Re: more on collaboration

[Jose Quesada]

Hi,
I think Greg's post is key here.
Even if the two users are never editing at the same time, having always the
latest version with all merges applied is reassuring.

@Rob: Yet, I've never actually met anyone who writes with others in real
time. I think this is because the tech didn't even exist a year ago. Any
tech takes a while to get adopted. Most people don't even know it exists,
and the ones who do don't know why they need it. Plus, leaving the tech
aside, I can imagine there's a mental change when writing this way.

I'm using abiword to collaborate on a paper. Will report how things went
after a few days.
Btw, the latex on gDocs thing is way too beta to be usable. It lost edits,
crashed, etc. It's just a pity that abiword is so limited in other features
(search, adding references, etc), but it looks really promising.

Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Research scientist,
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Kevin,
 I tried Gobby. it's as simple as notepad, so for serious
 programming/writing it'd feel a bit limited. But the deal breaker is no
 undo. Yes, you hear that right. I think Gobby is actually feature-wise worse
 than in-browser alternatives.

 Best,
 -Jose

 Jose Quesada, PhD.
 Research scientist,
 Max Planck Institute,
 Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
 Berlin
 http://www.josequesada.name/
 http://twitter.com/Quesada


 On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer 
 kun...@student.uib.no wrote:

 2010/9/24 Gregory Jefferis jeffe...@gmail.com:
  Non-interactive collaborative editing means that there can always be one
  live version of a document to which anyone can apply changes that are
  versioned, identified and much more likely.  Essentially it solves the
  conflicting merge problem by automatically merging all the time so that
 you
  are always looking at the latest version (and can be alerted to recent
  changes).  You can try and do this with traditional version control
  arrangements but you will always run into a conflict if the system isn't
  designed for the possibility of interactive collaborative editing.

 And this is the reason why most users love Google Docs and will never
 use git (even though as we all know, merging with git is Fun and
 Easy).


 I think the ideal situation would look like Gobby[1] running inside
 LyX (not necessarily with chat features, but at least showing where
 the other user is editing), but I can understand how that would be a
 lot of work to implement. Sponsorship project? ;-)


 -Kevin


 [1] http://gobby.0x539.de

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

[Liviu Andronic]

(an old subject)

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 But qpx seems a rather old package, compared to mathpazo. Isn't it a
 little dated?

At least on my document qpxmath (hence, pxfonts) catches more math
symbols than mathpazo, which takes several replacements from CM.

Regards
Liviu

Reconfigure

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

 Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see 
whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was 
run?  That way we will not have to remember to reconfigure Lyx after 
each time we update or install new Latex packages.

--
Ehud Kaplan

Re: more on collaboration

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

 A decent latex editor built on top of google docs.

Decent and Google apps are mutually exclusive.

Google apps is just yet another proof how ridiculously unusable _all_ web 
apps are for getting actual work done efficiently. And all that with 
ridiculously high development effort and equally ridiculous run-time ressource 
requirements.

 Thoughts?

Online collaboration is a totally useless gadget exclusively favored by 
freaks who don't do actual work with the application.

Offline collaboration using SVN is an absolute must where actual work is done 
with _any_ application.

This is the opinion of someone who has been intensively doing information work 
to earn his life for 20 years now.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

Re: Reconfigure

[Richard Heck]

On 09/25/2010 08:09 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see 
whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was 
run?  That way we will not have to remember to reconfigure Lyx after 
each time we update or install new Latex packages.


How would we have LyX determine this? I don't see any cross-platform way 
to do that, or even a reliable way to do it on Linux. You could try to 
calculate checksums on the ls-R files, but where are those?


If there were a way to do it, then that'd be great.

Richard

Re: more on collaboration

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

2010/9/25 Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net:
 Hello,

 A decent latex editor built on top of google docs.

 Decent and Google apps are mutually exclusive.

 Google apps is just yet another proof how ridiculously unusable _all_ web 
 apps are for getting actual work done efficiently. And all that with 
 ridiculously high development effort and equally ridiculous run-time 
 ressource requirements.

 Thoughts?

 Online collaboration is a totally useless gadget exclusively favored by 
 freaks who don't do actual work with the application.

Kent Beck once told of how a certain type of web form had been shown
by A/B testing[1] to get a lot more registered users, to which a
developer said Oh those web forms suck, I'd never make those. Beck
replies: What business are you in? I'd like to compete with you...
-- what users actually do and what developers imagine they would do is
often quite different ;-)

My girlfriend is finishing up a six-year clinical psychology program,
and she and most of her fellow students are using Google Docs on their
final theses (not for the print version, but when collaborating on
individual chapters). I have carefully tried to argue for version
control and real editors over Google Docs, but why should they bother
with solving merge conflicts when they could be getting some actual
writing done...

Of course, if the intended audience of LyX is people who already are
familiar with version control, there is probably no reason to look at
what non-programmers do.


best regards,
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_Testing

instant preview background

[Jack Tanner]

For math equations with instant preview turned on, the equation graphic in LyX
1.6.7 is rendered with some fixed background color (salmon, I think, on Windows)
even if it's in an inset (e.g., LyX Note) with a different background color
(yellow). I don't know the details of the preview mechanism, but in web design
one would solve this by using a PNG or a GIF with alpha transparency for the
background. PNG is preferable for rendering text.

Re: spellchecker

[Stephan Witt]

Am 24.09.2010 um 18:47 schrieb goncalo.b.santos:

 
 Hi!
 
 I'm using Lyx on a mac (OSX) but am not being able to get the spellchecker
 to work.
 
 I've downloaded the latest version of cocoaspell, installed it, went to
 system preferences/spelling/dictionaries and put all the dictionaries in the
 list on.
 In Lyx I did preferences/language settings/spellchecker/alternative language
 and added /Library/Application
 Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias
 I then did Lyx/Reconfigure and restarted.
 
 After doing all this, when I do tools/spellchecker the following message
 appears:
 
 The spellchecker could not be started
 Error: The file /Library/Application
 Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias  can not be opened for
 reading.
 
 Did I do something wrong during the installation process or still need to do
 something else?

Ok, I tried to use cocoAspell with LyX-1.6.7.
It works when I set the spellchecker engine to aspell - not aspell(library).
Your error message is raised when one appends a space after the item in 
alternative language.

Stephan

table alignment

[Mike Martell]

Hi:
I'm trying to format my table to align on decimal places.  I've figured out
how to align the table on the decimal places and use multi-column to keep
the non-numeric cells normal.  However, my last column is wider, or aligned
farther to the right than all the other columns.  Does anyone know how to
fix this?
thanks,
Mike

Re: table alignment

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 25.09.2010 19:26, schrieb Mike Martell:


I'm trying to format my table to align on decimal places.  I've figured out
how to align the table on the decimal places and use multi-column to keep
the non-numeric cells normal.  However, my last column is wider, or aligned
farther to the right than all the other columns.  Does anyone know how to
fix this?


This would only be possible by looking at your table in the LyX file. But doesn't sec. 2.12.2 
Special Cell Alignment of the EmbeddedObjects manual (that you find in LyX's Help menu) doesn't 
help you?

If not, can your send your table?

Btw. the upcoming LyX 2.0 will directly support table alignment at decimals.

regards Uwe

Re: Error in compiling document: argument of \PU\

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 23.09.2010 19:56, schrieb vamsi krishna:


Then I tried to include the small modifications which i did in my previous
master file
like:
1. enable the bookmark by (Documentssettingspdf properties) 'use hyperref
support'
and then realized that the bunch of error like package caption error:
caption outside float
and buch of error are happening.


This should work and also works for me with your example files.


Could I not include the bookmark option ?


This must work without problems. What is your LateX system, what your OS?
If you are on Windows, please update it via the Miktex update program that is linked in Windows 
Start menu. Finally reconfigure LyX and try it again.


If the problem persists, delete one included file until you found the file 
causing the problem.

 I would also like to have the name

of the chapters to be displayed on the top of each page, it would be great if 
anyone of you
could help me with this.


You get this, by setting the Headings style to headings or fancy in the document settings-Page 
Layout. With fancy you can also customize the header/footer lines. The LyX UserGuide describes 
this in sec. 3.1.3 Document Layout.


regards Uwe

Re: more on collaboration

[Jose Quesada]

Hi,
I think Greg's post is key here.
Even if the two users are never editing at the same time, having always the
latest version with all merges applied is reassuring.

@Rob: Yet, I've never actually met anyone who writes with others in real
time. I think this is because the tech didn't even exist a year ago. Any
tech takes a while to get adopted. Most people don't even know it exists,
and the ones who do don't know why they need it. Plus, leaving the tech
aside, I can imagine there's a mental change when writing this way.

I'm using abiword to collaborate on a paper. Will report how things went
after a few days.
Btw, the latex on gDocs thing is way too beta to be usable. It lost edits,
crashed, etc. It's just a pity that abiword is so limited in other features
(search, adding references, etc), but it looks really promising.

Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Research scientist,
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Kevin,
 I tried Gobby. it's as simple as notepad, so for serious
 programming/writing it'd feel a bit limited. But the deal breaker is no
 undo. Yes, you hear that right. I think Gobby is actually feature-wise worse
 than in-browser alternatives.

 Best,
 -Jose

 Jose Quesada, PhD.
 Research scientist,
 Max Planck Institute,
 Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
 Berlin
 http://www.josequesada.name/
 http://twitter.com/Quesada


 On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer 
 kun...@student.uib.no wrote:

 2010/9/24 Gregory Jefferis jeffe...@gmail.com:
  Non-interactive collaborative editing means that there can always be one
  live version of a document to which anyone can apply changes that are
  versioned, identified and much more likely.  Essentially it solves the
  conflicting merge problem by automatically merging all the time so that
 you
  are always looking at the latest version (and can be alerted to recent
  changes).  You can try and do this with traditional version control
  arrangements but you will always run into a conflict if the system isn't
  designed for the possibility of interactive collaborative editing.

 And this is the reason why most users love Google Docs and will never
 use git (even though as we all know, merging with git is Fun and
 Easy).


 I think the ideal situation would look like Gobby[1] running inside
 LyX (not necessarily with chat features, but at least showing where
 the other user is editing), but I can understand how that would be a
 lot of work to implement. Sponsorship project? ;-)


 -Kevin


 [1] http://gobby.0x539.de

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

[Liviu Andronic]

(an old subject)

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 But qpx seems a rather old package, compared to mathpazo. Isn't it a
 little dated?

At least on my document qpxmath (hence, pxfonts) catches more math
symbols than mathpazo, which takes several replacements from CM.

Regards
Liviu

Reconfigure

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

 Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see 
whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was 
run?  That way we will not have to remember to reconfigure Lyx after 
each time we update or install new Latex packages.

--
Ehud Kaplan

Re: more on collaboration

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

 A decent latex editor built on top of google docs.

Decent and Google apps are mutually exclusive.

Google apps is just yet another proof how ridiculously unusable _all_ web 
apps are for getting actual work done efficiently. And all that with 
ridiculously high development effort and equally ridiculous run-time ressource 
requirements.

 Thoughts?

Online collaboration is a totally useless gadget exclusively favored by 
freaks who don't do actual work with the application.

Offline collaboration using SVN is an absolute must where actual work is done 
with _any_ application.

This is the opinion of someone who has been intensively doing information work 
to earn his life for 20 years now.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

Re: Reconfigure

[Richard Heck]

On 09/25/2010 08:09 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see 
whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was 
run?  That way we will not have to remember to reconfigure Lyx after 
each time we update or install new Latex packages.


How would we have LyX determine this? I don't see any cross-platform way 
to do that, or even a reliable way to do it on Linux. You could try to 
calculate checksums on the ls-R files, but where are those?


If there were a way to do it, then that'd be great.

Richard

Re: more on collaboration

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

2010/9/25 Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net:
 Hello,

 A decent latex editor built on top of google docs.

 Decent and Google apps are mutually exclusive.

 Google apps is just yet another proof how ridiculously unusable _all_ web 
 apps are for getting actual work done efficiently. And all that with 
 ridiculously high development effort and equally ridiculous run-time 
 ressource requirements.

 Thoughts?

 Online collaboration is a totally useless gadget exclusively favored by 
 freaks who don't do actual work with the application.

Kent Beck once told of how a certain type of web form had been shown
by A/B testing[1] to get a lot more registered users, to which a
developer said Oh those web forms suck, I'd never make those. Beck
replies: What business are you in? I'd like to compete with you...
-- what users actually do and what developers imagine they would do is
often quite different ;-)

My girlfriend is finishing up a six-year clinical psychology program,
and she and most of her fellow students are using Google Docs on their
final theses (not for the print version, but when collaborating on
individual chapters). I have carefully tried to argue for version
control and real editors over Google Docs, but why should they bother
with solving merge conflicts when they could be getting some actual
writing done...

Of course, if the intended audience of LyX is people who already are
familiar with version control, there is probably no reason to look at
what non-programmers do.


best regards,
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_Testing

instant preview background

[Jack Tanner]

For math equations with instant preview turned on, the equation graphic in LyX
1.6.7 is rendered with some fixed background color (salmon, I think, on Windows)
even if it's in an inset (e.g., LyX Note) with a different background color
(yellow). I don't know the details of the preview mechanism, but in web design
one would solve this by using a PNG or a GIF with alpha transparency for the
background. PNG is preferable for rendering text.

Re: spellchecker

[Stephan Witt]

Am 24.09.2010 um 18:47 schrieb goncalo.b.santos:

 
 Hi!
 
 I'm using Lyx on a mac (OSX) but am not being able to get the spellchecker
 to work.
 
 I've downloaded the latest version of cocoaspell, installed it, went to
 system preferences/spelling/dictionaries and put all the dictionaries in the
 list on.
 In Lyx I did preferences/language settings/spellchecker/alternative language
 and added /Library/Application
 Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias
 I then did Lyx/Reconfigure and restarted.
 
 After doing all this, when I do tools/spellchecker the following message
 appears:
 
 The spellchecker could not be started
 Error: The file /Library/Application
 Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias  can not be opened for
 reading.
 
 Did I do something wrong during the installation process or still need to do
 something else?

Ok, I tried to use cocoAspell with LyX-1.6.7.
It works when I set the spellchecker engine to aspell - not aspell(library).
Your error message is raised when one appends a space after the item in 
alternative language.

Stephan

table alignment

[Mike Martell]

Hi:
I'm trying to format my table to align on decimal places.  I've figured out
how to align the table on the decimal places and use multi-column to keep
the non-numeric cells normal.  However, my last column is wider, or aligned
farther to the right than all the other columns.  Does anyone know how to
fix this?
thanks,
Mike

Re: table alignment

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 25.09.2010 19:26, schrieb Mike Martell:


I'm trying to format my table to align on decimal places.  I've figured out
how to align the table on the decimal places and use multi-column to keep
the non-numeric cells normal.  However, my last column is wider, or aligned
farther to the right than all the other columns.  Does anyone know how to
fix this?


This would only be possible by looking at your table in the LyX file. But doesn't sec. 2.12.2 
Special Cell Alignment of the EmbeddedObjects manual (that you find in LyX's Help menu) doesn't 
help you?

If not, can your send your table?

Btw. the upcoming LyX 2.0 will directly support table alignment at decimals.

regards Uwe

Re: Error in compiling document: argument of \PU\

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 23.09.2010 19:56, schrieb vamsi krishna:


Then I tried to include the small modifications which i did in my previous
master file
like:
1. enable the bookmark by (Documentssettingspdf properties) 'use hyperref
support'
and then realized that the bunch of error like package caption error:
caption outside float
and buch of error are happening.


This should work and also works for me with your example files.


Could I not include the bookmark option ?


This must work without problems. What is your LateX system, what your OS?
If you are on Windows, please update it via the Miktex update program that is linked in Windows 
Start menu. Finally reconfigure LyX and try it again.


If the problem persists, delete one included file until you found the file 
causing the problem.

 I would also like to have the name

of the chapters to be displayed on the top of each page, it would be great if 
anyone of you
could help me with this.


You get this, by setting the Headings style to headings or fancy in the document settings-Page 
Layout. With fancy you can also customize the header/footer lines. The LyX UserGuide describes 
this in sec. 3.1.3 Document Layout.


regards Uwe

Re: more on collaboration

[Jose Quesada]

Hi,
I think Greg's post is key here.
Even if the two users are never editing at the same time, having always the
latest version with all merges applied is reassuring.

@Rob: "Yet, I've never actually met anyone who writes with others in real
time." I think this is because the tech didn't even exist a year ago. Any
tech takes a while to get adopted. Most people don't even know it exists,
and the ones who do don't know why they need it. Plus, leaving the tech
aside, I can imagine there's a mental change when writing this way.

I'm using abiword to collaborate on a paper. Will report how things went
after a few days.
Btw, the latex on gDocs thing is way too beta to be usable. It lost edits,
crashed, etc. It's just a pity that abiword is so limited in other features
(search, adding references, etc), but it looks really promising.

Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Research scientist,
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Jose Quesada  wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> I tried Gobby. it's as simple as notepad, so for serious
> programming/writing it'd feel a bit limited. But the deal breaker is no
> undo. Yes, you hear that right. I think Gobby is actually feature-wise worse
> than in-browser alternatives.
>
> Best,
> -Jose
>
> Jose Quesada, PhD.
> Research scientist,
> Max Planck Institute,
> Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
> Berlin
> http://www.josequesada.name/
> http://twitter.com/Quesada
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <
> kun...@student.uib.no> wrote:
>
>> 2010/9/24 Gregory Jefferis :
>> > Non-interactive collaborative editing means that there can always be one
>> > live version of a document to which anyone can apply changes that are
>> > versioned, identified and much more likely.  Essentially it solves the
>> > conflicting merge problem by automatically merging all the time so that
>> you
>> > are always looking at the latest version (and can be alerted to recent
>> > changes).  You can try and do this with traditional version control
>> > arrangements but you will always run into a conflict if the system isn't
>> > designed for the possibility of interactive collaborative editing.
>>
>> And this is the reason why most users love Google Docs and will never
>> use git (even though as we all know, merging with git is Fun and
>> Easy).
>>
>>
>> I think the ideal situation would look like Gobby[1] running inside
>> LyX (not necessarily with chat features, but at least showing where
>> the other user is editing), but I can understand how that would be a
>> lot of work to implement. Sponsorship project? ;-)
>>
>>
>> -Kevin
>>
>>
>> [1] http://gobby.0x539.de
>>
>
>

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

[Liviu Andronic]

(an old subject)

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Julio Rojas  wrote:
> But qpx seems a rather old package, compared to mathpazo. Isn't it a
> little dated?
>
At least on my document qpxmath (hence, pxfonts) catches more math
symbols than mathpazo, which takes several replacements from CM.

Regards
Liviu

Reconfigure

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

 Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see 
whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was 
run?  That way we will not have to remember to "reconfigure" Lyx after 
each time we update or install new Latex packages.

--
Ehud Kaplan

Re: more on collaboration

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

> A decent latex editor built on top of google docs.

"Decent" and "Google apps" are mutually exclusive.

Google apps is just yet another proof how ridiculously unusable _all_ "web 
apps" are for getting actual work done efficiently. And all that with 
ridiculously high development effort and equally ridiculous run-time ressource 
requirements.

> Thoughts?

"Online" collaboration is a totally useless gadget exclusively favored by 
freaks who don't do actual work with the application.

"Offline" collaboration using SVN is an absolute must where actual work is done 
with _any_ application.

This is the opinion of someone who has been intensively doing information work 
to earn his life for 20 years now.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

Re: Reconfigure

[Richard Heck]

On 09/25/2010 08:09 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see 
whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was 
run?  That way we will not have to remember to "reconfigure" Lyx after 
each time we update or install new Latex packages.


How would we have LyX determine this? I don't see any cross-platform way 
to do that, or even a reliable way to do it on Linux. You could try to 
calculate checksums on the ls-R files, but where are those?


If there were a way to do it, then that'd be great.

Richard

Re: more on collaboration

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

2010/9/25 Wolfgang Keller :
> Hello,
>
>> A decent latex editor built on top of google docs.
>
> "Decent" and "Google apps" are mutually exclusive.
>
> Google apps is just yet another proof how ridiculously unusable _all_ "web 
> apps" are for getting actual work done efficiently. And all that with 
> ridiculously high development effort and equally ridiculous run-time 
> ressource requirements.
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> "Online" collaboration is a totally useless gadget exclusively favored by 
> freaks who don't do actual work with the application.

Kent Beck once told of how a certain type of web form had been shown
by A/B testing[1] to get a lot more registered users, to which a
developer said "Oh those web forms suck, I'd never make those". Beck
replies: "What business are you in? I'd like to compete with you..."
-- what users actually do and what developers imagine they would do is
often quite different ;-)

My girlfriend is finishing up a six-year clinical psychology program,
and she and most of her fellow students are using Google Docs on their
final theses (not for the print version, but when collaborating on
individual chapters). I have carefully tried to argue for version
control and real editors over Google Docs, but why should they bother
with solving merge conflicts when they could be getting some actual
writing done...

Of course, if the intended audience of LyX is people who already are
familiar with version control, there is probably no reason to look at
what non-programmers do.


best regards,
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_Testing

instant preview background

[Jack Tanner]

For math equations with instant preview turned on, the equation graphic in LyX
1.6.7 is rendered with some fixed background color (salmon, I think, on Windows)
even if it's in an inset (e.g., LyX Note) with a different background color
(yellow). I don't know the details of the preview mechanism, but in web design
one would solve this by using a PNG or a GIF with alpha transparency for the
background. PNG is preferable for rendering text.

Re: spellchecker

[Stephan Witt]

Am 24.09.2010 um 18:47 schrieb goncalo.b.santos:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using Lyx on a mac (OSX) but am not being able to get the spellchecker
> to work.
> 
> I've downloaded the latest version of cocoaspell, installed it, went to
> system preferences/spelling/dictionaries and put all the dictionaries in the
> list "on".
> In Lyx I did preferences/language settings/spellchecker/alternative language
> and added "/Library/Application
> Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias"
> I then did Lyx/Reconfigure and restarted.
> 
> After doing all this, when I do tools/spellchecker the following message
> appears:
> 
> The spellchecker could not be started
> Error: The file "/Library/Application
> Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias " can not be opened for
> reading.
> 
> Did I do something wrong during the installation process or still need to do
> something else?

Ok, I tried to use cocoAspell with LyX-1.6.7.
It works when I set the spellchecker engine to "aspell" - not "aspell(library)".
Your error message is raised when one appends a space after the item in 
alternative language.

Stephan

table alignment

[Mike Martell]

Hi:
I'm trying to format my table to align on decimal places.  I've figured out
how to align the table on the decimal places and use multi-column to keep
the non-numeric cells normal.  However, my last column is wider, or aligned
farther to the right than all the other columns.  Does anyone know how to
fix this?
thanks,
Mike

Re: table alignment

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 25.09.2010 19:26, schrieb Mike Martell:


I'm trying to format my table to align on decimal places.  I've figured out
how to align the table on the decimal places and use multi-column to keep
the non-numeric cells normal.  However, my last column is wider, or aligned
farther to the right than all the other columns.  Does anyone know how to
fix this?


This would only be possible by looking at your table in the LyX file. But doesn't sec. 2.12.2 
"Special Cell Alignment" of the EmbeddedObjects manual (that you find in LyX's Help menu) doesn't 
help you?

If not, can your send your table?

Btw. the upcoming LyX 2.0 will directly support table alignment at decimals.

regards Uwe

Re: Error in compiling document: argument of \PU\

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 23.09.2010 19:56, schrieb vamsi krishna:


Then I tried to include the small modifications which i did in my previous
master file
like:
1. enable the bookmark by (Documents>settings>pdf properties) 'use hyperref
support'
and then realized that the bunch of error like "package caption error:
caption outside float
and buch of error are happening.


This should work and also works for me with your example files.


Could I not include the bookmark option ?


This must work without problems. What is your LateX system, what your OS?
If you are on Windows, please update it via the Miktex update program that is linked in Windows 
Start menu. Finally reconfigure LyX and try it again.


If the problem persists, delete one included file until you found the file 
causing the problem.

> I would also like to have the name

of the chapters to be displayed on the top of each page, it would be great if 
anyone of you
could help me with this.


You get this, by setting the Headings style to "headings" or "fancy" in the document settings->Page 
Layout. With "fancy" you can also customize the header/footer lines. The LyX UserGuide describes 
this in sec. 3.1.3 "Document Layout".


regards Uwe