Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 Thanks for testing (!!), but it DOES compile manually here (using
 TeXLive 2008). See attached (this is after a failed 'buffer-view pdf2'
 in LyX).

Are you sure these are the same files? Does an exported LaTeX file compile? I 
would be surprised, because this is clearly a LaTeX error.
(I use TeXLive 2008 as well).

Jürgen

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 P.S. The way LyX compiles documents (how often it runs what ...), is
 this a script somewhere (which I could not find), or is this hard-coded?

It's in LaTeX.cpp.

Jürgen

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Are you sure these are the same files? Does an exported LaTeX file compile?


Ahh ... the ones in the LyX-Temp-Dir were the right files, but they only 
compiled because of the \batchmode that LyX puts at the beginning (and 
the output was OK despite the (hidden) error).


\batchmode is not there in an exported Latex file, and then the error 
pops up. Thanks!


I 
would be surprised, because this is clearly a LaTeX error.

(I use TeXLive 2008 as well).


And for those having the same problem, the solution is:

In the preamble:
\usepackage{bibentry}   % to get in-text bibliography entries
\usepackage[retainorgcmds]{IEEEtrantools} % to get \bstctlcite command

In the text:
\bstctlcite{BSTcontrol_Thesis} % disable ieee feature breaking bibentry
\nobibliography* %enables bibentry

In the bib-file:
@ieeetranbstctl{BSTcontrol_Thesis,
CTLdash_repeated_names = {no},
CTLuse_alt_spacing = {no}}

See documentation to bibentry (pdflatex bibentry.dtx)and 
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/bibtex/IEEEtran_bst_HOWTO.pdf.



Thanks Jürgen for trying and asking the right questions!
Puzzle solved.
/Konrad

size of math instant preview

[Michel Gosse]

Hello 

I have installed lyx on my new computer (linux). I remember that there is a 
trick to scale the math preview within lyx, but i have lost this trick.
Can anyone help my poor memory ?

Best regards

Re: size of math instant preview

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Michel Gosse wrote:
Hello 

I have installed lyx on my new computer (linux). I remember that there is a 
trick to scale the math preview within lyx, but i have lost this trick.

Can anyone help my poor memory ?


Zoom % and Screen DPI in the Preferences. (Restart of LyX required.)

HTH,
/Konrad

Re: Hebrew and Nikud on Linux (Ubuntu)

[Guy Rutenberg]

Hi Nigel,

Nigel Pegram ndpeg...@... writes:

 
 Iviritex is  installed, as is culmus-latex.
 

Ivritex is no longer necessary (or compatible) with modern Tex distributions.
What Tex distribution do you use?

If it's a modern one (e.g. at least Texlive-2007 or teTex 3.) I would suggest
you remove Ivritex and reinstall the Tex distribution (including culmus-latex).

If it's an old Tex distribution, culmus-latex might not be compatible with it.


 The error is still the same, asking that the combine option be set.


I took a look in the LyX document you provided as an example.
1. You got to have \usepackage{culmus} in you preamble.
2. \usepackage{hebfont} isn't required.
3. The Hebrew fonts in culmus-latex are HE8 encoded. So you have to add
\fontencoding{HE8} before the Hebrew text
4. You need to specify a nikud enabled font (such as franknikud) using
\fontfamily

In the culmus-latex tarball there is an examples directory with an example
(hiriq) for using nikud. Try to compile in order to see whether the nikud
support is functioning correctly on your system. If not I suggest you contact
the Ivritex mailing list.


I hope I've been of help.



Sincerely,

Guy


http://www.guyrutenberg.com

Re: Error message when trying to see the pdf II

[Uwe Stöhr]

Segovia, Cesar A schrieb:


I resume work today on that same doc and when I tried to view it, I got
the following error message:
 
...SI 5408 Applied Optimization/Homeworks/HW#0 


3/\string/}}

You meant to type ## instead of #, right?


Seems to be the # bug in hyperlinks I fixed for LyX 1.6.2. Can you send me a _small_ example file 
to be able to reproduce your problem.


regards Uwe

Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Nikos Alexandris]

Hi!

I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.

I've found some pointers on the web (in german language) suggesting to
use footmisc [1] [2] but I can't get it working.

Is it really that difficult?

Kind regards, Nikos
---

[1] http://www.mrunix.de/forums/showthread.php?t=60735
[2]
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/footmisc.pdf

Re: windows unattended installation

[Uwe Stöhr]

nogard schrieb:

i need to install Lyx in silent mode without user intervention, and any 
parameter known work. Please, is it possible?


This is not possible due to the different licenses of the third-party programs used by LyX. For 
example to install Aspell dictionaries (and MiKTeX when I remember correctly), you explicitely need 
to click OK to accept the licenses.

(technically this is of course possible)

regards Uwe

some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

I'm using Document class: book (more font sizes)

I'm hoping I can modify the numbering so that the pages before
chapter one are numbered separately from the pages starting with
chapter one. IE: I want the first page of chapter one to be page 1

I'm also hoping I can get the pre-chapter pages to be numbered with a
different style such as roman numerals...

Below is a specific description of what I'm getting vs what I want to
get. Followed by the header lines of the .lyx file involved which I've
pasted in at the bottom of this message.

Thanks
-- 
|  ~^~   ~^~
|  ?   ? Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|  ^  J(tWdy)P
|\___/ jtw...@ttlc.net

pdf output:

tital (date output) page
- [  no visible pg number- good! ]
= [  But can I suppress or override the output date ???  ]

blank page 
- [  with Number 2 near upper left corner- Sigh! ]
= [  Can I suppress the output of any page number here ???   ]

Name associated with the collection of authors notes and preludes...
configured as part* with no other text. 
- [  part* Title with number 3 centered at bottom- Sigh~ ]
= [  Can I suppress the output of any page number here ???   ]

Totally blank page
- [  no visible pg number- good! ]

Author, copyright etc... at top of page
- [  page numbering at alternating corners continues here at # 5 ]
= [  Can I suppress this page number or better still change it   ]
= [  to a roman numeral format starting with this page as I ?? ]
= [  Or can I at least get it to start numbering here at 1 ??  ]
= [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

   (  Note a manually added page break prevents the section* with )
   (  the authors notes from beginning on the same page with the )
   (  copy right data.)

Authors notes section* with a subsection* and some prelude section*(s)
- [  numbering continues at 6 then 7 then 8 -Sigh!   ]
= [  Can I get it to continue from Author/copyright page with]
= [  Roman Numeral II, III, IV -- or at least -- 2, 3, 4 ]

Printed table of contents begins
- [  first page of TOC numbers at bottom center. Then numbering  ]
- [  resumes using alternating page corners. numbering continued ]
- [  with page 19... whimper   ]
   (  First I'd like either the entire TOC to be numbered in the  )
   (  corners OR have the ENTIRE TOC numbered bottom center...)
   (  Switching the numbering position in the middle of the TOC   )
   (  drives me up the wall...)
   (  Second if numbering was continuing from the sections I  )
   (  to use the roman numerals it would be # 14 or XIV Not 19... )
= [  Can I suppress the page numbering of the TOC pages ???  ]
= [  Or Better still, can I get it to continue with the numbering] 
= [  sequence I wanted to start at the author/copyright page ??? ]

Finally chapter 1 begins
- [  first page of each chapter is numbered bottom center all]
- [  other pages use alternating corners. numbering continues]
- [  with first page of chapter 1 being numbered at # 21 ]
   (  Note: the first page of each chapter being numbered in a)
   (  different position from the rest of the chapter doesn't bug )
   (  me as much as when that happens to the TOC but I'd like to  )
   (  have control over that behavior...  )
= [  Can I possibly force page on of chapter 1 to be numbered as ]
= [  page 1 ?]

.lyx header lines:

\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass extbook
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman bookman
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 14
\spacing single
\papersize default
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 2
\tocdepth 2
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author  
\author  
\end_header

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:

I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.

Is it really that difficult?


I did not try, but it shouldn't be.

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=run-fn-nos

HTH,
Konrad

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Nikos Alexandris schrieb:


I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.


You need to redefine the \numberwithin command as explained in sec. 4.2.1 of 
the EmbeddedObjects manual.

regards Uwe

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 22:46 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Nikos Alexandris schrieb:
 
  I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
  whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
  as it is the default in this document class.
 
 You need to redefine the \numberwithin command as explained in sec. 4.2.1 of 
 the EmbeddedObjects manual.
 
 regards Uwe

Woo... I missed that part. I was looking (again) in another manual.
Sorry.

Thanks Uwe + Konrad for your time.

LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

I'm using LyX in multiple lynx environments. In every case I use the 
latest version available in that Linux distro's officially sanctioned 
repositories. (It's the best way I know to keep the package manager from 
breaking something when I let it update my system...)

At the moment I'm using OpenSuSE 11.0 in which I'm using LyX 1.5.4

And I have great difficulty reading the text in the pull down menus. 
I'm running in KDE and have tried enlarging every font in kcontrol.
And I've tried setting a larger fontsize under the GTK style and fonts
settings. (And yes I restarted KDE after making that setting) But
nothing seams to enlarge the font used by LyX in the pull down menus.

Is there a way

Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!


You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX 
was failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my 
favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and 
copied this old one in as well.


I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes 
were made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script 
(layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX 
automatically tries to run it against old layouts during a 
reconfiguration or not.


/Paul

Re: LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 And I have great difficulty reading the text in the pull down menus.
 I'm running in KDE and have tried enlarging every font in kcontrol.
 And I've tried setting a larger fontsize under the GTK style and fonts
 settings. (And yes I restarted KDE after making that setting) But
 nothing seams to enlarge the font used by LyX in the pull down menus.

Since LyX runs Qt4 you either need to tweak Qt4's qtconfig or KDE 4's system 
settings.

Jürgen

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jan 24, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:

 Author, copyright etc... at top of page
 - [  page numbering at alternating corners continues here at # 5 ]
 = [  Can I suppress this page number or better still change it   ]
 = [  to a roman numeral format starting with this page as I ?? ]
 = [  Or can I at least get it to start numbering here at 1 ??  ]
 = [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

I don't think I was clear here...  When I said:

 = [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

I was talking about the Author, Copyright etc... stuff NOT the
position of the page number...


-- 
|   ---   ___
|   0   -  Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|   ^   J(tWdy)P
|~\___/~ jtw...@ttlc.net

Re: LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jan 24, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:

 I'm using LyX in multiple lynx environments. 

Dumb typo. This should read:

 I'm using LyX in multiple linux environments. 

-- 
|^^^   ^^^
|o   o   Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|^J(tWdy)P
|   ___jtw...@ttlc.net
|   
|  sigh

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 Thanks for testing (!!), but it DOES compile manually here (using
 TeXLive 2008). See attached (this is after a failed 'buffer-view pdf2'
 in LyX).

Are you sure these are the same files? Does an exported LaTeX file compile? I 
would be surprised, because this is clearly a LaTeX error.
(I use TeXLive 2008 as well).

Jürgen

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 P.S. The way LyX compiles documents (how often it runs what ...), is
 this a script somewhere (which I could not find), or is this hard-coded?

It's in LaTeX.cpp.

Jürgen

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Are you sure these are the same files? Does an exported LaTeX file compile?


Ahh ... the ones in the LyX-Temp-Dir were the right files, but they only 
compiled because of the \batchmode that LyX puts at the beginning (and 
the output was OK despite the (hidden) error).


\batchmode is not there in an exported Latex file, and then the error 
pops up. Thanks!


I 
would be surprised, because this is clearly a LaTeX error.

(I use TeXLive 2008 as well).


And for those having the same problem, the solution is:

In the preamble:
\usepackage{bibentry}   % to get in-text bibliography entries
\usepackage[retainorgcmds]{IEEEtrantools} % to get \bstctlcite command

In the text:
\bstctlcite{BSTcontrol_Thesis} % disable ieee feature breaking bibentry
\nobibliography* %enables bibentry

In the bib-file:
@ieeetranbstctl{BSTcontrol_Thesis,
CTLdash_repeated_names = {no},
CTLuse_alt_spacing = {no}}

See documentation to bibentry (pdflatex bibentry.dtx)and 
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/bibtex/IEEEtran_bst_HOWTO.pdf.



Thanks Jürgen for trying and asking the right questions!
Puzzle solved.
/Konrad

size of math instant preview

[Michel Gosse]

Hello 

I have installed lyx on my new computer (linux). I remember that there is a 
trick to scale the math preview within lyx, but i have lost this trick.
Can anyone help my poor memory ?

Best regards

Re: size of math instant preview

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Michel Gosse wrote:
Hello 

I have installed lyx on my new computer (linux). I remember that there is a 
trick to scale the math preview within lyx, but i have lost this trick.

Can anyone help my poor memory ?


Zoom % and Screen DPI in the Preferences. (Restart of LyX required.)

HTH,
/Konrad

Re: Hebrew and Nikud on Linux (Ubuntu)

[Guy Rutenberg]

Hi Nigel,

Nigel Pegram ndpeg...@... writes:

 
 Iviritex is  installed, as is culmus-latex.
 

Ivritex is no longer necessary (or compatible) with modern Tex distributions.
What Tex distribution do you use?

If it's a modern one (e.g. at least Texlive-2007 or teTex 3.) I would suggest
you remove Ivritex and reinstall the Tex distribution (including culmus-latex).

If it's an old Tex distribution, culmus-latex might not be compatible with it.


 The error is still the same, asking that the combine option be set.


I took a look in the LyX document you provided as an example.
1. You got to have \usepackage{culmus} in you preamble.
2. \usepackage{hebfont} isn't required.
3. The Hebrew fonts in culmus-latex are HE8 encoded. So you have to add
\fontencoding{HE8} before the Hebrew text
4. You need to specify a nikud enabled font (such as franknikud) using
\fontfamily

In the culmus-latex tarball there is an examples directory with an example
(hiriq) for using nikud. Try to compile in order to see whether the nikud
support is functioning correctly on your system. If not I suggest you contact
the Ivritex mailing list.


I hope I've been of help.



Sincerely,

Guy


http://www.guyrutenberg.com

Re: Error message when trying to see the pdf II

[Uwe Stöhr]

Segovia, Cesar A schrieb:


I resume work today on that same doc and when I tried to view it, I got
the following error message:
 
...SI 5408 Applied Optimization/Homeworks/HW#0 


3/\string/}}

You meant to type ## instead of #, right?


Seems to be the # bug in hyperlinks I fixed for LyX 1.6.2. Can you send me a _small_ example file 
to be able to reproduce your problem.


regards Uwe

Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Nikos Alexandris]

Hi!

I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.

I've found some pointers on the web (in german language) suggesting to
use footmisc [1] [2] but I can't get it working.

Is it really that difficult?

Kind regards, Nikos
---

[1] http://www.mrunix.de/forums/showthread.php?t=60735
[2]
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/footmisc.pdf

Re: windows unattended installation

[Uwe Stöhr]

nogard schrieb:

i need to install Lyx in silent mode without user intervention, and any 
parameter known work. Please, is it possible?


This is not possible due to the different licenses of the third-party programs used by LyX. For 
example to install Aspell dictionaries (and MiKTeX when I remember correctly), you explicitely need 
to click OK to accept the licenses.

(technically this is of course possible)

regards Uwe

some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

I'm using Document class: book (more font sizes)

I'm hoping I can modify the numbering so that the pages before
chapter one are numbered separately from the pages starting with
chapter one. IE: I want the first page of chapter one to be page 1

I'm also hoping I can get the pre-chapter pages to be numbered with a
different style such as roman numerals...

Below is a specific description of what I'm getting vs what I want to
get. Followed by the header lines of the .lyx file involved which I've
pasted in at the bottom of this message.

Thanks
-- 
|  ~^~   ~^~
|  ?   ? Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|  ^  J(tWdy)P
|\___/ jtw...@ttlc.net

pdf output:

tital (date output) page
- [  no visible pg number- good! ]
= [  But can I suppress or override the output date ???  ]

blank page 
- [  with Number 2 near upper left corner- Sigh! ]
= [  Can I suppress the output of any page number here ???   ]

Name associated with the collection of authors notes and preludes...
configured as part* with no other text. 
- [  part* Title with number 3 centered at bottom- Sigh~ ]
= [  Can I suppress the output of any page number here ???   ]

Totally blank page
- [  no visible pg number- good! ]

Author, copyright etc... at top of page
- [  page numbering at alternating corners continues here at # 5 ]
= [  Can I suppress this page number or better still change it   ]
= [  to a roman numeral format starting with this page as I ?? ]
= [  Or can I at least get it to start numbering here at 1 ??  ]
= [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

   (  Note a manually added page break prevents the section* with )
   (  the authors notes from beginning on the same page with the )
   (  copy right data.)

Authors notes section* with a subsection* and some prelude section*(s)
- [  numbering continues at 6 then 7 then 8 -Sigh!   ]
= [  Can I get it to continue from Author/copyright page with]
= [  Roman Numeral II, III, IV -- or at least -- 2, 3, 4 ]

Printed table of contents begins
- [  first page of TOC numbers at bottom center. Then numbering  ]
- [  resumes using alternating page corners. numbering continued ]
- [  with page 19... whimper   ]
   (  First I'd like either the entire TOC to be numbered in the  )
   (  corners OR have the ENTIRE TOC numbered bottom center...)
   (  Switching the numbering position in the middle of the TOC   )
   (  drives me up the wall...)
   (  Second if numbering was continuing from the sections I  )
   (  to use the roman numerals it would be # 14 or XIV Not 19... )
= [  Can I suppress the page numbering of the TOC pages ???  ]
= [  Or Better still, can I get it to continue with the numbering] 
= [  sequence I wanted to start at the author/copyright page ??? ]

Finally chapter 1 begins
- [  first page of each chapter is numbered bottom center all]
- [  other pages use alternating corners. numbering continues]
- [  with first page of chapter 1 being numbered at # 21 ]
   (  Note: the first page of each chapter being numbered in a)
   (  different position from the rest of the chapter doesn't bug )
   (  me as much as when that happens to the TOC but I'd like to  )
   (  have control over that behavior...  )
= [  Can I possibly force page on of chapter 1 to be numbered as ]
= [  page 1 ?]

.lyx header lines:

\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass extbook
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman bookman
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 14
\spacing single
\papersize default
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 2
\tocdepth 2
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author  
\author  
\end_header

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:

I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.

Is it really that difficult?


I did not try, but it shouldn't be.

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=run-fn-nos

HTH,
Konrad

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Nikos Alexandris schrieb:


I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.


You need to redefine the \numberwithin command as explained in sec. 4.2.1 of 
the EmbeddedObjects manual.

regards Uwe

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 22:46 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Nikos Alexandris schrieb:
 
  I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
  whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
  as it is the default in this document class.
 
 You need to redefine the \numberwithin command as explained in sec. 4.2.1 of 
 the EmbeddedObjects manual.
 
 regards Uwe

Woo... I missed that part. I was looking (again) in another manual.
Sorry.

Thanks Uwe + Konrad for your time.

LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

I'm using LyX in multiple lynx environments. In every case I use the 
latest version available in that Linux distro's officially sanctioned 
repositories. (It's the best way I know to keep the package manager from 
breaking something when I let it update my system...)

At the moment I'm using OpenSuSE 11.0 in which I'm using LyX 1.5.4

And I have great difficulty reading the text in the pull down menus. 
I'm running in KDE and have tried enlarging every font in kcontrol.
And I've tried setting a larger fontsize under the GTK style and fonts
settings. (And yes I restarted KDE after making that setting) But
nothing seams to enlarge the font used by LyX in the pull down menus.

Is there a way

Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!


You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX 
was failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my 
favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and 
copied this old one in as well.


I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes 
were made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script 
(layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX 
automatically tries to run it against old layouts during a 
reconfiguration or not.


/Paul

Re: LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 And I have great difficulty reading the text in the pull down menus.
 I'm running in KDE and have tried enlarging every font in kcontrol.
 And I've tried setting a larger fontsize under the GTK style and fonts
 settings. (And yes I restarted KDE after making that setting) But
 nothing seams to enlarge the font used by LyX in the pull down menus.

Since LyX runs Qt4 you either need to tweak Qt4's qtconfig or KDE 4's system 
settings.

Jürgen

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jan 24, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:

 Author, copyright etc... at top of page
 - [  page numbering at alternating corners continues here at # 5 ]
 = [  Can I suppress this page number or better still change it   ]
 = [  to a roman numeral format starting with this page as I ?? ]
 = [  Or can I at least get it to start numbering here at 1 ??  ]
 = [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

I don't think I was clear here...  When I said:

 = [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

I was talking about the Author, Copyright etc... stuff NOT the
position of the page number...


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Re: LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jan 24, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:

 I'm using LyX in multiple lynx environments. 

Dumb typo. This should read:

 I'm using LyX in multiple linux environments. 

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Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
> Thanks for testing (!!), but it DOES compile manually here (using
> TeXLive 2008). See attached (this is after a failed 'buffer-view pdf2'
> in LyX).

Are you sure these are the same files? Does an exported LaTeX file compile? I 
would be surprised, because this is clearly a LaTeX error.
(I use TeXLive 2008 as well).

Jürgen

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
> P.S. The way LyX compiles documents (how often it runs what ...), is
> this a script somewhere (which I could not find), or is this hard-coded?

It's in LaTeX.cpp.

Jürgen

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Are you sure these are the same files? Does an exported LaTeX file compile?


Ahh ... the ones in the LyX-Temp-Dir were the right files, but they only 
compiled because of the "\batchmode" that LyX puts at the beginning (and 
the output was OK despite the (hidden) error).


\batchmode is not there in an exported Latex file, and then the error 
pops up. Thanks!


I 
would be surprised, because this is clearly a LaTeX error.

(I use TeXLive 2008 as well).


And for those having the same problem, the solution is:

In the preamble:
\usepackage{bibentry}   % to get in-text bibliography entries
\usepackage[retainorgcmds]{IEEEtrantools} % to get \bstctlcite command

In the text:
\bstctlcite{BSTcontrol_Thesis} % disable ieee feature breaking bibentry
\nobibliography* %enables bibentry

In the bib-file:
@ieeetranbstctl{BSTcontrol_Thesis,
CTLdash_repeated_names = {no},
CTLuse_alt_spacing = {no}}

See documentation to bibentry (pdflatex bibentry.dtx)and 
.



Thanks Jürgen for trying and asking the right questions!
Puzzle solved.
/Konrad

size of math instant preview

[Michel Gosse]

Hello 

I have installed lyx on my new computer (linux). I remember that there is a 
trick to scale the math preview within lyx, but i have lost this trick.
Can anyone help my poor memory ?

Best regards

Re: size of math instant preview

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Michel Gosse wrote:
Hello 

I have installed lyx on my new computer (linux). I remember that there is a 
trick to scale the math preview within lyx, but i have lost this trick.

Can anyone help my poor memory ?


"Zoom %" and "Screen DPI" in the Preferences. (Restart of LyX required.)

HTH,
/Konrad

Re: Hebrew and Nikud on Linux (Ubuntu)

[Guy Rutenberg]

Hi Nigel,

Nigel Pegram  writes:

> 
> Iviritex is  installed, as is culmus-latex.
> 

Ivritex is no longer necessary (or compatible) with modern Tex distributions.
What Tex distribution do you use?

If it's a modern one (e.g. at least Texlive-2007 or teTex 3.) I would suggest
you remove Ivritex and reinstall the Tex distribution (including culmus-latex).

If it's an old Tex distribution, culmus-latex might not be compatible with it.

>
> The error is still the same, asking that the combine option be set.
>

I took a look in the LyX document you provided as an example.
1. You got to have \usepackage{culmus} in you preamble.
2. \usepackage{hebfont} isn't required.
3. The Hebrew fonts in culmus-latex are HE8 encoded. So you have to add
\fontencoding{HE8} before the Hebrew text
4. You need to specify a nikud enabled font (such as franknikud) using
\fontfamily

In the culmus-latex tarball there is an examples directory with an example
(hiriq) for using nikud. Try to compile in order to see whether the nikud
support is functioning correctly on your system. If not I suggest you contact
the Ivritex mailing list.


I hope I've been of help.



Sincerely,

Guy


http://www.guyrutenberg.com

Re: Error message when trying to see the pdf II

[Uwe Stöhr]

Segovia, Cesar A schrieb:


I resume work today on that same doc and when I tried to view it, I got
the following error message:
 
...SI 5408 Applied Optimization/Homeworks/HW#0 


3/\string"/}}

You meant to type ## instead of #, right?


Seems to be the "#" bug in hyperlinks I fixed for LyX 1.6.2. Can you send me a _small_ example file 
to be able to reproduce your problem.


regards Uwe

Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Nikos Alexandris]

Hi!

I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.

I've found some pointers on the web (in german language) suggesting to
use "footmisc" [1] [2] but I can't get it working.

Is it really that difficult?

Kind regards, Nikos
---

[1] http://www.mrunix.de/forums/showthread.php?t=60735
[2]
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/footmisc.pdf

Re: windows unattended installation

[Uwe Stöhr]

nogard schrieb:

i need to install Lyx in silent mode without user intervention, and any 
parameter known work. Please, is it possible?


This is not possible due to the different licenses of the third-party programs used by LyX. For 
example to install Aspell dictionaries (and MiKTeX when I remember correctly), you explicitely need 
to click OK to accept the licenses.

(technically this is of course possible)

regards Uwe

some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

I'm using "Document class: book (more font sizes)"

I'm hoping I can modify the numbering so that the pages before
chapter one are numbered separately from the pages starting with
chapter one. IE: I want the first page of chapter one to be page 1

I'm also hoping I can get the pre-chapter pages to be numbered with a
different style such as roman numerals...

Below is a specific description of what I'm getting vs what I want to
get. Followed by the header lines of the .lyx file involved which I've
pasted in at the bottom of this message.

Thanks
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|  ^  J(tWdy)P
|\___/ <>

pdf output:

tital (date output) page
-> [  no visible pg number- good! ]
=> [  But can I suppress or override the output date ???  ]

blank page 
-> [  with Number 2 near upper left corner- Sigh! ]
=> [  Can I suppress the output of any page number here ???   ]

Name associated with the collection of authors notes and preludes...
configured as part* with no other text. 
-> [  part* Title with number 3 centered at bottom- Sigh~ ]
=> [  Can I suppress the output of any page number here ???   ]

Totally blank page
-> [  no visible pg number- good! ]

Author, copyright etc... at top of page
-> [  page numbering at alternating corners continues here at # 5 ]
=> [  Can I suppress this page number or better still change it   ]
=> [  to a roman numeral format starting with this page as "I" ?? ]
=> [  Or can I at least get it to start numbering here at "1" ??  ]
=> [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

   (  Note a manually added page break prevents the section* with )
   (  the "authors notes from beginning on the same page with the )
   (  copy right data.)

Authors notes section* with a subsection* and some prelude section*(s)
-> [  numbering continues at 6 then 7 then 8 -Sigh!   ]
=> [  Can I get it to continue from Author/copyright page with]
=> [  Roman Numeral II, III, IV -- or at least -- 2, 3, 4 ]

Printed table of contents begins
-> [  first page of TOC numbers at bottom center. Then numbering  ]
-> [  resumes using alternating page corners. numbering continued ]
-> [  with page 19...]
   (  First I'd like either the entire TOC to be numbered in the  )
   (  corners OR have the ENTIRE TOC numbered bottom center...)
   (  Switching the numbering position in the middle of the TOC   )
   (  drives me up the wall...)
   (  Second if numbering was continuing from the sections I  )
   (  to use the roman numerals it would be # 14 or XIV Not 19... )
=> [  Can I suppress the page numbering of the TOC pages ???  ]
=> [  Or Better still, can I get it to continue with the numbering] 
=> [  sequence I wanted to start at the author/copyright page ??? ]

Finally chapter 1 begins
-> [  first page of each chapter is numbered bottom center all]
-> [  other pages use alternating corners. numbering continues]
-> [  with first page of chapter 1 being numbered at # 21 ]
   (  Note: the first page of each chapter being numbered in a)
   (  different position from the rest of the chapter doesn't bug )
   (  me as much as when that happens to the TOC but I'd like to  )
   (  have control over that behavior...  )
=> [  Can I possibly force page on of chapter 1 to be numbered as ]
=> [  page 1 ?]

.lyx header lines:

\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass extbook
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman bookman
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 14
\spacing single
\papersize default
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 2
\tocdepth 2
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author "" 
\author "" 
\end_header

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:

I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.

Is it really that difficult?


I did not try, but it shouldn't be.



HTH,
Konrad

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Nikos Alexandris schrieb:


I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
as it is the default in this document class.


You need to redefine the \numberwithin command as explained in sec. 4.2.1 of 
the EmbeddedObjects manual.

regards Uwe

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 22:46 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Nikos Alexandris schrieb:
> 
> > I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the
> > whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering,
> > as it is the default in this document class.
> 
> You need to redefine the \numberwithin command as explained in sec. 4.2.1 of 
> the EmbeddedObjects manual.
> 
> regards Uwe

Woo... I missed that part. I was looking (again) in another manual.
Sorry.

Thanks Uwe + Konrad for your time.

LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

I'm using LyX in multiple lynx environments. In every case I use the 
latest version available in that Linux distro's officially sanctioned 
repositories. (It's the best way I know to keep the package manager from 
breaking something when I let it update my system...)

At the moment I'm using OpenSuSE 11.0 in which I'm using LyX 1.5.4

And I have great difficulty reading the text in the pull down menus. 
I'm running in KDE and have tried enlarging every font in kcontrol.
And I've tried setting a larger fontsize under the GTK style and fonts
settings. (And yes I restarted KDE after making that setting) But
nothing seams to enlarge the font used by LyX in the pull down menus.

Is there a way

Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!


You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX 
was failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my 
favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and 
copied this old one in as well.


I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes 
were made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script 
(layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX 
automatically tries to run it against old layouts during a 
reconfiguration or not.


/Paul

Re: LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> And I have great difficulty reading the text in the pull down menus.
> I'm running in KDE and have tried enlarging every font in kcontrol.
> And I've tried setting a larger fontsize under the GTK style and fonts
> settings. (And yes I restarted KDE after making that setting) But
> nothing seams to enlarge the font used by LyX in the pull down menus.

Since LyX runs Qt4 you either need to tweak Qt4's qtconfig or KDE 4's system 
settings.

Jürgen

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jan 24, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:

> Author, copyright etc... at top of page
> -> [  page numbering at alternating corners continues here at # 5 ]
> => [  Can I suppress this page number or better still change it   ]
> => [  to a roman numeral format starting with this page as "I" ?? ]
> => [  Or can I at least get it to start numbering here at "1" ??  ]
> => [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

I don't think I was clear here...  When I said:

> => [  Can I get LyX to put this at bottom of page instead of top??]

I was talking about the Author, Copyright etc... stuff NOT the
position of the page number...


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Re: LyX menu font sizes require a magnifying glasses [sigh]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jan 24, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:

> I'm using LyX in multiple lynx environments. 

Dumb typo. This should read:

> I'm using LyX in multiple linux environments. 

-- 
|^^^   ^^^
|  Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|^J(tWdy)P
|   ___<>
|   
|