Re: error on lyx prevents me generate print output.
On 6.05.08, Zhang Weiwu wrote: error message in opening tutorial with lyx. The opened tutorial is not printable. see below: ... Warning: Document class not available The layout file requested by this document, scrbook.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate scrbook.layout /usr/share/lyx/layouts/scrbook.layout scrbook.layout is the LyX layout file, for printed output it requires the *LaTeX class file* ``scrbook.cls``: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp locate scrbook.cls /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls Looking at HelpLaTeXConfig, you can find out which LaTeX classes and packages are found by the latest ToolsReconfigure run. Here I have: Found: scrartcl: yes, scrreprt: yes, scrbook: yes Fix: Find out which Gentoo package provides the file scrbook.cls and install it (or install all classes that are marked as required, recommended or suggested by LyX). I wonder if it is a lyx problem or because of my Gentoo Linux. Both: Gentoo: scrbook.cls is part of any major LaTeX distribution, but might be in a separate package on Gentoo. However, the the LyX package should at least recommend the package containing scrbook.cls. (If this is the case but you still choose not to install it, it is actually your problem ;-). LyX: Finding out that LyX misses the file scrbook.cls is not straightforward without knowledge about LaTeX packages and classes. * The error message points to the Customization guide (which contains info about installing a new class but nothing specific to finding out about missing LaTeX classes for existing LyX layouts. * It fails to mention HelpLaTeXConfig where additional info could be found. * LaTeXConfig does not contain the full file name found or not found. (i.e. it mentions ``scrbook`` but not ``scrbook.cls``). Günter
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Olivier Ripoll schrieb: It works fine here (no crash yet). As for the previous versions (svn1 and svn2), the installer detects that I have the dictionaries installed (English and French), but spell checking fails complaining: The Spellchecker could not be started No words list can be found for the language en_US. I see the same message in the console when I start lyx from there. I couldn't reproduce this problem. Does Aspell work with your existing LyX 1.5 installation? I did not have 1.5 installed. So I installed yesterday the 1.5.4 from LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe. During the installation, I checked the download of English and French dictionaries. As for 1.6, the spellchecking does not work (same error message, but only as a popup, I do not see it in the console if I start LyX from there... probably some debug option). The other things I noticed may be related to LyX and my installation, not the windows version in particular (although point 3 may be windows-related): [...] 3- pdf conversion issue. I make my graphics with Inkscape 0.46 and export them as pdf (via Cairo). They have unconventional page size (fitting the graphic, as a bounding box) and are displayed correctly in adobe reader (v8), foxit reader, and gsview. However, the display in LyX kind of maps them onto a Letter or A4 page. This was a bug in Imagemagick. When you are using a recent Imagemagick version (at least version 6.3.8-11, the one that it installed when you install LyX 1.5.4 using my installer), this problem shouldn't occur. You are right on the spot. I installed version 6.4.1 and the pdf are now displayed fine in LyX. When this doesn't fix your problem, could you send me by private mail a PDF wehre you see the bug? I then guess it's a bug in the PDF handling of Inkscape. regards Uwe Thanks for the hints/help. Best regards. Olivier.
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help. pavel
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not sure): As I understand it, the Toggle checkbox in the prefs (scrollbar, tabbar, toolbar) set them off when checked and on when unchecked (this looks an inverted logic to me BTW), toggle check button means that the element will be toggled once F11 is hit. it doesn't look like inverted logic to me, but feel free to propose better naming for the checkboxes. and there is no automatic mode to have them appear when the mouse is on the edge of the screen. Right ? right pavel
Re: Texlive for lyx
Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to find appropriate packages for a given classes for texlive, eg: texmfind moderncv.cls pavel
Exporting to OpenDocument
Hi, I'm trying to export a LyX document to OpenDocument, and I was successful inside a Mac environment but failing inside Windows. Does anybody know how to do this in Windows? I tried doing it manually via command line using the oolatex.exe inside MikTeX but when I open the odt generated, the equation does not appear properly. Thanks, -- Jeff Jeferson L. Sese jeferson dot sese at asiatype dot com Asiatype Inc. Suite 114 Columbia Tower Ortigas Ave., Greenhills Mandaluyong City 1550 Philippines Tel: +632-744-6262 Mobile: +63927-671-7901
Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...
David A. Case wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different). 2. However, if you set non-default margins, then the geometry package gets called, and pdflatex will create a US letter physical page. To me, this is a bug or deficiency in LyX: if the user selects US Letter on the page layout selection, LyX should create LaTeX code that does what the user almost certainly wants: have logical *and* physical pages set to US Letter. If there is a real need to allow the user to control both logical page size and physical page size separately, then maybe a new checkbox could be added to the paper size section of the Page Layout widget. Please consider filing a bug report about this at bugzilla.lyx.org. That way it won't be forgotten. Helge Hafting
Re: unicode-math question
snvv wrote: Hello, I use xetex and I would like to install the unicode-math package[1] I downloaded the files but I don't know how to install it. The files have tdx, ins and tex extensions. Any idea? Thank you sn [1]http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/source/xelatex/unicode-math/ I recommend consulting a tex forum or reading documentation on a tex website such as ctan.org. They should know. Helge Hafting
Re: how to cross-reference a figure
misterHide wrote: Hi, I want to cross-reference a Figure by theire number. It should look like: how figure 12 shows you... How could I do so? I just found the opportunity to link against an label. Isn't it possible to link against a figure floating object and theire name? You put a label into the caption in the floating figure. (Insert-label) Then you link to that label. (Insert-reference) The caption will be numbered when the document is printed, and the same number will be printed in the reference. You have various options for how the reference will print, you can get: * the figure number, which is what you asked about * the page number * the figure number and the page number, or strings like figure 12 on the previous page when the page number is close to the reference. In Lyx, this will look like: how figure REF[my figure] shows you... but the REF[my figure] will be replaced by the correct number when you print or make a pdf. LyX always gets these numbers right, no matter how much editing you do later. (Contrast to some other word processors that occationally mess up references and the TOC...) I agree that referencing the figure directly by name without having to place a label first would be easier - but LyX can't do that - yet. One small problem with this approach is what to do when two figures have the same name. Helge Hafting
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
Pavel Sanda wrote: 1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not sure): As I understand it, the Toggle checkbox in the prefs (scrollbar, tabbar, toolbar) set them off when checked and on when unchecked (this looks an inverted logic to me BTW), toggle check button means that the element will be toggled once F11 is hit. it doesn't look like inverted logic to me, but feel free to propose better naming for the checkboxes. Hi, From what I understand of the definition of toggle, the current behaviour (on Windows XP) is not toggle. Just to avoid misunderstandings, this is what I take for definition of toggle: (dictionary.com): To alternate between two or more electronic, mechanical, or computer-related options, usually by the operation of a single switch or keystroke: toggled back and forth between two windows on the screen. The behaviour I observe is the following with all check-boxes checked: - If I have toolbars/tabbar/scrollbar in the normal window, pressing F11 makes all disappear. That is toggling. - If I have no scrollbar (e.g. a new empty document, after pressing twice F11), no toolbars (removing them, only the menu bar being left), then they are also absent in full-screen mode. This is not toggling. So if this is what happens on all platforms, I would suggest to use the word hide instead of toggle. Best regards, and thanks for the good work done in the 1.6 version. Olivier and there is no automatic mode to have them appear when the mouse is on the edge of the screen. Right ? right pavel
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
So if this is what happens on all platforms, I would suggest to use the word hide instead of toggle. ok thats reasonable. pavel
RE: Thesis template in Lyx (options clash error)
I don't think the ufthesis.cls file is loading amsmath. The problem
disappears if I comment out the following load package in the preamble:
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
Do I need this package for anything major? Thanks.
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: G. Milde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:25 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Thesis template in Lyx (including a chapter)
On 5.05.08, José Matos wrote:
On Saturday 03 May 2008 03:30:28 Adrian Peter wrote:
I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the
same type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to
point to the ufthesis.cls file). Is the child document somehow
redefining
the graphicx package options? Thanks.
I don't think so.
Also, the error pointed to a problem loading amsmath.
Does the ufthesis.cls class load ams? With an option?
Then, the layout file must say so:
ProvidesAmsmath 1
(see HelpCustomisation), otherwise LyX loads the amsmath package again (if
required or set to do so).
Günter
---Original Error---
Now I am running into a small issue whenever I try to include a chapter as a
child document into my main lyx file. I get the following error when I try
to do a DVI preview or creating a PDF:
\usepackage
{amsmath}
The package graphicx has already been loaded with options:
[]
There has now been an attempt to load it with options
[dvips]
Adding the global options:
,dvips
to your \documentclass declaration may fix this.
Try typing return to proceed.
I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the same
type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to point to
the ufthesis.cls file). Is the child document somehow redefining the
graphicx package options? Thanks.
Adrian
Re: Texlive for lyx
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to find appropriate packages for a given classes for texlive, eg: texmfind moderncv.cls pavel, Yes, that helps when you know what you are looking for. I had in mind a way of looking at each package to decide whether you might need it in the future. For example, clicking on View in the dev-texlive/texlive-genericextra page on gentoo-portage.com shows it contains: abbr abstyles aurora barr borceux c-pascal colorsep dinat eijkhout fltpoint insbox mathdots metatex mftoeps midnight multi ofs pdf-trans psfig realcalc vrb vtex collection-genericextra Now I don't know what most of these are, but I'm pretty sure I might want psfig, so I emerge this package. Les -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
On 6.05.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Short answer LyX supports the CLIPBOARD x-selection nicely, but the PRIMARY selection only partially. Long answer --- I finally found documentation of pasting and clipboard issues under X-Windows in xclip's README: For a good overview of what selections are about, have a look at http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt. Short version: * XA_PRIMARY contains the last text you highlighted * Middle click pastes XA_PRIMARY * XA_CLIPBOARD contains text explicitly copied with Edit | Copy, Ctrl-C etc. * Edit | Paste pastes XA_CLIPBOARD The MS-Windows clipboard corresponds to the CLIPBOARD x-selection (in the view of the end-user, implementation differs). There is no MS-Windows counterpart for the PRIMARY selection (clipboards.txt speaks of it as an easter-egg for experienced X-Windows users). However, IMHO proper support for the PRIMARY selection is is an important feature for seamless integration in an X-Windows environment: * some applications do not support CLIPBOARD. Althought this can be seen as a deficient of these applications and not LyX's fault, it helps the end user if LyX can communicate with these applications via the PRIMARY selection. * Experienced X-Windows users are used to the rapid select and paste way of pasting marked text via the middle mouse button. The need to explicitely copy the marked text (via the keyboard) interrupts the workflow considerably. State of the art (LyX 1.5.4 on Debian Gnu/Linux) For diagnosis, I am running the xfce clipboard, as this shows the state of PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection in separate lists. I do not know how far this influences the behaviour of LyX. Transfer to LyX ~~~ Works as expected (mostly): * ^V (EditPaste SpecialPlain Text) inserts the latest text copied with ^C in firefox. * middle click (EditPaste SpecialSelection) inserts the text highlighted in firefox (PRIMARY). * middle click inserts the text highlighted in rxvt-unicode (PRIMARY). * middle click does *not* insert text highlighted in the Jed text editor (although this text is shown in the PRIMARY list in the xfce clipboard). Transfer from LyX ~ * ^V in firefox inserts text copied with ^C in lyx. * ^V in rxvt-unicode has a different function. Pasting relies on the middle mouse click. * middle click does not always insert text selected in lyx! Text selected in lyx only sometimes appears in the xfce clipboard list of the PRIMARY selection: + marking words by double click usually sets PRIMARY, + Shift+Cursor-Keys sets PRIMARY + marking with mouse-drag usually usually *fails* to set PRIMARY (it does so sometimes but the pattern governing this behaviour is not clear). If there is interest, I can continue the evaluation using xclip instead of the xfce clipboard to rule out interferences. Günter
Re: Thesis template in Lyx (options clash error)
On 6.05.08, Adrian Peter wrote:
I don't think the ufthesis.cls file is loading amsmath. The problem
disappears if I comment out the following load package in the preamble:
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
Do I need this package for anything major? Thanks.
You need it for included graphics, but LyX takes care of this.
I.e.
* it should not be in the user supplied preamble (DocumentSettingsLaTeX
preamble),
* but you should see it (with correct options) in the preamble of the
LaTeX file exported by lyx.
Günter
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. Now only the selection choices are shaded out and not clickable. But the other choices do nothing for me. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help. No, only one LyX running. I have a text highlighted in an xterm. But can't paste into LyX. Tried middle click. Tried using menu options. Jeremy C. Reed
slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
Typing has become painfully slow after I upgraded from lyx-1.4.4 to lyx-1.5.3 on a machine with fedora core 6: there's a very annoying delay between a keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding symbol on the screen. Because a rpm of lyx-1.5.4 is not available for fedora 6, I tried to create my own rpm from the lyx-1.5.4 sources (as described, a bit chaotically, here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/CreatingLyXRPM). However, I can't seem to get configure to understand where my qt4 libraries are: adding --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 to the configure command in the spec file, or setting the environment variables QTLIB or QT4LIB to /usr/lib/qt4 doesn't help. Does anyone have an idea how to: - either get rid of the annoying typing delay in lyx-1.5.3 - or what is wrong with my qt4 ($ rpm -q qt4 qt4-4.3.2-1.fc6) thanks, jos -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/slow-typing-in-lyx-1.5.3-tp17084281p17084281.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) Now only the selection choices are shaded out and not clickable. But the other choices do nothing for me. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help. No, only one LyX running. I have a text highlighted in an xterm. But can't paste into LyX. Tried middle click. Tried using menu options. Workaround: When I cannot get the desired result (say, from a browser window), I can usually get it by pasting into an emacs window as an intermediate step and then highlighting and paste into lyx from the emacs window. Another copy/paste peculiarity (changes from past behavior): Deleted lines (emacs key bindings: ^k) that have not been highlighted won't paste for me (maybe by design). But highlighted lines that are deleted (using ^w) can be pasted (probably to move them). Emacs behavior is different. Contiguous deleted lines (^k) can be yanked back (^y) -- anywhere in a document. (I do not consider Emacs is the gold standard -- let's not repeat the editor flame wars -- it is a convenient feature.) mark hansel
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 10:33, jos wrote: Typing has become painfully slow after I upgraded from lyx-1.4.4 to lyx-1.5.3 on a machine with fedora core 6: there's a very annoying delay between a keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding symbol on the screen. Because a rpm of lyx-1.5.4 is not available for fedora 6, I tried to create my own rpm from the lyx-1.5.4 sources (as described, a bit chaotically, here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/CreatingLyXRPM). However, I can't seem to get configure to understand where my qt4 libraries are: adding --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 to the configure command in the spec file, or setting the environment variables QTLIB or QT4LIB to /usr/lib/qt4 doesn't help. Does anyone have an idea how to: - either get rid of the annoying typing delay in lyx-1.5.3 - or what is wrong with my qt4 ($ rpm -q qt4 qt4-4.3.2-1.fc6) Hi Jos, I feel your pain. I had similar problems a few months ago, and some list members helped me through the qt4 problems. See this for a synopsis: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:33 AM, jos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typing has become painfully slow after I upgraded from lyx-1.4.4 to lyx-1.5.3 on a machine with fedora core 6: there's a very annoying delay between a keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding symbol on the screen. Because a rpm of lyx-1.5.4 is not available for fedora 6, I tried to create my own rpm from the lyx-1.5.4 sources (as described, a bit chaotically, here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/CreatingLyXRPM). However, I can't seem to get configure to understand where my qt4 libraries are: adding --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 to the configure command in the spec file, or setting the environment variables QTLIB or QT4LIB to /usr/lib/qt4 doesn't help. Does anyone have an idea how to: - either get rid of the annoying typing delay in lyx-1.5.3 - or what is wrong with my qt4 ($ rpm -q qt4 qt4-4.3.2-1.fc6) thanks, jos -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/slow-typing-in-lyx-1.5.3-tp17084281p17084281.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. I also experienced this 'slowness' on an old iBook with both Ubuntu and Fedora. Two things help me. 1) LyX 1.5.3, this was much better than the other LyX 1.5* series (doesn't seem to help you much, although Fedora in general was extremely slow on my iBook (Debian, Gentoo, and Arch are much better)) 2) My xorg was initially set to 24bit color with Ubuntu and Fedora and changing it to 16bit helped immensely. Cheers, /Bob
Font import
Good afternoon, I've been using LyX some years ago and now that I have to prepare a large document again, I'm getting re-acquainted with it. Nice new features and interface. The problem that I am facing is that my organisation has its own TrueType interface and I would need to use it in my document. I have looked around forums and documentation literally all day and can't figure how to do this. The closest I got is doing the following: Use the MTFI to convert the font to a .sty and have it ready for LyX (following instructions found at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc3). This worked fine BUT all sections titles are back to the old font. If I use the SectSty package, they sections / subsections, ... have the right font but all appear with the same size. Seems like something is wrong. Is there an easy way to basically replace the document font with a different one? I would like to use LyX as is but with this dedicated font. Is there a tutorial that explains how to import fonts into LyX? If not, anybody willing to describe the process? Appreciate a lot the help in advance, Stéphan Picard
Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
Hi all, Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. Hi Steve This link doesn't work ... at least not from where I am. It would be a bit strange if I would need 1.5GB RAM to type a text, wouldn't it? (but no worries, I have 2GB) Anyway, while fiddling around, removing and reinstalling the same lyx version (1.5.2, as I corrected), everything is fine. I wonder if the problem reappears. thanks, Jos -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/slow-typing-in-lyx-1.5.2-tp17084281p17086415.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list . . . -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Exporting to OpenDocument
Jeff Sese wrote: Hi, I'm trying to export a LyX document to OpenDocument, and I was successful inside a Mac environment but failing inside Windows. Does anybody know how to do this in Windows? I tried doing it manually via command line using the oolatex.exe inside MikTeX but when I open the odt generated, the equation does not appear properly. There are problems doing this on many Windows installs, due to issues with tex4ht under Windows. Some people have occasionally gotten it to work, but, well, don't bank on it. rh
Re: Exporting to OpenDocument
rgheck wrote: I'm trying to export a LyX document to OpenDocument, and I was successful inside a Mac environment but failing inside Windows. Does anybody know how to do this in Windows? I tried doing it manually via command line using the oolatex.exe inside MikTeX but when I open the odt generated, the equation does not appear properly. There are problems doing this on many Windows installs, due to issues with tex4ht under Windows. Some people have occasionally gotten it to work, but, well, don't bank on it. Could you try the following command instead of oolatex? htlatex file 'xhtml,ooffice' 'ooffice/! -cmozhtf' '-coo' '-cvalidate' That is, in Preferences-Converters (for LaTeX-OpenDocument): htlatex $$i 'xhtml,ooffice' 'ooffice/! -cmozhtf' '-coo' '-cvalidate' Jürgen
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Les Denham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list . . . -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html I'll second that! I'm tired of those messages. Although they do only seem to come when replying to certain people not necessarily just the LyX list. /Bob
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 11:59, jos wrote: Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. Hi Steve This link doesn't work ... at least not from where I am. Doo! .cxm is my internal top level domain. It should have been .com: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm Sorry Steve
makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
Hi all, Remember a few days ago I asked how to get rid of 1 page ranges? That led to an investigation of makeindex and makeindex style files, which led to this documentation: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/makeindex.htm There are many articles about makeindex on the web, and of course it has a man page. What makes the Troubleshooters.Com article different is it's understandable by someone not familiar with makeindex. Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
Steve Litt wrote: There are many articles about makeindex on the web, and of course it has a man page. What makes the Troubleshooters.Com article different is it's understandable by someone not familiar with makeindex. Thanks for this. However, personally I'd recommend everybody to switch from makeindex to xindy. It's so much ahead of makeindex (especially if you're not writing in American English) http://xindy.sourceforge.net/ Jürgen
Re: makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 13:58, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: There are many articles about makeindex on the web, and of course it has a man page. What makes the Troubleshooters.Com article different is it's understandable by someone not familiar with makeindex. Thanks for this. However, personally I'd recommend everybody to switch from makeindex to xindy. It's so much ahead of makeindex (especially if you're not writing in American English) http://xindy.sourceforge.net/ Jürgen Oops: Unknown host xindy.sourceforge.net Any other URL? SteveT
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 12:01, Les Denham wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list Or maybe we all set up our own autoresponders returning those messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) SteveT
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or maybe we all set up our own autoresponders returning those messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) SteveT Done :-}. Good idea. /Bob
Re: Font import
You may use xetex within LyX Regards SN On Tuesday 06 May 2008 18:24:46 Stephan Picard wrote: Good afternoon, I've been using LyX some years ago and now that I have to prepare a large document again, I'm getting re-acquainted with it. Nice new features and interface. The problem that I am facing is that my organisation has its own TrueType interface and I would need to use it in my document. I have looked around forums and documentation literally all day and can't figure how to do this. The closest I got is doing the following: Use the MTFI to convert the font to a .sty and have it ready for LyX (following instructions found at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc3). This worked fine BUT all sections titles are back to the old font. If I use the SectSty package, they sections / subsections, ... have the right font but all appear with the same size. Seems like something is wrong. Is there an easy way to basically replace the document font with a different one? I would like to use LyX as is but with this dedicated font. Is there a tutorial that explains how to import fonts into LyX? If not, anybody willing to describe the process? Appreciate a lot the help in advance, Stéphan Picard
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
jos wrote: Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. Hi Steve This link doesn't work ... at least not from where I am. It would be a bit strange if I would need 1.5GB RAM to type a text, wouldn't it? (but no worries, I have 2GB) LyX typically uses less than 40 megs or RAM even for very big documents. That's something we are quite proud of :-) Abdel.
Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case maybe he could erase this account? Abdel.
Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts
Le 6 mai 08 à 22:18, Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case maybe he could erase this account? I forwarded your message to Mate's super secret spam-free address (the one he notices) JMarc
Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts
I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case maybe he could erase this account? only in case he was stupid enough to sign up with this email address :) p
Re: makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
Steve Litt wrote: Unknown host xindy.sourceforge.net Strange. Works for me. Any other URL? Not for the official homepage. But you can find information on it all overall the net. For instance: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xindy.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xindy Jürgen
Install Spanish dictionary
Hi there, I have just installed Lyx, but I had problems installing the Spanish dictionary. What do you do to install an additional dictionary? Is there a patch or something like that? I will appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance, Maria
Re: Install Spanish dictionary
Maria Barilla schrieb: I have just installed Lyx, but I had problems installing the Spanish dictionary. What do you do to install an additional dictionary? It should work. As it didn't work for your, uninstall only the existing Spanish Aspell dictionary, the reinstall it using this http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/aspell6-es-0.50-2.exe or this one ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/aspell6-es-0.50-2.exe (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6) regards Uwe
Re: how can I adapt documents for LARGE PRINT versions?
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Yes. Rather than delete an ERT box, just put a %-sign at the start of each
line
inside. That disables it, it is then easy to enable again later by
removing the %-signs.
Yeah! That would probably make more sense. Hmmnn. if % comments out a
line of latex code in the ERT box like # does in a bash script then I'm
thinking I could add a commented first few lines that say what the ERT
box is for. Including a line that says:
% uncomment the lines below this one to enable ERT box
Then I wouldn't even need a comment box at all...
Hmmnn, Is the redefining of the latex font size values
independent of the koma-script package?
This sort of thing can be done with any document class.
A reason to learn how to do it this way as well as to enable those other
document classes.
Is there perhaps, an easy to follow how-to somewhere for this technique
of redefining the font sizes? {drool drool}
Not that I know of - I wouldn't consider this an easy way. You would
have to read up on latex commands. Might be interesting if you're into
programming, or have a special interest for typography. Or it could be
a big headache . . .
OK I'm now convinced that the ability to use latex commands to
accomplish things like this is worth the time I'll have to spend
trying to learn some latex. But that's going to take a while...
The easy way is to use document class: book/article/report (more font
sizes)
which allows font sizes up to 20pt to be selected in
document-settings-fonts
I.e. if you already use article, switch to article (more font sizes).
If you already use book, switch to book (more font sizes) and so on.
This works with the released lyx 1.5.4, and the upcoming lyx 1.6
There is also document class book (memoir) that allows font sizes up to
17 pt.
On debian, and probably ubuntu, this stuff becomes
available if you install the package texlive-latex-recommended. You may
also have to use tools-reconfigure in LyX, and then restart LyX so
that LyX will know about the new available document classes.
Yes that did get the (more font sizes) document classes activated on
my desktop's kubuntu installation...
There are some advantages to using a document class over
redefining the font sizes. This is so because font sizes only is
part of the typography. There are also such things as margin sizes,
distances between heading and the following paragraph, distance
between figures and text, spacing in lists, math sizes, and so on.
Many of these adapt to the font size in use, but not necessarily all.
A document class with extra font sizes should take care
of everything though.
If you want easy - definitely go for a document class that supports
many font sizes. Then you are sure everything will work and look good too.
Using the freshly texlive enhanced kubuntu copy of lyx on the desktop
I opened an old book class doc that output 7 page pdf doc changed the
class to book (more font sizes) and then the base size from 12 to 17 and
output 8 page pdf... So I have a quick 'easy' fix. At least for my
kubuntu environments.
One can also get interesting results with ERT boxes, but they
are meant for experts. There is a bigger risk of problems, from
ugliness that needs more ERT (or micromanagement) to fix, to
documents that doesn't print and need debugging. The latter is
not fun when it happens late in the evening. :-/
Yeah, Though the more things I _CAN_ micromanage with ugly red text the
better I'll like it. In fact, even though I knew when I first became
interested in LyX that it would be a long time before I had much time to
spend on learning latex, it was the fact that one can override lyx with
embedded latex commands that convinced my to start using lyx...
I've never been happy with the idea of depending on whoever is
developing/maintaining a gui package to keep the parts I count
on, in the package... So the way LyX uses LaTeX, and incorporates
the idea of embedding actual LaTeX commands, while letting me do
almost anything I might have done with a word processor without having
to already know LaTeX is the main reason I do more with it than
OOffice...
Thank you for the help and pointers.
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Printing a book
Hi everyone I've used LyX from the beginning and love it! But in the last few weeks I've been inspired to raise my horizons and print a book sized book. In the past I have printed all my LyX documents on A4 paper. But for a book that is far too big. So I decided to try for 9 x 6 or 225mm x 160mm which seem to be the sizes offered by local Print on Demand businesses in New Zealand. I would welcome advice by people who have used LyX to produce PDF files for printing and binding by POD businesses. My difficulty is that, having set the page size in LyX, it shows up fine in xpdf but seems to be scaled to A4 when viewed by Acrobat Reader (which I suspect will be what the POD company will use). When I attempt to print it on my home printer (with A4 paper in the tray), the pages are the right size but appear alternatively at the top left and the botton right of the A4 sheets - resulting in sheets that cannot be trimmed to size without cropping off the content of one face of the sheet. There are bound to be tricks to this, both for printing at home so that I can guillotine the A4 down to the size I want, and for submitting a PDF file which a Digital Printing business can use directly. regards John O'Gorman
Re: Exporting to OpenDocument
I tried it and I received a File does not exist: message. I'm using LyX 1.5.4, MiKTeX 2.7. -- Jeff On 05 7, 08, at 12:52 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: htlatex $$i 'xhtml,ooffice' 'ooffice/! -cmozhtf' '-coo' '-cvalidate' Jeferson L. Sese jeferson dot sese at asiatype dot com Asiatype Inc. Suite 114 Columbia Tower Ortigas Ave., Greenhills Mandaluyong City 1550 Philippines Tel: +632-744-6262 Mobile: +63927-671-7901
Re: error on lyx prevents me generate print output.
On 6.05.08, Zhang Weiwu wrote: error message in opening tutorial with lyx. The opened tutorial is not printable. see below: ... Warning: Document class not available The layout file requested by this document, scrbook.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate scrbook.layout /usr/share/lyx/layouts/scrbook.layout scrbook.layout is the LyX layout file, for printed output it requires the *LaTeX class file* ``scrbook.cls``: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp locate scrbook.cls /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls Looking at HelpLaTeXConfig, you can find out which LaTeX classes and packages are found by the latest ToolsReconfigure run. Here I have: Found: scrartcl: yes, scrreprt: yes, scrbook: yes Fix: Find out which Gentoo package provides the file scrbook.cls and install it (or install all classes that are marked as required, recommended or suggested by LyX). I wonder if it is a lyx problem or because of my Gentoo Linux. Both: Gentoo: scrbook.cls is part of any major LaTeX distribution, but might be in a separate package on Gentoo. However, the the LyX package should at least recommend the package containing scrbook.cls. (If this is the case but you still choose not to install it, it is actually your problem ;-). LyX: Finding out that LyX misses the file scrbook.cls is not straightforward without knowledge about LaTeX packages and classes. * The error message points to the Customization guide (which contains info about installing a new class but nothing specific to finding out about missing LaTeX classes for existing LyX layouts. * It fails to mention HelpLaTeXConfig where additional info could be found. * LaTeXConfig does not contain the full file name found or not found. (i.e. it mentions ``scrbook`` but not ``scrbook.cls``). Günter
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Olivier Ripoll schrieb: It works fine here (no crash yet). As for the previous versions (svn1 and svn2), the installer detects that I have the dictionaries installed (English and French), but spell checking fails complaining: The Spellchecker could not be started No words list can be found for the language en_US. I see the same message in the console when I start lyx from there. I couldn't reproduce this problem. Does Aspell work with your existing LyX 1.5 installation? I did not have 1.5 installed. So I installed yesterday the 1.5.4 from LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe. During the installation, I checked the download of English and French dictionaries. As for 1.6, the spellchecking does not work (same error message, but only as a popup, I do not see it in the console if I start LyX from there... probably some debug option). The other things I noticed may be related to LyX and my installation, not the windows version in particular (although point 3 may be windows-related): [...] 3- pdf conversion issue. I make my graphics with Inkscape 0.46 and export them as pdf (via Cairo). They have unconventional page size (fitting the graphic, as a bounding box) and are displayed correctly in adobe reader (v8), foxit reader, and gsview. However, the display in LyX kind of maps them onto a Letter or A4 page. This was a bug in Imagemagick. When you are using a recent Imagemagick version (at least version 6.3.8-11, the one that it installed when you install LyX 1.5.4 using my installer), this problem shouldn't occur. You are right on the spot. I installed version 6.4.1 and the pdf are now displayed fine in LyX. When this doesn't fix your problem, could you send me by private mail a PDF wehre you see the bug? I then guess it's a bug in the PDF handling of Inkscape. regards Uwe Thanks for the hints/help. Best regards. Olivier.
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help. pavel
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not sure): As I understand it, the Toggle checkbox in the prefs (scrollbar, tabbar, toolbar) set them off when checked and on when unchecked (this looks an inverted logic to me BTW), toggle check button means that the element will be toggled once F11 is hit. it doesn't look like inverted logic to me, but feel free to propose better naming for the checkboxes. and there is no automatic mode to have them appear when the mouse is on the edge of the screen. Right ? right pavel
Re: Texlive for lyx
Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to find appropriate packages for a given classes for texlive, eg: texmfind moderncv.cls pavel
Exporting to OpenDocument
Hi, I'm trying to export a LyX document to OpenDocument, and I was successful inside a Mac environment but failing inside Windows. Does anybody know how to do this in Windows? I tried doing it manually via command line using the oolatex.exe inside MikTeX but when I open the odt generated, the equation does not appear properly. Thanks, -- Jeff Jeferson L. Sese jeferson dot sese at asiatype dot com Asiatype Inc. Suite 114 Columbia Tower Ortigas Ave., Greenhills Mandaluyong City 1550 Philippines Tel: +632-744-6262 Mobile: +63927-671-7901
Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...
David A. Case wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different). 2. However, if you set non-default margins, then the geometry package gets called, and pdflatex will create a US letter physical page. To me, this is a bug or deficiency in LyX: if the user selects US Letter on the page layout selection, LyX should create LaTeX code that does what the user almost certainly wants: have logical *and* physical pages set to US Letter. If there is a real need to allow the user to control both logical page size and physical page size separately, then maybe a new checkbox could be added to the paper size section of the Page Layout widget. Please consider filing a bug report about this at bugzilla.lyx.org. That way it won't be forgotten. Helge Hafting
Re: unicode-math question
snvv wrote: Hello, I use xetex and I would like to install the unicode-math package[1] I downloaded the files but I don't know how to install it. The files have tdx, ins and tex extensions. Any idea? Thank you sn [1]http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/source/xelatex/unicode-math/ I recommend consulting a tex forum or reading documentation on a tex website such as ctan.org. They should know. Helge Hafting
Re: how to cross-reference a figure
misterHide wrote: Hi, I want to cross-reference a Figure by theire number. It should look like: how figure 12 shows you... How could I do so? I just found the opportunity to link against an label. Isn't it possible to link against a figure floating object and theire name? You put a label into the caption in the floating figure. (Insert-label) Then you link to that label. (Insert-reference) The caption will be numbered when the document is printed, and the same number will be printed in the reference. You have various options for how the reference will print, you can get: * the figure number, which is what you asked about * the page number * the figure number and the page number, or strings like figure 12 on the previous page when the page number is close to the reference. In Lyx, this will look like: how figure REF[my figure] shows you... but the REF[my figure] will be replaced by the correct number when you print or make a pdf. LyX always gets these numbers right, no matter how much editing you do later. (Contrast to some other word processors that occationally mess up references and the TOC...) I agree that referencing the figure directly by name without having to place a label first would be easier - but LyX can't do that - yet. One small problem with this approach is what to do when two figures have the same name. Helge Hafting
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
Pavel Sanda wrote: 1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not sure): As I understand it, the Toggle checkbox in the prefs (scrollbar, tabbar, toolbar) set them off when checked and on when unchecked (this looks an inverted logic to me BTW), toggle check button means that the element will be toggled once F11 is hit. it doesn't look like inverted logic to me, but feel free to propose better naming for the checkboxes. Hi, From what I understand of the definition of toggle, the current behaviour (on Windows XP) is not toggle. Just to avoid misunderstandings, this is what I take for definition of toggle: (dictionary.com): To alternate between two or more electronic, mechanical, or computer-related options, usually by the operation of a single switch or keystroke: toggled back and forth between two windows on the screen. The behaviour I observe is the following with all check-boxes checked: - If I have toolbars/tabbar/scrollbar in the normal window, pressing F11 makes all disappear. That is toggling. - If I have no scrollbar (e.g. a new empty document, after pressing twice F11), no toolbars (removing them, only the menu bar being left), then they are also absent in full-screen mode. This is not toggling. So if this is what happens on all platforms, I would suggest to use the word hide instead of toggle. Best regards, and thanks for the good work done in the 1.6 version. Olivier and there is no automatic mode to have them appear when the mouse is on the edge of the screen. Right ? right pavel
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
So if this is what happens on all platforms, I would suggest to use the word hide instead of toggle. ok thats reasonable. pavel
RE: Thesis template in Lyx (options clash error)
I don't think the ufthesis.cls file is loading amsmath. The problem
disappears if I comment out the following load package in the preamble:
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
Do I need this package for anything major? Thanks.
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: G. Milde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:25 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Thesis template in Lyx (including a chapter)
On 5.05.08, José Matos wrote:
On Saturday 03 May 2008 03:30:28 Adrian Peter wrote:
I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the
same type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to
point to the ufthesis.cls file). Is the child document somehow
redefining
the graphicx package options? Thanks.
I don't think so.
Also, the error pointed to a problem loading amsmath.
Does the ufthesis.cls class load ams? With an option?
Then, the layout file must say so:
ProvidesAmsmath 1
(see HelpCustomisation), otherwise LyX loads the amsmath package again (if
required or set to do so).
Günter
---Original Error---
Now I am running into a small issue whenever I try to include a chapter as a
child document into my main lyx file. I get the following error when I try
to do a DVI preview or creating a PDF:
\usepackage
{amsmath}
The package graphicx has already been loaded with options:
[]
There has now been an attempt to load it with options
[dvips]
Adding the global options:
,dvips
to your \documentclass declaration may fix this.
Try typing return to proceed.
I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the same
type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to point to
the ufthesis.cls file). Is the child document somehow redefining the
graphicx package options? Thanks.
Adrian
Re: Texlive for lyx
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to find appropriate packages for a given classes for texlive, eg: texmfind moderncv.cls pavel, Yes, that helps when you know what you are looking for. I had in mind a way of looking at each package to decide whether you might need it in the future. For example, clicking on View in the dev-texlive/texlive-genericextra page on gentoo-portage.com shows it contains: abbr abstyles aurora barr borceux c-pascal colorsep dinat eijkhout fltpoint insbox mathdots metatex mftoeps midnight multi ofs pdf-trans psfig realcalc vrb vtex collection-genericextra Now I don't know what most of these are, but I'm pretty sure I might want psfig, so I emerge this package. Les -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
On 6.05.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Short answer LyX supports the CLIPBOARD x-selection nicely, but the PRIMARY selection only partially. Long answer --- I finally found documentation of pasting and clipboard issues under X-Windows in xclip's README: For a good overview of what selections are about, have a look at http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt. Short version: * XA_PRIMARY contains the last text you highlighted * Middle click pastes XA_PRIMARY * XA_CLIPBOARD contains text explicitly copied with Edit | Copy, Ctrl-C etc. * Edit | Paste pastes XA_CLIPBOARD The MS-Windows clipboard corresponds to the CLIPBOARD x-selection (in the view of the end-user, implementation differs). There is no MS-Windows counterpart for the PRIMARY selection (clipboards.txt speaks of it as an easter-egg for experienced X-Windows users). However, IMHO proper support for the PRIMARY selection is is an important feature for seamless integration in an X-Windows environment: * some applications do not support CLIPBOARD. Althought this can be seen as a deficient of these applications and not LyX's fault, it helps the end user if LyX can communicate with these applications via the PRIMARY selection. * Experienced X-Windows users are used to the rapid select and paste way of pasting marked text via the middle mouse button. The need to explicitely copy the marked text (via the keyboard) interrupts the workflow considerably. State of the art (LyX 1.5.4 on Debian Gnu/Linux) For diagnosis, I am running the xfce clipboard, as this shows the state of PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection in separate lists. I do not know how far this influences the behaviour of LyX. Transfer to LyX ~~~ Works as expected (mostly): * ^V (EditPaste SpecialPlain Text) inserts the latest text copied with ^C in firefox. * middle click (EditPaste SpecialSelection) inserts the text highlighted in firefox (PRIMARY). * middle click inserts the text highlighted in rxvt-unicode (PRIMARY). * middle click does *not* insert text highlighted in the Jed text editor (although this text is shown in the PRIMARY list in the xfce clipboard). Transfer from LyX ~ * ^V in firefox inserts text copied with ^C in lyx. * ^V in rxvt-unicode has a different function. Pasting relies on the middle mouse click. * middle click does not always insert text selected in lyx! Text selected in lyx only sometimes appears in the xfce clipboard list of the PRIMARY selection: + marking words by double click usually sets PRIMARY, + Shift+Cursor-Keys sets PRIMARY + marking with mouse-drag usually usually *fails* to set PRIMARY (it does so sometimes but the pattern governing this behaviour is not clear). If there is interest, I can continue the evaluation using xclip instead of the xfce clipboard to rule out interferences. Günter
Re: Thesis template in Lyx (options clash error)
On 6.05.08, Adrian Peter wrote:
I don't think the ufthesis.cls file is loading amsmath. The problem
disappears if I comment out the following load package in the preamble:
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
Do I need this package for anything major? Thanks.
You need it for included graphics, but LyX takes care of this.
I.e.
* it should not be in the user supplied preamble (DocumentSettingsLaTeX
preamble),
* but you should see it (with correct options) in the preamble of the
LaTeX file exported by lyx.
Günter
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. Now only the selection choices are shaded out and not clickable. But the other choices do nothing for me. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help. No, only one LyX running. I have a text highlighted in an xterm. But can't paste into LyX. Tried middle click. Tried using menu options. Jeremy C. Reed
slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
Typing has become painfully slow after I upgraded from lyx-1.4.4 to lyx-1.5.3 on a machine with fedora core 6: there's a very annoying delay between a keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding symbol on the screen. Because a rpm of lyx-1.5.4 is not available for fedora 6, I tried to create my own rpm from the lyx-1.5.4 sources (as described, a bit chaotically, here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/CreatingLyXRPM). However, I can't seem to get configure to understand where my qt4 libraries are: adding --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 to the configure command in the spec file, or setting the environment variables QTLIB or QT4LIB to /usr/lib/qt4 doesn't help. Does anyone have an idea how to: - either get rid of the annoying typing delay in lyx-1.5.3 - or what is wrong with my qt4 ($ rpm -q qt4 qt4-4.3.2-1.fc6) thanks, jos -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/slow-typing-in-lyx-1.5.3-tp17084281p17084281.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) Now only the selection choices are shaded out and not clickable. But the other choices do nothing for me. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help. No, only one LyX running. I have a text highlighted in an xterm. But can't paste into LyX. Tried middle click. Tried using menu options. Workaround: When I cannot get the desired result (say, from a browser window), I can usually get it by pasting into an emacs window as an intermediate step and then highlighting and paste into lyx from the emacs window. Another copy/paste peculiarity (changes from past behavior): Deleted lines (emacs key bindings: ^k) that have not been highlighted won't paste for me (maybe by design). But highlighted lines that are deleted (using ^w) can be pasted (probably to move them). Emacs behavior is different. Contiguous deleted lines (^k) can be yanked back (^y) -- anywhere in a document. (I do not consider Emacs is the gold standard -- let's not repeat the editor flame wars -- it is a convenient feature.) mark hansel
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 10:33, jos wrote: Typing has become painfully slow after I upgraded from lyx-1.4.4 to lyx-1.5.3 on a machine with fedora core 6: there's a very annoying delay between a keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding symbol on the screen. Because a rpm of lyx-1.5.4 is not available for fedora 6, I tried to create my own rpm from the lyx-1.5.4 sources (as described, a bit chaotically, here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/CreatingLyXRPM). However, I can't seem to get configure to understand where my qt4 libraries are: adding --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 to the configure command in the spec file, or setting the environment variables QTLIB or QT4LIB to /usr/lib/qt4 doesn't help. Does anyone have an idea how to: - either get rid of the annoying typing delay in lyx-1.5.3 - or what is wrong with my qt4 ($ rpm -q qt4 qt4-4.3.2-1.fc6) Hi Jos, I feel your pain. I had similar problems a few months ago, and some list members helped me through the qt4 problems. See this for a synopsis: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:33 AM, jos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typing has become painfully slow after I upgraded from lyx-1.4.4 to lyx-1.5.3 on a machine with fedora core 6: there's a very annoying delay between a keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding symbol on the screen. Because a rpm of lyx-1.5.4 is not available for fedora 6, I tried to create my own rpm from the lyx-1.5.4 sources (as described, a bit chaotically, here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/CreatingLyXRPM). However, I can't seem to get configure to understand where my qt4 libraries are: adding --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 to the configure command in the spec file, or setting the environment variables QTLIB or QT4LIB to /usr/lib/qt4 doesn't help. Does anyone have an idea how to: - either get rid of the annoying typing delay in lyx-1.5.3 - or what is wrong with my qt4 ($ rpm -q qt4 qt4-4.3.2-1.fc6) thanks, jos -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/slow-typing-in-lyx-1.5.3-tp17084281p17084281.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. I also experienced this 'slowness' on an old iBook with both Ubuntu and Fedora. Two things help me. 1) LyX 1.5.3, this was much better than the other LyX 1.5* series (doesn't seem to help you much, although Fedora in general was extremely slow on my iBook (Debian, Gentoo, and Arch are much better)) 2) My xorg was initially set to 24bit color with Ubuntu and Fedora and changing it to 16bit helped immensely. Cheers, /Bob
Font import
Good afternoon, I've been using LyX some years ago and now that I have to prepare a large document again, I'm getting re-acquainted with it. Nice new features and interface. The problem that I am facing is that my organisation has its own TrueType interface and I would need to use it in my document. I have looked around forums and documentation literally all day and can't figure how to do this. The closest I got is doing the following: Use the MTFI to convert the font to a .sty and have it ready for LyX (following instructions found at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc3). This worked fine BUT all sections titles are back to the old font. If I use the SectSty package, they sections / subsections, ... have the right font but all appear with the same size. Seems like something is wrong. Is there an easy way to basically replace the document font with a different one? I would like to use LyX as is but with this dedicated font. Is there a tutorial that explains how to import fonts into LyX? If not, anybody willing to describe the process? Appreciate a lot the help in advance, Stéphan Picard
Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
Hi all, Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. Hi Steve This link doesn't work ... at least not from where I am. It would be a bit strange if I would need 1.5GB RAM to type a text, wouldn't it? (but no worries, I have 2GB) Anyway, while fiddling around, removing and reinstalling the same lyx version (1.5.2, as I corrected), everything is fine. I wonder if the problem reappears. thanks, Jos -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/slow-typing-in-lyx-1.5.2-tp17084281p17086415.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list . . . -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Exporting to OpenDocument
Jeff Sese wrote: Hi, I'm trying to export a LyX document to OpenDocument, and I was successful inside a Mac environment but failing inside Windows. Does anybody know how to do this in Windows? I tried doing it manually via command line using the oolatex.exe inside MikTeX but when I open the odt generated, the equation does not appear properly. There are problems doing this on many Windows installs, due to issues with tex4ht under Windows. Some people have occasionally gotten it to work, but, well, don't bank on it. rh
Re: Exporting to OpenDocument
rgheck wrote: I'm trying to export a LyX document to OpenDocument, and I was successful inside a Mac environment but failing inside Windows. Does anybody know how to do this in Windows? I tried doing it manually via command line using the oolatex.exe inside MikTeX but when I open the odt generated, the equation does not appear properly. There are problems doing this on many Windows installs, due to issues with tex4ht under Windows. Some people have occasionally gotten it to work, but, well, don't bank on it. Could you try the following command instead of oolatex? htlatex file 'xhtml,ooffice' 'ooffice/! -cmozhtf' '-coo' '-cvalidate' That is, in Preferences-Converters (for LaTeX-OpenDocument): htlatex $$i 'xhtml,ooffice' 'ooffice/! -cmozhtf' '-coo' '-cvalidate' Jürgen
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Les Denham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list . . . -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html I'll second that! I'm tired of those messages. Although they do only seem to come when replying to certain people not necessarily just the LyX list. /Bob
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 11:59, jos wrote: Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. Hi Steve This link doesn't work ... at least not from where I am. Doo! .cxm is my internal top level domain. It should have been .com: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm Sorry Steve
makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
Hi all, Remember a few days ago I asked how to get rid of 1 page ranges? That led to an investigation of makeindex and makeindex style files, which led to this documentation: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/makeindex.htm There are many articles about makeindex on the web, and of course it has a man page. What makes the Troubleshooters.Com article different is it's understandable by someone not familiar with makeindex. Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
Steve Litt wrote: There are many articles about makeindex on the web, and of course it has a man page. What makes the Troubleshooters.Com article different is it's understandable by someone not familiar with makeindex. Thanks for this. However, personally I'd recommend everybody to switch from makeindex to xindy. It's so much ahead of makeindex (especially if you're not writing in American English) http://xindy.sourceforge.net/ Jürgen
Re: makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 13:58, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: There are many articles about makeindex on the web, and of course it has a man page. What makes the Troubleshooters.Com article different is it's understandable by someone not familiar with makeindex. Thanks for this. However, personally I'd recommend everybody to switch from makeindex to xindy. It's so much ahead of makeindex (especially if you're not writing in American English) http://xindy.sourceforge.net/ Jürgen Oops: Unknown host xindy.sourceforge.net Any other URL? SteveT
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 12:01, Les Denham wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list Or maybe we all set up our own autoresponders returning those messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) SteveT
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or maybe we all set up our own autoresponders returning those messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) SteveT Done :-}. Good idea. /Bob
Re: Font import
You may use xetex within LyX Regards SN On Tuesday 06 May 2008 18:24:46 Stephan Picard wrote: Good afternoon, I've been using LyX some years ago and now that I have to prepare a large document again, I'm getting re-acquainted with it. Nice new features and interface. The problem that I am facing is that my organisation has its own TrueType interface and I would need to use it in my document. I have looked around forums and documentation literally all day and can't figure how to do this. The closest I got is doing the following: Use the MTFI to convert the font to a .sty and have it ready for LyX (following instructions found at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc3). This worked fine BUT all sections titles are back to the old font. If I use the SectSty package, they sections / subsections, ... have the right font but all appear with the same size. Seems like something is wrong. Is there an easy way to basically replace the document font with a different one? I would like to use LyX as is but with this dedicated font. Is there a tutorial that explains how to import fonts into LyX? If not, anybody willing to describe the process? Appreciate a lot the help in advance, Stéphan Picard
Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3
jos wrote: Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. Hi Steve This link doesn't work ... at least not from where I am. It would be a bit strange if I would need 1.5GB RAM to type a text, wouldn't it? (but no worries, I have 2GB) LyX typically uses less than 40 megs or RAM even for very big documents. That's something we are quite proud of :-) Abdel.
Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case maybe he could erase this account? Abdel.
Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts
Le 6 mai 08 à 22:18, Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case maybe he could erase this account? I forwarded your message to Mate's super secret spam-free address (the one he notices) JMarc
Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts
I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case maybe he could erase this account? only in case he was stupid enough to sign up with this email address :) p
Re: makeindex documentation on Troubleshooters.Com
Steve Litt wrote: Unknown host xindy.sourceforge.net Strange. Works for me. Any other URL? Not for the official homepage. But you can find information on it all overall the net. For instance: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xindy.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xindy Jürgen
Install Spanish dictionary
Hi there, I have just installed Lyx, but I had problems installing the Spanish dictionary. What do you do to install an additional dictionary? Is there a patch or something like that? I will appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance, Maria
Re: Install Spanish dictionary
Maria Barilla schrieb: I have just installed Lyx, but I had problems installing the Spanish dictionary. What do you do to install an additional dictionary? It should work. As it didn't work for your, uninstall only the existing Spanish Aspell dictionary, the reinstall it using this http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/aspell6-es-0.50-2.exe or this one ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/aspell6-es-0.50-2.exe (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6) regards Uwe
Re: how can I adapt documents for LARGE PRINT versions?
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It would appear that on May 5, Helge Hafting did say:
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Yes. Rather than delete an ERT box, just put a %-sign at the start of each
line
inside. That disables it, it is then easy to enable again later by
removing the %-signs.
Yeah! That would probably make more sense. Hmmnn. if % comments out a
line of latex code in the ERT box like # does in a bash script then I'm
thinking I could add a commented first few lines that say what the ERT
box is for. Including a line that says:
% uncomment the lines below this one to enable ERT box
Then I wouldn't even need a comment box at all...
Hmmnn, Is the redefining of the latex font size values
independent of the koma-script package?
This sort of thing can be done with any document class.
A reason to learn how to do it this way as well as to enable those other
document classes.
Is there perhaps, an easy to follow how-to somewhere for this technique
of redefining the font sizes? {drool drool}
Not that I know of - I wouldn't consider this an easy way. You would
have to read up on latex commands. Might be interesting if you're into
programming, or have a special interest for typography. Or it could be
a big headache . . .
OK I'm now convinced that the ability to use latex commands to
accomplish things like this is worth the time I'll have to spend
trying to learn some latex. But that's going to take a while...
The easy way is to use document class: book/article/report (more font
sizes)
which allows font sizes up to 20pt to be selected in
document-settings-fonts
I.e. if you already use article, switch to article (more font sizes).
If you already use book, switch to book (more font sizes) and so on.
This works with the released lyx 1.5.4, and the upcoming lyx 1.6
There is also document class book (memoir) that allows font sizes up to
17 pt.
On debian, and probably ubuntu, this stuff becomes
available if you install the package texlive-latex-recommended. You may
also have to use tools-reconfigure in LyX, and then restart LyX so
that LyX will know about the new available document classes.
Yes that did get the (more font sizes) document classes activated on
my desktop's kubuntu installation...
There are some advantages to using a document class over
redefining the font sizes. This is so because font sizes only is
part of the typography. There are also such things as margin sizes,
distances between heading and the following paragraph, distance
between figures and text, spacing in lists, math sizes, and so on.
Many of these adapt to the font size in use, but not necessarily all.
A document class with extra font sizes should take care
of everything though.
If you want easy - definitely go for a document class that supports
many font sizes. Then you are sure everything will work and look good too.
Using the freshly texlive enhanced kubuntu copy of lyx on the desktop
I opened an old book class doc that output 7 page pdf doc changed the
class to book (more font sizes) and then the base size from 12 to 17 and
output 8 page pdf... So I have a quick 'easy' fix. At least for my
kubuntu environments.
One can also get interesting results with ERT boxes, but they
are meant for experts. There is a bigger risk of problems, from
ugliness that needs more ERT (or micromanagement) to fix, to
documents that doesn't print and need debugging. The latter is
not fun when it happens late in the evening. :-/
Yeah, Though the more things I _CAN_ micromanage with ugly red text the
better I'll like it. In fact, even though I knew when I first became
interested in LyX that it would be a long time before I had much time to
spend on learning latex, it was the fact that one can override lyx with
embedded latex commands that convinced my to start using lyx...
I've never been happy with the idea of depending on whoever is
developing/maintaining a gui package to keep the parts I count
on, in the package... So the way LyX uses LaTeX, and incorporates
the idea of embedding actual LaTeX commands, while letting me do
almost anything I might have done with a word processor without having
to already know LaTeX is the main reason I do more with it than
OOffice...
Thank you for the help and pointers.
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Printing a book
Hi everyone I've used LyX from the beginning and love it! But in the last few weeks I've been inspired to raise my horizons and print a book sized book. In the past I have printed all my LyX documents on A4 paper. But for a book that is far too big. So I decided to try for 9 x 6 or 225mm x 160mm which seem to be the sizes offered by local Print on Demand businesses in New Zealand. I would welcome advice by people who have used LyX to produce PDF files for printing and binding by POD businesses. My difficulty is that, having set the page size in LyX, it shows up fine in xpdf but seems to be scaled to A4 when viewed by Acrobat Reader (which I suspect will be what the POD company will use). When I attempt to print it on my home printer (with A4 paper in the tray), the pages are the right size but appear alternatively at the top left and the botton right of the A4 sheets - resulting in sheets that cannot be trimmed to size without cropping off the content of one face of the sheet. There are bound to be tricks to this, both for printing at home so that I can guillotine the A4 down to the size I want, and for submitting a PDF file which a Digital Printing business can use directly. regards John O'Gorman
Re: Exporting to OpenDocument
I tried it and I received a File does not exist: message. I'm using LyX 1.5.4, MiKTeX 2.7. -- Jeff On 05 7, 08, at 12:52 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: htlatex $$i 'xhtml,ooffice' 'ooffice/! -cmozhtf' '-coo' '-cvalidate' Jeferson L. Sese jeferson dot sese at asiatype dot com Asiatype Inc. Suite 114 Columbia Tower Ortigas Ave., Greenhills Mandaluyong City 1550 Philippines Tel: +632-744-6262 Mobile: +63927-671-7901
Re: error on lyx prevents me generate print output.
On 6.05.08, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > error message in opening tutorial with lyx. The opened tutorial is not > printable. see below: ... > Warning: Document class not available > > The layout file requested by this document, > scrbook.layout, > is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX > class or style file required by it is not > available. ... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate scrbook.layout > /usr/share/lyx/layouts/scrbook.layout scrbook.layout is the LyX layout file, for printed output it requires the *LaTeX class file* ``scrbook.cls``: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp > locate scrbook.cls /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls Looking at Help>LaTeXConfig, you can find out which LaTeX classes and packages are found by the latest Tools>Reconfigure run. Here I have: Found: scrartcl: yes, scrreprt: yes, scrbook: yes Fix: Find out which Gentoo package provides the file scrbook.cls and install it (or install all classes that are marked as required, recommended or suggested by LyX). > I wonder if it is a lyx problem or because of my Gentoo Linux. Both: Gentoo: scrbook.cls is part of any major LaTeX distribution, but might be in a separate package on Gentoo. However, the the LyX package should at least recommend the package containing scrbook.cls. (If this is the case but you still choose not to install it, it is actually your problem ;-). LyX: Finding out that LyX misses the file scrbook.cls is not straightforward without knowledge about LaTeX packages and classes. * The error message points to the Customization guide (which contains info about installing a new class but nothing specific to finding out about missing LaTeX classes for existing LyX layouts. * It fails to mention Help>LaTeXConfig where additional info could be found. * LaTeXConfig does not contain the full file name found or not found. (i.e. it mentions ``scrbook`` but not ``scrbook.cls``). Günter
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Olivier Ripoll schrieb: It works fine here (no crash yet). As for the previous versions (svn1 and svn2), the installer detects that I have the dictionaries installed (English and French), but spell checking fails complaining: The Spellchecker could not be started No words list can be found for the language "en_US". I see the same message in the console when I start lyx from there. I couldn't reproduce this problem. Does Aspell work with your existing LyX 1.5 installation? I did not have 1.5 installed. So I installed yesterday the 1.5.4 from LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe. During the installation, I checked the download of English and French dictionaries. As for 1.6, the spellchecking does not work (same error message, but only as a popup, I do not see it in the console if I start LyX from there... probably some debug option). The other things I noticed may be related to LyX and my installation, not the windows version in particular (although point 3 may be windows-related): [...] 3- pdf conversion issue. I make my graphics with Inkscape 0.46 and export them as pdf (via Cairo). They have unconventional page size (fitting the graphic, as a bounding box) and are displayed correctly in adobe reader (v8), foxit reader, and gsview. However, the display in LyX "kind of" maps them onto a Letter or A4 page. This was a bug in Imagemagick. When you are using a recent Imagemagick version (at least version 6.3.8-11, the one that it installed when you install LyX 1.5.4 using my installer), this problem shouldn't occur. You are right on the spot. I installed version 6.4.1 and the pdf are now displayed fine in LyX. When this doesn't fix your problem, could you send me by private mail a PDF wehre you see the bug? I then guess it's a bug in the PDF handling of Inkscape. regards Uwe Thanks for the hints/help. Best regards. Olivier.
Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working
> Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a > middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit -> Paste Special. > (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) > > In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. > > This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not running any clipboard utility. > > Any ideas why I can't paste into LyX? Jeremy, is this the case with only single LyX window or are running more windows simultaneously? Running just one single instance could help. pavel
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
> 1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are > supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not > sure): As I understand it, the "Toggle" checkbox in the prefs (scrollbar, > tabbar, toolbar) set them "off" when checked and "on" when unchecked (this > looks an inverted logic to me BTW), "toggle" check button means that the element will be toggled once F11 is hit. it doesn't look like inverted logic to me, but feel free to propose better naming for the checkboxes. > and there is no "automatic" mode to > have them appear when the mouse is on the edge of the screen. Right ? right pavel
Re: Texlive for lyx
> Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether > you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is > http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to find appropriate packages for a given classes for texlive, eg: texmfind moderncv.cls pavel
Exporting to OpenDocument
Hi, I'm trying to export a LyX document to OpenDocument, and I was successful inside a Mac environment but failing inside Windows. Does anybody know how to do this in Windows? I tried doing it manually via command line using the oolatex.exe inside MikTeX but when I open the odt generated, the equation does not appear properly. Thanks, -- Jeff Jeferson L. Sese jeferson dot sese at asiatype dot com Asiatype Inc. Suite 114 Columbia Tower Ortigas Ave., Greenhills Mandaluyong City 1550 Philippines Tel: +632-744-6262 Mobile: +63927-671-7901
Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...
David A. Case wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different). 2. However, if you set non-default margins, then the geometry package gets called, and pdflatex will create a "US letter" physical page. To me, this is a bug or deficiency in LyX: if the user selects "US Letter" on the page layout selection, LyX should create LaTeX code that does what the user almost certainly wants: have logical *and* physical pages set to US Letter. If there is a real need to allow the user to control both logical page size and physical page size separately, then maybe a new checkbox could be added to the "paper size" section of the Page Layout widget. Please consider filing a bug report about this at bugzilla.lyx.org. That way it won't be forgotten. Helge Hafting
Re: unicode-math question
snvv wrote: Hello, I use xetex and I would like to install the unicode-math package[1] I downloaded the files but I don't know how to install it. The files have tdx, ins and tex extensions. Any idea? Thank you sn [1]http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/source/xelatex/unicode-math/ I recommend consulting a tex forum or reading documentation on a tex website such as ctan.org. They should know. Helge Hafting
Re: how to cross-reference a figure
misterHide wrote: Hi, I want to cross-reference a Figure by theire number. It should look like: "how figure 12 shows you..." How could I do so? I just found the opportunity to link against an label. Isn't it possible to link against a figure floating object and theire name? You put a label into the caption in the floating figure. (Insert->label) Then you link to that label. (Insert->reference) The caption will be numbered when the document is printed, and the same number will be printed in the reference. You have various options for how the reference will print, you can get: * the figure number, which is what you asked about * the page number * the figure number and the page number, or strings like "figure 12 on the previous page" when the page number is close to the reference. In Lyx, this will look like: "how figure REF[my figure] shows you..." but the REF[my figure] will be replaced by the correct number when you print or make a pdf. LyX always gets these numbers right, no matter how much editing you do later. (Contrast to some other word processors that occationally mess up references and the TOC...) I agree that referencing the figure directly by name without having to place a label first would be easier - but LyX can't do that - yet. One small problem with this approach is what to do when two figures have the same name. Helge Hafting
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
Pavel Sanda wrote: 1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not sure): As I understand it, the "Toggle" checkbox in the prefs (scrollbar, tabbar, toolbar) set them "off" when checked and "on" when unchecked (this looks an inverted logic to me BTW), "toggle" check button means that the element will be toggled once F11 is hit. it doesn't look like inverted logic to me, but feel free to propose better naming for the checkboxes. Hi, From what I understand of the definition of toggle, the current behaviour (on Windows XP) is not "toggle". Just to avoid misunderstandings, this is what I take for definition of toggle: (dictionary.com): "To alternate between two or more electronic, mechanical, or computer-related options, usually by the operation of a single switch or keystroke: toggled back and forth between two windows on the screen." The behaviour I observe is the following with all check-boxes checked: - If I have toolbars/tabbar/scrollbar in the normal window, pressing F11 makes all disappear. That is toggling. - If I have no scrollbar (e.g. a new empty document, after pressing twice F11), no toolbars (removing them, only the menu bar being left), then they are also absent in full-screen mode. This is not toggling. So if this is what happens on all platforms, I would suggest to use the word "hide" instead of "toggle". Best regards, and thanks for the good work done in the 1.6 version. Olivier and there is no "automatic" mode to have them appear when the mouse is on the edge of the screen. Right ? right pavel
Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows
> So if this is what happens on all platforms, I would suggest to use the > word "hide" instead of "toggle". ok thats reasonable. pavel
RE: Thesis template in Lyx (options clash error)
I don't think the ufthesis.cls file is loading amsmath. The problem
disappears if I comment out the following load package in the preamble:
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
Do I need this package for anything major? Thanks.
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: G. Milde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:25 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Thesis template in Lyx (including a chapter)
On 5.05.08, José Matos wrote:
> On Saturday 03 May 2008 03:30:28 Adrian Peter wrote:
> > I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the
> > same type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to
> > point to the ufthesis.cls file). Is the child document somehow
redefining
> > the graphicx package options? Thanks.
> I don't think so.
Also, the error pointed to a problem loading amsmath.
Does the ufthesis.cls class load ams? With an option?
Then, the layout file must say so:
ProvidesAmsmath 1
(see Help>Customisation), otherwise LyX loads the amsmath package again (if
required or set to do so).
Günter
---Original Error---
Now I am running into a small issue whenever I try to include a chapter as a
child document into my main lyx file. I get the following error when I try
to do a DVI preview or creating a PDF:
>>\usepackage
>> {amsmath}
>>The package graphicx has already been loaded with options:
>> []
>>There has now been an attempt to load it with options
>> [dvips]
>>Adding the global options:
>> ,dvips
>>to your \documentclass declaration may fix this.
>>Try typingto proceed.
I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the same
type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to point to
the ufthesis.cls file). Is the child document somehow redefining the
graphicx package options? Thanks.
Adrian
