Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On 19.03.2008, at 03:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. Hm... LyX really should behave identically in both cases. It should not produce a different output from *typing weather *inserting* some text. According to my experience LyX 1.5 versions (it may as well be just a Mac problem...) generally suffer from strange effects that something that looks identically in the LyX editor in fact produces different LaTeX code, which is surprising at best for the user. I am still suffering twice a day from the funny invisible chars problem without really understanding how these chars make it into my document: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg62392.html Maybe it is time to open a bugzilla entry for this? Daniel
Experiences with biblatex?
Hi, After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. According to the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex) and a thread from last December (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg60714.html ) this seems to be not overly difficult -- it can't be more complicated than my current bibtex, multibib, and child-/master mode tweaks. Before really digging into all this, I am, however, curious about other users' experience with biblatex: 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? I remember that this was an issue when I first read about biblatex, but did not find a comment or hint into this direction in the documentation of the current version. 2) Does it work well with hyperref (including backref support and so on)? The documentation states so -- but with respect to hyperref many oddities arise in practice. (I had, for instance, all my requirements fulfilled with bibunits and some tweaks when I finally figured out that with bibunits reference no longer become hyperlinks - a show stopper.) 3) Do I really have to use the natbib options? I know, everybody recommends natbib, but I prefer the simple alpha style. 4) Why is it the case that the path to the bib-files has to be either absolute or the bib-file has to be in texmf? I really would like to avoid both. 5) Even though I never heard any complaints about the 0.7 version of biblatex, it is still considered as beta. Did you experience any problems while using it? Thanks a lot! Daniel
WRB - Problems with LaTeX
Testing the patience of this group, I have a short term problem. Well, truth is I probably have several such short term problems, and I would appreciate help with each. However, this problem is not with LyX directly, and though the various experts on this group will likely find motivation to answer the better questions, I am hoping that some of you will help me through an off-topic newbie problem. I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above it. I have tried variations of \emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s and in no case have I found execution without error upon pdflatex or the proper result. At best, there are errors reported, and the output text is converted to italic after production of the desired italic s' symbol. Has anyone any idea as to the solution of this problem? William R. Buckley
Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com
On 18.03.08, diefettenjahre wrote: Hi Maksi, thanks for your reply. you might as well make your own template, based of preferrable KOMA-Book or Memoir (rather than the standard classes). Well, this is why I've chosen Lyx and this template. Basically I hoped that I don't have to learn all these LaTeX commands. But I'll try my best and have a brief look at the KOMA Script documentation. It is really well written and informative. If anyone else give me some hint, at least about the headlines since this seams to be some bug -- of course in front of the pc :-) I assume this it not a bug but a setting as well. Back to the original questions: a non-breaking hyphen can be input as ERT (evil red text, i.e. raw LaTeX): Press Strg-L and insert ~ in the appearing box. (This and a lot more about basic typograhic rules and their implementation with LaTeX can be found in a PDF document: Einige typographische Grundregeln und ihre Umsetzung in LATEX Werner Struckmann 3. September 2007 which I found on the net (don't remember where). Günter
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? Yes, slightly. biblatex introduces some new field types (like maintitle, subtitle, titleaddon etc.). In order to get your bibliography properly formatted, some changes to the bib file will be necessary. I used jurabib previously, and it took me about 2-3 hours with a 1000 entries bib file. 2) Does it work well with hyperref (including backref support and so on)? Yes, I have no problems so far. 3) Do I really have to use the natbib options? No, I don't use natbib at all. biblatex is absolutely independent from natbib, there is only a natbib-compatibility-mode in order to use natbib's commands (\citep, \citet etc.), not the ones biblatex provides (\parencite, \textcite etc.). 4) Why is it the case that the path to the bib-files has to be either absolute or the bib-file has to be in texmf? I really would like to avoid both. I have all my bib files in my local texmf tree. But it should work if the bib file is in the same directory as the master tex file (though I'm not sure if LyX can handle this). 5) Even though I never heard any complaints about the 0.7 version of biblatex, it is still considered as beta. Did you experience any problems while using it? I am using it a lot, and for a long time, and I had no serious problems since version 0.6. Regards, Dominik.- -- biblatex styles: http://biblatex.dominik-wassenhoven.de/index-en.shtml
Re: Using a network printer
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: getting page
On 19.03.08, Pol wrote: I would like to get straightforwardly pages where to apply corrections that i have made to the printed on paper version of my document. Is there a way to display pagination? No. LyX does not know about the pagination as this is done by the LaTeX backend. However, there is (as far as I know) the possibility to jump to a given place in the LyX window from the xdvi or kdvi previewers (don't know about the settings, though). I usually use the Search feature (searching for prominent words near the correction) or the Navigation menu (as I do have many sub- and subsubsections, this brings me pretty close). GM
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
On 19.03.2008, at 10:26, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? Yes, slightly. biblatex introduces some new field types (like maintitle, subtitle, titleaddon etc.). In order to get your bibliography properly formatted, some changes to the bib file will be necessary. I used jurabib previously, and it took me about 2-3 hours with a 1000 entries bib file. I see. Are these new fields backward compatible in the sense that they do not interfere with old-fashioned bibtex and both work smoothly on the same database? (Our group uses a global svn-managed bibtex database which is included as svn:externals into every paper or thesis project. I doubt that I would get through with a big bang transition to biblatex.) Thanks Dominik! Daniel
Re: pdf file size
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 21:03:11 Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. I would love to do it on the fly without actually producing lower resolution images on disk, and pointing to them. Can I run a python script in the lyx tmp directory by lyx, or any such solution? I know adobe acrobat does this on the output pdf for $300. Doing convert on the pdf ruins the text as well. Thanks Miki Please add this to lyx bugzilla so that it does not get forgoten. I don't remember to see this request before. All the times I had this problem before I have fixed it by hand. -- José Abílio
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008:
Are these new fields backward compatible in the sense that
they do not interfere with old-fashioned bibtex and both work smoothly
on the same database?
I think so. biblatex treats some fields in another way, e.g. 'edition',
which should contain only numerals, or 'address', which can cope with
lists like London and New York and ... in order to abbreviate the list
if necessary. Most of these fields should also work if the expected data
type is different, e.g. 'address = {London, New York}' works also (only
the abbreviation does not work, then). For details, please look into the
biblatex documentation, there is also a list of all fields and how they
are treated in biblatex.
Regards,
Dominik.-
RE: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors
Paul,
Yes I understand where you are coming from. I can see the conference people
being up in arms about an additional author. I have emailed them anyway so
I'll just wait for the reply.
Just for my own knowledge how would I go about creating a \threeauthors?
Can I just copy the \twoauthors and modify the table columns and add it to
the spconf.sty?
Thanks again!
PDF
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From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: 19 March 2008 02:08
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors
Phillip Ferguson wrote:
Hey all,
Yet again I am having some issues with the spconf.sty.
This time it's the authors.
In spconf.sty the comments for \twoauthors are:
- use \twoauthors{author1}{address1}{author2}{address2}
% for two (or more) authors with two separate addresses
%- note: no need for \author nor \date
%- optional: can use \thanks{xx} within \name or \twoauthors,
% asterisk is not printed after name nor in footnote
%- optional: can use \sthanks{xx} after each name within \name or
% \twoauthors if different thanks for each author,
% footnote symbol will appear for each name and footnote
And it defines \twoauthors:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\em #1} \\ \\
#2\relax
\end{tabular}\hskip [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{}}
{\em #3} \\ \\
#4\relax
\end{tabular}}}
I have no idea of latex but I guess that this must set the layout and
parameters for only 2 author areas where only one address is allowed. My
problem is that I need 3 authors with three distinct addresses.
Can I modify this piece of code to spread 3 authors evenly across the
page?
I suspect I may have to reduce the text size to accommodate all 3.
Does anyone know how to set this up correctly, or by doing this am I
violating the template?
Have you considered summarily dropping one of your co-authors? :-)
The \twoauthors macro uses a pair of side-by-side tables to space out
the authors and institutions, so hypothetically you could cobble
together a \threeauthors macro along similar lines but with three
tables. You likely would have to reduce the font size, which might
easily offend the conference people. Before doing that, I would suggest
contacting them and asking how they would recommend you handle it.
/Paul
images with pdflatex
Hey all, I just noticed something that I wondered might be a bug. When I have a eps image that is scaled and clipped in lyx, and the document is using the article class, pdflatex does not format the image correctly. It is as if the article class is conflicting with the clipping. The image is not off a side of the page but underlapping text in the page. To resolve it have resorted to export the lyx file via dvipdfm which creates a pdf exactly like the dvi. Is this a know bug? Thanks PDF
Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
Hello,
I was wondering if one can also use macros for some text things. For
example, I would like to use macros for abbreviations. In German the
abbreviation of zum Beispiel is z.B. with a small space between
z. and B.. I realized it by putting
\newcommand{\realAbkzB}{z.\,B.} into the preamble and adding a
math-macro \abkzB that calles the \realAbkzB-command. In the .lyx-file
it looks like this:
\begin_inset FormulaMacro
\newcommand{\abkzB}{\mbox{\realAbkzB }}
{\mbox{z.\, B.}}
\end_inset
When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m
and enter \abkzB. That works, but I have got to switch to math-mode
and in the macro I use an mbox to get back to normal text.
Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is
the macro-feature a math-only thing?
Dominik
Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above
it.
I have tried variations of
\emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s
how about
\acute{s}
in math mode?
Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Stephen Buonopane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above
it.
I have tried variations of
\emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s
how about
\acute{s}
in math mode?
Or maybe Insert-Special Character-Symbols, there Latin Extended-A,
fourth row, ŝ/ś.
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is the macro-feature a math-only thing? Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro available. However, if I understand it right lyx 1.6 will come with support in form of user-configurable text-styles that can be embedded in the document. I am not quite sure whether you can already define a text style in a layout file with 1.5. OTOH, you can get the \zB a bit simpler: M-x math-macro abkzB and in the math Box: Strg-m (text in math) z. Strg-Shift-Space (small space) B. When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m and enter \abkzB. You can even define a keybinding for this. Günter
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote:
Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is
the macro-feature a math-only thing?
Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro available.
Okay, I already thought so.
OTOH, you can get the \zB a bit simpler:
M-x math-macro abkzB
and in the math Box:
Strg-m (text in math)
z.
Strg-Shift-Space (small space)
B.
Nope, that doesn't work, as LyX generates $\mbox{z.\, B.}$ (note the
space after \,). That makes the space not a half but a one and a half
space. I think, putting it into a separate command into the preamble
is the only way.
When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m
and enter \abkzB.
You can even define a keybinding for this.
That's right, but it's still not the way I would do it using plain LaTeX.
Dominik
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
Dominik Böhm schrieb: I was wondering if one can also use macros for some text things. This will be possible in the next major lyX release lyX 1.6.0. For now you have to define new commands using the ERT or the document preamble. The math manaul explains how to do this (this method is relevant for all document parts, also text stuff). regards Uwe
Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy
Ignacio García-6 wrote: hansi wrote I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output (pdf) looks not as before. They are not scaled as before. This happens also with files, that I wrote in this version. I installed the older version, what doesn't help, either. I think it has to do with one of the newer packages. Do you know advise? Is this your problem:? On 27/12 D. Clement wrote: I do see the eps images in pdf, but shrinked to a tiny size in the lower right corner of their normal place. (see http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg60856.html) I have a similar problem since lyx1.5.x on Gutsy. I have not found solution for direct conversion eps to pdf with pdflatex. I must convert the eps figures to pdf figures with 'epstopdf' outside Lyx and to insert the figures in the document as PDF images. So pdflatex gives correct scaled images in the output. regards Ignacio Yes, it sounds like the same problem! What I do at the moment is, that make a ps-file and convert it with pstoedit into pdf. Works but takes more time and also more memory-space for the ps. I don't know, why it doesn't work in Lyx 1.5.x but did work in 1.4.x ...? I tried texlive-extra-utils, what doesn't help. Let me know, if you find a solution! Regards, Hannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-eps-in-Lyx-1.5-Ubuntu-Gutsy-tp16118076p16143648.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy
Yes, it sounds like the same problem! What I do at the moment is, that make a ps-file and convert it with pstoedit into pdf. Works but takes more time and also more memory-space for the ps. I don't know, why it doesn't work in Lyx 1.5.x but did work in 1.4.x ...? I tried texlive-extra-utils, what doesn't help. Let me know, if you find a solution! Regards, Hannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-eps-in-Lyx-1.5-Ubuntu-Gutsy-tp16118076p16143650.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy
Yes, it sounds like the same problem! What I do at the moment is, that I make a ps-file and convert it with pstoedit into pdf. Works but takes more time and also more memory-space for the ps. I don't know, why it doesn't work in Lyx 1.5.x but did work in 1.4.x ...? I tried texlive-extra-utils, what doesn't help. Let me know, if you find a solution! Regards, Hannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-eps-in-Lyx-1.5-Ubuntu-Gutsy-tp16118076p16143667.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Extra vertical space between some paragarphs
I am using Lyx 1.5.4. There is extra vertical space between several paragraphs in pdf output. Only, separate paragraphs with indentation is set on and no vertical space is set in the global document setting. Local setting of the paragraphs is the same and still some paragraph have extra line before and after paragraph. Any idea how to fix this annoying behaviour is welcome. Thanks. Peter
Float caption indentation
Hi! Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts? My problem is, that I have a 2 lines long caption text under an image, and the second line of the caption begins under the keyword Table 1: or Figure 1. I would like to have the 2nd line of the caption to begin under the text in the first line of my caption. For example: Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, here begins the 2nd line of the caption. Figure 2: And I would like to have something like this, where there is an indent in the 2nd line. Regards, Zoltan
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
Dominik Böhm wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is the macro-feature a math-only thing? Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro available. Okay, I already thought so. There are enhancement requests about this. It'd be great to have it. When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m and enter \abkzB. You can even define a keybinding for this. That's right, but it's still not the way I would do it using plain LaTeX. Of course, you can always use ERT for this, and you can bind the whole business to a key. rh
Re: Using a network printer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what File-Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same doc tend to differ a bit. /Paul
Re: Float caption indentation
Zoltan Sarosi wrote:
Hi!
Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts?
My problem is, that I have a 2 lines long caption text under an image,
and the second line of the caption begins under the keyword Table 1:
or Figure 1. I would like to have the 2nd line of the caption to begin
under the text in the first line of my caption.
For example:
Figure 1: Now my text looks like this,
here begins the 2nd line of the caption.
Figure 2: And I would like to have something like
this, where there is an indent in the 2nd line.
In the preamble: \usepackage[hang]{caption}
/Paul
Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors
Phillip Ferguson wrote: Just for my own knowledge how would I go about creating a \threeauthors? Can I just copy the \twoauthors and modify the table columns and add it to the spconf.sty? Example attached. /Paul pf.lyx Description: application/lyx
cases help
Dear all I this is part of the latex code that i am using in Lyx,
\mathrm{pro}\mathrm{j}_{H_{v,t}}\left(\widetilde{F}_{e\in
E^{+}\left(v\right),m\in M,t}\left(\mathbf{p}\right)_{v\in V,t\in
T}\right):=\begin{cases}
\widetilde{F}_{e\in E^{+}\left(v\right),m\in M,t}\left(\mathbf{p}\right) if
\sum_{e\in E^{^{+}}(v)}\sum_{m\in
M}p_{e,m,t}\leq\frac{P_{\bar{v}}^{Max}}{\left|E^{^{+}}(\bar{v})\right|\times\left|M\right|}\\
c if \sum_{e\in E^{^{+}}(v)}\sum_{m\in
M}p_{e,m,t}\frac{P_{\bar{v}}^{Max}}{\left|E^{^{+}}(\bar{v})\right|\times\left|M\right|}\end{cases}
when I try to generate the pdf file i have the followind text
c
\sum_{e\in E^{^{+}}(v)}\sum_{m\in M}p_{e,m,t}\frac{P_{\bar{v}...
You have given more \span or marks than there were
in the preamble to the \halign or \valign now in progress.
So I'll assume that you meant to type \cr instead.
I can generate the pdf file with 2 columns but I have a problem trying to add
the third 3 column.
I am including ntheorem class I dont know if this is the problem.
Thanks for you help.
Carlos Sosa Paz
Re: Using a network printer
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what File-Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same doc tend to differ a bit. Does it seem strange to have a document processor that cannot print? I'd be ok with using the viewer, but it's confusing with a File-Print that doesn't work. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com
Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can insert it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+-. More of those commands can be found in the Insert-Special Character/Formatting menu. So, don't ERTs for protected hyphens... I looked both into the user guide and into the abbreviations list, but couldn't find this shortcut neither the menu point (for non-breaking hyphen). But that's good to know, thank you. But getting back to my worst problem: any ideas about my missing headlines? Here's a link to the document: http://www.wreeno.de/lyx2/my_content/thesis_template.zip thanks a lot, diefettenjahre.
Re: Using a network printer
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what File-Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same doc tend to differ a bit. Does it seem strange to have a document processor that cannot print? I'd be ok with using the viewer, but it's confusing with a File-Print that doesn't work. Christian, The problem with that thought is that on my system it Just Works, without any arcane settings. And mine is not a particularly simple setup: I'm running Gentoo Linux, with CUPS printing, on a rather complicated network, and LyX just defaults to running a document through dvips and sending it to the default printer. However . . . as many LyX users do, I usually use pdflatex for my default preview and most common export. And some figures which work perfectly with pdflatex do not work at all with latex. When I try to print a document with such figures, the printing fails with the message: Could not print document name.lyx. Check that your printer is set up correctly. Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 22:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. /Paul Yes and no. Yes, I pasted them in and they went in as only underscores. But no, no matter what I did with backslashes I couldn't get them to do the right thing. You gave me an idea though. I'm going to make a TeX file and a LaTeX file, and see if this problem occurs in those places too. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
Thanks for the solution!
I elect to use Stephens solution, as I am not using LyX (making
the changes directly to the LaTeX source). When I learn the
proper use of LyX, I'll try the other suggested solution.
the command I use is
$\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$
The thinspace is to accommodate the non-italic text which
follows. Perhaps I should also try the \ / mechanism, too.
wrb
-Original Message-
From: Dominik Böhm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LyX User
Subject: Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Stephen Buonopane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above
it.
I have tried variations of
\emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s
how about
\acute{s}
in math mode?
Or maybe Insert-Special Character-Symbols, there Latin
Extended-A, fourth row, s/s.
noweb book chapter include problem. How about external material strategy?
I've asked before, but have new enthusiasm because I just learned about the ExternalMaterial handling in lyx-1.5.4. I succeed using NoWeb strategy in LyX to interact with the statistics program R. There has been some posting about that in here lately by other people doing it too and I see Gregor has updated the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave Now I'm writing a book and want to include some of those Noweb articles as chapters. I create the book master document and try to include the lyx files, but when I view the book in lyx, the included documents are not put through the Noweb processor. They just appear in the output as they are in the lyx file. They don't get sent through the Lyx- LaTeX (via noweb) step. I've tried many variations on this theme. Now I'm thinking that the LyX Insert-File-Lyx Document was the wrong approach from the start. Instead, I think what I need is Insert-file-external material where the external material is customized for this type of document. But I need help in making it work. Here's why I think it might work. I noticed a neat thing LyX does that I did not know about before. An Xfig drawing can be included in 2 ways into LyX. 1. Insert- graphics Choose the fig file, then LyX will process the fig file and it will show as a graphic. The processing lyx does to the fig file translates it to postscript, I think. It just treats the fig file as a picture. 2. Insert-File-External Material. This does something different. It will decipher LaTeX markup in text in the fig file. (I think it is doing the 2 parts export to EPS format, if you know what i mean). If you put LaTeX text in your file, and you marked it with the special attribute, then LyX will process that xfig file to convert the LaTeX markup and fit it into the graphic. So in the xfig file, you can put in text like $\alpha$ and in the output, you see the Greek alpha. Note this is different from the Insert-graphics approach, where the literal string $\alpha$ appears. Seeing this external handling made me wonder, why doesn't one of the smart guys who knows LyX inside and out design a Noweb handler for External Material. The converter specified in LyX preferences to go from he noweb format Sweave to LaTeX is .R CMD Sweave $$i So, If I want to include a lyx file, I need some way to tell Lyx it needs that post processing, and that's why the external material thing seems just right. If one of you would do it for me, it would be great. More likely, you will tell me what manual to read about writing external material handlers in LyX. That would be good too, but requiring more work :) PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 22:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. /Paul I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_ commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word. So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not. I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Using a network printer
Les Denham wrote: Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. That's the more dramatic version, but even when the document compiles successfully, it may look different generated one way versus another. For instance, I think that font substitutions can occur with, say, a PDF file that would not occur (or would occur differently) with a DVI file, and I believe that graphics are handled somewhat differently by one approach versus another. If all you want is the printed output, this might be ok, but if you are printing a copy (as PS output, perhaps without realizing it) while generating a file (say PDF) for distribution, you might get short-hopped by the differences. I always try to print from a viewer looking at the final distribution version. /Paul
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
Steve Litt wrote: I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_ commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word. So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not. I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore. I might be getting lost (well, more lost than usual) here. First, responding to your other message where you said putting the backslashes into LyX failed, did you do that in ERT? If you type a backslash into text in LyX, I think it gets escaped (so that it's treated as a literal backslash). Re your Mandriva output, are you saying that \_ in the LaTeX file, inside a LyX-code environment, produces proportionally spaced (or monospaced with inadequate width) underscores? If so, what are you using for a typewriter font? It doesn't seem that this should be OS-specific. /Paul
Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the command I use is
$\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$
This command works just fine in math mode in LyX for me. Displaying an
italic s with a prime symbol. See the attached file.
Cheers,
/Bob
acute-s.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Problems with program listings and captions/labels
Hello,
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
The command positions the caption under the listing but breaks the
numbering. Please find attached an exemplary lyx-file and the
resulting pdf file. After the first listing, I executed
\lstset{captionpos=b}, thus the second reference is broken.
Is that a known bug in the listings package (I didn't find anything on
Google) or does LyX do anything wrong? I had a look at the generated
latex (pdflatex)-file (which I attached, too) but it looks ok.
I hope someone knows what to to about this issue.. Thanks a lot
Dominik
test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
test.tex
Description: TeX document
Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
The command positions the caption under the listing but breaks the
numbering. Please find attached an exemplary lyx-file and the
resulting pdf file. After the first listing, I executed
\lstset{captionpos=b}, thus the second reference is broken.
Is that a known bug in the listings package (I didn't find anything on
Google) or does LyX do anything wrong? I had a look at the generated
latex (pdflatex)-file (which I attached, too) but it looks ok.
I hope someone knows what to to about this issue.. Thanks a lot
Dominik
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about listings. However, I remember
seeing a similar post. For LyX 1.5.3 you would put 'captionpos=b' in
Document-Settings-Text Layout-Listing settings.
Cheers,
/Bob
Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about listings. However, I remember
seeing a similar post. For LyX 1.5.3 you would put 'captionpos=b' in
Document-Settings-Text Layout-Listing settings.
Yes I know, in LyX 1.6.0 you would also put it there. The problem is
not that the caption gets positioned wrongly. The problem is that
after wherever inserting captionpos=b the numbering doesn't work
anymore: when I add a reference to Listing 2, LyX (or LaTeX) prints
... 3 ... (see test.pdf in my first message).
I am not sure what exactly goes wrong here...
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:57, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_
commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't
compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word.
So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my
latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not.
I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore.
I might be getting lost (well, more lost than usual) here. First,
responding to your other message where you said putting the backslashes
into LyX failed, did you do that in ERT?
No, I typed \_ commands straight into LyX.
If you type a backslash into
text in LyX, I think it gets escaped (so that it's treated as a literal
backslash).
Re your Mandriva output, are you saying that \_ in the LaTeX file,
inside a LyX-code environment, produces proportionally spaced (or
monospaced with inadequate width) underscores?
That's exactly what I'm saying. \_ in the LaTeX file, inside a standard
LyX-Code environment, produces either proportionally spaced or monospaced
with inadequate width underscores.
If so, what are you
using for a typewriter font?
Let me check. Hang on...
I just tried default, Latin Modern Typewriter, Computer Modern Typewriter, and
Courier, and all did the same thing.
It doesn't seem that this should be
OS-specific.
It's a mystery :-)
I'm attaching the LyX file and the resulting LaTeX file and the resulting dvi
file.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
test.dvi
Description: TeX dvi file
test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
%% LyX 1.5.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[oneside,english]{book}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,lmargin=1cm,rmargin=1cm}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\makeatletter
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\newenvironment{lyxcode}
{\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}
\setlength{\listparindent}{0pt}% needed for AMS classes
\raggedright
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\normalfont\ttfamily}%
\item[]}
{\end{list}}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Notice that the remote program's STDOUT shows up the local computer.
The output clearly shows that the command ran on the remote computer,
not the local one. Now let's use a program requiring both STDOUT and
STDIN: UMENU. On the remote computer, UMENU is run with the command:
\begin{lyxcode}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s~password:
~UMENU~0.7.1~menu~system~(ruby~version),~(C)~2005~by~Steve~Litt
NO~WARRANTY!~See~GPL~license.~~
{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}~~Main~Menu~~{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{[}s]
~Z:~Zuname~
...~~I:~Internet~~
...~~O:~Outlining~~
...~~C:~Calendars~~
...~~N:~coNfiguration~~
...~~S:~Sales~~
...~~P:~Projects~~
...~~A:~Accounting~~
...~~L:~Litt's~Pet~Menu~
...~~E:~Entertainment~Menu~
...~~W:~Windows~Apps~(Crossover~Office)
~K:~Kt~to~MPH~converter~
...~~H:~Hurricanes
...~~T:~Timekeeping
~X:~eXit~Your~choice~please==
sh:~/dev/tty:~No~such~device~or~address
~\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
|~~Copyright~(C)~2005~by~Steve~Litt~([EMAIL PROTECTED])|
|~~GNU~General~Public~License~version~2.~NO~WARRANTY!~~|
|~~|
|~~You~should~have~received~a~copy~of~the~GNU~General~Public~License~~~|
|~~along~with~this~program;~if~not,~write~to~the~Free~Software~|
|~~Foundation,~Inc.,~675~Mass~Ave,~Cambridge,~MA~02139,~USA.~~~|
|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_|
Thank~You~for~using~the~Universal~Menu~System!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
0~
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\end{lyxcode}
In the preceding experiment, I ran UMENU in a terminal on I know it
was run on , because
\end{document}
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:57, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_
commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't
compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word.
So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my
latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not.
I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore.
I might be getting lost (well, more lost than usual) here. First,
responding to your other message where you said putting the backslashes
into LyX failed, did you do that in ERT?
No, I typed \_ commands straight into LyX.
If you type a backslash into
text in LyX, I think it gets escaped (so that it's treated as a literal
backslash).
Re your Mandriva output, are you saying that \_ in the LaTeX file,
inside a LyX-code environment, produces proportionally spaced (or
monospaced with inadequate width) underscores?
That's exactly what I'm saying. \_ in the LaTeX file, inside a standard
LyX-Code environment, produces either proportionally spaced or monospaced
with inadequate width underscores.
If so, what are you
using for a typewriter font?
Let me check. Hang on...
I just tried default, Latin Modern Typewriter, Computer Modern Typewriter, and
Courier, and all did the same thing.
It doesn't seem that this should be
OS-specific.
It's a mystery :-)
I'm attaching the LyX file and the resulting LaTeX file and the resulting dvi
file.
Whoever invented this font encoding bull excrement should be forced to
sit in a stiff chair and listen to every campaign speech this year (all
at once, no potty breaks)!
I confirmed that running LaTeX against your test.tex file produced a
misformatted result (though not quite your test.dvi -- apparently you
changed your e-mail address somewhere along the line). Dinking around
with your LyX file, I accidentally got the desired result. I had to
export a new LaTeX file and run a diff program against yours and mine to
find the culprit.
LyX 1.5.4 inserts \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} in the preamble. You don't
have that in your .tex file; inserting it fixes the problem.
/Paul
Re: cases help
Carlos Sosa Paz schrieb: Dear all I this is part of the latex code that i am using in Lyx, ... I can generate the pdf file with 2 columns but I have a problem trying to add the third 3 column. I cannot help you without a small LyX example file. But perhaps you find a way not to use directly LaTeX code to generate your formula when looking in the new math manual that comes with LyX 1.5.4. regards Uwe
Re: Float caption indentation
Zoltan Sarosi schrieb: Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts? Use the LateX-package caption. The EmbeddedObjects manual has some example what you can do with this package. All you have to do is to add the correct option of the caption package as described there. I refer to the documentation of caption for the detailed description of the different options: http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/caption/caption.pdf regards Uwe
Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about listings. However, I remember
seeing a similar post. For LyX 1.5.3 you would put 'captionpos=b' in
Document-Settings-Text Layout-Listing settings.
Yes I know, in LyX 1.6.0 you would also put it there. The problem is
not that the caption gets positioned wrongly. The problem is that
after wherever inserting captionpos=b the numbering doesn't work
anymore: when I add a reference to Listing 2, LyX (or LaTeX) prints
... 3 ... (see test.pdf in my first message).
I am not sure what exactly goes wrong here...
Hopefully someone with more knowledge will respond soon. LyX 1.6 is
still in svn, so I can't open you're lyx file and importing the tex
file makes it more confusing.
Bob
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On 19.03.2008, at 03:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. Hm... LyX really should behave identically in both cases. It should not produce a different output from *typing weather *inserting* some text. According to my experience LyX 1.5 versions (it may as well be just a Mac problem...) generally suffer from strange effects that something that looks identically in the LyX editor in fact produces different LaTeX code, which is surprising at best for the user. I am still suffering twice a day from the funny invisible chars problem without really understanding how these chars make it into my document: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg62392.html Maybe it is time to open a bugzilla entry for this? Daniel
Experiences with biblatex?
Hi, After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. According to the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex) and a thread from last December (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg60714.html ) this seems to be not overly difficult -- it can't be more complicated than my current bibtex, multibib, and child-/master mode tweaks. Before really digging into all this, I am, however, curious about other users' experience with biblatex: 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? I remember that this was an issue when I first read about biblatex, but did not find a comment or hint into this direction in the documentation of the current version. 2) Does it work well with hyperref (including backref support and so on)? The documentation states so -- but with respect to hyperref many oddities arise in practice. (I had, for instance, all my requirements fulfilled with bibunits and some tweaks when I finally figured out that with bibunits reference no longer become hyperlinks - a show stopper.) 3) Do I really have to use the natbib options? I know, everybody recommends natbib, but I prefer the simple alpha style. 4) Why is it the case that the path to the bib-files has to be either absolute or the bib-file has to be in texmf? I really would like to avoid both. 5) Even though I never heard any complaints about the 0.7 version of biblatex, it is still considered as beta. Did you experience any problems while using it? Thanks a lot! Daniel
WRB - Problems with LaTeX
Testing the patience of this group, I have a short term problem. Well, truth is I probably have several such short term problems, and I would appreciate help with each. However, this problem is not with LyX directly, and though the various experts on this group will likely find motivation to answer the better questions, I am hoping that some of you will help me through an off-topic newbie problem. I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above it. I have tried variations of \emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s and in no case have I found execution without error upon pdflatex or the proper result. At best, there are errors reported, and the output text is converted to italic after production of the desired italic s' symbol. Has anyone any idea as to the solution of this problem? William R. Buckley
Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com
On 18.03.08, diefettenjahre wrote: Hi Maksi, thanks for your reply. you might as well make your own template, based of preferrable KOMA-Book or Memoir (rather than the standard classes). Well, this is why I've chosen Lyx and this template. Basically I hoped that I don't have to learn all these LaTeX commands. But I'll try my best and have a brief look at the KOMA Script documentation. It is really well written and informative. If anyone else give me some hint, at least about the headlines since this seams to be some bug -- of course in front of the pc :-) I assume this it not a bug but a setting as well. Back to the original questions: a non-breaking hyphen can be input as ERT (evil red text, i.e. raw LaTeX): Press Strg-L and insert ~ in the appearing box. (This and a lot more about basic typograhic rules and their implementation with LaTeX can be found in a PDF document: Einige typographische Grundregeln und ihre Umsetzung in LATEX Werner Struckmann 3. September 2007 which I found on the net (don't remember where). Günter
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? Yes, slightly. biblatex introduces some new field types (like maintitle, subtitle, titleaddon etc.). In order to get your bibliography properly formatted, some changes to the bib file will be necessary. I used jurabib previously, and it took me about 2-3 hours with a 1000 entries bib file. 2) Does it work well with hyperref (including backref support and so on)? Yes, I have no problems so far. 3) Do I really have to use the natbib options? No, I don't use natbib at all. biblatex is absolutely independent from natbib, there is only a natbib-compatibility-mode in order to use natbib's commands (\citep, \citet etc.), not the ones biblatex provides (\parencite, \textcite etc.). 4) Why is it the case that the path to the bib-files has to be either absolute or the bib-file has to be in texmf? I really would like to avoid both. I have all my bib files in my local texmf tree. But it should work if the bib file is in the same directory as the master tex file (though I'm not sure if LyX can handle this). 5) Even though I never heard any complaints about the 0.7 version of biblatex, it is still considered as beta. Did you experience any problems while using it? I am using it a lot, and for a long time, and I had no serious problems since version 0.6. Regards, Dominik.- -- biblatex styles: http://biblatex.dominik-wassenhoven.de/index-en.shtml
Re: Using a network printer
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: getting page
On 19.03.08, Pol wrote: I would like to get straightforwardly pages where to apply corrections that i have made to the printed on paper version of my document. Is there a way to display pagination? No. LyX does not know about the pagination as this is done by the LaTeX backend. However, there is (as far as I know) the possibility to jump to a given place in the LyX window from the xdvi or kdvi previewers (don't know about the settings, though). I usually use the Search feature (searching for prominent words near the correction) or the Navigation menu (as I do have many sub- and subsubsections, this brings me pretty close). GM
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
On 19.03.2008, at 10:26, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? Yes, slightly. biblatex introduces some new field types (like maintitle, subtitle, titleaddon etc.). In order to get your bibliography properly formatted, some changes to the bib file will be necessary. I used jurabib previously, and it took me about 2-3 hours with a 1000 entries bib file. I see. Are these new fields backward compatible in the sense that they do not interfere with old-fashioned bibtex and both work smoothly on the same database? (Our group uses a global svn-managed bibtex database which is included as svn:externals into every paper or thesis project. I doubt that I would get through with a big bang transition to biblatex.) Thanks Dominik! Daniel
Re: pdf file size
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 21:03:11 Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. I would love to do it on the fly without actually producing lower resolution images on disk, and pointing to them. Can I run a python script in the lyx tmp directory by lyx, or any such solution? I know adobe acrobat does this on the output pdf for $300. Doing convert on the pdf ruins the text as well. Thanks Miki Please add this to lyx bugzilla so that it does not get forgoten. I don't remember to see this request before. All the times I had this problem before I have fixed it by hand. -- José Abílio
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008:
Are these new fields backward compatible in the sense that
they do not interfere with old-fashioned bibtex and both work smoothly
on the same database?
I think so. biblatex treats some fields in another way, e.g. 'edition',
which should contain only numerals, or 'address', which can cope with
lists like London and New York and ... in order to abbreviate the list
if necessary. Most of these fields should also work if the expected data
type is different, e.g. 'address = {London, New York}' works also (only
the abbreviation does not work, then). For details, please look into the
biblatex documentation, there is also a list of all fields and how they
are treated in biblatex.
Regards,
Dominik.-
RE: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors
Paul,
Yes I understand where you are coming from. I can see the conference people
being up in arms about an additional author. I have emailed them anyway so
I'll just wait for the reply.
Just for my own knowledge how would I go about creating a \threeauthors?
Can I just copy the \twoauthors and modify the table columns and add it to
the spconf.sty?
Thanks again!
PDF
-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: 19 March 2008 02:08
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors
Phillip Ferguson wrote:
Hey all,
Yet again I am having some issues with the spconf.sty.
This time it's the authors.
In spconf.sty the comments for \twoauthors are:
- use \twoauthors{author1}{address1}{author2}{address2}
% for two (or more) authors with two separate addresses
%- note: no need for \author nor \date
%- optional: can use \thanks{xx} within \name or \twoauthors,
% asterisk is not printed after name nor in footnote
%- optional: can use \sthanks{xx} after each name within \name or
% \twoauthors if different thanks for each author,
% footnote symbol will appear for each name and footnote
And it defines \twoauthors:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\em #1} \\ \\
#2\relax
\end{tabular}\hskip [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{}}
{\em #3} \\ \\
#4\relax
\end{tabular}}}
I have no idea of latex but I guess that this must set the layout and
parameters for only 2 author areas where only one address is allowed. My
problem is that I need 3 authors with three distinct addresses.
Can I modify this piece of code to spread 3 authors evenly across the
page?
I suspect I may have to reduce the text size to accommodate all 3.
Does anyone know how to set this up correctly, or by doing this am I
violating the template?
Have you considered summarily dropping one of your co-authors? :-)
The \twoauthors macro uses a pair of side-by-side tables to space out
the authors and institutions, so hypothetically you could cobble
together a \threeauthors macro along similar lines but with three
tables. You likely would have to reduce the font size, which might
easily offend the conference people. Before doing that, I would suggest
contacting them and asking how they would recommend you handle it.
/Paul
images with pdflatex
Hey all, I just noticed something that I wondered might be a bug. When I have a eps image that is scaled and clipped in lyx, and the document is using the article class, pdflatex does not format the image correctly. It is as if the article class is conflicting with the clipping. The image is not off a side of the page but underlapping text in the page. To resolve it have resorted to export the lyx file via dvipdfm which creates a pdf exactly like the dvi. Is this a know bug? Thanks PDF
Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
Hello,
I was wondering if one can also use macros for some text things. For
example, I would like to use macros for abbreviations. In German the
abbreviation of zum Beispiel is z.B. with a small space between
z. and B.. I realized it by putting
\newcommand{\realAbkzB}{z.\,B.} into the preamble and adding a
math-macro \abkzB that calles the \realAbkzB-command. In the .lyx-file
it looks like this:
\begin_inset FormulaMacro
\newcommand{\abkzB}{\mbox{\realAbkzB }}
{\mbox{z.\, B.}}
\end_inset
When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m
and enter \abkzB. That works, but I have got to switch to math-mode
and in the macro I use an mbox to get back to normal text.
Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is
the macro-feature a math-only thing?
Dominik
Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above
it.
I have tried variations of
\emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s
how about
\acute{s}
in math mode?
Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Stephen Buonopane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above
it.
I have tried variations of
\emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s
how about
\acute{s}
in math mode?
Or maybe Insert-Special Character-Symbols, there Latin Extended-A,
fourth row, ŝ/ś.
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is the macro-feature a math-only thing? Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro available. However, if I understand it right lyx 1.6 will come with support in form of user-configurable text-styles that can be embedded in the document. I am not quite sure whether you can already define a text style in a layout file with 1.5. OTOH, you can get the \zB a bit simpler: M-x math-macro abkzB and in the math Box: Strg-m (text in math) z. Strg-Shift-Space (small space) B. When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m and enter \abkzB. You can even define a keybinding for this. Günter
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote:
Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is
the macro-feature a math-only thing?
Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro available.
Okay, I already thought so.
OTOH, you can get the \zB a bit simpler:
M-x math-macro abkzB
and in the math Box:
Strg-m (text in math)
z.
Strg-Shift-Space (small space)
B.
Nope, that doesn't work, as LyX generates $\mbox{z.\, B.}$ (note the
space after \,). That makes the space not a half but a one and a half
space. I think, putting it into a separate command into the preamble
is the only way.
When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m
and enter \abkzB.
You can even define a keybinding for this.
That's right, but it's still not the way I would do it using plain LaTeX.
Dominik
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
Dominik Böhm schrieb: I was wondering if one can also use macros for some text things. This will be possible in the next major lyX release lyX 1.6.0. For now you have to define new commands using the ERT or the document preamble. The math manaul explains how to do this (this method is relevant for all document parts, also text stuff). regards Uwe
Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy
Ignacio García-6 wrote: hansi wrote I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output (pdf) looks not as before. They are not scaled as before. This happens also with files, that I wrote in this version. I installed the older version, what doesn't help, either. I think it has to do with one of the newer packages. Do you know advise? Is this your problem:? On 27/12 D. Clement wrote: I do see the eps images in pdf, but shrinked to a tiny size in the lower right corner of their normal place. (see http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg60856.html) I have a similar problem since lyx1.5.x on Gutsy. I have not found solution for direct conversion eps to pdf with pdflatex. I must convert the eps figures to pdf figures with 'epstopdf' outside Lyx and to insert the figures in the document as PDF images. So pdflatex gives correct scaled images in the output. regards Ignacio Yes, it sounds like the same problem! What I do at the moment is, that make a ps-file and convert it with pstoedit into pdf. Works but takes more time and also more memory-space for the ps. I don't know, why it doesn't work in Lyx 1.5.x but did work in 1.4.x ...? I tried texlive-extra-utils, what doesn't help. Let me know, if you find a solution! Regards, Hannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-eps-in-Lyx-1.5-Ubuntu-Gutsy-tp16118076p16143648.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy
Yes, it sounds like the same problem! What I do at the moment is, that make a ps-file and convert it with pstoedit into pdf. Works but takes more time and also more memory-space for the ps. I don't know, why it doesn't work in Lyx 1.5.x but did work in 1.4.x ...? I tried texlive-extra-utils, what doesn't help. Let me know, if you find a solution! Regards, Hannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-eps-in-Lyx-1.5-Ubuntu-Gutsy-tp16118076p16143650.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy
Yes, it sounds like the same problem! What I do at the moment is, that I make a ps-file and convert it with pstoedit into pdf. Works but takes more time and also more memory-space for the ps. I don't know, why it doesn't work in Lyx 1.5.x but did work in 1.4.x ...? I tried texlive-extra-utils, what doesn't help. Let me know, if you find a solution! Regards, Hannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-eps-in-Lyx-1.5-Ubuntu-Gutsy-tp16118076p16143667.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Extra vertical space between some paragarphs
I am using Lyx 1.5.4. There is extra vertical space between several paragraphs in pdf output. Only, separate paragraphs with indentation is set on and no vertical space is set in the global document setting. Local setting of the paragraphs is the same and still some paragraph have extra line before and after paragraph. Any idea how to fix this annoying behaviour is welcome. Thanks. Peter
Float caption indentation
Hi! Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts? My problem is, that I have a 2 lines long caption text under an image, and the second line of the caption begins under the keyword Table 1: or Figure 1. I would like to have the 2nd line of the caption to begin under the text in the first line of my caption. For example: Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, here begins the 2nd line of the caption. Figure 2: And I would like to have something like this, where there is an indent in the 2nd line. Regards, Zoltan
Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?
Dominik Böhm wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is the macro-feature a math-only thing? Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro available. Okay, I already thought so. There are enhancement requests about this. It'd be great to have it. When I want to include z.B. in my document, I have to press Ctrl+m and enter \abkzB. You can even define a keybinding for this. That's right, but it's still not the way I would do it using plain LaTeX. Of course, you can always use ERT for this, and you can bind the whole business to a key. rh
Re: Using a network printer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what File-Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same doc tend to differ a bit. /Paul
Re: Float caption indentation
Zoltan Sarosi wrote:
Hi!
Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts?
My problem is, that I have a 2 lines long caption text under an image,
and the second line of the caption begins under the keyword Table 1:
or Figure 1. I would like to have the 2nd line of the caption to begin
under the text in the first line of my caption.
For example:
Figure 1: Now my text looks like this,
here begins the 2nd line of the caption.
Figure 2: And I would like to have something like
this, where there is an indent in the 2nd line.
In the preamble: \usepackage[hang]{caption}
/Paul
Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors
Phillip Ferguson wrote: Just for my own knowledge how would I go about creating a \threeauthors? Can I just copy the \twoauthors and modify the table columns and add it to the spconf.sty? Example attached. /Paul pf.lyx Description: application/lyx
cases help
Dear all I this is part of the latex code that i am using in Lyx,
\mathrm{pro}\mathrm{j}_{H_{v,t}}\left(\widetilde{F}_{e\in
E^{+}\left(v\right),m\in M,t}\left(\mathbf{p}\right)_{v\in V,t\in
T}\right):=\begin{cases}
\widetilde{F}_{e\in E^{+}\left(v\right),m\in M,t}\left(\mathbf{p}\right) if
\sum_{e\in E^{^{+}}(v)}\sum_{m\in
M}p_{e,m,t}\leq\frac{P_{\bar{v}}^{Max}}{\left|E^{^{+}}(\bar{v})\right|\times\left|M\right|}\\
c if \sum_{e\in E^{^{+}}(v)}\sum_{m\in
M}p_{e,m,t}\frac{P_{\bar{v}}^{Max}}{\left|E^{^{+}}(\bar{v})\right|\times\left|M\right|}\end{cases}
when I try to generate the pdf file i have the followind text
c
\sum_{e\in E^{^{+}}(v)}\sum_{m\in M}p_{e,m,t}\frac{P_{\bar{v}...
You have given more \span or marks than there were
in the preamble to the \halign or \valign now in progress.
So I'll assume that you meant to type \cr instead.
I can generate the pdf file with 2 columns but I have a problem trying to add
the third 3 column.
I am including ntheorem class I dont know if this is the problem.
Thanks for you help.
Carlos Sosa Paz
Re: Using a network printer
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what File-Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same doc tend to differ a bit. Does it seem strange to have a document processor that cannot print? I'd be ok with using the viewer, but it's confusing with a File-Print that doesn't work. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com
Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can insert it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+-. More of those commands can be found in the Insert-Special Character/Formatting menu. So, don't ERTs for protected hyphens... I looked both into the user guide and into the abbreviations list, but couldn't find this shortcut neither the menu point (for non-breaking hyphen). But that's good to know, thank you. But getting back to my worst problem: any ideas about my missing headlines? Here's a link to the document: http://www.wreeno.de/lyx2/my_content/thesis_template.zip thanks a lot, diefettenjahre.
Re: Using a network printer
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what File-Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same doc tend to differ a bit. Does it seem strange to have a document processor that cannot print? I'd be ok with using the viewer, but it's confusing with a File-Print that doesn't work. Christian, The problem with that thought is that on my system it Just Works, without any arcane settings. And mine is not a particularly simple setup: I'm running Gentoo Linux, with CUPS printing, on a rather complicated network, and LyX just defaults to running a document through dvips and sending it to the default printer. However . . . as many LyX users do, I usually use pdflatex for my default preview and most common export. And some figures which work perfectly with pdflatex do not work at all with latex. When I try to print a document with such figures, the printing fails with the message: Could not print document name.lyx. Check that your printer is set up correctly. Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 22:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. /Paul Yes and no. Yes, I pasted them in and they went in as only underscores. But no, no matter what I did with backslashes I couldn't get them to do the right thing. You gave me an idea though. I'm going to make a TeX file and a LaTeX file, and see if this problem occurs in those places too. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
Thanks for the solution!
I elect to use Stephens solution, as I am not using LyX (making
the changes directly to the LaTeX source). When I learn the
proper use of LyX, I'll try the other suggested solution.
the command I use is
$\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$
The thinspace is to accommodate the non-italic text which
follows. Perhaps I should also try the \ / mechanism, too.
wrb
-Original Message-
From: Dominik Böhm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LyX User
Subject: Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Stephen Buonopane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above
it.
I have tried variations of
\emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s
how about
\acute{s}
in math mode?
Or maybe Insert-Special Character-Symbols, there Latin
Extended-A, fourth row, s/s.
noweb book chapter include problem. How about external material strategy?
I've asked before, but have new enthusiasm because I just learned about the ExternalMaterial handling in lyx-1.5.4. I succeed using NoWeb strategy in LyX to interact with the statistics program R. There has been some posting about that in here lately by other people doing it too and I see Gregor has updated the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave Now I'm writing a book and want to include some of those Noweb articles as chapters. I create the book master document and try to include the lyx files, but when I view the book in lyx, the included documents are not put through the Noweb processor. They just appear in the output as they are in the lyx file. They don't get sent through the Lyx- LaTeX (via noweb) step. I've tried many variations on this theme. Now I'm thinking that the LyX Insert-File-Lyx Document was the wrong approach from the start. Instead, I think what I need is Insert-file-external material where the external material is customized for this type of document. But I need help in making it work. Here's why I think it might work. I noticed a neat thing LyX does that I did not know about before. An Xfig drawing can be included in 2 ways into LyX. 1. Insert- graphics Choose the fig file, then LyX will process the fig file and it will show as a graphic. The processing lyx does to the fig file translates it to postscript, I think. It just treats the fig file as a picture. 2. Insert-File-External Material. This does something different. It will decipher LaTeX markup in text in the fig file. (I think it is doing the 2 parts export to EPS format, if you know what i mean). If you put LaTeX text in your file, and you marked it with the special attribute, then LyX will process that xfig file to convert the LaTeX markup and fit it into the graphic. So in the xfig file, you can put in text like $\alpha$ and in the output, you see the Greek alpha. Note this is different from the Insert-graphics approach, where the literal string $\alpha$ appears. Seeing this external handling made me wonder, why doesn't one of the smart guys who knows LyX inside and out design a Noweb handler for External Material. The converter specified in LyX preferences to go from he noweb format Sweave to LaTeX is .R CMD Sweave $$i So, If I want to include a lyx file, I need some way to tell Lyx it needs that post processing, and that's why the external material thing seems just right. If one of you would do it for me, it would be great. More likely, you will tell me what manual to read about writing external material handlers in LyX. That would be good too, but requiring more work :) PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 22:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. /Paul I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_ commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word. So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not. I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Using a network printer
Les Denham wrote: Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. That's the more dramatic version, but even when the document compiles successfully, it may look different generated one way versus another. For instance, I think that font substitutions can occur with, say, a PDF file that would not occur (or would occur differently) with a DVI file, and I believe that graphics are handled somewhat differently by one approach versus another. If all you want is the printed output, this might be ok, but if you are printing a copy (as PS output, perhaps without realizing it) while generating a file (say PDF) for distribution, you might get short-hopped by the differences. I always try to print from a viewer looking at the final distribution version. /Paul
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
Steve Litt wrote: I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_ commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word. So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not. I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore. I might be getting lost (well, more lost than usual) here. First, responding to your other message where you said putting the backslashes into LyX failed, did you do that in ERT? If you type a backslash into text in LyX, I think it gets escaped (so that it's treated as a literal backslash). Re your Mandriva output, are you saying that \_ in the LaTeX file, inside a LyX-code environment, produces proportionally spaced (or monospaced with inadequate width) underscores? If so, what are you using for a typewriter font? It doesn't seem that this should be OS-specific. /Paul
Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the command I use is
$\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$
This command works just fine in math mode in LyX for me. Displaying an
italic s with a prime symbol. See the attached file.
Cheers,
/Bob
acute-s.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Problems with program listings and captions/labels
Hello,
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
The command positions the caption under the listing but breaks the
numbering. Please find attached an exemplary lyx-file and the
resulting pdf file. After the first listing, I executed
\lstset{captionpos=b}, thus the second reference is broken.
Is that a known bug in the listings package (I didn't find anything on
Google) or does LyX do anything wrong? I had a look at the generated
latex (pdflatex)-file (which I attached, too) but it looks ok.
I hope someone knows what to to about this issue.. Thanks a lot
Dominik
test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
test.tex
Description: TeX document
Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
The command positions the caption under the listing but breaks the
numbering. Please find attached an exemplary lyx-file and the
resulting pdf file. After the first listing, I executed
\lstset{captionpos=b}, thus the second reference is broken.
Is that a known bug in the listings package (I didn't find anything on
Google) or does LyX do anything wrong? I had a look at the generated
latex (pdflatex)-file (which I attached, too) but it looks ok.
I hope someone knows what to to about this issue.. Thanks a lot
Dominik
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about listings. However, I remember
seeing a similar post. For LyX 1.5.3 you would put 'captionpos=b' in
Document-Settings-Text Layout-Listing settings.
Cheers,
/Bob
Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about listings. However, I remember
seeing a similar post. For LyX 1.5.3 you would put 'captionpos=b' in
Document-Settings-Text Layout-Listing settings.
Yes I know, in LyX 1.6.0 you would also put it there. The problem is
not that the caption gets positioned wrongly. The problem is that
after wherever inserting captionpos=b the numbering doesn't work
anymore: when I add a reference to Listing 2, LyX (or LaTeX) prints
... 3 ... (see test.pdf in my first message).
I am not sure what exactly goes wrong here...
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:57, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_
commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't
compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word.
So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my
latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not.
I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore.
I might be getting lost (well, more lost than usual) here. First,
responding to your other message where you said putting the backslashes
into LyX failed, did you do that in ERT?
No, I typed \_ commands straight into LyX.
If you type a backslash into
text in LyX, I think it gets escaped (so that it's treated as a literal
backslash).
Re your Mandriva output, are you saying that \_ in the LaTeX file,
inside a LyX-code environment, produces proportionally spaced (or
monospaced with inadequate width) underscores?
That's exactly what I'm saying. \_ in the LaTeX file, inside a standard
LyX-Code environment, produces either proportionally spaced or monospaced
with inadequate width underscores.
If so, what are you
using for a typewriter font?
Let me check. Hang on...
I just tried default, Latin Modern Typewriter, Computer Modern Typewriter, and
Courier, and all did the same thing.
It doesn't seem that this should be
OS-specific.
It's a mystery :-)
I'm attaching the LyX file and the resulting LaTeX file and the resulting dvi
file.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
test.dvi
Description: TeX dvi file
test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
%% LyX 1.5.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[oneside,english]{book}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,lmargin=1cm,rmargin=1cm}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\makeatletter
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
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Notice that the remote program's STDOUT shows up the local computer.
The output clearly shows that the command ran on the remote computer,
not the local one. Now let's use a program requiring both STDOUT and
STDIN: UMENU. On the remote computer, UMENU is run with the command:
\begin{lyxcode}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s~password:
~UMENU~0.7.1~menu~system~(ruby~version),~(C)~2005~by~Steve~Litt
NO~WARRANTY!~See~GPL~license.~~
{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}~~Main~Menu~~{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{[}s]
~Z:~Zuname~
...~~I:~Internet~~
...~~O:~Outlining~~
...~~C:~Calendars~~
...~~N:~coNfiguration~~
...~~S:~Sales~~
...~~P:~Projects~~
...~~A:~Accounting~~
...~~L:~Litt's~Pet~Menu~
...~~E:~Entertainment~Menu~
...~~W:~Windows~Apps~(Crossover~Office)
~K:~Kt~to~MPH~converter~
...~~H:~Hurricanes
...~~T:~Timekeeping
~X:~eXit~Your~choice~please==
sh:~/dev/tty:~No~such~device~or~address
~\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
|~~Copyright~(C)~2005~by~Steve~Litt~([EMAIL PROTECTED])|
|~~GNU~General~Public~License~version~2.~NO~WARRANTY!~~|
|~~|
|~~You~should~have~received~a~copy~of~the~GNU~General~Public~License~~~|
|~~along~with~this~program;~if~not,~write~to~the~Free~Software~|
|~~Foundation,~Inc.,~675~Mass~Ave,~Cambridge,~MA~02139,~USA.~~~|
|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_|
Thank~You~for~using~the~Universal~Menu~System!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
0~
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In the preceding experiment, I ran UMENU in a terminal on I know it
was run on , because
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Re: Literal monofont underscores?
Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:57, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_
commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't
compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word.
So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but my
latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not.
I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore.
I might be getting lost (well, more lost than usual) here. First,
responding to your other message where you said putting the backslashes
into LyX failed, did you do that in ERT?
No, I typed \_ commands straight into LyX.
If you type a backslash into
text in LyX, I think it gets escaped (so that it's treated as a literal
backslash).
Re your Mandriva output, are you saying that \_ in the LaTeX file,
inside a LyX-code environment, produces proportionally spaced (or
monospaced with inadequate width) underscores?
That's exactly what I'm saying. \_ in the LaTeX file, inside a standard
LyX-Code environment, produces either proportionally spaced or monospaced
with inadequate width underscores.
If so, what are you
using for a typewriter font?
Let me check. Hang on...
I just tried default, Latin Modern Typewriter, Computer Modern Typewriter, and
Courier, and all did the same thing.
It doesn't seem that this should be
OS-specific.
It's a mystery :-)
I'm attaching the LyX file and the resulting LaTeX file and the resulting dvi
file.
Whoever invented this font encoding bull excrement should be forced to
sit in a stiff chair and listen to every campaign speech this year (all
at once, no potty breaks)!
I confirmed that running LaTeX against your test.tex file produced a
misformatted result (though not quite your test.dvi -- apparently you
changed your e-mail address somewhere along the line). Dinking around
with your LyX file, I accidentally got the desired result. I had to
export a new LaTeX file and run a diff program against yours and mine to
find the culprit.
LyX 1.5.4 inserts \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} in the preamble. You don't
have that in your .tex file; inserting it fixes the problem.
/Paul
Re: cases help
Carlos Sosa Paz schrieb: Dear all I this is part of the latex code that i am using in Lyx, ... I can generate the pdf file with 2 columns but I have a problem trying to add the third 3 column. I cannot help you without a small LyX example file. But perhaps you find a way not to use directly LaTeX code to generate your formula when looking in the new math manual that comes with LyX 1.5.4. regards Uwe
Re: Float caption indentation
Zoltan Sarosi schrieb: Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts? Use the LateX-package caption. The EmbeddedObjects manual has some example what you can do with this package. All you have to do is to add the correct option of the caption package as described there. I refer to the documentation of caption for the detailed description of the different options: http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/caption/caption.pdf regards Uwe
Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing.
Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble,
tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call
\lstset{captionpos=b} in an ERT before the listing.
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about listings. However, I remember
seeing a similar post. For LyX 1.5.3 you would put 'captionpos=b' in
Document-Settings-Text Layout-Listing settings.
Yes I know, in LyX 1.6.0 you would also put it there. The problem is
not that the caption gets positioned wrongly. The problem is that
after wherever inserting captionpos=b the numbering doesn't work
anymore: when I add a reference to Listing 2, LyX (or LaTeX) prints
... 3 ... (see test.pdf in my first message).
I am not sure what exactly goes wrong here...
Hopefully someone with more knowledge will respond soon. LyX 1.6 is
still in svn, so I can't open you're lyx file and importing the tex
file makes it more confusing.
Bob
Re: Literal monofont underscores?
On 19.03.2008, at 03:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. Hm... LyX really should behave identically in both cases. It should not produce a different output from *typing" weather *inserting* some text. According to my experience LyX 1.5 versions (it may as well be just a Mac problem...) generally suffer from strange effects that something that looks identically in the LyX editor in fact produces different LaTeX code, which is "surprising" at best for the user. I am still suffering twice a day from the "funny invisible chars" problem without really understanding how these chars make it into my document: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg62392.html Maybe it is time to open a bugzilla entry for this? Daniel
Experiences with biblatex?
Hi, After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. According to the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex) and a thread from last December (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg60714.html ) this seems to be not overly difficult -- it can't be more complicated than my current bibtex, multibib, and child-/master mode tweaks. Before really digging into all this, I am, however, curious about other users' experience with biblatex: 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? I remember that this was an issue when I first read about biblatex, but did not find a comment or hint into this direction in the documentation of the current version. 2) Does it work well with hyperref (including backref support and so on)? The documentation states so -- but with respect to hyperref many oddities arise in practice. (I had, for instance, all my requirements fulfilled with bibunits and some tweaks when I finally figured out that with bibunits reference no longer become hyperlinks - a show stopper.) 3) Do I really have to use the natbib options? I know, everybody recommends natbib, but I prefer the simple alpha style. 4) Why is it the case that the path to the bib-files has to be either absolute or the bib-file has to be in texmf? I really would like to avoid both. 5) Even though I never heard any complaints about the 0.7 version of biblatex, it is still considered as "beta". Did you experience any problems while using it? Thanks a lot! Daniel
WRB - Problems with LaTeX
Testing the patience of this group, I have a short term problem. Well, truth is I probably have several such short term problems, and I would appreciate help with each. However, this problem is not with LyX directly, and though the various experts on this group will likely find motivation to answer the better questions, I am hoping that some of you will help me through an off-topic newbie problem. I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above it. I have tried variations of \emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s and in no case have I found execution without error upon pdflatex or the proper result. At best, there are errors reported, and the output text is converted to italic after production of the desired < italic s' > symbol. Has anyone any idea as to the solution of this problem? William R. Buckley
Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com
On 18.03.08, diefettenjahre wrote: > Hi Maksi, thanks for your reply. > > you might as well make your own template, based of > > preferrable KOMA-Book or Memoir (rather than the standard classes). > Well, this is why I've chosen Lyx and this template. Basically I hoped > that I don't have to learn all these LaTeX commands. But I'll try my > best and have a brief look at the KOMA Script documentation. It is really well written and informative. > If anyone else give me some hint, at least about the headlines since > this seams to be some bug -- of course in front of the pc :-) I assume this it not a bug but a setting as well. Back to the original questions: a non-breaking hyphen can be input as ERT (evil red text, i.e. raw LaTeX): Press Strg-L and insert "~ in the appearing box. (This and a lot more about basic typograhic rules and their implementation with LaTeX can be found in a PDF document: Einige typographische Grundregeln und ihre Umsetzung in LATEX Werner Struckmann 3. September 2007 which I found on the net (don't remember where). Günter
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? Yes, slightly. biblatex introduces some new field types (like maintitle, subtitle, titleaddon etc.). In order to get your bibliography properly formatted, some changes to the bib file will be necessary. I used jurabib previously, and it took me about 2-3 hours with a >1000 entries bib file. 2) Does it work well with hyperref (including backref support and so on)? Yes, I have no problems so far. 3) Do I really have to use the natbib options? No, I don't use natbib at all. biblatex is absolutely independent from natbib, there is only a natbib-compatibility-mode in order to use natbib's commands (\citep, \citet etc.), not the ones biblatex provides (\parencite, \textcite etc.). 4) Why is it the case that the path to the bib-files has to be either absolute or the bib-file has to be in texmf? I really would like to avoid both. I have all my bib files in my local texmf tree. But it should work if the bib file is in the same directory as the master tex file (though I'm not sure if LyX can handle this). 5) Even though I never heard any complaints about the 0.7 version of biblatex, it is still considered as "beta". Did you experience any problems while using it? I am using it a lot, and for a long time, and I had no serious problems since version 0.6. Regards, Dominik.- -- biblatex styles: http://biblatex.dominik-wassenhoven.de/index-en.shtml
Re: Using a network printer
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: getting page
On 19.03.08, Pol wrote: > I would like to get straightforwardly pages where to apply corrections that > i have made to the printed on paper version of my document. > Is there a way to display pagination? No. LyX does not know about the pagination as this is done by the LaTeX backend. However, there is (as far as I know) the possibility to jump to a given place in the LyX window from the xdvi or kdvi previewers (don't know about the settings, though). I usually use the Search feature (searching for prominent words near the correction) or the Navigation menu (as I do have many sub- and subsubsections, this brings me pretty close). GM
Re: Experiences with biblatex?
On 19.03.2008, at 10:26, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? Yes, slightly. biblatex introduces some new field types (like maintitle, subtitle, titleaddon etc.). In order to get your bibliography properly formatted, some changes to the bib file will be necessary. I used jurabib previously, and it took me about 2-3 hours with a >1000 entries bib file. I see. Are these new fields "backward compatible" in the sense that they do not interfere with old-fashioned bibtex and both work smoothly on the same database? (Our group uses a global svn-managed bibtex database which is included as svn:externals into every paper or thesis project. I doubt that I would get through with a "big bang" transition to biblatex.) Thanks Dominik! Daniel
