date:20101122

On 21 Nov 2010, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 21.11.2010 15:37, schrieb Anthony Campbell:
 
 When I try to print any file I get the message: Check that your printer
 is set up correctly.
 
 I have my printer set as Kyocera.
 
 LyX's printing is not a real printing. LyX will create a postscript
 file and try to send this to a printer. This mechanism does for
 example not work on Windows.
 So to print your document, export it as PDF (pdflatex) and open the
 resulting PDF with a program of your choice and use its printing
 menu to print the PDF.
 
 regards Uwe

Thanks - yes, that is what I am doing. 

Cheers,

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Re: No printing of any files

On 22 Nov 2010, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
 Anthony Campbell writes:
  Can someone kindly point to where this printing issue is documented?
 
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#printing
 
 -- 
 Enrico

Already found that, but I'm not using Windows.

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RE: Troubleshooting Windows Installation unable to find textclass file - Win XP, Lyx 1.6.7

2010-11-22 Thread Thomas Vandieken

That means that your installation got broken. This can be repaired, but as 
LyX 1.6.8 is already 
available, I recommend to

- uninstall LyX 1.6.7 _completely_ 
- install LyX 1.6.8 using the alternative installer (for the standard 1.6.8 
installer problems were reported today)

-- Uninstall / Alt-Install Done: when I start Lyx now I get an CMD box for 
less than a sec. with a similar error message:

WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht 
finden:'%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c latex 
\\nonstopmode\\input{c:/dokume\\string~1/tommy 
/lokale\\string~1/temp/tmpjq8pb0.ltx}'
Lyx: Done!

Wired, obviously cmd.exe exists in windows/system32/ and MikTex 2.9 was 
installed, too. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tom

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 (This is probably grave-digging :P)

 I left LyX (and TeX) alone since that thread.  Recently I was asked to 
 create a paper in LaTeX and therefore looked at the LyX site again.  I 
 saw that LyX 2.0 beta supports XeTeX, which presumably does exactly 
 what I described in this thread!

 So after all, thanks LyX devs!  I just tried it out and indeed it works 
 like a charm after enabling XeTeX in the Document Settings.  I can write 
 Latin and Greek characters at the same time without being driven insane 
 by constantly selecting text and switching language. :-)

Good news.

Beware, however that you must not use the Babel package with XeTeX
for Greek documents, as this would select a traditional LaTeX font
with Greek characters at the place of Latin ones.

Currently, this can be solved by changing \usepackage{babel} with 
\usepackage{polyglossia} in ToolsPreferencesLanguage.
You then need to set the document language in the LaTeX-preamble via e.g.
\setmainlanguage{greek}. (See the documentation polyglossia.pdf for
details.)

Alternative
---

I attach a file that provides Latin in Greek with the stable LyX 1.6
series and pdflatex. 

USAGE

Either insert its content or \input{UniGreek.tex} in the
DocumentSettingsLaTeX-preamble (for the second option, the file must
reside in the working dir or the TEXPATH).

Use this together with the languages Greek or Greek (polytonic)
and the ASCII output encoding in DocumentSettingsLanguage.

Converting this file into a LyX-Module is left as an exercise to the
reader.

Günter

Re: LyX without menu in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10

2010/11/19 Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com:
 It works by using this command  (from the terminal)

 QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx


 Perhaps, for those using Ubuntu Netbook and have the same problem;

 a) Create a file lyx_command.sh
    #!/bin/sh
     QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
 b) Change permission to Allow executing file as program
 c) Replace the previous lyx command (lyx %f) by browsing to lyx_command.sh

 Now clicking LyX menu under applications - office, can see LyX with
 normal menus.

Proper script is that:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx $@

Such version allows passing of invocation arguments.
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Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

Hello

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
 Use one of the AMS negated relations available in the math toolbar. That are
 almost all relations one could need.

Good to know.


 See attached example.

 This file doesn't ope with LyX 1.6.x. If you are not testing LyX for bugs or
 development, lease use the stable LyX 1.6.x releases!

I'm dully reading the warning on each SVN checkout. :)

But I've been using 2.0 SVN (at least beginning with alphas, but
possibly even before that) in production mode, if what I do can be
called so, without much more than a hitch here and there. My personal
experience is that trunk is rock stable (anyone reading this, check
first the entire list of bugs tagged 'milestone 2.0.0'!!), but for the
compilation process where I regularly get crashes. (I think the latter
are somehow related to the Sweave module, but I should run a couple of
debugs when I get some time for myself.) If you regularly save before
hitting the preview button---which I do!---you're ready to go.

This is meant as praise to all the devels for their work on 2.0 ;)


 This won't work because \not is not designed to strike-out characters but to
 negate relations.
 But anyway, the syntax you are using in your formula seems to  be wrong. If
 you want to state that a variable is negated, you need to place a \neg if
 front of it. See the attached example file.

Unfortunately my students would probably not much appreciate such
finesse, so I'm not yet sure how to handle this.


 Another issue: you write Var_1 where Var is italic. This would mean
 V*a*r_1 but I guess that your variable is named Var. So to avoid
 confusions, write Var upright.
 (Appendix A of the Math manual gives some advices about math typography.)

Thanks for the info. I should take a look at the manual one of these
days. Best regards
Liviu


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Re: Troubleshooting Windows Installation unable to find textclass file - Win XP, Lyx 1.6.7

2010/11/22 Thomas Vandieken thomas.vandie...@gmail.com:
That means that your installation got broken. This can be repaired, but as 
LyX 1.6.8 is already
available, I recommend to

- uninstall LyX 1.6.7 _completely_
- install LyX 1.6.8 using the alternative installer (for the standard 1.6.8 
installer problems were reported today)

 -- Uninstall / Alt-Install Done: when I start Lyx now I get an CMD box for 
 less than a sec. with a similar error message:

 WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht 
 finden:'%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c latex 
 \\nonstopmode\\input{c:/dokume\\string~1/tommy 
 /lokale\\string~1/temp/tmpjq8pb0.ltx}'
 Lyx: Done!

This should be:
%WINDOWS%\\system32\\cmd.exe

not

%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe

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Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?


On 11/22/2010 01:07 AM, Robert J Berger wrote:

I understand I need to update the lstdrvrs.dtx of the listings package to add a 
new language.

What I'm not clear about is, once I update the listings package, how do I get 
it into LyX (on a Macintosh using LyX-2.0 beta)

You don't need to get it into LyX, but into the right place in your TeX 
installation.


Once you have modified lstdrvrs.dtx, then you run:
latex listings.ins
and this should take care of everything for you. You may need sudo, though.

Richard

Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

LyX has several means of defining customized
markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
styles. However I can not figure out how to define
custom character entities like build-in
Ellipsis. Am I missing something?


No, there is no provision for this. If some character you need is
missing, report it as a bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
it has to be done in the source.

Richard

An old issue with LyX

2010-11-22 Thread Mukhtar Ullah

Dear LyX developers,
Today I would like to bring your attention to a very old issue with LyX (Forgive
me if it has already been reported). It happens to me, in every version of LyX,
that any changes I make to the preferences make the automatic math toolbar and
panel disappear. After that, it does not work even if I undo the changes in
preferences. Even uninstalling and reinstalling does not work unless I remove
LyX from registry. Why is the automatic math toolbar and panel so sensitive to
prefences.

Hopefully, this issue is fixed in the next versions.
Best,
Mukhtar

Re: LyX without menu in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10

2010-11-22 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto

 Proper script is that:
    #!/usr/bin/env sh
    QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx $@

 Such version allows passing of invocation arguments.

Oh.. yes, that's correct. Running LyX from the menu using the previous
script, creates another problem. Double clicking lyx document will not
be successful.

I have corrected the script in my netbook, thank you.

Regards
waluyo

Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

2010-11-22 Thread Pavel Sanda

Liviu Andronic wrote:
 called so, without much more than a hitch here and there. My personal
 experience is that trunk is rock stable (anyone reading this, check
 first the entire list of bugs tagged 'milestone 2.0.0'!!), 

but for the
 compilation process where I regularly get crashes.

care to produce recipies or at least backtraces? they are not going to be
fixed unless somebody reports them...

as for the 'rock' stability, i have different feeling from the current trunk
unfortunately.

pavel

Re: Custom character entities

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 21:31:38:
RH On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:
 LyX has several means of defining customized
 markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
 styles. However I can not figure out how to define
 custom character entities like build-in
 Ellipsis. Am I missing something?

RH No, there is no provision for this. If some
RH character you need is missing, report it as a
RH bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
RH it has to be done in the source.

I meant user customization by means of inclusion
in layouts and modules. This can be used for
logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
not hard code any special symbol in advance.

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Robert J Berger

Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? I 
used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...

Thanks!

On Nov 22, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

 On 11/22/2010 01:07 AM, Robert J Berger wrote:
 I understand I need to update the lstdrvrs.dtx of the listings package to 
 add a new language.
 
 What I'm not clear about is, once I update the listings package, how do I 
 get it into LyX (on a Macintosh using LyX-2.0 beta)
 
 You don't need to get it into LyX, but into the right place in your TeX 
 installation.
 
 Once you have modified lstdrvrs.dtx, then you run:
latex listings.ins
 and this should take care of everything for you. You may need sudo, though.
 
 Richard
 

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Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 12:25 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 21:31:38:
RH  On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

LyX has several means of defining customized
markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
styles. However I can not figure out how to define
custom character entities like build-in
Ellipsis. Am I missing something?

RH  No, there is no provision for this. If some
RH  character you need is missing, report it as a
RH  bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
RH  it has to be done in the source.

I meant user customization by means of inclusion
in layouts and modules. This can be used for
logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
not hard code any special symbol in advance.

If you want to add custom insets, paragraph or character styles, then 
the best way to
do so is to create your own module that defines one or more of these, 
and then use it

in the usual way. Instructions are in chapter 5 of the Customization manual.

If what you want to add isn't one of these things, then, well, you can't 
do do that quite
so easily. In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't quite true. You 
can give LyX the
ability to recognize (and even display) new characters and such by 
adding them to the

unicodesymbols file, which lives in the system directory, e.g.:
/usr/local/share/lyx/
on Linux, by default. But there's no provision for doing this in modules.

Richard

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?


On 11/22/2010 12:49 PM, Robert J Berger wrote:

Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? I 
used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...


Try:
kpsewhich listings.sty
That should tell you.

Richard

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Stephan Witt

Am 22.11.2010 um 18:49 schrieb Robert J Berger:

 Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? 
 I used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...
 
 Thanks!

Here it's below /usr/local/texlive 
(I'm using MacTeX too).

Stephan

Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 care to produce recipies or at least backtraces? they are not going to be
 fixed unless somebody reports them...

Yes, I plan to do so. I tried with earlier alphas, but the traces
weren't very informative. I have to study the steps necessary for
debugging, and then I'll send something useful. As for a recipe, the
crashes are not quite reproducible, but happen regularly. The most
often case is when there is some problem in the Sweave code, and R
halts execution and returns error.

I'll take a look at this a bit later. Regards
Liviu


 as for the 'rock' stability, i have different feeling from the current trunk
 unfortunately.

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Re: Custom character entities

On 2010-11-22, Richard Heck wrote:

 You can give LyX the ability to recognize (and even display) new
 characters and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols file, which
 lives in the system directory, e.g.: /usr/local/share/lyx/ on Linux, by
 default. 

As usual with LyX config files, it works also via copying to the local
LYXDIR (~/.lyx/ on Linux) and modifying the copy.

Günter

OT: LaTeX Help



So I can get something workable here, but not something good. Here's 
hoping


What I want to do is typeset the following sort of thing: I want a gamma 
on top of a tilde on top of a delta, all the same (normal) size, and 
then to the right of that will be something like: f(x,y), and I want the 
tilde to sit about here the crosspiece is on the f, so the whole thing 
is kind of centered vertically on the line.


Here's what I have:

\raisebox{-0.5\baselineskip}{\ensuremath{\stackrel{\stackrel{{\textstyle 
\gamma}}{{\textstyle \sim}}}{\delta}}}

Ugly, to be sure, and I'm worried the -0.5 will go wrong in some cases.

Any other ideas?

Richard

Notation from Frege's Begriffsschrift, if anyone is wondering.

Re: Custom character entities

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 23:56:52:
 I meant user customization by means of inclusion
 in layouts and modules. This can be used for
 logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
 not hard code any special symbol in advance.

RH If you want to add custom insets, paragraph or
RH character styles, then the best way to do so
RH is to create your own module that defines one
RH or more of these, and then use it in the usual
RH way. Instructions are in chapter 5 of the
RH Customization manual.

Well, I know, but single symbol is not the same as
a markup for a piece of text. Custom inset is the
most close thing to what I want, but it has
contents which is unneeded and for a simple
symbol.

RH If what you want to add isn't one of these
RH things, then, well, you can't do do that quite
RH so easily.

I see. The thing is very natural and useful while
LyX already has much more complicated features. It
is strange that LyX lacks it. That's why I asked.
What is the best place for such a feature request?
Devel list?

RH In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
RH quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
RH recognize (and even display) new characters
RH and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
RH file, which lives in the system directory,
RH e.g.:
RH  /usr/local/share/lyx/
RH on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
RH for doing this in modules.

Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?

Alexander

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters


On 11/22/2010 01:43 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

(This is probably grave-digging :P)



I left LyX (and TeX) alone since that thread.  Recently I was asked to
create a paper in LaTeX and therefore looked at the LyX site again.  I
saw that LyX 2.0 beta supports XeTeX, which presumably does exactly
what I described in this thread!



So after all, thanks LyX devs!  I just tried it out and indeed it works
like a charm after enabling XeTeX in the Document Settings.  I can write
Latin and Greek characters at the same time without being driven insane
by constantly selecting text and switching language. :-)


Good news.

Beware, however that you must not use the Babel package with XeTeX
for Greek documents, as this would select a traditional LaTeX font
with Greek characters at the place of Latin ones.

Currently, this can be solved by changing \usepackage{babel} with
\usepackage{polyglossia} in ToolsPreferencesLanguage.
You then need to set the document language in the LaTeX-preamble via e.g.
\setmainlanguage{greek}. (See the documentation polyglossia.pdf for
details.)


Thanks for the hints, but there's a problem.  That way, the command:

  \usepackage{polyglossia}

comes too late (after the user defined preamble commands) in the 
generated .tex file resulting in \setmainlanguage not being defined yet. 
 One has to put the above line in the preamble, not in the LyX 
settings.  Also, this is needed to in the preamble:


  \let\textgre...@undefined

otherwise xelatex can't process the file:

  ! LaTeX Error: Command \textgreek already defined.

(That one took me quite a bit of Googling to find out how to solve.)

Another thing that became apparent after reading the pdf was that in 
Language settings it might be a good idea to change the default 
Command start and Command end fields to:


  \begin{$$lang}
  \end{$$lang}

respectively.  It would be nice if the config dialog would have a 
checkbox or another form of selection where one could enable XeTeX 
globally and LyX would reconfigure itself automatically for XeTeX use 
(and also change the default document settings for new documents to use 
XeTeX so that manually adding stuff to the preamble shouldn't be necessary.)


I must say that with XeTeX, LyX is very nice to work with!  I hope XeTeX 
support will become better in time, since to me it seems XeTeX is the 
future of TeX in general, especially since it can use normal fonts (that 
alone is a killer feature.)

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Rob Oakes

Hi Tim,

Footnotes in floats are weird.  Floats can migrate from page to page in an 
effort to balance the page layout.  This causes their footnotes to get left 
behind (or cut out completely). 

Try placing the table inside a minipage (box) within the float.  This will make 
sure that it stays on the same page.  It will also use a different numbering 
scheme (a,b,c ... if using the standard classes) and not screw up your document 
footnote numbering.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Wescott



On 11/22/2010 11:56 AM, Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Tim,

Footnotes in floats are weird.  Floats can migrate from page to page in an 
effort to balance the page layout.  This causes their footnotes to get left 
behind (or cut out completely).

Try placing the table inside a minipage (box) within the float.  This will make 
sure that it stays on the same page.  It will also use a different numbering 
scheme (a,b,c ... if using the standard classes) and not screw up your document 
footnote numbering.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes
   
Ah, perfect.  That turns it into the 'table note' that I'm used to 
seeing, and could never coerce OpenOffice or Word into doing correctly 
(at least not without standing on my head).


I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I won't, 
because this is very fine.


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Re: Representing matrix dimensions

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com wrote:

In speaking about the size of a matrix, I would normally say A is a p by q
 matrix.  In shorthand, I may say A is a p x q matrix, where the 'x' is
 not the letter, but a cross raised slightly above the center line.  The
 closest that I know to get this effect in Lyx would be to render it as a
 mathimatical expression, essentially saying p cross q.

 Is that the correct way to do this, or is there a specific typesetting
 standard for representing a p by q matrix?


I'm not aware of the correct way to do this, but I personally use \times
inside a math environment. I use that anytime I want a Cartesian product. I
think the output looks the way it should using this method. So, you could
say A \in p \times q, or A^p\times q, which is also used.

Or am I just being lazy, and should I just spell it out: p by q.


I like the cross better than saying by, so for me it's more of a
preference than a matter of being lazy.

Jacob

Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 02:44 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:


RH  In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
RH  quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
RH  recognize (and even display) new characters
RH  and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
RH  file, which lives in the system directory,
RH  e.g.:
RH   /usr/local/share/lyx/
RH  on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
RH  for doing this in modules.

Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?

As Gunter said, you can copy this file to your user directory and modify 
that.


rh

Re: Representing matrix dimensions

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jacob Bishop bishop.ja...@gmail.comwrote:

 I'm not aware of the correct way to do this, but I personally use \times
 inside a math environment. I use that anytime I want a Cartesian product. I
 think the output looks the way it should using this method. So, you could
 say A \in p \times q, or A^p\times q, which is also used.


Actually, A \in p\times q is not quite correct, it would be A \in R^p\times
q or A \in C^p\times q. I hope you can decode what I mean. I've written it
here how I would type it into a math environment. It would not paste
correctly, though.

Jacob

Re: Custom character entities

Richard Heck wrote Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 2:12:05:
RH On 11/22/2010 02:44 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

 RH  In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
 RH  quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
 RH  recognize (and even display) new characters
 RH  and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
 RH  file, which lives in the system directory,
 RH  e.g.:
 RH   /usr/local/share/lyx/
 RH  on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
 RH  for doing this in modules.

 Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?

RH As Gunter said, you can copy this file to
RH your user directory and modify 
RH that.

I see that the file is for unicode symbols only.
So this cannot be used for something which is
outside unicode table, can it?

Alexander

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Steve Litt

On Monday 22 November 2010 15:03:38 Tim Wescott wrote:

Ah, perfect. That turns it into the 'table note' that I'm used to
seeing, and could never coerce OpenOffice or Word into doing correctly
(at least not without standing on my head).

I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I won't,
because this is very fine.

:-)

I know how you feel Tim. When I began LyXing in 2001, LyX had no character
styles. I learned this the hard way after I had finished outlining and was
well into writing Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist.
This would have been a showstopper -- I would have had to drop LyX. As is my
tradition, I griped on the list.

Most list members told me just to use emph or noun or maybe a little ERT,
which of course would go against my whole styles-based philosophy.

I was ready to dump LyX and go back to MS Word when a list member named Dekl
Tsur showed me a way that I could use colored text to represent a character
style. So instead of having names, my character styles had colors. Here is his
method:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/self_publish_lyx.htm#SimulatingCharacterStylesWithColorPseudostyles

I happily used Dekl's pseudo-character-styles from late 2001 until March 2006,
when version 1.4.0 came out with true character styles (see
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_4_0.txt). I was ecstatic when 1.4.0 came out
with true character styles and have used them ever since.

So when you say I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I
won't, because this is very fine, I know EXACTLY what you mean.

SteveT

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remapping the en dash

To get an en dash, we used to type --. But in the age of XeTeX etc, I'd
rather input – that would show up in LyX and in the output.
Is there an easier way to do this under Windows than Alt+0150 ?

Thanks,
Eran

Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line


I'm on LyX 2.0 beta1.

I wanted to include a *.c file in my document.  There doesn't seem to be 
a way to do that, so I just copypasted the C code inside a program 
listing box (Insert-Program Listing).


However, copypasting results in all code being put in one line.  For 
example, this:


steps = 0;
while (1. + atom_d  1.) {
atom_d /= 2.;
++steps;
}

ends up as:

steps = 0;  while (1. + atom_d  1.) {   atom_d /= 2.;   
++steps;}


in LyX (and in the rendered PDF.)  So I have two questions at this 
point:  How do I copypaste correctly, and is there a way to not 
copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

2010-11-22 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn





So I have two questions at this point:  How do I copypaste correctly, 
and is there a way to not copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?




1. Try Edit-Paste Special-Plain Text.

2. Try Insert-File-Child Document and select Include Type = Program 
Listing.


Vincent

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line


On 11/23/2010 12:59 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:




So I have two questions at this point: How do I copypaste correctly,
and is there a way to not copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?



1. Try Edit-Paste Special-Plain Text.

2. Try Insert-File-Child Document and select Include Type = Program
Listing.


Thank you.  Both methods work.

I think a special paste should not be needed here, given that the only 
thing one would paste inside a Program Listing box is source code.

Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 03:23 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

Richard Heck wrote Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 2:12:05:
RH  On 11/22/2010 02:44 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

RH   In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
RH   quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
RH   recognize (and even display) new characters
RH   and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
RH   file, which lives in the system directory,
RH   e.g.:
RH/usr/local/share/lyx/
RH   on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
RH   for doing this in modules.

Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?


RH  As Gunter said, you can copy this file to
RH  your user directory and modify
RH  that.

I see that the file is for unicode symbols only.
So this cannot be used for something which is
outside unicode table, can it?


There are such things?

Anyway, I'm not expert on any of this. I don't know e.g. how one might be
able to get LyX to recognize customized glyphs such as in this package:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fge/
But there are LyX folks who do know a lot more about this, and maybe it is
worth a post on lyx-devel, with a very specific question.

Richard

Re: remapping the en dash


On 11/22/2010 04:23 PM, Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
To get an en dash, we used to type --. But in the age of XeTeX etc, 
I'd rather input – that would show up in LyX and in the output.

Is there an easier way to do this under Windows than Alt+0150 ?

Does the dash get handled correctly under line breaks? Worries about 
this are one reason we haven't started outputting the en-dash instead of 
just --.


Richard

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

2010-11-22 Thread ariestao

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:53:41 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
wrote:
 I'm on LyX 2.0 beta1.
 
 I wanted to include a *.c file in my document.  There doesn't seem to be

 a way to do that, so I just copypasted the C code inside a program 
 listing box (Insert-Program Listing).
 
 However, copypasting results in all code being put in one line.  For 
 example, this:
 
   steps = 0;
   while (1. + atom_d  1.) {
   atom_d /= 2.;
   ++steps;
   }
 
 ends up as:
 
 steps = 0;while (1. + atom_d  1.) {  atom_d /= 2.;   
 ++steps;}
 
 
 in LyX (and in the rendered PDF.)  So I have two questions at this 
 point:  How do I copypaste correctly, and is there a way to not 
 copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?

After you do Ctrl + c place your cursor where you want to paste and do
Shift + Ctrl + v but that might not work for you? I can't test it just now.

HTH
Charlie

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

- Original Message
From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 21:18:48
Subject: Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

On Monday 22 November 2010 15:03:38 Tim Wescott wrote:

(The following quotes are in reverse order to the original email, since that's
the order I want to reply in.)

I happily used Dekl's pseudo-character-styles from late 2001 until March
2006,

when version 1.4.0 came out with true character styles (see
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_4_0.txt). I was ecstatic when 1.4.0 came out
with true character styles and have used them ever since.

Wow, that is _so useful_! I really wish I knew about character styles when I
wrote my MSc project in LyX last year; there was a certain type of label that
I'd finger painted with underline, and at the last minute changed my mind and
switched them all to bold. This wouldn't have been so bad, except that I
needed
an ERT pre/postfix to get the maths in each label bold as well ({\boldmath
and
}).

method:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/self_publish_lyx.htm#SimulatingCharacterStylesWithColorPseudostyles
s

That is a dirty, nasty hack... and I love it! Even this would have been good
enough for what I needed in my MSc project.

Oh well, thanks for sharing. I'm sure the character styles knowledge will
still
save me plenty of time in future!

Jim

Re: remapping the en dash


Richard, what do you mean by handled correctly under line breaks?

Thanks,
Eran



Does the dash get handled correctly under line breaks? Worries about 
this are one reason we haven't started outputting the en-dash instead 
of just --.

Richard

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

- Original Message 
 From: Vincent van Ravesteijn v...@lyx.org
 To: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 22:59:39
 Subject: Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

  So I have two questions at this point:  How do I  copypaste correctly, and 
is there a way to not copypaste at all and  use an external *.c file?

 1. Try Edit-Paste  Special-Plain Text.

 2. Try Insert-File-Child Document and  select Include Type = Program 
Listing.

 Vincent

I've also noticed in the past that pasting plain text swallows line breaks 
(although I've not realised in the past that I can paste special to avoid it, 
thanks for the tip).  Perhaps this makes sense on Linux, even Mac, where people 
sometimes copy from console windows, but on Windows this just breaks 99% of 
non-LyX pastes.

Maybe LyX could be changed, at least on Windows, to not join lines by default? 
 I notice there is an explicit option in Paste Special to join lines, so that 
wouldn't be completely lost?

Jim

Re: OT: LaTeX Help

- Original Message 
 From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net
 To: lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 19:10:28
 Subject: OT: LaTeX Help

 What I want to do is typeset the following sort of thing: I  want a gamma on 
top of a tilde on top of a delta, all the same (normal) size,  and then to the 
right of that will be something like: f(x,y), and I want the  tilde to sit 
about 
here the crosspiece is on the f, so the whole thing is kind  of centered 
vertically on the line.

Best I can think of is a zero width mbox containing a 1x2 matrix with the gamma 
and delta overlaid with a zero width mbox containing the sim.  The spacing is 
very tight, but could be loosened by inserting a \hphantom and a big symbol of 
your choice in each of the matrix cells.  

basic version:

\makebox[0pt][c]{\begin{array}{c} \gamma\\
\delta\end{array}} \makebox[0pt][c]{\sim}

Here's a version with a \sum vphantom (displayed, in case used inline) in each 
cell, and some horizontal space too.  Quite a beast!

\enskip\makebox[0pt][c]{\begin{array}{c}
\vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\gamma\\
\vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\delta\end{array}}\makebox[0pt][c]{\sim}\enskip

Jim

Re: No printing of any files

On 21 Nov 2010, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 21.11.2010 15:37, schrieb Anthony Campbell:
 
 When I try to print any file I get the message: Check that your printer
 is set up correctly.
 
 I have my printer set as Kyocera.
 
 LyX's printing is not a real printing. LyX will create a postscript
 file and try to send this to a printer. This mechanism does for
 example not work on Windows.
 So to print your document, export it as PDF (pdflatex) and open the
 resulting PDF with a program of your choice and use its printing
 menu to print the PDF.
 
 regards Uwe

Thanks - yes, that is what I am doing. 

Cheers,

Anthony

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Re: No printing of any files

On 22 Nov 2010, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
 Anthony Campbell writes:
  Can someone kindly point to where this printing issue is documented?
 
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#printing
 
 -- 
 Enrico

Already found that, but I'm not using Windows.

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RE: Troubleshooting Windows Installation unable to find textclass file - Win XP, Lyx 1.6.7

2010-11-22 Thread Thomas Vandieken

That means that your installation got broken. This can be repaired, but as 
LyX 1.6.8 is already 
available, I recommend to

- uninstall LyX 1.6.7 _completely_ 
- install LyX 1.6.8 using the alternative installer (for the standard 1.6.8 
installer problems were reported today)

-- Uninstall / Alt-Install Done: when I start Lyx now I get an CMD box for 
less than a sec. with a similar error message:

WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht 
finden:'%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c latex 
\\nonstopmode\\input{c:/dokume\\string~1/tommy 
/lokale\\string~1/temp/tmpjq8pb0.ltx}'
Lyx: Done!

Wired, obviously cmd.exe exists in windows/system32/ and MikTex 2.9 was 
installed, too. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tom

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 (This is probably grave-digging :P)

 I left LyX (and TeX) alone since that thread.  Recently I was asked to 
 create a paper in LaTeX and therefore looked at the LyX site again.  I 
 saw that LyX 2.0 beta supports XeTeX, which presumably does exactly 
 what I described in this thread!

 So after all, thanks LyX devs!  I just tried it out and indeed it works 
 like a charm after enabling XeTeX in the Document Settings.  I can write 
 Latin and Greek characters at the same time without being driven insane 
 by constantly selecting text and switching language. :-)

Good news.

Beware, however that you must not use the Babel package with XeTeX
for Greek documents, as this would select a traditional LaTeX font
with Greek characters at the place of Latin ones.

Currently, this can be solved by changing \usepackage{babel} with 
\usepackage{polyglossia} in ToolsPreferencesLanguage.
You then need to set the document language in the LaTeX-preamble via e.g.
\setmainlanguage{greek}. (See the documentation polyglossia.pdf for
details.)

Alternative
---

I attach a file that provides Latin in Greek with the stable LyX 1.6
series and pdflatex. 

USAGE

Either insert its content or \input{UniGreek.tex} in the
DocumentSettingsLaTeX-preamble (for the second option, the file must
reside in the working dir or the TEXPATH).

Use this together with the languages Greek or Greek (polytonic)
and the ASCII output encoding in DocumentSettingsLanguage.

Converting this file into a LyX-Module is left as an exercise to the
reader.

Günter

Re: LyX without menu in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10

2010/11/19 Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com:
 It works by using this command  (from the terminal)

 QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx


 Perhaps, for those using Ubuntu Netbook and have the same problem;

 a) Create a file lyx_command.sh
    #!/bin/sh
     QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
 b) Change permission to Allow executing file as program
 c) Replace the previous lyx command (lyx %f) by browsing to lyx_command.sh

 Now clicking LyX menu under applications - office, can see LyX with
 normal menus.

Proper script is that:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx $@

Such version allows passing of invocation arguments.
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Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

Hello

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
 Use one of the AMS negated relations available in the math toolbar. That are
 almost all relations one could need.

Good to know.


 See attached example.

 This file doesn't ope with LyX 1.6.x. If you are not testing LyX for bugs or
 development, lease use the stable LyX 1.6.x releases!

I'm dully reading the warning on each SVN checkout. :)

But I've been using 2.0 SVN (at least beginning with alphas, but
possibly even before that) in production mode, if what I do can be
called so, without much more than a hitch here and there. My personal
experience is that trunk is rock stable (anyone reading this, check
first the entire list of bugs tagged 'milestone 2.0.0'!!), but for the
compilation process where I regularly get crashes. (I think the latter
are somehow related to the Sweave module, but I should run a couple of
debugs when I get some time for myself.) If you regularly save before
hitting the preview button---which I do!---you're ready to go.

This is meant as praise to all the devels for their work on 2.0 ;)


 This won't work because \not is not designed to strike-out characters but to
 negate relations.
 But anyway, the syntax you are using in your formula seems to  be wrong. If
 you want to state that a variable is negated, you need to place a \neg if
 front of it. See the attached example file.

Unfortunately my students would probably not much appreciate such
finesse, so I'm not yet sure how to handle this.


 Another issue: you write Var_1 where Var is italic. This would mean
 V*a*r_1 but I guess that your variable is named Var. So to avoid
 confusions, write Var upright.
 (Appendix A of the Math manual gives some advices about math typography.)

Thanks for the info. I should take a look at the manual one of these
days. Best regards
Liviu


 regards Uwe




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Re: Troubleshooting Windows Installation unable to find textclass file - Win XP, Lyx 1.6.7

2010/11/22 Thomas Vandieken thomas.vandie...@gmail.com:
That means that your installation got broken. This can be repaired, but as 
LyX 1.6.8 is already
available, I recommend to

- uninstall LyX 1.6.7 _completely_
- install LyX 1.6.8 using the alternative installer (for the standard 1.6.8 
installer problems were reported today)

 -- Uninstall / Alt-Install Done: when I start Lyx now I get an CMD box for 
 less than a sec. with a similar error message:

 WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht 
 finden:'%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c latex 
 \\nonstopmode\\input{c:/dokume\\string~1/tommy 
 /lokale\\string~1/temp/tmpjq8pb0.ltx}'
 Lyx: Done!

This should be:
%WINDOWS%\\system32\\cmd.exe

not

%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe

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Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?


On 11/22/2010 01:07 AM, Robert J Berger wrote:

I understand I need to update the lstdrvrs.dtx of the listings package to add a 
new language.

What I'm not clear about is, once I update the listings package, how do I get 
it into LyX (on a Macintosh using LyX-2.0 beta)

You don't need to get it into LyX, but into the right place in your TeX 
installation.


Once you have modified lstdrvrs.dtx, then you run:
latex listings.ins
and this should take care of everything for you. You may need sudo, though.

Richard

Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

LyX has several means of defining customized
markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
styles. However I can not figure out how to define
custom character entities like build-in
Ellipsis. Am I missing something?


No, there is no provision for this. If some character you need is
missing, report it as a bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
it has to be done in the source.

Richard

An old issue with LyX

2010-11-22 Thread Mukhtar Ullah

Dear LyX developers,
Today I would like to bring your attention to a very old issue with LyX (Forgive
me if it has already been reported). It happens to me, in every version of LyX,
that any changes I make to the preferences make the automatic math toolbar and
panel disappear. After that, it does not work even if I undo the changes in
preferences. Even uninstalling and reinstalling does not work unless I remove
LyX from registry. Why is the automatic math toolbar and panel so sensitive to
prefences.

Hopefully, this issue is fixed in the next versions.
Best,
Mukhtar

Re: LyX without menu in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10

2010-11-22 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto

 Proper script is that:
    #!/usr/bin/env sh
    QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx $@

 Such version allows passing of invocation arguments.

Oh.. yes, that's correct. Running LyX from the menu using the previous
script, creates another problem. Double clicking lyx document will not
be successful.

I have corrected the script in my netbook, thank you.

Regards
waluyo

Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

2010-11-22 Thread Pavel Sanda

Liviu Andronic wrote:
 called so, without much more than a hitch here and there. My personal
 experience is that trunk is rock stable (anyone reading this, check
 first the entire list of bugs tagged 'milestone 2.0.0'!!), 

but for the
 compilation process where I regularly get crashes.

care to produce recipies or at least backtraces? they are not going to be
fixed unless somebody reports them...

as for the 'rock' stability, i have different feeling from the current trunk
unfortunately.

pavel

Re: Custom character entities

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 21:31:38:
RH On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:
 LyX has several means of defining customized
 markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
 styles. However I can not figure out how to define
 custom character entities like build-in
 Ellipsis. Am I missing something?

RH No, there is no provision for this. If some
RH character you need is missing, report it as a
RH bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
RH it has to be done in the source.

I meant user customization by means of inclusion
in layouts and modules. This can be used for
logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
not hard code any special symbol in advance.

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Robert J Berger

Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? I 
used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...

Thanks!

On Nov 22, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

 On 11/22/2010 01:07 AM, Robert J Berger wrote:
 I understand I need to update the lstdrvrs.dtx of the listings package to 
 add a new language.
 
 What I'm not clear about is, once I update the listings package, how do I 
 get it into LyX (on a Macintosh using LyX-2.0 beta)
 
 You don't need to get it into LyX, but into the right place in your TeX 
 installation.
 
 Once you have modified lstdrvrs.dtx, then you run:
latex listings.ins
 and this should take care of everything for you. You may need sudo, though.
 
 Richard
 

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Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 12:25 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 21:31:38:
RH  On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

LyX has several means of defining customized
markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
styles. However I can not figure out how to define
custom character entities like build-in
Ellipsis. Am I missing something?

RH  No, there is no provision for this. If some
RH  character you need is missing, report it as a
RH  bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
RH  it has to be done in the source.

I meant user customization by means of inclusion
in layouts and modules. This can be used for
logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
not hard code any special symbol in advance.

If you want to add custom insets, paragraph or character styles, then 
the best way to
do so is to create your own module that defines one or more of these, 
and then use it

in the usual way. Instructions are in chapter 5 of the Customization manual.

If what you want to add isn't one of these things, then, well, you can't 
do do that quite
so easily. In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't quite true. You 
can give LyX the
ability to recognize (and even display) new characters and such by 
adding them to the

unicodesymbols file, which lives in the system directory, e.g.:
/usr/local/share/lyx/
on Linux, by default. But there's no provision for doing this in modules.

Richard

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?


On 11/22/2010 12:49 PM, Robert J Berger wrote:

Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? I 
used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...


Try:
kpsewhich listings.sty
That should tell you.

Richard

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Stephan Witt

Am 22.11.2010 um 18:49 schrieb Robert J Berger:

 Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? 
 I used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...
 
 Thanks!

Here it's below /usr/local/texlive 
(I'm using MacTeX too).

Stephan

Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 care to produce recipies or at least backtraces? they are not going to be
 fixed unless somebody reports them...

Yes, I plan to do so. I tried with earlier alphas, but the traces
weren't very informative. I have to study the steps necessary for
debugging, and then I'll send something useful. As for a recipe, the
crashes are not quite reproducible, but happen regularly. The most
often case is when there is some problem in the Sweave code, and R
halts execution and returns error.

I'll take a look at this a bit later. Regards
Liviu


 as for the 'rock' stability, i have different feeling from the current trunk
 unfortunately.

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Re: Custom character entities

On 2010-11-22, Richard Heck wrote:

 You can give LyX the ability to recognize (and even display) new
 characters and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols file, which
 lives in the system directory, e.g.: /usr/local/share/lyx/ on Linux, by
 default. 

As usual with LyX config files, it works also via copying to the local
LYXDIR (~/.lyx/ on Linux) and modifying the copy.

Günter

OT: LaTeX Help



So I can get something workable here, but not something good. Here's 
hoping


What I want to do is typeset the following sort of thing: I want a gamma 
on top of a tilde on top of a delta, all the same (normal) size, and 
then to the right of that will be something like: f(x,y), and I want the 
tilde to sit about here the crosspiece is on the f, so the whole thing 
is kind of centered vertically on the line.


Here's what I have:

\raisebox{-0.5\baselineskip}{\ensuremath{\stackrel{\stackrel{{\textstyle 
\gamma}}{{\textstyle \sim}}}{\delta}}}

Ugly, to be sure, and I'm worried the -0.5 will go wrong in some cases.

Any other ideas?

Richard

Notation from Frege's Begriffsschrift, if anyone is wondering.

Re: Custom character entities

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 23:56:52:
 I meant user customization by means of inclusion
 in layouts and modules. This can be used for
 logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
 not hard code any special symbol in advance.

RH If you want to add custom insets, paragraph or
RH character styles, then the best way to do so
RH is to create your own module that defines one
RH or more of these, and then use it in the usual
RH way. Instructions are in chapter 5 of the
RH Customization manual.

Well, I know, but single symbol is not the same as
a markup for a piece of text. Custom inset is the
most close thing to what I want, but it has
contents which is unneeded and for a simple
symbol.

RH If what you want to add isn't one of these
RH things, then, well, you can't do do that quite
RH so easily.

I see. The thing is very natural and useful while
LyX already has much more complicated features. It
is strange that LyX lacks it. That's why I asked.
What is the best place for such a feature request?
Devel list?

RH In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
RH quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
RH recognize (and even display) new characters
RH and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
RH file, which lives in the system directory,
RH e.g.:
RH  /usr/local/share/lyx/
RH on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
RH for doing this in modules.

Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?

Alexander

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters


On 11/22/2010 01:43 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

(This is probably grave-digging :P)



I left LyX (and TeX) alone since that thread.  Recently I was asked to
create a paper in LaTeX and therefore looked at the LyX site again.  I
saw that LyX 2.0 beta supports XeTeX, which presumably does exactly
what I described in this thread!



So after all, thanks LyX devs!  I just tried it out and indeed it works
like a charm after enabling XeTeX in the Document Settings.  I can write
Latin and Greek characters at the same time without being driven insane
by constantly selecting text and switching language. :-)


Good news.

Beware, however that you must not use the Babel package with XeTeX
for Greek documents, as this would select a traditional LaTeX font
with Greek characters at the place of Latin ones.

Currently, this can be solved by changing \usepackage{babel} with
\usepackage{polyglossia} in ToolsPreferencesLanguage.
You then need to set the document language in the LaTeX-preamble via e.g.
\setmainlanguage{greek}. (See the documentation polyglossia.pdf for
details.)


Thanks for the hints, but there's a problem.  That way, the command:

  \usepackage{polyglossia}

comes too late (after the user defined preamble commands) in the 
generated .tex file resulting in \setmainlanguage not being defined yet. 
 One has to put the above line in the preamble, not in the LyX 
settings.  Also, this is needed to in the preamble:


  \let\textgre...@undefined

otherwise xelatex can't process the file:

  ! LaTeX Error: Command \textgreek already defined.

(That one took me quite a bit of Googling to find out how to solve.)

Another thing that became apparent after reading the pdf was that in 
Language settings it might be a good idea to change the default 
Command start and Command end fields to:


  \begin{$$lang}
  \end{$$lang}

respectively.  It would be nice if the config dialog would have a 
checkbox or another form of selection where one could enable XeTeX 
globally and LyX would reconfigure itself automatically for XeTeX use 
(and also change the default document settings for new documents to use 
XeTeX so that manually adding stuff to the preamble shouldn't be necessary.)


I must say that with XeTeX, LyX is very nice to work with!  I hope XeTeX 
support will become better in time, since to me it seems XeTeX is the 
future of TeX in general, especially since it can use normal fonts (that 
alone is a killer feature.)

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Rob Oakes

Hi Tim,

Footnotes in floats are weird.  Floats can migrate from page to page in an 
effort to balance the page layout.  This causes their footnotes to get left 
behind (or cut out completely). 

Try placing the table inside a minipage (box) within the float.  This will make 
sure that it stays on the same page.  It will also use a different numbering 
scheme (a,b,c ... if using the standard classes) and not screw up your document 
footnote numbering.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Wescott



On 11/22/2010 11:56 AM, Rob Oakes wrote:

Hi Tim,

Footnotes in floats are weird.  Floats can migrate from page to page in an 
effort to balance the page layout.  This causes their footnotes to get left 
behind (or cut out completely).

Try placing the table inside a minipage (box) within the float.  This will make 
sure that it stays on the same page.  It will also use a different numbering 
scheme (a,b,c ... if using the standard classes) and not screw up your document 
footnote numbering.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes
   
Ah, perfect.  That turns it into the 'table note' that I'm used to 
seeing, and could never coerce OpenOffice or Word into doing correctly 
(at least not without standing on my head).


I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I won't, 
because this is very fine.


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Re: Representing matrix dimensions

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com wrote:

In speaking about the size of a matrix, I would normally say A is a p by q
 matrix.  In shorthand, I may say A is a p x q matrix, where the 'x' is
 not the letter, but a cross raised slightly above the center line.  The
 closest that I know to get this effect in Lyx would be to render it as a
 mathimatical expression, essentially saying p cross q.

 Is that the correct way to do this, or is there a specific typesetting
 standard for representing a p by q matrix?


I'm not aware of the correct way to do this, but I personally use \times
inside a math environment. I use that anytime I want a Cartesian product. I
think the output looks the way it should using this method. So, you could
say A \in p \times q, or A^p\times q, which is also used.

Or am I just being lazy, and should I just spell it out: p by q.


I like the cross better than saying by, so for me it's more of a
preference than a matter of being lazy.

Jacob

Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 02:44 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:


RH  In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
RH  quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
RH  recognize (and even display) new characters
RH  and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
RH  file, which lives in the system directory,
RH  e.g.:
RH   /usr/local/share/lyx/
RH  on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
RH  for doing this in modules.

Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?

As Gunter said, you can copy this file to your user directory and modify 
that.


rh

Re: Representing matrix dimensions

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jacob Bishop bishop.ja...@gmail.comwrote:

 I'm not aware of the correct way to do this, but I personally use \times
 inside a math environment. I use that anytime I want a Cartesian product. I
 think the output looks the way it should using this method. So, you could
 say A \in p \times q, or A^p\times q, which is also used.


Actually, A \in p\times q is not quite correct, it would be A \in R^p\times
q or A \in C^p\times q. I hope you can decode what I mean. I've written it
here how I would type it into a math environment. It would not paste
correctly, though.

Jacob

Re: Custom character entities

Richard Heck wrote Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 2:12:05:
RH On 11/22/2010 02:44 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

 RH  In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
 RH  quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
 RH  recognize (and even display) new characters
 RH  and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
 RH  file, which lives in the system directory,
 RH  e.g.:
 RH   /usr/local/share/lyx/
 RH  on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
 RH  for doing this in modules.

 Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?

RH As Gunter said, you can copy this file to
RH your user directory and modify 
RH that.

I see that the file is for unicode symbols only.
So this cannot be used for something which is
outside unicode table, can it?

Alexander

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Steve Litt

On Monday 22 November 2010 15:03:38 Tim Wescott wrote:

Ah, perfect. That turns it into the 'table note' that I'm used to
seeing, and could never coerce OpenOffice or Word into doing correctly
(at least not without standing on my head).

I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I won't,
because this is very fine.

:-)

Most list members told me just to use emph or noun or maybe a little ERT,
which of course would go against my whole styles-based philosophy.

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/self_publish_lyx.htm#SimulatingCharacterStylesWithColorPseudostyles

So when you say I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I
won't, because this is very fine, I know EXACTLY what you mean.

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remapping the en dash

To get an en dash, we used to type --. But in the age of XeTeX etc, I'd
rather input – that would show up in LyX and in the output.
Is there an easier way to do this under Windows than Alt+0150 ?

Thanks,
Eran

Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line


I'm on LyX 2.0 beta1.

I wanted to include a *.c file in my document.  There doesn't seem to be 
a way to do that, so I just copypasted the C code inside a program 
listing box (Insert-Program Listing).


However, copypasting results in all code being put in one line.  For 
example, this:


steps = 0;
while (1. + atom_d  1.) {
atom_d /= 2.;
++steps;
}

ends up as:

steps = 0;  while (1. + atom_d  1.) {   atom_d /= 2.;   
++steps;}


in LyX (and in the rendered PDF.)  So I have two questions at this 
point:  How do I copypaste correctly, and is there a way to not 
copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

2010-11-22 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn





So I have two questions at this point:  How do I copypaste correctly, 
and is there a way to not copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?




1. Try Edit-Paste Special-Plain Text.

2. Try Insert-File-Child Document and select Include Type = Program 
Listing.


Vincent

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line


On 11/23/2010 12:59 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:




So I have two questions at this point: How do I copypaste correctly,
and is there a way to not copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?



1. Try Edit-Paste Special-Plain Text.

2. Try Insert-File-Child Document and select Include Type = Program
Listing.


Thank you.  Both methods work.

I think a special paste should not be needed here, given that the only 
thing one would paste inside a Program Listing box is source code.

Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 03:23 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

Richard Heck wrote Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 2:12:05:
RH  On 11/22/2010 02:44 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

RH   In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't
RH   quite true. You can give LyX the ability to
RH   recognize (and even display) new characters
RH   and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols
RH   file, which lives in the system directory,
RH   e.g.:
RH/usr/local/share/lyx/
RH   on Linux, by default. But there's no provision
RH   for doing this in modules.

Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files?


RH  As Gunter said, you can copy this file to
RH  your user directory and modify
RH  that.

I see that the file is for unicode symbols only.
So this cannot be used for something which is
outside unicode table, can it?


There are such things?

Anyway, I'm not expert on any of this. I don't know e.g. how one might be
able to get LyX to recognize customized glyphs such as in this package:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fge/
But there are LyX folks who do know a lot more about this, and maybe it is
worth a post on lyx-devel, with a very specific question.

Richard

Re: remapping the en dash


On 11/22/2010 04:23 PM, Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
To get an en dash, we used to type --. But in the age of XeTeX etc, 
I'd rather input – that would show up in LyX and in the output.

Is there an easier way to do this under Windows than Alt+0150 ?

Does the dash get handled correctly under line breaks? Worries about 
this are one reason we haven't started outputting the en-dash instead of 
just --.


Richard

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

2010-11-22 Thread ariestao

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:53:41 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
wrote:
 I'm on LyX 2.0 beta1.
 
 I wanted to include a *.c file in my document.  There doesn't seem to be

 a way to do that, so I just copypasted the C code inside a program 
 listing box (Insert-Program Listing).
 
 However, copypasting results in all code being put in one line.  For 
 example, this:
 
   steps = 0;
   while (1. + atom_d  1.) {
   atom_d /= 2.;
   ++steps;
   }
 
 ends up as:
 
 steps = 0;while (1. + atom_d  1.) {  atom_d /= 2.;   
 ++steps;}
 
 
 in LyX (and in the rendered PDF.)  So I have two questions at this 
 point:  How do I copypaste correctly, and is there a way to not 
 copypaste at all and use an external *.c file?

After you do Ctrl + c place your cursor where you want to paste and do
Shift + Ctrl + v but that might not work for you? I can't test it just now.

HTH
Charlie

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

- Original Message
From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 21:18:48
Subject: Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

On Monday 22 November 2010 15:03:38 Tim Wescott wrote:

(The following quotes are in reverse order to the original email, since that's
the order I want to reply in.)

I happily used Dekl's pseudo-character-styles from late 2001 until March
2006,

when version 1.4.0 came out with true character styles (see
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_4_0.txt). I was ecstatic when 1.4.0 came out
with true character styles and have used them ever since.

method:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/self_publish_lyx.htm#SimulatingCharacterStylesWithColorPseudostyles
s

That is a dirty, nasty hack... and I love it! Even this would have been good
enough for what I needed in my MSc project.

Oh well, thanks for sharing. I'm sure the character styles knowledge will
still
save me plenty of time in future!

Jim

Re: remapping the en dash


Richard, what do you mean by handled correctly under line breaks?

Thanks,
Eran



Does the dash get handled correctly under line breaks? Worries about 
this are one reason we haven't started outputting the en-dash instead 
of just --.

Richard

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

- Original Message 
 From: Vincent van Ravesteijn v...@lyx.org
 To: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 22:59:39
 Subject: Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

  So I have two questions at this point:  How do I  copypaste correctly, and 
is there a way to not copypaste at all and  use an external *.c file?

 1. Try Edit-Paste  Special-Plain Text.

 2. Try Insert-File-Child Document and  select Include Type = Program 
Listing.

 Vincent

I've also noticed in the past that pasting plain text swallows line breaks 
(although I've not realised in the past that I can paste special to avoid it, 
thanks for the tip).  Perhaps this makes sense on Linux, even Mac, where people 
sometimes copy from console windows, but on Windows this just breaks 99% of 
non-LyX pastes.

Maybe LyX could be changed, at least on Windows, to not join lines by default? 
 I notice there is an explicit option in Paste Special to join lines, so that 
wouldn't be completely lost?

Jim

Re: OT: LaTeX Help

- Original Message 
 From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net
 To: lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 19:10:28
 Subject: OT: LaTeX Help

 What I want to do is typeset the following sort of thing: I  want a gamma on 
top of a tilde on top of a delta, all the same (normal) size,  and then to the 
right of that will be something like: f(x,y), and I want the  tilde to sit 
about 
here the crosspiece is on the f, so the whole thing is kind  of centered 
vertically on the line.

Best I can think of is a zero width mbox containing a 1x2 matrix with the gamma 
and delta overlaid with a zero width mbox containing the sim.  The spacing is 
very tight, but could be loosened by inserting a \hphantom and a big symbol of 
your choice in each of the matrix cells.  

basic version:

\makebox[0pt][c]{\begin{array}{c} \gamma\\
\delta\end{array}} \makebox[0pt][c]{\sim}

Here's a version with a \sum vphantom (displayed, in case used inline) in each 
cell, and some horizontal space too.  Quite a beast!

\enskip\makebox[0pt][c]{\begin{array}{c}
\vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\gamma\\
\vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\delta\end{array}}\makebox[0pt][c]{\sim}\enskip

Jim

Re: No printing of any files

On 21 Nov 2010, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 21.11.2010 15:37, schrieb Anthony Campbell:
> 
> >When I try to print any file I get the message: "Check that your printer
> >is set up correctly."
> >
> >I have my printer set as Kyocera.
> 
> LyX's printing is not a real printing. LyX will create a postscript
> file and try to send this to a printer. This mechanism does for
> example not work on Windows.
> So to print your document, export it as PDF (pdflatex) and open the
> resulting PDF with a program of your choice and use its printing
> menu to print the PDF.
> 
> regards Uwe

Thanks - yes, that is what I am doing. 

Cheers,

Anthony

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Re: No printing of any files

On 22 Nov 2010, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> Anthony Campbell writes:
> > Can someone kindly point to where this printing issue is documented?
> 
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#printing
> 
> -- 
> Enrico

Already found that, but I'm not using Windows.

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RE: Troubleshooting Windows Installation "unable to find textclass file" - Win XP, Lyx 1.6.7

2010-11-22 Thread Thomas Vandieken

>That means that your installation got broken. This can be repaired, >but as 
>LyX 1.6.8 is already 
>available, I recommend to

>- uninstall LyX 1.6.7 _completely_ 
>- install LyX 1.6.8 using the alternative installer (for the standard >1.6.8 
>installer problems were reported today)

--> Uninstall / Alt-Install Done: when I start Lyx now I get an CMD box for 
less than a sec. with a similar error message:

"WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht 
finden:'%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c latex 
"\\nonstopmode\\input{c:/dokume\\string~1/tommy 
/lokale\\string~1/temp/tmpjq8pb0.ltx}"'
Lyx: Done!"

Wired, obviously cmd.exe exists in windows/system32/ and MikTex 2.9 was 
installed, too. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tom

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> (This is probably grave-digging :P)

> I left LyX (and TeX) alone since that thread.  Recently I was asked to 
> create a paper in LaTeX and therefore looked at the LyX site again.  I 
> saw that LyX 2.0 beta supports "XeTeX", which presumably does exactly 
> what I described in this thread!

> So after all, thanks LyX devs!  I just tried it out and indeed it works 
> like a charm after enabling XeTeX in the Document Settings.  I can write 
> Latin and Greek characters at the same time without being driven insane 
> by constantly selecting text and switching language. :-)

Good news.

Beware, however that you must not use the "Babel" package with XeTeX
for Greek documents, as this would select a "traditional LaTeX" font
with Greek characters at the place of Latin ones.

Currently, this can be solved by changing \usepackage{babel} with 
\usepackage{polyglossia} in Tools>Preferences>Language.
You then need to set the document language in the LaTeX-preamble via e.g.
\setmainlanguage{greek}. (See the documentation polyglossia.pdf for
details.)

Alternative
---

I attach a file that provides "Latin in Greek" with the stable LyX 1.6
series and pdflatex. 

USAGE

Either insert its content or \input{UniGreek.tex} in the
Document>Settings>LaTeX-preamble (for the second option, the file must
reside in the working dir or the TEXPATH).

Use this together with the languages Greek or Greek (polytonic)
and the ASCII output encoding in Document>Settings>Language.

Converting this file into a LyX-Module is left as an exercise to the
reader.

Günter

Re: LyX without menu in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10

2010/11/19 Waluyo Adi Siswanto :
>> It works by using this command  (from the terminal)
>>
>> QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
>>
>
> Perhaps, for those using Ubuntu Netbook and have the same problem;
>
> a) Create a file lyx_command.sh
>    #!/bin/sh
>     QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
> b) Change permission to "Allow executing file as program"
> c) Replace the previous lyx command (lyx %f) by browsing to lyx_command.sh
>
> Now clicking LyX menu under applications -> office, can see LyX with
> normal menus.

Proper script is that:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx "$@"

Such version allows passing of invocation arguments.
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Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

Hello

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr  wrote:
> Use one of the AMS negated relations available in the math toolbar. That are
> almost all relations one could need.
>
Good to know.


>> See attached example.
>
> This file doesn't ope with LyX 1.6.x. If you are not testing LyX for bugs or
> development, lease use the stable LyX 1.6.x releases!
>
I'm dully reading the warning on each SVN checkout. :)

But I've been using 2.0 SVN (at least beginning with alphas, but
possibly even before that) in production mode, if what I do can be
called so, without much more than a hitch here and there. My personal
experience is that trunk is rock stable (anyone reading this, check
first the entire list of bugs tagged 'milestone 2.0.0'!!), but for the
compilation process where I regularly get crashes. (I think the latter
are somehow related to the Sweave module, but I should run a couple of
debugs when I get some time for myself.) If you regularly save before
hitting the preview button---which I do!---you're ready to go.

This is meant as praise to all the devels for their work on 2.0 ;)


> This won't work because \not is not designed to strike-out characters but to
> negate relations.
> But anyway, the syntax you are using in your formula seems to  be wrong. If
> you want to state that a variable is negated, you need to place a \neg if
> front of it. See the attached example file.
>
Unfortunately my students would probably not much appreciate such
finesse, so I'm not yet sure how to handle this.


> Another issue: you write Var_1 where "Var" is italic. This would mean
> V*a*r_1 but I guess that your variable is named "Var". So to avoid
> confusions, write "Var" upright.
> (Appendix A of the Math manual gives some advices about math typography.)
>
Thanks for the info. I should take a look at the manual one of these
days. Best regards
Liviu


> regards Uwe
>



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Re: Troubleshooting Windows Installation "unable to find textclass file" - Win XP, Lyx 1.6.7

2010/11/22 Thomas Vandieken :
>>That means that your installation got broken. This can be repaired, >but as 
>>LyX 1.6.8 is already
>>available, I recommend to
>
>>- uninstall LyX 1.6.7 _completely_
>>- install LyX 1.6.8 using the alternative installer (for the standard >1.6.8 
>>installer problems were reported today)
>
> --> Uninstall / Alt-Install Done: when I start Lyx now I get an CMD box for 
> less than a sec. with a similar error message:
>
> "WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht 
> finden:'%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c latex 
> "\\nonstopmode\\input{c:/dokume\\string~1/tommy 
> /lokale\\string~1/temp/tmpjq8pb0.ltx}"'
> Lyx: Done!"

This should be:
%WINDOWS%\\system32\\cmd.exe

not

%WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe

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Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?


On 11/22/2010 01:07 AM, Robert J Berger wrote:

I understand I need to update the lstdrvrs.dtx of the listings package to add a 
new language.

What I'm not clear about is, once I update the listings package, how do I get 
it into LyX (on a Macintosh using LyX-2.0 beta)

You don't need to get it into LyX, but into the right place in your TeX 
installation.


Once you have modified lstdrvrs.dtx, then you run:
latex listings.ins
and this should take care of everything for you. You may need sudo, though.

Richard

Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

LyX has several means of defining customized
markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
styles. However I can not figure out how to define
custom character entities like build-in
"Ellipsis". Am I missing something?


No, there is no provision for this. If some character you need is
missing, report it as a bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
it has to be done in the source.

Richard

An old issue with LyX

2010-11-22 Thread Mukhtar Ullah

Dear LyX developers,
Today I would like to bring your attention to a very old issue with LyX (Forgive
me if it has already been reported). It happens to me, in every version of LyX,
that any changes I make to the preferences make the automatic math toolbar and
panel disappear. After that, it does not work even if I undo the changes in
preferences. Even uninstalling and reinstalling does not work unless I remove
LyX from registry. Why is the automatic math toolbar and panel so sensitive to
prefences.

Hopefully, this issue is fixed in the next versions.
Best,
Mukhtar

Re: LyX without menu in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10

2010-11-22 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto

> Proper script is that:
>    #!/usr/bin/env sh
>    QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx "$@"
>
> Such version allows passing of invocation arguments.

Oh.. yes, that's correct. Running LyX from the menu using the previous
script, creates another problem. Double clicking lyx document will not
be successful.

I have corrected the script in my netbook, thank you.

Regards
waluyo

Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

2010-11-22 Thread Pavel Sanda

Liviu Andronic wrote:
> called so, without much more than a hitch here and there. My personal
> experience is that trunk is rock stable (anyone reading this, check
> first the entire list of bugs tagged 'milestone 2.0.0'!!), 

>but for the
> compilation process where I regularly get crashes.

care to produce recipies or at least backtraces? they are not going to be
fixed unless somebody reports them...

as for the 'rock' stability, i have different feeling from the current trunk
unfortunately.

pavel

Re: Custom character entities

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 21:31:38:
RH> On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:
>> LyX has several means of defining customized
>> markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
>> styles. However I can not figure out how to define
>> custom character entities like build-in
>> "Ellipsis". Am I missing something?

RH> No, there is no provision for this. If some
RH> character you need is missing, report it as a
RH> bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
RH> it has to be done in the source.

I meant user customization by means of inclusion
in layouts and modules. This can be used for
logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
not hard code any special symbol in advance.

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Robert J Berger

Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? I 
used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...

Thanks!

On Nov 22, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

> On 11/22/2010 01:07 AM, Robert J Berger wrote:
>> I understand I need to update the lstdrvrs.dtx of the listings package to 
>> add a new language.
>> 
>> What I'm not clear about is, once I update the listings package, how do I 
>> get it into LyX (on a Macintosh using LyX-2.0 beta)
>> 
> You don't need to get it into LyX, but into the right place in your TeX 
> installation.
> 
> Once you have modified lstdrvrs.dtx, then you run:
>latex listings.ins
> and this should take care of everything for you. You may need sudo, though.
> 
> Richard
> 

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Re: Custom character entities


On 11/22/2010 12:25 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 21:31:38:
RH>  On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:

LyX has several means of defining customized
markup: custom insets, paragraph and character
styles. However I can not figure out how to define
custom character entities like build-in
"Ellipsis". Am I missing something?

RH>  No, there is no provision for this. If some
RH>  character you need is missing, report it as a
RH>  bug to the devel list. Adding it is easy, but
RH>  it has to be done in the source.

I meant user customization by means of inclusion
in layouts and modules. This can be used for
logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can
not hard code any special symbol in advance.

If you want to add custom insets, paragraph or character styles, then 
the best way to
do so is to create your own module that defines one or more of these, 
and then use it

in the usual way. Instructions are in chapter 5 of the Customization manual.

If what you want to add isn't one of these things, then, well, you can't 
do do that quite
so easily. In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't quite true. You 
can give LyX the
ability to recognize (and even display) new characters and such by 
adding them to the

unicodesymbols file, which lives in the system directory, e.g.:
/usr/local/share/lyx/
on Linux, by default. But there's no provision for doing this in modules.

Richard

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?


On 11/22/2010 12:49 PM, Robert J Berger wrote:

Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? I 
used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...


Try:
kpsewhich listings.sty
That should tell you.

Richard

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Stephan Witt

Am 22.11.2010 um 18:49 schrieb Robert J Berger:

> Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? 
> I used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it...
> 
> Thanks!

Here it's below /usr/local/texlive 
(I'm using MacTeX too).

Stephan

Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> care to produce recipies or at least backtraces? they are not going to be
> fixed unless somebody reports them...
>
Yes, I plan to do so. I tried with earlier alphas, but the traces
weren't very informative. I have to study the steps necessary for
debugging, and then I'll send something useful. As for a recipe, the
crashes are not quite reproducible, but happen regularly. The most
often case is when there is some problem in the Sweave code, and R
halts execution and returns error.

I'll take a look at this a bit later. Regards
Liviu


> as for the 'rock' stability, i have different feeling from the current trunk
> unfortunately.
>
> pavel
>



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Re: Custom character entities

On 2010-11-22, Richard Heck wrote:

> You can give LyX the ability to recognize (and even display) new
> characters and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols file, which
> lives in the system directory, e.g.: /usr/local/share/lyx/ on Linux, by
> default. 

As usual with LyX config files, it works also via copying to the local
LYXDIR (~/.lyx/ on Linux) and modifying the copy.

Günter

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