Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Pau lI thank you for bringing the beamer(article) to my attention. That is very handy for me as well. I can see that if I insert some branches, then I can really customize which material is included in the article output. Nice! Yes, its a superb capability, I was also hoping to use the branches feature as I give similar lectures to different courses and the branches feature would allow me to quickly customise the content. To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile That means we need to make the change either in the preamble or in the lyx layout or latex style file. Blech. I started to think there has to be a better way and this way seems to do it. \oddsidemargin 0.0in \textwidth 6.0in %%testing: does following have any effect? %%\evensidemargin 0.0in Yes, this was my next step, but was hoping to avoid commenting code in and out in the preamble, but its not really a problem. I continue to be amazed at how brilliantly useful Lyx/Latex is :-) Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile I didn't follow this discussion in all detail, but wouldn't the use of a portmanteau beamer-article master solve this? See: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations#toc7 Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Paul Johnson wrote: I am sorry if I am telling you something you already know, but... thanks for info (i know basically nothing about tikz) It seems to me you are throwing away the value of TikZ by doing this. Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. this makes the _proper_ support of tikz by lyx much harder (if you want instant preview). But you won't get an in-document preview in LyX without a bit of messing about. I think that's where the other guy who refers you to the Dia code has a good idea. I've tried to figure that part out, but no solution yet. We need a way to tell LyX to pass the Tikz figure code straight through to LaTeX, but we also want an on-screen preview of what that will be like. But it is inherently impossible to get a preview of what that will be like without compiling the whole document. A conundrum for me. i see three possibilities: - one possibility would be to make external template which tries to the instant preview from the included file only. it will work 100% for typeset output, preview will work for figures and somewhat unreliably for the documents i guess. (but as noted previously this maybe does not need external template at all for the tikz case.) - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. - enhance the lyx code for external templates itself; more possibilities then -dump the preamble for your scritp somewhere (some tag like ParentPreamble dumpfile.tmp) -make some particular command for preview generation etc. pavel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote:
i see three possibilities:
- one possibility would be to make external template which tries to
the instant preview from the included file only. it will work 100%
for typeset output, preview will work for figures and somewhat unreliably
for the documents i guess.
(but as noted previously this maybe does not need external template at
all for the tikz case.)
- to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the
preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview
and output.
- enhance the lyx code for external templates itself; more possibilities
then -dump the preamble for your scritp somewhere (some tag like
ParentPreamble dumpfile.tmp) -make some particular command for preview
generation etc.
The problem is that instant-preview (and most notably dvipng) do not support
pgf/tikz properly yet.
You can put your tikz figures in an external tex file and \input that (this is
how I handle my tikz figures). This works very well, however, if you activate
Preview for the include inset, you'll get a very garbled preview.
IMHO the only way to go is an external inset that
* outputs \input{myfigure.tiks} to LaTeX
and
* uses the graphics approach for the preview.
I think this should be possible with the current external templates approach.
Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
IMHO the only way to go is an external inset that
* outputs \input{myfigure.tiks} to LaTeX
and
* uses the graphics approach for the preview.
I think this should be possible with the current external templates approach.
and the parent preamble?
pavel
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
zweetsmoel wrote: for your information, when i compile lyx (either 1.6.1/2/3), i get this info when finished: as a last resort you can try to compile qt's locally and install them into eg ~/tree/. then configure lyx for qt's having in ~/tree/ , probably also with install prefix to ~/tree/. compile it, install and run from ~/tree/bin/lyx. its of course waste of resources, but if nothing else helps... pavel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. I don't think the document will ever compile because of the duplicate preambles and such that the latex system encounters. pavel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote: I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. I don't think the document will ever compile because of the duplicate preambles and such that the latex system encounters. I thought Paul's concerns only apply to the document output, not the preview. I would not mind if the preview would not use the font of the document output. My point was: having instant preview should not be at the cost of the output quality, thus the splitted approach (original LaTeX code for the output, graphics for the preview [only]). Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric): http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/tikz/process/ But as said, I would use that for preview only, not for the output. Jürgen
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it gotta be qt related. but what exactly? i tried removing re-installing all qt packages and many others; and i wasn't able to find duplicate qt libs, but i'm not really an expert in libs and devs. OK, since we are both using Ubuntu 9.04 our ldd's should be pretty much the same*. I have put my my results from ldd below, what are yours? * I have installed qt4.5.2, which may change some of the 0x stuff. If you get other wise similar results, a sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. -- $ ldd `which lyx` linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff88ffe000) libaspell.so.15 = /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0x7ff580af5000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x7ff5808f1000) libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0x7ff5806d9000) libQtGui.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0x7ff57fb26000) libQtCore.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0x7ff57f6ef000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7ff57f3e2000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x7ff57f15d000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7ff57ef45000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x7ff57ebd3000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff57e9b7000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x7ff57e6b) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7ff580db3000) libaudio.so.2 = /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0x7ff57e497000) libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x7ff57e27) libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x7ff57dfea000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57dda4000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x7ff57db9b000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x7ff57d98) libglib-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57d6bb000) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x7ff57d4b1000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x7ff57d27f000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x7ff57d06d000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57ce68000) librt.so.1 = /lib/librt.so.1 (0x7ff57cc6) libxcb.so.1 = /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x7ff57ca44000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x7ff57c7de000) libpcre.so.3 = /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x7ff57c5ae000) libuuid.so.1 = /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x7ff57c3a9000) libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x7ff57c17f000) libXau.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x7ff57bf7c000) libXdmcp.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x7ff57bd77000) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: you get other wise similar results, a sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. By which I mean sudo apt-get install libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-phonon libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns --reinstall (all on one line)
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric): http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/tikz/process/ in a case some of the intersted people write and test the external template we could include it with this script in a proper lyx release. But as said, I would use that for preview only, not for the output. this would be fine with me. pavel
Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing
This is worth posting to the wiki, if you're so inclined. Well, I can do this. Which wiki section should I post to? Intel drivers for the older chips are currently broken and in most cases unusable. So all in all I doubt this is somehow relevant for LyX it's more of a general issue. Yes, it is a general driver-issue, but the one and only application on my PC that is so severly affected (it was in fact almost unusable) is Lyx. As far as I know, Opera and Mathematica also use Qt somehow (and Lyx is build upon Qt, isn't it?), but I didn't experience any problems with them. So I guess that the problem has something to do with the way Lyx uses Qt rendering engine.
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some sort on the .lyx file. E.g.: sed -e 's/ that / \n\n\\emph on\nthat\n\\emph default\n /g' t.lyx tt.lyx is a dumb sed one-liner that almost does it. rh Thanks, Richard
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote: To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile I'm with my namesake on this one. In LyX 1.6.3, if I start a document and make it article (beamer), or switch an existing file to article (beamer), both page size and margins are grayed out and I'm stuck with class defaults. The article (beamer) layout file loads the presentation (beamer) layout, so it's possible something in the latter blocks changes to paper size and margin (sensible since Beamer is designed specifically to produce 128mm x 96mm slides), and that something may also be blocking margin/size changes in article (beamer) mode. I can't see anything in the layout file that would be the culprit, though. I'll see if I can track this down as time permits. I'm not sure that helps Graham, though, since he seems to be able to change the margins (?? -- I didn't understand what was going on there, since I cannot reproduce it here). /Paul
Re: Find All and Emphasize
Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Bruce -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it gotta be qt related. but what exactly? i tried removing re-installing all qt packages and many others; and i wasn't able to find duplicate qt libs, but i'm not really an expert in libs and devs. OK, since we are both using Ubuntu 9.04 our ldd's should be pretty much the same*. I have put my my results from ldd below, what are yours? * I have installed qt4.5.2, which may change some of the 0x stuff. If you get other wise similar results, a sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. -- $ ldd `which lyx` linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff88ffe000) libaspell.so.15 = /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0x7ff580af5000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x7ff5808f1000) libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0x7ff5806d9000) libQtGui.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0x7ff57fb26000) libQtCore.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0x7ff57f6ef000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7ff57f3e2000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x7ff57f15d000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7ff57ef45000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x7ff57ebd3000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff57e9b7000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x7ff57e6b) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7ff580db3000) libaudio.so.2 = /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0x7ff57e497000) libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x7ff57e27) libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x7ff57dfea000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57dda4000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x7ff57db9b000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x7ff57d98) libglib-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57d6bb000) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x7ff57d4b1000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x7ff57d27f000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x7ff57d06d000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57ce68000) librt.so.1 = /lib/librt.so.1 (0x7ff57cc6) libxcb.so.1 = /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x7ff57ca44000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x7ff57c7de000) libpcre.so.3 = /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x7ff57c5ae000) libuuid.so.1 = /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x7ff57c3a9000) libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x7ff57c17f000) libXau.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x7ff57bf7c000) libXdmcp.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x7ff57bd77000) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted issue has been resolved! by running: ldd `which lyx` in a shell, i was able to see that libQtCore.so.4 was loaded from /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, which suggests duplicate and wrong usage of libs. deleting two qt-lib files residing at /usr/local/lib actually resolved the issue. i must have missed those files when i searched for duplicate libs yesterday. and as andre suggested it was indeed a system install issue. most important of all, lyx is working again, i just checked it. same goes for qt-config and smplayer :) you guys are great. thanks a lot. regards, michael
Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?
On 11.08.2009, at 23:48, Phil wrote: You might also try excel2latex I can also recommend excel2latex. I used it quite a lot when I was writing my thesis. The nice thing about it is that it also preserves a sensible part of the formattings (e.g., bold headlines, right aligned data, ...). The following process worked pretty well for me: (1) Open an empty, but compilable LaTeX document (ou may export an empty LyX document to LaTeX to get one) in your favorite text editor. (2) Use excel2latex to copy the marked part of the Excel table as LaTeX code into the clipboard. (3) Paste the table into the LaTeX document and save the document. (4) Import the LaTeX document into LyX. (5) Copy the table from the imported LyX document into the target document. Daniel
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote:
Paul
That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I
don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is
to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact
or in parallel development). I don't think it's really intended to
reproduce slides in slide-like form (although I could be wrong), and
in any case it seems to be overkill for handouts (unless maybe you
mean to annotate the handouts a fair bit).
Ah, but we have a fundamental misunderstanding. The reason I started
using Beamer was the very fact that I could prepare slides and lecture
notes (article) in parallel. I don't want a print out of the slides in
a slide-like form. I use the slide content as an outline for my
lecture, but expand on this (with more text than you would want to put
on the slides), and additional diagrams, examples, reference list etc as
a class hand out. So students get properly written (and illustrated)
hand outs, for my lectures.
In fact it was this capability that brought me to latex/beamer in the
first place after a plea on various forums for any ideas on how I could
keep my handouts and presentations in sync so I didn't have to try and
keep two documents (Powerpoint and Word) up to date and in sync. But
Beamer became available in Lyx before I managed to develop any real
expertise in Latex, even though I had started to rewrite all my lecture
material in Latex
I have put up with the wide margins up to now, but it seems a waste of
paper, and it would be useful to allow diagrams and graphs to expand
across the full page width.
Am I in the wrong place? A simple handout option would be nice. This
is 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 9.04
In this case, just type the word 'handout' (no quotes) in the Custom
field and then View-PDF (pdflatex). What you get is a bunch of
slides, one per page, same margins as the original.
Ahh, now that is still useful, as I still produce a single copy like
this for myself (as a guide for my lecture), but do it by commenting in
and out the following lines in the preamble (lifted from one of my
original Latex presentations)
%\usepackage{pgfpages}
%\pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=2mm]
%\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black!1}
%\setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]
Now that we aren't talking at cross purposes :-), have you any
suggestions on my original question.
I could of course add a line for the margins in the preamble that I
comment out and in depending on the output, but I was hoping for
something a bit more automated than that.
Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed
to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe
you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I
could not reproduce your results.
If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file
is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your
local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable
you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same
as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing
presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link
that Jürgen provided.
/Paul
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[article]{article (beamer)}
# Author: Jürgen Spitzmüller j.spitzmuel...@gmx.de
Format 11
# Includes
Input beamer.layout
Provides geometry 0
Provides hyperref 0
Preamble
\usepackage{beamerarticle,pgf}
% this default might be overridden by plain title style
\newcommand\makebeamertitle{\frame{\maketitle}}%
\AtBeginDocument{
\let\origtableofcontents=\tableofcontents
\def\tableofcontent...@ifnextchar[{\origtableofcontents}{\gobbletableofcontents}}
\def\gobbletableofcontents#1{\origtableofcontents}
}
EndPreamble
# Frame control definition
Style BeginFrame
# This redefinition is needed to make beamerarticle work
Preamble
\makeatletter
\long\def\lyxframe#...@lyxframe#1\@lyxframestop}%
\d...@lyxframe{\@ifnextchar{\@@lyxframe}{\@@lyxframe*}}%
\def\@@lyxframe#1{...@ifnextchar[{\@@@lyxframe#1}{\@@@lyxframe#1[]}}
\def\@@@lyxframe#1[...@ifnextchar{\@lyxframe#1[}{\lyxframe#1[*][}}
\def\@lyxframe#1[#2...@ifnextchar[{\lyxframe#1[#2]}{\lyxframe#1[#2][]}}
\long\def\lyxframe#1[#2][#3]...@lyxframestop#5\lyxframeend{%
\frame#1[#3]{\frametitle{#4}#5}}
\makeatother
EndPreamble
End
biblatex installation
Paul Johnson wrote: You did not make a complete install of biblatex. It is much more than just that one style file. In linux, these are the installed files from biblatex: usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex/bibtoolrsc /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex/winansi_no.csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex/latin1_se.csf I see that Paul has listed it with the biblatex folder placed in /usr/share/texmf, while I had it in /usr/share/texmf-texlive, since I use the Texlive Latex. Should I move it to the /usr/share/texmf? It really would make life simpler for us peasants if there were an installation script that used some default placement of the biblatex folder and its flotilla of other programs. -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, The laboratory of Visual Computational Neuroscience Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural Chemical Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place NY, NY, 10029
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:34:54 zweetsmoel wrote: issue has been resolved! by running: ldd `which lyx` in a shell, i was able to see that libQtCore.so.4 was loaded from /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, which suggests duplicate and wrong usage of libs. deleting two qt-lib files residing at /usr/local/lib actually resolved the issue. i must have missed those files when i searched for duplicate libs yesterday. and as andre suggested it was indeed a system install issue. most important of all, lyx is working again, i just checked it. same goes for qt-config and smplayer :) you guys are great. thanks a lot. regards, michael That's some nice troubleshooting Michael! And all the others who helped you get to that point. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Bruce Thanks, Erez. That should save me some time.
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
On 13.08.2009, at 06:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Lohmanndaniel.lohm...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Hi, So here is what I want to achieve: I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the source, but the PDF/EPS via \includegraphics) into my LyX document in a way that (1) the LyX-Preview does work (2) PDF generation does work, and (3) the .tikz-file is opened in vim when I select Edit externally... I am sorry if I am telling you something you already know, but... It seems to me you are throwing away the value of TikZ by doing this. Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. I don't think the document will ever compile because of the duplicate preambles and such that the latex system encounters. On the other hand, if the TikZ file is just the TikZ figure, then I'd be more optimistic. But I don't think it is wise to convert the tikz to pdf and embed that with includegraphics. Rather, I think you just want to include the tikz code itself. You can just use input on the TikZ figure itself. If you put that inside a LyX floating graphic or a minipage, it just works in the final processing. In Lyx, choose Insert File Child Document and then choose your tikz text file. As long as it is just the figure, it is all good. I've just tested it, and it does work. But you won't get an in-document preview in LyX without a bit of messing about. I think that's where the other guy who refers you to the Dia code has a good idea. I've tried to figure that part out, but no solution yet. We need a way to tell LyX to pass the Tikz figure code straight through to LaTeX, but we also want an on-screen preview of what that will be like. But it is inherently impossible to get a preview of what that will be like without compiling the whole document. A conundrum for me. Paul, Your comments are very valid, but I intentionally want to have the possibility to compile the TikZ-figures externally and embedd them as PDF: - TikZ can increase compilation times *dramatically*. If you embed dozens of nontrivial TikZ figures as code into your document, compilation of your LyX document may take minutes instead of seconds. - During the development of the TikZ figures (a time-consuming process of its own) I need to compile and debug them stand alone with short roundtrip times. - PDF images are much easier to scale (to, e.g, pagewidth) - Regarding the font (and styles and colors...) issue: I solve it by setting that up in a common preamble that is \input'ed into the LyX document and the TikZ figures. However, on some (rare) occasions I *want* to have different fonts in the figure than in the document. This, again, is easy to achieve via the PDF route, but requires quite same hacking if the figure is embedded into the source. In fact, I can imagine only one situation I would prefer embedding TikZ figures by source: If they contain references into other parts of the document (such as clicking on a TikZ node should bring you to page 212 or you refer to some bibliography item within the figure). Daniel
About the position of footnotes and page numbers
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page numbers? How? My text is 20 cm. high x 30 cm. width, horizontal format. The margins are 3 cm. inside an 7 cm. outside. Is possible to make that the footnotes and the page numbers appears out of this margins? (with a margin of 3 cm. outside for both of them). Regards Antonio
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. Then you got lucky...unless you had the newlines in there, too. You usually do need to be careful about that. rh
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
On 12.08.2009, at 09:53, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-08-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: that mean that it is *not possible* to achieve goal (1) (the preview in LyX, everything else works) via file formats and converters only? unless imagemagick convert utility knows how to deal with it (i think it doesn't) i'm not aware of such a plain route. As the tkiz - PDF (ps2pdf) conversion seems to work, the problem should be solvable with a definition for PDF (ps2pdf) - PNG. I think I am going to try this. The point is that I still do not understand why this possibly could help! - As far as I understand PDF (ps2pdf) is just the default PDF- Format (pdf1). - LyX is able to create previews from files in this format automagically. Or am I mistaken here? I am still seeking for a definite answer regarding the conversion route that to my understanding is automatically deduced by LyX (TiKZ -- PDF | PDF -- Preview). It seem that (newer?) versions of LyX just pass everything right through to ImageMagik and do not bother with deducing a conversion route? Daniel
Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers
On 08/13/2009 12:39 PM, Antonio Díaz wrote:
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script*
First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on
the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it
possible?
Yes, but I don't really know how. It's possible there's a package on
ctan to do this. If so, then use it.
If not, then you could try defining some LaTeX command that looks like a
footnote, but acts like a margin note. Very roughly:
\newcounter{footmarg}
\newcommand{\margfoot}[1]{\refstepcounter{footmarg}\marginpar{\arabic{footmarg}.
#1}}
Then, if you don't want footnotes at all:
\let\footnote=\margfoot
This will not always work, I expect, but it ought to get you started.
Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page numbers?
How? My text is 20 cm. high x 30 cm. width, horizontal format. The margins
are 3 cm. inside an 7 cm. outside. Is possible to make that the footnotes
and the page numbers appears out of this margins? (with a margin of 3 cm.
outside for both of them).
Use the fancyhdr package, for which LyX has some support.
rh
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
On 13.08.2009, at 11:22, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Pavel Sanda wrote:
- to make a python script which would take the parent document
dumps the
preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both
preview
and output.
Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric):
http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/tikz/process/
in a case some of the intersted people write and test the external
template
we could include it with this script in a proper lyx release.
The real problem is to get the preamble right. Because TikZ is a huge
package that has a noticeable impact on LaTeX compilation times (and
memory consumption), it is pretty well modularized into multiple
libraries. A typical preamble for a TikZ figure looks as follows:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fit,positioning,shapes,shapes.multipart, depends on
what you actually use in the figure}
With the external-template mechanism, as far as I understand it, the
additional stuff for the preamble can only be hard-code in the
template and not be examined (e.g. by invoking some script) for the
actual TikZ figures to embed.
Daniel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Daniel Lohmann wrote:
The real problem is to get the preamble right. Because TikZ is a huge
package that has a noticeable impact on LaTeX compilation times (and
memory consumption), it is pretty well modularized into multiple
libraries. A typical preamble for a TikZ figure looks as follows:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fit,positioning,shapes,shapes.multipart, depends on
what you actually use in the figure}
With the external-template mechanism, as far as I understand it, the
additional stuff for the preamble can only be hard-code in the
template and not be examined (e.g. by invoking some script) for the
actual TikZ figures to embed.
Actually, the script tries to parse the tex file and copy the preamble to the
file which is used for generating the preview. It only falls back to a
hardcoded preamble if it cannot find the tex file.
For the LyX usage, such a script would need to take care that there is
actually a tex file. Also, the script should perform the compilation in the
temp directory, not in the home directory.
So I think the referred script can only serve as a model for what LyX would
use (and actually, the license of the script is not ideal for inclusion in
LyX).
Jürgen
Spellchecker problem
Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces - Language - Spellchecker and browse the es_ES.pws file on Personal Dictionary box. When I try to run the spellchecker the following error appears: The Spellchecker could not be started. No word list can be found for the language es_ES. How can I set up this? Bests -- CdeB
Re: Find All and Emphasize
Yes, you are right!!! On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:43 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. Then you got lucky...unless you had the newlines in there, too. You usually do need to be careful about that. rh -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 11, rgheck did say: On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't work that way for me... --- snip --- Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the windowmanager? This shouldn't be WM dependent, except in so far as the WM might steal keypresses. But I can't see that that's very likely here. Do other alt-p options work? Yes, I tried to guess what would open a chapter and found out that alt+P[c] = lyx code... I think if the paragraph layout selection combo isn't displayed, then the shortcut Alt-p+space won't work. It's displayed or not? I'm not quite sure what the paragraph layout selection combo is, but if you mean that long list of possible keystrokes that display on the status line when I first press alt+P then yes... FWIW, I stuck with kde 3.5.x for a long time, but am pretty happy with kde 4.2.x and expect to be a lot happier with kede 4.3.x. There are differences but most of what you're accustomed to can be done now. I will admit that I found kde 4.2 less difficult to deal with than 4.1... However a few things that kde 4x crammed down my throat so offended me that had I not found a window manager that I suits me, I was actually considering going back to winblows over it. (And I've been bashing them since ver 3.x) Example: as a keyboard user who has always needed to make many changes to the global (and application) keybindings to a)eliminate the 75% that I never want to fat finger by mistake. b)assign bindings that my fingers can remember to the few I do use. And given that I have difficulty using the rodent, I found that altering the gui key assignment routine for KEYBOARD shortcuts in such a way that it was no longer practical to do this without clicking on things REALLY bugged me... Then I discovered Enlightenment, and now not even a permanent reinstatement of kde 3.5's user interface would tempt me back. I still install kde versions of linux because I'm accustomed to certain kde applications, and because few (if any) linux distro have enlightenment version installation dvd. Note, I was not happy with the gui tool to assign shortcuts in e17 either, and would still be using e16 (where the global shortcuts are actually in a vim editable config...) as my preferred WM in spite of e17's enhancements except that some nice person informed me of an e17 utility (enlightenment_remote) and gave me a copy of a bash script (e17_setup.sh) which uses enlightenment_remote to automatically save and restore many e17 configurations to/from a vim editable re-config script... -- | --- ___ | 0 - Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ jtw...@ttlc.net
RE: Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 12, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say:
Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the windowmanager?
Then you'd really have to try the Windows windowmanager :)
Now I'm feeling nauseous...
--
| ~^~ ~^~
| o oJoe (theWordy) Philbrook
| ^ J(tWdy)P
|~\___/~ jtw...@ttlc.net
| { snicker }
Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7
Hi all, I have a small problem with my still almost clean setup of LyX 1.6.3 (installed with LyXWinInstaller) on Windows 7 Pro (x64) and Acrobat 8.1.x. If I click the View PDF button, the PDF file is generated in the temp folder, but nothing much happens. Well, nothing visible at least - in taskmgr, an acrobat.exe process does appear and eats up more than 50% CPU (and, no matter which document I convert, around 15MB of RAM). Even if I leave this running for an extended period of time, nothing happens. Opening Acrobat beforehand does not help. I can open the generated PDF any other way without problems though. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks, Thomas
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
Yes, I tried to guess what would open a chapter and found out that alt+P[c] = lyx code... Sorry, I have to tell you: alt+P[0] = Part, [1] = Chapter, [2] = Section, [3] = SubSection, etc. alt+P*[0] = Part*, [1] = Chapter*, [2] = Section*, [3] = SubSection*, etc. Now I'm feeling nauseous... Sorry. Vincent
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P space) From what I can tell, this is true only if the standard toolbar has been visible in the relevant window at some time in the past -- at least on Mac. If as I do (and Joe apparently does) you set your ui file not to load the standard toolbar, then Alt-Pspace does nothing. But once you make the toolbar visible and then invisible, Alt-Pspace does its magic. Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them... Wait, let me guess, perhaps there is some mouse centric technique to temporarily hide them if you know just where/how to click/drag them? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | ? ? Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |\___/ jtw...@ttlc.net
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link that Jürgen provided. I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Thanks for your help. Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Jürgen Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile I didn't follow this discussion in all detail, but wouldn't the use of a portmanteau beamer-article master solve this? See: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations#toc7 Indeed this does seem to be a solution :-) Many thanks, Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link that Jürgen provided. I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your ~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? That's the only explanation I can come up with. FWIW, with my modified layout file, if I switch from presentation (beamer) (where page size and margins are locked) to article (beamer), page size and margins are unlocked and I can change them. If I then switch back to presentation (beamer), the page size and margin revert to Beamer defaults and are locked, as you would wish. So I don't know why they did not revert for you, but then again I don't know why you were able to change them in the first place. I've tested this on Win XP with LyX 1.6.3 but not yet on Ubuntu. Since it's a layout file issue, I doubt that it will behave differently on Ubuntu, but then it's one of those should not be possible things in the first place.
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link that Jürgen provided. I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your ~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? That's the only explanation I can come up with. FWIW, with my modified layout file, if I switch from presentation (beamer) (where page size and margins are locked) to article (beamer), page size and margins are unlocked and I can change them. If I then switch back to presentation (beamer), the page size and margin revert to Beamer defaults and are locked, as you would wish. So I don't know why they did not revert for you, but then again I don't know why you were able to change them in the first place. I've tested this on Win XP with LyX 1.6.3 but not yet on Ubuntu. Since it's a layout file issue, I doubt that it will behave differently on Ubuntu, but then it's one of those should not be possible things in the first place. Just checked Ubuntu 9.04 -- same thing as Windows. No control over page size/margins with the old article (beamer) layout, and the new layout switches (and switches back) correctly.
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
On 08/13/2009 02:05 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them... ViewToolbars? rh
I need HELP!
I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! best regards, Marek Kociński
Re: I need HELP!
On 08/13/2009 03:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! We need a lot more information to help you. What kind of computer you are using, which version of LyX, how you installed it, etc, just to start. rh
Re: I need HELP!
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! Try the following, Marek: Tools -- Preferences -- File Handling -- Select the appropriate format and change the corresponding viewer. Paul
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your ~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? This is fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, on an HD that did have Windows on it, but I installed Ubuntu to use the entire disc. Lyx was installed with synaptic and I haven't hacked/edited/changed any aspect of Lyx, so I have no idea why it isn't working as it should, especially as your other post says that its greyed out on you copy of Ubuntu. Graham
Re: Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7
Hi all, the topic posted right after this (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg75792.html) just got me checking my file format associations, and voilà, there I see that not pdfview, but acrobat is set as the PDF viewer. I don't know why the installer set this wrong, but now that I replaced it with pdfview, everything works fine... Thomas
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
On 13/08/2009 20:05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-Pspace) From what I can tell, this is true only if the standard toolbar has been visible in the relevant window at some time in the past -- at least on Mac. If as I do (and Joe apparently does) you set your ui file not to load the standard toolbar, then Alt-Pspace does nothing. But once you make the toolbar visible and then invisible, Alt-Pspace does its magic. Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them... Wait, let me guess, perhaps there is some mouse centric technique to temporarily hide them if you know just where/how to click/drag them? What about F11 to switch to full screen view? Abdel.
Re: Spellchecker problem
Christian Bustamante wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces - Language - Spellchecker and browse the es_ES.pws file on Personal Dictionary box. When I try to run the spellchecker the following error appears: The Spellchecker could not be started. No word list can be found for the language es_ES. How can I set up this? Bests Can't help you with this Christian, but I have the same problem on a windows box. I set my language preferences to English (UK) and when I attempt to spell check, get a message that states it can't find a word list for en_US so that's a bit weird. I didn't want to bother anyone with it because I am out of here as quickly as possible. But my version of LyX is 1.6.3 MiKTeX 2.7 So am using word at the moment. Disclaimer [ am not a windows user - just happen to be using it while waiting for a new hard drive to be sent because the one in my Linux box went belly up.] Maybe an answer to you may also help me, though the problem seems different. Be well, Charlie
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 13, rgheck did say: ViewToolbars? I remember it used to be there in ver 1.5.6... But I can't find it in ver 1.6.3 But thanks... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | * * Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ jtw...@ttlc.net
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 13, Abdelrazak Younes did say: What about F11 to switch to full screen view? Thanks for the idea Abdel. And I almost like it. But I keep my LyX window only almost maximized because I keep track of the time with a clock gadget that full screen view would hide... -- |^^^ ^^^ |o o Joe (theWordy) Philbrook |^J(tWdy)P | ___jtw...@ttlc.net | | sigh
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Pau lI thank you for bringing the beamer(article) to my attention. That is very handy for me as well. I can see that if I insert some branches, then I can really customize which material is included in the article output. Nice! Yes, its a superb capability, I was also hoping to use the branches feature as I give similar lectures to different courses and the branches feature would allow me to quickly customise the content. To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile That means we need to make the change either in the preamble or in the lyx layout or latex style file. Blech. I started to think there has to be a better way and this way seems to do it. \oddsidemargin 0.0in \textwidth 6.0in %%testing: does following have any effect? %%\evensidemargin 0.0in Yes, this was my next step, but was hoping to avoid commenting code in and out in the preamble, but its not really a problem. I continue to be amazed at how brilliantly useful Lyx/Latex is :-) Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile I didn't follow this discussion in all detail, but wouldn't the use of a portmanteau beamer-article master solve this? See: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations#toc7 Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Paul Johnson wrote: I am sorry if I am telling you something you already know, but... thanks for info (i know basically nothing about tikz) It seems to me you are throwing away the value of TikZ by doing this. Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. this makes the _proper_ support of tikz by lyx much harder (if you want instant preview). But you won't get an in-document preview in LyX without a bit of messing about. I think that's where the other guy who refers you to the Dia code has a good idea. I've tried to figure that part out, but no solution yet. We need a way to tell LyX to pass the Tikz figure code straight through to LaTeX, but we also want an on-screen preview of what that will be like. But it is inherently impossible to get a preview of what that will be like without compiling the whole document. A conundrum for me. i see three possibilities: - one possibility would be to make external template which tries to the instant preview from the included file only. it will work 100% for typeset output, preview will work for figures and somewhat unreliably for the documents i guess. (but as noted previously this maybe does not need external template at all for the tikz case.) - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. - enhance the lyx code for external templates itself; more possibilities then -dump the preamble for your scritp somewhere (some tag like ParentPreamble dumpfile.tmp) -make some particular command for preview generation etc. pavel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote:
i see three possibilities:
- one possibility would be to make external template which tries to
the instant preview from the included file only. it will work 100%
for typeset output, preview will work for figures and somewhat unreliably
for the documents i guess.
(but as noted previously this maybe does not need external template at
all for the tikz case.)
- to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the
preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview
and output.
- enhance the lyx code for external templates itself; more possibilities
then -dump the preamble for your scritp somewhere (some tag like
ParentPreamble dumpfile.tmp) -make some particular command for preview
generation etc.
The problem is that instant-preview (and most notably dvipng) do not support
pgf/tikz properly yet.
You can put your tikz figures in an external tex file and \input that (this is
how I handle my tikz figures). This works very well, however, if you activate
Preview for the include inset, you'll get a very garbled preview.
IMHO the only way to go is an external inset that
* outputs \input{myfigure.tiks} to LaTeX
and
* uses the graphics approach for the preview.
I think this should be possible with the current external templates approach.
Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
IMHO the only way to go is an external inset that
* outputs \input{myfigure.tiks} to LaTeX
and
* uses the graphics approach for the preview.
I think this should be possible with the current external templates approach.
and the parent preamble?
pavel
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
zweetsmoel wrote: for your information, when i compile lyx (either 1.6.1/2/3), i get this info when finished: as a last resort you can try to compile qt's locally and install them into eg ~/tree/. then configure lyx for qt's having in ~/tree/ , probably also with install prefix to ~/tree/. compile it, install and run from ~/tree/bin/lyx. its of course waste of resources, but if nothing else helps... pavel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. I don't think the document will ever compile because of the duplicate preambles and such that the latex system encounters. pavel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote: I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. I don't think the document will ever compile because of the duplicate preambles and such that the latex system encounters. I thought Paul's concerns only apply to the document output, not the preview. I would not mind if the preview would not use the font of the document output. My point was: having instant preview should not be at the cost of the output quality, thus the splitted approach (original LaTeX code for the output, graphics for the preview [only]). Jürgen
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric): http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/tikz/process/ But as said, I would use that for preview only, not for the output. Jürgen
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it gotta be qt related. but what exactly? i tried removing re-installing all qt packages and many others; and i wasn't able to find duplicate qt libs, but i'm not really an expert in libs and devs. OK, since we are both using Ubuntu 9.04 our ldd's should be pretty much the same*. I have put my my results from ldd below, what are yours? * I have installed qt4.5.2, which may change some of the 0x stuff. If you get other wise similar results, a sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. -- $ ldd `which lyx` linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff88ffe000) libaspell.so.15 = /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0x7ff580af5000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x7ff5808f1000) libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0x7ff5806d9000) libQtGui.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0x7ff57fb26000) libQtCore.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0x7ff57f6ef000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7ff57f3e2000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x7ff57f15d000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7ff57ef45000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x7ff57ebd3000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff57e9b7000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x7ff57e6b) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7ff580db3000) libaudio.so.2 = /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0x7ff57e497000) libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x7ff57e27) libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x7ff57dfea000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57dda4000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x7ff57db9b000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x7ff57d98) libglib-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57d6bb000) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x7ff57d4b1000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x7ff57d27f000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x7ff57d06d000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57ce68000) librt.so.1 = /lib/librt.so.1 (0x7ff57cc6) libxcb.so.1 = /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x7ff57ca44000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x7ff57c7de000) libpcre.so.3 = /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x7ff57c5ae000) libuuid.so.1 = /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x7ff57c3a9000) libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x7ff57c17f000) libXau.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x7ff57bf7c000) libXdmcp.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x7ff57bd77000) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: you get other wise similar results, a sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. By which I mean sudo apt-get install libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-phonon libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns --reinstall (all on one line)
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric): http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/tikz/process/ in a case some of the intersted people write and test the external template we could include it with this script in a proper lyx release. But as said, I would use that for preview only, not for the output. this would be fine with me. pavel
Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing
This is worth posting to the wiki, if you're so inclined. Well, I can do this. Which wiki section should I post to? Intel drivers for the older chips are currently broken and in most cases unusable. So all in all I doubt this is somehow relevant for LyX it's more of a general issue. Yes, it is a general driver-issue, but the one and only application on my PC that is so severly affected (it was in fact almost unusable) is Lyx. As far as I know, Opera and Mathematica also use Qt somehow (and Lyx is build upon Qt, isn't it?), but I didn't experience any problems with them. So I guess that the problem has something to do with the way Lyx uses Qt rendering engine.
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some sort on the .lyx file. E.g.: sed -e 's/ that / \n\n\\emph on\nthat\n\\emph default\n /g' t.lyx tt.lyx is a dumb sed one-liner that almost does it. rh Thanks, Richard
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote: To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile I'm with my namesake on this one. In LyX 1.6.3, if I start a document and make it article (beamer), or switch an existing file to article (beamer), both page size and margins are grayed out and I'm stuck with class defaults. The article (beamer) layout file loads the presentation (beamer) layout, so it's possible something in the latter blocks changes to paper size and margin (sensible since Beamer is designed specifically to produce 128mm x 96mm slides), and that something may also be blocking margin/size changes in article (beamer) mode. I can't see anything in the layout file that would be the culprit, though. I'll see if I can track this down as time permits. I'm not sure that helps Graham, though, since he seems to be able to change the margins (?? -- I didn't understand what was going on there, since I cannot reproduce it here). /Paul
Re: Find All and Emphasize
Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Bruce -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it gotta be qt related. but what exactly? i tried removing re-installing all qt packages and many others; and i wasn't able to find duplicate qt libs, but i'm not really an expert in libs and devs. OK, since we are both using Ubuntu 9.04 our ldd's should be pretty much the same*. I have put my my results from ldd below, what are yours? * I have installed qt4.5.2, which may change some of the 0x stuff. If you get other wise similar results, a sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. -- $ ldd `which lyx` linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff88ffe000) libaspell.so.15 = /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0x7ff580af5000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x7ff5808f1000) libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0x7ff5806d9000) libQtGui.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0x7ff57fb26000) libQtCore.so.4 = /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0x7ff57f6ef000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7ff57f3e2000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x7ff57f15d000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7ff57ef45000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x7ff57ebd3000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff57e9b7000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x7ff57e6b) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7ff580db3000) libaudio.so.2 = /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0x7ff57e497000) libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x7ff57e27) libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x7ff57dfea000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57dda4000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x7ff57db9b000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x7ff57d98) libglib-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57d6bb000) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x7ff57d4b1000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x7ff57d27f000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x7ff57d06d000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x7ff57ce68000) librt.so.1 = /lib/librt.so.1 (0x7ff57cc6) libxcb.so.1 = /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x7ff57ca44000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x7ff57c7de000) libpcre.so.3 = /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x7ff57c5ae000) libuuid.so.1 = /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x7ff57c3a9000) libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x7ff57c17f000) libXau.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x7ff57bf7c000) libXdmcp.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x7ff57bd77000) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted issue has been resolved! by running: ldd `which lyx` in a shell, i was able to see that libQtCore.so.4 was loaded from /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, which suggests duplicate and wrong usage of libs. deleting two qt-lib files residing at /usr/local/lib actually resolved the issue. i must have missed those files when i searched for duplicate libs yesterday. and as andre suggested it was indeed a system install issue. most important of all, lyx is working again, i just checked it. same goes for qt-config and smplayer :) you guys are great. thanks a lot. regards, michael
Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?
On 11.08.2009, at 23:48, Phil wrote: You might also try excel2latex I can also recommend excel2latex. I used it quite a lot when I was writing my thesis. The nice thing about it is that it also preserves a sensible part of the formattings (e.g., bold headlines, right aligned data, ...). The following process worked pretty well for me: (1) Open an empty, but compilable LaTeX document (ou may export an empty LyX document to LaTeX to get one) in your favorite text editor. (2) Use excel2latex to copy the marked part of the Excel table as LaTeX code into the clipboard. (3) Paste the table into the LaTeX document and save the document. (4) Import the LaTeX document into LyX. (5) Copy the table from the imported LyX document into the target document. Daniel
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote:
Paul
That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I
don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is
to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact
or in parallel development). I don't think it's really intended to
reproduce slides in slide-like form (although I could be wrong), and
in any case it seems to be overkill for handouts (unless maybe you
mean to annotate the handouts a fair bit).
Ah, but we have a fundamental misunderstanding. The reason I started
using Beamer was the very fact that I could prepare slides and lecture
notes (article) in parallel. I don't want a print out of the slides in
a slide-like form. I use the slide content as an outline for my
lecture, but expand on this (with more text than you would want to put
on the slides), and additional diagrams, examples, reference list etc as
a class hand out. So students get properly written (and illustrated)
hand outs, for my lectures.
In fact it was this capability that brought me to latex/beamer in the
first place after a plea on various forums for any ideas on how I could
keep my handouts and presentations in sync so I didn't have to try and
keep two documents (Powerpoint and Word) up to date and in sync. But
Beamer became available in Lyx before I managed to develop any real
expertise in Latex, even though I had started to rewrite all my lecture
material in Latex
I have put up with the wide margins up to now, but it seems a waste of
paper, and it would be useful to allow diagrams and graphs to expand
across the full page width.
Am I in the wrong place? A simple handout option would be nice. This
is 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 9.04
In this case, just type the word 'handout' (no quotes) in the Custom
field and then View-PDF (pdflatex). What you get is a bunch of
slides, one per page, same margins as the original.
Ahh, now that is still useful, as I still produce a single copy like
this for myself (as a guide for my lecture), but do it by commenting in
and out the following lines in the preamble (lifted from one of my
original Latex presentations)
%\usepackage{pgfpages}
%\pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=2mm]
%\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black!1}
%\setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]
Now that we aren't talking at cross purposes :-), have you any
suggestions on my original question.
I could of course add a line for the margins in the preamble that I
comment out and in depending on the output, but I was hoping for
something a bit more automated than that.
Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed
to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe
you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I
could not reproduce your results.
If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file
is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your
local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable
you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same
as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing
presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link
that Jürgen provided.
/Paul
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[article]{article (beamer)}
# Author: Jürgen Spitzmüller j.spitzmuel...@gmx.de
Format 11
# Includes
Input beamer.layout
Provides geometry 0
Provides hyperref 0
Preamble
\usepackage{beamerarticle,pgf}
% this default might be overridden by plain title style
\newcommand\makebeamertitle{\frame{\maketitle}}%
\AtBeginDocument{
\let\origtableofcontents=\tableofcontents
\def\tableofcontent...@ifnextchar[{\origtableofcontents}{\gobbletableofcontents}}
\def\gobbletableofcontents#1{\origtableofcontents}
}
EndPreamble
# Frame control definition
Style BeginFrame
# This redefinition is needed to make beamerarticle work
Preamble
\makeatletter
\long\def\lyxframe#...@lyxframe#1\@lyxframestop}%
\d...@lyxframe{\@ifnextchar{\@@lyxframe}{\@@lyxframe*}}%
\def\@@lyxframe#1{...@ifnextchar[{\@@@lyxframe#1}{\@@@lyxframe#1[]}}
\def\@@@lyxframe#1[...@ifnextchar{\@lyxframe#1[}{\lyxframe#1[*][}}
\def\@lyxframe#1[#2...@ifnextchar[{\lyxframe#1[#2]}{\lyxframe#1[#2][]}}
\long\def\lyxframe#1[#2][#3]...@lyxframestop#5\lyxframeend{%
\frame#1[#3]{\frametitle{#4}#5}}
\makeatother
EndPreamble
End
biblatex installation
Paul Johnson wrote: You did not make a complete install of biblatex. It is much more than just that one style file. In linux, these are the installed files from biblatex: usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex/bibtoolrsc /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex/winansi_no.csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex/latin1_se.csf I see that Paul has listed it with the biblatex folder placed in /usr/share/texmf, while I had it in /usr/share/texmf-texlive, since I use the Texlive Latex. Should I move it to the /usr/share/texmf? It really would make life simpler for us peasants if there were an installation script that used some default placement of the biblatex folder and its flotilla of other programs. -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, The laboratory of Visual Computational Neuroscience Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural Chemical Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place NY, NY, 10029
Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc
On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:34:54 zweetsmoel wrote: issue has been resolved! by running: ldd `which lyx` in a shell, i was able to see that libQtCore.so.4 was loaded from /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, which suggests duplicate and wrong usage of libs. deleting two qt-lib files residing at /usr/local/lib actually resolved the issue. i must have missed those files when i searched for duplicate libs yesterday. and as andre suggested it was indeed a system install issue. most important of all, lyx is working again, i just checked it. same goes for qt-config and smplayer :) you guys are great. thanks a lot. regards, michael That's some nice troubleshooting Michael! And all the others who helped you get to that point. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Bruce Thanks, Erez. That should save me some time.
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
On 13.08.2009, at 06:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Lohmanndaniel.lohm...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Hi, So here is what I want to achieve: I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the source, but the PDF/EPS via \includegraphics) into my LyX document in a way that (1) the LyX-Preview does work (2) PDF generation does work, and (3) the .tikz-file is opened in vim when I select Edit externally... I am sorry if I am telling you something you already know, but... It seems to me you are throwing away the value of TikZ by doing this. Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ as stand alone latex documents, you are destroying that possibility. I don't think the document will ever compile because of the duplicate preambles and such that the latex system encounters. On the other hand, if the TikZ file is just the TikZ figure, then I'd be more optimistic. But I don't think it is wise to convert the tikz to pdf and embed that with includegraphics. Rather, I think you just want to include the tikz code itself. You can just use input on the TikZ figure itself. If you put that inside a LyX floating graphic or a minipage, it just works in the final processing. In Lyx, choose Insert File Child Document and then choose your tikz text file. As long as it is just the figure, it is all good. I've just tested it, and it does work. But you won't get an in-document preview in LyX without a bit of messing about. I think that's where the other guy who refers you to the Dia code has a good idea. I've tried to figure that part out, but no solution yet. We need a way to tell LyX to pass the Tikz figure code straight through to LaTeX, but we also want an on-screen preview of what that will be like. But it is inherently impossible to get a preview of what that will be like without compiling the whole document. A conundrum for me. Paul, Your comments are very valid, but I intentionally want to have the possibility to compile the TikZ-figures externally and embedd them as PDF: - TikZ can increase compilation times *dramatically*. If you embed dozens of nontrivial TikZ figures as code into your document, compilation of your LyX document may take minutes instead of seconds. - During the development of the TikZ figures (a time-consuming process of its own) I need to compile and debug them stand alone with short roundtrip times. - PDF images are much easier to scale (to, e.g, pagewidth) - Regarding the font (and styles and colors...) issue: I solve it by setting that up in a common preamble that is \input'ed into the LyX document and the TikZ figures. However, on some (rare) occasions I *want* to have different fonts in the figure than in the document. This, again, is easy to achieve via the PDF route, but requires quite same hacking if the figure is embedded into the source. In fact, I can imagine only one situation I would prefer embedding TikZ figures by source: If they contain references into other parts of the document (such as clicking on a TikZ node should bring you to page 212 or you refer to some bibliography item within the figure). Daniel
About the position of footnotes and page numbers
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page numbers? How? My text is 20 cm. high x 30 cm. width, horizontal format. The margins are 3 cm. inside an 7 cm. outside. Is possible to make that the footnotes and the page numbers appears out of this margins? (with a margin of 3 cm. outside for both of them). Regards Antonio
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. Then you got lucky...unless you had the newlines in there, too. You usually do need to be careful about that. rh
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
On 12.08.2009, at 09:53, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-08-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: that mean that it is *not possible* to achieve goal (1) (the preview in LyX, everything else works) via file formats and converters only? unless imagemagick convert utility knows how to deal with it (i think it doesn't) i'm not aware of such a plain route. As the tkiz - PDF (ps2pdf) conversion seems to work, the problem should be solvable with a definition for PDF (ps2pdf) - PNG. I think I am going to try this. The point is that I still do not understand why this possibly could help! - As far as I understand PDF (ps2pdf) is just the default PDF- Format (pdf1). - LyX is able to create previews from files in this format automagically. Or am I mistaken here? I am still seeking for a definite answer regarding the conversion route that to my understanding is automatically deduced by LyX (TiKZ -- PDF | PDF -- Preview). It seem that (newer?) versions of LyX just pass everything right through to ImageMagik and do not bother with deducing a conversion route? Daniel
Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers
On 08/13/2009 12:39 PM, Antonio Díaz wrote:
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script*
First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on
the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it
possible?
Yes, but I don't really know how. It's possible there's a package on
ctan to do this. If so, then use it.
If not, then you could try defining some LaTeX command that looks like a
footnote, but acts like a margin note. Very roughly:
\newcounter{footmarg}
\newcommand{\margfoot}[1]{\refstepcounter{footmarg}\marginpar{\arabic{footmarg}.
#1}}
Then, if you don't want footnotes at all:
\let\footnote=\margfoot
This will not always work, I expect, but it ought to get you started.
Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page numbers?
How? My text is 20 cm. high x 30 cm. width, horizontal format. The margins
are 3 cm. inside an 7 cm. outside. Is possible to make that the footnotes
and the page numbers appears out of this margins? (with a margin of 3 cm.
outside for both of them).
Use the fancyhdr package, for which LyX has some support.
rh
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
On 13.08.2009, at 11:22, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Pavel Sanda wrote:
- to make a python script which would take the parent document
dumps the
preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both
preview
and output.
Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric):
http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/tikz/process/
in a case some of the intersted people write and test the external
template
we could include it with this script in a proper lyx release.
The real problem is to get the preamble right. Because TikZ is a huge
package that has a noticeable impact on LaTeX compilation times (and
memory consumption), it is pretty well modularized into multiple
libraries. A typical preamble for a TikZ figure looks as follows:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fit,positioning,shapes,shapes.multipart, depends on
what you actually use in the figure}
With the external-template mechanism, as far as I understand it, the
additional stuff for the preamble can only be hard-code in the
template and not be examined (e.g. by invoking some script) for the
actual TikZ figures to embed.
Daniel
Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?
Daniel Lohmann wrote:
The real problem is to get the preamble right. Because TikZ is a huge
package that has a noticeable impact on LaTeX compilation times (and
memory consumption), it is pretty well modularized into multiple
libraries. A typical preamble for a TikZ figure looks as follows:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fit,positioning,shapes,shapes.multipart, depends on
what you actually use in the figure}
With the external-template mechanism, as far as I understand it, the
additional stuff for the preamble can only be hard-code in the
template and not be examined (e.g. by invoking some script) for the
actual TikZ figures to embed.
Actually, the script tries to parse the tex file and copy the preamble to the
file which is used for generating the preview. It only falls back to a
hardcoded preamble if it cannot find the tex file.
For the LyX usage, such a script would need to take care that there is
actually a tex file. Also, the script should perform the compilation in the
temp directory, not in the home directory.
So I think the referred script can only serve as a model for what LyX would
use (and actually, the license of the script is not ideal for inclusion in
LyX).
Jürgen
Spellchecker problem
Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces - Language - Spellchecker and browse the es_ES.pws file on Personal Dictionary box. When I try to run the spellchecker the following error appears: The Spellchecker could not be started. No word list can be found for the language es_ES. How can I set up this? Bests -- CdeB
Re: Find All and Emphasize
Yes, you are right!!! On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:43 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. Then you got lucky...unless you had the newlines in there, too. You usually do need to be careful about that. rh -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 11, rgheck did say: On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't work that way for me... --- snip --- Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the windowmanager? This shouldn't be WM dependent, except in so far as the WM might steal keypresses. But I can't see that that's very likely here. Do other alt-p options work? Yes, I tried to guess what would open a chapter and found out that alt+P[c] = lyx code... I think if the paragraph layout selection combo isn't displayed, then the shortcut Alt-p+space won't work. It's displayed or not? I'm not quite sure what the paragraph layout selection combo is, but if you mean that long list of possible keystrokes that display on the status line when I first press alt+P then yes... FWIW, I stuck with kde 3.5.x for a long time, but am pretty happy with kde 4.2.x and expect to be a lot happier with kede 4.3.x. There are differences but most of what you're accustomed to can be done now. I will admit that I found kde 4.2 less difficult to deal with than 4.1... However a few things that kde 4x crammed down my throat so offended me that had I not found a window manager that I suits me, I was actually considering going back to winblows over it. (And I've been bashing them since ver 3.x) Example: as a keyboard user who has always needed to make many changes to the global (and application) keybindings to a)eliminate the 75% that I never want to fat finger by mistake. b)assign bindings that my fingers can remember to the few I do use. And given that I have difficulty using the rodent, I found that altering the gui key assignment routine for KEYBOARD shortcuts in such a way that it was no longer practical to do this without clicking on things REALLY bugged me... Then I discovered Enlightenment, and now not even a permanent reinstatement of kde 3.5's user interface would tempt me back. I still install kde versions of linux because I'm accustomed to certain kde applications, and because few (if any) linux distro have enlightenment version installation dvd. Note, I was not happy with the gui tool to assign shortcuts in e17 either, and would still be using e16 (where the global shortcuts are actually in a vim editable config...) as my preferred WM in spite of e17's enhancements except that some nice person informed me of an e17 utility (enlightenment_remote) and gave me a copy of a bash script (e17_setup.sh) which uses enlightenment_remote to automatically save and restore many e17 configurations to/from a vim editable re-config script... -- | --- ___ | 0 - Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ jtw...@ttlc.net
RE: Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 12, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say:
Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the windowmanager?
Then you'd really have to try the Windows windowmanager :)
Now I'm feeling nauseous...
--
| ~^~ ~^~
| o oJoe (theWordy) Philbrook
| ^ J(tWdy)P
|~\___/~ jtw...@ttlc.net
| { snicker }
Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7
Hi all, I have a small problem with my still almost clean setup of LyX 1.6.3 (installed with LyXWinInstaller) on Windows 7 Pro (x64) and Acrobat 8.1.x. If I click the View PDF button, the PDF file is generated in the temp folder, but nothing much happens. Well, nothing visible at least - in taskmgr, an acrobat.exe process does appear and eats up more than 50% CPU (and, no matter which document I convert, around 15MB of RAM). Even if I leave this running for an extended period of time, nothing happens. Opening Acrobat beforehand does not help. I can open the generated PDF any other way without problems though. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks, Thomas
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
Yes, I tried to guess what would open a chapter and found out that alt+P[c] = lyx code... Sorry, I have to tell you: alt+P[0] = Part, [1] = Chapter, [2] = Section, [3] = SubSection, etc. alt+P*[0] = Part*, [1] = Chapter*, [2] = Section*, [3] = SubSection*, etc. Now I'm feeling nauseous... Sorry. Vincent
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P space) From what I can tell, this is true only if the standard toolbar has been visible in the relevant window at some time in the past -- at least on Mac. If as I do (and Joe apparently does) you set your ui file not to load the standard toolbar, then Alt-Pspace does nothing. But once you make the toolbar visible and then invisible, Alt-Pspace does its magic. Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them... Wait, let me guess, perhaps there is some mouse centric technique to temporarily hide them if you know just where/how to click/drag them? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | ? ? Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |\___/ jtw...@ttlc.net
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link that Jürgen provided. I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Thanks for your help. Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Jürgen Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile I didn't follow this discussion in all detail, but wouldn't the use of a portmanteau beamer-article master solve this? See: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations#toc7 Indeed this does seem to be a solution :-) Many thanks, Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link that Jürgen provided. I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your ~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? That's the only explanation I can come up with. FWIW, with my modified layout file, if I switch from presentation (beamer) (where page size and margins are locked) to article (beamer), page size and margins are unlocked and I can change them. If I then switch back to presentation (beamer), the page size and margin revert to Beamer defaults and are locked, as you would wish. So I don't know why they did not revert for you, but then again I don't know why you were able to change them in the first place. I've tested this on Win XP with LyX 1.6.3 but not yet on Ubuntu. Since it's a layout file issue, I doubt that it will behave differently on Ubuntu, but then it's one of those should not be possible things in the first place.
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link that Jürgen provided. I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your ~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? That's the only explanation I can come up with. FWIW, with my modified layout file, if I switch from presentation (beamer) (where page size and margins are locked) to article (beamer), page size and margins are unlocked and I can change them. If I then switch back to presentation (beamer), the page size and margin revert to Beamer defaults and are locked, as you would wish. So I don't know why they did not revert for you, but then again I don't know why you were able to change them in the first place. I've tested this on Win XP with LyX 1.6.3 but not yet on Ubuntu. Since it's a layout file issue, I doubt that it will behave differently on Ubuntu, but then it's one of those should not be possible things in the first place. Just checked Ubuntu 9.04 -- same thing as Windows. No control over page size/margins with the old article (beamer) layout, and the new layout switches (and switches back) correctly.
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
On 08/13/2009 02:05 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them... ViewToolbars? rh
I need HELP!
I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! best regards, Marek Kociński
Re: I need HELP!
On 08/13/2009 03:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! We need a lot more information to help you. What kind of computer you are using, which version of LyX, how you installed it, etc, just to start. rh
Re: I need HELP!
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! Try the following, Marek: Tools -- Preferences -- File Handling -- Select the appropriate format and change the corresponding viewer. Paul
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your ~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? This is fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, on an HD that did have Windows on it, but I installed Ubuntu to use the entire disc. Lyx was installed with synaptic and I haven't hacked/edited/changed any aspect of Lyx, so I have no idea why it isn't working as it should, especially as your other post says that its greyed out on you copy of Ubuntu. Graham
Re: Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7
Hi all, the topic posted right after this (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg75792.html) just got me checking my file format associations, and voilà, there I see that not pdfview, but acrobat is set as the PDF viewer. I don't know why the installer set this wrong, but now that I replaced it with pdfview, everything works fine... Thomas
Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???
On 13/08/2009 20:05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-Pspace) From what I can tell, this is true only if the standard toolbar has been visible in the relevant window at some time in the past -- at least on Mac. If as I do (and Joe apparently does) you set your ui file not to load the standard toolbar, then Alt-Pspace does nothing. But once you make the toolbar visible and then invisible, Alt-Pspace does its magic. Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them... Wait, let me guess, perhaps there is some mouse centric technique to temporarily hide them if you know just where/how to click/drag them? What about F11 to switch to full screen view? Abdel.
Re: Spellchecker problem
Christian Bustamante wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces - Language - Spellchecker and browse the es_ES.pws file on Personal Dictionary box. When I try to run the spellchecker the following error appears: The Spellchecker could not be started. No word list can be found for the language es_ES. How can I set up this? Bests Can't help you with this Christian, but I have the same problem on a windows box. I set my language preferences to English (UK) and when I attempt to spell check, get a message that states it can't find a word list for en_US so that's a bit weird. I didn't want to bother anyone with it because I am out of here as quickly as possible. But my version of LyX is 1.6.3 MiKTeX 2.7 So am using word at the moment. Disclaimer [ am not a windows user - just happen to be using it while waiting for a new hard drive to be sent because the one in my Linux box went belly up.] Maybe an answer to you may also help me, though the problem seems different. Be well, Charlie
