How to determine where I am on a page.

[Philip Stubbs]

I have hacked up my own class file. It does 95% of what I set out to
achieve. However, I am stuck with the final bit of polish.

I have an element that I don't want to appear at the bottom of a page.
Therefore, I need to test to find out how far down the page I am, and
if more than 75% of the page is used, insert a \newpage.

Any pointers of where to find a solution to this would be appreciated.

-- 
Philip Stubbs

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Philip Stubbs wrote:
 I have an element that I don't want to appear at the bottom of a page.
 Therefore, I need to test to find out how far down the page I am, and
 if more than 75% of the page is used, insert a \newpage.

One possibility:


% Conditional pagebreak
\def\condbreak#1{%
\vskip 0pt plus #1\pagebreak[3]\vskip 0pt plus -#1\relax}

\newcommand*\condbr[1]{\condbreak{#1\baselineskip}}
-

Then you can use either
\condbr{3}
which will insert a page break if less then 3 lines of text follow
or
\condbreak{any value}
e.g.
\condbreak{.25\textheight}

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 04:52 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:


% Conditional pagebreak
\def\condbreak#1{%
\vskip 0pt plus #1\pagebreak[3]\vskip 0pt plus -#1\relax}

   

As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?

rh

Re: Change tracking

[rgheck]

On 01/23/2010 04:59 AM, E. Kaplan wrote:
It seems that inserting notes into a Lyx file while tracking changes 
modifies the color of some parts of the text in the pdf output to 
blue, misleading the reader to believe that the blue text is new 
insertions, while it is not.  This is true of both 1.6.4 (on Kubuntu 
9.10, 64 bit) and 1.6.5 (Windows XP).

Is this a bug?  It certainly is not a helpful feature!


Can you post an example file? What are you seeing in the LaTeX output?

rh

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

rgheck wrote:
 As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/relax

Note, though, that the \condbreak macro is not my doing. I've picked it up 
eventually on comp.text.tex.

Jürgen

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 07:59 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

rgheck wrote:
   

As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?
 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/relax

   

Thanks. I thought it must be something like that.

rh

Don't understand LaTeX Error

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:


LaTeX Source:
\subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
\footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
}}

1. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
 }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. 

2. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
 }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

3. Error:
Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
Description:
 }}

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

4. Error:
Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
Desription:
 }}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
the whole thing and hope for the best.


The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
it
from \citet{GieslerG1990}
to \cite{GieslerG1990}
the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
be accepted? 

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Re: Don't understand LaTeX Error

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 10:37 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:

Hello,

I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:

   
I think the problem is that you have put a footnote inside a 
subsubsection heading. This is a bad idea. Are you generating a table of 
contents? If so, then the problem is that LaTeX is trying to put the 
footnote inside the table of contents. Surely you do not want this.


rh


LaTeX Source:
\subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
\footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
}}

1. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
  }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

2. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
  }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

3. Error:
Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
Description:
  }}

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

4. Error:
Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
Desription:
  }}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
the whole thing and hope for the best.


The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
it
from \citet{GieslerG1990}
to \cite{GieslerG1990}
the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
be accepted?

   

Re: Clear double page and start at left page

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Finally managed to solve the problem using the textpos package.

In your preamble, put:

% absolute to use whole page, showboxes draws line around each box,
useful for debugging
\usepackage[absolute,showboxes]{textpos}
% sets up a grid, useful for debugging
\usepackage[texcoord,colorgrid]{eso-pic}
% adjust zero point to left upper of page
\textblockorigin{0mm}{0mm}
% generate grid of 10x10 and keep margins of 15 mm left and right and
30 mm top bottom around the grid
\TPGrid[15mm,30mm]{10}{10}
% create some constants.
\newcommand{\boxwidth}{5}
\newcommand{\xleft}{0}
\newcommand{\yleft}{0}
\newcommand{\xright}{5.1}
\newcommand{\yright}{5}

then, instert some ERT to have one page with four figures.

\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yleft) figure \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yleft) figure \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yright) figure \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yright) figure \end{textblock}

insert your figures / minipage / whatever you want at figures in the
normal Lyx way.

If you have multiple pages with figures and no text, inserting a clear
page / clear double page / page break / new page is NOT sufficient to
prevent the figures from cluttering on one page. You have to put a
'protected space' (Ctrl+Space) behind the last '\end(textblock)' ERT.
It took me quite a while to figure this out, but it has to do with the
fact minipages are just put under normal text, no wrapping is applied.

If you want the content of a textblock to scale with \boxwidth (you
probably want that), insert the content in a minipage (Box in Lyx) and
set the width of the minipage to 100 Column Width %. The minipage may
also be in a float figure environment.

Finally, it would have been useful if somebody had provided me a hint
to this package...

Regards,
Corné

2010/1/24 Jan Piet Joris en Corneel jpjorisencorn...@gmail.com:
 Dear all,

 I have two pages of graphs of a measurement in a two sided layout with
 normal left-to-right text. I use classicthesis.

 The graphs consists of four floats and should be printed on two pages
 opposite to each other, so when someone opens the document, one can
 see all four graphs at once.

 Until now, I tried with clear page, clear double page ect. to do this.
 Unfortunately after 'clear double page', a right (odd) page starts,
 which is expected behaviour. I want to change this to left for this
 case.

 In the other parts of the document, clear double page should behave normally.

 Does anybody have some suggestions? Maybe clever use of minipage or ERT?

 Thanks,
 Corné

lyx2lyx failure

[Stefano Franchi]

I am trying to open a lyx file produced by a conversion script and
Lyx (1.6.5) fails claiming lyx2lyx  could not convert it.
The lyx file is in lyx format 2.16 (or so it claims in its header).

Launching lyx2lyx from the console gives the following error:


Warning: An error ocurred in 225, function add_end_layout at 0x295f230
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, line 83, in module
main()
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, line 77, in main
doc.convert()
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/LyX.py, line 500, in convert
conv(self)
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx_1_4.py, line 449, in add_end_layout
struct_stack.pop()
IndexError: pop from empty list

Any insight on what the problem may be?


Cheers,

S.



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Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe 
programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look for all 
descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the described item 
as text.


Thanks,
Manolo

photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Does anyone have any useful input on what photo format gives the best
quality results on b/w printing via lyx? Are there any optimal values,
or things to worry about?

TIA

Richard

Re: Don't understand LaTeX Error

[Matthias Schmidt]

yes, I didn't think about the table of contents, ok.

But I would like to understand, what is happening there:
I get the LaTeX error only with \citet{GieslerG1990} but not with
\cite{GieslerG1990}. Why doesn't Lyx accept this one citation style
but the other one is ok?


am Montag, 25. Januar 2010 um 16:40 schrieben Sie:

 On 01/25/2010 10:37 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

 When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
 get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:


 I think the problem is that you have put a footnote inside a 
 subsubsection heading. This is a bad idea. Are you generating a table of
 contents? If so, then the problem is that LaTeX is trying to put the 
 footnote inside the table of contents. Surely you do not want this.

 rh

 LaTeX Source:
 \subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
 Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
 \footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
 im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
 }}

 1. Error:
 Undefined control sequence.
 Description:
   }}

 The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
 was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
 and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

 2. Error:
 Undefined control sequence.
 Description:
   }}

 The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
 was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
 and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

 3. Error:
 Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
 Description:
   }}

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

 4. Error:
 Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
 Desription:
   }}

 I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
 sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
 the whole thing and hope for the best.


 The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
 it
 from \citet{GieslerG1990}
 to \cite{GieslerG1990}
 the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
 to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
 be accepted?







-- 
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mailto:gm_schm...@yahoo.de

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RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Richard,

What kinds of photos are they?  For example, are they screenshots that
you've converted to black and white?  Or are they text on a white
background?  Or are they grayscale images or are they true black and white
(two-tone images)?

Are there any pertinent details that you wish to highlight?  What kind of
contrast values are you hoping to get?   What is the initial resolution?  Do
you have high-res copies for printing on a press or will you be printing
from a desktop computer?

The answer to your original question really depends on what you want to do
with them.  My experience with LyX has been that it does a pretty good job
with whatever images you feed to it, but it isn't a photo manipulation
program.  All of the manipulation should happen to the input images before
you compile into a DVI or PDF.  After that, you will need to make the
changes to the PDF in a program like Inkscape, Acrobat Professional, or
Illustrator.

In general,  however, I would recommend that you use TIFF images for black +
white and grayscale (either uncompressed or lossless compression).
Greyscale images are much smaller than color images with only a single
channel of information.  In contrast, color images often have three or four
channels of information.  Since they contain much less data, using lossy
compression (such as JPEG) doesn't result in a much smaller image size.

Additionally,  JPEG and other compressed image formats will often introduce
distortions.  While this won't be visible if printing on a desktop printer
or viewing on screen, it is a terribly bad idea to use low resolution or
compressed images in a file bound for a printing press.

For graphs and other data graphics, I would highly recommend creating either
an EPS or PDF image.  When doing so, make sure that the graphic is a vector
based image rather than a rasterized version.  This will result in a much
crisper looking print reproduction.  The process for doing so varies from
program to program, however.

Best of luck with your project.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Document with PDFs

[Julio Rojas]

Is this not the right list for this kind of errors? Should I check
bugzilla? Can someone send it to the developer list?

My wife told me that today she closed all the footnotes and was able
to compile the document. I haven't been able to verify this, but I'll
try later tonight.

Best regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all, I have a document with some images in PDF format. I have
 prepared the images in Inkscape (Windows XP). The document is being
 compiled in LyX 1.6.5 (Leopard). When the document is compiled the
 following message is presented:

 basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error

 I tried compiling the document in LaTeX directly and it worked
 perfectly. I also tried convert directly with one of the images,
 turning the PDF into a PS, and it also worked perfectly.

 Any idea? Thanks in advance.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Index of descriptions

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe 
programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look for 
all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the 
described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Thanks for that encouraging reply, Rob. Can I ask a quick supplementary?
I have colour jpgs, not particularly high res but neither are they poor.
And I'm making a pdf for submission to a printer, to be printed in b/w.
The jpgs are atthe moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
would the conversion cost me definition?

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:20 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote:
 Hi Richard,
 
 What kinds of photos are they?  For example, are they screenshots that
 you've converted to black and white?  Or are they text on a white
 background?  Or are they grayscale images or are they true black and white
 (two-tone images)?
 
 Are there any pertinent details that you wish to highlight?  What kind of
 contrast values are you hoping to get?   What is the initial resolution?  Do
 you have high-res copies for printing on a press or will you be printing
 from a desktop computer?
 
 The answer to your original question really depends on what you want to do
 with them.  My experience with LyX has been that it does a pretty good job
 with whatever images you feed to it, but it isn't a photo manipulation
 program.  All of the manipulation should happen to the input images before
 you compile into a DVI or PDF.  After that, you will need to make the
 changes to the PDF in a program like Inkscape, Acrobat Professional, or
 Illustrator.
 
 In general,  however, I would recommend that you use TIFF images for black +
 white and grayscale (either uncompressed or lossless compression).
 Greyscale images are much smaller than color images with only a single
 channel of information.  In contrast, color images often have three or four
 channels of information.  Since they contain much less data, using lossy
 compression (such as JPEG) doesn't result in a much smaller image size.
 
 Additionally,  JPEG and other compressed image formats will often introduce
 distortions.  While this won't be visible if printing on a desktop printer
 or viewing on screen, it is a terribly bad idea to use low resolution or
 compressed images in a file bound for a printing press.
 
 For graphs and other data graphics, I would highly recommend creating either
 an EPS or PDF image.  When doing so, make sure that the graphic is a vector
 based image rather than a rasterized version.  This will result in a much
 crisper looking print reproduction.  The process for doing so varies from
 program to program, however.
 
 Best of luck with your project.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rob Oakes
 

Re: Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

But that does not save me from going description by description adding 
the glossary entry manually, does it?


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look 
for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the 
described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

Re: Index of descriptions

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 02:37 PM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:
But that does not save me from going description by description adding 
the glossary entry manually, does it?


You could redefine the description environment in such a way that it 
handled this for you, I think.


rh


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to 
look for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with 
the described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Richard,

 Can I ask a quick supplementary? 

Of course.

 The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
would the conversion cost me definition? 

By all means, process the files.  If possible, do this yourself or have
someone with a good photographic eye do it.  This ensures that you get the
image that you want.  If you don't convert them, then someone (or worse,
some machine) at the printers will.  This can sometimes result in a final
product different than you had envisioned.

Black and white is a completely different medium than color and it usually
takes a little bit of tweaking to make sure that you get the images to your
satisfaction.  For example, most black and white photos should have a bit
more contrast and a slightly higher adjusted exposure than the equivalent
color photograph.  This helps to bring out relevant details that might
otherwise not be visible. (Keep in mind that I tend to be extremely fussy
about images and figures.)
 
The conversion shouldn't really cost you any definition, since you're only
converting from color  to black and white. Loss of definition seems to
happen when changing the physical dimensions of the image.  The conversion
can be done in the photo program of your choice, but using Photoshop or Gimp
will give you a tremendous amount of fine control over the image appearance.

Re: JPEG to Tiff conversion.  If your source images are already JPEG, then
you shouldn't you don't really gain anything by saving it to TIFF (though I
would anyway).  If you save back to JPEG, make sure that the quality bar
is set to 100%, or it will further compress the image and you will lose
additional data.

Also, when you scale the images, make sure that they aren't down sampled
(some image editing programs don't distinguish between the pixel dimensions
and the physical dimensions).  You want the pixel dimensions to remain the
same, regardless of the physical dimensions.  Most printing presses require
images that are at least 300 dpi, though bigger is *always* better.  It's a
completely different mindset than when creating something for online
distribution.

Thus, I would avoid Photoshop's Save for Web and Devices feature or
anything any-way similar.  The entire purpose of Save for Web and Devices
and co. is to down sample, not scale. 

One final thought: as long as the source images are of sufficient size, I
would stick to scaling inside of LyX itself.  There is a dialog box that
will let you specify the physical dimensions without messing with the source
image.

Hope this is of some help.  If you have any other questions, please don't
hesitate to let me know.

Cheers,

Rob

Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Rainer M Krug]

Hi

I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
(A, B, ...) a numbering like

Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
.
.
.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks,

Rainer


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Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
 Hi
 
 I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
 (A, B, ...) a numbering like
 
 Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
 Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
 .
 .
 .
 
 How can I achieve this?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rainer

Hi Rainer,

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how things 
work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is based on the 
Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.


On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:

Appendix A
Example: SSH


In the table of contents, it looks like this:

A Example: SSH

Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?

Thanks

SteveT

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Genealogy symbols

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I need genealogy symbols in a lyx-document.

I installed the genealogy package with the MiKTeX package manager,
reconfigured lyx, started lyx again - but I don't find the symbols
(insert/special character/symbols).

Please, how can I use the genealogy symbols in my document?

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RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Thanks, Rob. That was very clear and helpful!

Richard

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:12 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote:
 Hi Richard,
 
  Can I ask a quick supplementary? 
 
 Of course.
 
  The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
 them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
 would the conversion cost me definition? 
 
 By all means, process the files.  If possible, do this yourself or have
 someone with a good photographic eye do it.  This ensures that you get the
 image that you want.  If you don't convert them, then someone (or worse,
 some machine) at the printers will.  This can sometimes result in a final
 product different than you had envisioned.
 
 Black and white is a completely different medium than color and it usually
 takes a little bit of tweaking to make sure that you get the images to your
 satisfaction.  For example, most black and white photos should have a bit
 more contrast and a slightly higher adjusted exposure than the equivalent
 color photograph.  This helps to bring out relevant details that might
 otherwise not be visible. (Keep in mind that I tend to be extremely fussy
 about images and figures.)
  
 The conversion shouldn't really cost you any definition, since you're only
 converting from color  to black and white. Loss of definition seems to
 happen when changing the physical dimensions of the image.  The conversion
 can be done in the photo program of your choice, but using Photoshop or Gimp
 will give you a tremendous amount of fine control over the image appearance.
 
 Re: JPEG to Tiff conversion.  If your source images are already JPEG, then
 you shouldn't you don't really gain anything by saving it to TIFF (though I
 would anyway).  If you save back to JPEG, make sure that the quality bar
 is set to 100%, or it will further compress the image and you will lose
 additional data.
 
 Also, when you scale the images, make sure that they aren't down sampled
 (some image editing programs don't distinguish between the pixel dimensions
 and the physical dimensions).  You want the pixel dimensions to remain the
 same, regardless of the physical dimensions.  Most printing presses require
 images that are at least 300 dpi, though bigger is *always* better.  It's a
 completely different mindset than when creating something for online
 distribution.
 
 Thus, I would avoid Photoshop's Save for Web and Devices feature or
 anything any-way similar.  The entire purpose of Save for Web and Devices
 and co. is to down sample, not scale. 
 
 One final thought: as long as the source images are of sufficient size, I
 would stick to scaling inside of LyX itself.  There is a dialog box that
 will let you specify the physical dimensions without messing with the source
 image.
 
 Hope this is of some help.  If you have any other questions, please don't
 hesitate to let me know.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rob
 

Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Rainer M Krug]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
  Hi
 
  I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
  (A, B, ...) a numbering like
 
  Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
  Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
  .
  .
  .
 
  How can I achieve this?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Rainer

 Hi Rainer,

 I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how things
 work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is based on
 the
 Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.


 On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:

 Appendix A
 Example: SSH


Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the different
sections in the appendix, I want to have the word Appendix  as you
describe it.

I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.

Rainer





 In the table of contents, it looks like this:

 A Example: SSH

 Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?

 Thanks

 SteveT

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Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt 
sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
  On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
   Hi
  
   I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
   (A, B, ...) a numbering like
  
   Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
   Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
   .
   .
   .
  
   How can I achieve this?
  
   Thanks,
  
   Rainer
 
  Hi Rainer,
 
  I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how
  things work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is
  based on the
  Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.
 
 
  On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
 
  Appendix A
  Example: SSH
 
 Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the
  different sections in the appendix, I want to have the word Appendix  as
  you describe it.
 
 I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.
 
 Rainer
 
  In the table of contents, it looks like this:
 
  A Example: SSH
 
  Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?
 
  Thanks
 
  SteveT
 
  Steve Litt
  Recession Relief Package
  http://www.recession-relief.US
  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 

Rainer,

What document class are you using?

Do me a favor. Using the Book document class, make a brand new document with 
one chapter and one appendix, and see if it comes out the way I described, and 
let us know what happened.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Rainer M Krug]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
  On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt
 sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
   On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
Hi
   
I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the
 Appendix
(A, B, ...) a numbering like
   
Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
.
.
.
   
How can I achieve this?
   
Thanks,
   
Rainer
  
   Hi Rainer,
  
   I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how
   things work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is
   based on the
   Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.
  
  
   On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
  
   Appendix A
   Example: SSH
 
  Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the
   different sections in the appendix, I want to have the word Appendix 
 as
   you describe it.
 
  I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.
 
  Rainer
 
   In the table of contents, it looks like this:
  
   A Example: SSH
  
   Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or
 neither?
  
   Thanks
  
   SteveT
  
   Steve Litt
   Recession Relief Package
   http://www.recession-relief.US
   Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 

 Hi Steve

thanks for your help. It is getting late and I am leaving the manuscript as
it is. I will come back to you tomorrow to follow it up.

Thanks,

Rainer


 Rainer,

 What document class are you using?

 Do me a favor. Using the Book document class, make a brand new document
 with
 one chapter and one appendix, and see if it comes out the way I described,
 and
 let us know what happened.

 Thanks

 SteveT

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




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Stellenbosch University
Main Campus, Merriman Avenue
Stellenbosch
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Re: Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

OK, thanks, I'll try that.
M

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 02:37 PM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:
But that does not save me from going description by description 
adding the glossary entry manually, does it?


You could redefine the description environment in such a way that it 
handled this for you, I think.


rh


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to 
look for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with 
the described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

How to determine where I am on a page.

[Philip Stubbs]

I have hacked up my own class file. It does 95% of what I set out to
achieve. However, I am stuck with the final bit of polish.

I have an element that I don't want to appear at the bottom of a page.
Therefore, I need to test to find out how far down the page I am, and
if more than 75% of the page is used, insert a \newpage.

Any pointers of where to find a solution to this would be appreciated.

-- 
Philip Stubbs

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Philip Stubbs wrote:
 I have an element that I don't want to appear at the bottom of a page.
 Therefore, I need to test to find out how far down the page I am, and
 if more than 75% of the page is used, insert a \newpage.

One possibility:


% Conditional pagebreak
\def\condbreak#1{%
\vskip 0pt plus #1\pagebreak[3]\vskip 0pt plus -#1\relax}

\newcommand*\condbr[1]{\condbreak{#1\baselineskip}}
-

Then you can use either
\condbr{3}
which will insert a page break if less then 3 lines of text follow
or
\condbreak{any value}
e.g.
\condbreak{.25\textheight}

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 04:52 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:


% Conditional pagebreak
\def\condbreak#1{%
\vskip 0pt plus #1\pagebreak[3]\vskip 0pt plus -#1\relax}

   

As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?

rh

Re: Change tracking

[rgheck]

On 01/23/2010 04:59 AM, E. Kaplan wrote:
It seems that inserting notes into a Lyx file while tracking changes 
modifies the color of some parts of the text in the pdf output to 
blue, misleading the reader to believe that the blue text is new 
insertions, while it is not.  This is true of both 1.6.4 (on Kubuntu 
9.10, 64 bit) and 1.6.5 (Windows XP).

Is this a bug?  It certainly is not a helpful feature!


Can you post an example file? What are you seeing in the LaTeX output?

rh

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

rgheck wrote:
 As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/relax

Note, though, that the \condbreak macro is not my doing. I've picked it up 
eventually on comp.text.tex.

Jürgen

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 07:59 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

rgheck wrote:
   

As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?
 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/relax

   

Thanks. I thought it must be something like that.

rh

Don't understand LaTeX Error

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:


LaTeX Source:
\subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
\footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
}}

1. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
 }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. 

2. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
 }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

3. Error:
Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
Description:
 }}

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

4. Error:
Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
Desription:
 }}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
the whole thing and hope for the best.


The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
it
from \citet{GieslerG1990}
to \cite{GieslerG1990}
the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
be accepted? 

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Matthias Schmidt
mailto:gm_schm...@yahoo.de

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Re: Don't understand LaTeX Error

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 10:37 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:

Hello,

I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:

   
I think the problem is that you have put a footnote inside a 
subsubsection heading. This is a bad idea. Are you generating a table of 
contents? If so, then the problem is that LaTeX is trying to put the 
footnote inside the table of contents. Surely you do not want this.


rh


LaTeX Source:
\subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
\footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
}}

1. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
  }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

2. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
  }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

3. Error:
Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
Description:
  }}

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

4. Error:
Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
Desription:
  }}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
the whole thing and hope for the best.


The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
it
from \citet{GieslerG1990}
to \cite{GieslerG1990}
the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
be accepted?

   

Re: Clear double page and start at left page

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Finally managed to solve the problem using the textpos package.

In your preamble, put:

% absolute to use whole page, showboxes draws line around each box,
useful for debugging
\usepackage[absolute,showboxes]{textpos}
% sets up a grid, useful for debugging
\usepackage[texcoord,colorgrid]{eso-pic}
% adjust zero point to left upper of page
\textblockorigin{0mm}{0mm}
% generate grid of 10x10 and keep margins of 15 mm left and right and
30 mm top bottom around the grid
\TPGrid[15mm,30mm]{10}{10}
% create some constants.
\newcommand{\boxwidth}{5}
\newcommand{\xleft}{0}
\newcommand{\yleft}{0}
\newcommand{\xright}{5.1}
\newcommand{\yright}{5}

then, instert some ERT to have one page with four figures.

\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yleft) figure \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yleft) figure \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yright) figure \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yright) figure \end{textblock}

insert your figures / minipage / whatever you want at figures in the
normal Lyx way.

If you have multiple pages with figures and no text, inserting a clear
page / clear double page / page break / new page is NOT sufficient to
prevent the figures from cluttering on one page. You have to put a
'protected space' (Ctrl+Space) behind the last '\end(textblock)' ERT.
It took me quite a while to figure this out, but it has to do with the
fact minipages are just put under normal text, no wrapping is applied.

If you want the content of a textblock to scale with \boxwidth (you
probably want that), insert the content in a minipage (Box in Lyx) and
set the width of the minipage to 100 Column Width %. The minipage may
also be in a float figure environment.

Finally, it would have been useful if somebody had provided me a hint
to this package...

Regards,
Corné

2010/1/24 Jan Piet Joris en Corneel jpjorisencorn...@gmail.com:
 Dear all,

 I have two pages of graphs of a measurement in a two sided layout with
 normal left-to-right text. I use classicthesis.

 The graphs consists of four floats and should be printed on two pages
 opposite to each other, so when someone opens the document, one can
 see all four graphs at once.

 Until now, I tried with clear page, clear double page ect. to do this.
 Unfortunately after 'clear double page', a right (odd) page starts,
 which is expected behaviour. I want to change this to left for this
 case.

 In the other parts of the document, clear double page should behave normally.

 Does anybody have some suggestions? Maybe clever use of minipage or ERT?

 Thanks,
 Corné

lyx2lyx failure

[Stefano Franchi]

I am trying to open a lyx file produced by a conversion script and
Lyx (1.6.5) fails claiming lyx2lyx  could not convert it.
The lyx file is in lyx format 2.16 (or so it claims in its header).

Launching lyx2lyx from the console gives the following error:


Warning: An error ocurred in 225, function add_end_layout at 0x295f230
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, line 83, in module
main()
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, line 77, in main
doc.convert()
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/LyX.py, line 500, in convert
conv(self)
  File /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx_1_4.py, line 449, in add_end_layout
struct_stack.pop()
IndexError: pop from empty list

Any insight on what the problem may be?


Cheers,

S.



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Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe 
programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look for all 
descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the described item 
as text.


Thanks,
Manolo

photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Does anyone have any useful input on what photo format gives the best
quality results on b/w printing via lyx? Are there any optimal values,
or things to worry about?

TIA

Richard

Re: Don't understand LaTeX Error

[Matthias Schmidt]

yes, I didn't think about the table of contents, ok.

But I would like to understand, what is happening there:
I get the LaTeX error only with \citet{GieslerG1990} but not with
\cite{GieslerG1990}. Why doesn't Lyx accept this one citation style
but the other one is ok?


am Montag, 25. Januar 2010 um 16:40 schrieben Sie:

 On 01/25/2010 10:37 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

 When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
 get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:


 I think the problem is that you have put a footnote inside a 
 subsubsection heading. This is a bad idea. Are you generating a table of
 contents? If so, then the problem is that LaTeX is trying to put the 
 footnote inside the table of contents. Surely you do not want this.

 rh

 LaTeX Source:
 \subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
 Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
 \footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
 im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
 }}

 1. Error:
 Undefined control sequence.
 Description:
   }}

 The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
 was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
 and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

 2. Error:
 Undefined control sequence.
 Description:
   }}

 The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
 was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
 and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

 3. Error:
 Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
 Description:
   }}

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

 4. Error:
 Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
 Desription:
   }}

 I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
 sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
 the whole thing and hope for the best.


 The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
 it
 from \citet{GieslerG1990}
 to \cite{GieslerG1990}
 the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
 to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
 be accepted?







-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Matthias Schmidt
mailto:gm_schm...@yahoo.de

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RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Richard,

What kinds of photos are they?  For example, are they screenshots that
you've converted to black and white?  Or are they text on a white
background?  Or are they grayscale images or are they true black and white
(two-tone images)?

Are there any pertinent details that you wish to highlight?  What kind of
contrast values are you hoping to get?   What is the initial resolution?  Do
you have high-res copies for printing on a press or will you be printing
from a desktop computer?

The answer to your original question really depends on what you want to do
with them.  My experience with LyX has been that it does a pretty good job
with whatever images you feed to it, but it isn't a photo manipulation
program.  All of the manipulation should happen to the input images before
you compile into a DVI or PDF.  After that, you will need to make the
changes to the PDF in a program like Inkscape, Acrobat Professional, or
Illustrator.

In general,  however, I would recommend that you use TIFF images for black +
white and grayscale (either uncompressed or lossless compression).
Greyscale images are much smaller than color images with only a single
channel of information.  In contrast, color images often have three or four
channels of information.  Since they contain much less data, using lossy
compression (such as JPEG) doesn't result in a much smaller image size.

Additionally,  JPEG and other compressed image formats will often introduce
distortions.  While this won't be visible if printing on a desktop printer
or viewing on screen, it is a terribly bad idea to use low resolution or
compressed images in a file bound for a printing press.

For graphs and other data graphics, I would highly recommend creating either
an EPS or PDF image.  When doing so, make sure that the graphic is a vector
based image rather than a rasterized version.  This will result in a much
crisper looking print reproduction.  The process for doing so varies from
program to program, however.

Best of luck with your project.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Document with PDFs

[Julio Rojas]

Is this not the right list for this kind of errors? Should I check
bugzilla? Can someone send it to the developer list?

My wife told me that today she closed all the footnotes and was able
to compile the document. I haven't been able to verify this, but I'll
try later tonight.

Best regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all, I have a document with some images in PDF format. I have
 prepared the images in Inkscape (Windows XP). The document is being
 compiled in LyX 1.6.5 (Leopard). When the document is compiled the
 following message is presented:

 basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error

 I tried compiling the document in LaTeX directly and it worked
 perfectly. I also tried convert directly with one of the images,
 turning the PDF into a PS, and it also worked perfectly.

 Any idea? Thanks in advance.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Index of descriptions

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe 
programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look for 
all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the 
described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Thanks for that encouraging reply, Rob. Can I ask a quick supplementary?
I have colour jpgs, not particularly high res but neither are they poor.
And I'm making a pdf for submission to a printer, to be printed in b/w.
The jpgs are atthe moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
would the conversion cost me definition?

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:20 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote:
 Hi Richard,
 
 What kinds of photos are they?  For example, are they screenshots that
 you've converted to black and white?  Or are they text on a white
 background?  Or are they grayscale images or are they true black and white
 (two-tone images)?
 
 Are there any pertinent details that you wish to highlight?  What kind of
 contrast values are you hoping to get?   What is the initial resolution?  Do
 you have high-res copies for printing on a press or will you be printing
 from a desktop computer?
 
 The answer to your original question really depends on what you want to do
 with them.  My experience with LyX has been that it does a pretty good job
 with whatever images you feed to it, but it isn't a photo manipulation
 program.  All of the manipulation should happen to the input images before
 you compile into a DVI or PDF.  After that, you will need to make the
 changes to the PDF in a program like Inkscape, Acrobat Professional, or
 Illustrator.
 
 In general,  however, I would recommend that you use TIFF images for black +
 white and grayscale (either uncompressed or lossless compression).
 Greyscale images are much smaller than color images with only a single
 channel of information.  In contrast, color images often have three or four
 channels of information.  Since they contain much less data, using lossy
 compression (such as JPEG) doesn't result in a much smaller image size.
 
 Additionally,  JPEG and other compressed image formats will often introduce
 distortions.  While this won't be visible if printing on a desktop printer
 or viewing on screen, it is a terribly bad idea to use low resolution or
 compressed images in a file bound for a printing press.
 
 For graphs and other data graphics, I would highly recommend creating either
 an EPS or PDF image.  When doing so, make sure that the graphic is a vector
 based image rather than a rasterized version.  This will result in a much
 crisper looking print reproduction.  The process for doing so varies from
 program to program, however.
 
 Best of luck with your project.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rob Oakes
 

Re: Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

But that does not save me from going description by description adding 
the glossary entry manually, does it?


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look 
for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the 
described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

Re: Index of descriptions

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 02:37 PM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:
But that does not save me from going description by description adding 
the glossary entry manually, does it?


You could redefine the description environment in such a way that it 
handled this for you, I think.


rh


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to 
look for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with 
the described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Richard,

 Can I ask a quick supplementary? 

Of course.

 The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
would the conversion cost me definition? 

By all means, process the files.  If possible, do this yourself or have
someone with a good photographic eye do it.  This ensures that you get the
image that you want.  If you don't convert them, then someone (or worse,
some machine) at the printers will.  This can sometimes result in a final
product different than you had envisioned.

Black and white is a completely different medium than color and it usually
takes a little bit of tweaking to make sure that you get the images to your
satisfaction.  For example, most black and white photos should have a bit
more contrast and a slightly higher adjusted exposure than the equivalent
color photograph.  This helps to bring out relevant details that might
otherwise not be visible. (Keep in mind that I tend to be extremely fussy
about images and figures.)
 
The conversion shouldn't really cost you any definition, since you're only
converting from color  to black and white. Loss of definition seems to
happen when changing the physical dimensions of the image.  The conversion
can be done in the photo program of your choice, but using Photoshop or Gimp
will give you a tremendous amount of fine control over the image appearance.

Re: JPEG to Tiff conversion.  If your source images are already JPEG, then
you shouldn't you don't really gain anything by saving it to TIFF (though I
would anyway).  If you save back to JPEG, make sure that the quality bar
is set to 100%, or it will further compress the image and you will lose
additional data.

Also, when you scale the images, make sure that they aren't down sampled
(some image editing programs don't distinguish between the pixel dimensions
and the physical dimensions).  You want the pixel dimensions to remain the
same, regardless of the physical dimensions.  Most printing presses require
images that are at least 300 dpi, though bigger is *always* better.  It's a
completely different mindset than when creating something for online
distribution.

Thus, I would avoid Photoshop's Save for Web and Devices feature or
anything any-way similar.  The entire purpose of Save for Web and Devices
and co. is to down sample, not scale. 

One final thought: as long as the source images are of sufficient size, I
would stick to scaling inside of LyX itself.  There is a dialog box that
will let you specify the physical dimensions without messing with the source
image.

Hope this is of some help.  If you have any other questions, please don't
hesitate to let me know.

Cheers,

Rob

Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Rainer M Krug]

Hi

I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
(A, B, ...) a numbering like

Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
.
.
.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks,

Rainer


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Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
 Hi
 
 I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
 (A, B, ...) a numbering like
 
 Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
 Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
 .
 .
 .
 
 How can I achieve this?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rainer

Hi Rainer,

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how things 
work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is based on the 
Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.


On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:

Appendix A
Example: SSH


In the table of contents, it looks like this:

A Example: SSH

Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?

Thanks

SteveT

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

Genealogy symbols

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I need genealogy symbols in a lyx-document.

I installed the genealogy package with the MiKTeX package manager,
reconfigured lyx, started lyx again - but I don't find the symbols
(insert/special character/symbols).

Please, how can I use the genealogy symbols in my document?

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RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Thanks, Rob. That was very clear and helpful!

Richard

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:12 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote:
 Hi Richard,
 
  Can I ask a quick supplementary? 
 
 Of course.
 
  The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
 them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
 would the conversion cost me definition? 
 
 By all means, process the files.  If possible, do this yourself or have
 someone with a good photographic eye do it.  This ensures that you get the
 image that you want.  If you don't convert them, then someone (or worse,
 some machine) at the printers will.  This can sometimes result in a final
 product different than you had envisioned.
 
 Black and white is a completely different medium than color and it usually
 takes a little bit of tweaking to make sure that you get the images to your
 satisfaction.  For example, most black and white photos should have a bit
 more contrast and a slightly higher adjusted exposure than the equivalent
 color photograph.  This helps to bring out relevant details that might
 otherwise not be visible. (Keep in mind that I tend to be extremely fussy
 about images and figures.)
  
 The conversion shouldn't really cost you any definition, since you're only
 converting from color  to black and white. Loss of definition seems to
 happen when changing the physical dimensions of the image.  The conversion
 can be done in the photo program of your choice, but using Photoshop or Gimp
 will give you a tremendous amount of fine control over the image appearance.
 
 Re: JPEG to Tiff conversion.  If your source images are already JPEG, then
 you shouldn't you don't really gain anything by saving it to TIFF (though I
 would anyway).  If you save back to JPEG, make sure that the quality bar
 is set to 100%, or it will further compress the image and you will lose
 additional data.
 
 Also, when you scale the images, make sure that they aren't down sampled
 (some image editing programs don't distinguish between the pixel dimensions
 and the physical dimensions).  You want the pixel dimensions to remain the
 same, regardless of the physical dimensions.  Most printing presses require
 images that are at least 300 dpi, though bigger is *always* better.  It's a
 completely different mindset than when creating something for online
 distribution.
 
 Thus, I would avoid Photoshop's Save for Web and Devices feature or
 anything any-way similar.  The entire purpose of Save for Web and Devices
 and co. is to down sample, not scale. 
 
 One final thought: as long as the source images are of sufficient size, I
 would stick to scaling inside of LyX itself.  There is a dialog box that
 will let you specify the physical dimensions without messing with the source
 image.
 
 Hope this is of some help.  If you have any other questions, please don't
 hesitate to let me know.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rob
 

Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Rainer M Krug]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
  Hi
 
  I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
  (A, B, ...) a numbering like
 
  Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
  Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
  .
  .
  .
 
  How can I achieve this?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Rainer

 Hi Rainer,

 I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how things
 work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is based on
 the
 Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.


 On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:

 Appendix A
 Example: SSH


Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the different
sections in the appendix, I want to have the word Appendix  as you
describe it.

I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.

Rainer





 In the table of contents, it looks like this:

 A Example: SSH

 Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?

 Thanks

 SteveT

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




-- 
NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!!

Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Natural Sciences Building
Office Suite 2039
Stellenbosch University
Main Campus, Merriman Avenue
Stellenbosch
South Africa

Cell:   +27 - (0)83 9479 042
Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782
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Skype:  RMkrug
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Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt 
sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
  On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
   Hi
  
   I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
   (A, B, ...) a numbering like
  
   Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
   Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
   .
   .
   .
  
   How can I achieve this?
  
   Thanks,
  
   Rainer
 
  Hi Rainer,
 
  I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how
  things work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is
  based on the
  Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.
 
 
  On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
 
  Appendix A
  Example: SSH
 
 Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the
  different sections in the appendix, I want to have the word Appendix  as
  you describe it.
 
 I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.
 
 Rainer
 
  In the table of contents, it looks like this:
 
  A Example: SSH
 
  Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?
 
  Thanks
 
  SteveT
 
  Steve Litt
  Recession Relief Package
  http://www.recession-relief.US
  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 

Rainer,

What document class are you using?

Do me a favor. Using the Book document class, make a brand new document with 
one chapter and one appendix, and see if it comes out the way I described, and 
let us know what happened.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: Instead of A B .. in Appendix Appendix A Appendix B

[Rainer M Krug]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
  On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt
 sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
   On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
Hi
   
I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the
 Appendix
(A, B, ...) a numbering like
   
Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
.
.
.
   
How can I achieve this?
   
Thanks,
   
Rainer
  
   Hi Rainer,
  
   I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how
   things work in my book Rapid Learning for the 21st Century, which is
   based on the
   Book document class. That book has an Appendix called Example: SSH.
  
  
   On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
  
   Appendix A
   Example: SSH
 
  Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the
   different sections in the appendix, I want to have the word Appendix 
 as
   you describe it.
 
  I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.
 
  Rainer
 
   In the table of contents, it looks like this:
  
   A Example: SSH
  
   Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or
 neither?
  
   Thanks
  
   SteveT
  
   Steve Litt
   Recession Relief Package
   http://www.recession-relief.US
   Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 

 Hi Steve

thanks for your help. It is getting late and I am leaving the manuscript as
it is. I will come back to you tomorrow to follow it up.

Thanks,

Rainer


 Rainer,

 What document class are you using?

 Do me a favor. Using the Book document class, make a brand new document
 with
 one chapter and one appendix, and see if it comes out the way I described,
 and
 let us know what happened.

 Thanks

 SteveT

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




-- 
NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!!

Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Natural Sciences Building
Office Suite 2039
Stellenbosch University
Main Campus, Merriman Avenue
Stellenbosch
South Africa

Cell:   +27 - (0)83 9479 042
Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782
Fax:+49 - (0)321 2125 2244
email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug
Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com

Re: Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

OK, thanks, I'll try that.
M

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 02:37 PM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:
But that does not save me from going description by description 
adding the glossary entry manually, does it?


You could redefine the description environment in such a way that it 
handled this for you, I think.


rh


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to 
look for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with 
the described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

How to determine where I am on a page.

[Philip Stubbs]

I have hacked up my own class file. It does 95% of what I set out to
achieve. However, I am stuck with the final bit of polish.

I have an element that I don't want to appear at the bottom of a page.
Therefore, I need to test to find out how far down the page I am, and
if more than 75% of the page is used, insert a \newpage.

Any pointers of where to find a solution to this would be appreciated.

-- 
Philip Stubbs

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Philip Stubbs wrote:
> I have an element that I don't want to appear at the bottom of a page.
> Therefore, I need to test to find out how far down the page I am, and
> if more than 75% of the page is used, insert a \newpage.

One possibility:


% Conditional pagebreak
\def\condbreak#1{%
\vskip 0pt plus #1\pagebreak[3]\vskip 0pt plus -#1\relax}

\newcommand*\condbr[1]{\condbreak{#1\baselineskip}}
-

Then you can use either
\condbr{3}
which will insert a page break if less then 3 lines of text follow
or
\condbreak{}
e.g.
\condbreak{.25\textheight}

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 04:52 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:


% Conditional pagebreak
\def\condbreak#1{%
\vskip 0pt plus #1\pagebreak[3]\vskip 0pt plus -#1\relax}

   

As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?

rh

Re: Change tracking

[rgheck]

On 01/23/2010 04:59 AM, E. Kaplan wrote:
It seems that inserting notes into a Lyx file while tracking changes 
modifies the color of some parts of the text in the pdf output to 
blue, misleading the reader to believe that the blue text is new 
insertions, while it is not.  This is true of both 1.6.4 (on Kubuntu 
9.10, 64 bit) and 1.6.5 (Windows XP).

Is this a bug?  It certainly is not a helpful feature!


Can you post an example file? What are you seeing in the LaTeX output?

rh

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

rgheck wrote:
> As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/relax

Note, though, that the \condbreak macro is not my doing. I've picked it up 
eventually on comp.text.tex.

Jürgen

Re: How to determine where I am on a page.

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 07:59 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

rgheck wrote:
   

As a related question: What does \relax do, and when does one need it?
 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/relax

   

Thanks. I thought it must be something like that.

rh

Don't understand LaTeX Error

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:


LaTeX Source:
\subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
\footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
}}

1. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
 }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. 

2. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
 }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

3. Error:
Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
Description:
 }}

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

4. Error:
Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
Desription:
 }}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
the whole thing and hope for the best.


The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
it
from \citet{GieslerG1990}
to \cite{GieslerG1990}
the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
be accepted? 

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Re: Don't understand LaTeX Error

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 10:37 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:

Hello,

I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5

When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:

   
I think the problem is that you have put a footnote inside a 
subsubsection heading. This is a bad idea. Are you generating a table of 
contents? If so, then the problem is that LaTeX is trying to put the 
footnote inside the table of contents. Surely you do not want this.


rh


LaTeX Source:
\subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
\footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
}}

1. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
  }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

2. Error:
Undefined control sequence.
Description:
  }}

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

3. Error:
Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
Description:
  }}

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

4. Error:
Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
Desription:
  }}

I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
the whole thing and hope for the best.


The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
it
from \citet{GieslerG1990}
to \cite{GieslerG1990}
the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
be accepted?

   

Re: Clear double page and start at left page

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Finally managed to solve the problem using the textpos package.

In your preamble, put:

% absolute to use whole page, showboxes draws line around each box,
useful for debugging
\usepackage[absolute,showboxes]{textpos}
% sets up a grid, useful for debugging
\usepackage[texcoord,colorgrid]{eso-pic}
% adjust zero point to left upper of page
\textblockorigin{0mm}{0mm}
% generate grid of 10x10 and keep margins of 15 mm left and right and
30 mm top bottom around the grid
\TPGrid[15mm,30mm]{10}{10}
% create some constants.
\newcommand{\boxwidth}{5}
\newcommand{\xleft}{0}
\newcommand{\yleft}{0}
\newcommand{\xright}{5.1}
\newcommand{\yright}{5}

then, instert some ERT to have one page with four figures.

\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yleft)  \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yleft)  \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yright)  \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yright)  \end{textblock}

insert your figures / minipage / whatever you want at  in the
normal Lyx way.

If you have multiple pages with figures and no text, inserting a clear
page / clear double page / page break / new page is NOT sufficient to
prevent the figures from cluttering on one page. You have to put a
'protected space' (Ctrl+Space) behind the last '\end(textblock)' ERT.
It took me quite a while to figure this out, but it has to do with the
fact minipages are just put under normal text, no wrapping is applied.

If you want the content of a textblock to scale with \boxwidth (you
probably want that), insert the content in a minipage (Box in Lyx) and
set the width of the minipage to 100 Column Width %. The minipage may
also be in a float figure environment.

Finally, it would have been useful if somebody had provided me a hint
to this package...

Regards,
Corné

2010/1/24 Jan Piet Joris en Corneel :
> Dear all,
>
> I have two pages of graphs of a measurement in a two sided layout with
> normal left-to-right text. I use classicthesis.
>
> The graphs consists of four floats and should be printed on two pages
> opposite to each other, so when someone opens the document, one can
> see all four graphs at once.
>
> Until now, I tried with clear page, clear double page ect. to do this.
> Unfortunately after 'clear double page', a right (odd) page starts,
> which is expected behaviour. I want to change this to left for this
> case.
>
> In the other parts of the document, clear double page should behave normally.
>
> Does anybody have some suggestions? Maybe clever use of minipage or ERT?
>
> Thanks,
> Corné
>

lyx2lyx failure

[Stefano Franchi]

I am trying to open a lyx file produced by a conversion script and
Lyx (1.6.5) fails claiming lyx2lyx  could not convert it.
The lyx file is in lyx format 2.16 (or so it claims in its header).

Launching lyx2lyx from the console gives the following error:


Warning: An error ocurred in 225, 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 83, in 
main()
  File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 77, in main
doc.convert()
  File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", line 500, in convert
conv(self)
  File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx_1_4.py", line 449, in add_end_layout
struct_stack.pop()
IndexError: pop from empty list

Any insight on what the problem may be?


Cheers,

S.



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Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe 
programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look for all 
descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the described item 
as text.


Thanks,
Manolo

photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Does anyone have any useful input on what photo format gives the best
quality results on b/w printing via lyx? Are there any optimal values,
or things to worry about?

TIA

Richard

Re: Don't understand LaTeX Error

[Matthias Schmidt]

yes, I didn't think about the table of contents, ok.

But I would like to understand, what is happening there:
I get the LaTeX error only with "\citet{GieslerG1990}" but not with
"\cite{GieslerG1990}". Why doesn't Lyx accept this one citation style
but the other one is ok?


am Montag, 25. Januar 2010 um 16:40 schrieben Sie:

> On 01/25/2010 10:37 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working with Lyx 1.6.5 and JabRef 2.5
>>
>> When I want to view the following LaTeX Source as PDF (pdflatex), I
>> get at the end of the first LaTeX run 4 LaTeX errors:
>>
>>
> I think the problem is that you have put a footnote inside a 
> subsubsection heading. This is a bad idea. Are you generating a table of
> contents? If so, then the problem is that LaTeX is trying to put the 
> footnote inside the table of contents. Surely you do not want this.

> rh

>> LaTeX Source:
>> \subsubsection{Die Familien Busch vor der Hardt und 
>> Flender\label{sub:Die-Familien-Busch}%
>> \footnote{Aus \citet{GieslerG1990}. Im Hinblick auf die Tafeln in Kap. 4.2
>> im Band 2 von Matthias Schmidt überarbeitet.%
>> }}
>>
>> 1. Error:
>> Undefined control sequence.
>> Description:
>>   }}
>>
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
>> was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
>> and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>> 2. Error:
>> Undefined control sequence.
>> Description:
>>   }}
>>
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
>> was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'
>> and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>> 3. Error:
>> Argument of \...@sect has an extra }.
>> Description:
>>   }}
>>
>> I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything. For
>> example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce this error. If you
>> simply proceed now, the `\par' that I've just inserted will cause me
>> to report a runaway argument that might be the root of the problem.
>> But if your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
>>
>> 4. Error:
>> Paragraph ended before \...@sect was complete.
>> Desription:
>>   }}
>>
>> I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control
>> sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget
>> the whole thing and hope for the best.
>>
>>
>> The cause of the problem seems to be the Citation Style: When I change
>> it
>> from \citet{GieslerG1990}
>> to \cite{GieslerG1990}
>> the LaTeX errors do not come! I don't understand this. What do I have
>> to change, that the first citation style (\citet{GieslerG1990}) will
>> be accepted?
>>
>>





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RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Richard,

What kinds of photos are they?  For example, are they screenshots that
you've converted to black and white?  Or are they text on a white
background?  Or are they grayscale images or are they true black and white
(two-tone images)?

Are there any pertinent details that you wish to highlight?  What kind of
contrast values are you hoping to get?   What is the initial resolution?  Do
you have high-res copies for printing on a press or will you be printing
from a desktop computer?

The answer to your original question really depends on what you want to do
with them.  My experience with LyX has been that it does a pretty good job
with whatever images you feed to it, but it isn't a photo manipulation
program.  All of the manipulation should happen to the input images before
you compile into a DVI or PDF.  After that, you will need to make the
changes to the PDF in a program like Inkscape, Acrobat Professional, or
Illustrator.

In general,  however, I would recommend that you use TIFF images for black +
white and grayscale (either uncompressed or lossless compression).
Greyscale images are much smaller than color images with only a single
channel of information.  In contrast, color images often have three or four
channels of information.  Since they contain much less data, using lossy
compression (such as JPEG) doesn't result in a much smaller image size.

Additionally,  JPEG and other compressed image formats will often introduce
distortions.  While this won't be visible if printing on a desktop printer
or viewing on screen, it is a terribly bad idea to use low resolution or
compressed images in a file bound for a printing press.

For graphs and other data graphics, I would highly recommend creating either
an EPS or PDF image.  When doing so, make sure that the graphic is a vector
based image rather than a rasterized version.  This will result in a much
crisper looking print reproduction.  The process for doing so varies from
program to program, however.

Best of luck with your project.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Document with PDFs

[Julio Rojas]

Is this not the right list for this kind of errors? Should I check
bugzilla? Can someone send it to the developer list?

My wife told me that today she closed all the footnotes and was able
to compile the document. I haven't been able to verify this, but I'll
try later tonight.

Best regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Julio Rojas  wrote:
> Dear all, I have a document with some images in PDF format. I have
> prepared the images in Inkscape (Windows XP). The document is being
> compiled in LyX 1.6.5 (Leopard). When the document is compiled the
> following message is presented:
>
> basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error
>
> I tried compiling the document in LaTeX directly and it worked
> perfectly. I also tried "convert" directly with one of the images,
> turning the PDF into a PS, and it also worked perfectly.
>
> Any idea? Thanks in advance.
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>

Re: Index of descriptions

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe 
programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look for 
all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the 
described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Thanks for that encouraging reply, Rob. Can I ask a quick supplementary?
I have colour jpgs, not particularly high res but neither are they poor.
And I'm making a pdf for submission to a printer, to be printed in b/w.
The jpgs are atthe moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
would the conversion cost me definition?

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:20 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> What kinds of photos are they?  For example, are they screenshots that
> you've converted to black and white?  Or are they text on a white
> background?  Or are they grayscale images or are they true black and white
> (two-tone images)?
> 
> Are there any pertinent details that you wish to highlight?  What kind of
> contrast values are you hoping to get?   What is the initial resolution?  Do
> you have high-res copies for printing on a press or will you be printing
> from a desktop computer?
> 
> The answer to your original question really depends on what you want to do
> with them.  My experience with LyX has been that it does a pretty good job
> with whatever images you feed to it, but it isn't a photo manipulation
> program.  All of the manipulation should happen to the input images before
> you compile into a DVI or PDF.  After that, you will need to make the
> changes to the PDF in a program like Inkscape, Acrobat Professional, or
> Illustrator.
> 
> In general,  however, I would recommend that you use TIFF images for black +
> white and grayscale (either uncompressed or lossless compression).
> Greyscale images are much smaller than color images with only a single
> channel of information.  In contrast, color images often have three or four
> channels of information.  Since they contain much less data, using lossy
> compression (such as JPEG) doesn't result in a much smaller image size.
> 
> Additionally,  JPEG and other compressed image formats will often introduce
> distortions.  While this won't be visible if printing on a desktop printer
> or viewing on screen, it is a terribly bad idea to use low resolution or
> compressed images in a file bound for a printing press.
> 
> For graphs and other data graphics, I would highly recommend creating either
> an EPS or PDF image.  When doing so, make sure that the graphic is a vector
> based image rather than a rasterized version.  This will result in a much
> crisper looking print reproduction.  The process for doing so varies from
> program to program, however.
> 
> Best of luck with your project.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob Oakes
> 

Re: Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

But that does not save me from going description by description adding 
the glossary entry manually, does it?


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look 
for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the 
described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

Re: Index of descriptions

[rgheck]

On 01/25/2010 02:37 PM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:
But that does not save me from going description by description adding 
the glossary entry manually, does it?


You could redefine the description environment in such a way that it 
handled this for you, I think.


rh


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to 
look for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with 
the described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh

RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Richard,

<< Can I ask a quick supplementary? >>

Of course.

<< The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
would the conversion cost me definition? >>

By all means, process the files.  If possible, do this yourself or have
someone with a good photographic eye do it.  This ensures that you get the
image that you want.  If you don't convert them, then someone (or worse,
some machine) at the printers will.  This can sometimes result in a final
product different than you had envisioned.

Black and white is a completely different medium than color and it usually
takes a little bit of tweaking to make sure that you get the images to your
satisfaction.  For example, most black and white photos should have a bit
more contrast and a slightly higher adjusted exposure than the equivalent
color photograph.  This helps to bring out relevant details that might
otherwise not be visible. (Keep in mind that I tend to be extremely fussy
about images and figures.)
 
The conversion shouldn't really cost you any definition, since you're only
converting from color  to black and white. Loss of "definition" seems to
happen when changing the physical dimensions of the image.  The conversion
can be done in the photo program of your choice, but using Photoshop or Gimp
will give you a tremendous amount of fine control over the image appearance.

Re: JPEG to Tiff conversion.  If your source images are already JPEG, then
you shouldn't you don't really gain anything by saving it to TIFF (though I
would anyway).  If you save back to JPEG, make sure that the "quality" bar
is set to 100%, or it will further compress the image and you will lose
additional data.

Also, when you "scale the images", make sure that they aren't down sampled
(some image editing programs don't distinguish between the pixel dimensions
and the physical dimensions).  You want the pixel dimensions to remain the
same, regardless of the physical dimensions.  Most printing presses require
images that are at least 300 dpi, though bigger is *always* better.  It's a
completely different mindset than when creating something for online
distribution.

Thus, I would avoid Photoshop's "Save for Web and Devices" feature or
anything any-way similar.  The entire purpose of "Save for Web and Devices"
and co. is to down sample, not scale. 

One final thought: as long as the source images are of sufficient size, I
would stick to scaling inside of LyX itself.  There is a dialog box that
will let you specify the physical dimensions without messing with the source
image.

Hope this is of some help.  If you have any other questions, please don't
hesitate to let me know.

Cheers,

Rob

Instead of "A" "B" .. in Appendix "Appendix A" "Appendix B"

[Rainer M Krug]

Hi

I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
("A", "B", ...) a numbering like

Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
.
.
.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks,

Rainer


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Re: Instead of "A" "B" .. in Appendix "Appendix A" "Appendix B"

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
> ("A", "B", ...) a numbering like
> 
> Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
> Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
> .
> .
> .
> 
> How can I achieve this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rainer

Hi Rainer,

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how things 
work in my book "Rapid Learning for the 21st Century", which is based on the 
Book document class. That book has an Appendix called "Example: SSH".


On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:

Appendix A
Example: SSH


In the table of contents, it looks like this:

A Example: SSH

Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?

Thanks

SteveT

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

Genealogy symbols

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello,

I need genealogy symbols in a lyx-document.

I installed the genealogy package with the MiKTeX package manager,
reconfigured lyx, started lyx again - but I don't find the symbols
(insert/special character/symbols).

Please, how can I use the genealogy symbols in my document?

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RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

[Richard Brown]

Thanks, Rob. That was very clear and helpful!

Richard

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:12 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> << Can I ask a quick supplementary? >>
> 
> Of course.
> 
> << The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
> them to about 40%.  Should I process the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
> would the conversion cost me definition? >>
> 
> By all means, process the files.  If possible, do this yourself or have
> someone with a good photographic eye do it.  This ensures that you get the
> image that you want.  If you don't convert them, then someone (or worse,
> some machine) at the printers will.  This can sometimes result in a final
> product different than you had envisioned.
> 
> Black and white is a completely different medium than color and it usually
> takes a little bit of tweaking to make sure that you get the images to your
> satisfaction.  For example, most black and white photos should have a bit
> more contrast and a slightly higher adjusted exposure than the equivalent
> color photograph.  This helps to bring out relevant details that might
> otherwise not be visible. (Keep in mind that I tend to be extremely fussy
> about images and figures.)
>  
> The conversion shouldn't really cost you any definition, since you're only
> converting from color  to black and white. Loss of "definition" seems to
> happen when changing the physical dimensions of the image.  The conversion
> can be done in the photo program of your choice, but using Photoshop or Gimp
> will give you a tremendous amount of fine control over the image appearance.
> 
> Re: JPEG to Tiff conversion.  If your source images are already JPEG, then
> you shouldn't you don't really gain anything by saving it to TIFF (though I
> would anyway).  If you save back to JPEG, make sure that the "quality" bar
> is set to 100%, or it will further compress the image and you will lose
> additional data.
> 
> Also, when you "scale the images", make sure that they aren't down sampled
> (some image editing programs don't distinguish between the pixel dimensions
> and the physical dimensions).  You want the pixel dimensions to remain the
> same, regardless of the physical dimensions.  Most printing presses require
> images that are at least 300 dpi, though bigger is *always* better.  It's a
> completely different mindset than when creating something for online
> distribution.
> 
> Thus, I would avoid Photoshop's "Save for Web and Devices" feature or
> anything any-way similar.  The entire purpose of "Save for Web and Devices"
> and co. is to down sample, not scale. 
> 
> One final thought: as long as the source images are of sufficient size, I
> would stick to scaling inside of LyX itself.  There is a dialog box that
> will let you specify the physical dimensions without messing with the source
> image.
> 
> Hope this is of some help.  If you have any other questions, please don't
> hesitate to let me know.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 

Re: Instead of "A" "B" .. in Appendix "Appendix A" "Appendix B"

[Rainer M Krug]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
> > ("A", "B", ...) a numbering like
> >
> > Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
> > Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > How can I achieve this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rainer
>
> Hi Rainer,
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how things
> work in my book "Rapid Learning for the 21st Century", which is based on
> the
> Book document class. That book has an Appendix called "Example: SSH".
>
>
> On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
>
> Appendix A
> Example: SSH
>

Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the different
sections in the appendix, I want to have the word "Appendix " as you
describe it.

I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.

Rainer



>
>
> In the table of contents, it looks like this:
>
> A Example: SSH
>
> Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Recession Relief Package
> http://www.recession-relief.US
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
>
>


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Office Suite 2039
Stellenbosch University
Main Campus, Merriman Avenue
Stellenbosch
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Re: Instead of "A" "B" .. in Appendix "Appendix A" "Appendix B"

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt 
wrote:
> > On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Appendix
> > > ("A", "B", ...) a numbering like
> > >
> > > Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
> > > Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > >
> > > How can I achieve this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Rainer
> >
> > Hi Rainer,
> >
> > I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how
> > things work in my book "Rapid Learning for the 21st Century", which is
> > based on the
> > Book document class. That book has an Appendix called "Example: SSH".
> >
> >
> > On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
> >
> > Appendix A
> > Example: SSH
> 
> Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the
>  different sections in the appendix, I want to have the word "Appendix " as
>  you describe it.
> 
> I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.
> 
> Rainer
> 
> > In the table of contents, it looks like this:
> >
> > A Example: SSH
> >
> > Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > Recession Relief Package
> > http://www.recession-relief.US
> > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
> 

Rainer,

What document class are you using?

Do me a favor. Using the Book document class, make a brand new document with 
one chapter and one appendix, and see if it comes out the way I described, and 
let us know what happened.

Thanks

SteveT

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Re: Instead of "A" "B" .. in Appendix "Appendix A" "Appendix B"

[Rainer M Krug]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt
> wrote:
> > > On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the
> Appendix
> > > > ("A", "B", ...) a numbering like
> > > >
> > > > Appendix A: HERE COMES MY TITLE
> > > > Appendix A: HERE COMES MY SECOND TITLE
> > > > .
> > > > .
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > How can I achieve this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Rainer
> > >
> > > Hi Rainer,
> > >
> > > I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but I can tell you how
> > > things work in my book "Rapid Learning for the 21st Century", which is
> > > based on the
> > > Book document class. That book has an Appendix called "Example: SSH".
> > >
> > >
> > > On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
> > >
> > > Appendix A
> > > Example: SSH
> >
> > Yes - in front of the consecutive numbering (A, B, C,... ) for the
> >  different sections in the appendix, I want to have the word "Appendix "
> as
> >  you describe it.
> >
> > I am not worried about the Table of Contents, as I don't have one.
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> > > In the table of contents, it looks like this:
> > >
> > > A Example: SSH
> > >
> > > Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or
> neither?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > SteveT
> > >
> > > Steve Litt
> > > Recession Relief Package
> > > http://www.recession-relief.US
> > > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
> >
>
> Hi Steve

thanks for your help. It is getting late and I am leaving the manuscript as
it is. I will come back to you tomorrow to follow it up.

Thanks,

Rainer


> Rainer,
>
> What document class are you using?
>
> Do me a favor. Using the Book document class, make a brand new document
> with
> one chapter and one appendix, and see if it comes out the way I described,
> and
> let us know what happened.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Recession Relief Package
> http://www.recession-relief.US
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
>
>


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Re: Index of descriptions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

OK, thanks, I'll try that.
M

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 02:37 PM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:
But that does not save me from going description by description 
adding the glossary entry manually, does it?


You could redefine the description environment in such a way that it 
handled this for you, I think.


rh


Manolo

rgheck escribió:

On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has 
maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to 
look for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with 
the described item as text.



Sounds to me like you want what nomenclature/glossary does.

rh