Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

Hello all,

I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
way include a child document without startin a new page ?
I have a rather small section that I use in several documents so I
wanted to make 1 child document and include it wherever I need it but
since it starts on a new page it kind off destroys the layout.

I hope this makes any sense.

Thanks in advance,

Jouke

Re: Include problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

jouke hylkema wrote:
 I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
 way include a child document without startin a new page ?

Use input instead of include.

Jürgen

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:27 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 jouke hylkema wrote:
  I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
  way include a child document without startin a new page ?
 
 Use input instead of include.
 
 Jürgen
 
What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
I get errors that seem to be related to the document class. When I
change the class LyX warns me that the child document does not have the
same class as the master ...

Jouke

Re: Include problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

jouke hylkema wrote:
 What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
 Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
 I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.

What errors?

Jürgen

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:03 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 jouke hylkema wrote:
  What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
  Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
  I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.
 
 What errors?
 
 Jürgen
 

Missing $ and missing } inserted.

Jouke

PS. I'll try to make a small example to reproduce the problem

Re: Separate bibliographyes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Luca De Marini wrote:
 I saw the sections bibliography option in the document settings... but I
 cannot understand how to use it.

Did you read section 3.1.2 of the Extended User Guide?

Jürgen

Re: setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

John White wrote:
 I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1.  My current
 (and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a
 minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of
 the box.  Rather I get an error message no action defined.

A context menu where you can select Settings... is supposed to appear on 
right click. Something is broken on your side. Does (temporarily) removing 
your ~/.lyx directory help?

Jürgen

untitled chapters in LyX

[Finalfin]

Hello!

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part). The
most natural document layout would be a book. Each part would be stored in a
separate LyX file, with one master document to bind them all.

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.

So, the document structure would be:
Part I Blah blah blah
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  ...
Part II Bleh Bleh Bleh
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  ...

I have already found a way to reset the chapter numbers after every part, so
it's not a problem. Well, actually it's a glitch: while the DVI/PDF output
is correct, LyX still counts chapters from Part 1.

The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title, but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?

Since this is a novel, there is no need to do cross-referencing, so if your
solution doesn't handle it, it's not an issue for me.

Thanks in advance,

Piotr Sulecki.
-- 
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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Sunday 08 February 2009 10:35:04 schrieb Wolfgang Keller:
   perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
   demonstrate its merrit to those who care
 
  Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
  on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
  installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.

 I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
 install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.

 Sincerely,

 Wolfgang

Does TeXlive 2008 contain LyX 1.6.x? Haven't seen it.
another Wolfgang

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

I tried to open the website .../donate, but it is in french which I
don't understand. Is that possible to see in English.
I am just wondering whether it is safe using credit card over an
internet? I don't have any experience to use paypal.
I am sorry asking this question..

Regards
WAS


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:03 +, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
 Dear all,
 
 Just to re-kindle the fire, I would like to focus your attention to
 http://www.lyx.org/Donate, *bug 718*.
 
 Since I am a spelling blind person, I really hope that sometime soon, we
 can add a *continous spell check* feature into lyx which will check your
 spelling at every moment, and alert you with a red wavy line, telling you
 that something is wrong.
 Then you can decide to: keep it wavy, ignore it, correct it, or add it to
 your private spelling library.
 
 Some call this *spell-check-on-the-fly*
 
 In past threads, there was one camp of users who thought that this feature
 is SO ANNOYING and that we (the other camp) are just lazy to check at the
 end of the day. But then, in the options, you'll have a choice to disable
 this feature. So there is no point in NOT having this feature. All users
 will thus benefit from this basic feature.
 
 Note that this is obviously a feature in firefox now, and I use it all the
 time.
 
 Abdelrazak agreed to add-in this feature when we reach 1000 euro.  We are
 quite close now, and I hope that some new lyx members would like to join and
 put some more money in the pot to get this feature going quickly.
 
 go to
 http://www.lyx.org/Donate
 and look at bug 718
 
 Thanks,
 
 Erez
 
 
 

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

I tried to open the website .../donate, but it is in french which I
don't understand. Is that possible to see in English.


Yes, sorry about that. I tried to set the Language to English but failed :-/
I'll try to contact paypal about that problem.


I am just wondering whether it is safe using credit card over an
internet? I don't have any experience to use paypal.
I am sorry asking this question..


No need to be sorry, this is a very legitimate question. PayPal is 
considered a safe paiment method. As for using credit card over the 
internet, I've done that thousands time and I never had any problem.


Abdel.

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Richard Heck wrote:
I'm sure this will eventually go in, but it's worth being aware of all 
the issues.


Don't worry Richard, this won't be an intrusive patch. I am quite 
confident that there's no much risk of destabilizing the tree because of 
that feature :-)


Now I really need to resume my LyX activity someday :-)



And IMHO, when it does go in, this should be off by default.


Sure.

Abdel.

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Finalfin wrote:

Hello!

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part). The
most natural document layout would be a book. Each part would be stored in a
separate LyX file, with one master document to bind them all.

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.

So, the document structure would be:
Part I Blah blah blah
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  ...
Part II Bleh Bleh Bleh
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  ...

I have already found a way to reset the chapter numbers after every part, so
it's not a problem. Well, actually it's a glitch: while the DVI/PDF output
is correct, LyX still counts chapters from Part 1.

The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title, but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.

  

Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

Do you want the chapters in the TOC if they're not titled? If not, then 
just move the TOC slider in DocumentSettingsNumbering and TOC.


rh



Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?

Since this is a novel, there is no need to do cross-referencing, so if your
solution doesn't handle it, it's not an issue for me.

Thanks in advance,

Piotr Sulecki.
  

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

[Tiago Rinck Caveden]

Hello!

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
 Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb:
 When you need to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, then open
 Windows' System settings dialog. There you find under the advanced tab the
 button Environment variables where you can add your path to the PATH
 variable.

I know, my problem isn't there, I was just answering a question that
was left open on the thread.

 Yes, open in LyX the menu Tools - Preferences and change there under Path
 the directories.

At the preference box, the closest option I find is the work
directory. When I change it, the change is not reflected on the user
directory displayed at the About box and the folder mentioned before
on this thread (lix15, in my case lyx16) is not created at the new
directory. No directory that I can change at the Preference box
correspond to the one on the About box actually.

My only problem is that I cannot open a shell at the current user
directory to execute the program suggested (python configure.py) from
there... if I could change the directory to something else or execute
the program from somewhere else, giving the directory as a parameter
or something, it would be great.

Thanks,
-- 
Tiago Rinck Caveden
http://caveden.multiply.com

export to Opendocument on Windows

[Timmie]

Hello,
what is the current procedure (utility program) used on Windows to export to
OpenDocument Format?

I have MikTeX and tex4ht installed.

The conversion process opens an error window in Lyx with the following problems:

***
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}

 \renewcomman...@makefntext}
 [1]{ %
You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.

***
You can't use `macro parameter #' in internal vertical mode.

 \parbox[t]{0.9\linewidth}{#1}
   %
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.

***

What could have caused this error?
How can I prevent this?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Timmie

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

[Tiago Rinck Caveden]

Well, never mind my last e-mail, I found a way to execute the script.

But that doesn't seem to be enough.
For example, during the execution of the python script, it said it could
find the article class. But when I open a lyx document that has this class
(the welcome one), I receive a message that the class is unusable. When I
try to export to any format, it says it doesn't have enough information...
:(

Should I just try reinstalling everything?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tiago Rinck Caveden cave...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello!

 On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
  Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb:
  When you need to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, then
 open
  Windows' System settings dialog. There you find under the advanced tab
 the
  button Environment variables where you can add your path to the PATH
  variable.

 I know, my problem isn't there, I was just answering a question that
 was left open on the thread.

  Yes, open in LyX the menu Tools - Preferences and change there under
 Path
  the directories.

 At the preference box, the closest option I find is the work
 directory. When I change it, the change is not reflected on the user
 directory displayed at the About box and the folder mentioned before
 on this thread (lix15, in my case lyx16) is not created at the new
 directory. No directory that I can change at the Preference box
 correspond to the one on the About box actually.

 My only problem is that I cannot open a shell at the current user
 directory to execute the program suggested (python configure.py) from
 there... if I could change the directory to something else or execute
 the program from somewhere else, giving the directory as a parameter
 or something, it would be great.

 Thanks,
 --
 Tiago Rinck Caveden
 http://caveden.multiply.com




-- 
Tiago Rinck Caveden
http://caveden.multiply.com

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[Piotr Sulecki]

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
 I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
 sectioning.

 The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
 each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part).
 [...]

 The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
 the chapters titled, just numbered.
 [...]
 The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

 I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
 but
 it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
 the TOC.

 Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the following:

 Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
 heading?

 Do you want the chapters in the TOC if they're not titled? If not, then just
 move the TOC slider in DocumentSettingsNumbering and TOC.

This wouldn't be a problem if I didn't want them in the TOC. I do.

Finalfin.

cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Zhang Xiao]

Hi,

I am new to LyX.

Today I installed MacTex (seems no problem) then I installed LyX on my  
mac (Leopard 10.5.6). I've run the install script and also put LyX in  
my Applications.


But when I tried to run it, it just started and quit. in syslog i  
found these:


Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf8df20 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x95a41178 0x3974da 0x25b763  
0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8 0x40d0dd  
0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf403b0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x9400937f 0x9400906f 0x39750a  
0x25b763 0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8  
0x40d0dd 0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf949a0 of class NSCFSet autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x94009456 0x9400906f 0x39750a  
0x25b763 0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8  
0x40d0dd 0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: LyX:  
reconfiguring user directory
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:   File / 
Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py, line 93
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: print  
Failed to create directory , dir
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook  
[0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:   ^
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: SyntaxError:  
invalid syntax

Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: LyX: Done!
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:  
LayoutFileList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook com.apple.launchd[154]  
([0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]): Exited with exit code: 1


I have python 3.0 installed.

i dont know why it crashed. please help. thanks!

Re: cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Manveru]

2009/2/10 Zhang Xiao xellzh...@gmail.com:
 Hi,

 I am new to LyX.

 Today I installed MacTex (seems no problem) then I installed LyX on my mac
 (Leopard 10.5.6). I've run the install script and also put LyX in my
 Applications.

 But when I tried to run it, it just started and quit. in syslog i found
 these:

[...]

 I have python 3.0 installed.

Python 3.0 is not backward compatible with 2.x series. I do not know
how it is on Mac, but I think LyX has it's own python interpreter
bundled.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Manveru wrote:

Python 3.0 is not backward compatible with 2.x series. I do not know
how it is on Mac, but I think LyX has it's own python interpreter
bundled.


No, on Mac python is not bundled with LyX, since it is already bundled 
with Mac OS X. The only way I see to fix this is to install 
python_select and select Apple's python (or another complete 2.x 
installation) as the default python.


HTH,
Konrad

Re: export to Opendocument on Windows

[Paul A. Rubin]

Timmie wrote:

Hello,
what is the current procedure (utility program) used on Windows to export to
OpenDocument Format?

I have MikTeX and tex4ht installed.

The conversion process opens an error window in Lyx with the following problems:

***
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}

 \renewcomman...@makefntext}
 [1]{ %
You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.

***
You can't use `macro parameter #' in internal vertical mode.

 \parbox[t]{0.9\linewidth}{#1}
   %
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.

***

What could have caused this error?
How can I prevent this?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Timmie




If you View - DVI, does the document display correctly?  This looks 
like a basic LaTeX error, unrelated to OO export.


/Paul

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Piotr Sulecki wrote:

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
  

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part).
[...]

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.
[...]
The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.
  

Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.



By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

  

No, totally blank.


Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

  

Yes.


Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the following:

  

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?
  


  
Well, sorry, I answered as much as I knew at the time. But if you set 
KeepEmpty to true in the Chapter layout, that will do, I think.


rh

Re: export to Opendocument on Windows

[Timmie]

 If you View - DVI, does the document display correctly?  This looks 
 like a basic LaTeX error, unrelated to OO export.
You were right.
A foot note formatting in my preamble which didn't give problems in earlier
versions of Lyx was causing the error.

The one causing the error was from:
https://wiki.bfh.ch/index.php/Lyx#Footnote_formating

A corrected version which worked well was picked from
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/17908

But the now generated PDF doesn't contain any text at all.

Kind regards,
Timmie

epstopdf error

[Bruce Pourciau]

Trying to print a lyx file, one which printed perfectly in December, I  
received five error messages, one after the other, the first having  
the form



An error occurred whilst running epstopdf

outfile = '1_Volumes_mathematics_pourciab


and the others identical except that the number 1 is replaced by 5, 8,  
13, 16. The pdf compiles, but it's missing several eps figures created  
from scans. All the eps figures for this file sit in a single folder.


I'm running LyX 1.5.6 on Mac 10.5.5.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce

Re: New way for SVG graphics

[Ignacio García]

Manveru wrote:

 All Happy LyX Users,

 I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics
 from LyX to pdflatex. I've just tested this method and it works pretty
 nice. I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new
 method solved my problem.
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

A good job! But I think it's not necessary for all systems.
In Ubuntu/Linux 8.04, the SVG images are shown automatically either in
the lyx-1.5.5 or lyx-1.6.1  windows, and pdflatex works fine, too.
There are no converters SVG-... in the Preferences dialog, section Converters

The only thing I need is to fill in the text fields of File Formats in
order to View/Edit externally the svg files.

Regards
Ignacio García

Re: Copy vanishes

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero Faustini schrieb:


is it normal that when I close LyX I lose the text I copied with CTRL-C?
(using Winodws XP Lyx1.6.1)


You found a bug. (I'm suffering from this too.) Can you please report it at 
bugzilla.lyx.org?

thanks and regards
Uwe

Re: Separate bibliographyes

[Uwe Stöhr]

Luca De Marini schrieb:


I'd need to set up two different bibliographies in my work. One is for the
text itself and one for the pictures.


The LyX UserGuide has for example also two bibliographies. So you can take the 
code used there.

regards Uwe

Part environment subtitle

[Piero Faustini]

Hello.
I use koma-book
Is there a way to set a subtitle for Part's title in a smaller font in a way 
that in the TOC then they're displayed in the same font?
What I would like is:

   Part I
 Big title
  smaller subtitle

and in TOC,

I. Big title - smaller subtitle

or

I. Big title. Smaller subtitle

Re: Copy vanishes

[Abdelrazak Younes]

On 10/02/2009 19:21, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Piero Faustini schrieb:


is it normal that when I close LyX I lose the text I copied with CTRL-C?
(using Winodws XP Lyx1.6.1)


You found a bug. (I'm suffering from this too.) Can you please report it
at bugzilla.lyx.org?


IIIRC this bug is done on purpose. It's a work around a crash on exit 
due to some mime type problems.


Abdel.

Asterisk footnote

[Maria Gouskova]

Hi LyX users,

I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the Title
environment (the publisher requires the title to be
left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.

Here's what I have tried so far:

1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*$footnote text}

This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
zero number in front of the asterisk:

--
superscript 0 *footnote text

This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.

2. I put this before the footnote

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
 Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of footnote}

Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}
\setcounter{footnote}{0}

This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for each footnote,

argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.

And the usual baffling

I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.

Any thoughts?

Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title in
the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.

Maria

Re: Asterisk footnote

[Yago]

See the footmisc package.
- Original Message - 
From: Maria Gouskova gousk...@gmail.com

To: mailing lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:57 PM
Subject: Asterisk footnote



Hi LyX users,

I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the Title
environment (the publisher requires the title to be
left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.

Here's what I have tried so far:

1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*$footnote 
text}


This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
zero number in front of the asterisk:

--
superscript 0 *footnote text

This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.

2. I put this before the footnote

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of footnote}

Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}
\setcounter{footnote}{0}

This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for each 
footnote,


argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.

And the usual baffling

I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.

Any thoughts?

Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title in
the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.

Maria

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Re: Asterisk footnote

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:29:59 +0100
Yago diazd...@ono.com wrote:

 See the footmisc package.

If you are using Linux, you can get the documentation for the package by
using the texdoc command: texdoc footmisc

This will open a viewer with the documentation for the package. I
suppose there is something similar for windows, but I don't know what
it is.

Alan

 - Original Message - 
 From: Maria Gouskova gousk...@gmail.com
 To: mailing lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:57 PM
 Subject: Asterisk footnote
 
 
  Hi LyX users,
 
  I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
  regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
  externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the
  Title environment (the publisher requires the title to be
  left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
  footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.
 
  Here's what I have tried so far:
 
  1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*
  $footnote 
  text}
 
  This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
  zero number in front of the asterisk:
 
  --
  superscript 0 *footnote text
 
  This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.
 
  2. I put this before the footnote
 
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
  Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of
  footnote}
 
  Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}
 
  This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for
  each footnote,
 
  argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
  Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.
 
  And the usual baffling
 
  I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
  For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
  this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
  I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
  argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
  your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
 
  Any thoughts?
 
  Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title
  in the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.
 
  Maria
 
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Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

[Pavel Sanda]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 03:29 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
  Nikos Alexandris wrote:
   Hi Niko!
   
 [...]
  So the current behavior is neither a bug nor a configuration problem?
 
 Yep! Guenter Milde kindly explained the problem (off-list). If you speak
 German I can send you more about the problem.

there is http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Greek page which still waits for some brave
soul to be filled...

pavel

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:58:42 am Piotr Sulecki wrote:
 rh,

 2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
  I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
  sectioning.
 
  The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+
  parts, each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per
  part). [...]
 
  The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't
  want the chapters titled, just numbered.
  [...]
  The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?
 
  I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
  but
  it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right
  in the TOC.
 
  Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

 By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

 Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

 Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the 
following:
  Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
  heading?

I'm pretty sure you can redefine the chapter environment so that before 
invoking the text, you set #1 or whatever the argument's called to an empty 
string. Then you can just use any string in the chapter environment, and it 
won't show up in the ps/pdf environment.

You can't use an environment on blank spaces (unless they're nonbreaking 
blanks) because LyX doesn't work that way.

Another possiblility is to make your own environments, but it might be 
difficult for them to show up in the TOC.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Headers without page numbers

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

How can i specify headers without page numbers. 
For some reason, if I put \pagestyle{empty}, I don't get any headers
at all. 

I'm using svmult.cls from Springer and I need to overwrite the page
number feature to meet the requirements of a paper. 

TIA,

-- 
   myriam

Re: Asterisk footnote

[Maria Gouskova]

Actually, I got it to work without footmisc.sty (frankly, couldn't
make any sense of the documentation to that package). Here is how I
did it:

Right before the footnote, put the following in ERT:

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}

This sets the counter to symbols (*, dagger, and so on).

Then, before the next footnote that is supposed to be numbered:

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}\setcounter{footnote}{0}

This resets the numbering back to arabic and makes sure that the
footnote is numbered 1.

There is a surprising lack of clear documentation of this LaTeX
feature online...

Maria

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Typhoon typh...@aanet.com.au wrote:
 On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:29:59 +0100
 Yago diazd...@ono.com wrote:

 See the footmisc package.

 If you are using Linux, you can get the documentation for the package by
 using the texdoc command: texdoc footmisc

 This will open a viewer with the documentation for the package. I
 suppose there is something similar for windows, but I don't know what
 it is.

 Alan

 - Original Message -
 From: Maria Gouskova gousk...@gmail.com
 To: mailing lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:57 PM
 Subject: Asterisk footnote


  Hi LyX users,
 
  I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
  regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
  externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the
  Title environment (the publisher requires the title to be
  left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
  footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.
 
  Here's what I have tried so far:
 
  1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*
  $footnote
  text}
 
  This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
  zero number in front of the asterisk:
 
  --
  superscript 0 *footnote text
 
  This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.
 
  2. I put this before the footnote
 
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
  Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of
  footnote}
 
  Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}
 
  This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for
  each footnote,
 
  argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
  Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.
 
  And the usual baffling
 
  I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
  For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
  this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
  I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
  argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
  your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
 
  Any thoughts?
 
  Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title
  in the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.
 
  Maria
 
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Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Steve Litt wrote:

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:58:42 am Piotr Sulecki wrote:
  

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:


I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+
parts, each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per
part). [...]

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't
want the chapters titled, just numbered.
[...]
The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right
in the TOC.


Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.
  

By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the 


following:
  

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?



I'm pretty sure you can redefine the chapter environment so that before 
invoking the text, you set #1 or whatever the argument's called to an empty 
string. Then you can just use any string in the chapter environment, and it 
won't show up in the ps/pdf environment.


  

Yes, that would be possible. But still kind of messy.

You can't use an environment on blank spaces (unless they're nonbreaking 
blanks) because LyX doesn't work that way.


  
You can if you use the KeepEmpty layout tag. Then you can have empty 
paragraphs. Still not ideal.


rh

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:03:26 -0500
rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:

 Steve Litt wrote:
  On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:58:42 am Piotr Sulecki wrote:

  rh,
 
  2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
  
  I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems
  with sectioning.
 
  The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into
  50+ parts, each part having ten or so short chapters (about
  50-60 pages per part). [...]
 
  The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I
  don't want the chapters titled, just numbered.
  [...]
  The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?
 
  I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the
  chapter's title, but
  it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look
  right in the TOC.
  
  Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

  By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?
 
  Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical
  space?
 
  Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included
  the 
  following:

  Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single
  chapter heading?
  
 
  I'm pretty sure you can redefine the chapter environment so that
  before invoking the text, you set #1 or whatever the argument's
  called to an empty string. Then you can just use any string in the
  chapter environment, and it won't show up in the ps/pdf environment.
 

 Yes, that would be possible. But still kind of messy.
 
  You can't use an environment on blank spaces (unless they're
  nonbreaking blanks) because LyX doesn't work that way.
 

 You can if you use the KeepEmpty layout tag. Then you can have empty 
 paragraphs. Still not ideal.
 
 rh

I'm not sure, but the section on Changing the chapter headings here
might be what you are looking for:
http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/thesis/thesis.html

Alan

 
 

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:03 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 jouke hylkema wrote:
  What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
  Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
  I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.
 
 What errors?
 
 Jürgen
 

OK ... my bad, there was a bug in one of the child documents. Sorry
about that.

Jouke

Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

Hello all,

I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
way include a child document without startin a new page ?
I have a rather small section that I use in several documents so I
wanted to make 1 child document and include it wherever I need it but
since it starts on a new page it kind off destroys the layout.

I hope this makes any sense.

Thanks in advance,

Jouke

Re: Include problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

jouke hylkema wrote:
 I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
 way include a child document without startin a new page ?

Use input instead of include.

Jürgen

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:27 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 jouke hylkema wrote:
  I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
  way include a child document without startin a new page ?
 
 Use input instead of include.
 
 Jürgen
 
What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
I get errors that seem to be related to the document class. When I
change the class LyX warns me that the child document does not have the
same class as the master ...

Jouke

Re: Include problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

jouke hylkema wrote:
 What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
 Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
 I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.

What errors?

Jürgen

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:03 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 jouke hylkema wrote:
  What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
  Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
  I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.
 
 What errors?
 
 Jürgen
 

Missing $ and missing } inserted.

Jouke

PS. I'll try to make a small example to reproduce the problem

Re: Separate bibliographyes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Luca De Marini wrote:
 I saw the sections bibliography option in the document settings... but I
 cannot understand how to use it.

Did you read section 3.1.2 of the Extended User Guide?

Jürgen

Re: setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

John White wrote:
 I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1.  My current
 (and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a
 minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of
 the box.  Rather I get an error message no action defined.

A context menu where you can select Settings... is supposed to appear on 
right click. Something is broken on your side. Does (temporarily) removing 
your ~/.lyx directory help?

Jürgen

untitled chapters in LyX

[Finalfin]

Hello!

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part). The
most natural document layout would be a book. Each part would be stored in a
separate LyX file, with one master document to bind them all.

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.

So, the document structure would be:
Part I Blah blah blah
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  ...
Part II Bleh Bleh Bleh
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  ...

I have already found a way to reset the chapter numbers after every part, so
it's not a problem. Well, actually it's a glitch: while the DVI/PDF output
is correct, LyX still counts chapters from Part 1.

The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title, but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?

Since this is a novel, there is no need to do cross-referencing, so if your
solution doesn't handle it, it's not an issue for me.

Thanks in advance,

Piotr Sulecki.
-- 
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http://n2.nabble.com/untitled-chapters-in-LyX-tp2301755p2301755.html
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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Sunday 08 February 2009 10:35:04 schrieb Wolfgang Keller:
   perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
   demonstrate its merrit to those who care
 
  Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
  on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
  installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.

 I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
 install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.

 Sincerely,

 Wolfgang

Does TeXlive 2008 contain LyX 1.6.x? Haven't seen it.
another Wolfgang

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

I tried to open the website .../donate, but it is in french which I
don't understand. Is that possible to see in English.
I am just wondering whether it is safe using credit card over an
internet? I don't have any experience to use paypal.
I am sorry asking this question..

Regards
WAS


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:03 +, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
 Dear all,
 
 Just to re-kindle the fire, I would like to focus your attention to
 http://www.lyx.org/Donate, *bug 718*.
 
 Since I am a spelling blind person, I really hope that sometime soon, we
 can add a *continous spell check* feature into lyx which will check your
 spelling at every moment, and alert you with a red wavy line, telling you
 that something is wrong.
 Then you can decide to: keep it wavy, ignore it, correct it, or add it to
 your private spelling library.
 
 Some call this *spell-check-on-the-fly*
 
 In past threads, there was one camp of users who thought that this feature
 is SO ANNOYING and that we (the other camp) are just lazy to check at the
 end of the day. But then, in the options, you'll have a choice to disable
 this feature. So there is no point in NOT having this feature. All users
 will thus benefit from this basic feature.
 
 Note that this is obviously a feature in firefox now, and I use it all the
 time.
 
 Abdelrazak agreed to add-in this feature when we reach 1000 euro.  We are
 quite close now, and I hope that some new lyx members would like to join and
 put some more money in the pot to get this feature going quickly.
 
 go to
 http://www.lyx.org/Donate
 and look at bug 718
 
 Thanks,
 
 Erez
 
 
 

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

I tried to open the website .../donate, but it is in french which I
don't understand. Is that possible to see in English.


Yes, sorry about that. I tried to set the Language to English but failed :-/
I'll try to contact paypal about that problem.


I am just wondering whether it is safe using credit card over an
internet? I don't have any experience to use paypal.
I am sorry asking this question..


No need to be sorry, this is a very legitimate question. PayPal is 
considered a safe paiment method. As for using credit card over the 
internet, I've done that thousands time and I never had any problem.


Abdel.

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Richard Heck wrote:
I'm sure this will eventually go in, but it's worth being aware of all 
the issues.


Don't worry Richard, this won't be an intrusive patch. I am quite 
confident that there's no much risk of destabilizing the tree because of 
that feature :-)


Now I really need to resume my LyX activity someday :-)



And IMHO, when it does go in, this should be off by default.


Sure.

Abdel.

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Finalfin wrote:

Hello!

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part). The
most natural document layout would be a book. Each part would be stored in a
separate LyX file, with one master document to bind them all.

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.

So, the document structure would be:
Part I Blah blah blah
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  ...
Part II Bleh Bleh Bleh
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  ...

I have already found a way to reset the chapter numbers after every part, so
it's not a problem. Well, actually it's a glitch: while the DVI/PDF output
is correct, LyX still counts chapters from Part 1.

The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title, but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.

  

Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

Do you want the chapters in the TOC if they're not titled? If not, then 
just move the TOC slider in DocumentSettingsNumbering and TOC.


rh



Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?

Since this is a novel, there is no need to do cross-referencing, so if your
solution doesn't handle it, it's not an issue for me.

Thanks in advance,

Piotr Sulecki.
  

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

[Tiago Rinck Caveden]

Hello!

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
 Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb:
 When you need to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, then open
 Windows' System settings dialog. There you find under the advanced tab the
 button Environment variables where you can add your path to the PATH
 variable.

I know, my problem isn't there, I was just answering a question that
was left open on the thread.

 Yes, open in LyX the menu Tools - Preferences and change there under Path
 the directories.

At the preference box, the closest option I find is the work
directory. When I change it, the change is not reflected on the user
directory displayed at the About box and the folder mentioned before
on this thread (lix15, in my case lyx16) is not created at the new
directory. No directory that I can change at the Preference box
correspond to the one on the About box actually.

My only problem is that I cannot open a shell at the current user
directory to execute the program suggested (python configure.py) from
there... if I could change the directory to something else or execute
the program from somewhere else, giving the directory as a parameter
or something, it would be great.

Thanks,
-- 
Tiago Rinck Caveden
http://caveden.multiply.com

export to Opendocument on Windows

[Timmie]

Hello,
what is the current procedure (utility program) used on Windows to export to
OpenDocument Format?

I have MikTeX and tex4ht installed.

The conversion process opens an error window in Lyx with the following problems:

***
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}

 \renewcomman...@makefntext}
 [1]{ %
You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.

***
You can't use `macro parameter #' in internal vertical mode.

 \parbox[t]{0.9\linewidth}{#1}
   %
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.

***

What could have caused this error?
How can I prevent this?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Timmie

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

[Tiago Rinck Caveden]

Well, never mind my last e-mail, I found a way to execute the script.

But that doesn't seem to be enough.
For example, during the execution of the python script, it said it could
find the article class. But when I open a lyx document that has this class
(the welcome one), I receive a message that the class is unusable. When I
try to export to any format, it says it doesn't have enough information...
:(

Should I just try reinstalling everything?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tiago Rinck Caveden cave...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello!

 On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
  Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb:
  When you need to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, then
 open
  Windows' System settings dialog. There you find under the advanced tab
 the
  button Environment variables where you can add your path to the PATH
  variable.

 I know, my problem isn't there, I was just answering a question that
 was left open on the thread.

  Yes, open in LyX the menu Tools - Preferences and change there under
 Path
  the directories.

 At the preference box, the closest option I find is the work
 directory. When I change it, the change is not reflected on the user
 directory displayed at the About box and the folder mentioned before
 on this thread (lix15, in my case lyx16) is not created at the new
 directory. No directory that I can change at the Preference box
 correspond to the one on the About box actually.

 My only problem is that I cannot open a shell at the current user
 directory to execute the program suggested (python configure.py) from
 there... if I could change the directory to something else or execute
 the program from somewhere else, giving the directory as a parameter
 or something, it would be great.

 Thanks,
 --
 Tiago Rinck Caveden
 http://caveden.multiply.com




-- 
Tiago Rinck Caveden
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Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[Piotr Sulecki]

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
 I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
 sectioning.

 The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
 each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part).
 [...]

 The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
 the chapters titled, just numbered.
 [...]
 The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

 I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
 but
 it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
 the TOC.

 Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the following:

 Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
 heading?

 Do you want the chapters in the TOC if they're not titled? If not, then just
 move the TOC slider in DocumentSettingsNumbering and TOC.

This wouldn't be a problem if I didn't want them in the TOC. I do.

Finalfin.

cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Zhang Xiao]

Hi,

I am new to LyX.

Today I installed MacTex (seems no problem) then I installed LyX on my  
mac (Leopard 10.5.6). I've run the install script and also put LyX in  
my Applications.


But when I tried to run it, it just started and quit. in syslog i  
found these:


Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf8df20 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x95a41178 0x3974da 0x25b763  
0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8 0x40d0dd  
0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf403b0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x9400937f 0x9400906f 0x39750a  
0x25b763 0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8  
0x40d0dd 0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf949a0 of class NSCFSet autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x94009456 0x9400906f 0x39750a  
0x25b763 0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8  
0x40d0dd 0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: LyX:  
reconfiguring user directory
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:   File / 
Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py, line 93
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: print  
Failed to create directory , dir
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook  
[0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:   ^
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: SyntaxError:  
invalid syntax

Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: LyX: Done!
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:  
LayoutFileList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook com.apple.launchd[154]  
([0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]): Exited with exit code: 1


I have python 3.0 installed.

i dont know why it crashed. please help. thanks!

Re: cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Manveru]

2009/2/10 Zhang Xiao xellzh...@gmail.com:
 Hi,

 I am new to LyX.

 Today I installed MacTex (seems no problem) then I installed LyX on my mac
 (Leopard 10.5.6). I've run the install script and also put LyX in my
 Applications.

 But when I tried to run it, it just started and quit. in syslog i found
 these:

[...]

 I have python 3.0 installed.

Python 3.0 is not backward compatible with 2.x series. I do not know
how it is on Mac, but I think LyX has it's own python interpreter
bundled.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Manveru wrote:

Python 3.0 is not backward compatible with 2.x series. I do not know
how it is on Mac, but I think LyX has it's own python interpreter
bundled.


No, on Mac python is not bundled with LyX, since it is already bundled 
with Mac OS X. The only way I see to fix this is to install 
python_select and select Apple's python (or another complete 2.x 
installation) as the default python.


HTH,
Konrad

Re: export to Opendocument on Windows

[Paul A. Rubin]

Timmie wrote:

Hello,
what is the current procedure (utility program) used on Windows to export to
OpenDocument Format?

I have MikTeX and tex4ht installed.

The conversion process opens an error window in Lyx with the following problems:

***
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}

 \renewcomman...@makefntext}
 [1]{ %
You're in trouble here.  Try typing  return  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X return  to quit.

***
You can't use `macro parameter #' in internal vertical mode.

 \parbox[t]{0.9\linewidth}{#1}
   %
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.

***

What could have caused this error?
How can I prevent this?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Timmie




If you View - DVI, does the document display correctly?  This looks 
like a basic LaTeX error, unrelated to OO export.


/Paul

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Piotr Sulecki wrote:

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
  

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part).
[...]

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.
[...]
The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.
  

Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.



By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

  

No, totally blank.


Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

  

Yes.


Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the following:

  

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?
  


  
Well, sorry, I answered as much as I knew at the time. But if you set 
KeepEmpty to true in the Chapter layout, that will do, I think.


rh

Re: export to Opendocument on Windows

[Timmie]

 If you View - DVI, does the document display correctly?  This looks 
 like a basic LaTeX error, unrelated to OO export.
You were right.
A foot note formatting in my preamble which didn't give problems in earlier
versions of Lyx was causing the error.

The one causing the error was from:
https://wiki.bfh.ch/index.php/Lyx#Footnote_formating

A corrected version which worked well was picked from
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/17908

But the now generated PDF doesn't contain any text at all.

Kind regards,
Timmie

epstopdf error

[Bruce Pourciau]

Trying to print a lyx file, one which printed perfectly in December, I  
received five error messages, one after the other, the first having  
the form



An error occurred whilst running epstopdf

outfile = '1_Volumes_mathematics_pourciab


and the others identical except that the number 1 is replaced by 5, 8,  
13, 16. The pdf compiles, but it's missing several eps figures created  
from scans. All the eps figures for this file sit in a single folder.


I'm running LyX 1.5.6 on Mac 10.5.5.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce

Re: New way for SVG graphics

[Ignacio García]

Manveru wrote:

 All Happy LyX Users,

 I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics
 from LyX to pdflatex. I've just tested this method and it works pretty
 nice. I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new
 method solved my problem.
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

A good job! But I think it's not necessary for all systems.
In Ubuntu/Linux 8.04, the SVG images are shown automatically either in
the lyx-1.5.5 or lyx-1.6.1  windows, and pdflatex works fine, too.
There are no converters SVG-... in the Preferences dialog, section Converters

The only thing I need is to fill in the text fields of File Formats in
order to View/Edit externally the svg files.

Regards
Ignacio García

Re: Copy vanishes

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero Faustini schrieb:


is it normal that when I close LyX I lose the text I copied with CTRL-C?
(using Winodws XP Lyx1.6.1)


You found a bug. (I'm suffering from this too.) Can you please report it at 
bugzilla.lyx.org?

thanks and regards
Uwe

Re: Separate bibliographyes

[Uwe Stöhr]

Luca De Marini schrieb:


I'd need to set up two different bibliographies in my work. One is for the
text itself and one for the pictures.


The LyX UserGuide has for example also two bibliographies. So you can take the 
code used there.

regards Uwe

Part environment subtitle

[Piero Faustini]

Hello.
I use koma-book
Is there a way to set a subtitle for Part's title in a smaller font in a way 
that in the TOC then they're displayed in the same font?
What I would like is:

   Part I
 Big title
  smaller subtitle

and in TOC,

I. Big title - smaller subtitle

or

I. Big title. Smaller subtitle

Re: Copy vanishes

[Abdelrazak Younes]

On 10/02/2009 19:21, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Piero Faustini schrieb:


is it normal that when I close LyX I lose the text I copied with CTRL-C?
(using Winodws XP Lyx1.6.1)


You found a bug. (I'm suffering from this too.) Can you please report it
at bugzilla.lyx.org?


IIIRC this bug is done on purpose. It's a work around a crash on exit 
due to some mime type problems.


Abdel.

Asterisk footnote

[Maria Gouskova]

Hi LyX users,

I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the Title
environment (the publisher requires the title to be
left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.

Here's what I have tried so far:

1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*$footnote text}

This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
zero number in front of the asterisk:

--
superscript 0 *footnote text

This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.

2. I put this before the footnote

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
 Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of footnote}

Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}
\setcounter{footnote}{0}

This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for each footnote,

argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.

And the usual baffling

I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.

Any thoughts?

Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title in
the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.

Maria

Re: Asterisk footnote

[Yago]

See the footmisc package.
- Original Message - 
From: Maria Gouskova gousk...@gmail.com

To: mailing lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:57 PM
Subject: Asterisk footnote



Hi LyX users,

I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the Title
environment (the publisher requires the title to be
left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.

Here's what I have tried so far:

1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*$footnote 
text}


This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
zero number in front of the asterisk:

--
superscript 0 *footnote text

This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.

2. I put this before the footnote

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of footnote}

Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}
\setcounter{footnote}{0}

This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for each 
footnote,


argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.

And the usual baffling

I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.

Any thoughts?

Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title in
the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.

Maria

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Re: Asterisk footnote

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:29:59 +0100
Yago diazd...@ono.com wrote:

 See the footmisc package.

If you are using Linux, you can get the documentation for the package by
using the texdoc command: texdoc footmisc

This will open a viewer with the documentation for the package. I
suppose there is something similar for windows, but I don't know what
it is.

Alan

 - Original Message - 
 From: Maria Gouskova gousk...@gmail.com
 To: mailing lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:57 PM
 Subject: Asterisk footnote
 
 
  Hi LyX users,
 
  I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
  regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
  externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the
  Title environment (the publisher requires the title to be
  left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
  footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.
 
  Here's what I have tried so far:
 
  1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*
  $footnote 
  text}
 
  This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
  zero number in front of the asterisk:
 
  --
  superscript 0 *footnote text
 
  This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.
 
  2. I put this before the footnote
 
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
  Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of
  footnote}
 
  Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}
 
  This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for
  each footnote,
 
  argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
  Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.
 
  And the usual baffling
 
  I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
  For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
  this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
  I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
  argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
  your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
 
  Any thoughts?
 
  Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title
  in the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.
 
  Maria
 
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Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

[Pavel Sanda]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 03:29 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
  Nikos Alexandris wrote:
   Hi Niko!
   
 [...]
  So the current behavior is neither a bug nor a configuration problem?
 
 Yep! Guenter Milde kindly explained the problem (off-list). If you speak
 German I can send you more about the problem.

there is http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Greek page which still waits for some brave
soul to be filled...

pavel

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:58:42 am Piotr Sulecki wrote:
 rh,

 2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
  I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
  sectioning.
 
  The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+
  parts, each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per
  part). [...]
 
  The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't
  want the chapters titled, just numbered.
  [...]
  The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?
 
  I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
  but
  it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right
  in the TOC.
 
  Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

 By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

 Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

 Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the 
following:
  Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
  heading?

I'm pretty sure you can redefine the chapter environment so that before 
invoking the text, you set #1 or whatever the argument's called to an empty 
string. Then you can just use any string in the chapter environment, and it 
won't show up in the ps/pdf environment.

You can't use an environment on blank spaces (unless they're nonbreaking 
blanks) because LyX doesn't work that way.

Another possiblility is to make your own environments, but it might be 
difficult for them to show up in the TOC.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Headers without page numbers

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

How can i specify headers without page numbers. 
For some reason, if I put \pagestyle{empty}, I don't get any headers
at all. 

I'm using svmult.cls from Springer and I need to overwrite the page
number feature to meet the requirements of a paper. 

TIA,

-- 
   myriam

Re: Asterisk footnote

[Maria Gouskova]

Actually, I got it to work without footmisc.sty (frankly, couldn't
make any sense of the documentation to that package). Here is how I
did it:

Right before the footnote, put the following in ERT:

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}

This sets the counter to symbols (*, dagger, and so on).

Then, before the next footnote that is supposed to be numbered:

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}\setcounter{footnote}{0}

This resets the numbering back to arabic and makes sure that the
footnote is numbered 1.

There is a surprising lack of clear documentation of this LaTeX
feature online...

Maria

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Typhoon typh...@aanet.com.au wrote:
 On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:29:59 +0100
 Yago diazd...@ono.com wrote:

 See the footmisc package.

 If you are using Linux, you can get the documentation for the package by
 using the texdoc command: texdoc footmisc

 This will open a viewer with the documentation for the package. I
 suppose there is something similar for windows, but I don't know what
 it is.

 Alan

 - Original Message -
 From: Maria Gouskova gousk...@gmail.com
 To: mailing lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:57 PM
 Subject: Asterisk footnote


  Hi LyX users,
 
  I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
  regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
  externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the
  Title environment (the publisher requires the title to be
  left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
  footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.
 
  Here's what I have tried so far:
 
  1. Title text--not in title environment$^*$\footnotetext{$^*
  $footnote
  text}
 
  This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
  zero number in front of the asterisk:
 
  --
  superscript 0 *footnote text
 
  This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.
 
  2. I put this before the footnote
 
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
  Title text--not in the title environment\footnote{text of
  footnote}
 
  Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}
 
  This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for
  each footnote,
 
  argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
  Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete.
 
  And the usual baffling
 
  I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
  For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
  this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
  I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
  argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
  your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
 
  Any thoughts?
 
  Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title
  in the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.
 
  Maria
 
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Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Steve Litt wrote:

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:58:42 am Piotr Sulecki wrote:
  

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:


I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+
parts, each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per
part). [...]

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't
want the chapters titled, just numbered.
[...]
The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right
in the TOC.


Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.
  

By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the 


following:
  

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?



I'm pretty sure you can redefine the chapter environment so that before 
invoking the text, you set #1 or whatever the argument's called to an empty 
string. Then you can just use any string in the chapter environment, and it 
won't show up in the ps/pdf environment.


  

Yes, that would be possible. But still kind of messy.

You can't use an environment on blank spaces (unless they're nonbreaking 
blanks) because LyX doesn't work that way.


  
You can if you use the KeepEmpty layout tag. Then you can have empty 
paragraphs. Still not ideal.


rh

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:03:26 -0500
rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:

 Steve Litt wrote:
  On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:58:42 am Piotr Sulecki wrote:

  rh,
 
  2009/2/10 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com:
  
  I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems
  with sectioning.
 
  The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into
  50+ parts, each part having ten or so short chapters (about
  50-60 pages per part). [...]
 
  The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I
  don't want the chapters titled, just numbered.
  [...]
  The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?
 
  I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the
  chapter's title, but
  it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look
  right in the TOC.
  
  Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

  By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?
 
  Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical
  space?
 
  Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included
  the 
  following:

  Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single
  chapter heading?
  
 
  I'm pretty sure you can redefine the chapter environment so that
  before invoking the text, you set #1 or whatever the argument's
  called to an empty string. Then you can just use any string in the
  chapter environment, and it won't show up in the ps/pdf environment.
 

 Yes, that would be possible. But still kind of messy.
 
  You can't use an environment on blank spaces (unless they're
  nonbreaking blanks) because LyX doesn't work that way.
 

 You can if you use the KeepEmpty layout tag. Then you can have empty 
 paragraphs. Still not ideal.
 
 rh

I'm not sure, but the section on Changing the chapter headings here
might be what you are looking for:
http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/thesis/thesis.html

Alan

 
 

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:03 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 jouke hylkema wrote:
  What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
  Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
  I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.
 
 What errors?
 
 Jürgen
 

OK ... my bad, there was a bug in one of the child documents. Sorry
about that.

Jouke

Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

Hello all,

I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
way include a child document without startin a new page ?
I have a rather small section that I use in several documents so I
wanted to make 1 child document and include it wherever I need it but
since it starts on a new page it kind off destroys the layout.

I hope this makes any sense.

Thanks in advance,

Jouke

Re: Include problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

jouke hylkema wrote:
> I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
> way include a child document without startin a new page ?

Use "input" instead of "include".

Jürgen

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:27 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> jouke hylkema wrote:
> > I'm having a little problem with including child documents. Is there a
> > way include a child document without startin a new page ?
> 
> Use "input" instead of "include".
> 
> Jürgen
> 
What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
I get errors that seem to be related to the document class. When I
change the class LyX warns me that the child document does not have the
same class as the master ...

Jouke

Re: Include problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

jouke hylkema wrote:
> What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
> Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
> I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.

What errors?

Jürgen

Re: Include problem

[jouke hylkema]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:03 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> jouke hylkema wrote:
> > What happens to the format of the child document when I use input ?
> > Include works fine, except for the new page, but when I switch to input
> > I get errors that seem to be related to the document class.
> 
> What errors?
> 
> Jürgen
> 

Missing $ and missing } inserted.

Jouke

PS. I'll try to make a small example to reproduce the problem

Re: Separate bibliographyes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Luca De Marini wrote:
> I saw the sections bibliography option in the document settings... but I
> cannot understand how to use it.

Did you read section 3.1.2 of the Extended User Guide?

Jürgen

Re: setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

John White wrote:
> I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1.  My current
> (and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a
> minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of
> the box.  Rather I get an error message "no action defined."

A context menu where you can select "Settings..." is supposed to appear on 
right click. Something is broken on your side. Does (temporarily) removing 
your ~/.lyx directory help?

Jürgen

untitled chapters in LyX

[Finalfin]

Hello!

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part). The
most natural document layout would be a book. Each part would be stored in a
separate LyX file, with one master document to bind them all.

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.

So, the document structure would be:
Part I Blah blah blah
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  ...
Part II Bleh Bleh Bleh
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  ...

I have already found a way to reset the chapter numbers after every part, so
it's not a problem. Well, actually it's a glitch: while the DVI/PDF output
is correct, LyX still counts chapters from Part 1.

The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title, but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?

Since this is a novel, there is no need to do cross-referencing, so if your
solution doesn't handle it, it's not an issue for me.

Thanks in advance,

Piotr Sulecki.
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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Sunday 08 February 2009 10:35:04 schrieb Wolfgang Keller:
> > > perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
> > > demonstrate its merrit to those who care
> >
> > Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
> > on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
> > installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.
>
> I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
> "install" TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang

Does TeXlive 2008 contain LyX 1.6.x? Haven't seen it.
another Wolfgang

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

I tried to open the website .../donate, but it is in french which I
don't understand. Is that possible to see in English.
I am just wondering whether it is safe using credit card over an
internet? I don't have any experience to use paypal.
I am sorry asking this question..

Regards
WAS


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:03 +, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Just to re-kindle the fire, I would like to focus your attention to
> http://www.lyx.org/Donate, *bug 718*.
> 
> Since I am a "spelling blind" person, I really hope that sometime soon, we
> can add a *continous spell check* feature into lyx which will check your
> spelling at every moment, and alert you with a red wavy line, telling you
> that something is wrong.
> Then you can decide to: keep it wavy, ignore it, correct it, or add it to
> your private spelling library.
> 
> Some call this *spell-check-on-the-fly*
> 
> In past threads, there was one camp of users who thought that this feature
> is SO ANNOYING and that we (the other camp) are just lazy to check at the
> end of the day. But then, in the options, you'll have a choice to disable
> this feature. So there is no point in NOT having this feature. All users
> will thus benefit from this basic feature.
> 
> Note that this is obviously a feature in firefox now, and I use it all the
> time.
> 
> Abdelrazak agreed to add-in this feature when we reach 1000 euro.  We are
> quite close now, and I hope that some new lyx members would like to join and
> put some more money in the pot to get this feature going quickly.
> 
> go to
> http://www.lyx.org/Donate
> and look at bug 718
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Erez
> 
> 
> 

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

I tried to open the website .../donate, but it is in french which I
don't understand. Is that possible to see in English.


Yes, sorry about that. I tried to set the Language to English but failed :-/
I'll try to contact paypal about that problem.


I am just wondering whether it is safe using credit card over an
internet? I don't have any experience to use paypal.
I am sorry asking this question..


No need to be sorry, this is a very legitimate question. PayPal is 
considered a safe paiment method. As for using credit card over the 
internet, I've done that thousands time and I never had any problem.


Abdel.

Re: continuous spell check on the fly: add more money in the pot bug 718

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Richard Heck wrote:
I'm sure this will eventually go in, but it's worth being aware of all 
the issues.


Don't worry Richard, this won't be an intrusive patch. I am quite 
confident that there's no much risk of destabilizing the tree because of 
that feature :-)


Now I really need to resume my LyX activity someday :-)



And IMHO, when it does go in, this should be off by default.


Sure.

Abdel.

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Finalfin wrote:

Hello!

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part). The
most natural document layout would be a book. Each part would be stored in a
separate LyX file, with one master document to bind them all.

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.

So, the document structure would be:
Part I Blah blah blah
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  ...
Part II Bleh Bleh Bleh
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  ...

I have already found a way to reset the chapter numbers after every part, so
it's not a problem. Well, actually it's a glitch: while the DVI/PDF output
is correct, LyX still counts chapters from Part 1.

The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title, but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.

  

Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

Do you want the chapters in the TOC if they're not titled? If not, then 
just move the TOC slider in Document>Settings>Numbering and TOC.


rh



Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?

Since this is a novel, there is no need to do cross-referencing, so if your
solution doesn't handle it, it's not an issue for me.

Thanks in advance,

Piotr Sulecki.
  

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

[Tiago Rinck Caveden]

Hello!

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Uwe Stöhr  wrote:
> Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb:
> When you need to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, then open
> Windows' System settings dialog. There you find under the advanced tab the
> button "Environment variables" where you can add your path to the PATH
> variable.

I know, my problem isn't there, I was just answering a question that
was left open on the thread.

> Yes, open in LyX the menu Tools -> Preferences and change there under Path
> the directories.

At the preference box, the closest option I find is the "work
directory". When I change it, the change is not reflected on the "user
directory" displayed at the About box and the folder mentioned before
on this thread (lix15, in my case lyx16) is not created at the new
directory. No directory that I can change at the Preference box
correspond to the one on the About box actually.

My only problem is that I cannot open a shell at the current user
directory to execute the program suggested (python configure.py) from
there... if I could change the directory to something else or execute
the program from somewhere else, giving the directory as a parameter
or something, it would be great.

Thanks,
-- 
Tiago Rinck Caveden
http://caveden.multiply.com

export to Opendocument on Windows

[Timmie]

Hello,
what is the current procedure (utility program) used on Windows to export to
OpenDocument Format?

I have MikTeX and tex4ht installed.

The conversion process opens an error window in Lyx with the following problems:

***
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}

 \renewcomman...@makefntext}
 [1]{ %
You're in trouble here.  Try typingto proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X   to quit.

***
You can't use `macro parameter #' in internal vertical mode.

 \parbox[t]{0.9\linewidth}{#1}
   %
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.

***

What could have caused this error?
How can I prevent this?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Timmie

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

[Tiago Rinck Caveden]

Well, never mind my last e-mail, I found a way to execute the script.

But that doesn't seem to be enough.
For example, during the execution of the python script, it said it could
find the "article" class. But when I open a lyx document that has this class
(the welcome one), I receive a message that the class is unusable. When I
try to export to any format, it says it doesn't have enough information...
:(

Should I just try reinstalling everything?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tiago Rinck Caveden wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Uwe Stöhr  wrote:
> > Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb:
> > When you need to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, then
> open
> > Windows' System settings dialog. There you find under the advanced tab
> the
> > button "Environment variables" where you can add your path to the PATH
> > variable.
>
> I know, my problem isn't there, I was just answering a question that
> was left open on the thread.
>
> > Yes, open in LyX the menu Tools -> Preferences and change there under
> Path
> > the directories.
>
> At the preference box, the closest option I find is the "work
> directory". When I change it, the change is not reflected on the "user
> directory" displayed at the About box and the folder mentioned before
> on this thread (lix15, in my case lyx16) is not created at the new
> directory. No directory that I can change at the Preference box
> correspond to the one on the About box actually.
>
> My only problem is that I cannot open a shell at the current user
> directory to execute the program suggested (python configure.py) from
> there... if I could change the directory to something else or execute
> the program from somewhere else, giving the directory as a parameter
> or something, it would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Tiago Rinck Caveden
> http://caveden.multiply.com
>



-- 
Tiago Rinck Caveden
http://caveden.multiply.com

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[Piotr Sulecki]

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck :
>> I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
>> sectioning.
>>
>> The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
>> each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part).
>> [...]
>>
>> The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
>> the chapters titled, just numbered.
>> [...]
>> The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?
>>
>> I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
>> but
>> it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
>> the TOC.
>
> Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.

By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the following:

>> Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
>> heading?

> Do you want the chapters in the TOC if they're not titled? If not, then just
> move the TOC slider in Document>Settings>Numbering and TOC.

This wouldn't be a problem if I didn't want them in the TOC. I do.

Finalfin.

cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Zhang Xiao]

Hi,

I am new to LyX.

Today I installed MacTex (seems no problem) then I installed LyX on my  
mac (Leopard 10.5.6). I've run the install script and also put LyX in  
my Applications.


But when I tried to run it, it just started and quit. in syslog i  
found these:


Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf8df20 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x95a41178 0x3974da 0x25b763  
0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8 0x40d0dd  
0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf403b0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x9400937f 0x9400906f 0x39750a  
0x25b763 0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8  
0x40d0dd 0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook lyx[360]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object  
0xf949a0 of class NSCFSet autoreleased with no pool in place - just  
leaking\nStack: (0x903f173f 0x902fde32 0x94009456 0x9400906f 0x39750a  
0x25b763 0x25b718 0x258e8c 0x258eff 0x98da9d 0x8a6bb2 0x3c35f8  
0x40d0dd 0x2329ef 0xad72e 0x28a3 0x21d2 0x20f9)
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: LyX:  
reconfiguring user directory
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:   File "/ 
Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py", line 93
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: print  
"Failed to create directory ", dir
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook  
[0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:   ^
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: SyntaxError:  
invalid syntax

Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]: LyX: Done!
Feb 10 22:59:31 macbook [0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]:  
LayoutFileList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.
Feb 10 22:59:32 macbook com.apple.launchd[154]  
([0x0-0x22022].org.lyx.lyx[360]): Exited with exit code: 1


I have python 3.0 installed.

i dont know why it crashed. please help. thanks!

Re: cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Manveru]

2009/2/10 Zhang Xiao :
> Hi,
>
> I am new to LyX.
>
> Today I installed MacTex (seems no problem) then I installed LyX on my mac
> (Leopard 10.5.6). I've run the install script and also put LyX in my
> Applications.
>
> But when I tried to run it, it just started and quit. in syslog i found
> these:
>
[...]
>
> I have python 3.0 installed.

Python 3.0 is not backward compatible with 2.x series. I do not know
how it is on Mac, but I think LyX has it's own python interpreter
bundled.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: cannot get LyX run on my mac

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Manveru wrote:

Python 3.0 is not backward compatible with 2.x series. I do not know
how it is on Mac, but I think LyX has it's own python interpreter
bundled.


No, on Mac python is not bundled with LyX, since it is already bundled 
with Mac OS X. The only way I see to fix this is to install 
python_select and select Apple's python (or another complete 2.x 
installation) as the default python.


HTH,
Konrad

Re: export to Opendocument on Windows

[Paul A. Rubin]

Timmie wrote:

Hello,
what is the current procedure (utility program) used on Windows to export to
OpenDocument Format?

I have MikTeX and tex4ht installed.

The conversion process opens an error window in Lyx with the following problems:

***
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}

 \renewcomman...@makefntext}
 [1]{ %
You're in trouble here.  Try typingto proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X   to quit.

***
You can't use `macro parameter #' in internal vertical mode.

 \parbox[t]{0.9\linewidth}{#1}
   %
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.

***

What could have caused this error?
How can I prevent this?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Timmie




If you View -> DVI, does the document display correctly?  This looks 
like a basic LaTeX error, unrelated to OO export.


/Paul

Re: untitled chapters in LyX

[rgheck]

Piotr Sulecki wrote:

rh,

2009/2/10 rgheck :
  

I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems with
sectioning.

The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into 50+ parts,
each part having ten or so short chapters (about 50-60 pages per part).
[...]

The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I don't want
the chapters titled, just numbered.
[...]
The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?

I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the chapter's title,
but
it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look right in
the TOC.
  

Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.



By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?

  

No, totally blank.


Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical space?

  

Yes.


Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included the following:

  

Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single chapter
heading?
  


  
Well, sorry, I answered as much as I knew at the time. But if you set 
"KeepEmpty" to true in the Chapter layout, that will do, I think.


rh