Lyx - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

The recent thread on graphics formats has got me thinking about what 
would might be considered a core (cross platform) toolkit for Lyx users.


I tend to work with Emacs for general note taking etc,  and  Open Office 
when I feel the need for an Office application, and Freemind for 
brainstorming. I also use combination of Zotero and Jabref to manage 
reference material.


Although not really part of a Lyx toolkit most my graphics are generated 
in R. However, sometimes this can be rather tedious. I have recently 
come across matplotlib for python, and am having some success with it, 
but not sure whether I shouldn't focus my efforts on expanding my R skills.


Equally PSTricks given its Latex, may be worth learning as any increased 
understanding of Latex has benefits for using Lyx.


Or is fig a better general purpose option.  For photo editing GIMP, or 
is there a lighter weight option more suited to the tweaks that we need 
to do to prepare a photo for publication.


We seemed spoilt for choice, which is good, but equally rather confusing 
as many programs have similar but different features and many features 
that overlap. And of course I may well have missed the obvious


So would anyone like to suggest a basic Lyx toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers and 
technical reports.  The list of Lyx support programs that you 
automatically install when you get a new computer.


Many thanks,

Graham

Vertical space in math formulas

[Martin Görg]

Hi there,

I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and would 
like to increase the vertical spacing between rows. 

I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the 
help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.

The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But then 
what do I need LyX for?

TIA
Martin
-- 
For emails use cs dot tu-berlin dot de as the domain (behind the at).

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Graham Smith schrieb:

So would anyone like to suggest a basic LyX toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers and 
technical reports.


That strongly depends on your research field. As physicist I use for example 
Origin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(software)
that is only available commercially only for Windows while my colleagues on Linux use a free Origin 
clone like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtiPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDAVis
But the program you are using doesn't matter since you can create PDF images with all these programs 
and use them in LyX.


For illustrations we use Inkscape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
both programs output either PDF or SVG that can be opened and modified with many other programs. For 
exact illustrations containing dimensions you can use a CAD program of your choice. You can create 
PDF images from all CAD programs.


As you can see you are free to use any program you like, only assure that you get your images as a 
vector graphic, if possible as PDF. (Other vector graphics output formats like EPS and SVG can 
easily be converted PDF with free software.)


regards Uwe

Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
 That's good information. A couple years ago I directly used inkscape drawings 
 (after vacuuming the .svg), and things didn't go well at all. I don't 
 remember the specfics. I'll try it again. The less versions of the same 
 diagram, the better. 

one needs not to forget - instant preview on so the external material is visible
and context menu with 'edit' picture, which gets automatically updated when 
changed...

disadvantages - no graphics groups, no separation of scaling for lyx screen and
lyx output.

pavel

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Thanks Uwe,

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.


But its interesting you use Origin rather than some of the open source 
options.


Graham



Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Graham Smith schrieb:

So would anyone like to suggest a basic LyX toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers 
and technical reports.


That strongly depends on your research field. As physicist I use for 
example Origin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(software)
that is only available commercially only for Windows while my 
colleagues on Linux use a free Origin clone like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtiPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDAVis
But the program you are using doesn't matter since you can create PDF 
images with all these programs and use them in LyX.


For illustrations we use Inkscape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
both programs output either PDF or SVG that can be opened and modified 
with many other programs. For exact illustrations containing 
dimensions you can use a CAD program of your choice. You can create 
PDF images from all CAD programs.


As you can see you are free to use any program you like, only assure 
that you get your images as a vector graphic, if possible as PDF. 
(Other vector graphics output formats like EPS and SVG can easily be 
converted PDF with free software.)


regards Uwe


--
Graham M Smith
graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk

Station Cottage, Station Road
Binegar, Somerset
BA3 4UQ

Re: Vertical space in math formulas

[Uwe Stöhr]

Martin Görg schrieb:

I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and would 
like to increase the vertical spacing between rows. 

I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the 
help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.


It is, see sec. 18.1.1 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's Help menu.

The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But then 
what do I need LyX for?


Come on, LyX lacks indeed the feature to specify the line separation directly, but what about all 
the other features?


regards Uwe

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Graham Smith schrieb:

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.


Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.


But its interesting you use Origin rather than some of the open source options.


Because it is simply better and provides much more features.

regards Uwe

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Graham Smith schrieb:

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  
of companion programs for Lyx.


Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.
M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you 
can choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was 
interested in what different people considered to represent a core set 
of companion programs for Lyx.


But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham

Re: Table of Anything! (Customized)

[Marcelo Reis]

Richard Heck wrote:

Marcelo Reis wrote:
Any one know how or where can I find information about creating a 
customized listing of anything?!


Google might help, but the standard reference for this kind of thing 
is /The LaTeX Companion/.


Richard



Guys, I have searched for it on google but I did not find anything usefull.
An example of what I found:
|\addcontentsline{file}{sec_unit}{entry}
But under file option it just accept LOC, LOF, FOT (List of Contents, 
Figures, Tables).

What I'd like to do is specify my own table of something, is it possible?

Thx
Marcelo
|

Re: Vertical space in math formulas

[Martin Görg]

On Sun, 24 May 2009 14:48:17 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and
 would like to increase the vertical spacing between rows.
 
 I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the
 help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.
 
 It is, see sec. 18.1.1 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's Help
 menu.

Ah, great. \jot is exactly what I was looking for. Works a charm.

 The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But
 then what do I need LyX for?
 
 Come on, LyX lacks indeed the feature to specify the line separation
 directly, but what about all the other features?

Yes, sure that was a bit exaggerated. But when it comes to technical 
papers with many formulas, it would be sad if my only option was ERT. 
Luckily, there is the \jot command.

Thanks a lot, Uwe.

Cheers,
Martin
-- 
For emails use cs dot tu-berlin dot de as the domain (behind the at).

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[curtis osterhoudt]

For me it's Mathematica (decidedly *not* free or open-source!) and XFig. Two of 
the strangest programs paired up, but they work for about 99% of the graphics I 
need to produce for LyX. 

   Incidentally, Origin (at least versions 6 and previously; I haven't tried 
yet with the newest) runs just fine under Wine on linux.

   Cheers, 
C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Graham Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:29:21 AM
Subject: Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical 
writing?

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Graham Smith schrieb:
 
 I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
 companion programs for Lyx.
 
 Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.
M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you can 
choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was interested in 
what different people considered to represent a core set of companion programs 
for Lyx.

But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham


  

Re: Table of Anything! (Customized)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Marcelo Reis wrote:
 What I'd like to do is specify my own table of something, is it possible?

If this something is supposed to be in some kind of float, it is easy.Using 
the Layout syntax model from stdfloats.inc (which is in the layouts folder 
of your LyX directory), you can create a file named animals.module which 
looks as follows:

--

#\DeclareLyXModule{Animals}
#DescriptionBegin
#Defines folats and lists of floats for cats and dogs
#DescriptionEnd

Format 11

Float
Typecat
GuiName Cat
Placement   tbp
Extensionloc
NumberWithin  none
Style   plain
ListNameList of Cats
LaTeXBuiltin false
End

Float
Typedog
GuiName Dog
Placement   tbp
Extensionlod
NumberWithin  none
Style   plain
ListNameList of Dogs
LaTeXBuiltin false
End

---

Save this file in a (probably to be created) folder layouts in your LyX user 
directory, run EditReconfigure, restart LyX and select the new module from 
DocumentSettingsModules.

You will find the respective floats and list of floats at the usual place.

HTH,
Jürgen 

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Thanks,

As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't using R, I would 
be using very expensive commercial alternatives, which I still have 
licenses for , but no longer upgrade.


Graham

curtis osterhoudt wrote:
For me it's Mathematica (decidedly *not* free or open-source!) and XFig. Two of the strangest programs paired up, but they work for about 99% of the graphics I need to produce for LyX. 


   Incidentally, Origin (at least versions 6 and previously; I haven't tried 
yet with the newest) runs just fine under Wine on linux.

   Cheers, 
C.O.


 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Graham Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:29:21 AM
Subject: Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical 
writing?

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
  

Graham Smith schrieb:



I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.
  

Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.


M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you can 
choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was interested in 
what different people considered to represent a core set of companion programs 
for Lyx.

But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham


  
  

How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Stefano Franchi]

I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an apostrophe, 
i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although not always,  Lyx 
gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a leftsinglequote in the 
typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I suppose Lyx takes the 
single quote sign as the opening of a quote. 

Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the rightsinglequote 
character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the leftsinglequote. Is 
there a similar trick for its right-handed companion? Perusing the manuals was 
unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong places.

Cheers,

S.





__
Stefano Franchi
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

LFUN to switch focus to outline pane and back

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
in the lfun documentation i see only four lfuns to move the active group 
up or down, resp. in or out.


Are there lfuns which switch the focus from the text panel to the 
outline panel and back.


(I'm just a stubborn key board freak and try to avoid using the mouse 
whenever possible ;-)


TIA

Hellmut

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D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321
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Re: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Michael Joyner]

Insert special charecter: alt+shift+ ?

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an apostrophe, 
 i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although not always,  Lyx 
 gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a leftsinglequote in the 
 typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I suppose Lyx takes the 
 single quote sign as the opening of a quote. 
 
 Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the rightsinglequote 
 character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the leftsinglequote. Is 
 there a similar trick for its right-handed companion? Perusing the manuals 
 was 
 unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong places.
 
 Cheers,
 
 S.
 
 
 
 
 
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 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
 
 

unofficial elyxer 0.23 Debian package

[Sven Hoexter]

Hi,
it will take some time until it will finally hit the archive so I've
decided to place pre-releases of the package on my site. These releases
have a '~pre' version so you'll upgrade automatically to the official
version once it hits the archive.

The package should work without problems on all current Debian flavours
starting with Lenny. Even *buntus and other forks  spin-offs with a Lenny
like base should work.

Enough said, here's the meat:
Source package 
http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/elyxer-pre/elyxer_0.23-1~pre1.dsc
Binary (arch:all) 
http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/elyxer-pre/elyxer_0.23-1~pre1_all.deb


Sven
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forevermore


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Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-24, Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
 That's good information. A couple years ago I directly used inkscape
 drawings (after vacuuming the .svg), and things didn't go well at
 all. I don't remember the specfics. I'll try it again. The less
 versions of the same diagram, the better. 

 one needs not to forget - instant preview on so the external material
 is visible and context menu with 'edit' picture, which gets
 automatically updated when changed...

 disadvantages - no graphics groups, no separation of scaling for lyx
 screen and lyx output.

I use inkscape files successfully with the normal graphics inset
(details in the lyx wiki (search for inkscape in wiki.lyx.org)).

Günter

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[I Wayan Warmada]

--- On Sun, 5/24/09, Graham Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk wrote:

 As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't
 using R, I would be using very expensive commercial alternatives,
 which I still have licenses for , but no longer upgrade.

I use gnuplot either with latex or fig terminal for graphic plot (plotting 
data, etc).

Wayan


  

Re: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Stefano Franchi]

On Sunday 24 May 2009 03:21:22 pm Michael Joyner wrote:
 Insert special charecter: alt+shift+ ?

Thanks---not a very smart question, wasn't it?

Actually, I never thought insert-single quote would  insert the right-handed 
one--I suppose I should brush up my Latex once again. Perhaps I would 
understand why Latex gets the single quotes right most of the times, and why 
sometimes it fails. 

Cheers,

S.


 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an
  apostrophe, i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although
  not always,  Lyx gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a
  leftsinglequote in the typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I
  suppose Lyx takes the single quote sign as the opening of a quote.
 
  Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the
  rightsinglequote character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the
  leftsinglequote. Is there a similar trick for its right-handed companion?
  Perusing the manuals was unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong
  places.
 
  Cheers,
 
  S.
 
 
 
 
 
  __
  Stefano Franchi
  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


__
Stefano Franchi
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: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-25, Stefano Franchi wrote:

 Actually, I never thought insert-single quote would insert the
 right-handed one--I suppose I should brush up my Latex once again.
 Perhaps I would understand why Latex gets the single quotes right most
 of the times, and why sometimes it fails. 

I'd rather recommend to look at the LyX help and the keybindings (under
ToolsSettingsEdit ...). Customizing the keybindings should also solve
the original problem.

To see how LaTeX comes into this, open the source view (ViewSource)
and play with the single and double quotes at different places...

Günter

Re: Table of Content in Book-document style

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-23, Ole Ingemann Kjørmo wrote:

 1.  Why is my Table of Content page empty?(I've inserted TOC in my
 main.lyx file among the other files)

 2.  On some of my pages, the page number apear on top of the page, and there
 is also added CONTENTS on top
 of the same page. Any ideas?

We can only guess without a minimal example!

Looks like you do not use any numbered sections, in this case you will need
to insert the chapters (and set the running heads) per hand, i.e. with raw
LaTeX commands (called ERT in LyX).

The LaTeX FAQ will help with the needed commands.

Günter

Lyx - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

The recent thread on graphics formats has got me thinking about what 
would might be considered a core (cross platform) toolkit for Lyx users.


I tend to work with Emacs for general note taking etc,  and  Open Office 
when I feel the need for an Office application, and Freemind for 
brainstorming. I also use combination of Zotero and Jabref to manage 
reference material.


Although not really part of a Lyx toolkit most my graphics are generated 
in R. However, sometimes this can be rather tedious. I have recently 
come across matplotlib for python, and am having some success with it, 
but not sure whether I shouldn't focus my efforts on expanding my R skills.


Equally PSTricks given its Latex, may be worth learning as any increased 
understanding of Latex has benefits for using Lyx.


Or is fig a better general purpose option.  For photo editing GIMP, or 
is there a lighter weight option more suited to the tweaks that we need 
to do to prepare a photo for publication.


We seemed spoilt for choice, which is good, but equally rather confusing 
as many programs have similar but different features and many features 
that overlap. And of course I may well have missed the obvious


So would anyone like to suggest a basic Lyx toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers and 
technical reports.  The list of Lyx support programs that you 
automatically install when you get a new computer.


Many thanks,

Graham

Vertical space in math formulas

[Martin Görg]

Hi there,

I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and would 
like to increase the vertical spacing between rows. 

I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the 
help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.

The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But then 
what do I need LyX for?

TIA
Martin
-- 
For emails use cs dot tu-berlin dot de as the domain (behind the at).

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Graham Smith schrieb:

So would anyone like to suggest a basic LyX toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers and 
technical reports.


That strongly depends on your research field. As physicist I use for example 
Origin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(software)
that is only available commercially only for Windows while my colleagues on Linux use a free Origin 
clone like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtiPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDAVis
But the program you are using doesn't matter since you can create PDF images with all these programs 
and use them in LyX.


For illustrations we use Inkscape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
both programs output either PDF or SVG that can be opened and modified with many other programs. For 
exact illustrations containing dimensions you can use a CAD program of your choice. You can create 
PDF images from all CAD programs.


As you can see you are free to use any program you like, only assure that you get your images as a 
vector graphic, if possible as PDF. (Other vector graphics output formats like EPS and SVG can 
easily be converted PDF with free software.)


regards Uwe

Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
 That's good information. A couple years ago I directly used inkscape drawings 
 (after vacuuming the .svg), and things didn't go well at all. I don't 
 remember the specfics. I'll try it again. The less versions of the same 
 diagram, the better. 

one needs not to forget - instant preview on so the external material is visible
and context menu with 'edit' picture, which gets automatically updated when 
changed...

disadvantages - no graphics groups, no separation of scaling for lyx screen and
lyx output.

pavel

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Thanks Uwe,

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.


But its interesting you use Origin rather than some of the open source 
options.


Graham



Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Graham Smith schrieb:

So would anyone like to suggest a basic LyX toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers 
and technical reports.


That strongly depends on your research field. As physicist I use for 
example Origin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(software)
that is only available commercially only for Windows while my 
colleagues on Linux use a free Origin clone like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtiPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDAVis
But the program you are using doesn't matter since you can create PDF 
images with all these programs and use them in LyX.


For illustrations we use Inkscape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
both programs output either PDF or SVG that can be opened and modified 
with many other programs. For exact illustrations containing 
dimensions you can use a CAD program of your choice. You can create 
PDF images from all CAD programs.


As you can see you are free to use any program you like, only assure 
that you get your images as a vector graphic, if possible as PDF. 
(Other vector graphics output formats like EPS and SVG can easily be 
converted PDF with free software.)


regards Uwe


--
Graham M Smith
graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk

Station Cottage, Station Road
Binegar, Somerset
BA3 4UQ

Re: Vertical space in math formulas

[Uwe Stöhr]

Martin Görg schrieb:

I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and would 
like to increase the vertical spacing between rows. 

I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the 
help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.


It is, see sec. 18.1.1 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's Help menu.

The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But then 
what do I need LyX for?


Come on, LyX lacks indeed the feature to specify the line separation directly, but what about all 
the other features?


regards Uwe

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Graham Smith schrieb:

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.


Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.


But its interesting you use Origin rather than some of the open source options.


Because it is simply better and provides much more features.

regards Uwe

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Graham Smith schrieb:

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  
of companion programs for Lyx.


Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.
M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you 
can choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was 
interested in what different people considered to represent a core set 
of companion programs for Lyx.


But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham

Re: Table of Anything! (Customized)

[Marcelo Reis]

Richard Heck wrote:

Marcelo Reis wrote:
Any one know how or where can I find information about creating a 
customized listing of anything?!


Google might help, but the standard reference for this kind of thing 
is /The LaTeX Companion/.


Richard



Guys, I have searched for it on google but I did not find anything usefull.
An example of what I found:
|\addcontentsline{file}{sec_unit}{entry}
But under file option it just accept LOC, LOF, FOT (List of Contents, 
Figures, Tables).

What I'd like to do is specify my own table of something, is it possible?

Thx
Marcelo
|

Re: Vertical space in math formulas

[Martin Görg]

On Sun, 24 May 2009 14:48:17 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and
 would like to increase the vertical spacing between rows.
 
 I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the
 help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.
 
 It is, see sec. 18.1.1 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's Help
 menu.

Ah, great. \jot is exactly what I was looking for. Works a charm.

 The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But
 then what do I need LyX for?
 
 Come on, LyX lacks indeed the feature to specify the line separation
 directly, but what about all the other features?

Yes, sure that was a bit exaggerated. But when it comes to technical 
papers with many formulas, it would be sad if my only option was ERT. 
Luckily, there is the \jot command.

Thanks a lot, Uwe.

Cheers,
Martin
-- 
For emails use cs dot tu-berlin dot de as the domain (behind the at).

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[curtis osterhoudt]

For me it's Mathematica (decidedly *not* free or open-source!) and XFig. Two of 
the strangest programs paired up, but they work for about 99% of the graphics I 
need to produce for LyX. 

   Incidentally, Origin (at least versions 6 and previously; I haven't tried 
yet with the newest) runs just fine under Wine on linux.

   Cheers, 
C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Graham Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:29:21 AM
Subject: Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical 
writing?

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Graham Smith schrieb:
 
 I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
 companion programs for Lyx.
 
 Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.
M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you can 
choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was interested in 
what different people considered to represent a core set of companion programs 
for Lyx.

But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham


  

Re: Table of Anything! (Customized)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Marcelo Reis wrote:
 What I'd like to do is specify my own table of something, is it possible?

If this something is supposed to be in some kind of float, it is easy.Using 
the Layout syntax model from stdfloats.inc (which is in the layouts folder 
of your LyX directory), you can create a file named animals.module which 
looks as follows:

--

#\DeclareLyXModule{Animals}
#DescriptionBegin
#Defines folats and lists of floats for cats and dogs
#DescriptionEnd

Format 11

Float
Typecat
GuiName Cat
Placement   tbp
Extensionloc
NumberWithin  none
Style   plain
ListNameList of Cats
LaTeXBuiltin false
End

Float
Typedog
GuiName Dog
Placement   tbp
Extensionlod
NumberWithin  none
Style   plain
ListNameList of Dogs
LaTeXBuiltin false
End

---

Save this file in a (probably to be created) folder layouts in your LyX user 
directory, run EditReconfigure, restart LyX and select the new module from 
DocumentSettingsModules.

You will find the respective floats and list of floats at the usual place.

HTH,
Jürgen 

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Thanks,

As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't using R, I would 
be using very expensive commercial alternatives, which I still have 
licenses for , but no longer upgrade.


Graham

curtis osterhoudt wrote:
For me it's Mathematica (decidedly *not* free or open-source!) and XFig. Two of the strangest programs paired up, but they work for about 99% of the graphics I need to produce for LyX. 


   Incidentally, Origin (at least versions 6 and previously; I haven't tried 
yet with the newest) runs just fine under Wine on linux.

   Cheers, 
C.O.


 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Graham Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:29:21 AM
Subject: Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical 
writing?

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
  

Graham Smith schrieb:



I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.
  

Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.


M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you can 
choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was interested in 
what different people considered to represent a core set of companion programs 
for Lyx.

But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham


  
  

How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Stefano Franchi]

I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an apostrophe, 
i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although not always,  Lyx 
gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a leftsinglequote in the 
typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I suppose Lyx takes the 
single quote sign as the opening of a quote. 

Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the rightsinglequote 
character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the leftsinglequote. Is 
there a similar trick for its right-handed companion? Perusing the manuals was 
unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong places.

Cheers,

S.





__
Stefano Franchi
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

LFUN to switch focus to outline pane and back

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
in the lfun documentation i see only four lfuns to move the active group 
up or down, resp. in or out.


Are there lfuns which switch the focus from the text panel to the 
outline panel and back.


(I'm just a stubborn key board freak and try to avoid using the mouse 
whenever possible ;-)


TIA

Hellmut

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Degenfeldstraße 2 tel   +49-89-3081172
D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321
please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq

Re: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Michael Joyner]

Insert special charecter: alt+shift+ ?

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an apostrophe, 
 i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although not always,  Lyx 
 gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a leftsinglequote in the 
 typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I suppose Lyx takes the 
 single quote sign as the opening of a quote. 
 
 Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the rightsinglequote 
 character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the leftsinglequote. Is 
 there a similar trick for its right-handed companion? Perusing the manuals 
 was 
 unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong places.
 
 Cheers,
 
 S.
 
 
 
 
 
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 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
 
 

unofficial elyxer 0.23 Debian package

[Sven Hoexter]

Hi,
it will take some time until it will finally hit the archive so I've
decided to place pre-releases of the package on my site. These releases
have a '~pre' version so you'll upgrade automatically to the official
version once it hits the archive.

The package should work without problems on all current Debian flavours
starting with Lenny. Even *buntus and other forks  spin-offs with a Lenny
like base should work.

Enough said, here's the meat:
Source package 
http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/elyxer-pre/elyxer_0.23-1~pre1.dsc
Binary (arch:all) 
http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/elyxer-pre/elyxer_0.23-1~pre1_all.deb


Sven
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Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-24, Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
 That's good information. A couple years ago I directly used inkscape
 drawings (after vacuuming the .svg), and things didn't go well at
 all. I don't remember the specfics. I'll try it again. The less
 versions of the same diagram, the better. 

 one needs not to forget - instant preview on so the external material
 is visible and context menu with 'edit' picture, which gets
 automatically updated when changed...

 disadvantages - no graphics groups, no separation of scaling for lyx
 screen and lyx output.

I use inkscape files successfully with the normal graphics inset
(details in the lyx wiki (search for inkscape in wiki.lyx.org)).

Günter

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[I Wayan Warmada]

--- On Sun, 5/24/09, Graham Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk wrote:

 As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't
 using R, I would be using very expensive commercial alternatives,
 which I still have licenses for , but no longer upgrade.

I use gnuplot either with latex or fig terminal for graphic plot (plotting 
data, etc).

Wayan


  

Re: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Stefano Franchi]

On Sunday 24 May 2009 03:21:22 pm Michael Joyner wrote:
 Insert special charecter: alt+shift+ ?

Thanks---not a very smart question, wasn't it?

Actually, I never thought insert-single quote would  insert the right-handed 
one--I suppose I should brush up my Latex once again. Perhaps I would 
understand why Latex gets the single quotes right most of the times, and why 
sometimes it fails. 

Cheers,

S.


 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an
  apostrophe, i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although
  not always,  Lyx gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a
  leftsinglequote in the typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I
  suppose Lyx takes the single quote sign as the opening of a quote.
 
  Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the
  rightsinglequote character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the
  leftsinglequote. Is there a similar trick for its right-handed companion?
  Perusing the manuals was unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong
  places.
 
  Cheers,
 
  S.
 
 
 
 
 
  __
  Stefano Franchi
  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


__
Stefano Franchi
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: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-25, Stefano Franchi wrote:

 Actually, I never thought insert-single quote would insert the
 right-handed one--I suppose I should brush up my Latex once again.
 Perhaps I would understand why Latex gets the single quotes right most
 of the times, and why sometimes it fails. 

I'd rather recommend to look at the LyX help and the keybindings (under
ToolsSettingsEdit ...). Customizing the keybindings should also solve
the original problem.

To see how LaTeX comes into this, open the source view (ViewSource)
and play with the single and double quotes at different places...

Günter

Re: Table of Content in Book-document style

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-23, Ole Ingemann Kjørmo wrote:

 1.  Why is my Table of Content page empty?(I've inserted TOC in my
 main.lyx file among the other files)

 2.  On some of my pages, the page number apear on top of the page, and there
 is also added CONTENTS on top
 of the same page. Any ideas?

We can only guess without a minimal example!

Looks like you do not use any numbered sections, in this case you will need
to insert the chapters (and set the running heads) per hand, i.e. with raw
LaTeX commands (called ERT in LyX).

The LaTeX FAQ will help with the needed commands.

Günter

Lyx - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

The recent thread on graphics formats has got me thinking about what 
would might be considered a core (cross platform) toolkit for Lyx users.


I tend to work with Emacs for general note taking etc,  and  Open Office 
when I feel the need for an "Office" application, and Freemind for 
brainstorming. I also use combination of Zotero and Jabref to manage 
reference material.


Although not really part of a Lyx toolkit most my graphics are generated 
in R. However, sometimes this can be rather tedious. I have recently 
come across matplotlib for python, and am having some success with it, 
but not sure whether I shouldn't focus my efforts on expanding my R skills.


Equally PSTricks given its Latex, may be worth learning as any increased 
understanding of Latex has benefits for using Lyx.


Or is fig a better general purpose option.  For photo editing GIMP, or 
is there a lighter weight option more suited to the tweaks that we need 
to do to prepare a photo for publication.


We seemed spoilt for choice, which is good, but equally rather confusing 
as many programs have similar but different features and many features 
that overlap. And of course I may well have missed the obvious


So would anyone like to suggest a basic Lyx toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers and 
technical reports.  The list of "Lyx support" programs that you 
automatically install when you get a new computer.


Many thanks,

Graham

Vertical space in math formulas

[Martin Görg]

Hi there,

I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and would 
like to increase the vertical spacing between rows. 

I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the 
help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.

The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But then 
what do I need LyX for?

TIA
Martin
-- 
For emails use cs dot tu-berlin dot de as the domain (behind the at).

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Graham Smith schrieb:

So would anyone like to suggest a basic LyX toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers and 
technical reports.


That strongly depends on your research field. As physicist I use for example 
Origin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(software)
that is only available commercially only for Windows while my colleagues on Linux use a free Origin 
clone like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtiPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDAVis
But the program you are using doesn't matter since you can create PDF images with all these programs 
and use them in LyX.


For illustrations we use Inkscape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
both programs output either PDF or SVG that can be opened and modified with many other programs. For 
exact illustrations containing dimensions you can use a CAD program of your choice. You can create 
PDF images from all CAD programs.


As you can see you are free to use any program you like, only assure that you get your images as a 
vector graphic, if possible as PDF. (Other vector graphics output formats like EPS and SVG can 
easily be converted PDF with free software.)


regards Uwe

Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
> That's good information. A couple years ago I directly used inkscape drawings 
> (after "vacuuming" the .svg), and things didn't go well at all. I don't 
> remember the specfics. I'll try it again. The less versions of the same 
> diagram, the better. 

one needs not to forget - instant preview on so the external material is visible
and context menu with 'edit' picture, which gets automatically updated when 
changed...

disadvantages - no graphics groups, no separation of scaling for lyx screen and
lyx output.

pavel

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Thanks Uwe,

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.


But its interesting you use Origin rather than some of the open source 
options.


Graham



Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Graham Smith schrieb:

So would anyone like to suggest a basic LyX toolkit, that would cover 
the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers 
and technical reports.


That strongly depends on your research field. As physicist I use for 
example Origin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(software)
that is only available commercially only for Windows while my 
colleagues on Linux use a free Origin clone like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtiPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabPlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDAVis
But the program you are using doesn't matter since you can create PDF 
images with all these programs and use them in LyX.


For illustrations we use Inkscape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
both programs output either PDF or SVG that can be opened and modified 
with many other programs. For exact illustrations containing 
dimensions you can use a CAD program of your choice. You can create 
PDF images from all CAD programs.


As you can see you are free to use any program you like, only assure 
that you get your images as a vector graphic, if possible as PDF. 
(Other vector graphics output formats like EPS and SVG can easily be 
converted PDF with free software.)


regards Uwe


--
Graham M Smith
graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk

Station Cottage, Station Road
Binegar, Somerset
BA3 4UQ

Re: Vertical space in math formulas

[Uwe Stöhr]

Martin Görg schrieb:

I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and would 
like to increase the vertical spacing between rows. 

I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the 
help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.


It is, see sec. 18.1.1 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's Help menu.

The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But then 
what do I need LyX for?


Come on, LyX lacks indeed the feature to specify the line separation directly, but what about all 
the other features?


regards Uwe

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Graham Smith schrieb:

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.


Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.


But its interesting you use Origin rather than some of the open source options.


Because it is simply better and provides much more features.

regards Uwe

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Graham Smith schrieb:

I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  
of companion programs for Lyx.


Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.
M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you 
can choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was 
interested in what different people considered to represent a core set 
of companion programs for Lyx.


But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham

Re: Table of Anything! (Customized)

[Marcelo Reis]

Richard Heck wrote:

Marcelo Reis wrote:
Any one know how or where can I find information about creating a 
customized listing of anything?!


Google might help, but the standard reference for this kind of thing 
is /The LaTeX Companion/.


Richard



Guys, I have searched for it on google but I did not find anything usefull.
An example of what I found:
|\addcontentsline{file}{sec_unit}{entry}
But under file option it just accept LOC, LOF, FOT (List of Contents, 
Figures, Tables).

What I'd like to do is specify my own table of something, is it possible?

Thx
Marcelo
|

Re: Vertical space in math formulas

[Martin Görg]

On Sun, 24 May 2009 14:48:17 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>> I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and
>> would like to increase the vertical spacing between rows.
>> 
>> I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the
>> help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything.
> 
> It is, see sec. 18.1.1 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's Help
> menu.

Ah, great. \jot is exactly what I was looking for. Works a charm.

>> The only solution I see ATM is to write the whole thing in ERT. But
>> then what do I need LyX for?
> 
> Come on, LyX lacks indeed the feature to specify the line separation
> directly, but what about all the other features?

Yes, sure that was a bit exaggerated. But when it comes to technical 
papers with many formulas, it would be sad if my only option was ERT. 
Luckily, there is the \jot command.

Thanks a lot, Uwe.

Cheers,
Martin
-- 
For emails use cs dot tu-berlin dot de as the domain (behind the at).

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[curtis osterhoudt]

For me it's Mathematica (decidedly *not* free or open-source!) and XFig. Two of 
the strangest programs paired up, but they work for about 99% of the graphics I 
need to produce for LyX. 

   Incidentally, Origin (at least versions 6 and previously; I haven't tried 
yet with the newest) runs just fine under Wine on linux.

   Cheers, 
C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Graham Smith 
To: LyX Users List 
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:29:21 AM
Subject: Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical 
writing?

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Graham Smith schrieb:
> 
>> I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
>> companion programs for Lyx.
> 
> Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.
M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you can 
choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was interested in 
what different people considered to represent a core set of companion programs 
for Lyx.

But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham


  

Re: Table of Anything! (Customized)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Marcelo Reis wrote:
> What I'd like to do is specify my own table of something, is it possible?

If this "something" is supposed to be in some kind of float, it is easy.Using 
the Layout syntax model from stdfloats.inc (which is in the "layouts" folder 
of your LyX directory), you can create a file named "animals.module" which 
looks as follows:

--

#\DeclareLyXModule{Animals}
#DescriptionBegin
#Defines folats and lists of floats for cats and dogs
#DescriptionEnd

Format 11

Float
Typecat
GuiName Cat
Placement   tbp
Extensionloc
NumberWithin  none
Style   plain
ListName"List of Cats"
LaTeXBuiltin false
End

Float
Typedog
GuiName Dog
Placement   tbp
Extensionlod
NumberWithin  none
Style   plain
ListName"List of Dogs"
LaTeXBuiltin false
End

---

Save this file in a (probably to be created) folder "layouts" in your LyX user 
directory, run Edit>Reconfigure, restart LyX and select the new module from 
Document>Settings>Modules.

You will find the respective floats and list of floats at the usual place.

HTH,
Jürgen 

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[Graham Smith]

Thanks,

As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't using R, I would 
be using very expensive commercial alternatives, which I still have 
licenses for , but no longer upgrade.


Graham

curtis osterhoudt wrote:
For me it's Mathematica (decidedly *not* free or open-source!) and XFig. Two of the strangest programs paired up, but they work for about 99% of the graphics I need to produce for LyX. 


   Incidentally, Origin (at least versions 6 and previously; I haven't tried 
yet with the newest) runs just fine under Wine on linux.

   Cheers, 
C.O.


 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Graham Smith 
To: LyX Users List 
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:29:21 AM
Subject: Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical 
writing?

Uwe

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
  

Graham Smith schrieb:



I conclude  that you don't think  there is no obvious  core toolkit  of 
companion programs for Lyx.
  

Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best.


M,  I think now that you misunderstood my question, its because you can 
choose what suits you best and there is so much choice that I was interested in 
what different people considered to represent a core set of companion programs 
for Lyx.

But it was only an idle thought as I was reviewing the programs I use.

Graham


  
  

How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Stefano Franchi]

I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an apostrophe, 
i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although not always,  Lyx 
gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a leftsinglequote in the 
typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I suppose Lyx takes the 
single quote sign as the opening of a quote. 

Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the rightsinglequote 
character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the leftsinglequote. Is 
there a similar trick for its right-handed companion? Perusing the manuals was 
unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong places.

Cheers,

S.





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

LFUN to switch focus to outline pane and back

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
in the lfun documentation i see only four lfuns to move the active group 
up or down, resp. in or out.


Are there lfuns which switch the focus from the text panel to the 
outline panel and back.


(I'm just a stubborn key board freak and try to avoid using the mouse 
whenever possible ;-)


TIA

Hellmut

--
Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de
Degenfeldstraße 2 tel   +49-89-3081172
D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321
please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq

Re: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Michael Joyner]

Insert special charecter: alt+shift+" ?

Stefano Franchi wrote:
> I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an apostrophe, 
> i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although not always,  Lyx 
> gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a leftsinglequote in the 
> typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I suppose Lyx takes the 
> single quote sign as the opening of a quote. 
> 
> Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the rightsinglequote 
> character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the leftsinglequote. Is 
> there a similar trick for its right-handed companion? Perusing the manuals 
> was 
> unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong places.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> S.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> __
> Stefano Franchi
> Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
> Texas A University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
> 305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
> College Station, TX 77843-4237
> 
> 

unofficial elyxer 0.23 Debian package

[Sven Hoexter]

Hi,
it will take some time until it will finally hit the archive so I've
decided to place pre-releases of the package on my site. These releases
have a '~pre' version so you'll upgrade automatically to the official
version once it hits the archive.

The package should work without problems on all current Debian flavours
starting with Lenny. Even *buntus and other forks & spin-offs with a Lenny
like base should work.

Enough said, here's the meat:
Source package 
http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/elyxer-pre/elyxer_0.23-1~pre1.dsc
Binary (arch:all) 
http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/elyxer-pre/elyxer_0.23-1~pre1_all.deb


Sven
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Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-24, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
>> That's good information. A couple years ago I directly used inkscape
>> drawings (after "vacuuming" the .svg), and things didn't go well at
>> all. I don't remember the specfics. I'll try it again. The less
>> versions of the same diagram, the better. 

> one needs not to forget - instant preview on so the external material
> is visible and context menu with 'edit' picture, which gets
> automatically updated when changed...

> disadvantages - no graphics groups, no separation of scaling for lyx
> screen and lyx output.

I use inkscape files successfully with the "normal" graphics inset
(details in the lyx wiki (search for inkscape in wiki.lyx.org)).

Günter

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

[I Wayan Warmada]

--- On Sun, 5/24/09, Graham Smith  wrote:

> As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't
> using R, I would be using very expensive commercial alternatives,
> which I still have licenses for , but no longer upgrade.

I use gnuplot either with latex or fig terminal for graphic plot (plotting 
data, etc).

Wayan


  

Re: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Stefano Franchi]

On Sunday 24 May 2009 03:21:22 pm Michael Joyner wrote:
> Insert special charecter: alt+shift+" ?

Thanks---not a very smart question, wasn't it?

Actually, I never thought insert-single quote would  insert the right-handed 
one--I suppose I should brush up my Latex once again. Perhaps I would 
understand why Latex gets the single quotes right most of the times, and why 
sometimes it fails. 

Cheers,

S.

>
> Stefano Franchi wrote:
> > I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an
> > apostrophe, i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although
> > not always,  Lyx gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a
> > leftsinglequote in the typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I
> > suppose Lyx takes the single quote sign as the opening of a quote.
> >
> > Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the
> > rightsinglequote character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the
> > leftsinglequote. Is there a similar trick for its right-handed companion?
> > Perusing the manuals was unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong
> > places.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > S.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > __
> > Stefano Franchi
> > Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
> > Texas A University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
> > 305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
> > College Station, TX 77843-4237


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

Re: How to force LyX to use the apostrophe (singlequote)?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-25, Stefano Franchi wrote:

> Actually, I never thought insert-single quote would insert the
> right-handed one--I suppose I should brush up my Latex once again.
> Perhaps I would understand why Latex gets the single quotes right most
> of the times, and why sometimes it fails. 

I'd rather recommend to look at the LyX help and the keybindings (under
Tools>Settings>Edit ...). Customizing the keybindings should also solve
the original problem.

To see how LaTeX comes into this, open the source view (View>Source)
and play with the single and double quotes at different places...

Günter

Re: Table of Content in Book-document style

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-05-23, Ole Ingemann Kjørmo wrote:

> 1.  Why is my Table of Content page empty?(I've inserted TOC in my
> main.lyx file among the other files)

> 2.  On some of my pages, the page number apear on top of the page, and there
> is also added "CONTENTS" on top
> of the same page. Any ideas?

We can only guess without a minimal example!

Looks like you do not use any numbered sections, in this case you will need
to insert the chapters (and set the running heads) "per hand", i.e. with raw
LaTeX commands (called ERT in LyX).

The LaTeX FAQ will help with the needed commands.

Günter