Help with spellchecking and german Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Hi there,

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ‰ ¸ ˆ or  
fl. i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary. Every wird without a  
umlaut is ok but if it contains one spellchecker told me i wrote wrong.


Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards
Daniel

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6 alpha1 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:


Here are the main comments I have as a user:

1- Like your previous package, your installer lacks 3 python files. It 
prevents opening any previous format and consequently the documentation. 
They are files required by Lyx2Lyx (they were not required in version 
1.5): gettext.py, optparse.py and textwrap.py.


Many thanks for testing. I will add the missing files to the next release.


2- I had some runtime C crashes..



3- The bundled format option is broken...



4- Toggles are not perfect...


Whenever you get a crash or found a bug, please report it at bugzilla.lyx.org (if not already 
reported there).


5- I haven't been able to have the spellchecker to work. It complains 
about not finding the en_US dictionary, but this one is installed, and 
the installer told me it had found it.


I'll have a look, seems that the installer conflicts with the settings of the existing LyX aspell 
installation.


PS: Is there a way to have PNG images displayed in lyx to be 
interpolated with linear interpolation instead of nearest neighbour ? I 
use a 50% scale, and they look terrible. I could not find in the 
preference (viewer and editor are on auto)


I think this can be done with a special ImageMagick option, but don't know this exactly. In general, 
the image display in LyX is not designed for perfect looking within LyX as they will in any case 
look different in the output. They are only there to show what image is what and how big they are.


regards Uwe

Re: Help with German Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Dear Uwe,

 What is the OS you are using?
  i use (want use) the mac version of lyx

I use the Mac (under OSX 10.5.2) Version.
Thanks for your help.

Regards
Daniel


Am 03.04.2008 um 13:58 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:

Daniel Sprehe schrieb:

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ä ü ö or  
ß. i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary.


What is the OS you are using? For Windows we ship LyX together with  
a special Aspell version.


regards Uwe

Short caption listoffigures

[Benedikt Schäfer]

Hello everybody,

is there a possibility to a short caption for the listoffigures similar 
to the optional argument of the \caption command. Maybe ERT is a 
solution but I don't know how to remove the original caption.


Greets,
Benedikt

Re: how to center chapter title?

[Maksi]

snvv wrote:
 I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
 book 
 (memoir) or book in general.

In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for more
information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10 

Maksi

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Re: a0poster example using LyX

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I ended up using the sciposter class with the options
 [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages:
 \usepackage{multicol}
 \usepackage{sectionbox}
 \usepackage{wallpaper}
snip
 The columns were automatically and evenly distributed and the EPS figures
 and LYX tables were all properly sized and layed out. I didn't worry about
 font sizes or margins.

 Hope this helps.

Mateo,

I'll keep that in mind next time I have a poster paper.  I tried to use LyX 
for a poster paper a year ago, but could not get something that looked 
reasonable.  I ended up doing it in Scribus: but that meant fiddling with 
every little detail of the appearance.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Short caption listoffigures

[Benedikt Schäfer]

Benedikt Schäfer wrote:
is there a possibility to a short caption for the listoffigures 
similar to the optional argument of the \caption command. Maybe ERT is 
a solution but I don't know how to remove the original caption.



I found the solution, just didn't see the insert short title command.

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi,

  It seems that I have textlive already installed.

  $ port installed | grep texlive
   texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
   texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
  $


Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
this should refresh the LaTeX package database. Then open LyX and run
Tools-Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

/Bob

Re: how to center chapter title?

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Maksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  snvv wrote:
   I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
   book
   (memoir) or book in general.

  In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
  chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for more
  information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10

  Maksi


This can also be done with the sectsty package (check out the
documentation). However, it is not compatible with memoir.

\usepackage{sectsty}
\chapterfont{\centering}

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Ed Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks Bob,

  I appreciate you taking time for your suggestion.
  I've tried it but with no luck.
  I was wondering if someone could point me where to try to find the answer:
  is it a Windows thing?  is it MiKTeX thing or is it a LyX thing?

  Thanks,
  Ed Sykes

I think this is a MiKTeX/Windows thing. The problem is this is strange
behavior for a fresh install. Did you have an internet connection open
when installing MiKTeX? Are you installing with an administrative
account? Installing just for you or everyone?

The first thing I would do is open an internet connection and 'update'
MiKTeX. If there are no updates then I would go to the MiKTeX
settings-General and 'Refresh FNDB' and 'Update Formats'. If you have
an 'always on' internet connection I would set the 'Package
installation' to 'Yes' install packages on-the-fly.

If none of this works, I would uninstall MiKTeX and LyX and reinstall
with LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe (always helps to reboot Windows between
uninstall and reinstall). Be sure you have an open internet connection
and just accept the defaults for the installation of MiKTeX, the
settings can be changed after install.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: how to center chapter title?

[snvv]

Thank you
In the link you provided, there are 20 different nice chapter styles but not 
the one that i have to use. Therefore, I will have to create one.

Regrads

sn

On Thursday 03 April 2008 16:18:50 Maksi wrote:
 snvv wrote:
  I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
  book
  (memoir) or book in general.

 In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
 chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for
 more information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10

 Maksi

Re: Menu language

[Joost Verburg]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

When you have installed LyX using this installer:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
you can open the file lyx.bat with a text editor and set the menu 
language to e.g. hu_HU.


The official installer stores the language in the registry key 
Software\LyX\Settings\Language. This also allows you to set a different 
language for a specific user by putting it in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.


Joost

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:

  On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:


   Hi,
 
   It seems that I have textlive already installed.
 
   $ port installed | grep texlive
   texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
   texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
   $
 
 


  Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
  this should refresh the LaTeX package database.

  $ sudo texhash
  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-var/ls-R...
  texhash: Done.
  $


  Then open LyX and run
  Tools-Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
  restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

  /Bob

  I have Tools-TeX Information here and then `LaTex classes' `Latex styles'
 `BibTex styles'. I Rescan them all (twice).
  And also LyX-Reconfigure which I did and then it asked me to restart the
 LyX.

  Same error message pops-up!

  Here is the file that I am trying to open:


In LyX Document-Settings-Document Class does 'article' show as
'Unavailable: article'? If so then either you don't have 'article.cls'
installed on your computer through the texlive packages or LyX is not
recognizing the path to texmf* folders.

If you have article.cls installed in one of the
/opt/local/share/texmf* directories then the path needs to be added to
Tools-Preferences-Paths-PATH prefix so that LyX will recognize the
files installed there. You should just need to add /opt/local/share to
the list of paths separated by a semi-colon and then reconfigure LyX.

/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Charlse Darwin]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Charlse Darwin  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

wrote:



 Hi,

 It seems that I have textlive already installed.

 $ port installed | grep texlive
 texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
 texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
 $





 Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
 this should refresh the LaTeX package database.

 $ sudo texhash
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-var/ls-R...
 texhash: Done.
 $


 Then open LyX and run
 Tools-Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
 restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

 /Bob

 I have Tools-TeX Information here and then `LaTex classes' `Latex  
styles'

`BibTex styles'. I Rescan them all (twice).
 And also LyX-Reconfigure which I did and then it asked me to  
restart the

LyX.

 Same error message pops-up!

 Here is the file that I am trying to open:



In LyX Document-Settings-Document Class does 'article' show as
'Unavailable: article'?

Yes.

If so then either you don't have 'article.cls'
installed on your computer through the texlive packages or LyX is not
recognizing the path to texmf* folders.

In Tools-TeX Information under `LaTex classes' I have:

/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

If you have article.cls installed in one of the
/opt/local/share/texmf* directories then the path needs to be added to
Tools-Preferences-Paths-PATH prefix so that LyX will recognize the
files installed there.
In Lyx-Preference-Paths-PATH prefix I have

/usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/ 
local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/ 
powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin- 
current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/ 
local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


You should just need to add /opt/local/share to
the list of paths separated by a semi-colon and then reconfigure LyX.

/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  In Lyx-Preference-Paths-PATH prefix I have
 /usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


That's the problem then. You need to add the path to your paths :-}.
So that LyX knows where all your LaTeX stuff is.

This is what the LyX wiki says, http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac:

To use other implementations of teTeX which do not install the
binaries in /usr/texbin,
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current, /sw/bin,
/opt/local/teTeX/bin, or /usr/local/bin, either link the teTeX
binaries to one of those directories, or add the PATH of your teTeX
binaries to the PATH prefix field in LyX - Preferences - Paths.

I'm not exactly positive what path you need to add which would
correspond to the teTeX binaries. I would just do a trial and error.
First, just add /opt/local/share and then Reconfigure LyX and see if
Document-Settings-Document Class has changed to available. Bennett
is the Mac expert but he hasn't responded yet. I'm sure he would have
a more sophisticated approach.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

[B. Bogart]

Hello,

Thanks for the response Bob, this is the only was I was able to reply,
so I hope you get the this message.

 Also, you say your layout file is called sfuthesis.sty this is not
 correct, it should be sfuthesis.layout, since it's a LyX layout file
 not a LaTeX style file. I'm surprised that LyX is recognizing this
 layout if it does not have the proper extension '.layout.

Ah, I apologize, that is a typo I believe (or I renamed the file after
attaching it). My layout file is named sfuthesis.layout. The style file
(provided by the University) is named csthesis.sty.

  I also added and texhashed the sty file so that lyx could find it.
 
 Where did you place the csthesis.sty?

$HOME/texmf/tex/csthesis.sty

texhash created a ls-R file in that directory, and csthesis.sty is
listed in the LyX Show Tex Information

  I confirm that article(csthesis) is listed as a document class in Lyx.
 
 This doesn't make sense since you have:
 \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,csthesis.sty]{article (sfuthesis)} in some
 sort of layout file.

 This means in LyX it should be 'article (sfuthesis)' not 'article (csthesis)'

Corrected, Lyx shows article (sfuthesis), not article (csthesis) (my
mistake)

I'll recap the main issues here since I'm having trouble with the
mailing list:

The layout file simply controls how the document appears in Lyx, and
does not have any effect on the output, correct?

Even though LyX seems to be using my style file, the output is
different. The titlepage is missing, and the title font is different.

In order to test I imported the latex example file, included with the
csthesis.sty package, into lyx and tried to generate output.

First problem was that I got the following error:

LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.

Lyx highlights the first \qualification{} command.

All the google references I found talked about this error in terms of
using \\, which is not in the document (no manual line-breaks).

Aside: I did notice that just before the qualification a \maketitle
command in the view-source window. What I don't understand is that
command is not visible as ERT or in any way in the normal lyx view. (and
certainly not in the original LaTeX file I'm importing.)

So I did the logical thing of commenting out (with a preceding % sign)
both the \qualification{} commands. Once that is done Lyx will generate
output, the style of the title is incorrect. (but there is a title page!)

So I exported a second latex file from this document, and commented out
the \maketitle command.

Once that is done I can generate a proper looking document using latex
directly on that tex document.

I'm happy that I've been able to get something to work at all, but how
can I use the proper style in LyX directly without having to manually
edit the tex file after exporting?

Why does the \maketitle command get added when I import the tex?

Why does output bail on the \qualification{} commands?

Why does the output of the document using the layout that uses the
thesis style file not generate output that resembles the sample file?

Thanks for your time,
B. Bogart

mathop help

[Carlos Sosa Paz]

Dear all,

I would like to know if there exist an icon for the mathop latex command.
Or how should I include it in my lyx file.

Thank you.
Carlos Sosa

incomplete error messages

[Philipp Schlicht]

Hi,

Lyx doesn't always present the Latex error messages in the correct way. For
example it cuts off parts so they become unreadable. Can this be fixed?

Best,
Philipp

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, B. Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I'm happy that I've been able to get something to work at all, but how
  can I use the proper style in LyX directly without having to manually
  edit the tex file after exporting?

  Why does the \maketitle command get added when I import the tex?

  Why does output bail on the \qualification{} commands?

  Why does the output of the document using the layout that uses the
  thesis style file not generate output that resembles the sample file?

  Thanks for your time,
  B. Bogart


Well, I looked at your bbtest.tex file and the first thing I noticed
is that it calls for report.cls. So you should create a
sfuthesis.layout based on report not article.

Anyways, when you insert a title or author field in LyX it
automatically inserts a '\maketitle' command but your bbtest.tex does
not do this.

Long story short. Inserting '\renewcommand\maketitle{}' in the
preamble of bbtest.tex eliminated the errors in the file and produced
good output.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bennett Helm]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
   In Lyx-Preference-Paths-PATH prefix I have
 
 /usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


 That's the problem then. You need to add the path to your paths :-}.
 So that LyX knows where all your LaTeX stuff is.


Yes. I'm not sure where macports puts its latex files, but you can find out
by going to Terminal.app (Applications  Utilities) and typing:

which latex

which should return the path to latex. That path (minus the latex part) is
what you need to add to the PATH prefix, as Bob indicated. So for me, which
latex returns:

/usr/texbin/latex

and so I add to the beginning of PATH prefix just the /usr/texbin part,
followed by a colon (:). (Of course, in my case, /usr/texbin is already
there, which is why it works for me.) Then LyX should work for you.

Please let us know what you have to add. I haven't used macports lately, so
I'm not sure where they currently put the latex executables, but we should
make sure that is a part of the default PATH prefix so that others don't
have this problem.

One final note: there's no reason to use macports to install LyX. They
actually tend to be behind the current LyX binaries we post on the LyX
website. All you need to do is download the binary, drag LyX.app wherever
you want it, run the installer, and you're done.

Bennett

Re: LyX logo

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:29:18AM +0200, G. Milde wrote:
 On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
  On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote:
  
   About the logo
 ...
* funny
 ...
   * home made
  
   The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance at for 
   work these applications. If the boss thinks it's not serious, he might 
   object to the application being used for company documents...
 
  You mean there are bosses out there that might consider using LyX?
  Interesting line of thought ...
 
 Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you
 are not seriously working.

Wrong job then.

Andre'

Re: LyX logo

[Jim]

It is gorgeous. I like it.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andre Poenitz 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:29:18AM +0200, G. Milde wrote:
  On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
   On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote:
   
About the logo
  ...
 * funny
  ...
* home made
   
The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance
 at for
work these applications. If the boss thinks it's not serious, he
 might
object to the application being used for company documents...
 
   You mean there are bosses out there that might consider using LyX?
   Interesting line of thought ...
 
  Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you
  are not seriously working.

 Wrong job then.

 Andre'

Re: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Has anyone done this? Our model is written in Python, so we can use the
open() and write() methods to squirt strings to a disk file.


  After learning PyX (Python wrapper for TeX/LaTeX primarily for graphics),
and trying to use it to write the reports, I'm back to embedding LaTeX
markup in Python comments. Risking public humiliation (Hey! I'm used to that
since I testify at all sorts of government hearings.), I'm posting my first
abortive attempt to learn how to do the job. Small file attached; as long as
you have python installed on your system, it will run.

  However, the output is not what I expected. I think it's really a Python
issue, not a LaTeX issue, so I've asked the local python geeks for help.
But, since I started this thread I thought to keep you all informed of
progress.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, sys, config

preamb = 
  \documentclass[oneside,english]{article}
  \usepackage{palatino}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[dvips] {geometry}
  
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=1.5cm,bmargin=1.5cm,lmargin=1.5cm,rmargin=1.5cm}
  \pagestyle{empty}

  \makeatletter

  \date{}
  \setlength\headsep{4.4cm}
  \setlength{\textheight}{18.5cm}
  \setlength{\textwidth}{25.0cm}

  \usepackage{babel}
  \makeatother
  
  \begin{document}
  
  

ending = \end{document}
  
def econPairs():
  pairData = [(Jobs,Tax base),
  (Jobs,Infrastructure),
  (Jobs,Schools),
  (Jobs,Housing),
  (Jobs,Medical care),
  (Jobs,Sustainability),
  (Jobs,Traffic volume),
  (Tax base,Infrastructure),
  (Tax base,Schools),
  (Tax base,Housing),
  (Tax base,Medical care),
  (Tax base,Sustainability),
  (Tax base,Traffic volume),
  (Infrastructure,Schools),
  (Infrastructure,Housing),
  (Infrastructure,Medical care),
  (Infrastructure,Sustainability),
  (Infrastructure,Traffic volume),
  (Schools,Housing),
  (Schools,Medical care),
  (Schools,Sustainability),
  (Schools,Traffic volume),
  (Housing,Medical care),
  (Housing,Sustainability),
  (Housing,Traffic volume),
  (Medical care,Sustainability),
  (Medical care,Traffic volume),
  (Sustainability,Traffic volume)]


  ratingHead = Importance   
Value   Definition
   

  ratingTab = 1   Equal importance
 3   Weak importance of one over the other
 5   Strong importance of one over the other
 7   Demonstrated importance of one over the other
 9   Absolute importance of one over the other
2, 4, 6, 8   Intermediate values between the two adjacent 
definitions


  instructPara = Using the table below, determine your preference for either 
the first
item of the pair (on the left), or the second (on the 
right). Use the
rating table to determine the strength of your preference, 
then fully
fill in the rectangle for that preference strength on the 
same line as
the component pairs. If you prefer the second more than the 
first,
also completely fill in the last box on the right.

  title = Economic Components

  out = open('omrPairs.tex', 'w')
  out.write(preamb)

  out.write(title)
  out.write(\vspace{6cm})   # space below title to line up first line 
with OMR form

  out.write('Fill in the box under \'Economic\' on this line --')
  out.write(vspace{1.5cm})
  out.write('Record your position on the project here --')
  out.write(\vspace{3cm})

  for left,right in pairData:
out.write(left)
out.write(\hspace{3cm})
out.write(right)

  out.write(ending)
  out.close()

if __name__ == __main__:
  econPairs()

Re[2]: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Alan G Isaac]

1. You need to use raw strings or double your backslashes.

2. Probably you should use LaTeX tables.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Alan G Isaac wrote:


1. You need to use raw strings or double your backslashes.


Alan,

  Yes, doubling the backslashes worked.


2. Probably you should use LaTeX tables.


  I'll probably get to this for some of the reports. But, on this one the
text strings need to be aligned with bubbles on an OMR form. So I need to
tweak the horizontal and vertical spacings to get it all lined up
appropriately.

  BTW, I tried using PyX for this but didn't find enough information in the
docs to feel confident that I could.

Thanks,

Rich

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[OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Dov Feldstern]

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Has anyone done this? Our model is written in Python, so we can use the
open() and write() methods to squirt strings to a disk file.


  After learning PyX (Python wrapper for TeX/LaTeX primarily for graphics),
and trying to use it to write the reports, I'm back to embedding LaTeX
markup in Python comments. Risking public humiliation (Hey! I'm used to 
that

since I testify at all sorts of government hearings.), I'm posting my first
abortive attempt to learn how to do the job. Small file attached; as 
long as

you have python installed on your system, it will run.


Based on your example, I would strongly recommend that you look into 
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ --- it's a wonderful tool, and it looks to me 
like it may be just what you're looking for.


Enjoy!
Dov

Re: [OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Dov Feldstern wrote:

Based on your example, I would strongly recommend that you look into 
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ --- it's a wonderful tool, and it looks to me 
like it may be just what you're looking for.


Dov,

  Thank you for the recommendation. But, I don't see why I want to put html
code in my python application in order to produce .tex files. Or write xml.
I see the value of the templater for web applications and unstructured
reports. However, that's not what I need.

  The sample code I posted needs to be placed precisely on the page so the
pairs are aligned with a row of bubbles on the OMR form.

  Other reports need to incorporate plots with the text. Perhaps Cheetah
_could_ do this, but the learning curve and attempts to bend it to our needs
would consume the time it would take me to hand write the LaTeX code.

Rich

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Re[2]: [OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Alan G Isaac]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote:
 The sample code I posted needs to be placed precisely on 
 the page so the pairs are aligned with a row of bubbles on 
 the OMR form.

It seems to me that this calls for a page description 
language, like PostScript of PDF.  However maybe you
could make a LaTeX picture that matches your page size.
Text and drawings can be placed extremely precisely in
a picture.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Help with spellchecking and german Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Hi there,

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ‰ ¸ ˆ or  
fl. i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary. Every wird without a  
umlaut is ok but if it contains one spellchecker told me i wrote wrong.


Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards
Daniel

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6 alpha1 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:


Here are the main comments I have as a user:

1- Like your previous package, your installer lacks 3 python files. It 
prevents opening any previous format and consequently the documentation. 
They are files required by Lyx2Lyx (they were not required in version 
1.5): gettext.py, optparse.py and textwrap.py.


Many thanks for testing. I will add the missing files to the next release.


2- I had some runtime C crashes..



3- The bundled format option is broken...



4- Toggles are not perfect...


Whenever you get a crash or found a bug, please report it at bugzilla.lyx.org (if not already 
reported there).


5- I haven't been able to have the spellchecker to work. It complains 
about not finding the en_US dictionary, but this one is installed, and 
the installer told me it had found it.


I'll have a look, seems that the installer conflicts with the settings of the existing LyX aspell 
installation.


PS: Is there a way to have PNG images displayed in lyx to be 
interpolated with linear interpolation instead of nearest neighbour ? I 
use a 50% scale, and they look terrible. I could not find in the 
preference (viewer and editor are on auto)


I think this can be done with a special ImageMagick option, but don't know this exactly. In general, 
the image display in LyX is not designed for perfect looking within LyX as they will in any case 
look different in the output. They are only there to show what image is what and how big they are.


regards Uwe

Re: Help with German Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Dear Uwe,

 What is the OS you are using?
  i use (want use) the mac version of lyx

I use the Mac (under OSX 10.5.2) Version.
Thanks for your help.

Regards
Daniel


Am 03.04.2008 um 13:58 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:

Daniel Sprehe schrieb:

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ä ü ö or  
ß. i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary.


What is the OS you are using? For Windows we ship LyX together with  
a special Aspell version.


regards Uwe

Short caption listoffigures

[Benedikt Schäfer]

Hello everybody,

is there a possibility to a short caption for the listoffigures similar 
to the optional argument of the \caption command. Maybe ERT is a 
solution but I don't know how to remove the original caption.


Greets,
Benedikt

Re: how to center chapter title?

[Maksi]

snvv wrote:
 I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
 book 
 (memoir) or book in general.

In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for more
information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10 

Maksi

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Re: a0poster example using LyX

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I ended up using the sciposter class with the options
 [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages:
 \usepackage{multicol}
 \usepackage{sectionbox}
 \usepackage{wallpaper}
snip
 The columns were automatically and evenly distributed and the EPS figures
 and LYX tables were all properly sized and layed out. I didn't worry about
 font sizes or margins.

 Hope this helps.

Mateo,

I'll keep that in mind next time I have a poster paper.  I tried to use LyX 
for a poster paper a year ago, but could not get something that looked 
reasonable.  I ended up doing it in Scribus: but that meant fiddling with 
every little detail of the appearance.

-- 
Les

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Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
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Re: Short caption listoffigures

[Benedikt Schäfer]

Benedikt Schäfer wrote:
is there a possibility to a short caption for the listoffigures 
similar to the optional argument of the \caption command. Maybe ERT is 
a solution but I don't know how to remove the original caption.



I found the solution, just didn't see the insert short title command.

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi,

  It seems that I have textlive already installed.

  $ port installed | grep texlive
   texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
   texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
  $


Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
this should refresh the LaTeX package database. Then open LyX and run
Tools-Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

/Bob

Re: how to center chapter title?

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Maksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  snvv wrote:
   I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
   book
   (memoir) or book in general.

  In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
  chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for more
  information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10

  Maksi


This can also be done with the sectsty package (check out the
documentation). However, it is not compatible with memoir.

\usepackage{sectsty}
\chapterfont{\centering}

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Ed Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks Bob,

  I appreciate you taking time for your suggestion.
  I've tried it but with no luck.
  I was wondering if someone could point me where to try to find the answer:
  is it a Windows thing?  is it MiKTeX thing or is it a LyX thing?

  Thanks,
  Ed Sykes

I think this is a MiKTeX/Windows thing. The problem is this is strange
behavior for a fresh install. Did you have an internet connection open
when installing MiKTeX? Are you installing with an administrative
account? Installing just for you or everyone?

The first thing I would do is open an internet connection and 'update'
MiKTeX. If there are no updates then I would go to the MiKTeX
settings-General and 'Refresh FNDB' and 'Update Formats'. If you have
an 'always on' internet connection I would set the 'Package
installation' to 'Yes' install packages on-the-fly.

If none of this works, I would uninstall MiKTeX and LyX and reinstall
with LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe (always helps to reboot Windows between
uninstall and reinstall). Be sure you have an open internet connection
and just accept the defaults for the installation of MiKTeX, the
settings can be changed after install.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: how to center chapter title?

[snvv]

Thank you
In the link you provided, there are 20 different nice chapter styles but not 
the one that i have to use. Therefore, I will have to create one.

Regrads

sn

On Thursday 03 April 2008 16:18:50 Maksi wrote:
 snvv wrote:
  I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
  book
  (memoir) or book in general.

 In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
 chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for
 more information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10

 Maksi

Re: Menu language

[Joost Verburg]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

When you have installed LyX using this installer:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
you can open the file lyx.bat with a text editor and set the menu 
language to e.g. hu_HU.


The official installer stores the language in the registry key 
Software\LyX\Settings\Language. This also allows you to set a different 
language for a specific user by putting it in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.


Joost

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:

  On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:


   Hi,
 
   It seems that I have textlive already installed.
 
   $ port installed | grep texlive
   texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
   texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
   $
 
 


  Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
  this should refresh the LaTeX package database.

  $ sudo texhash
  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-var/ls-R...
  texhash: Done.
  $


  Then open LyX and run
  Tools-Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
  restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

  /Bob

  I have Tools-TeX Information here and then `LaTex classes' `Latex styles'
 `BibTex styles'. I Rescan them all (twice).
  And also LyX-Reconfigure which I did and then it asked me to restart the
 LyX.

  Same error message pops-up!

  Here is the file that I am trying to open:


In LyX Document-Settings-Document Class does 'article' show as
'Unavailable: article'? If so then either you don't have 'article.cls'
installed on your computer through the texlive packages or LyX is not
recognizing the path to texmf* folders.

If you have article.cls installed in one of the
/opt/local/share/texmf* directories then the path needs to be added to
Tools-Preferences-Paths-PATH prefix so that LyX will recognize the
files installed there. You should just need to add /opt/local/share to
the list of paths separated by a semi-colon and then reconfigure LyX.

/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Charlse Darwin]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Charlse Darwin  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

wrote:



 Hi,

 It seems that I have textlive already installed.

 $ port installed | grep texlive
 texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
 texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
 $





 Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
 this should refresh the LaTeX package database.

 $ sudo texhash
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-var/ls-R...
 texhash: Done.
 $


 Then open LyX and run
 Tools-Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
 restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

 /Bob

 I have Tools-TeX Information here and then `LaTex classes' `Latex  
styles'

`BibTex styles'. I Rescan them all (twice).
 And also LyX-Reconfigure which I did and then it asked me to  
restart the

LyX.

 Same error message pops-up!

 Here is the file that I am trying to open:



In LyX Document-Settings-Document Class does 'article' show as
'Unavailable: article'?

Yes.

If so then either you don't have 'article.cls'
installed on your computer through the texlive packages or LyX is not
recognizing the path to texmf* folders.

In Tools-TeX Information under `LaTex classes' I have:

/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

If you have article.cls installed in one of the
/opt/local/share/texmf* directories then the path needs to be added to
Tools-Preferences-Paths-PATH prefix so that LyX will recognize the
files installed there.
In Lyx-Preference-Paths-PATH prefix I have

/usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/ 
local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/ 
powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin- 
current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/ 
local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


You should just need to add /opt/local/share to
the list of paths separated by a semi-colon and then reconfigure LyX.

/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  In Lyx-Preference-Paths-PATH prefix I have
 /usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


That's the problem then. You need to add the path to your paths :-}.
So that LyX knows where all your LaTeX stuff is.

This is what the LyX wiki says, http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac:

To use other implementations of teTeX which do not install the
binaries in /usr/texbin,
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current, /sw/bin,
/opt/local/teTeX/bin, or /usr/local/bin, either link the teTeX
binaries to one of those directories, or add the PATH of your teTeX
binaries to the PATH prefix field in LyX - Preferences - Paths.

I'm not exactly positive what path you need to add which would
correspond to the teTeX binaries. I would just do a trial and error.
First, just add /opt/local/share and then Reconfigure LyX and see if
Document-Settings-Document Class has changed to available. Bennett
is the Mac expert but he hasn't responded yet. I'm sure he would have
a more sophisticated approach.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

[B. Bogart]

Hello,

Thanks for the response Bob, this is the only was I was able to reply,
so I hope you get the this message.

 Also, you say your layout file is called sfuthesis.sty this is not
 correct, it should be sfuthesis.layout, since it's a LyX layout file
 not a LaTeX style file. I'm surprised that LyX is recognizing this
 layout if it does not have the proper extension '.layout.

Ah, I apologize, that is a typo I believe (or I renamed the file after
attaching it). My layout file is named sfuthesis.layout. The style file
(provided by the University) is named csthesis.sty.

  I also added and texhashed the sty file so that lyx could find it.
 
 Where did you place the csthesis.sty?

$HOME/texmf/tex/csthesis.sty

texhash created a ls-R file in that directory, and csthesis.sty is
listed in the LyX Show Tex Information

  I confirm that article(csthesis) is listed as a document class in Lyx.
 
 This doesn't make sense since you have:
 \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,csthesis.sty]{article (sfuthesis)} in some
 sort of layout file.

 This means in LyX it should be 'article (sfuthesis)' not 'article (csthesis)'

Corrected, Lyx shows article (sfuthesis), not article (csthesis) (my
mistake)

I'll recap the main issues here since I'm having trouble with the
mailing list:

The layout file simply controls how the document appears in Lyx, and
does not have any effect on the output, correct?

Even though LyX seems to be using my style file, the output is
different. The titlepage is missing, and the title font is different.

In order to test I imported the latex example file, included with the
csthesis.sty package, into lyx and tried to generate output.

First problem was that I got the following error:

LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.

Lyx highlights the first \qualification{} command.

All the google references I found talked about this error in terms of
using \\, which is not in the document (no manual line-breaks).

Aside: I did notice that just before the qualification a \maketitle
command in the view-source window. What I don't understand is that
command is not visible as ERT or in any way in the normal lyx view. (and
certainly not in the original LaTeX file I'm importing.)

So I did the logical thing of commenting out (with a preceding % sign)
both the \qualification{} commands. Once that is done Lyx will generate
output, the style of the title is incorrect. (but there is a title page!)

So I exported a second latex file from this document, and commented out
the \maketitle command.

Once that is done I can generate a proper looking document using latex
directly on that tex document.

I'm happy that I've been able to get something to work at all, but how
can I use the proper style in LyX directly without having to manually
edit the tex file after exporting?

Why does the \maketitle command get added when I import the tex?

Why does output bail on the \qualification{} commands?

Why does the output of the document using the layout that uses the
thesis style file not generate output that resembles the sample file?

Thanks for your time,
B. Bogart

mathop help

[Carlos Sosa Paz]

Dear all,

I would like to know if there exist an icon for the mathop latex command.
Or how should I include it in my lyx file.

Thank you.
Carlos Sosa

incomplete error messages

[Philipp Schlicht]

Hi,

Lyx doesn't always present the Latex error messages in the correct way. For
example it cuts off parts so they become unreadable. Can this be fixed?

Best,
Philipp

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, B. Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I'm happy that I've been able to get something to work at all, but how
  can I use the proper style in LyX directly without having to manually
  edit the tex file after exporting?

  Why does the \maketitle command get added when I import the tex?

  Why does output bail on the \qualification{} commands?

  Why does the output of the document using the layout that uses the
  thesis style file not generate output that resembles the sample file?

  Thanks for your time,
  B. Bogart


Well, I looked at your bbtest.tex file and the first thing I noticed
is that it calls for report.cls. So you should create a
sfuthesis.layout based on report not article.

Anyways, when you insert a title or author field in LyX it
automatically inserts a '\maketitle' command but your bbtest.tex does
not do this.

Long story short. Inserting '\renewcommand\maketitle{}' in the
preamble of bbtest.tex eliminated the errors in the file and produced
good output.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bennett Helm]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
   In Lyx-Preference-Paths-PATH prefix I have
 
 /usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


 That's the problem then. You need to add the path to your paths :-}.
 So that LyX knows where all your LaTeX stuff is.


Yes. I'm not sure where macports puts its latex files, but you can find out
by going to Terminal.app (Applications  Utilities) and typing:

which latex

which should return the path to latex. That path (minus the latex part) is
what you need to add to the PATH prefix, as Bob indicated. So for me, which
latex returns:

/usr/texbin/latex

and so I add to the beginning of PATH prefix just the /usr/texbin part,
followed by a colon (:). (Of course, in my case, /usr/texbin is already
there, which is why it works for me.) Then LyX should work for you.

Please let us know what you have to add. I haven't used macports lately, so
I'm not sure where they currently put the latex executables, but we should
make sure that is a part of the default PATH prefix so that others don't
have this problem.

One final note: there's no reason to use macports to install LyX. They
actually tend to be behind the current LyX binaries we post on the LyX
website. All you need to do is download the binary, drag LyX.app wherever
you want it, run the installer, and you're done.

Bennett

Re: LyX logo

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:29:18AM +0200, G. Milde wrote:
 On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
  On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote:
  
   About the logo
 ...
* funny
 ...
   * home made
  
   The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance at for 
   work these applications. If the boss thinks it's not serious, he might 
   object to the application being used for company documents...
 
  You mean there are bosses out there that might consider using LyX?
  Interesting line of thought ...
 
 Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you
 are not seriously working.

Wrong job then.

Andre'

Re: LyX logo

[Jim]

It is gorgeous. I like it.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andre Poenitz 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:29:18AM +0200, G. Milde wrote:
  On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
   On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote:
   
About the logo
  ...
 * funny
  ...
* home made
   
The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance
 at for
work these applications. If the boss thinks it's not serious, he
 might
object to the application being used for company documents...
 
   You mean there are bosses out there that might consider using LyX?
   Interesting line of thought ...
 
  Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you
  are not seriously working.

 Wrong job then.

 Andre'

Re: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Has anyone done this? Our model is written in Python, so we can use the
open() and write() methods to squirt strings to a disk file.


  After learning PyX (Python wrapper for TeX/LaTeX primarily for graphics),
and trying to use it to write the reports, I'm back to embedding LaTeX
markup in Python comments. Risking public humiliation (Hey! I'm used to that
since I testify at all sorts of government hearings.), I'm posting my first
abortive attempt to learn how to do the job. Small file attached; as long as
you have python installed on your system, it will run.

  However, the output is not what I expected. I think it's really a Python
issue, not a LaTeX issue, so I've asked the local python geeks for help.
But, since I started this thread I thought to keep you all informed of
progress.

Rich

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Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, sys, config

preamb = 
  \documentclass[oneside,english]{article}
  \usepackage{palatino}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[dvips] {geometry}
  
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=1.5cm,bmargin=1.5cm,lmargin=1.5cm,rmargin=1.5cm}
  \pagestyle{empty}

  \makeatletter

  \date{}
  \setlength\headsep{4.4cm}
  \setlength{\textheight}{18.5cm}
  \setlength{\textwidth}{25.0cm}

  \usepackage{babel}
  \makeatother
  
  \begin{document}
  
  

ending = \end{document}
  
def econPairs():
  pairData = [(Jobs,Tax base),
  (Jobs,Infrastructure),
  (Jobs,Schools),
  (Jobs,Housing),
  (Jobs,Medical care),
  (Jobs,Sustainability),
  (Jobs,Traffic volume),
  (Tax base,Infrastructure),
  (Tax base,Schools),
  (Tax base,Housing),
  (Tax base,Medical care),
  (Tax base,Sustainability),
  (Tax base,Traffic volume),
  (Infrastructure,Schools),
  (Infrastructure,Housing),
  (Infrastructure,Medical care),
  (Infrastructure,Sustainability),
  (Infrastructure,Traffic volume),
  (Schools,Housing),
  (Schools,Medical care),
  (Schools,Sustainability),
  (Schools,Traffic volume),
  (Housing,Medical care),
  (Housing,Sustainability),
  (Housing,Traffic volume),
  (Medical care,Sustainability),
  (Medical care,Traffic volume),
  (Sustainability,Traffic volume)]


  ratingHead = Importance   
Value   Definition
   

  ratingTab = 1   Equal importance
 3   Weak importance of one over the other
 5   Strong importance of one over the other
 7   Demonstrated importance of one over the other
 9   Absolute importance of one over the other
2, 4, 6, 8   Intermediate values between the two adjacent 
definitions


  instructPara = Using the table below, determine your preference for either 
the first
item of the pair (on the left), or the second (on the 
right). Use the
rating table to determine the strength of your preference, 
then fully
fill in the rectangle for that preference strength on the 
same line as
the component pairs. If you prefer the second more than the 
first,
also completely fill in the last box on the right.

  title = Economic Components

  out = open('omrPairs.tex', 'w')
  out.write(preamb)

  out.write(title)
  out.write(\vspace{6cm})   # space below title to line up first line 
with OMR form

  out.write('Fill in the box under \'Economic\' on this line --')
  out.write(vspace{1.5cm})
  out.write('Record your position on the project here --')
  out.write(\vspace{3cm})

  for left,right in pairData:
out.write(left)
out.write(\hspace{3cm})
out.write(right)

  out.write(ending)
  out.close()

if __name__ == __main__:
  econPairs()

Re[2]: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Alan G Isaac]

1. You need to use raw strings or double your backslashes.

2. Probably you should use LaTeX tables.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Alan G Isaac wrote:


1. You need to use raw strings or double your backslashes.


Alan,

  Yes, doubling the backslashes worked.


2. Probably you should use LaTeX tables.


  I'll probably get to this for some of the reports. But, on this one the
text strings need to be aligned with bubbles on an OMR form. So I need to
tweak the horizontal and vertical spacings to get it all lined up
appropriately.

  BTW, I tried using PyX for this but didn't find enough information in the
docs to feel confident that I could.

Thanks,

Rich

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

[OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Dov Feldstern]

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Has anyone done this? Our model is written in Python, so we can use the
open() and write() methods to squirt strings to a disk file.


  After learning PyX (Python wrapper for TeX/LaTeX primarily for graphics),
and trying to use it to write the reports, I'm back to embedding LaTeX
markup in Python comments. Risking public humiliation (Hey! I'm used to 
that

since I testify at all sorts of government hearings.), I'm posting my first
abortive attempt to learn how to do the job. Small file attached; as 
long as

you have python installed on your system, it will run.


Based on your example, I would strongly recommend that you look into 
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ --- it's a wonderful tool, and it looks to me 
like it may be just what you're looking for.


Enjoy!
Dov

Re: [OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Dov Feldstern wrote:

Based on your example, I would strongly recommend that you look into 
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ --- it's a wonderful tool, and it looks to me 
like it may be just what you're looking for.


Dov,

  Thank you for the recommendation. But, I don't see why I want to put html
code in my python application in order to produce .tex files. Or write xml.
I see the value of the templater for web applications and unstructured
reports. However, that's not what I need.

  The sample code I posted needs to be placed precisely on the page so the
pairs are aligned with a row of bubbles on the OMR form.

  Other reports need to incorporate plots with the text. Perhaps Cheetah
_could_ do this, but the learning curve and attempts to bend it to our needs
would consume the time it would take me to hand write the LaTeX code.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re[2]: [OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Alan G Isaac]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote:
 The sample code I posted needs to be placed precisely on 
 the page so the pairs are aligned with a row of bubbles on 
 the OMR form.

It seems to me that this calls for a page description 
language, like PostScript of PDF.  However maybe you
could make a LaTeX picture that matches your page size.
Text and drawings can be placed extremely precisely in
a picture.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Help with German Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Hi there,

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ä ü ö or ß.  
i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary. Every wird without a umlaut  
is ok but if it contains one spellchecker told me i wrote wrong.


Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards
Daniel

Help with spellchecking and german Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Hi there,

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ‰ ¸ ˆ or  
fl. i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary. Every wird without a  
umlaut is ok but if it contains one spellchecker told me i wrote wrong.


Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards
Daniel

Re: Uncompilable file

[Enrico Forestieri]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:

> Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >> Since this can happen so easily, should we find a workaround?
> >
> > We have the workaround that we switch automatically to Greek if Greek
> > characters are found. I have no idea how we could solve it differently. 
> > After
> > all, we do not know if people copy and paste a unit or a Greek quotation.
> 
> You are right. I wonder if configure could  know that the greek fonts
> are not available.

Those fonts are provided by the cbgreek package and configure could
check for the existence of grmn.mf through kpsewhich. However, even
detecting that cbgreek is not installed, how should we proceed?

The problem is that cbgreek is a font package and its files are not
installed in a path listed in TEXINPUTS, otherwise we could add

\IfFileExists{grmn.mf}{}{%
 \errhelp{I can't find the Greek fonts}%
 \errmessage{The cbgreek package is missing, so I can't typeset Greek}}

to textgreek_def in order to have a meaningful error at runtime, at least.

-- 
Enrico

Re: Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ed Sykes schrieb:


i'm new to LyX and am hoping someone can assist on a problem I'm having.
On a fairly regular basis when I select the "dvi" button or the "div 
update"

button Yap crashes and gives the message:
"MiKTeX Problem Report:

Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path specified.


Then MiKTeX tries to install a missing LaTeX-package, but can't do this as you don't have admin 
permissions to be able to install something. Alternatively this problem occurs when you don't have 
MiKTeX installed for all users on your computer or when you have installed it without admin 
permissions. (Due to your previous post I guess the latter is the reason.)


To get a full featured running system:

- uninstall LyX completely
- uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ (check the corresponding options in the 
uninstaller)
- log in as administrator
- open an internet connection
- reinstall LyX using the complete variant of this installer:
  http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller

Then everything should work.

regards Uwe

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Charlse Darwin]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Charlse Darwin  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question  
for you

all:

 I get following error message:

 ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not
usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file  
required by it
is not available. See the Customization documentation for more  
information.

LyX will not be able to produce output.''

 when I try to open a .tex file. What's going on and what are we  
talking

about?

 $ uname -a
 Darwin Mac.loc 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10  
18:26:00 PDT

2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
 $



Sounds like you haven't installed a TeX distribution. The distribution
will contain article.cls which article.layout needs.

I don't know much about Mac stuff, but I thought MacTeX was a popular
option. I'm sure there are other ways. Actually, I just looked at
MacPorts and they have TeXLive (this is the prefered distribution for
Linux). You need to install TeXLive which is a TeX distribution.

Cheers,
/Bob


Hi,

It seems that I have textlive already installed.

$ port installed | grep texlive
  texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
  texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
$

Re: Menu language

[Uwe Stöhr]

Salát Máté schrieb:


Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? 
I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4.


When you have installed LyX using this installer:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
you can open the file "lyx.bat" with a text editor and set the menu language to e.g. 
"hu_HU".

regards Uwe

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6 alpha1 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:


Here are the main comments I have as a user:

1- Like your previous package, your installer lacks 3 python files. It 
prevents opening any previous format and consequently the documentation. 
They are files required by Lyx2Lyx (they were not required in version 
1.5): gettext.py, optparse.py and textwrap.py.


Many thanks for testing. I will add the missing files to the next release.


2- I had some "runtime C" crashes..

>

3- The bundled format option is broken...

>

4- Toggles are not perfect...


Whenever you get a crash or found a bug, please report it at bugzilla.lyx.org (if not already 
reported there).


5- I haven't been able to have the spellchecker to work. It complains 
about not finding the en_US dictionary, but this one is installed, and 
the installer told me it had found it.


I'll have a look, seems that the installer conflicts with the settings of the existing LyX aspell 
installation.


PS: Is there a way to have PNG images displayed in lyx to be 
interpolated with linear interpolation instead of nearest neighbour ? I 
use a 50% scale, and they look terrible. I could not find in the 
preference (viewer and editor are on "auto")


I think this can be done with a special ImageMagick option, but don't know this exactly. In general, 
the image display in LyX is not designed for perfect looking within LyX as they will in any case 
look different in the output. They are only there to show what image is what and how big they are.


regards Uwe

Re: Help with German Umlaute

[Uwe Stöhr]

Daniel Sprehe schrieb:

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i cant 
get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ä ü ö or ß. i use 
cocoaspell and a german dictionary.


What is the OS you are using? For Windows we ship LyX together with a special 
Aspell version.

regards Uwe

Re: Help with German Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Dear Uwe,

> What is the OS you are using?
>>  i use (want use) the mac version of lyx

I use the Mac (under OSX 10.5.2) Version.
Thanks for your help.

Regards
Daniel


Am 03.04.2008 um 13:58 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:

Daniel Sprehe schrieb:

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ä ü ö or  
ß. i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary.


What is the OS you are using? For Windows we ship LyX together with  
a special Aspell version.


regards Uwe

Re: Help with German Umlaute

[Daniel Sprehe]

Try to answer myself:
i've forgotten to check the Setting "Eingabekodierung verwenden" under  
the Lyx Settings.

I apologize for the trouble caused.

best regards
daniel

Am 03.04.2008 um 14:01 schrieb Daniel Sprehe:

Dear Uwe,

> What is the OS you are using?
>>  i use (want use) the mac version of lyx

I use the Mac (under OSX 10.5.2) Version.
Thanks for your help.

Regards
Daniel


Am 03.04.2008 um 13:58 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:

Daniel Sprehe schrieb:

i use (want use) the mac version of lyx for my examen. one thing i  
cant get working is spellchecking with german Umlaute like ä ü ö  
or ß. i use cocoaspell and a german dictionary.


What is the OS you are using? For Windows we ship LyX together with  
a special Aspell version.


regards Uwe

Short caption listoffigures

[Benedikt Schäfer]

Hello everybody,

is there a possibility to a short caption for the listoffigures similar 
to the optional argument of the \caption command. Maybe ERT is a 
solution but I don't know how to remove the original caption.


Greets,
Benedikt

Re: how to center chapter title?

[Maksi]

snvv wrote:
> I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
> book 
> (memoir) or book in general.

In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for more
information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10 

Maksi

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Re: a0poster example using LyX

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I ended up using the sciposter class with the options
> [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages:
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \usepackage{sectionbox}
> \usepackage{wallpaper}

> The columns were automatically and evenly distributed and the EPS figures
> and LYX tables were all properly sized and layed out. I didn't worry about
> font sizes or margins.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
Mateo,

I'll keep that in mind next time I have a poster paper.  I tried to use LyX 
for a poster paper a year ago, but could not get something that looked 
reasonable.  I ended up doing it in Scribus: but that meant fiddling with 
every little detail of the appearance.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Short caption listoffigures

[Benedikt Schäfer]

Benedikt Schäfer wrote:
is there a possibility to a short caption for the listoffigures 
similar to the optional argument of the \caption command. Maybe ERT is 
a solution but I don't know how to remove the original caption.



I found the solution, just didn't see the insert short title command.

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  It seems that I have textlive already installed.
>
>  $ port installed | grep texlive
>   texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
>   texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
>  $


Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
this should refresh the LaTeX package database. Then open LyX and run
Tools->Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

/Bob

Re: how to center chapter title?

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Maksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>  snvv wrote:
>  > I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
>  > book
>  > (memoir) or book in general.
>
>  In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
>  chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for more
>  information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
>  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
>
>  Maksi


This can also be done with the sectsty package (check out the
documentation). However, it is not compatible with memoir.

\usepackage{sectsty}
\chapterfont{\centering}

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Ed Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Bob,
>
>  I appreciate you taking time for your suggestion.
>  I've tried it but with no luck.
>  I was wondering if someone could point me where to try to find the answer:
>  is it a Windows thing?  is it MiKTeX thing or is it a LyX thing?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Ed Sykes

I think this is a MiKTeX/Windows thing. The problem is this is strange
behavior for a fresh install. Did you have an internet connection open
when installing MiKTeX? Are you installing with an administrative
account? Installing just for you or everyone?

The first thing I would do is open an internet connection and 'update'
MiKTeX. If there are no updates then I would go to the MiKTeX
settings->General and 'Refresh FNDB' and 'Update Formats'. If you have
an 'always on' internet connection I would set the 'Package
installation' to 'Yes' install packages on-the-fly.

If none of this works, I would uninstall MiKTeX and LyX and reinstall
with LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe (always helps to reboot Windows between
uninstall and reinstall). Be sure you have an open internet connection
and just accept the defaults for the installation of MiKTeX, the
settings can be changed after install.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: how to center chapter title?

[snvv]

Thank you
In the link you provided, there are 20 different nice chapter styles but not 
the one that i have to use. Therefore, I will have to create one.

Regrads

sn

On Thursday 03 April 2008 16:18:50 Maksi wrote:
> snvv wrote:
> > I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class
> > book
> > (memoir) or book in general.
>
> In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a
> chapter style that fits your needs. Check this part of the LyX-wiki for
> more information:  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX#toc10
>
> Maksi

Re: Menu language

[Joost Verburg]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

When you have installed LyX using this installer:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
you can open the file "lyx.bat" with a text editor and set the menu 
language to e.g. "hu_HU".


The official installer stores the language in the registry key 
Software\LyX\Settings\Language. This also allows you to set a different 
language for a specific user by putting it in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.


Joost

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
>
>  On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  It seems that I have textlive already installed.
> >
> >  $ port installed | grep texlive
> >  texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
> >  texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
> >  $
> >
> >
>
>
>  Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
>  this should refresh the LaTeX package database.
>
>  $ sudo texhash
>  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
>  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
>  texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-var/ls-R...
>  texhash: Done.
>  $
>
>
>  Then open LyX and run
>  Tools->Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
>  restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?
>
>  /Bob
>
>  I have Tools->TeX Information here and then `LaTex classes' `Latex styles'
> `BibTex styles'. I Rescan them all (twice).
>  And also LyX->Reconfigure which I did and then it asked me to restart the
> LyX.
>
>  Same error message pops-up!
>
>  Here is the file that I am trying to open:


In LyX Document->Settings->Document Class does 'article' show as
'Unavailable: article'? If so then either you don't have 'article.cls'
installed on your computer through the texlive packages or LyX is not
recognizing the path to texmf* folders.

If you have article.cls installed in one of the
/opt/local/share/texmf* directories then the path needs to be added to
Tools->Preferences->Paths->PATH prefix so that LyX will recognize the
files installed there. You should just need to add /opt/local/share to
the list of paths separated by a semi-colon and then reconfigure LyX.

/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Charlse Darwin]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Charlse Darwin  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


 On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

wrote:



 Hi,

 It seems that I have textlive already installed.

 $ port installed | grep texlive
 texlive_base @2007_1 (active)
 texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active)
 $





 Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root and run 'texhash'
 this should refresh the LaTeX package database.

 $ sudo texhash
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
 texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-var/ls-R...
 texhash: Done.
 $


 Then open LyX and run
 Tools->Reconfigure and restart LyX, maybe run Reconfigure twice and
 restart LyX. Do you still receive the error message?

 /Bob

 I have Tools->TeX Information here and then `LaTex classes' `Latex  
styles'

`BibTex styles'. I Rescan them all (twice).
 And also LyX->Reconfigure which I did and then it asked me to  
restart the

LyX.

 Same error message pops-up!

 Here is the file that I am trying to open:



In LyX Document->Settings->Document Class does 'article' show as
'Unavailable: article'?

Yes.

If so then either you don't have 'article.cls'
installed on your computer through the texlive packages or LyX is not
recognizing the path to texmf* folders.

In Tools->TeX Information under `LaTex classes' I have:

/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

If you have article.cls installed in one of the
/opt/local/share/texmf* directories then the path needs to be added to
Tools->Preferences->Paths->PATH prefix so that LyX will recognize the
files installed there.
In Lyx->Preference->Paths->PATH prefix I have

/usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/ 
local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/ 
powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin- 
current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/ 
local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


You should just need to add /opt/local/share to
the list of paths separated by a semi-colon and then reconfigure LyX.

/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  In Lyx->Preference->Paths->PATH prefix I have
> >/usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


That's the problem then. You need to add the path to your paths :-}.
So that LyX knows where all your LaTeX stuff is.

This is what the LyX wiki says, http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac:

To use other implementations of teTeX which do not install the
binaries in /usr/texbin,
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current, /sw/bin,
/opt/local/teTeX/bin, or /usr/local/bin, either link the teTeX
binaries to one of those directories, or add the PATH of your teTeX
binaries to the PATH prefix field in LyX -> Preferences -> Paths.

I'm not exactly positive what path you need to add which would
correspond to the teTeX binaries. I would just do a trial and error.
First, just add /opt/local/share and then Reconfigure LyX and see if
Document-Settings->Document Class has changed to "available". Bennett
is the Mac expert but he hasn't responded yet. I'm sure he would have
a more sophisticated approach.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

[B. Bogart]

Hello,

Thanks for the response Bob, this is the only was I was able to reply,
so I hope you get the this message.

> Also, you say your layout file is called sfuthesis.sty this is not
> correct, it should be sfuthesis.layout, since it's a LyX layout file
> not a LaTeX style file. I'm surprised that LyX is recognizing this
> layout if it does not have the proper extension '.layout.

Ah, I apologize, that is a typo I believe (or I renamed the file after
attaching it). My layout file is named sfuthesis.layout. The style file
(provided by the University) is named csthesis.sty.

>>  I also added and texhashed the sty file so that lyx could find it.
> 
> Where did you place the csthesis.sty?

$HOME/texmf/tex/csthesis.sty

texhash created a ls-R file in that directory, and csthesis.sty is
listed in the LyX "Show Tex Information"

>>  I confirm that article(csthesis) is listed as a document class in Lyx.
> 
> This doesn't make sense since you have:
> \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,csthesis.sty]{article (sfuthesis)} in some
> sort of layout file.
>
> This means in LyX it should be 'article (sfuthesis)' not 'article (csthesis)'

Corrected, Lyx shows "article (sfuthesis)", not "article (csthesis)" (my
mistake)

I'll recap the main issues here since I'm having trouble with the
mailing list:

The layout file simply controls how the document appears in Lyx, and
does not have any effect on the output, correct?

Even though LyX seems to be using my style file, the output is
different. The titlepage is missing, and the title font is different.

In order to test I imported the latex example file, included with the
csthesis.sty package, into lyx and tried to generate output.

First problem was that I got the following error:

LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.

Lyx highlights the first \qualification{} command.

All the google references I found talked about this error in terms of
using \\, which is not in the document (no manual line-breaks).

Aside: I did notice that just before the qualification a \maketitle
command in the view-source window. What I don't understand is that
command is not visible as ERT or in any way in the normal lyx view. (and
certainly not in the original LaTeX file I'm importing.)

So I did the logical thing of commenting out (with a preceding % sign)
both the \qualification{} commands. Once that is done Lyx will generate
output, the style of the title is incorrect. (but there is a title page!)

So I exported a second latex file from this document, and commented out
the \maketitle command.

Once that is done I can generate a proper looking document using latex
directly on that tex document.

I'm happy that I've been able to get something to work at all, but how
can I use the proper style in LyX directly without having to manually
edit the tex file after exporting?

Why does the \maketitle command get added when I import the tex?

Why does output bail on the \qualification{} commands?

Why does the output of the document using the layout that uses the
thesis style file not generate output that resembles the sample file?

Thanks for your time,
B. Bogart

mathop help

[Carlos Sosa Paz]

Dear all,

I would like to know if there exist an icon for the mathop latex command.
Or how should I include it in my lyx file.

Thank you.
Carlos Sosa

incomplete error messages

[Philipp Schlicht]

Hi,

Lyx doesn't always present the Latex error messages in the correct way. For
example it cuts off parts so they become unreadable. Can this be fixed?

Best,
Philipp

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, B. Bogart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  I'm happy that I've been able to get something to work at all, but how
>  can I use the proper style in LyX directly without having to manually
>  edit the tex file after exporting?
>
>  Why does the \maketitle command get added when I import the tex?
>
>  Why does output bail on the \qualification{} commands?
>
>  Why does the output of the document using the layout that uses the
>  thesis style file not generate output that resembles the sample file?
>
>  Thanks for your time,
>  B. Bogart
>

Well, I looked at your bbtest.tex file and the first thing I noticed
is that it calls for report.cls. So you should create a
sfuthesis.layout based on report not article.

Anyways, when you insert a title or author field in LyX it
automatically inserts a '\maketitle' command but your bbtest.tex does
not do this.

Long story short. Inserting '\renewcommand\maketitle{}' in the
preamble of bbtest.tex eliminated the errors in the file and produced
good output.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: layout file for .tex files

[Bennett Helm]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >  In Lyx->Preference->Paths->PATH prefix I have
> >
> >/usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>
>
> That's the problem then. You need to add the path to your paths :-}.
> So that LyX knows where all your LaTeX stuff is.


Yes. I'm not sure where macports puts its latex files, but you can find out
by going to Terminal.app (Applications > Utilities) and typing:

which latex

which should return the path to latex. That path (minus the "latex" part) is
what you need to add to the PATH prefix, as Bob indicated. So for me, "which
latex" returns:

/usr/texbin/latex

and so I add to the beginning of PATH prefix just the "/usr/texbin" part,
followed by a colon (":"). (Of course, in my case, "/usr/texbin" is already
there, which is why it works for me.) Then LyX should work for you.

Please let us know what you have to add. I haven't used macports lately, so
I'm not sure where they currently put the latex executables, but we should
make sure that is a part of the default PATH prefix so that others don't
have this problem.

One final note: there's no reason to use macports to install LyX. They
actually tend to be behind the current LyX binaries we post on the LyX
website. All you need to do is download the binary, drag LyX.app wherever
you want it, run the installer, and you're done.

Bennett

Re: LyX logo

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:29:18AM +0200, G. Milde wrote:
> On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > >
> > >>> About the logo
> ...
> > >>  * funny
> ...
> > >>> * home made
> > >
> > > The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance at for 
> > > work these applications. If the boss thinks it's not serious, he might 
> > > object to the application being used for company documents...
> 
> > You mean there are bosses out there that might consider using LyX?
> > Interesting line of thought ...
> 
> Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you
> are not seriously working.

Wrong job then.

Andre'

Re: LyX logo

[Jim]

It is gorgeous. I like it.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andre Poenitz <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:29:18AM +0200, G. Milde wrote:
> > On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>> About the logo
> > ...
> > > >>  * funny
> > ...
> > > >>> * home made
> > > >
> > > > The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance
> at for
> > > > work these applications. If the boss thinks it's not serious, he
> might
> > > > object to the application being used for company documents...
> >
> > > You mean there are bosses out there that might consider using LyX?
> > > Interesting line of thought ...
> >
> > Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you
> > are not seriously working.
>
> Wrong job then.
>
> Andre'
>

Re: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Has anyone done this? Our model is written in Python, so we can use the
open() and write() methods to squirt strings to a disk file.


  After learning PyX (Python wrapper for TeX/LaTeX primarily for graphics),
and trying to use it to write the reports, I'm back to embedding LaTeX
markup in Python comments. Risking public humiliation (Hey! I'm used to that
since I testify at all sorts of government hearings.), I'm posting my first
abortive attempt to learn how to do the job. Small file attached; as long as
you have python installed on your system, it will run.

  However, the output is not what I expected. I think it's really a Python
issue, not a LaTeX issue, so I've asked the local python geeks for help.
But, since I started this thread I thought to keep you all informed of
progress.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, sys, config

preamb = """
  \documentclass[oneside,english]{article}
  \usepackage{palatino}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[dvips] {geometry}
  
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=1.5cm,bmargin=1.5cm,lmargin=1.5cm,rmargin=1.5cm}
  \pagestyle{empty}

  \makeatletter

  \date{}
  \setlength\headsep{4.4cm}
  \setlength{\textheight}{18.5cm}
  \setlength{\textwidth}{25.0cm}

  \usepackage{babel}
  \makeatother
  
  \begin{document}
  
  """

ending = """\end{document}"""
  
def econPairs():
  pairData = [("Jobs","Tax base"),
  ("Jobs","Infrastructure"),
  ("Jobs","Schools"),
  ("Jobs","Housing"),
  ("Jobs","Medical care"),
  ("Jobs","Sustainability"),
  ("Jobs","Traffic volume"),
  ("Tax base","Infrastructure"),
  ("Tax base","Schools"),
  ("Tax base","Housing"),
  ("Tax base","Medical care"),
  ("Tax base","Sustainability"),
  ("Tax base","Traffic volume"),
  ("Infrastructure","Schools"),
  ("Infrastructure","Housing"),
  ("Infrastructure","Medical care"),
  ("Infrastructure","Sustainability"),
  ("Infrastructure","Traffic volume"),
  ("Schools","Housing"),
  ("Schools","Medical care"),
  ("Schools","Sustainability"),
  ("Schools","Traffic volume"),
  ("Housing","Medical care"),
  ("Housing","Sustainability"),
  ("Housing","Traffic volume"),
  ("Medical care","Sustainability"),
  ("Medical care","Traffic volume"),
  ("Sustainability","Traffic volume")]


  ratingHead = """Importance   
Value   Definition
   """

  ratingTab = """1   Equal importance
 3   Weak importance of one over the other
 5   Strong importance of one over the other
 7   Demonstrated importance of one over the other
 9   Absolute importance of one over the other
2, 4, 6, 8   Intermediate values between the two adjacent 
definitions
"""

  instructPara = """Using the table below, determine your preference for either 
the first
item of the pair (on the left), or the second (on the 
right). Use the
rating table to determine the strength of your preference, 
then fully
fill in the rectangle for that preference strength on the 
same line as
the component pairs. If you prefer the second more than the 
first,
also completely fill in the last box on the right."""

  title = "Economic Components"

  out = open('omrPairs.tex', 'w')
  out.write(preamb)

  out.write(title)
  out.write("""\vspace{6cm}""")   # space below title to line up first line 
with OMR form

  out.write('Fill in the box under \'Economic\' on this line -->')
  out.write("""vspace{1.5cm}""")
  out.write('Record your position on the project here -->')
  out.write("""\vspace{3cm}""")

  for left,right in pairData:
out.write(left)
out.write("""\hspace{3cm}""")
out.write(right)

  out.write(ending)
  out.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
  econPairs()

Re[2]: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Alan G Isaac]

1. You need to use raw strings or double your backslashes.

2. Probably you should use LaTeX tables.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Creating a Document Programmatically

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Alan G Isaac wrote:


1. You need to use raw strings or double your backslashes.


Alan,

  Yes, doubling the backslashes worked.


2. Probably you should use LaTeX tables.


  I'll probably get to this for some of the reports. But, on this one the
text strings need to be aligned with bubbles on an OMR form. So I need to
tweak the horizontal and vertical spacings to get it all lined up
appropriately.

  BTW, I tried using PyX for this but didn't find enough information in the
docs to feel confident that I could.

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

[OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Dov Feldstern]

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Has anyone done this? Our model is written in Python, so we can use the
open() and write() methods to squirt strings to a disk file.


  After learning PyX (Python wrapper for TeX/LaTeX primarily for graphics),
and trying to use it to write the reports, I'm back to embedding LaTeX
markup in Python comments. Risking public humiliation (Hey! I'm used to 
that

since I testify at all sorts of government hearings.), I'm posting my first
abortive attempt to learn how to do the job. Small file attached; as 
long as

you have python installed on your system, it will run.


Based on your example, I would strongly recommend that you look into 
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ --- it's a wonderful tool, and it looks to me 
like it may be just what you're looking for.


Enjoy!
Dov

Re: [OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Dov Feldstern wrote:

Based on your example, I would strongly recommend that you look into 
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ --- it's a wonderful tool, and it looks to me 
like it may be just what you're looking for.


Dov,

  Thank you for the recommendation. But, I don't see why I want to put html
code in my python application in order to produce .tex files. Or write xml.
I see the value of the templater for web applications and unstructured
reports. However, that's not what I need.

  The sample code I posted needs to be placed precisely on the page so the
pairs are aligned with a row of bubbles on the OMR form.

  Other reports need to incorporate plots with the text. Perhaps Cheetah
_could_ do this, but the learning curve and attempts to bend it to our needs
would consume the time it would take me to hand write the LaTeX code.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re[2]: [OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

[Alan G Isaac]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote:
> The sample code I posted needs to be placed precisely on 
> the page so the pairs are aligned with a row of bubbles on 
> the OMR form.

It seems to me that this calls for a page description 
language, like PostScript of PDF.  However maybe you
could make a LaTeX picture that matches your page size.
Text and drawings can be placed extremely precisely in
a picture.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac