Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
 in compiling lyx I am told zlib.h is missing.
 I can't find this under 'search' of synaptics (debian lenny)
 How do I get it?
 Wolfgang

Here is my recepy to build LyX-svn on Debian:

 * Update sources `svn update` 
   
   (eventually switch to a another branch, 
   `svn switch svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X`)
 
 * Install all the dependencies with `apt-get build-dep lyx`
   (after installing build-dep via `apt-get install build-dep`).
 
 * Configuration/Automake:
 
   pre-configuration with `autogen.sh`
   
   Without debug-symbols (otherwise the memory on my machine will run out), 
   use suffix (lyx - lyx16)::
   
./configure --with-version-suffix=16 --enable-build-type=release 

 * make, make install

 * optional: crate a binary tarball::

 Use make DESTDIR=/tmp/lyx-svn install and then make an archive of
 everything in /tmp/lyx-svn.


Günter

Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Monday 04 May 2009 20:20:54 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
 Am Monday 04 May 2009 19:21:12 schrieben Sie:
  Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
   in compiling lyx I am told zlib.h is missing.
   I can't find this under 'search' of synaptics (debian lenny)
 
  In think you need zlib devel, or something like that.
 
  rh

 I choose zlib1g and zlib1g-dev and zlibc
 and was asked to accept apt-build
 however I did not, since I am completely unexperienced

 fortunately ./configure worked.
 Will see how make and install behaves. Its running

 thanks for all the help (its a very kind and patient list, I must say!)

 Wolfgang

 ps I made it. Good

However, today in trying to use LyX:

the history:
==

1-under Debian lenny I upgraded to Lyx1.6.2 (using a debian Lyx1.6.2 package).
Running a document (koma book) I got this error:
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript
(this message is constantly repeated)

2-I was adviced to replace Ghostscript 8.62 by Ghostscript 8.64.
Since it was not available under lenny, I used Debian squeeze, but things got 
worse because I muddled up my debian lenny linux.

3-Therefore I installed  LyX 1.6.3 hoping that this would help. It did not. In 
running my document I get again:
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

and after a long run lyx disappears and I get:
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions 
in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks !
Bye.

the situation:

I will now run it again under  bug-reporting and report on it.
Before I do it I have tested the Introduction to LyX under help and get
wolfg...@wolfgang:~/Desktop$ lyx -dbg Intro-x.lyx
Setting debug level to Intro-x.lyx
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

In contrast to my document it stops putting out these errors (only those shown 
above) and LyX does not break down.
There is no output in Latex protocoll. Where would I find the debug report?


the question:

is there anybody in the list who uses Debian lenny and LyX either 1.6.2 or 
later svn versions successfully? Is she/he using Ghostscript 8.64 and from 
where can I get a Debian package?

Thanks for your attention

Wolfgang

Re: Fwd: Encoding problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

ami guru wrote:

 Now i have new error
 
 LateX Error: CJK.sty not found.

Note that if you do not need CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), you have 
selected the wrong encoding. There is UTF-8 (CJK) and utf-8 (or Unicode 
(utf8)). You probably want the latter.

Jürgen

Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

 However, today in trying to use LyX:

 the history:
==

 1-under Debian lenny I upgraded to Lyx1.6.2 (using a debian Lyx1.6.2 package).
 Running a document (koma book) I got this error:
 GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
 dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript
 (this message is constantly repeated)

 2-I was adviced to replace Ghostscript 8.62 by Ghostscript 8.64.
 Since it was not available under lenny, I used Debian squeeze, but things got 
 worse because I muddled up my debian lenny linux.

...

 the question:

 is there anybody in the list who uses Debian lenny and LyX either 1.6.2 or 
 later svn versions successfully? Is she/he using Ghostscript 8.64 and from 
 where can I get a Debian package?

I use LyX 1.6.2 and Ghostscript 8.64 from Debian/testing.
You might try to add testing to your sources.list and issue
``apt-get update``
``apt-get install ghostscript``.
Or download just the ghostscript package and install with dpkg.

Günter

Re: Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

[Olivier Ripoll]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

tedc wrote:

I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for
stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter
via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the
computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer
shows that the bold text is being rendered as plain; pdf output confirms
this--the text marked as plain Typewriter looks identical to text marked as
Typewriter, Bold. This is on a Linux box (Centos 5.3). What can I do about
this?


Use a typewriter font that provides bold shape (the LaTeX default font, 
computer modern, does not).


I have been using Latin Modern in all my docs for a while, and I have 
a code character style using plain typewriter and another one 
filename using typewriter bold. That works fine (windows XP, lyx 1.6.2).


Best regards,

Olivier



[Document  Settings  Fonts]

Jürgen

Re: Getting aip.bst to work with Lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

BcBob wrote:

I am writing a paper for a physics journal and I want to use the AIP style.
This was not included in the standard list so I downloaded aip.bst from
ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/phy-bstyles/

I placed the file in this directory (I am using Windows XP)
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst\revtex4\

Then I selected Tools|Reconfigure in my Lyx Version 1.5.5 and restarted.
Now, when I click on Bibtex Generated Bibliography, aip is listed in the
dropdown list under style I clicked on OK and on the 'dvi' box. The result
has question marks ? at the citations in the text and no bibliography
appears. If I change the style to, say, 'plain', the citations are present
as os the bibliography list.

I am attaching aip.bst and my Lyx source file.

Any help in getting this to work is appreciated.

Bob
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/DEpaper1.lyx DEpaper1.lyx 


Did you refresh MiKTeX's file database?  LyX being able to find the .bst 
file is not the same as MiKTeX being able to find it (and having it in a 
MiKTeX directory does not guarantee that MiKTeX knows it's there).


If you haven't already done so, run the MiKTeX Settings application and 
in the General tab click Refresh FNDB.  Then try viewing the DVI 
output.  (You do not need to reconfigure LyX again.)


FWIW, I wouldn't put aip.bst in an existing MiKTeX directory -- if you 
update the RevTeX4 package (or upgrade to a newer version of MiKTeX) 
down the road, you might lose it.  On the Roots tab of the Settings 
application, there should be a local root (typically the first one in 
the list) where you can place things not downloaded via MiKTeX's package 
manager.  So I'd put aip.bst in something like local root\bibtex\bst 
or local root\bibtex\bst\aip (and then refresh the database).


/Paul

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

[Stefano Franchi]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 08:48:53 am cmira...@kde-france.org wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  Dear Lyxers,
 
  I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this
  list, I thought I could ask anyway.
 
  I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my
  efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low
  level
  commands  have produced horrible results. I think it would be easier to
  modify a font by adding somewhere the three symbols I need.

 For simple symbols, I have used a tikz macro. If you can draw the symbol
 with the tikz drawing primitives, it is easier than Metapost. The problam
 with this solution is that it messes with LaTeX spacing algorithm and you
 could get some strange results.

 Cheers,
 Charles


Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions, mostly directed toward Metafont I 
had bad memories of Metafont/Post from many years back, but I went back to it 
and did not find it that obscure after all. I am not done yet, but  well on my 
way.

Cheers,

S.


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Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or symbols)

[James C. Sutherland]

On May 4, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Jim Rockford wrote:

Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would  
like to

do this quickly in Lyx, so...

What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like

a  S  b
c  T  d

and so forth.  I just need the analog of the usual 3 column  
equation array
environment so that the various inequality symbols match up  
properly.  In
the above example I want 5 columns instead of the usual 3.  I tried  
to use
the AMS align environment, but had trouble adding the columns (the  
results

came out with way too much spacing).

How do I do this in Lyx?


You could use an array in a regular equation environment.  Then you  
have more control over alignment of each column in the array.

Putting images side by side

[ami guru]

Hello forum,

I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have added
two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.

Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
2 images the same way as above, bur this time

part of the images are cropped.


Any hint on that one?


Regards
Sajjad

Re: Putting images side by side

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Hi Sajjad,

Did you play around with the settings:  scale graphics, set width, set
height  .

You can choose as a % of page height or page column etc...

Double click on the images and fix its specific features...

So, if you have two figures side by side, you need to have 50% and 50% of
the column width.
If you have two figures one over the others, the same story...

Erez


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, ami guru dosto.wa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello forum,

 I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have
 added
 two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.

 Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
 2 images the same way as above, bur this time

 part of the images are cropped.


 Any hint on that one?


 Regards
 Sajjad




-- 
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PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi

arrangement issue

[ami guru]

Hello forum,

I have inserted C++ code snippet inside the float:algorithm block and then i
inserted vertical spaces

And then i inserted float:figure, inserted images.


When i preview the in the pdf format the images show up before the code
snippet. I should be vice versa.

Any idea on that one?

What am i missing in the process?


Regards
Sajjad

Re: Putting images side by side

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, ami guru wrote:


Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and
added 2 images the same way as above, bur this time part of the images are
cropped.


Sajjad,

  You probably need to scale the images so they all fit within the typearea
on the page.

Rich

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Re: arrangement issue

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, ami guru wrote:


Any idea on that one?
What am i missing in the process?


  The idea behind a floating image box is that TeX will place it where there
is room and minimal disruption of the text flow. If you want the figure in a
specific location take it out of the float box and fix the location.

Rich

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

Fwd: Putting images side by side

[ami guru]

Hello Erez,

Thanks for the feedback,

For the first row i have set  the width to 100 with TextWidht % and i have
included subfigure for both the images
and it worked fine . I inserted horizontal fill before and after each of the
images and Both of them are side by side


Things get messed up if i try to do the very same thing in the next line


Regards
Sajjad






-- Forwarded message --
From: Erez Yerushalmi erezyerusha...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: Putting images side by side
To: ami guru dosto.wa...@gmail.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org


Hi Sajjad,

Did you play around with the settings:  scale graphics, set width, set
height  .

You can choose as a % of page height or page column etc...

Double click on the images and fix its specific features...

So, if you have two figures side by side, you need to have 50% and 50% of
the column width.
If you have two figures one over the others, the same story...

Erez



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, ami guru dosto.wa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello forum,

 I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have
 added
 two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.

 Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
 2 images the same way as above, bur this time

 part of the images are cropped.


 Any hint on that one?


 Regards
 Sajjad




-- 
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi

Re: text styles

[Helge Hafting]

Drew Kime wrote:


Does anyone know of a tool that helps in the building of new styles? I've
learned enough Latex to tweak existing styles, etc. but I'm a writer, not a
typesetter. I know my book looks better when I use Lyx/Latex than with
something like OpenOffice, so I'll keep using it. Still, every time I have
to dig into Latex code to change a style, I think about how easy that is to
do in OOo.



Even if a good style editor is made, it won't save you from needing 
some latex knowledge. Such a thing can easily save you from having to 
know the format of .layout files though, they  are LyX constructs.


But once you need some special latex command, you still have to know 
that command. Unless someone makes a style editor that knows all of 
latex, which isn't realistic.


Helge Hafting

pdf graphics don't display in lyx 1.6.2

[Brian Guenter]

If I create a figure float and insert a pdf graphic in it using lyx 1.6.2 I 
consistently get an error message saying it can't convert the file to a 
loadable format. The graphic prints fine but it doesn't show up in the Lyx 
editor.

In Lyx 1.6.1 the same pdf file loads and displays in Lyx with no problem. How 
can I fix this?

I'm running Windows XP service pack 3.

-brian

Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal using
the aip.bst style (see the attached file).

Thanks to Paul Rubin's help, I am now able to get Lyx to utilize this to
format the bibliography. 

Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of an
article, not the full page range as required by the journal. BTW, I checked
by bibtex database and all my entries include a full page range and other
styles like unsrt create entries with the page range.

The aip.bst does almost everything I want. So my question is how to modify
it so it uses the full range. Please make answers as explicit as possible
(e.g. suggesting line numbers in the file) as I am a total beginner at
latex, bibtex, etc.

TIA

Bob

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:

I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal using
the aip.bst style (see the attached file).

Thanks to Paul Rubin's help, I am now able to get Lyx to utilize this to
format the bibliography. 


Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of an
article, not the full page range as required by the journal. BTW, I checked
by bibtex database and all my entries include a full page range and other
styles like unsrt create entries with the page range.

The aip.bst does almost everything I want. So my question is how to modify
it so it uses the full range. Please make answers as explicit as possible
(e.g. suggesting line numbers in the file) as I am a total beginner at
latex, bibtex, etc.

  

Replace this function:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
   swap$ * *
 pages empty$
   'skip$
   { duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages.a }
{ ,  * pages first.page * }
 if$
   }
 if$


}

with:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
   swap$ * *
 pages empty$
   'skip$
   { duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages }
{ ,  * format.pages }
 if$
   }
 if$


}

That'll get us close. If it still isn't quite right, we'll try again.

rh

Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Xie Chao]

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali parul.sarasw...@gmail.comwrote:

 This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed
 text
 file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility
 to
 attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
 through Lyx/Latex?



 Thanks,

 Parul

Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

BcBob wrote:
 
 I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal
 using the aip.bst style (see the attached file).
 
 Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of
 an article, not the full page range as required by the journal. 
 

rgheck wrote:
 
 Replace this function:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages.a }
 { ,  * pages first.page * }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 }
 
 with:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages }
 { ,  * format.pages }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 } 
 

That does not work so well. It does change the pages to a range but it
messes up other fields.
I am attaching the original aip.bst, the Lyx file I am using to test
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.lyx DEpaper2.lyx ,
 and a ps file of the output.
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.ps DEpaper2.ps 

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 

Bob



BcBob wrote:
 
 
 BcBob wrote:
 
 I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal
 using the aip.bst style (see the attached file).
 
 Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of
 an article, not the full page range as required by the journal. 
 
 
 rgheck wrote:
 
 Replace this function:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages.a }
 { ,  * pages first.page * }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 }
 
 with:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages }
 { ,  * format.pages }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 } 
 
 
 That does not work so well. It does change the pages to a range but it
 messes up other fields.
 I am attaching the original aip.bst, the Lyx file I am using to test
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.lyx DEpaper2.lyx ,
  and a ps file of the output.
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.ps DEpaper2.ps 
 
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
 

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:
In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 

  

Send you bib file, too.

rh

Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

BcBob wrote:
 
 In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 
 
 Bob
 
 

And the bib file

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:

BcBob wrote:
  
In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
 http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 



OK, try this one:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
  swap$ * *
pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages * }
{ ,  * format.pages * }
if$
}
if$
}

rh

RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Parul Bali]

Many thanks to everyone for their responses.

 

Xie,

 

The `attachfile’ package you suggested works great if I export  lyx file to tex 
format and then convert the tex file to pdflatex. However, if I try converting 
the lyx file  to pdflatex directly, it  throws me an error –  “pdftex error: 
cannot open file for embedding” . 

It doesn’t seem to locate the  file. Any pointers on how to resolve this would 
be very helpful.

 

Thank you.

 

Parul

 

From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 20:09
To: Parul Bali
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali parul.sarasw...@gmail.com wrote:

This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text
file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility to
attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
through Lyx/Latex?



Thanks,

Parul

 

RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Parul Bali]

To be more specific, it doesn’t seem to locate the file when I specify relative 
path in the Lyx file and try converting it to pdflatex. However, if the same 
lyx file is exported to tex format and then converted to pdflatex, it works 
great.

 

Any help  will be greatly  appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Parul

 

From: Parul Bali [mailto:parul.sarasw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 22:30
To: 'Xie Chao'
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

Many thanks to everyone for their responses.

 

Xie,

 

The `attachfile’ package you suggested works great if I export  lyx file to tex 
format and then convert the tex file to pdflatex. However, if I try converting 
the lyx file  to pdflatex directly, it  throws me an error –  “pdftex error: 
cannot open file for embedding” . 

It doesn’t seem to locate the  file. Any pointers on how to resolve this would 
be very helpful.

 

Thank you.

 

Parul

 

From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 20:09
To: Parul Bali
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali parul.sarasw...@gmail.com wrote:

This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text
file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility to
attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
through Lyx/Latex?



Thanks,

Parul

 

[OT] the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

[Marcelo Acuña]

hello,

wich is the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

Marcelo Acuña
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Re: Logo Not Displaying ... Still

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 3 May 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Exporting to a .tex file (pdflatex) and either using an absolute path for the 
image or putting it in the same directory as the .tex file works here, to the 
extent that the institution-logo thing goes away and I get an itsy-bitsy 
logo image (or a decent size one if I substitute a different version of the 
image file, either PNG or PDF).


Paul,

  Serious issues have come up and I've not experienced anything like them
before.

  When I use View-pdflatex I can see the logo on each slide after the
first. Now that I finished the presentation, I used File-Export-pdflatex
to produce a .pdf on disk. Viewing that with both xpdf and acroread, the
logo is not seen; I'm back to institution-logo across the box. Why? Why
does viewing with pdflatex work but not exporting that way?

  So, I went to CTAN and grabbed all the files in the directory with pdf.sty
and copied those over the existing files in both
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf-1.00/latex/pgf/basiclayer/ and
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/. Now I cannot view or export to plain LaTeX,
pdflatex, or anything.

  Don't know how I got the system so FUBAR, but I need to fix it quickly.

  Anyone with ideas?

Rich

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Re: [OT] the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

[rgheck]

Marcelo Acuña wrote:

hello,

wich is the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

  

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg01541.html

rh

Re: Logo Not Displaying ... FIXED!!

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Serious issues have come up and I've not experienced anything like them
before.


  All fixed.

  I downloaded pgf-2.00 and installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
(other than the context directory). Then I removed the pgf/ and pgf-1.00/
directories there and ran texhash.

  Happy camper now. Whew!

Rich

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Another beamer class issue

[Rich Shepard]

  Now that I have the logo displaying properly and the slides for the
presentation finished, I need to get the navigation tools in acroread
working.

  I can load the pdf file with no problems, but the control icons along the
bottom, right of the screen are not there. There are faint images of the
page, subsection, section, etc. icons, but I cannot page forward and back.

  There is also no tree of slides along the left side; it's a blank window.

  Loading a presentation I created a couple of years ago, the navigation
tree on the left and the forward/back controls work as they should.

  What might have happened to this new file that it doesn't work properly?
There are no errors in the log file. I can send that privately if anyone
wants to see it but it's too large to attach to the message.

  Almost there, but not quite.

TIA,

Rich

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module question - modifying list environment

[James C. Sutherland]

LyX Module Gurus:

I am trying to create a modified List environment where is counter is  
not reset each time the environment begins.  I have created a module  
(attached) that does part of this for me - it creates a new TaskList  
environment in LyX. However, I cannot seem to get the counter to keep  
incrementing - it resets with each instantiation of the environment.


This may be a LaTeX question, since I cannot get it working properly  
in LaTeX either.  I just hope someone out there can shed some light on  
this...


James



tasklist.module
Description: Binary data

Need help creating a Style in a custom layout

[Ryan Warner]

Hello LyX users,

I'm new to TeX, LaTeX, and LyX, but climbing fast.  I'm trying to make
a standardized structured document format for my company.  Right now,
I'm attempting to do this by making a custom LyX layout.

This layout is based on article.cls.  As it happens, if I apply this
style to a line in LyX, the generated output in DVI is what I want.
However, in the GUI the preview is not.  In the GUI I don't get the
prepended Feature: and the text is completely unformatted.  How do I
make the preview in the GUI resemble the output?

Here's my Style entry in my layout file:

Style Feature
LatexType Command
LatexName planfeature
Preamble
\newcommand{\planfeature}[1]{ \section{Feature: #1} }
EndPreamble
End

For that matter, how does LyX know how to display \section{FooBar}
normally?  Does it parse the class and determine the appearance or is
it predefined somewhere?

On the subject of layout files and Style entries.  Looking at the
layouts that come with LyX, there are a lot of options you can use.
Is any of that documented anywhere?  Or is it all learn by example?

-Ryan

Re: Need help creating a Style in a custom layout

[rgheck]

Ryan Warner wrote:

Hello LyX users,

I'm new to TeX, LaTeX, and LyX, but climbing fast.  I'm trying to make
a standardized structured document format for my company.  Right now,
I'm attempting to do this by making a custom LyX layout.

This layout is based on article.cls.  As it happens, if I apply this
style to a line in LyX, the generated output in DVI is what I want.
However, in the GUI the preview is not.  In the GUI I don't get the
prepended Feature: and the text is completely unformatted.  How do I
make the preview in the GUI resemble the output?

Here's my Style entry in my layout file:

Style Feature
LatexType Command
LatexName planfeature
Preamble
\newcommand{\planfeature}[1]{ \section{Feature: #1} }
EndPreamble
End

For that matter, how does LyX know how to display \section{FooBar}
normally?  Does it parse the class and determine the appearance or is
it predefined somewhere?

  
Look at the file stdsections.inc. If you do roughly what's done there, I 
expect you will get the results you want.



On the subject of layout files and Style entries.  Looking at the
layouts that come with LyX, there are a lot of options you can use.
Is any of that documented anywhere?  Or is it all learn by example?

  
It's documented in the Customization manual, chapter 5, I think. See the 
Help menu.


Richard

Re: module question - modifying list environment

[James C. Sutherland]

On May 5, 2009, at 6:06 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote:


LyX Module Gurus:

I am trying to create a modified List environment where is counter  
is not reset each time the environment begins.  I have created a  
module (attached) that does part of this for me - it creates a new  
TaskList environment in LyX. However, I cannot seem to get the  
counter to keep incrementing - it resets with each instantiation of  
the environment.


This may be a LaTeX question, since I cannot get it working properly  
in LaTeX either.  I just hope someone out there can shed some light  
on this...


I have managed to find a solution to this (see attached), although I  
could really benefit from knowing how modules work in more depth.  The  
user manual (Customization Ch. 5) is very terse on this topic!




tasklist.module
Description: Binary data

Re: module question - modifying list environment

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 11:07:13 pm James C. Sutherland wrote:
 On May 5, 2009, at 6:06 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote:
  LyX Module Gurus:
 
  I am trying to create a modified List environment where is counter
  is not reset each time the environment begins.  I have created a
  module (attached) that does part of this for me - it creates a new
  TaskList environment in LyX. However, I cannot seem to get the
  counter to keep incrementing - it resets with each instantiation of
  the environment.
 
  This may be a LaTeX question, since I cannot get it working properly
  in LaTeX either.  I just hope someone out there can shed some light
  on this...

 I have managed to find a solution to this (see attached), although I
 could really benefit from knowing how modules work in more depth.  The
 user manual (Customization Ch. 5) is very terse on this topic!

I'm almost positive both of you should have used LatexType Item_Environment 
in the LyX part of your definitions.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
 in compiling lyx I am told zlib.h is missing.
 I can't find this under 'search' of synaptics (debian lenny)
 How do I get it?
 Wolfgang

Here is my recepy to build LyX-svn on Debian:

 * Update sources `svn update` 
   
   (eventually switch to a another branch, 
   `svn switch svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X`)
 
 * Install all the dependencies with `apt-get build-dep lyx`
   (after installing build-dep via `apt-get install build-dep`).
 
 * Configuration/Automake:
 
   pre-configuration with `autogen.sh`
   
   Without debug-symbols (otherwise the memory on my machine will run out), 
   use suffix (lyx - lyx16)::
   
./configure --with-version-suffix=16 --enable-build-type=release 

 * make, make install

 * optional: crate a binary tarball::

 Use make DESTDIR=/tmp/lyx-svn install and then make an archive of
 everything in /tmp/lyx-svn.


Günter

Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Monday 04 May 2009 20:20:54 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
 Am Monday 04 May 2009 19:21:12 schrieben Sie:
  Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
   in compiling lyx I am told zlib.h is missing.
   I can't find this under 'search' of synaptics (debian lenny)
 
  In think you need zlib devel, or something like that.
 
  rh

 I choose zlib1g and zlib1g-dev and zlibc
 and was asked to accept apt-build
 however I did not, since I am completely unexperienced

 fortunately ./configure worked.
 Will see how make and install behaves. Its running

 thanks for all the help (its a very kind and patient list, I must say!)

 Wolfgang

 ps I made it. Good

However, today in trying to use LyX:

the history:
==

1-under Debian lenny I upgraded to Lyx1.6.2 (using a debian Lyx1.6.2 package).
Running a document (koma book) I got this error:
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript
(this message is constantly repeated)

2-I was adviced to replace Ghostscript 8.62 by Ghostscript 8.64.
Since it was not available under lenny, I used Debian squeeze, but things got 
worse because I muddled up my debian lenny linux.

3-Therefore I installed  LyX 1.6.3 hoping that this would help. It did not. In 
running my document I get again:
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

and after a long run lyx disappears and I get:
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions 
in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks !
Bye.

the situation:

I will now run it again under  bug-reporting and report on it.
Before I do it I have tested the Introduction to LyX under help and get
wolfg...@wolfgang:~/Desktop$ lyx -dbg Intro-x.lyx
Setting debug level to Intro-x.lyx
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

In contrast to my document it stops putting out these errors (only those shown 
above) and LyX does not break down.
There is no output in Latex protocoll. Where would I find the debug report?


the question:

is there anybody in the list who uses Debian lenny and LyX either 1.6.2 or 
later svn versions successfully? Is she/he using Ghostscript 8.64 and from 
where can I get a Debian package?

Thanks for your attention

Wolfgang

Re: Fwd: Encoding problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

ami guru wrote:

 Now i have new error
 
 LateX Error: CJK.sty not found.

Note that if you do not need CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), you have 
selected the wrong encoding. There is UTF-8 (CJK) and utf-8 (or Unicode 
(utf8)). You probably want the latter.

Jürgen

Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

 However, today in trying to use LyX:

 the history:
==

 1-under Debian lenny I upgraded to Lyx1.6.2 (using a debian Lyx1.6.2 package).
 Running a document (koma book) I got this error:
 GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
 dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript
 (this message is constantly repeated)

 2-I was adviced to replace Ghostscript 8.62 by Ghostscript 8.64.
 Since it was not available under lenny, I used Debian squeeze, but things got 
 worse because I muddled up my debian lenny linux.

...

 the question:

 is there anybody in the list who uses Debian lenny and LyX either 1.6.2 or 
 later svn versions successfully? Is she/he using Ghostscript 8.64 and from 
 where can I get a Debian package?

I use LyX 1.6.2 and Ghostscript 8.64 from Debian/testing.
You might try to add testing to your sources.list and issue
``apt-get update``
``apt-get install ghostscript``.
Or download just the ghostscript package and install with dpkg.

Günter

Re: Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

[Olivier Ripoll]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

tedc wrote:

I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for
stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter
via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the
computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer
shows that the bold text is being rendered as plain; pdf output confirms
this--the text marked as plain Typewriter looks identical to text marked as
Typewriter, Bold. This is on a Linux box (Centos 5.3). What can I do about
this?


Use a typewriter font that provides bold shape (the LaTeX default font, 
computer modern, does not).


I have been using Latin Modern in all my docs for a while, and I have 
a code character style using plain typewriter and another one 
filename using typewriter bold. That works fine (windows XP, lyx 1.6.2).


Best regards,

Olivier



[Document  Settings  Fonts]

Jürgen

Re: Getting aip.bst to work with Lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

BcBob wrote:

I am writing a paper for a physics journal and I want to use the AIP style.
This was not included in the standard list so I downloaded aip.bst from
ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/phy-bstyles/

I placed the file in this directory (I am using Windows XP)
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst\revtex4\

Then I selected Tools|Reconfigure in my Lyx Version 1.5.5 and restarted.
Now, when I click on Bibtex Generated Bibliography, aip is listed in the
dropdown list under style I clicked on OK and on the 'dvi' box. The result
has question marks ? at the citations in the text and no bibliography
appears. If I change the style to, say, 'plain', the citations are present
as os the bibliography list.

I am attaching aip.bst and my Lyx source file.

Any help in getting this to work is appreciated.

Bob
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/DEpaper1.lyx DEpaper1.lyx 


Did you refresh MiKTeX's file database?  LyX being able to find the .bst 
file is not the same as MiKTeX being able to find it (and having it in a 
MiKTeX directory does not guarantee that MiKTeX knows it's there).


If you haven't already done so, run the MiKTeX Settings application and 
in the General tab click Refresh FNDB.  Then try viewing the DVI 
output.  (You do not need to reconfigure LyX again.)


FWIW, I wouldn't put aip.bst in an existing MiKTeX directory -- if you 
update the RevTeX4 package (or upgrade to a newer version of MiKTeX) 
down the road, you might lose it.  On the Roots tab of the Settings 
application, there should be a local root (typically the first one in 
the list) where you can place things not downloaded via MiKTeX's package 
manager.  So I'd put aip.bst in something like local root\bibtex\bst 
or local root\bibtex\bst\aip (and then refresh the database).


/Paul

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

[Stefano Franchi]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 08:48:53 am cmira...@kde-france.org wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  Dear Lyxers,
 
  I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this
  list, I thought I could ask anyway.
 
  I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my
  efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low
  level
  commands  have produced horrible results. I think it would be easier to
  modify a font by adding somewhere the three symbols I need.

 For simple symbols, I have used a tikz macro. If you can draw the symbol
 with the tikz drawing primitives, it is easier than Metapost. The problam
 with this solution is that it messes with LaTeX spacing algorithm and you
 could get some strange results.

 Cheers,
 Charles


Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions, mostly directed toward Metafont I 
had bad memories of Metafont/Post from many years back, but I went back to it 
and did not find it that obscure after all. I am not done yet, but  well on my 
way.

Cheers,

S.


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Re: Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or symbols)

[James C. Sutherland]

On May 4, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Jim Rockford wrote:

Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would  
like to

do this quickly in Lyx, so...

What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like

a  S  b
c  T  d

and so forth.  I just need the analog of the usual 3 column  
equation array
environment so that the various inequality symbols match up  
properly.  In
the above example I want 5 columns instead of the usual 3.  I tried  
to use
the AMS align environment, but had trouble adding the columns (the  
results

came out with way too much spacing).

How do I do this in Lyx?


You could use an array in a regular equation environment.  Then you  
have more control over alignment of each column in the array.

Putting images side by side

[ami guru]

Hello forum,

I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have added
two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.

Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
2 images the same way as above, bur this time

part of the images are cropped.


Any hint on that one?


Regards
Sajjad

Re: Putting images side by side

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Hi Sajjad,

Did you play around with the settings:  scale graphics, set width, set
height  .

You can choose as a % of page height or page column etc...

Double click on the images and fix its specific features...

So, if you have two figures side by side, you need to have 50% and 50% of
the column width.
If you have two figures one over the others, the same story...

Erez


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, ami guru dosto.wa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello forum,

 I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have
 added
 two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.

 Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
 2 images the same way as above, bur this time

 part of the images are cropped.


 Any hint on that one?


 Regards
 Sajjad




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PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi

arrangement issue

[ami guru]

Hello forum,

I have inserted C++ code snippet inside the float:algorithm block and then i
inserted vertical spaces

And then i inserted float:figure, inserted images.


When i preview the in the pdf format the images show up before the code
snippet. I should be vice versa.

Any idea on that one?

What am i missing in the process?


Regards
Sajjad

Re: Putting images side by side

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, ami guru wrote:


Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and
added 2 images the same way as above, bur this time part of the images are
cropped.


Sajjad,

  You probably need to scale the images so they all fit within the typearea
on the page.

Rich

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Re: arrangement issue

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, ami guru wrote:


Any idea on that one?
What am i missing in the process?


  The idea behind a floating image box is that TeX will place it where there
is room and minimal disruption of the text flow. If you want the figure in a
specific location take it out of the float box and fix the location.

Rich

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Fwd: Putting images side by side

[ami guru]

Hello Erez,

Thanks for the feedback,

For the first row i have set  the width to 100 with TextWidht % and i have
included subfigure for both the images
and it worked fine . I inserted horizontal fill before and after each of the
images and Both of them are side by side


Things get messed up if i try to do the very same thing in the next line


Regards
Sajjad






-- Forwarded message --
From: Erez Yerushalmi erezyerusha...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: Putting images side by side
To: ami guru dosto.wa...@gmail.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org


Hi Sajjad,

Did you play around with the settings:  scale graphics, set width, set
height  .

You can choose as a % of page height or page column etc...

Double click on the images and fix its specific features...

So, if you have two figures side by side, you need to have 50% and 50% of
the column width.
If you have two figures one over the others, the same story...

Erez



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, ami guru dosto.wa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello forum,

 I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have
 added
 two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.

 Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
 2 images the same way as above, bur this time

 part of the images are cropped.


 Any hint on that one?


 Regards
 Sajjad




-- 
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi

Re: text styles

[Helge Hafting]

Drew Kime wrote:


Does anyone know of a tool that helps in the building of new styles? I've
learned enough Latex to tweak existing styles, etc. but I'm a writer, not a
typesetter. I know my book looks better when I use Lyx/Latex than with
something like OpenOffice, so I'll keep using it. Still, every time I have
to dig into Latex code to change a style, I think about how easy that is to
do in OOo.



Even if a good style editor is made, it won't save you from needing 
some latex knowledge. Such a thing can easily save you from having to 
know the format of .layout files though, they  are LyX constructs.


But once you need some special latex command, you still have to know 
that command. Unless someone makes a style editor that knows all of 
latex, which isn't realistic.


Helge Hafting

pdf graphics don't display in lyx 1.6.2

[Brian Guenter]

If I create a figure float and insert a pdf graphic in it using lyx 1.6.2 I 
consistently get an error message saying it can't convert the file to a 
loadable format. The graphic prints fine but it doesn't show up in the Lyx 
editor.

In Lyx 1.6.1 the same pdf file loads and displays in Lyx with no problem. How 
can I fix this?

I'm running Windows XP service pack 3.

-brian

Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal using
the aip.bst style (see the attached file).

Thanks to Paul Rubin's help, I am now able to get Lyx to utilize this to
format the bibliography. 

Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of an
article, not the full page range as required by the journal. BTW, I checked
by bibtex database and all my entries include a full page range and other
styles like unsrt create entries with the page range.

The aip.bst does almost everything I want. So my question is how to modify
it so it uses the full range. Please make answers as explicit as possible
(e.g. suggesting line numbers in the file) as I am a total beginner at
latex, bibtex, etc.

TIA

Bob

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:

I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal using
the aip.bst style (see the attached file).

Thanks to Paul Rubin's help, I am now able to get Lyx to utilize this to
format the bibliography. 


Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of an
article, not the full page range as required by the journal. BTW, I checked
by bibtex database and all my entries include a full page range and other
styles like unsrt create entries with the page range.

The aip.bst does almost everything I want. So my question is how to modify
it so it uses the full range. Please make answers as explicit as possible
(e.g. suggesting line numbers in the file) as I am a total beginner at
latex, bibtex, etc.

  

Replace this function:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
   swap$ * *
 pages empty$
   'skip$
   { duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages.a }
{ ,  * pages first.page * }
 if$
   }
 if$


}

with:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
   swap$ * *
 pages empty$
   'skip$
   { duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages }
{ ,  * format.pages }
 if$
   }
 if$


}

That'll get us close. If it still isn't quite right, we'll try again.

rh

Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Xie Chao]

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali parul.sarasw...@gmail.comwrote:

 This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed
 text
 file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility
 to
 attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
 through Lyx/Latex?



 Thanks,

 Parul

Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

BcBob wrote:
 
 I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal
 using the aip.bst style (see the attached file).
 
 Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of
 an article, not the full page range as required by the journal. 
 

rgheck wrote:
 
 Replace this function:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages.a }
 { ,  * pages first.page * }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 }
 
 with:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages }
 { ,  * format.pages }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 } 
 

That does not work so well. It does change the pages to a range but it
messes up other fields.
I am attaching the original aip.bst, the Lyx file I am using to test
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.lyx DEpaper2.lyx ,
 and a ps file of the output.
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.ps DEpaper2.ps 

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 

Bob



BcBob wrote:
 
 
 BcBob wrote:
 
 I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal
 using the aip.bst style (see the attached file).
 
 Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of
 an article, not the full page range as required by the journal. 
 
 
 rgheck wrote:
 
 Replace this function:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages.a }
 { ,  * pages first.page * }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 }
 
 with:
 
 FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
 { volume field.or.null embolden
swap$ * *
  pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
 { pop$ format.pages }
 { ,  * format.pages }
  if$
}
  if$
 
 
 } 
 
 
 That does not work so well. It does change the pages to a range but it
 messes up other fields.
 I am attaching the original aip.bst, the Lyx file I am using to test
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.lyx DEpaper2.lyx ,
  and a ps file of the output.
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.ps DEpaper2.ps 
 
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
 

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:
In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 

  

Send you bib file, too.

rh

Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

BcBob wrote:
 
 In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 
 
 Bob
 
 

And the bib file

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:

BcBob wrote:
  
In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
 http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 



OK, try this one:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
  swap$ * *
pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages * }
{ ,  * format.pages * }
if$
}
if$
}

rh

RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Parul Bali]

Many thanks to everyone for their responses.

 

Xie,

 

The `attachfile’ package you suggested works great if I export  lyx file to tex 
format and then convert the tex file to pdflatex. However, if I try converting 
the lyx file  to pdflatex directly, it  throws me an error –  “pdftex error: 
cannot open file for embedding” . 

It doesn’t seem to locate the  file. Any pointers on how to resolve this would 
be very helpful.

 

Thank you.

 

Parul

 

From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 20:09
To: Parul Bali
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali parul.sarasw...@gmail.com wrote:

This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text
file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility to
attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
through Lyx/Latex?



Thanks,

Parul

 

RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Parul Bali]

To be more specific, it doesn’t seem to locate the file when I specify relative 
path in the Lyx file and try converting it to pdflatex. However, if the same 
lyx file is exported to tex format and then converted to pdflatex, it works 
great.

 

Any help  will be greatly  appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Parul

 

From: Parul Bali [mailto:parul.sarasw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 22:30
To: 'Xie Chao'
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

Many thanks to everyone for their responses.

 

Xie,

 

The `attachfile’ package you suggested works great if I export  lyx file to tex 
format and then convert the tex file to pdflatex. However, if I try converting 
the lyx file  to pdflatex directly, it  throws me an error –  “pdftex error: 
cannot open file for embedding” . 

It doesn’t seem to locate the  file. Any pointers on how to resolve this would 
be very helpful.

 

Thank you.

 

Parul

 

From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 20:09
To: Parul Bali
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali parul.sarasw...@gmail.com wrote:

This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text
file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility to
attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
through Lyx/Latex?



Thanks,

Parul

 

[OT] the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

[Marcelo Acuña]

hello,

wich is the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

Marcelo Acuña
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==


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Recetas prácticas y comida saludable
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Re: Logo Not Displaying ... Still

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 3 May 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Exporting to a .tex file (pdflatex) and either using an absolute path for the 
image or putting it in the same directory as the .tex file works here, to the 
extent that the institution-logo thing goes away and I get an itsy-bitsy 
logo image (or a decent size one if I substitute a different version of the 
image file, either PNG or PDF).


Paul,

  Serious issues have come up and I've not experienced anything like them
before.

  When I use View-pdflatex I can see the logo on each slide after the
first. Now that I finished the presentation, I used File-Export-pdflatex
to produce a .pdf on disk. Viewing that with both xpdf and acroread, the
logo is not seen; I'm back to institution-logo across the box. Why? Why
does viewing with pdflatex work but not exporting that way?

  So, I went to CTAN and grabbed all the files in the directory with pdf.sty
and copied those over the existing files in both
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf-1.00/latex/pgf/basiclayer/ and
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/. Now I cannot view or export to plain LaTeX,
pdflatex, or anything.

  Don't know how I got the system so FUBAR, but I need to fix it quickly.

  Anyone with ideas?

Rich

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Re: [OT] the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

[rgheck]

Marcelo Acuña wrote:

hello,

wich is the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

  

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg01541.html

rh

Re: Logo Not Displaying ... FIXED!!

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Serious issues have come up and I've not experienced anything like them
before.


  All fixed.

  I downloaded pgf-2.00 and installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
(other than the context directory). Then I removed the pgf/ and pgf-1.00/
directories there and ran texhash.

  Happy camper now. Whew!

Rich

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Another beamer class issue

[Rich Shepard]

  Now that I have the logo displaying properly and the slides for the
presentation finished, I need to get the navigation tools in acroread
working.

  I can load the pdf file with no problems, but the control icons along the
bottom, right of the screen are not there. There are faint images of the
page, subsection, section, etc. icons, but I cannot page forward and back.

  There is also no tree of slides along the left side; it's a blank window.

  Loading a presentation I created a couple of years ago, the navigation
tree on the left and the forward/back controls work as they should.

  What might have happened to this new file that it doesn't work properly?
There are no errors in the log file. I can send that privately if anyone
wants to see it but it's too large to attach to the message.

  Almost there, but not quite.

TIA,

Rich

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module question - modifying list environment

[James C. Sutherland]

LyX Module Gurus:

I am trying to create a modified List environment where is counter is  
not reset each time the environment begins.  I have created a module  
(attached) that does part of this for me - it creates a new TaskList  
environment in LyX. However, I cannot seem to get the counter to keep  
incrementing - it resets with each instantiation of the environment.


This may be a LaTeX question, since I cannot get it working properly  
in LaTeX either.  I just hope someone out there can shed some light on  
this...


James



tasklist.module
Description: Binary data

Need help creating a Style in a custom layout

[Ryan Warner]

Hello LyX users,

I'm new to TeX, LaTeX, and LyX, but climbing fast.  I'm trying to make
a standardized structured document format for my company.  Right now,
I'm attempting to do this by making a custom LyX layout.

This layout is based on article.cls.  As it happens, if I apply this
style to a line in LyX, the generated output in DVI is what I want.
However, in the GUI the preview is not.  In the GUI I don't get the
prepended Feature: and the text is completely unformatted.  How do I
make the preview in the GUI resemble the output?

Here's my Style entry in my layout file:

Style Feature
LatexType Command
LatexName planfeature
Preamble
\newcommand{\planfeature}[1]{ \section{Feature: #1} }
EndPreamble
End

For that matter, how does LyX know how to display \section{FooBar}
normally?  Does it parse the class and determine the appearance or is
it predefined somewhere?

On the subject of layout files and Style entries.  Looking at the
layouts that come with LyX, there are a lot of options you can use.
Is any of that documented anywhere?  Or is it all learn by example?

-Ryan

Re: Need help creating a Style in a custom layout

[rgheck]

Ryan Warner wrote:

Hello LyX users,

I'm new to TeX, LaTeX, and LyX, but climbing fast.  I'm trying to make
a standardized structured document format for my company.  Right now,
I'm attempting to do this by making a custom LyX layout.

This layout is based on article.cls.  As it happens, if I apply this
style to a line in LyX, the generated output in DVI is what I want.
However, in the GUI the preview is not.  In the GUI I don't get the
prepended Feature: and the text is completely unformatted.  How do I
make the preview in the GUI resemble the output?

Here's my Style entry in my layout file:

Style Feature
LatexType Command
LatexName planfeature
Preamble
\newcommand{\planfeature}[1]{ \section{Feature: #1} }
EndPreamble
End

For that matter, how does LyX know how to display \section{FooBar}
normally?  Does it parse the class and determine the appearance or is
it predefined somewhere?

  
Look at the file stdsections.inc. If you do roughly what's done there, I 
expect you will get the results you want.



On the subject of layout files and Style entries.  Looking at the
layouts that come with LyX, there are a lot of options you can use.
Is any of that documented anywhere?  Or is it all learn by example?

  
It's documented in the Customization manual, chapter 5, I think. See the 
Help menu.


Richard

Re: module question - modifying list environment

[James C. Sutherland]

On May 5, 2009, at 6:06 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote:


LyX Module Gurus:

I am trying to create a modified List environment where is counter  
is not reset each time the environment begins.  I have created a  
module (attached) that does part of this for me - it creates a new  
TaskList environment in LyX. However, I cannot seem to get the  
counter to keep incrementing - it resets with each instantiation of  
the environment.


This may be a LaTeX question, since I cannot get it working properly  
in LaTeX either.  I just hope someone out there can shed some light  
on this...


I have managed to find a solution to this (see attached), although I  
could really benefit from knowing how modules work in more depth.  The  
user manual (Customization Ch. 5) is very terse on this topic!




tasklist.module
Description: Binary data

Re: module question - modifying list environment

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 11:07:13 pm James C. Sutherland wrote:
 On May 5, 2009, at 6:06 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote:
  LyX Module Gurus:
 
  I am trying to create a modified List environment where is counter
  is not reset each time the environment begins.  I have created a
  module (attached) that does part of this for me - it creates a new
  TaskList environment in LyX. However, I cannot seem to get the
  counter to keep incrementing - it resets with each instantiation of
  the environment.
 
  This may be a LaTeX question, since I cannot get it working properly
  in LaTeX either.  I just hope someone out there can shed some light
  on this...

 I have managed to find a solution to this (see attached), although I
 could really benefit from knowing how modules work in more depth.  The
 user manual (Customization Ch. 5) is very terse on this topic!

I'm almost positive both of you should have used LatexType Item_Environment 
in the LyX part of your definitions.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
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Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> in compiling lyx I am told zlib.h is missing.
> I can't find this under 'search' of synaptics (debian lenny)
> How do I get it?
> Wolfgang

Here is my recepy to build LyX-svn on Debian:

 * Update sources `svn update` 
   
   (eventually switch to a another branch, 
   `svn switch svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X`)
 
 * Install all the dependencies with `apt-get build-dep lyx`
   (after installing build-dep via `apt-get install build-dep`).
 
 * Configuration/Automake:
 
   pre-configuration with `autogen.sh`
   
   Without debug-symbols (otherwise the memory on my machine will run out), 
   use suffix (lyx -> lyx16)::
   
./configure --with-version-suffix=16 --enable-build-type=release 

 * make, make install

 * optional: crate a binary tarball::

 Use "make DESTDIR=/tmp/lyx-svn install" and then make an archive of
 everything in /tmp/lyx-svn.


Günter

Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Monday 04 May 2009 20:20:54 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
> Am Monday 04 May 2009 19:21:12 schrieben Sie:
> > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> > > in compiling lyx I am told zlib.h is missing.
> > > I can't find this under 'search' of synaptics (debian lenny)
> >
> > In think you need zlib devel, or something like that.
> >
> > rh
>
> I choose zlib1g and zlib1g-dev and zlibc
> and was asked to accept apt-build
> however I did not, since I am completely unexperienced
>
> fortunately ./configure worked.
> Will see how make and install behaves. Its running
>
> thanks for all the help (its a very kind and patient list, I must say!)
>
> Wolfgang
>
> ps I made it. Good

However, today in trying to use LyX:

the history:
==

1-under Debian lenny I upgraded to Lyx1.6.2 (using a debian Lyx1.6.2 package).
Running a document (koma book) I got this error:
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript
(this message is constantly repeated)

2-I was adviced to replace Ghostscript 8.62 by Ghostscript 8.64.
Since it was not available under lenny, I used Debian squeeze, but things got 
worse because I muddled up my debian lenny linux.

3-Therefore I installed  LyX 1.6.3 hoping that this would help. It did not. In 
running my document I get again:
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

and after a long run lyx disappears and I get:
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions 
in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks !
Bye.

the situation:

I will now run it again under  bug-reporting and report on it.
Before I do it I have tested the Introduction to LyX under help and get
wolfg...@wolfgang:~/Desktop$ lyx -dbg Intro-x.lyx
Setting debug level to Intro-x.lyx
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript 
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

In contrast to my document it stops putting out these errors (only those shown 
above) and LyX does not break down.
There is no output in Latex protocoll. Where would I find the debug report?


the question:

is there anybody in the list who uses Debian lenny and LyX either 1.6.2 or 
later svn versions successfully? Is she/he using Ghostscript 8.64 and from 
where can I get a Debian package?

Thanks for your attention

Wolfgang

Re: Fwd: Encoding problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

ami guru wrote:

> Now i have new error
> 
> LateX Error: CJK.sty not found.

Note that if you do not need CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), you have 
selected the wrong encoding. There is "UTF-8 (CJK)" and "utf-8" (or "Unicode 
(utf8)"). You probably want the latter.

Jürgen

Re: lyx compiling (SVN)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

> However, today in trying to use LyX:

> the history:
>==

> 1-under Debian lenny I upgraded to Lyx1.6.2 (using a debian Lyx1.6.2 package).
> Running a document (koma book) I got this error:
> GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript
> (this message is constantly repeated)

> 2-I was adviced to replace Ghostscript 8.62 by Ghostscript 8.64.
> Since it was not available under lenny, I used Debian squeeze, but things got 
> worse because I muddled up my debian lenny linux.

...

> the question:
>
> is there anybody in the list who uses Debian lenny and LyX either 1.6.2 or 
> later svn versions successfully? Is she/he using Ghostscript 8.64 and from 
> where can I get a Debian package?

I use LyX 1.6.2 and Ghostscript 8.64 from Debian/testing.
You might try to add "testing" to your sources.list and issue
``apt-get update``
``apt-get install ghostscript``.
Or download just the ghostscript package and install with dpkg.

Günter

Re: Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

[Olivier Ripoll]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

tedc wrote:

I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for
stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter
via the keyboard, and plain ("medium") Typewriter for stuff printed by the
computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer
shows that the "bold" text is being rendered as plain; pdf output confirms
this--the text marked as plain Typewriter looks identical to text marked as
Typewriter, Bold. This is on a Linux box (Centos 5.3). What can I do about
this?


Use a typewriter font that provides bold shape (the LaTeX default font, 
computer modern, does not).


I have been using "Latin Modern" in all my docs for a while, and I have 
a "code" character style using plain typewriter and another one 
"filename" using typewriter bold. That works fine (windows XP, lyx 1.6.2).


Best regards,

Olivier



[Document > Settings > Fonts]

Jürgen

Re: Getting aip.bst to work with Lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

BcBob wrote:

I am writing a paper for a physics journal and I want to use the AIP style.
This was not included in the standard list so I downloaded aip.bst from
ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/phy-bstyles/

I placed the file in this directory (I am using Windows XP)
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst\revtex4\

Then I selected Tools|Reconfigure in my Lyx Version 1.5.5 and restarted.
Now, when I click on "Bibtex Generated Bibliography", aip is listed in the
dropdown list under "style" I clicked on OK and on the 'dvi' box. The result
has question marks ? at the citations in the text and no bibliography
appears. If I change the style to, say, 'plain', the citations are present
as os the bibliography list.

I am attaching aip.bst and my Lyx source file.

Any help in getting this to work is appreciated.

Bob
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/DEpaper1.lyx DEpaper1.lyx 


Did you refresh MiKTeX's file database?  LyX being able to find the .bst 
file is not the same as MiKTeX being able to find it (and having it in a 
MiKTeX directory does not guarantee that MiKTeX knows it's there).


If you haven't already done so, run the MiKTeX Settings application and 
in the General tab click "Refresh FNDB".  Then try viewing the DVI 
output.  (You do not need to reconfigure LyX again.)


FWIW, I wouldn't put aip.bst in an existing MiKTeX directory -- if you 
update the RevTeX4 package (or upgrade to a newer version of MiKTeX) 
down the road, you might lose it.  On the Roots tab of the Settings 
application, there should be a "local" root (typically the first one in 
the list) where you can place things not downloaded via MiKTeX's package 
manager.  So I'd put aip.bst in something like \bibtex\bst 
or \bibtex\bst\aip (and then refresh the database).


/Paul

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

[Stefano Franchi]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 08:48:53 am cmira...@kde-france.org wrote:
> Stefano Franchi wrote:
> > Dear Lyxers,
> >
> > I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this
> > list, I thought I could ask anyway.
> >
> > I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my
> > efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low
> > level
> > commands  have produced horrible results. I think it would be easier to
> > modify a font by adding somewhere the three symbols I need.
>
> For simple symbols, I have used a tikz macro. If you can draw the symbol
> with the tikz drawing primitives, it is easier than Metapost. The problam
> with this solution is that it messes with LaTeX spacing algorithm and you
> could get some strange results.
>
> Cheers,
> Charles


Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions, mostly directed toward Metafont I 
had bad memories of Metafont/Post from many years back, but I went back to it 
and did not find it that obscure after all. I am not done yet, but  well on my 
way.

Cheers,

S.


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Re: Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or <> symbols)

[James C. Sutherland]

On May 4, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Jim Rockford wrote:

Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would  
like to

do this quickly in Lyx, so...

What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like

a < S < b
c < T < d

and so forth.  I just need the analog of the usual "3 column"  
equation array
environment so that the various inequality symbols match up  
properly.  In
the above example I want 5 columns instead of the usual 3.  I tried  
to use
the AMS align environment, but had trouble adding the columns (the  
results

came out with way too much spacing).

How do I do this in Lyx?


You could use an array in a regular equation environment.  Then you  
have more control over alignment of each column in the array.

Putting images side by side

[ami guru]

Hello forum,

I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have added
two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.

Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
2 images the same way as above, bur this time

part of the images are cropped.


Any hint on that one?


Regards
Sajjad

Re: Putting images side by side

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Hi Sajjad,

Did you play around with the settings:  scale graphics, set width, set
height  .

You can choose as a % of page height or page column etc...

Double click on the images and fix its specific features...

So, if you have two figures side by side, you need to have 50% and 50% of
the column width.
If you have two figures one over the others, the same story...

Erez


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, ami guru  wrote:

> Hello forum,
>
> I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have
> added
> two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.
>
> Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
> 2 images the same way as above, bur this time
>
> part of the images are cropped.
>
>
> Any hint on that one?
>
>
> Regards
> Sajjad
>



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arrangement issue

[ami guru]

Hello forum,

I have inserted C++ code snippet inside the float:algorithm block and then i
inserted vertical spaces

And then i inserted float:figure, inserted images.


When i preview the in the pdf format the images show up before the code
snippet. I should be vice versa.

Any idea on that one?

What am i missing in the process?


Regards
Sajjad

Re: Putting images side by side

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, ami guru wrote:


Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and
added 2 images the same way as above, bur this time part of the images are
cropped.


Sajjad,

  You probably need to scale the images so they all fit within the typearea
on the page.

Rich

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Re: arrangement issue

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, ami guru wrote:


Any idea on that one?
What am i missing in the process?


  The idea behind a floating image box is that TeX will place it where there
is room and minimal disruption of the text flow. If you want the figure in a
specific location take it out of the float box and fix the location.

Rich

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Fwd: Putting images side by side

[ami guru]

Hello Erez,

Thanks for the feedback,

For the first row i have set  the width to 100 with TextWidht % and i have
included subfigure for both the images
and it worked fine . I inserted horizontal fill before and after each of the
images and Both of them are side by side


Things get messed up if i try to do the very same thing in the next line


Regards
Sajjad






-- Forwarded message --
From: Erez Yerushalmi 
Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: Putting images side by side
To: ami guru 
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org


Hi Sajjad,

Did you play around with the settings:  scale graphics, set width, set
height  .

You can choose as a % of page height or page column etc...

Double click on the images and fix its specific features...

So, if you have two figures side by side, you need to have 50% and 50% of
the column width.
If you have two figures one over the others, the same story...

Erez



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, ami guru  wrote:

> Hello forum,
>
> I have inserted a float figure and then inside the float figute i have
> added
> two graphic objects side by side and it worked fine.
>
> Then i moved to  the second row after putting some vertical space and added
> 2 images the same way as above, bur this time
>
> part of the images are cropped.
>
>
> Any hint on that one?
>
>
> Regards
> Sajjad
>



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PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi

Re: text styles

[Helge Hafting]

Drew Kime wrote:


Does anyone know of a tool that helps in the building of new styles? I've
learned enough Latex to tweak existing styles, etc. but I'm a writer, not a
typesetter. I know my book looks better when I use Lyx/Latex than with
something like OpenOffice, so I'll keep using it. Still, every time I have
to dig into Latex code to change a style, I think about how easy that is to
do in OOo.



Even if a good "style editor" is made, it won't save you from needing 
some latex knowledge. Such a thing can easily save you from having to 
know the format of .layout files though, they  are LyX constructs.


But once you need some special latex command, you still have to know 
that command. Unless someone makes a style editor that knows all of 
latex, which isn't realistic.


Helge Hafting

pdf graphics don't display in lyx 1.6.2

[Brian Guenter]

If I create a figure float and insert a pdf graphic in it using lyx 1.6.2 I 
consistently get an error message saying it can't convert the file to a 
loadable format. The graphic prints fine but it doesn't show up in the Lyx 
editor.

In Lyx 1.6.1 the same pdf file loads and displays in Lyx with no problem. How 
can I fix this?

I'm running Windows XP service pack 3.

-brian

Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal using
the aip.bst style (see the attached file).

Thanks to Paul Rubin's help, I am now able to get Lyx to utilize this to
format the bibliography. 

Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of an
article, not the full page range as required by the journal. BTW, I checked
by bibtex database and all my entries include a full page range and other
styles like unsrt create entries with the page range.

The aip.bst does almost everything I want. So my question is how to modify
it so it uses the full range. Please make answers as explicit as possible
(e.g. suggesting line numbers in the file) as I am a total beginner at
latex, bibtex, etc.

TIA

Bob

http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:

I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal using
the aip.bst style (see the attached file).

Thanks to Paul Rubin's help, I am now able to get Lyx to utilize this to
format the bibliography. 


Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of an
article, not the full page range as required by the journal. BTW, I checked
by bibtex database and all my entries include a full page range and other
styles like unsrt create entries with the page range.

The aip.bst does almost everything I want. So my question is how to modify
it so it uses the full range. Please make answers as explicit as possible
(e.g. suggesting line numbers in the file) as I am a total beginner at
latex, bibtex, etc.

  

Replace this function:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
 " " swap$ * *
 pages empty$
   'skip$
   { duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages.a }
{ ", " * pages first.page * }
 if$
   }
 if$


}

with:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
 " " swap$ * *
 pages empty$
   'skip$
   { duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages }
{ ", " * format.pages }
 if$
   }
 if$


}

That'll get us close. If it still isn't quite right, we'll try again.

rh

Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Xie Chao]

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali wrote:

> This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed
> text
> file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility
> to
> attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
> through Lyx/Latex?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Parul
>
>

Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

BcBob wrote:
> 
> I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal
> using the aip.bst style (see the attached file).
> 
> Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of
> an article, not the full page range as required by the journal. 
> 

rgheck wrote:
> 
> Replace this function:
> 
> FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
> { volume field.or.null embolden
>  " " swap$ * *
>  pages empty$
>'skip$
>{ duplicate$ empty$
> { pop$ format.pages.a }
> { ", " * pages first.page * }
>  if$
>}
>  if$
> 
> 
> }
> 
> with:
> 
> FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
> { volume field.or.null embolden
>  " " swap$ * *
>  pages empty$
>'skip$
>{ duplicate$ empty$
> { pop$ format.pages }
> { ", " * format.pages }
>  if$
>}
>  if$
> 
> 
> } 
> 

That does not work so well. It does change the pages to a range but it
messes up other fields.
I am attaching the original aip.bst, the Lyx file I am using to test
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.lyx DEpaper2.lyx ,
 and a ps file of the output.
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.ps DEpaper2.ps 

http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 

Bob



BcBob wrote:
> 
> 
> BcBob wrote:
>> 
>> I am trying to format a bibliography for a paper to a physics journal
>> using the aip.bst style (see the attached file).
>> 
>> Now the problem is that it looks this style only gives the first page of
>> an article, not the full page range as required by the journal. 
>> 
> 
> rgheck wrote:
>> 
>> Replace this function:
>> 
>> FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
>> { volume field.or.null embolden
>>  " " swap$ * *
>>  pages empty$
>>'skip$
>>{ duplicate$ empty$
>> { pop$ format.pages.a }
>> { ", " * pages first.page * }
>>  if$
>>}
>>  if$
>> 
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> with:
>> 
>> FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
>> { volume field.or.null embolden
>>  " " swap$ * *
>>  pages empty$
>>'skip$
>>{ duplicate$ empty$
>> { pop$ format.pages }
>> { ", " * format.pages }
>>  if$
>>}
>>  if$
>> 
>> 
>> } 
>> 
> 
> That does not work so well. It does change the pages to a range but it
> messes up other fields.
> I am attaching the original aip.bst, the Lyx file I am using to test
>  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.lyx DEpaper2.lyx ,
>  and a ps file of the output.
>  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2803827/DEpaper2.ps DEpaper2.ps 
> 
>  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2791032/aip.bst aip.bst 
> 

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:
In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 

  

Send you bib file, too.

rh

Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[BcBob]

BcBob wrote:
> 
> In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
>  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 

And the bib file

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Re: Modifying a bst file for full page range

[rgheck]

BcBob wrote:

BcBob wrote:
  
In my last email, i forgot to attach the modified file 
 http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2804517/aip2.bst aip2.bst 



OK, try this one:

FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
{ volume field.or.null embolden
" " swap$ * *
pages empty$
'skip$
{ duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ format.pages * }
{ ", " * format.pages * }
if$
}
if$
}

rh

RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Parul Bali]

Many thanks to everyone for their responses.

 

Xie,

 

The `attachfile’ package you suggested works great if I export  lyx file to tex 
format and then convert the tex file to pdflatex. However, if I try converting 
the lyx file  to pdflatex directly, it  throws me an error –  “pdftex error: 
cannot open file for embedding” . 

It doesn’t seem to locate the  file. Any pointers on how to resolve this would 
be very helpful.

 

Thank you.

 

Parul

 

From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 20:09
To: Parul Bali
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali  wrote:

This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text
file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility to
attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
through Lyx/Latex?



Thanks,

Parul

 

RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

[Parul Bali]

To be more specific, it doesn’t seem to locate the file when I specify relative 
path in the Lyx file and try converting it to pdflatex. However, if the same 
lyx file is exported to tex format and then converted to pdflatex, it works 
great.

 

Any help  will be greatly  appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Parul

 

From: Parul Bali [mailto:parul.sarasw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 22:30
To: 'Xie Chao'
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

Many thanks to everyone for their responses.

 

Xie,

 

The `attachfile’ package you suggested works great if I export  lyx file to tex 
format and then convert the tex file to pdflatex. However, if I try converting 
the lyx file  to pdflatex directly, it  throws me an error –  “pdftex error: 
cannot open file for embedding” . 

It doesn’t seem to locate the  file. Any pointers on how to resolve this would 
be very helpful.

 

Thank you.

 

Parul

 

From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2009 20:09
To: Parul Bali
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

 

I guess you are looking for this:
http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF.

Regards,
Xie Chao

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali  wrote:

This may  sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text
file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex?  I have seen facility to
attach documents to PDFs through  Adobe writer.  Is the same possible
through Lyx/Latex?



Thanks,

Parul

 

[OT] the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

[Marcelo Acuña]

hello,

wich is the best method for avoid widow and orphan?

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Re: Logo Not Displaying ... Still

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 3 May 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Exporting to a .tex file (pdflatex) and either using an absolute path for the 
image or putting it in the same directory as the .tex file works here, to the 
extent that the "institution-logo" thing goes away and I get an itsy-bitsy 
logo image (or a decent size one if I substitute a different version of the 
image file, either PNG or PDF).


Paul,

  Serious issues have come up and I've not experienced anything like them
before.

  When I use View->pdflatex I can see the logo on each slide after the
first. Now that I finished the presentation, I used File->Export->pdflatex
to produce a .pdf on disk. Viewing that with both xpdf and acroread, the
logo is not seen; I'm back to "institution-logo" across the box. Why? Why
does viewing with pdflatex work but not exporting that way?

  So, I went to CTAN and grabbed all the files in the directory with pdf.sty
and copied those over the existing files in both
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf-1.00/latex/pgf/basiclayer/ and
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/. Now I cannot view or export to plain LaTeX,
pdflatex, or anything.

  Don't know how I got the system so FUBAR, but I need to fix it quickly.

  Anyone with ideas?

Rich

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