Re: Spellchecker identifying correct words as incorrect

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.12.2010 um 06:52 schrieb Pete Crite:

 Am 09.12.2010 um 05:57 schrieb Pete Crite:
 Hi,
 
 I'm running the latest LyX on Mac OS X. I've had the spellchecker work fine 
 in the past, using aspell. I've just tried to spellcheck a new file, and 
 strange things are happening. Quite frequently, words that are spelt 
 correctly are marked as incorrect. For example Introduction, 
 identification, differentially and alternatively come up as 
 incorrect. 
 What's even stranger is that the suggested spelling is the same identical 
 word! I click Replace continually, but obviously the new word is then 
 seen as misspelt. Oddly enough, if I add the word to the personal 
 dictionary, 
 it works next time. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?
 
 Hi Pete,
 
 please check in preferences the spell checker type you are using.
 The default has changed to Macs native spell checker.
 
 Do you mean LyX's preferences, under Language Settings  Spellchecker?
 The Spellchecker executable has the options ispell, aspell, or hspell, and 
 I have selected aspell.
 I can't see any option for selecting the native spell checker here.

Ok, you refer 1.6.X with latest LyX - I assumed you refer to LyX 2.0 beta2.
There is no change in spell checker type then.

You said it worked in the past. Do you think you've changed some software 
component lately?
Or happens it with this new document only?
Currently I have no clue - sorry.
Perhaps the best you can do is to report a bug with an example document here:
http://www.lyx.org/trac

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
 I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX
 2.9.

I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it 
looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package expl3) are not up to 
date.

 (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fontspec\fontspec.cfg))
 ! Undefined control sequence.
 argument \int_compare_p:nNn
 
 l.7 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Cambria}
 
 The control sequence at the end of the top line
 of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
 misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
 spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

This command (\int_compare_p:nNn) comes from l3int.sty. I have v2077 
(2010/10/17) here (TeXLive 2010), you seem to have v1933 (2010/05/25). This 
might explain the error.

See below my file list. You can insert \listfiles into your preamble and 
compare the versions with mine.

Jürgen


 *File List*
 article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
   expl3.sty2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
 l3names.sty2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX 
Primitiv
es
etex.sty1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
 l3expan.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists
   l3int.sty2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
 l3quark.sty2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
   l3seq.sty2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
  l3toks.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
   l3prg.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
 l3clist.sty2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
 l3token.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and 
manipu
lation
  l3prop.sty2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
   l3msg.sty2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
l3io.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
  l3skip.sty2010/11/23 v2088 L3 Experimental skip registers
   l3box.sty2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
  l3keys.sty2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
  l3xref.sty2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
  l3file.sty2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
calc.sty2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
  xparse.sty2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
 xkeyval.sty2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
 xkeyval.tex2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for 
XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
 fontenc.sty
  eu1enc.def2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
  eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many 
othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
 url.sty2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
polyglossia.sty2010/07/27 v1.2.0a Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
etoolbox.sty2010/09/12 v2.0a e-TeX tools for LaTeX
makecmds.sty2009/09/03 v1.0a extra command making commands
gloss-english.ldfpolyglossia: module for english
 eu1lmtt.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
 ***


Jürgen

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

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

Just a comment to those still using Miktex as their Latex after-Lyx engine:
After many years of using Miktex, I have recently switched to TexLive
(which I use on both Linux-Ubuntu and Windows-XP), mostly because of its 
superior updating facilities.
Now I update/upgrade Latex with a single click that runs a batch file 
that does everything.
If Lyx could be Reconfigured from the command line I could even add that 
to the batch file and Reconfigure Lyx after each Latex update.


EK

On 12/11/2010 6:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Eran Kaplinsky wrote:

I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX
2.9.

I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it
looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package expl3) are not up to
date.


(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fontspec\fontspec.cfg))
! Undefined control sequence.
argument  \int_compare_p:nNn

l.7 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Cambria}

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

This command (\int_compare_p:nNn) comes from l3int.sty. I have v2077
(2010/10/17) here (TeXLive 2010), you seem to have v1933 (2010/05/25). This
might explain the error.

See below my file list. You can insert \listfiles into your preamble and
compare the versions with mine.

Jürgen


  *File List*
  article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
   size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
expl3.sty2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
  l3names.sty2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX
Primitiv
es
 etex.sty1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
  l3expan.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
 l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists
l3int.sty2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
  l3quark.sty2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
l3seq.sty2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
   l3toks.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
l3prg.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
  l3clist.sty2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
  l3token.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and
manipu
lation
   l3prop.sty2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
l3msg.sty2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
 l3io.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
   l3skip.sty2010/11/23 v2088 L3 Experimental skip registers
l3box.sty2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
   l3keys.sty2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
   l3xref.sty2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
   l3file.sty2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
 l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
 calc.sty2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
   xparse.sty2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
  xkeyval.sty2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
  xkeyval.tex2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for
XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
  fontenc.sty
   eu1enc.def2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
   eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many
othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
  url.sty2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
polyglossia.sty2010/07/27 v1.2.0a Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
etoolbox.sty2010/09/12 v2.0a e-TeX tools for LaTeX
makecmds.sty2009/09/03 v1.0a extra command making commands
gloss-english.ldfpolyglossia: module for english
  eu1lmtt.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
  ***


Jürgen

Re: Labels with barcodes

[Abdelrazak Younes]

On 10/12/2010 18:47, sunfire wrote:

Hi Abdel,

as for the barcodes, maybe you'll find some hint's here:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt/

here are the corresponding files as well:
ftp://anonym...@ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt

I don't know if it will still work today, as I used to work only once
with barcodes in LaTeX/LyX and that's some time (reads years) ago...
But it used to generate nice and smooth barcodes.
   


Hello Oliver,

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Abdel.


HTH
Oliver

Abdelrazak Younes schrieb am 10.12.10 15:29 folgendes:
   

Hi there,

Is there anyone who knows about label printing containing barcodes from
LyX?

Abdel.


 
   

Re: My Lyx citation output is inconsistent

[Richard Heck]

On 12/11/2010 12:35 AM, Earl Alpert wrote:

Dear folks,

I am using Lyx 1.6.4 with Jabref.  My problem is that I want my 
citations in the footnotes to look like 'Author Year, page number'. 
About half the time they do look like this; the other half I get 
'Author, Full Title, Year, Page Number'. I can't see any differences 
in the Jabref entries nor in the way I am citing the works in Lyx 
using 'Insert Citation'.


Has anyone had this problem before?

This is probably due somehow to your citation style, which you choose 
when you insert the bibliography. Which one are you using?


Richard

PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
text, word counts, word search, etc.

I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!

Thanks,
Alan

Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 06:41 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:

Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK
(bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than
proper searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my
university via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this
complains that my document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I
can't do copy/paste text, word counts, word search, etc.

I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's
all default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the
cover!


Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.

Re: XY-pic won't render

[Paul A . Rubin]

I notice nobody has responded to this.  Is it still a problem?  If so:

1.  What OS are you using?
2.  If you run 'kpsewhich xyd.enc' from a DOS prompt/terminal, do you get the
path to xyd.enc?
3.  If you open a new doc in LyX and follow the steps under section 2
(Preparation) in Peter's manual, which should produce a diagram with an arrow
from A to B, can you output that document to PDF/PS?

/Paul

Re: PDF output question

[mario]

Hi

try to give a look at Laport's book
http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 
It helps.
My best wishes for your thesis
mario



On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 04:41  PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; 
wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
 problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
 searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
 via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
 document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
 text, word counts, word search, etc.
 
 I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
 default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!
 
 Thanks,
 Alan
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Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result.
See output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

On 11 December 2010 16:41, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
 problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
 searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
 via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
 document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
 text, word counts, word search, etc.

 I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
 default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!

 Thanks,
 Alan

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:

 
 
 Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.
 
 

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See
output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

Re: How to use short dashes in program listings?

[Paul A . Rubin]

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:

 
 When inserting a program listing, all - characters in the source code 
 are converted to long dashes.  This results in the C operator -- 
 looking more like a single long line rather than two dashes.  (There is 
 some space between each dash, but it's so small it only becomes obvious 
 when zooming in.)
 
 Is there a way around this?

The only way I know is a PITA.  Pick an escape character you will not use in the
listing (I'll use a tilde for explanatory purposes).  Right click the listing,
select Settings, and in the Advanced tab type 'escapechar=~' (without the
quotes) and apply the change. Now whenever you want the decrement operator in
the listing, type '~-\,-\,~' (without the quotes).  The \, is a thin space; you
can play around with alternative spacing if you like.

/Paul

Re: PDF output question

[mario]

Alan

I can search your file.
How do you look at it?
Or am I misunderstanding your issue?
mario


On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 05:21  PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; 
wrote:
 Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:
 
  
  
  Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.
  
  
 
 Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. 
 See
 output file at...
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
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Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 07:21 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:

Nikos Chantziarasrealncat  arcor.de  writes:




Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.




Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See
output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf


I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or 
anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the 
scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.  That sounds a bit messed 
up, since the scalable fonts should be the default these days (I think.)


But I've no idea how to correct that.  Other Windows users might know 
what's going on (I'm on Linux.)


What I do know is that you can check from inside LyX whether those fonts 
are actually installed.  It's in Help-LaTeX Configuration.  It's in 
the Latin Modern section.  It should say Found: yes.

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

 I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
 anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
 scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.

My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
Document  Settings  Fonts  Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
submission thingy.

Regards
Liviu


 That sounds a bit messed up,
 since the scalable fonts should be the default these days (I think.)

 But I've no idea how to correct that.  Other Windows users might know what's
 going on (I'm on Linux.)

 What I do know is that you can check from inside LyX whether those fonts are
 actually installed.  It's in Help-LaTeX Configuration.  It's in the
 Latin Modern section.  It should say Found: yes.





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Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't
allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just
installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has
confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps?

I'm more confused now than I started :-(

Alan

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

[Eran Kaplinsky]

You are right. It's a MikteX issue.

 Jürgen

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hi Nikos,

Looks like my installation does indeed include those fonts...

1.2 Latin Modern
MM Found: yes
MM CTAN: fonts/lm/
MM Notes: The Latin Modern fonts are PostScript versions of LaTeX' standard font
(Computer Modern). They aim to become the default LaTeX font eventually. We
recommend to use them instead of other PostScript versions of Computer Modern
(like AE). 

Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 08:42 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:



Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't
allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just
installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has
confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps?

I'm more confused now than I started :-(


Just because the fonts are bitmaps doesn't mean the document is not 
searchable.  It means it will look ugly though :)


As another poster mentioned, it seems LyX uses bitmaps by default.  So 
choosing Latin Modern Roman, Latim Modern Sans and Latin Modern 
Typewriter as fonts for you document should fix it.

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Guys,

Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default
fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get
searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)

Interestingly, using Export - PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result.

I guess the default setup with this installation is a bit messed up.

Thanks again for your help!

Alan

doc class g-brief2: serial letters?

[Jannick Asmus]

Hi,

how can I use the serial letter feature, but with the output like with 
the doc class g-brief2?


The serial letter examples shipped with LyX 2.0 beta1 have doc class 
letter (KOMA-script v.2). If I have to switch to another doc class, then 
I would like to keep the output format of my professional letters like 
with g-brief2. How can this be possible?


As always, thanks for your help, guys!

/J. 

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote:
 Guys,

 Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default
 fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get
 searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)

 Interestingly, using Export - PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result.

The two produce documents using different backends, and the latter is
often preferred. But it depends on what you need.

Regards
Liviu



 I guess the default setup with this installation is a bit messed up.

 Thanks again for your help!

 Alan





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Re: PDF output question

[Venable]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

 I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
 anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
 scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.

 My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
 configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
 Document  Settings  Fonts  Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
 vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
 submission thingy.


This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
the default would go a long way to making LyX just work out of the
box.

Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Venable venabl...@gmail.com wrote:
 This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
 it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
 by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
 the default would go a long way to making LyX just work out of the
 box.

 Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

There is. Although I feel the same way as you do about the issue,
there are several important reasons why (some) LaTeX defaults are left
unchanged. See this discussion [1] (it's very long).

The prevailing idea is that defaults are defaults, and unhappy users
should choose better. From the devel's perspective the better solution
is good documentation and good introductions.

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg77578.html

Re: PDF output question

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 11 December 2010 16:42:45 Venable wrote:
 On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com 
wrote:
  On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de 
wrote:
  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
 
  I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
  anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
  scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.
 
  My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
  configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
  Document  Settings  Fonts  Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
  vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
  submission thingy.
 
 This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
 it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
 by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
 the default would go a long way to making LyX just work out of the
 box.
 
 Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

I'll tell you one thing. Every time I tried Palatino, and I think Latin 
Modern, they were thin, reedy, hard to read, especially on a computer screen. 
By far the best looking font I've had that comes with LyX/TeTeX is Century 
Schoolbook. I have no idea if that's bitmapped or scalable.

If I had to switch to Palatino or Latin Modern to get scalable fonts, I'd be 
one of those resisting making scalable fonts the default.

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Re: Spellchecker identifying correct words as incorrect

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.12.2010 um 06:52 schrieb Pete Crite:

 Am 09.12.2010 um 05:57 schrieb Pete Crite:
 Hi,
 
 I'm running the latest LyX on Mac OS X. I've had the spellchecker work fine 
 in the past, using aspell. I've just tried to spellcheck a new file, and 
 strange things are happening. Quite frequently, words that are spelt 
 correctly are marked as incorrect. For example Introduction, 
 identification, differentially and alternatively come up as 
 incorrect. 
 What's even stranger is that the suggested spelling is the same identical 
 word! I click Replace continually, but obviously the new word is then 
 seen as misspelt. Oddly enough, if I add the word to the personal 
 dictionary, 
 it works next time. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?
 
 Hi Pete,
 
 please check in preferences the spell checker type you are using.
 The default has changed to Macs native spell checker.
 
 Do you mean LyX's preferences, under Language Settings  Spellchecker?
 The Spellchecker executable has the options ispell, aspell, or hspell, and 
 I have selected aspell.
 I can't see any option for selecting the native spell checker here.

Ok, you refer 1.6.X with latest LyX - I assumed you refer to LyX 2.0 beta2.
There is no change in spell checker type then.

You said it worked in the past. Do you think you've changed some software 
component lately?
Or happens it with this new document only?
Currently I have no clue - sorry.
Perhaps the best you can do is to report a bug with an example document here:
http://www.lyx.org/trac

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
 I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX
 2.9.

I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it 
looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package expl3) are not up to 
date.

 (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fontspec\fontspec.cfg))
 ! Undefined control sequence.
 argument \int_compare_p:nNn
 
 l.7 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Cambria}
 
 The control sequence at the end of the top line
 of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
 misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
 spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

This command (\int_compare_p:nNn) comes from l3int.sty. I have v2077 
(2010/10/17) here (TeXLive 2010), you seem to have v1933 (2010/05/25). This 
might explain the error.

See below my file list. You can insert \listfiles into your preamble and 
compare the versions with mine.

Jürgen


 *File List*
 article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
   expl3.sty2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
 l3names.sty2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX 
Primitiv
es
etex.sty1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
 l3expan.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists
   l3int.sty2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
 l3quark.sty2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
   l3seq.sty2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
  l3toks.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
   l3prg.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
 l3clist.sty2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
 l3token.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and 
manipu
lation
  l3prop.sty2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
   l3msg.sty2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
l3io.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
  l3skip.sty2010/11/23 v2088 L3 Experimental skip registers
   l3box.sty2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
  l3keys.sty2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
  l3xref.sty2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
  l3file.sty2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
calc.sty2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
  xparse.sty2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
 xkeyval.sty2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
 xkeyval.tex2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for 
XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
 fontenc.sty
  eu1enc.def2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
  eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many 
othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
 url.sty2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
polyglossia.sty2010/07/27 v1.2.0a Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
etoolbox.sty2010/09/12 v2.0a e-TeX tools for LaTeX
makecmds.sty2009/09/03 v1.0a extra command making commands
gloss-english.ldfpolyglossia: module for english
 eu1lmtt.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
 ***


Jürgen

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

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

Just a comment to those still using Miktex as their Latex after-Lyx engine:
After many years of using Miktex, I have recently switched to TexLive
(which I use on both Linux-Ubuntu and Windows-XP), mostly because of its 
superior updating facilities.
Now I update/upgrade Latex with a single click that runs a batch file 
that does everything.
If Lyx could be Reconfigured from the command line I could even add that 
to the batch file and Reconfigure Lyx after each Latex update.


EK

On 12/11/2010 6:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Eran Kaplinsky wrote:

I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX
2.9.

I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it
looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package expl3) are not up to
date.


(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fontspec\fontspec.cfg))
! Undefined control sequence.
argument  \int_compare_p:nNn

l.7 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Cambria}

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

This command (\int_compare_p:nNn) comes from l3int.sty. I have v2077
(2010/10/17) here (TeXLive 2010), you seem to have v1933 (2010/05/25). This
might explain the error.

See below my file list. You can insert \listfiles into your preamble and
compare the versions with mine.

Jürgen


  *File List*
  article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
   size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
expl3.sty2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
  l3names.sty2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX
Primitiv
es
 etex.sty1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
  l3expan.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
 l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists
l3int.sty2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
  l3quark.sty2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
l3seq.sty2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
   l3toks.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
l3prg.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
  l3clist.sty2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
  l3token.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and
manipu
lation
   l3prop.sty2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
l3msg.sty2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
 l3io.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
   l3skip.sty2010/11/23 v2088 L3 Experimental skip registers
l3box.sty2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
   l3keys.sty2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
   l3xref.sty2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
   l3file.sty2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
 l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
 calc.sty2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
   xparse.sty2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
  xkeyval.sty2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
  xkeyval.tex2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for
XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
  fontenc.sty
   eu1enc.def2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
   eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many
othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
  url.sty2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
polyglossia.sty2010/07/27 v1.2.0a Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
etoolbox.sty2010/09/12 v2.0a e-TeX tools for LaTeX
makecmds.sty2009/09/03 v1.0a extra command making commands
gloss-english.ldfpolyglossia: module for english
  eu1lmtt.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
  ***


Jürgen

Re: Labels with barcodes

[Abdelrazak Younes]

On 10/12/2010 18:47, sunfire wrote:

Hi Abdel,

as for the barcodes, maybe you'll find some hint's here:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt/

here are the corresponding files as well:
ftp://anonym...@ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt

I don't know if it will still work today, as I used to work only once
with barcodes in LaTeX/LyX and that's some time (reads years) ago...
But it used to generate nice and smooth barcodes.
   


Hello Oliver,

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Abdel.


HTH
Oliver

Abdelrazak Younes schrieb am 10.12.10 15:29 folgendes:
   

Hi there,

Is there anyone who knows about label printing containing barcodes from
LyX?

Abdel.


 
   

Re: My Lyx citation output is inconsistent

[Richard Heck]

On 12/11/2010 12:35 AM, Earl Alpert wrote:

Dear folks,

I am using Lyx 1.6.4 with Jabref.  My problem is that I want my 
citations in the footnotes to look like 'Author Year, page number'. 
About half the time they do look like this; the other half I get 
'Author, Full Title, Year, Page Number'. I can't see any differences 
in the Jabref entries nor in the way I am citing the works in Lyx 
using 'Insert Citation'.


Has anyone had this problem before?

This is probably due somehow to your citation style, which you choose 
when you insert the bibliography. Which one are you using?


Richard

PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
text, word counts, word search, etc.

I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!

Thanks,
Alan

Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 06:41 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:

Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK
(bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than
proper searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my
university via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this
complains that my document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I
can't do copy/paste text, word counts, word search, etc.

I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's
all default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the
cover!


Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.

Re: XY-pic won't render

[Paul A . Rubin]

I notice nobody has responded to this.  Is it still a problem?  If so:

1.  What OS are you using?
2.  If you run 'kpsewhich xyd.enc' from a DOS prompt/terminal, do you get the
path to xyd.enc?
3.  If you open a new doc in LyX and follow the steps under section 2
(Preparation) in Peter's manual, which should produce a diagram with an arrow
from A to B, can you output that document to PDF/PS?

/Paul

Re: PDF output question

[mario]

Hi

try to give a look at Laport's book
http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 
It helps.
My best wishes for your thesis
mario



On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 04:41  PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; 
wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
 problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
 searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
 via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
 document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
 text, word counts, word search, etc.
 
 I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
 default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!
 
 Thanks,
 Alan
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Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result.
See output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

On 11 December 2010 16:41, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
 problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
 searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
 via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
 document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
 text, word counts, word search, etc.

 I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
 default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!

 Thanks,
 Alan

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:

 
 
 Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.
 
 

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See
output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

Re: How to use short dashes in program listings?

[Paul A . Rubin]

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:

 
 When inserting a program listing, all - characters in the source code 
 are converted to long dashes.  This results in the C operator -- 
 looking more like a single long line rather than two dashes.  (There is 
 some space between each dash, but it's so small it only becomes obvious 
 when zooming in.)
 
 Is there a way around this?

The only way I know is a PITA.  Pick an escape character you will not use in the
listing (I'll use a tilde for explanatory purposes).  Right click the listing,
select Settings, and in the Advanced tab type 'escapechar=~' (without the
quotes) and apply the change. Now whenever you want the decrement operator in
the listing, type '~-\,-\,~' (without the quotes).  The \, is a thin space; you
can play around with alternative spacing if you like.

/Paul

Re: PDF output question

[mario]

Alan

I can search your file.
How do you look at it?
Or am I misunderstanding your issue?
mario


On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 05:21  PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; 
wrote:
 Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:
 
  
  
  Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.
  
  
 
 Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. 
 See
 output file at...
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
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Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 07:21 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:

Nikos Chantziarasrealncat  arcor.de  writes:




Always use the pdflatex export option.  This will use scalable fonts.




Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See
output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf


I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or 
anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the 
scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.  That sounds a bit messed 
up, since the scalable fonts should be the default these days (I think.)


But I've no idea how to correct that.  Other Windows users might know 
what's going on (I'm on Linux.)


What I do know is that you can check from inside LyX whether those fonts 
are actually installed.  It's in Help-LaTeX Configuration.  It's in 
the Latin Modern section.  It should say Found: yes.

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

 I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
 anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
 scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.

My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
Document  Settings  Fonts  Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
submission thingy.

Regards
Liviu


 That sounds a bit messed up,
 since the scalable fonts should be the default these days (I think.)

 But I've no idea how to correct that.  Other Windows users might know what's
 going on (I'm on Linux.)

 What I do know is that you can check from inside LyX whether those fonts are
 actually installed.  It's in Help-LaTeX Configuration.  It's in the
 Latin Modern section.  It should say Found: yes.





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Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't
allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just
installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has
confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps?

I'm more confused now than I started :-(

Alan

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

[Eran Kaplinsky]

You are right. It's a MikteX issue.

 Jürgen

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hi Nikos,

Looks like my installation does indeed include those fonts...

1.2 Latin Modern
MM Found: yes
MM CTAN: fonts/lm/
MM Notes: The Latin Modern fonts are PostScript versions of LaTeX' standard font
(Computer Modern). They aim to become the default LaTeX font eventually. We
recommend to use them instead of other PostScript versions of Computer Modern
(like AE). 

Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 08:42 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:



Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't
allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just
installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has
confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps?

I'm more confused now than I started :-(


Just because the fonts are bitmaps doesn't mean the document is not 
searchable.  It means it will look ugly though :)


As another poster mentioned, it seems LyX uses bitmaps by default.  So 
choosing Latin Modern Roman, Latim Modern Sans and Latin Modern 
Typewriter as fonts for you document should fix it.

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Guys,

Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default
fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get
searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)

Interestingly, using Export - PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result.

I guess the default setup with this installation is a bit messed up.

Thanks again for your help!

Alan

doc class g-brief2: serial letters?

[Jannick Asmus]

Hi,

how can I use the serial letter feature, but with the output like with 
the doc class g-brief2?


The serial letter examples shipped with LyX 2.0 beta1 have doc class 
letter (KOMA-script v.2). If I have to switch to another doc class, then 
I would like to keep the output format of my professional letters like 
with g-brief2. How can this be possible?


As always, thanks for your help, guys!

/J. 

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote:
 Guys,

 Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default
 fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get
 searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)

 Interestingly, using Export - PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result.

The two produce documents using different backends, and the latter is
often preferred. But it depends on what you need.

Regards
Liviu



 I guess the default setup with this installation is a bit messed up.

 Thanks again for your help!

 Alan





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Re: PDF output question

[Venable]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

 I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
 anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
 scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.

 My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
 configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
 Document  Settings  Fonts  Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
 vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
 submission thingy.


This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
the default would go a long way to making LyX just work out of the
box.

Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Venable venabl...@gmail.com wrote:
 This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
 it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
 by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
 the default would go a long way to making LyX just work out of the
 box.

 Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

There is. Although I feel the same way as you do about the issue,
there are several important reasons why (some) LaTeX defaults are left
unchanged. See this discussion [1] (it's very long).

The prevailing idea is that defaults are defaults, and unhappy users
should choose better. From the devel's perspective the better solution
is good documentation and good introductions.

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg77578.html

Re: PDF output question

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 11 December 2010 16:42:45 Venable wrote:
 On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com 
wrote:
  On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de 
wrote:
  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
 
  I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
  anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
  scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.
 
  My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
  configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
  Document  Settings  Fonts  Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
  vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
  submission thingy.
 
 This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
 it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
 by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
 the default would go a long way to making LyX just work out of the
 box.
 
 Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

I'll tell you one thing. Every time I tried Palatino, and I think Latin 
Modern, they were thin, reedy, hard to read, especially on a computer screen. 
By far the best looking font I've had that comes with LyX/TeTeX is Century 
Schoolbook. I have no idea if that's bitmapped or scalable.

If I had to switch to Palatino or Latin Modern to get scalable fonts, I'd be 
one of those resisting making scalable fonts the default.

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Re: Spellchecker identifying correct words as incorrect

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.12.2010 um 06:52 schrieb Pete Crite:

>> Am 09.12.2010 um 05:57 schrieb Pete Crite:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm running the latest LyX on Mac OS X. I've had the spellchecker work fine 
>>> in the past, using aspell. I've just tried to spellcheck a new file, and 
>>> strange things are happening. Quite frequently, words that are spelt 
>>> correctly are marked as incorrect. For example "Introduction", 
>>> "identification", "differentially" and "alternatively" come up as 
>>> incorrect. 
>>> What's even stranger is that the suggested spelling is the same identical 
>>> word! I click "Replace" continually, but obviously the "new" word is then 
>>> seen as misspelt. Oddly enough, if I add the word to the personal 
>>> dictionary, 
>>> it works next time. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?
>> 
>> Hi Pete,
>> 
>> please check in preferences the spell checker type you are using.
>> The default has changed to Macs native spell checker.
> 
> Do you mean LyX's preferences, under Language Settings > Spellchecker?
> The "Spellchecker executable" has the options ispell, aspell, or hspell, and 
> I have selected aspell.
> I can't see any option for selecting the native spell checker here.

Ok, you refer 1.6.X with latest LyX - I assumed you refer to LyX 2.0 beta2.
There is no change in spell checker type then.

You said it worked in the past. Do you think you've changed some software 
component lately?
Or happens it with this new document only?
Currently I have no clue - sorry.
Perhaps the best you can do is to report a bug with an example document here:
http://www.lyx.org/trac

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
> I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX
> 2.9.

I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it 
looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package "expl3") are not up to 
date.

> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fontspec\fontspec.cfg"))
> ! Undefined control sequence.
>  \int_compare_p:nNn
> 
> l.7 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Cambria}
> 
> The control sequence at the end of the top line
> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

This command (\int_compare_p:nNn) comes from l3int.sty. I have v2077 
(2010/10/17) here (TeXLive 2010), you seem to have v1933 (2010/05/25). This 
might explain the error.

See below my file list. You can insert \listfiles into your preamble and 
compare the versions with mine.

Jürgen


 *File List*
 article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
   expl3.sty2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
 l3names.sty2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX 
Primitiv
es
etex.sty1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
 l3expan.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists
   l3int.sty2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
 l3quark.sty2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
   l3seq.sty2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
  l3toks.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
   l3prg.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
 l3clist.sty2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
 l3token.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and 
manipu
lation
  l3prop.sty2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
   l3msg.sty2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
l3io.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
  l3skip.sty2010/11/23 v2088 L3 Experimental skip registers
   l3box.sty2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
  l3keys.sty2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
  l3xref.sty2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
  l3file.sty2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
calc.sty2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
  xparse.sty2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
 xkeyval.sty2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
 xkeyval.tex2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for 
XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
 fontenc.sty
  eu1enc.def2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
  eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many 
othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
 url.sty2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
polyglossia.sty2010/07/27 v1.2.0a Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
etoolbox.sty2010/09/12 v2.0a e-TeX tools for LaTeX
makecmds.sty2009/09/03 v1.0a extra command making commands
gloss-english.ldfpolyglossia: module for english
 eu1lmtt.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
 ***


Jürgen

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

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

Just a comment to those still using Miktex as their Latex after-Lyx engine:
After many years of using Miktex, I have recently switched to TexLive
(which I use on both Linux-Ubuntu and Windows-XP), mostly because of its 
superior updating facilities.
Now I update/upgrade Latex with a single click that runs a batch file 
that does everything.
If Lyx could be Reconfigured from the command line I could even add that 
to the batch file and Reconfigure Lyx after each Latex update.


EK

On 12/11/2010 6:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Eran Kaplinsky wrote:

I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX
2.9.

I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it
looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package "expl3") are not up to
date.


("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fontspec\fontspec.cfg"))
! Undefined control sequence.
  \int_compare_p:nNn

l.7 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Cambria}

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

This command (\int_compare_p:nNn) comes from l3int.sty. I have v2077
(2010/10/17) here (TeXLive 2010), you seem to have v1933 (2010/05/25). This
might explain the error.

See below my file list. You can insert \listfiles into your preamble and
compare the versions with mine.

Jürgen


  *File List*
  article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
   size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
expl3.sty2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
  l3names.sty2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX
Primitiv
es
 etex.sty1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
  l3expan.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
 l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists
l3int.sty2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
  l3quark.sty2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
l3seq.sty2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
   l3toks.sty2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
l3prg.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
  l3clist.sty2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
  l3token.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and
manipu
lation
   l3prop.sty2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
l3msg.sty2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
 l3io.sty2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
   l3skip.sty2010/11/23 v2088 L3 Experimental skip registers
l3box.sty2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
   l3keys.sty2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
   l3xref.sty2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
   l3file.sty2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
 l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
 calc.sty2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
   xparse.sty2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
  xkeyval.sty2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
  xkeyval.tex2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for
XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
  fontenc.sty
   eu1enc.def2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
   eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many
othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
  url.sty2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
polyglossia.sty2010/07/27 v1.2.0a Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
etoolbox.sty2010/09/12 v2.0a e-TeX tools for LaTeX
makecmds.sty2009/09/03 v1.0a extra command making commands
gloss-english.ldfpolyglossia: module for english
  eu1lmtt.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
  ***


Jürgen

Re: Labels with barcodes

[Abdelrazak Younes]

On 10/12/2010 18:47, sunfire wrote:

Hi Abdel,

as for the barcodes, maybe you'll find some hint's here:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt/

here are the corresponding files as well:
ftp://anonym...@ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt

I don't know if it will still work today, as I used to work only once
with barcodes in LaTeX/LyX and that's some time (reads years) ago...
But it used to generate nice and smooth barcodes.
   


Hello Oliver,

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Abdel.


HTH
Oliver

Abdelrazak Younes schrieb am 10.12.10 15:29 folgendes:
   

Hi there,

Is there anyone who knows about label printing containing barcodes from
LyX?

Abdel.


 
   

Re: My Lyx citation output is inconsistent

[Richard Heck]

On 12/11/2010 12:35 AM, Earl Alpert wrote:

Dear folks,

I am using Lyx 1.6.4 with Jabref.  My problem is that I want my 
citations in the footnotes to look like 'Author Year, page number'. 
About half the time they do look like this; the other half I get 
'Author, Full Title, Year, Page Number'. I can't see any differences 
in the Jabref entries nor in the way I am citing the works in Lyx 
using 'Insert Citation'.


Has anyone had this problem before?

This is probably due somehow to your citation style, which you choose 
when you insert the bibliography. Which one are you using?


Richard

PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
text, word counts, word search, etc.

I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!

Thanks,
Alan

Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 06:41 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:

Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK
(bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than
proper searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my
university via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this
complains that my document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I
can't do copy/paste text, word counts, word search, etc.

I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's
all default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the
cover!


Always use the "pdflatex" export option.  This will use scalable fonts.

Re: XY-pic won't render

[Paul A . Rubin]

I notice nobody has responded to this.  Is it still a problem?  If so:

1.  What OS are you using?
2.  If you run 'kpsewhich xyd.enc' from a DOS prompt/terminal, do you get the
path to xyd.enc?
3.  If you open a new doc in LyX and follow the steps under section 2
(Preparation) in Peter's manual, which should produce a diagram with an arrow
from A to B, can you output that document to PDF/PS?

/Paul

Re: PDF output question

[mario]

Hi

try to give a look at Laport's book
http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 
It helps.
My best wishes for your thesis
mario



On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 04:41  PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
> problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
> 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
> searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
> via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
> document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
> text, word counts, word search, etc.
> 
> I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
> default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
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Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result.
See output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

On 11 December 2010 16:41, Alan McIntyre  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The
> problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit
> 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper
> searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university
> via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my
> document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste
> text, word counts, word search, etc.
>
> I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all
> default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover!
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Nikos Chantziaras  arcor.de> writes:

> 
> 
> Always use the "pdflatex" export option.  This will use scalable fonts.
> 
> 

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See
output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

Re: How to use short dashes in program listings?

[Paul A . Rubin]

Nikos Chantziaras  arcor.de> writes:

> 
> When inserting a program listing, all "-" characters in the source code 
> are converted to long dashes.  This results in the C operator "--" 
> looking more like a single long line rather than two dashes.  (There is 
> some space between each dash, but it's so small it only becomes obvious 
> when zooming in.)
> 
> Is there a way around this?

The only way I know is a PITA.  Pick an escape character you will not use in the
listing (I'll use a tilde for explanatory purposes).  Right click the listing,
select Settings, and in the Advanced tab type 'escapechar=~' (without the
quotes) and apply the change. Now whenever you want the decrement operator in
the listing, type '~-\,-\,~' (without the quotes).  The \, is a thin space; you
can play around with alternative spacing if you like.

/Paul

Re: PDF output question

[mario]

Alan

I can search your file.
How do you look at it?
Or am I misunderstanding your issue?
mario


On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 05:21  PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com 
wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras  arcor.de> writes:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Always use the "pdflatex" export option.  This will use scalable fonts.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. 
> See
> output file at...
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
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Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 07:21 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:

Nikos Chantziaras  writes:




Always use the "pdflatex" export option.  This will use scalable fonts.




Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See
output file at...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf


I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or 
anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the 
scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.  That sounds a bit messed 
up, since the scalable fonts should be the default these days (I think.)


But I've no idea how to correct that.  Other Windows users might know 
what's going on (I'm on Linux.)


What I do know is that you can check from inside LyX whether those fonts 
are actually installed.  It's in "Help->LaTeX Configuration".  It's in 
the "Latin Modern" section.  It should say "Found: yes".

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras  wrote:
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
>
> I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
> anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
> scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.
>
My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
Document > Settings > Fonts > Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
submission thingy.

Regards
Liviu


> That sounds a bit messed up,
> since the scalable fonts should be the default these days (I think.)
>
> But I've no idea how to correct that.  Other Windows users might know what's
> going on (I'm on Linux.)
>
> What I do know is that you can check from inside LyX whether those fonts are
> actually installed.  It's in "Help->LaTeX Configuration".  It's in the
> "Latin Modern" section.  It should say "Found: yes".
>
>



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Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't
allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just
installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has
confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps?

I'm more confused now than I started :-(

Alan

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

[Eran Kaplinsky]

You are right. It's a MikteX issue.

> Jürgen
>
>

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Hi Nikos,

Looks like my installation does indeed include those fonts...

1.2 Latin Modern
MM Found: yes
MM CTAN: fonts/lm/
MM Notes: The Latin Modern fonts are PostScript versions of LaTeX' standard font
(Computer Modern). They aim to become the default LaTeX font eventually. We
recommend to use them instead of other PostScript versions of Computer Modern
(like AE). 

Re: PDF output question

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/11/2010 08:42 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote:



Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't
allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just
installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has
confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps?

I'm more confused now than I started :-(


Just because the fonts are bitmaps doesn't mean the document is not 
searchable.  It means it will look ugly though :)


As another poster mentioned, it seems LyX uses bitmaps by default.  So 
choosing "Latin Modern Roman", "Latim Modern Sans" and "Latin Modern 
Typewriter" as fonts for you document should fix it.

Re: PDF output question

[Alan McIntyre]

Guys,

Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default
fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export -> PDF(ps2pdf) I can get
searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)

Interestingly, using Export -> PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result.

I guess the default setup with this installation is a bit messed up.

Thanks again for your help!

Alan

doc class g-brief2: serial letters?

[Jannick Asmus]

Hi,

how can I use the serial letter feature, but with the output like with 
the doc class g-brief2?


The serial letter examples shipped with LyX 2.0 beta1 have doc class 
letter (KOMA-script v.2). If I have to switch to another doc class, then 
I would like to keep the output format of my professional letters like 
with g-brief2. How can this be possible?


As always, thanks for your help, guys!

/J. 

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alan McIntyre  wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default
> fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export -> PDF(ps2pdf) I can get
> searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)
>
> Interestingly, using Export -> PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result.
>
The two produce documents using different backends, and the latter is
often preferred. But it depends on what you need.

Regards
Liviu



> I guess the default setup with this installation is a bit messed up.
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> Alan
>
>



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Re: PDF output question

[Venable]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic  wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras  wrote:
>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
>>
>> I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
>> anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
>> scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.
>>
> My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
> configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
> Document > Settings > Fonts > Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
> vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
> submission thingy.
>

This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
the default would go a long way to making LyX "just work" out of the
box.

Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

Re: PDF output question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Venable  wrote:
> This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
> it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
> by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
> the default would go a long way to making LyX "just work" out of the
> box.
>
> Of course, there is probably another side to the story.
>
There is. Although I feel the same way as you do about the issue,
there are several important reasons why (some) LaTeX defaults are left
unchanged. See this discussion [1] (it's very long).

The prevailing idea is that defaults are defaults, and unhappy users
should choose better. From the devel's perspective the better solution
is good documentation and good introductions.

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg77578.html

Re: PDF output question

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 11 December 2010 16:42:45 Venable wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic  
wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras  
wrote:
> >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
> >>
> >> I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
> >> anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the
> >> scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.
> >
> > My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
> > configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
> > Document > Settings > Fonts > Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
> > vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
> > submission thingy.
> 
> This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
> it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
> by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
> the default would go a long way to making LyX "just work" out of the
> box.
> 
> Of course, there is probably another side to the story.

I'll tell you one thing. Every time I tried Palatino, and I think Latin 
Modern, they were thin, reedy, hard to read, especially on a computer screen. 
By far the best looking font I've had that comes with LyX/TeTeX is Century 
Schoolbook. I have no idea if that's bitmapped or scalable.

If I had to switch to Palatino or Latin Modern to get scalable fonts, I'd be 
one of those resisting making scalable fonts the default.

SteveT

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