarnþór
On 22.2.2008, at 17:30, Graham Smith wrote:


Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can  
be found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that  
LyX won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel




 
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Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Bjarnþór

Many thanks for this, extremely useful. I am enjoying my new Mac, but  
some things are very different.


Graham


On 22 Feb 2008, at 18:35, Bjarnþór G. Kolbeins wrote:

 In the  FInder choose from the Go menu Go to Folder, In there  
type /usr og any directory you want to go to.
Not all folders are visible int the Finder but it is possible to  
see all folders using this.

Bjarnþór
On 22.2.2008, at 17:30, Graham Smith wrote:


Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying  
to find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can  
be found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that  
LyX won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel




-- 


Bjarnþór G. Kolbeins
Deildarstjóri í STÆRÐFRÆÐI
Fjölbrautaskóla Vesturlands á Akranesi
vinnusími: 433-2500
heimasími: 431-2579
GSM: 860-2579
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David Hewitt]

 I am working on physics thesis  and I would
 like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
 so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
 a certain equation. 
 
 You should use labels for that instead of numbering. Then you can access 
 to the labeled equation list via the cross reference dialog.
 

I have a related question, but it's not critical. In my dissertation LyX
file I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
PDF output is fine.

Any ideas?

It might be related that sometimes footnote references (label footnote, then
cross-reference it) also show up as '??' but output fine.

All of this is in Koma-script book class.


-
David Hewitt
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/
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Table with LyX

[Annabelle Sack]

To whom it may concern: Hello,

I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX looks 
perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can be seen.


Can anyone help?

Thanky you very much in advance,

Annabelle Sack

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David A. Case]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, David Hewitt wrote:
 
 
 I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
 However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
 will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
 number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
 used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
 PDF output is fine.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by with numbers and labels?
How did you get this?  I generally have only labels, or a # sign if I ask
for an equation number but don't have a label.  I don't see places where I
have both a number and a label.

The fact that the PDF file is fine is encouraging.  Maybe you could post a
short lyx file that illustrates the problem with view inside of LyX.

...dave case

nopagebreak before itemized list

[Tobias Krause]

Hi,

is there a way to prevent a pagebreak directly before a itemized list?

I tried the ERT [\nopagebreak] but unfortunately this does not work when 
it is used before a itemized list, while is does work perfectly without 
the itemized list. The attached minimal examples show this (the only 
difference is the paragraph settings of the last line: standard vs. 
itemized list).


Is there any other way to prevent the pagebreak?

Regards
 Toby


Minimal_nopagebreak_1.lyx
Description: application/lyx


Minimal_nopagebreak_2.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Table with LyX

[rgheck]

Annabelle Sack wrote:

To whom it may concern: Hello,

I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX 
looks perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can 
be seen.


Can anyone help?

LaTeX tables by default appear only on a single page. I think you need 
to use the longtable package. I don't know how to do this in LyX myself, 
but I'll bet there's stuff on the mailing list.


rh

Re: Table with LyX

[Dominik Böhm]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Annabelle Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX looks
 perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can be seen.


You can just right click on the table, open the tab Longtable and select
Use long table. I think that's all you got to do...

Best regards
Dominik

Option clash for package natbib.

[Bo Peng]

I have a journal-supplied .cls file that loads natbib through
\RequirePackage{natbib}. I have created a .layout file for this class
and use this class in lyx. However, when I enable natbib, I get an
error 'LaTeX Error: option clash for package natbib'. The error is
caused by a line
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
that is inserted to to the generated latex file when natbib is enabled.

Right now, I have to turn off natbib in lyx and insert \citep etc in
ERT to get around this problem. Is there any better solution?

Bo

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David Hewitt]

 I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
 However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
 will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
 number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
 used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
 PDF output is fine.

 Can you be more specific about what you mean by with numbers and labels?
 How did you get this? I generally have only labels, or a # sign if I ask
 for an equation number but don't have a label. I don't see places where I
 have both a number and a label.

Right, I should have been more complete. The numbers (followed by the
label) only display with Instant Preview turned on once I click out of
the equation. In fact, the whole mess seems related to Instant Preview
errors. I see that Dominik is having issues with it as well. I am
using LyX 1.5.3 and MikTeX 2.6. A sample file is attached that
describes (and hopefully shows in LyX view for others) the problems I
found.

-- 
Dave Hewitt
Fisheries Science
VIMS, College of William and Mary
Gloucester Point, VA


test_eqnnumbers.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Beamer and article class - have you tried it?

[Graham Smith]

I was hoping to use the Beamer class facility to embed a Handout  
(article class) in the same file as the presentation, but the user  
guide recommends against doing this if you are using Lyx.


But also says you can try

Does anyone use this facility with Beamer?

Thanks,

Graham

Photo Secrets

[Photo Club]

Did you visit our "Photo Secrets" section yet ... ??

http://kodakchallenge.110mb.com/forum/index.php?board=8.0

Regards,
The www.PhotoClub.uni.cc Team.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Steve Litt wrote:


How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief:

Age of tools when distro is created:  6 months
Age of distro when installed: 4 months
Time between distro upgrades 24 months
   -
Desireable backward compatibility:   34 months


Just for your info: LyX-1.5.0 came out Jul 31 2007 and Qt4.1.0 came out 
Aug 19 2005. So we had approximately 2 years backward compatibility at 
the time 1.5.0 went out.


Dependencies aren't fun for anyone. By going back a little farther with 
backward compatibility, especially on packages that are completely interwoven 
with large numbers of programs in the distribution, the application developer 
can make it much easier on the user who needs the features of the newer 
program (in my case, outline view).


Then you might want to go straight to 1.6.0svn: 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc26


WARNING: 1.6.0 will require Qt4.2.0 which was out Oct 04 2006. So it 
looks like we will have less than two years this time. But, before you 
ask, the switch to 4.2 enabled us to remove a lot of hacks and work 
around in the code and also to bring in some new goodies (see link 
above). At the time 1.6.0 will be out, Qt4.4 will already be out so 
requiring Qt4.2 is not too demanding IMO.


Abdel.

Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to find  
the documentation for the Beamer class.


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


Thanks,

Graham

Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[Kane Kano]

Hello everbody, 

I am working on physics thesis  and I would
like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
a certain equation. 

Thanks a lot in advance and excuse my ignorance

P.S.: I am using Lyx 1.5.2




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Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

[Peleg Michaeli]

Thank you all for your replies!

I will try ivritex's mailing list; it's quite weird, because I do have
culmus fonts installed - the problem is with ivritex, still?

Anyway, it is comfoting that you can see both in a good quality.

Yes, I am not using adobe reader (since it is not free software); I am
using just simple PDF viewer (actually, Evince 0.8.1) - for the
experiment, I have tried a different PDF viewer - KGhostView 0.2.0 - and
it looks much better - but this software is awfully slow and have
problems with zoomings.

So, thanks again - now I figure out what the problem is - and these are
the still "open" questions:
a. I have culmus fonts installed - is it not sufficient for tex2pdf to
use them? What should I ask ivritex?
b. Can one of you recommend a good PDF viewer, which is a free software,
for linux?

Thanks again,
Peleg.

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:31 +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote:
> Peleg Michaeli wrote:
> > Hey...
> > 
> > First of all - thanks for your reply.
> > 
> > Before I do all of your suggested tests (which I will do) I just have to
> > say: it seems like the pdf you've sent me has fuzzy Hebrew as well!
> 
> Perhaps the problem is with the pdf *viewer* that you're using? Some 
> files I use look horrible in gv, but they're fine using acroread...
> 
> > 
> > Well - as I understand, PDF should embed the fonts inside it, so it's
> > not impossible that we see the documents in two computers in two
> > different ways; so for the example, I will add here links to two
> > documents that I have generated using LyX, one while I had Windows, and
> > one in my ubuntu. The two documents are generated from the same source
> > file, so you'll probably see the huge differences.
> > 
> > The link to the "windows" generated PDF is here:
> > - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-windows.pdf
> > And the link the the "ubuntu" generated PDF is here:
> > - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-ubuntu.pdf
> > 
> > See the difference?
> 
> Hmmm, not really :( ... both files look OK to me. Of course they use 
> different fonts --- on Windows you're probably using the culmus fonts, 
> and on ubuntu the fonts that come with ivritex (which are not yet culmus 
> fonts, and not as nice) --- but in terms of "quality" I don't see a 
> difference... Regarding the use of culmus fonts on linux, there has been 
> some work in that direction going on in ivritex, I strongly urge you to 
> ping the mailing list there to see if there's any progress with this 
> (and I don't really know the details, they may be able to confirm 
> whether or not what I'm saying is correct).
> 
> > 
> > Here is the source for BOTH of the PDFs:
> > - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16.lyx
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > hopefully I will do the rest of the tests some other time.
> > 
> > Peleg.

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Kane Kano wrote:
Hello everbody, 


I am working on physics thesis  and I would
like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
a certain equation. 


You should use labels for that instead of numbering. Then you can access 
to the labeled equation list via the cross reference dialog.


Abdel.

Spell checker on Mac not working

[Graham Smith]

I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
"/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.



Again, maybe my problem is being new to the Mac, but can anyone help  
me sort this out.


A web search suggested that the problem was no dictionaries selected  
in cocoaspell, but the UK English dictionaries are selected.


Many thanks,

Graham

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

[Helge Hafting]

Jorge Sampaio wrote:

I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a
colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX.
  

Usually, such conversion is not perfect and you will have
to fix some things after the conversion.

But are you sure you need to convert?

Perhaps it is less work to just install LyX on your
colleagues computer - you could offer to do that instead?
Your colleague will also need latex _if_ there is a need
to print / preview. But LyX without latex is also
an option if all those files will go back to you for
final processing anyway.

Some people worry a lot about getting a new, different word processor.
But you can point out:
1. Getting LyX does not mean loosing word. The two word
   processors coexist just fine, your colleague can simply use
   lyx for your files and word for other stuff.
2. All the software needed for LyX is free, so no money lost here.


Helge Hafting

Re: Spell checker on Mac not working

[Bennett Helm]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Graham Smith wrote:


I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
"/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.


LyX will use CocoAspell if you've properly installed it. The  
instructions were hard to find on the wiki; I've edited things to  
make it clearer:




Bennett

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Bennett Helm]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an appropriate .layout  
file.)


Bennett

Re: Spell checker on Mac not working

[Graham Smith]

Bennet,

Thanks for this, copying the path as described fixed it.

I'm glad it was this simple :-)

Graham

On 22 Feb 2008, at 13:10, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Graham Smith wrote:


I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx.

I get an error

The Spell checker could not be started
Error The file
"/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading.


Now I can't actually find that directory, and I thought Lyx used  
cocoaspell.


LyX will use CocoAspell if you've properly installed it. The  
instructions were hard to find on the wiki; I've edited things to  
make it clearer:




Bennett

Instant Preview isn't working (LyX 1.6.0svn)

[Dominik Böhm]

Hey there,

it seems that the instant preview of math formulas isn't working for
me. LyX tells me "platex.exe failed to compile 0lyxpreview.tex", while
starting "platex.exe 0lyxpreview.tex" tells me

platex 0lyxpreview.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7)
makefmt: The input file could be found.
initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason.
I can't find the default format file!

This happend with MiKTeX 2.6 and was the reason why I updated to
MiKTeX 2.7. But that didn't solve the problem. I already tried to
reconfigure LyX a few times, installed the "preview"-package and now
don't know what to do.

Maybe one of you guys can help me.

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards
Dominik

word-forward skips math expression

[Eric Shellef]

Hi,

I'm using lyx to write a math paper and am quite enjoying it (lyx, I mean).

Still, one issue that is a bit annoying is that every time I do C-Right or
C-left (word-forward and word-backward), it skips the next word and the
entire math expression following it, even if there are spaces.

Is there are any fix for this?

Thanks,
Eric

Re: Admonition paragraphs

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote:
> >> Is it possible to automate adminition blocks?
> >>
> >> James
> >
> > What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them
> > in wikipedia.
>
> Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28
>
> The style of presentation can vary.
>
> Look at the 'info' block towards the bottom of:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.resol
>ve
>
> James

Now I understand :-)

If by automate you mean have a style for the admonition title (NOTE, TIP, 
WARNING, WHATEVERuWANT) and a style for the rest of the admonition, you can 
do it in your layout file.

The following is part of my layout file for "Learn Vim Tonight: Use the Worlds 
Most Productive Editor Tomorrow". Note that these snippits don't include 
Preamble/endpreamble.

Basically there's a LaTeX command that centers the title (callouttitleL), and 
one that prints in a shaded box with reduced margins (callouttextL). That's 
the LaTeX part. LyX style CalloutTitle is a command type LyX environment, and 
calls LaTeX command callouttitleL to print the title. LyX style CalloutText 
calls LaTeX environment callouttextL to print the text of the admonition.

You can make special LyX environment NOTE, WARNING and the like that strongarm 
the title, freeing you from having to type it in, but the generalistic method 
means you can put any title you want in one of these boxes.

If you implement this, I suggest you use more obvious names for commands and 
environments. It's less than a year since I wrote this layout file, and I 
already find my code confusing.

Have fun...

% ### Callout title latex
\newcommand{\callouttitleL}[1]{\def\callouttitleT{#1}}

\newenvironment{callouttextL}
  {%
  ~\\[-0.45in]%
  \setlength\fboxsep{4pt}%
  \definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{1.00,0.90,0.90}%
  \begin{shaded}%
  \addtolength{\hsize}{-0.20\columnwidth}%
  {\centering\Large\callouttitleT\\[0.2cm]}%
  \raggedright%
  \setlength\parindent{16pt}%
  }%
  {%
  \end{shaded}%
  \par
  }%

### CALLOUT LYX STYLES
Style CalloutTitle
Font
Series  Bold
Size Larger
EndFont
LatexName   callouttitleL
LatexType   Command
  Align Center
End

Style CalloutText
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName callouttextL
  LeftMarginMM
  RightMargin   MM
  ParIndent MMM
  TopSep1.4
  ItemSep   0.7
  ParSep0.7
  BottomSep 0.7
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block

  Font 
   Series   Medium
   Size Normal
   ShapeItalic
  EndFont
End

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Mmm, this is rather strange, I cannot find a directory called /usr/ 
local/...


Spotlight isn't finding "beameruserguide.pdf"

I did use MacTex to install

Thanks again

Graham



On 22 Feb 2008, at 13:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)


Bennett

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Daniel Lohmann]

On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry obvious  
with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an appropriate .layout  
file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather old.  
Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update option,  
like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/pgf and  
install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you just have to  
use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel

Re: Admonition paragraphs

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 11:25, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote:
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> > > On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote:
> > >> Is it possible to automate adminition blocks?
> > >>
> > >> James
> > >
> > > What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find
> > > them in wikipedia.
> >
> > Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28
> >
> > The style of presentation can vary.
> >
> > Look at the 'info' block towards the bottom of:
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.res
> >ol ve
> >
> > James
>
> Now I understand :-)
>
> If by automate you mean have a style for the admonition title (NOTE, TIP,
> WARNING, WHATEVERuWANT) and a style for the rest of the admonition, you can
> do it in your layout file.

Whoops -- I just noticed you wanted the kind of thing with a graphic in the 
margin. I'm pretty sure that's doable in a similar way to what I did, but 
you'll need a character style, command environemnt or ert to tell it what 
graphic you want. If you're just hardcoding NOTE, WARNING, TIP and the like, 
it can all be done from a single environment.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 February 2008 03:18, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief:
> >
> > Age of tools when distro is created:  6 months
> > Age of distro when installed: 4 months
> > Time between distro upgrades 24 months
> >-
> > Desireable backward compatibility:   34 months
>
> Just for your info: LyX-1.5.0 came out Jul 31 2007 and Qt4.1.0 came out
> Aug 19 2005. So we had approximately 2 years backward compatibility at
> the time 1.5.0 went out.
>
> > Dependencies aren't fun for anyone. By going back a little farther with
> > backward compatibility, especially on packages that are completely
> > interwoven with large numbers of programs in the distribution, the
> > application developer can make it much easier on the user who needs the
> > features of the newer program (in my case, outline view).
>
> Then you might want to go straight to 1.6.0svn:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc26
>
> WARNING: 1.6.0 will require Qt4.2.0 which was out Oct 04 2006. So it
> looks like we will have less than two years this time. But, before you
> ask, the switch to 4.2 enabled us to remove a lot of hacks and work
> around in the code and also to bring in some new goodies (see link
> above). At the time 1.6.0 will be out, Qt4.4 will already be out so
> requiring Qt4.2 is not too demanding IMO.
>
> Abdel.

Looks to me like Mandriva 2008 comes with 
qt4-common-4.3.1-12mdv2008.0.i586.rpm, so that shouldn't be a problem for me, 
at any rate. I'll just upgrade Mandriva when I want LyX 1.6.

Thanks

SteveT


-- 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be  
found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that LyX  
won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Bjarnþór G. Kolbeins]

 In the  FInder choose from the Go menu Go to Folder, In there type / 
usr og any directory you want to go to.
Not all folders are visible int the Finder but it is possible to see  
all folders using this.

Bjarnþór
On 22.2.2008, at 17:30, Graham Smith wrote:


Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to  
find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can  
be found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that  
LyX won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel




 
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Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

[Graham Smith]

Bjarnþór

Many thanks for this, extremely useful. I am enjoying my new Mac, but  
some things are very different.


Graham


On 22 Feb 2008, at 18:35, Bjarnþór G. Kolbeins wrote:

 In the  FInder choose from the Go menu Go to Folder, In there  
type /usr og any directory you want to go to.
Not all folders are visible int the Finder but it is possible to  
see all folders using this.

Bjarnþór
On 22.2.2008, at 17:30, Graham Smith wrote:


Daniel,

Thanks, I will bear this in mind, but I am still having problems  
finding my way around the Mac file structure


Graham





On 22 Feb 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Lohmann wrote:



On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote:


On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote:

Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying  
to find the documentation for the Beamer class.


It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can  
be found at:


/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
beameruserguide.pdf


Also how do I install extra classes. This all seemed failry  
obvious with MikTex on Windows but struggling to find my way  
around the Mac.


The standard location is ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (Note that  
LyX won't recognize extra classes unless you have an  
appropriate .layout file.)



Note that the beamer package contained in TeXLive 2007 is rather  
old. Unfortunately there seems not to be a simple package update  
option, like  in MikTeX. I download the newest versions of beamer/ 
pgf and install them manually. It is not a big thing, though, you  
just have to use the shell to copy some files.



Daniel




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Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David Hewitt]

>> I am working on physics thesis  and I would
>> like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations
>> so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to
>> a certain equation. 
> 
> You should use labels for that instead of numbering. Then you can access 
> to the labeled equation list via the cross reference dialog.
> 

I have a related question, but it's not critical. In my dissertation LyX
file I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
PDF output is fine.

Any ideas?

It might be related that sometimes footnote references (label footnote, then
cross-reference it) also show up as '??' but output fine.

All of this is in Koma-script book class.


-
David Hewitt
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/
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Table with LyX

[Annabelle Sack]

To whom it may concern: Hello,

I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX looks 
perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can be seen.


Can anyone help?

Thanky you very much in advance,

Annabelle Sack

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David A. Case]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, David Hewitt wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
> However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
> will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
> number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
> used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
> PDF output is fine.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "with numbers and labels"?
How did you get this?  I generally have only labels, or a "#" sign if I ask
for an equation number but don't have a label.  I don't see places where I
have both a number and a label.

The fact that the PDF file is fine is encouraging.  Maybe you could post a
short lyx file that illustrates the problem with view inside of LyX.

...dave case

nopagebreak before itemized list

[Tobias Krause]

Hi,

is there a way to prevent a pagebreak directly before a itemized list?

I tried the ERT [\nopagebreak] but unfortunately this does not work when 
it is used before a itemized list, while is does work perfectly without 
the itemized list. The attached minimal examples show this (the only 
difference is the paragraph settings of the last line: standard vs. 
itemized list).


Is there any other way to prevent the pagebreak?

Regards
 Toby


Minimal_nopagebreak_1.lyx
Description: application/lyx


Minimal_nopagebreak_2.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Table with LyX

[rgheck]

Annabelle Sack wrote:

To whom it may concern: Hello,

I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX 
looks perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can 
be seen.


Can anyone help?

LaTeX tables by default appear only on a single page. I think you need 
to use the longtable package. I don't know how to do this in LyX myself, 
but I'll bet there's stuff on the mailing list.


rh

Re: Table with LyX

[Dominik Böhm]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Annabelle Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I have a LyX Problem: I compiled a long table in LyX which in LyX looks
> perfect. Extracting it to a pdf file only 1/4 of the table can be seen.


You can just right click on the table, open the tab "Longtable" and select
"Use long table". I think that's all you got to do...

Best regards
Dominik

Option clash for package natbib.

[Bo Peng]

I have a journal-supplied .cls file that loads natbib through
\RequirePackage{natbib}. I have created a .layout file for this class
and use this class in lyx. However, when I enable natbib, I get an
error 'LaTeX Error: option clash for package natbib'. The error is
caused by a line
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
that is inserted to to the generated latex file when natbib is enabled.

Right now, I have to turn off natbib in lyx and insert \citep etc in
ERT to get around this problem. Is there any better solution?

Bo

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

[David Hewitt]

>> I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels.
>> However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it
>> will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll
>> number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten
>> used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The
>> PDF output is fine.

> Can you be more specific about what you mean by "with numbers and labels"?
> How did you get this? I generally have only labels, or a "#" sign if I ask
> for an equation number but don't have a label. I don't see places where I
> have both a number and a label.

Right, I should have been more complete. The numbers (followed by the
label) only display with Instant Preview turned on once I click out of
the equation. In fact, the whole mess seems related to Instant Preview
errors. I see that Dominik is having issues with it as well. I am
using LyX 1.5.3 and MikTeX 2.6. A sample file is attached that
describes (and hopefully shows in LyX view for others) the problems I
found.

-- 
Dave Hewitt
Fisheries Science
VIMS, College of William and Mary
Gloucester Point, VA


test_eqnnumbers.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Beamer and article class - have you tried it?

[Graham Smith]

I was hoping to use the Beamer class facility to embed a Handout  
(article class) in the same file as the presentation, but the user  
guide recommends against doing this if you are using Lyx.


But also says "you can try"

Does anyone use this facility with Beamer?

Thanks,

Graham