Re: LyX indexing anomaly SOLVED

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Steve Litt wrote:
 So, if anyone has indexing problems and sees range type index code that
  looks like this:
 
 \index{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar{}(}
 instead of this:
 \index{chapter 2|(}
 
 then the most likely solution is to set
  Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex to T1.

The correct solution would be to put the | character in an ERT.

 THE ONLY REMAINING TASK is to understand the meaning of T1. What is it?

Does this help?
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatenc

  It's the set of characters that you will be using in the document -- the
  set of characters you will be restricted to. For instance, the following
  is the T1 encoding:
 
 http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/t1.htm
 
 The following is OT1, which looks a heck of a lot like ASCII to me:
 
 http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/ot1.htm
 
 Here's where the plot thickens. I've read that if you select a specific
  font encoding like T1, it can change the font version that your document
  uses:
 
 http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1
 
 Could someone please explain the info in the preceding URL to me? In fact,
  a lot of my stuff IS fuzzy when viewed in xpdf.

It happens that, for the T1 font encoding, some (in the past: all) LaTeX 
distributions use a bitmap default font. This bitmap font looks fuzzy in the 
PDF viewer (but not in the printout).

The solution is to switch to a PostScript font such as Latin Modern.

See this FAQ:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=type1T1

Jürgen

Re: Custom box inset and custom bullets

[Nick Bell]

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:
 Or with the GUI in DocumentSettings...
 
No, I wanted to do it on a per-list basis.

Thanks

Nick

Re: installed package not recongnized

[rgheck]

On 08/30/2009 12:27 AM, Hao Wen wrote:

Hi all:

I am using ubuntu and lyx now. I tried to install Latex style and class file
locally by downloading the files. I have been successful in installing
article(Springer) class. But when I install some thesis class from
Standford, it was not recongnized in the Document Class Menu.

What I have done:
1. Make direcotry: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/Standford
2. sudo texhash
3. In Lyx, reconfigure, then restart.

The same procedure works before, but not now.

So what else should I do?

   
You probably need to find or create a layout file for this class. See 
Chapter 5 of the Customization manual for info. I think there is a lot 
on the wiki about this, too.


rh

Opening up files where work had stopped

[Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]]

Just wanted to know if there is any way I could open Lyx software to
show up the 4-5 files I was last working on simultaneously -- at the
very spot where I finished editing last.

Wouldn't this be helpful, specially if one works on multiple files at
the same time (like me)? FN
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Re: LyX indexing anomaly SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 05:48:58 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:

  then the most likely solution is to set
   Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex to T1.

 The correct solution would be to put the | character in an ERT.

That's not a very good solution because it forces the user to do extra work in 
every index range of every document, and also gravely increases the 
troubleshooting effort if the user messes up the nesting of |( and |). From my 
perspective as a book author, T1 would be preferable to ERT, and even my silly 
kludge script would be preferable.

T1, ERT and my script are all workarounds. The SOLUTION would involve 
recognition by LyX that |( or |) at the end of a string inside an IDX tag 
defines a range, so do not convert the pipe symbol to \textbar etc. Or, if 
that's impossible, when the LyX user requests an index tag, pop up a dialog 
box asking the name and whether it's begin-range, end-range, or this-location.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Opening up files where work had stopped

[Ignacio García]

Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] f...@... writes:

 
 Just wanted to know if there is any way I could open Lyx software to
 show up the 4-5 files I was last working on simultaneously -- at the
 very spot where I finished editing last.
 
 Wouldn't this be helpful, specially if one works on multiple files at
 the same time (like me)? FN

Menu ToolsPreferencesLookFeelUser Interface

below Session check in the options:
Restore cursor position
Load opened files from the last session.

Et voilà!

Text on right, images on left

[L Duperval]

Hi,

I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page, while 
the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something 
similar.

I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over but is 
there a package that controls such flow automatically?

Thanks, 

L

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Re: Text on right, images on left

[James C. Sutherland]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:19 PM, L Duperval wrote:


Hi,

I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page,  
while

the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something
similar.

I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over  
but is

there a package that controls such flow automatically?


My personal feeling is that when you need explicit control over  
layout, LaTeX (LyX) is not the right tool.  Something like Apple's  
Pages would be much better suited to the task.


You could try text-wrap floats, but that will probably not give you  
the level of control that you are looking for.

Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?

[rgheck]

On 08/30/2009 05:13 PM, dirac14 wrote:

I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive
my total ignorance..

I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the
subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is kind
of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find any
answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!!

The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for my
work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman
slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible
problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like
all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to do
in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were
preinstalled in lyx?

   
I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to 
write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course 
would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively 
supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX 
support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for 
example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together 
with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at all.


rh

Re: Text on right, images on left

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 16:14:58 James C. Sutherland wrote:
 On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:19 PM, L Duperval wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page,
  while
  the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something
  similar.
 
  I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over
  but is
  there a package that controls such flow automatically?

 My personal feeling is that when you need explicit control over
 layout, LaTeX (LyX) is not the right tool.  Something like Apple's
 Pages would be much better suited to the task.

 You could try text-wrap floats, but that will probably not give you
 the level of control that you are looking for.

My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a short 
document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do what you're 
talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It works on Windows, 
OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Text on right, images on left

[L Duperval]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:46:46 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
 My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a
 short document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do
 what you're talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It
 works on Windows, OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.


Hmmm, that's what I thought. I started looking at Scribus. We'll see. 
Either that or I'll just stick to OpenOffice Writer for this one.

L


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Re: Text on right, images on left

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 20:23:24 L Duperval wrote:
 On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:46:46 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
  My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a
  short document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do
  what you're talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It
  works on Windows, OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.

 Hmmm, that's what I thought. I started looking at Scribus. We'll see.
 Either that or I'll just stick to OpenOffice Writer for this one.

Eu, eu, , get it offa me. Not OpenOffice Writer. Its styles change all 
by 
themselves, and when it imports other docs, it converts styles into 
fingerpainting.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

LyX crashes when I attempt to edit a URL

[Venable]

Hi LyX users,

I use LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP.

I am having trouble with LyX crashing when I try to edit urls. I am
able to edit them within ERT boxes but when I try to click on one that
is in a little gray box (i.e. just the letters URL visible, not the
entire URL, although the URL looks well-formed in the LaTeX preview
window), LyX freezes and then crashes with the following popup error
message:

LyX Software exception Detected
LyX has caught an exception, it will now attempt to save all unsaved
documents and exit.
Exception:bad allocation

AppName: lyx.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: lyx.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0  Offset: 4cd4

Any advice on how to fix this problem would be appreciated.

citation brackets: why [] instead of () ?

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear all
I have always failed to understand this behaviour in the citation
mechanism, and I would suspect that this is a bug. In my document I'm
using BibTeX with Natbib (plainnat). (Please check dummy examples
attached.)

Although I insert a random citation and keep the default formatting
choices, which in the citation dialogue and in LyX are displayed as
Author (year), the final .pdf document will feature a Author
[year] formatting.  The latter seems very strange to me, and nothing
similar to anything that I've seen in papers. The issue is similar in
case I choose a (Author, year) formatting, which will get displayed
as  [Author, year]. Can someone suggest how to work around []
brackets and obtain () brackets in the final .pdf?

A somewhat distinct issue, but still citation formatting related, is
when Text before/after is specified; say, a (  Author, year  )
formatting. For some reason, LyX (or LaTeX) will insert a space
between the text before/after and the main citation. Thus, instead
of (Author, year) the final result will be more similar to (
Author, year ). Recently I also noticed that a comma is appended, so
that the actual result is ( Author, year, ).

I would much appreciate any suggestions on how to avoid these issues.
Thank you
Liviu




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Re: LyX indexing anomaly SOLVED

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Steve Litt wrote:
 So, if anyone has indexing problems and sees range type index code that
  looks like this:
 
 \index{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar{}(}
 instead of this:
 \index{chapter 2|(}
 
 then the most likely solution is to set
  Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex to T1.

The correct solution would be to put the | character in an ERT.

 THE ONLY REMAINING TASK is to understand the meaning of T1. What is it?

Does this help?
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatenc

  It's the set of characters that you will be using in the document -- the
  set of characters you will be restricted to. For instance, the following
  is the T1 encoding:
 
 http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/t1.htm
 
 The following is OT1, which looks a heck of a lot like ASCII to me:
 
 http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/ot1.htm
 
 Here's where the plot thickens. I've read that if you select a specific
  font encoding like T1, it can change the font version that your document
  uses:
 
 http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1
 
 Could someone please explain the info in the preceding URL to me? In fact,
  a lot of my stuff IS fuzzy when viewed in xpdf.

It happens that, for the T1 font encoding, some (in the past: all) LaTeX 
distributions use a bitmap default font. This bitmap font looks fuzzy in the 
PDF viewer (but not in the printout).

The solution is to switch to a PostScript font such as Latin Modern.

See this FAQ:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=type1T1

Jürgen

Re: Custom box inset and custom bullets

[Nick Bell]

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:
 Or with the GUI in DocumentSettings...
 
No, I wanted to do it on a per-list basis.

Thanks

Nick

Re: installed package not recongnized

[rgheck]

On 08/30/2009 12:27 AM, Hao Wen wrote:

Hi all:

I am using ubuntu and lyx now. I tried to install Latex style and class file
locally by downloading the files. I have been successful in installing
article(Springer) class. But when I install some thesis class from
Standford, it was not recongnized in the Document Class Menu.

What I have done:
1. Make direcotry: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/Standford
2. sudo texhash
3. In Lyx, reconfigure, then restart.

The same procedure works before, but not now.

So what else should I do?

   
You probably need to find or create a layout file for this class. See 
Chapter 5 of the Customization manual for info. I think there is a lot 
on the wiki about this, too.


rh

Opening up files where work had stopped

[Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]]

Just wanted to know if there is any way I could open Lyx software to
show up the 4-5 files I was last working on simultaneously -- at the
very spot where I finished editing last.

Wouldn't this be helpful, specially if one works on multiple files at
the same time (like me)? FN
-- 
FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490
Konkani adages  http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/
Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/

Re: LyX indexing anomaly SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 05:48:58 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:

  then the most likely solution is to set
   Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex to T1.

 The correct solution would be to put the | character in an ERT.

That's not a very good solution because it forces the user to do extra work in 
every index range of every document, and also gravely increases the 
troubleshooting effort if the user messes up the nesting of |( and |). From my 
perspective as a book author, T1 would be preferable to ERT, and even my silly 
kludge script would be preferable.

T1, ERT and my script are all workarounds. The SOLUTION would involve 
recognition by LyX that |( or |) at the end of a string inside an IDX tag 
defines a range, so do not convert the pipe symbol to \textbar etc. Or, if 
that's impossible, when the LyX user requests an index tag, pop up a dialog 
box asking the name and whether it's begin-range, end-range, or this-location.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Opening up files where work had stopped

[Ignacio García]

Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] f...@... writes:

 
 Just wanted to know if there is any way I could open Lyx software to
 show up the 4-5 files I was last working on simultaneously -- at the
 very spot where I finished editing last.
 
 Wouldn't this be helpful, specially if one works on multiple files at
 the same time (like me)? FN

Menu ToolsPreferencesLookFeelUser Interface

below Session check in the options:
Restore cursor position
Load opened files from the last session.

Et voilà!

Text on right, images on left

[L Duperval]

Hi,

I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page, while 
the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something 
similar.

I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over but is 
there a package that controls such flow automatically?

Thanks, 

L

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Re: Text on right, images on left

[James C. Sutherland]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:19 PM, L Duperval wrote:


Hi,

I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page,  
while

the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something
similar.

I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over  
but is

there a package that controls such flow automatically?


My personal feeling is that when you need explicit control over  
layout, LaTeX (LyX) is not the right tool.  Something like Apple's  
Pages would be much better suited to the task.


You could try text-wrap floats, but that will probably not give you  
the level of control that you are looking for.

Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?

[rgheck]

On 08/30/2009 05:13 PM, dirac14 wrote:

I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive
my total ignorance..

I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the
subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is kind
of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find any
answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!!

The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for my
work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman
slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible
problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like
all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to do
in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were
preinstalled in lyx?

   
I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to 
write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course 
would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively 
supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX 
support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for 
example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together 
with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at all.


rh

Re: Text on right, images on left

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 16:14:58 James C. Sutherland wrote:
 On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:19 PM, L Duperval wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page,
  while
  the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something
  similar.
 
  I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over
  but is
  there a package that controls such flow automatically?

 My personal feeling is that when you need explicit control over
 layout, LaTeX (LyX) is not the right tool.  Something like Apple's
 Pages would be much better suited to the task.

 You could try text-wrap floats, but that will probably not give you
 the level of control that you are looking for.

My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a short 
document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do what you're 
talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It works on Windows, 
OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Text on right, images on left

[L Duperval]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:46:46 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
 My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a
 short document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do
 what you're talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It
 works on Windows, OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.


Hmmm, that's what I thought. I started looking at Scribus. We'll see. 
Either that or I'll just stick to OpenOffice Writer for this one.

L


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Re: Text on right, images on left

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 20:23:24 L Duperval wrote:
 On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:46:46 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
  My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a
  short document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do
  what you're talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It
  works on Windows, OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.

 Hmmm, that's what I thought. I started looking at Scribus. We'll see.
 Either that or I'll just stick to OpenOffice Writer for this one.

Eu, eu, , get it offa me. Not OpenOffice Writer. Its styles change all 
by 
themselves, and when it imports other docs, it converts styles into 
fingerpainting.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

LyX crashes when I attempt to edit a URL

[Venable]

Hi LyX users,

I use LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP.

I am having trouble with LyX crashing when I try to edit urls. I am
able to edit them within ERT boxes but when I try to click on one that
is in a little gray box (i.e. just the letters URL visible, not the
entire URL, although the URL looks well-formed in the LaTeX preview
window), LyX freezes and then crashes with the following popup error
message:

LyX Software exception Detected
LyX has caught an exception, it will now attempt to save all unsaved
documents and exit.
Exception:bad allocation

AppName: lyx.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: lyx.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0  Offset: 4cd4

Any advice on how to fix this problem would be appreciated.

citation brackets: why [] instead of () ?

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear all
I have always failed to understand this behaviour in the citation
mechanism, and I would suspect that this is a bug. In my document I'm
using BibTeX with Natbib (plainnat). (Please check dummy examples
attached.)

Although I insert a random citation and keep the default formatting
choices, which in the citation dialogue and in LyX are displayed as
Author (year), the final .pdf document will feature a Author
[year] formatting.  The latter seems very strange to me, and nothing
similar to anything that I've seen in papers. The issue is similar in
case I choose a (Author, year) formatting, which will get displayed
as  [Author, year]. Can someone suggest how to work around []
brackets and obtain () brackets in the final .pdf?

A somewhat distinct issue, but still citation formatting related, is
when Text before/after is specified; say, a (  Author, year  )
formatting. For some reason, LyX (or LaTeX) will insert a space
between the text before/after and the main citation. Thus, instead
of (Author, year) the final result will be more similar to (
Author, year ). Recently I also noticed that a comma is appended, so
that the actual result is ( Author, year, ).

I would much appreciate any suggestions on how to avoid these issues.
Thank you
Liviu




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Re: LyX indexing anomaly

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Steve Litt wrote:
> So, if anyone has indexing problems and sees range type index code that
>  looks like this:
> 
> \index{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar{}(}
> instead of this:
> \index{chapter 2|(}
> 
> then the most likely solution is to set
>  Tools->Preferences->Output->LaTeX->Tex to T1.

The correct solution would be to put the "|" character in an ERT.

> THE ONLY REMAINING TASK is to understand the meaning of T1. What is it?

Does this help?
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatenc

>  It's the set of characters that you will be using in the document -- the
>  set of characters you will be restricted to. For instance, the following
>  is the T1 encoding:
> 
> http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/t1.htm
> 
> The following is OT1, which looks a heck of a lot like ASCII to me:
> 
> http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/ot1.htm
> 
> Here's where the plot thickens. I've read that if you select a specific
>  font encoding like T1, it can change the font version that your document
>  uses:
> 
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1
> 
> Could someone please explain the info in the preceding URL to me? In fact,
>  a lot of my stuff IS fuzzy when viewed in xpdf.

It happens that, for the T1 font encoding, some (in the past: all) LaTeX 
distributions use a bitmap default font. This bitmap font looks "fuzzy" in the 
PDF viewer (but not in the printout).

The solution is to switch to a PostScript font such as Latin Modern.

See this FAQ:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=type1T1

Jürgen

Re: Custom box inset and custom bullets

[Nick Bell]

Guenter Milde  writes:
> Or with the GUI in Document>Settings>...
 
No, I wanted to do it on a per-list basis.

Thanks

Nick

Re: installed package not recongnized

[rgheck]

On 08/30/2009 12:27 AM, Hao Wen wrote:

Hi all:

I am using ubuntu and lyx now. I tried to install Latex style and class file
locally by downloading the files. I have been successful in installing
article(Springer) class. But when I install some thesis class from
Standford, it was not recongnized in the "Document Class" Menu.

What I have done:
1. Make direcotry: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/Standford
2. sudo texhash
3. In Lyx, reconfigure, then restart.

The same procedure works before, but not now.

So what else should I do?

   
You probably need to find or create a layout file for this class. See 
Chapter 5 of the Customization manual for info. I think there is a lot 
on the wiki about this, too.


rh

Opening up files where work had stopped

[Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]]

Just wanted to know if there is any way I could open Lyx software to
show up the 4-5 files I was last working on simultaneously -- at the
very spot where I finished editing last.

Wouldn't this be helpful, specially if one works on multiple files at
the same time (like me)? FN
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Re: LyX indexing anomaly

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 05:48:58 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:

> > then the most likely solution is to set
> >  Tools->Preferences->Output->LaTeX->Tex to T1.
>
> The correct solution would be to put the "|" character in an ERT.

That's not a very good solution because it forces the user to do extra work in 
every index range of every document, and also gravely increases the 
troubleshooting effort if the user messes up the nesting of |( and |). From my 
perspective as a book author, T1 would be preferable to ERT, and even my silly 
kludge script would be preferable.

T1, ERT and my script are all workarounds. The SOLUTION would involve 
recognition by LyX that |( or |) at the end of a string inside an IDX tag 
defines a range, so do not convert the pipe symbol to \textbar etc. Or, if 
that's impossible, when the LyX user requests an index tag, pop up a dialog 
box asking the name and whether it's begin-range, end-range, or this-location.

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Re: Opening up files where work had stopped

[Ignacio García]

Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]  writes:

> 
> Just wanted to know if there is any way I could open Lyx software to
> show up the 4-5 files I was last working on simultaneously -- at the
> very spot where I finished editing last.
> 
> Wouldn't this be helpful, specially if one works on multiple files at
> the same time (like me)? FN

Menu Tools>Preferences>Look>User Interface

below Session check in the options:
Restore cursor position
Load opened files from the last session.

Et voilà!

Text on right, images on left

[L Duperval]

Hi,

I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page, while 
the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something 
similar.

I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over but is 
there a package that controls such flow automatically?

Thanks, 

L

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Re: Text on right, images on left

[James C. Sutherland]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:19 PM, L Duperval wrote:


Hi,

I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page,  
while

the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something
similar.

I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over  
but is

there a package that controls such flow automatically?


My personal feeling is that when you need explicit control over  
layout, LaTeX (LyX) is not the right tool.  Something like Apple's  
Pages would be much better suited to the task.


You could try text-wrap floats, but that will probably not give you  
the level of control that you are looking for.

Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?

[rgheck]

On 08/30/2009 05:13 PM, dirac14 wrote:

I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive
my total ignorance..

I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the
subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is kind
of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find any
answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!!

The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for my
work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman
slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible
problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like
all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to do
in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were
preinstalled in lyx?

   
I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to 
write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course 
would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively 
supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX 
support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for 
example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together 
with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at all.


rh

Re: Text on right, images on left

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 16:14:58 James C. Sutherland wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:19 PM, L Duperval wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to create a booklet which has text on the right-hand page,
> > while
> > the left-hand page contains a graph, an image, a table or something
> > similar.
> >
> > I suppose I can do this manually by inserting page breaks all over
> > but is
> > there a package that controls such flow automatically?
>
> My personal feeling is that when you need explicit control over
> layout, LaTeX (LyX) is not the right tool.  Something like Apple's
> Pages would be much better suited to the task.
>
> You could try text-wrap floats, but that will probably not give you
> the level of control that you are looking for.

My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a short 
document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do what you're 
talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It works on Windows, 
OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.

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Re: Text on right, images on left

[L Duperval]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:46:46 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a
> short document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do
> what you're talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It
> works on Windows, OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.
>

Hmmm, that's what I thought. I started looking at Scribus. We'll see. 
Either that or I'll just stick to OpenOffice Writer for this one.

L


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Re: Text on right, images on left

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 20:23:24 L Duperval wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:46:46 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > My feelings exactly. When you start worrying about where things go in a
> > short document, LaTeX or its derivatives is a hassle. My choice to do
> > what you're talking about would be Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It
> > works on Windows, OS/X, and Linux and I would assume BSD.
>
> Hmmm, that's what I thought. I started looking at Scribus. We'll see.
> Either that or I'll just stick to OpenOffice Writer for this one.

Eu, eu, , get it offa me. Not OpenOffice Writer. Its styles change all 
by 
themselves, and when it imports other docs, it converts styles into 
fingerpainting.

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LyX crashes when I attempt to edit a URL

[Venable]

Hi LyX users,

I use LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP.

I am having trouble with LyX crashing when I try to edit urls. I am
able to edit them within ERT boxes but when I try to click on one that
is in a little gray box (i.e. just the letters "URL" visible, not the
entire URL, although the URL looks well-formed in the LaTeX preview
window), LyX freezes and then crashes with the following popup error
message:

LyX Software exception Detected
LyX has caught an exception, it will now attempt to save all unsaved
documents and exit.
Exception:bad allocation

AppName: lyx.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: lyx.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0  Offset: 4cd4

Any advice on how to fix this problem would be appreciated.

citation brackets: why [] instead of () ?

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear all
I have always failed to understand this behaviour in the citation
mechanism, and I would suspect that this is a bug. In my document I'm
using BibTeX with Natbib (plainnat). (Please check dummy examples
attached.)

Although I insert a random citation and keep the default formatting
choices, which in the citation dialogue and in LyX are displayed as
"Author (year)", the final .pdf document will feature a "Author
[year]" formatting.  The latter seems very strange to me, and nothing
similar to anything that I've seen in papers. The issue is similar in
case I choose a "(Author, year)" formatting, which will get displayed
as  "[Author, year]". Can someone suggest how to work around []
brackets and obtain () brackets in the final .pdf?

A somewhat distinct issue, but still citation formatting related, is
when "Text before/after" is specified; say, a "("  "Author, year"  ")"
formatting. For some reason, LyX (or LaTeX) will insert a space
between the "text before/after" and the main citation. Thus, instead
of "(Author, year)" the final result will be more similar to "(
Author, year )". Recently I also noticed that a comma is appended, so
that the actual result is "( Author, year, )".

I would much appreciate any suggestions on how to avoid these issues.
Thank you
Liviu




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