beamer lyx page numbering

[tania kallab]

Hi again,
i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyxthere are two things 
i am stuck withinserting the page numberering Skipping automatically to the 
next slide when the first one is full without having to start a frame evrytime
Thank you for your helpTania
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
From: rgh...@comcast.net
To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Footnote location



  



Message body
  
  
On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:

  
  Hey again,
  

  
  if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not
using inline equations since i want it to be centered taking the
shape of a display equation can anyone help me with that



  

One way to do this would be to use an array
(InsertMathArray), make it 1x3, and put the equations in the
outer cells and nothing but some space in the middle.



Richard


  

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallab taniakal...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Hi again,
 i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
 there are two things i am stuck with
 inserting the page numberering

This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
for some pointers.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer


 Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full without
 having to start a frame evrytime

I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
relies on your eyes to do that.

Regards
Liviu


 Thank you for your help
 Tania
 
 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
 From: rgh...@comcast.net
 To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
 CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: Footnote location

 On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:

 Hey again,
 if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not using inline
 equations since i want it to be centered taking the shape of a display
 equation can anyone help me with that

 One way to do this would be to use an array (InsertMathArray), make it
 1x3, and put the equations in the outer cells and nothing but some space in
 the middle.

 Richard





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RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Thanks for your rsponse 

But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.

In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I missing
something.

Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to re-compile
the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a compiler etc.
Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.

All in all very confusing

Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help

Regards
Steve

-Original Message-
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large 
 installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either 
 Rob's or your description.

As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up R in
the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate with R. At
this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure you have
reconfigured LyX?

Liviu

Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Dear Steve,

I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
confident that if he has published them, they must work.

Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here.

Murat

2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

  Dear Murat

 I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
 apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.

 I have also copied the list

 I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
 still can't get it to work.

 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
 or your description.

 Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.

 Regards
 Steve

  --
 *From:* myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Murat
 Yildizoglu
 *Sent:* 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
 *To:* Steve Sidney
 *Subject:* Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  Dear Steve,


 If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:

 Here’s the process:

1. Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
most stable.
2. Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
3. Install the appropriate 
 RToolshttp://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/index.htmlfor your version 
 of R.
4. Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
some place in your LaTeX path.
5. Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.


 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
 this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
 indicated by Rob.

 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
 Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
 manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
 the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
 normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
 texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
 share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
 folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
 manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
 index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
 more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
 from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
 following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
 will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
 compiler to find the corresponding files.
 Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
 remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

 I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
 sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
 from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
 should find your way.
 Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
 waiting of more precise indications from an current Windows user.

 2011/6/2 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

 Thanks Liviu

 Yes I have tried but not sure that I understand points  3), 4) and 5).

 Have also posted a question to Rob and hope he has time to reply.

 Regards

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 02 June 2011 02:43 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
  Dear list
 
  I have run into some problems trying to get lyx 2 working with Sweave.
 
 Assuming that you're on Windows, try Rob's instructions [1]. It is really
 much easier to set up LyX with Sweave on Linux (and possibly on Mac).
 Liviu

 [1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/10/08/sweave-lyx2


  Is anyone aware of a set of instructions that I could follow.
 
  It seems that those posted by Jeff Laake in Nov 2010 are 

Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Dear Steve,

I have just checked again the explanation on the RTools package and it looks
a little bot overkill to me too, for just installing the Sweave connection
with Lyx. As far as I remember, what you need on the R side to make Sweave
work is the corresponding executables and batch files that comes with R
(check the bin folder) and the latex files that must be included in your
texmf tree. The rest of RTools seems quite spurious to me indeed. Probably,
RTools is a sufficient, but necessary solution of this problem. But, we need
a Windows user to clarify these points.

Murat

2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

  Dear Murat

 I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
 apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.

 I have also copied the list

 I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
 still can't get it to work.

 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
 or your description.

 Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.

 Regards
 Steve

  --
 *From:* myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Murat
 Yildizoglu
 *Sent:* 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
 *To:* Steve Sidney
 *Subject:* Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  Dear Steve,


 If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:

 Here’s the process:

1. Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
most stable.
2. Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
3. Install the appropriate 
 RToolshttp://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/index.htmlfor your version 
 of R.
4. Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
some place in your LaTeX path.
5. Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.


 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
 this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
 indicated by Rob.

 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
 Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
 manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
 the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
 normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
 texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
 share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
 folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
 manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
 index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
 more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
 from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
 following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
 will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
 compiler to find the corresponding files.
 Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
 remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

 I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
 sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
 from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
 should find your way.
 Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
 waiting of more precise indications from an current Windows user.

 2011/6/2 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

 Thanks Liviu

 Yes I have tried but not sure that I understand points  3), 4) and 5).

 Have also posted a question to Rob and hope he has time to reply.

 Regards

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 02 June 2011 02:43 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
  Dear list
 
  I have run into some problems trying to get lyx 2 working with Sweave.
 
 Assuming that you're on Windows, try Rob's instructions [1]. It is really
 much easier to set up LyX with Sweave on Linux (and possibly on Mac).
 Liviu

 [1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/10/08/sweave-lyx2


  Is anyone aware of a set of instructions that I could follow.
 
  It seems that those posted by Jeff Laake in Nov 2010 are not correct
  for Lyx 2.0
 
  Any help would be appreciated.
 
  Regards
  Steve
 
 
 
 



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Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 Thanks for your rsponse

 But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.

You should only need to install RTools, this way properly configuring
your Win environment for LyX to R communications, but not run it at
any point when trying to compile an Sweave document.

It was some time ago, but as far as I remember immediately after
installing RTools (and after having already registered Sweave.sty with
LaTeX) I could to easily compile LyX Sweave documents. To echo Murat,
on Linux and Mac it's all much more straightforward, since simply
installing LyX and R suffices to make LyX Sweave work.


 In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I missing
 something.

 Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to re-compile
 the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a compiler etc.
 Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.

That might be one of the things that allows for the LyX Sweave
integration. It might be better for you to tell us what exactly
doesn't work on your set-up: LyX compilation errors, etc.

Regards
Liviu


 All in all very confusing

 Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help

 Regards
 Steve

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large
 installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either
 Rob's or your description.

 As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up R in
 the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate with R. At
 this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure you have
 reconfigured LyX?

 Liviu





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RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Dear Murat
 
Thanks v much.
 
You will see that Liviu responded and I have tried to ask the questions re
RTools a little differently.
 
But, tnaks for trying. My problem definitely revolves around the fact that
as soon as try and include the 'Sweave' module is says that it's not
installed and my ver of Latex (Miktex) can't see it. I don't really know
what's package is missing from MikTex.
 
I am sure that Rob's instructions are fine it's just that as a 'newbie'
there seems to be some detail missing and for instance I don't know if I
must install the whole RTools (200mB) or not and then I can't see where it
gets run.
 
Anyway, thanks for trying - maybe I just go to Linux for the this, since
there seems as though there has always been less problems with Sweave in
that environment.
 
Regards
Steve
 
 
 
 
 
 

  _  

From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
Yildizoglu
Sent: 13 June 2011 12:36 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave


Dear Steve, 

I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
confident that if he has published them, they must work.

Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here. 

Murat


2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za


Dear Murat
 
I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.
 
I have also copied the list
 
I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
still can't get it to work.
 
How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
(200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
or your description.
 
Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.
 
Regards
Steve

  _  

From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
Yildizoglu
Sent: 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave



Dear Steve,




If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:


Here’s the process:

1.  Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
most stable. 

2.  Install R.  Available from its project’s website. 

3.  Install the appropriate RTools
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/index.html  for your version of
R. 

4.  Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
some place in your LaTeX path. 

5.  Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.


1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
indicated by Rob.

4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
compiler to find the corresponding files.
Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
should find your way.
Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
waiting of more 

RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Thanks Liviu

I feel quite the 'idiot' at this stage, but thanks to both you and Murat for
trying.

Murat have just seen your last mail - yes it would be great if Rob or
someone else familiar with setting it up in Windows could claridy and help.

Regards
Steve 

-Original Message-
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 June 2011 12:49 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 Thanks for your rsponse

 But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.

You should only need to install RTools, this way properly configuring your
Win environment for LyX to R communications, but not run it at any point
when trying to compile an Sweave document.

It was some time ago, but as far as I remember immediately after installing
RTools (and after having already registered Sweave.sty with
LaTeX) I could to easily compile LyX Sweave documents. To echo Murat, on
Linux and Mac it's all much more straightforward, since simply installing
LyX and R suffices to make LyX Sweave work.


 In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I 
 missing something.

 Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to 
 re-compile the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a
compiler etc.
 Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.

That might be one of the things that allows for the LyX Sweave integration.
It might be better for you to tell us what exactly doesn't work on your
set-up: LyX compilation errors, etc.

Regards
Liviu


 All in all very confusing

 Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help

 Regards
 Steve

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large 
 installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either 
 Rob's or your description.

 As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up 
 R in the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate 
 with R. At this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure 
 you have reconfigured LyX?

 Liviu





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Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 Dear Murat

 Thanks v much.

 You will see that Liviu responded and I have tried to ask the questions re
 RTools a little differently.

 But, tnaks for trying. My problem definitely revolves around the fact that
 as soon as try and include the 'Sweave' module is says that it's not
 installed and my ver of Latex (Miktex) can't see it. I don't really know
 what's package is missing from MikTex.

Sweave.sty. See steps 4 and 5 (in their entirety).


 I am sure that Rob's instructions are fine it's just that as a
 'newbie' there seems to be some detail missing and for instance I don't know

My guess is that his instructions were more geared to moderately
advanced users.


 if I must install the whole RTools (200mB) or not and then I can't see where
 it gets run.

You simply have to install the whole RTools, but you don't need to run it.
Liviu


 Anyway, thanks for trying - maybe I just go to Linux for the this, since
 there seems as though there has always been less problems with Sweave in
 that environment.

 Regards
 Steve






 
 From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
 Yildizoglu
 Sent: 13 June 2011 12:36 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 Dear Steve,
 I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
 Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
 As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
 complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
 to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
 just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
 do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
 2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
 confident that if he has published them, they must work.
 Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
 remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here.
 Murat

 2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

 Dear Murat

 I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
 apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.

 I have also copied the list

 I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
 still can't get it to work.

 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
 or your description.

 Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.

 Regards
 Steve
 
 From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
 Yildizoglu
 Sent: 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 Dear Steve,

 If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:

 Here’s the process:

 Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the most
 stable.
 Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
 Install the appropriate RTools for your version of R.
 Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to some
 place in your LaTeX path.
 Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.

 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
 this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
 indicated by Rob.

 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
 Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
 manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
 the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
 normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
 texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
 share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
 folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the
 MikTex manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex
 file index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality).
 The more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open
 one from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute
 the following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key).
 This will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
 compiler to find the corresponding files.
 Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do
 not remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

 I have written the paths to the relevant folders from 

lyx command-line

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Dear Lyx developers,
I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt in 
windows:

1) Typing
LyX -help
or
LyX --help
displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth. 
But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.


2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does 
command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.


I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a 
vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at least 
the error status true/false.


Best regards,

Mukhtar

Spellchecker Access

[H. Hodges]

I'm working on an Ubuntu machine.

I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I 
attempt to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose 
anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Stephan Witt]

Am 13.06.2011 um 13:30 schrieb H. Hodges:

 I'm working on an Ubuntu machine. 
 
 I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I attempt 
 to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose 
 anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

Enchant is a wrapper library for different spell checkers.
You can configure it to use Aspell if it isn't already the case.
You have to look up the Ubuntu documentation how to do this.

Stephan

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
allow access to ftp?

greetings, el

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm working on an Ubuntu machine.

 I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I
 attempt to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose
 anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

If you installed Aspell after LyX, have you performed a Tools 
Reconfigure? It might help with being able to select it in LyX.
Liviu


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Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've reconfigured LyX several times. It  hasn't helped.

Then it might be a question of how you got LyX. If you built it from
source, it might be that you haven't enabled Aspell support. Also,
what version?
Liviu

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

Please reply to the list.


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:30 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have 2.0.0. I didn't build it from source, but I did have to install it
 from an unsupported ppa after uninstalling the older version that was
 available from Ubuntu (something with rc in the version number).

Which PPA? Contact its maintainer to see if support for Aspell was
included. Alternatively, try to install hunspell and see if you can
select that. Otherwise, it's really not that difficult to configure
Enchant: read some Ubuntu docs and it should be one config file edit
away.

Regards
Liviu


 On 06/13/2011 02:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I've reconfigured LyX several times. It  hasn't helped.

 Then it might be a question of how you got LyX. If you built it from
 source, it might be that you haven't enabled Aspell support. Also,
 what version?
 Liviu





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Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

On lun. 13 juin 2011 14:12:17 CEST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
allow access to ftp?


The ftp site is under maintenance (out of our reach). You can use the 
mirrors.


JMarc

Re: lyx command-line

[Richard Heck]

On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
 Dear Lyx developers,
 I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt
 in windows:
 1) Typing
 LyX -help
 or
 LyX --help
 displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth.
 But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.

 2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does
 command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.

 I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a
 vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at
 least the error status true/false.

We need at least to know what OS you are on.

rh

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
with

indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?


How about the FancyBreak module?

(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via DocumentSettingsModules.
Then, a new paragraph style Fancybreak should appear in the drop
down list.


Günter


#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between  
paragraphs.

#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a  
'transition'),

# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd

# Author: Günter Milde mi...@users.sf.net

Format 11

# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.

Style FancyBreak
   LatexName   fancybreak
LatexType   command
ParSep  1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty   1# allow for plain break
Align   Center
AlignPossible   Center
LabelString break
LeftMargin  break
LabelType   Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
  SeriesMedium
  Shape Italic
  Size  Small
  Color magenta
EndFont
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
   \penalty -100
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
   \penalty -20
 %%  \vskip -\onelineskip
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End



Perfect. Works like a charm. Thanks, Günter.

Sudden Single Spacing

[Bruce Pourciau]

I'm writing a paper in the Elsevier class, with the option review,  
which produces extra space between lines, suitable for a manuscript  
submitted to a journal for review. But right in the middle of the  
document, the text suddenly becomes single spaced for a couple of  
paragraphs. In the source, the only odd thing I see is the comment, %  
Preview source code for paragraph 85, which appears just before the  
sudden single spacing begins.


Any thoughts?

Bruce

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

thanks

el

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On Jun 13, 2011, at 15:59, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote:

 On lun. 13 juin 2011 14:12:17 CEST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
 Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
 allow access to ftp?
 
 The ftp site is under maintenance (out of our reach). You can use the mirrors.
 
 JMarc

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
with

indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?


How about the FancyBreak module?

(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via DocumentSettingsModules.
Then, a new paragraph style Fancybreak should appear in the drop
down list.


Günter


#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between  
paragraphs.

#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a  
'transition'),

# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd

# Author: Günter Milde mi...@users.sf.net

Format 11

# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.

Style FancyBreak
   LatexName   fancybreak
LatexType   command
ParSep  1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty   1# allow for plain break
Align   Center
AlignPossible   Center
LabelString break
LeftMargin  break
LabelType   Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
  SeriesMedium
  Shape Italic
  Size  Small
  Color magenta
EndFont
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
   \penalty -100
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
   \penalty -20
 %%  \vskip -\onelineskip
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End



Günter, what if I need the the format of this fancy break text to be  
like the text after a section in the Article class: flush left (no  
indent) and justified, rather than centered. Then I should replace the  
choice center for Align and AlignPossible with ? And should I  
replace something in the Preamble part?


Bruce

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, tania kallab taniakal...@hotmail.com wrote:
 thank you for your answer regarding the second part
 if i want to rephrase, how can i insert many slides under one frame?

It might help to know what you mean by 'slides' and by 'frames'. For
beamer a 'frame' and 'overlay' is what for PowerPoint is a 'slide' and
'animation', respectively. (But I may be wrong.)

Again, I'm not sure what you're looking for. You may want to check the
beamer example in File  New from template, which is a pretty complete
example of what beamer can do.

Regards
Liviu


 thnx

 From: landronim...@gmail.com
 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:37:19 +0200
 Subject: Re: beamer lyx page numbering
 To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
 CC: rgh...@comcast.net; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallab taniakal...@hotmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi again,
  i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
  there are two things i am stuck with
  inserting the page numberering
 
 This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
 for some pointers.
 [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer


  Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full
  without
  having to start a frame evrytime
 
 I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
 always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
 Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
 would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
 case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
 mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
 relies on your eyes to do that.

 Regards
 Liviu


  Thank you for your help
  Tania
  
  Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
  From: rgh...@comcast.net
  To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
  CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
  Subject: Re: Footnote location
 
  On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:
 
  Hey again,
  if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not using inline
  equations since i want it to be centered taking the shape of a display
  equation can anyone help me with that
 
  One way to do this would be to use an array (InsertMathArray), make it
  1x3, and put the equations in the outer cells and nothing but some space
  in
  the middle.
 
  Richard
 
 



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Re: lyx command-line

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Thanks rh. My OS is Windows 7 64bit professional.

On 13/06/2011 16:52, Richard Heck wrote:

On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:

Dear Lyx developers,
I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt
in windows:
1) Typing
LyX -help
or
LyX --help
displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth.
But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.

2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does
command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.

I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a
vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at
least the error status true/false.


We need at least to know what OS you are on.

rh

Re: Error with Lyx 2.0 and Sweave

[Yihui Xie]

Hi,

I think the problem came from the explicit argument --args when
running Rscript; it should not be there. You can remove it and try
again.

Tools--Preferences--Converters; find Sweave to LaTeX (whatever);
then modify the converter (remove --args).

The presence of --args will make ls.args[4] to be ISO-8859-15, which
is obviously not a directory name.

Regards,
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Franz Jimeno jimenofranci...@uniovi.es wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm using Lyx 2.0 with Windows 7.
 When I try to preview the sweave.lyx example I get an error:

 Error in setwd(ls.args[4]) : cannot change working directory

 There is something wrong with the arguments of the script.

 When I try to execute the script on the console:

 Rscript --verbose --no-save --no-restore C:/Program
 Files/LyX20/bin/../Resources/scripts/lyxsweave.R --args
 C:/Users/Franz/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp5712/lyx_tmpbuf2/sweave.Rnw
 C:/Users/Franz/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp5712/lyx_tmpbuf2/sweave.tex
 ISO-8859-15 C:/Program Files/LyX20/Resources/examples/

 I get this error:

 Error en setwd(ls.args[4]) : missing value is invalid

 ls.args shows as NA on the script.

 Does anyone have the same problem?

 Franz

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Les Denham]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R
 can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as
 PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly
 oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is
 rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the
 document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is
 compiled.
 
Any ideas why this happened?
 
Rich,

I have no idea why this has happened, but I don't use gnuplot because
this kind of thing seems to happen with it. Instead I use xmgrace,
which can do exactly what I think you're trying to do, and can export
directly to either PDF or EPS, either of which will probably behave
better than PS when included as a figure.

Les

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/13/2011 10:35 PM, Les Denham wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.com  wrote:


I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R
can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as
PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly
oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is
rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the
document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is
compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?


Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. 
For me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time.



--

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, David L. Johnson wrote:


Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. For
me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time.


  Well, since I've run only linux since 1977, and haven't used gnuplot since
1998, all I can tell you is that it happened with this one plot on a linux
box. :-)

  Personally, I prefer PSTricks, but each day's rainfall total is a discrete
amount unrelated to prior and succeeding days. This means that any sort of
line plot (including time series) is inappropriate. Such bar plots have a
place in scientific work as well as in business (where thay are a mainstay
of spreadsheet graphics).

Rich

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Julien Rioux]

On 13/06/2011 7:43 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make
a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript
(.ps).
When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I
export
the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented
when the file is compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?

Rich



I've seen this happen because of a
%%Orientation: Landscape
line in the postscript. It's up to the converter to decide how t 
interpret this and whether to apply a rotation or not. The png and eps 
converters evidently behave differently.


I think you can safely edit your file to remove the offending line.

--
Julien

Underline import failure

[Andrew Parsloe]

Create a LyX document which uses underline and export as Latex. Now 
import the Latex document. The underline is not 'swallowed' by LyX and 
shown as underline, but remains in ERT. Also, the document doesn't 
compile. However, if another word is now underlined, then the document 
does compile, and the earlier word which caused the problem is correctly 
underlined in the pdf.


LyX 2.0, Windows Vista.

Andrew

beamer lyx page numbering

[tania kallab]

Hi again,
i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyxthere are two things 
i am stuck withinserting the page numberering Skipping automatically to the 
next slide when the first one is full without having to start a frame evrytime
Thank you for your helpTania
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
From: rgh...@comcast.net
To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Footnote location



  



Message body
  
  
On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:

  
  Hey again,
  

  
  if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not
using inline equations since i want it to be centered taking the
shape of a display equation can anyone help me with that



  

One way to do this would be to use an array
(InsertMathArray), make it 1x3, and put the equations in the
outer cells and nothing but some space in the middle.



Richard


  

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallab taniakal...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Hi again,
 i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
 there are two things i am stuck with
 inserting the page numberering

This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
for some pointers.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer


 Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full without
 having to start a frame evrytime

I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
relies on your eyes to do that.

Regards
Liviu


 Thank you for your help
 Tania
 
 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
 From: rgh...@comcast.net
 To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
 CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: Footnote location

 On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:

 Hey again,
 if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not using inline
 equations since i want it to be centered taking the shape of a display
 equation can anyone help me with that

 One way to do this would be to use an array (InsertMathArray), make it
 1x3, and put the equations in the outer cells and nothing but some space in
 the middle.

 Richard





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RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Thanks for your rsponse 

But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.

In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I missing
something.

Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to re-compile
the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a compiler etc.
Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.

All in all very confusing

Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help

Regards
Steve

-Original Message-
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large 
 installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either 
 Rob's or your description.

As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up R in
the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate with R. At
this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure you have
reconfigured LyX?

Liviu

Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Dear Steve,

I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
confident that if he has published them, they must work.

Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here.

Murat

2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

  Dear Murat

 I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
 apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.

 I have also copied the list

 I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
 still can't get it to work.

 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
 or your description.

 Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.

 Regards
 Steve

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 Yildizoglu
 *Sent:* 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
 *To:* Steve Sidney
 *Subject:* Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  Dear Steve,


 If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:

 Here’s the process:

1. Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
most stable.
2. Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
3. Install the appropriate 
 RToolshttp://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/index.htmlfor your version 
 of R.
4. Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
some place in your LaTeX path.
5. Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.


 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
 this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
 indicated by Rob.

 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
 Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
 manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
 the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
 normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
 texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
 share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
 folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
 manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
 index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
 more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
 from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
 following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
 will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
 compiler to find the corresponding files.
 Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
 remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

 I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
 sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
 from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
 should find your way.
 Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
 waiting of more precise indications from an current Windows user.

 2011/6/2 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

 Thanks Liviu

 Yes I have tried but not sure that I understand points  3), 4) and 5).

 Have also posted a question to Rob and hope he has time to reply.

 Regards

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 02 June 2011 02:43 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
  Dear list
 
  I have run into some problems trying to get lyx 2 working with Sweave.
 
 Assuming that you're on Windows, try Rob's instructions [1]. It is really
 much easier to set up LyX with Sweave on Linux (and possibly on Mac).
 Liviu

 [1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/10/08/sweave-lyx2


  Is anyone aware of a set of instructions that I could follow.
 
  It seems that those posted by Jeff Laake in Nov 2010 are 

Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Dear Steve,

I have just checked again the explanation on the RTools package and it looks
a little bot overkill to me too, for just installing the Sweave connection
with Lyx. As far as I remember, what you need on the R side to make Sweave
work is the corresponding executables and batch files that comes with R
(check the bin folder) and the latex files that must be included in your
texmf tree. The rest of RTools seems quite spurious to me indeed. Probably,
RTools is a sufficient, but necessary solution of this problem. But, we need
a Windows user to clarify these points.

Murat

2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

  Dear Murat

 I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
 apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.

 I have also copied the list

 I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
 still can't get it to work.

 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
 or your description.

 Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.

 Regards
 Steve

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 *From:* myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Murat
 Yildizoglu
 *Sent:* 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
 *To:* Steve Sidney
 *Subject:* Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  Dear Steve,


 If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:

 Here’s the process:

1. Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
most stable.
2. Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
3. Install the appropriate 
 RToolshttp://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/index.htmlfor your version 
 of R.
4. Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
some place in your LaTeX path.
5. Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.


 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
 this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
 indicated by Rob.

 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
 Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
 manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
 the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
 normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
 texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
 share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
 folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
 manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
 index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
 more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
 from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
 following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
 will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
 compiler to find the corresponding files.
 Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
 remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

 I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
 sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
 from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
 should find your way.
 Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
 waiting of more precise indications from an current Windows user.

 2011/6/2 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

 Thanks Liviu

 Yes I have tried but not sure that I understand points  3), 4) and 5).

 Have also posted a question to Rob and hope he has time to reply.

 Regards

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 02 June 2011 02:43 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

  On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
  Dear list
 
  I have run into some problems trying to get lyx 2 working with Sweave.
 
 Assuming that you're on Windows, try Rob's instructions [1]. It is really
 much easier to set up LyX with Sweave on Linux (and possibly on Mac).
 Liviu

 [1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/10/08/sweave-lyx2


  Is anyone aware of a set of instructions that I could follow.
 
  It seems that those posted by Jeff Laake in Nov 2010 are not correct
  for Lyx 2.0
 
  Any help would be appreciated.
 
  Regards
  Steve
 
 
 
 



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Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 Thanks for your rsponse

 But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.

You should only need to install RTools, this way properly configuring
your Win environment for LyX to R communications, but not run it at
any point when trying to compile an Sweave document.

It was some time ago, but as far as I remember immediately after
installing RTools (and after having already registered Sweave.sty with
LaTeX) I could to easily compile LyX Sweave documents. To echo Murat,
on Linux and Mac it's all much more straightforward, since simply
installing LyX and R suffices to make LyX Sweave work.


 In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I missing
 something.

 Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to re-compile
 the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a compiler etc.
 Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.

That might be one of the things that allows for the LyX Sweave
integration. It might be better for you to tell us what exactly
doesn't work on your set-up: LyX compilation errors, etc.

Regards
Liviu


 All in all very confusing

 Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help

 Regards
 Steve

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large
 installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either
 Rob's or your description.

 As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up R in
 the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate with R. At
 this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure you have
 reconfigured LyX?

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RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Dear Murat
 
Thanks v much.
 
You will see that Liviu responded and I have tried to ask the questions re
RTools a little differently.
 
But, tnaks for trying. My problem definitely revolves around the fact that
as soon as try and include the 'Sweave' module is says that it's not
installed and my ver of Latex (Miktex) can't see it. I don't really know
what's package is missing from MikTex.
 
I am sure that Rob's instructions are fine it's just that as a 'newbie'
there seems to be some detail missing and for instance I don't know if I
must install the whole RTools (200mB) or not and then I can't see where it
gets run.
 
Anyway, thanks for trying - maybe I just go to Linux for the this, since
there seems as though there has always been less problems with Sweave in
that environment.
 
Regards
Steve
 
 
 
 
 
 

  _  

From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
Yildizoglu
Sent: 13 June 2011 12:36 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave


Dear Steve, 

I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
confident that if he has published them, they must work.

Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here. 

Murat


2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za


Dear Murat
 
I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.
 
I have also copied the list
 
I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
still can't get it to work.
 
How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
(200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
or your description.
 
Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.
 
Regards
Steve

  _  

From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
Yildizoglu
Sent: 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave



Dear Steve,




If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:


Here’s the process:

1.  Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
most stable. 

2.  Install R.  Available from its project’s website. 

3.  Install the appropriate RTools
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/index.html  for your version of
R. 

4.  Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
some place in your LaTeX path. 

5.  Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.


1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
indicated by Rob.

4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
compiler to find the corresponding files.
Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
should find your way.
Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
waiting of more 

RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Thanks Liviu

I feel quite the 'idiot' at this stage, but thanks to both you and Murat for
trying.

Murat have just seen your last mail - yes it would be great if Rob or
someone else familiar with setting it up in Windows could claridy and help.

Regards
Steve 

-Original Message-
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 June 2011 12:49 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 Thanks for your rsponse

 But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.

You should only need to install RTools, this way properly configuring your
Win environment for LyX to R communications, but not run it at any point
when trying to compile an Sweave document.

It was some time ago, but as far as I remember immediately after installing
RTools (and after having already registered Sweave.sty with
LaTeX) I could to easily compile LyX Sweave documents. To echo Murat, on
Linux and Mac it's all much more straightforward, since simply installing
LyX and R suffices to make LyX Sweave work.


 In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I 
 missing something.

 Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to 
 re-compile the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a
compiler etc.
 Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.

That might be one of the things that allows for the LyX Sweave integration.
It might be better for you to tell us what exactly doesn't work on your
set-up: LyX compilation errors, etc.

Regards
Liviu


 All in all very confusing

 Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help

 Regards
 Steve

 -Original Message-
 From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large 
 installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either 
 Rob's or your description.

 As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up 
 R in the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate 
 with R. At this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure 
 you have reconfigured LyX?

 Liviu





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Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za wrote:
 Dear Murat

 Thanks v much.

 You will see that Liviu responded and I have tried to ask the questions re
 RTools a little differently.

 But, tnaks for trying. My problem definitely revolves around the fact that
 as soon as try and include the 'Sweave' module is says that it's not
 installed and my ver of Latex (Miktex) can't see it. I don't really know
 what's package is missing from MikTex.

Sweave.sty. See steps 4 and 5 (in their entirety).


 I am sure that Rob's instructions are fine it's just that as a
 'newbie' there seems to be some detail missing and for instance I don't know

My guess is that his instructions were more geared to moderately
advanced users.


 if I must install the whole RTools (200mB) or not and then I can't see where
 it gets run.

You simply have to install the whole RTools, but you don't need to run it.
Liviu


 Anyway, thanks for trying - maybe I just go to Linux for the this, since
 there seems as though there has always been less problems with Sweave in
 that environment.

 Regards
 Steve






 
 From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
 Yildizoglu
 Sent: 13 June 2011 12:36 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 Dear Steve,
 I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
 Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
 As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
 complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
 to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
 just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
 do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
 2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
 confident that if he has published them, they must work.
 Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
 remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here.
 Murat

 2011/6/12 Steve Sidney ste...@nla.org.za

 Dear Murat

 I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
 apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.

 I have also copied the list

 I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
 still can't get it to work.

 How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
 (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
 or your description.

 Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.

 Regards
 Steve
 
 From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
 Yildizoglu
 Sent: 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
 To: Steve Sidney
 Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

 Dear Steve,

 If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:

 Here’s the process:

 Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the most
 stable.
 Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
 Install the appropriate RTools for your version of R.
 Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to some
 place in your LaTeX path.
 Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.

 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
 this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
 indicated by Rob.

 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
 Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
 manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
 the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
 normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
 texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
 share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
 folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the
 MikTex manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex
 file index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality).
 The more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open
 one from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute
 the following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key).
 This will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
 compiler to find the corresponding files.
 Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do
 not remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

 I have written the paths to the relevant folders from 

lyx command-line

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Dear Lyx developers,
I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt in 
windows:

1) Typing
LyX -help
or
LyX --help
displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth. 
But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.


2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does 
command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.


I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a 
vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at least 
the error status true/false.


Best regards,

Mukhtar

Spellchecker Access

[H. Hodges]

I'm working on an Ubuntu machine.

I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I 
attempt to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose 
anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Stephan Witt]

Am 13.06.2011 um 13:30 schrieb H. Hodges:

 I'm working on an Ubuntu machine. 
 
 I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I attempt 
 to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose 
 anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

Enchant is a wrapper library for different spell checkers.
You can configure it to use Aspell if it isn't already the case.
You have to look up the Ubuntu documentation how to do this.

Stephan

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
allow access to ftp?

greetings, el

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm working on an Ubuntu machine.

 I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I
 attempt to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose
 anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

If you installed Aspell after LyX, have you performed a Tools 
Reconfigure? It might help with being able to select it in LyX.
Liviu


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Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've reconfigured LyX several times. It  hasn't helped.

Then it might be a question of how you got LyX. If you built it from
source, it might be that you haven't enabled Aspell support. Also,
what version?
Liviu

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

Please reply to the list.


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:30 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have 2.0.0. I didn't build it from source, but I did have to install it
 from an unsupported ppa after uninstalling the older version that was
 available from Ubuntu (something with rc in the version number).

Which PPA? Contact its maintainer to see if support for Aspell was
included. Alternatively, try to install hunspell and see if you can
select that. Otherwise, it's really not that difficult to configure
Enchant: read some Ubuntu docs and it should be one config file edit
away.

Regards
Liviu


 On 06/13/2011 02:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I've reconfigured LyX several times. It  hasn't helped.

 Then it might be a question of how you got LyX. If you built it from
 source, it might be that you haven't enabled Aspell support. Also,
 what version?
 Liviu





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Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

On lun. 13 juin 2011 14:12:17 CEST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
allow access to ftp?


The ftp site is under maintenance (out of our reach). You can use the 
mirrors.


JMarc

Re: lyx command-line

[Richard Heck]

On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
 Dear Lyx developers,
 I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt
 in windows:
 1) Typing
 LyX -help
 or
 LyX --help
 displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth.
 But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.

 2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does
 command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.

 I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a
 vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at
 least the error status true/false.

We need at least to know what OS you are on.

rh

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
with

indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?


How about the FancyBreak module?

(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via DocumentSettingsModules.
Then, a new paragraph style Fancybreak should appear in the drop
down list.


Günter


#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between  
paragraphs.

#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a  
'transition'),

# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd

# Author: Günter Milde mi...@users.sf.net

Format 11

# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.

Style FancyBreak
   LatexName   fancybreak
LatexType   command
ParSep  1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty   1# allow for plain break
Align   Center
AlignPossible   Center
LabelString break
LeftMargin  break
LabelType   Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
  SeriesMedium
  Shape Italic
  Size  Small
  Color magenta
EndFont
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
   \penalty -100
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
   \penalty -20
 %%  \vskip -\onelineskip
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End



Perfect. Works like a charm. Thanks, Günter.

Sudden Single Spacing

[Bruce Pourciau]

I'm writing a paper in the Elsevier class, with the option review,  
which produces extra space between lines, suitable for a manuscript  
submitted to a journal for review. But right in the middle of the  
document, the text suddenly becomes single spaced for a couple of  
paragraphs. In the source, the only odd thing I see is the comment, %  
Preview source code for paragraph 85, which appears just before the  
sudden single spacing begins.


Any thoughts?

Bruce

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

thanks

el

-- 

Sent from the iPhone of
Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse


On Jun 13, 2011, at 15:59, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote:

 On lun. 13 juin 2011 14:12:17 CEST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
 Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
 allow access to ftp?
 
 The ftp site is under maintenance (out of our reach). You can use the mirrors.
 
 JMarc

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
with

indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?


How about the FancyBreak module?

(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via DocumentSettingsModules.
Then, a new paragraph style Fancybreak should appear in the drop
down list.


Günter


#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between  
paragraphs.

#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a  
'transition'),

# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd

# Author: Günter Milde mi...@users.sf.net

Format 11

# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.

Style FancyBreak
   LatexName   fancybreak
LatexType   command
ParSep  1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty   1# allow for plain break
Align   Center
AlignPossible   Center
LabelString break
LeftMargin  break
LabelType   Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
  SeriesMedium
  Shape Italic
  Size  Small
  Color magenta
EndFont
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
   \penalty -100
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
   \penalty -20
 %%  \vskip -\onelineskip
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End



Günter, what if I need the the format of this fancy break text to be  
like the text after a section in the Article class: flush left (no  
indent) and justified, rather than centered. Then I should replace the  
choice center for Align and AlignPossible with ? And should I  
replace something in the Preamble part?


Bruce

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, tania kallab taniakal...@hotmail.com wrote:
 thank you for your answer regarding the second part
 if i want to rephrase, how can i insert many slides under one frame?

It might help to know what you mean by 'slides' and by 'frames'. For
beamer a 'frame' and 'overlay' is what for PowerPoint is a 'slide' and
'animation', respectively. (But I may be wrong.)

Again, I'm not sure what you're looking for. You may want to check the
beamer example in File  New from template, which is a pretty complete
example of what beamer can do.

Regards
Liviu


 thnx

 From: landronim...@gmail.com
 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:37:19 +0200
 Subject: Re: beamer lyx page numbering
 To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
 CC: rgh...@comcast.net; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallab taniakal...@hotmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi again,
  i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
  there are two things i am stuck with
  inserting the page numberering
 
 This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
 for some pointers.
 [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer


  Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full
  without
  having to start a frame evrytime
 
 I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
 always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
 Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
 would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
 case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
 mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
 relies on your eyes to do that.

 Regards
 Liviu


  Thank you for your help
  Tania
  
  Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
  From: rgh...@comcast.net
  To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
  CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
  Subject: Re: Footnote location
 
  On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:
 
  Hey again,
  if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not using inline
  equations since i want it to be centered taking the shape of a display
  equation can anyone help me with that
 
  One way to do this would be to use an array (InsertMathArray), make it
  1x3, and put the equations in the outer cells and nothing but some space
  in
  the middle.
 
  Richard
 
 



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Re: lyx command-line

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Thanks rh. My OS is Windows 7 64bit professional.

On 13/06/2011 16:52, Richard Heck wrote:

On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:

Dear Lyx developers,
I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt
in windows:
1) Typing
LyX -help
or
LyX --help
displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth.
But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.

2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does
command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.

I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a
vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at
least the error status true/false.


We need at least to know what OS you are on.

rh

Re: Error with Lyx 2.0 and Sweave

[Yihui Xie]

Hi,

I think the problem came from the explicit argument --args when
running Rscript; it should not be there. You can remove it and try
again.

Tools--Preferences--Converters; find Sweave to LaTeX (whatever);
then modify the converter (remove --args).

The presence of --args will make ls.args[4] to be ISO-8859-15, which
is obviously not a directory name.

Regards,
Yihui
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2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Franz Jimeno jimenofranci...@uniovi.es wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm using Lyx 2.0 with Windows 7.
 When I try to preview the sweave.lyx example I get an error:

 Error in setwd(ls.args[4]) : cannot change working directory

 There is something wrong with the arguments of the script.

 When I try to execute the script on the console:

 Rscript --verbose --no-save --no-restore C:/Program
 Files/LyX20/bin/../Resources/scripts/lyxsweave.R --args
 C:/Users/Franz/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp5712/lyx_tmpbuf2/sweave.Rnw
 C:/Users/Franz/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp5712/lyx_tmpbuf2/sweave.tex
 ISO-8859-15 C:/Program Files/LyX20/Resources/examples/

 I get this error:

 Error en setwd(ls.args[4]) : missing value is invalid

 ls.args shows as NA on the script.

 Does anyone have the same problem?

 Franz

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Les Denham]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R
 can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as
 PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly
 oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is
 rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the
 document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is
 compiled.
 
Any ideas why this happened?
 
Rich,

I have no idea why this has happened, but I don't use gnuplot because
this kind of thing seems to happen with it. Instead I use xmgrace,
which can do exactly what I think you're trying to do, and can export
directly to either PDF or EPS, either of which will probably behave
better than PS when included as a figure.

Les

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/13/2011 10:35 PM, Les Denham wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.com  wrote:


I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R
can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as
PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly
oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is
rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the
document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is
compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?


Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. 
For me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time.



--

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, David L. Johnson wrote:


Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. For
me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time.


  Well, since I've run only linux since 1977, and haven't used gnuplot since
1998, all I can tell you is that it happened with this one plot on a linux
box. :-)

  Personally, I prefer PSTricks, but each day's rainfall total is a discrete
amount unrelated to prior and succeeding days. This means that any sort of
line plot (including time series) is inappropriate. Such bar plots have a
place in scientific work as well as in business (where thay are a mainstay
of spreadsheet graphics).

Rich

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Julien Rioux]

On 13/06/2011 7:43 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make
a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript
(.ps).
When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I
export
the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented
when the file is compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?

Rich



I've seen this happen because of a
%%Orientation: Landscape
line in the postscript. It's up to the converter to decide how t 
interpret this and whether to apply a rotation or not. The png and eps 
converters evidently behave differently.


I think you can safely edit your file to remove the offending line.

--
Julien

Underline import failure

[Andrew Parsloe]

Create a LyX document which uses underline and export as Latex. Now 
import the Latex document. The underline is not 'swallowed' by LyX and 
shown as underline, but remains in ERT. Also, the document doesn't 
compile. However, if another word is now underlined, then the document 
does compile, and the earlier word which caused the problem is correctly 
underlined in the pdf.


LyX 2.0, Windows Vista.

Andrew

beamer lyx page numbering

[tania kallab]

Hi again,
i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyxthere are two things 
i am stuck withinserting the page numberering Skipping automatically to the 
next slide when the first one is full without having to start a frame evrytime
Thank you for your helpTania
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
From: rgh...@comcast.net
To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Footnote location



  



Message body
  
  
On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:

  
  Hey again,
  

  
  if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not
using inline equations since i want it to be centered taking the
shape of a display equation can anyone help me with that



  

One way to do this would be to use an array
(Insert>Math>Array), make it 1x3, and put the equations in the
outer cells and nothing but some space in the middle.



Richard


  

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallab  wrote:
> Hi again,
> i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
> there are two things i am stuck with
> inserting the page numberering
>
This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
for some pointers.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer


> Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full without
> having to start a frame evrytime
>
I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
relies on your eyes to do that.

Regards
Liviu


> Thank you for your help
> Tania
> 
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
> From: rgh...@comcast.net
> To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: Footnote location
>
> On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:
>
> Hey again,
> if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not using inline
> equations since i want it to be centered taking the shape of a display
> equation can anyone help me with that
>
> One way to do this would be to use an array (Insert>Math>Array), make it
> 1x3, and put the equations in the outer cells and nothing but some space in
> the middle.
>
> Richard
>
>



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RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Thanks for your rsponse 

But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.

In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I missing
something.

Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to re-compile
the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a compiler etc.
Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.

All in all very confusing

Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help

Regards
Steve

-Original Message-
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
> How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large 
> installation
> (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either 
> Rob's or your description.
>
As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up R in
the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate with R. At
this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure you have
reconfigured LyX?

Liviu

Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Dear Steve,

I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
confident that if he has published them, they must work.

Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here.

Murat

2011/6/12 Steve Sidney 

>  Dear Murat
>
> I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
> apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.
>
> I have also copied the list
>
> I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
> still can't get it to work.
>
> How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
> (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
> or your description.
>
> Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>  --
> *From:* myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Murat
> Yildizoglu
> *Sent:* 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
> *To:* Steve Sidney
> *Subject:* Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>
>  Dear Steve,
>
>
> If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:
>
> Here’s the process:
>
>1. Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
>most stable.
>2. Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
>3. Install the appropriate 
> RToolsfor your version 
> of R.
>4. Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
>some place in your LaTeX path.
>5. Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.
>
>
> 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.
>
> 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
> this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
> indicated by Rob.
>
> 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
> Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
> manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
> the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
> normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
> texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
> share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
> folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).
>
> 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
> manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
> index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
> more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
> from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
> following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
> will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
> compiler to find the corresponding files.
> Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
> remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).
>
> I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
> sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
> from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
> should find your way.
> Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
> waiting of more precise indications from an current Windows user.
>
> 2011/6/2 Steve Sidney 
>
>> Thanks Liviu
>>
>> Yes I have tried but not sure that I understand points  3), 4) and 5).
>>
>> Have also posted a question to Rob and hope he has time to reply.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 02 June 2011 02:43 PM
>> To: Steve Sidney
>> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>> Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>>
>>  On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
>> > Dear list
>> >
>> > I have run into some problems trying to get lyx 2 working with Sweave.
>> >
>> Assuming that you're on Windows, try Rob's instructions [1]. It is really
>> much easier to set up LyX with Sweave on Linux (and possibly on Mac).
>> Liviu
>>
>> [1] 

Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Dear Steve,

I have just checked again the explanation on the RTools package and it looks
a little bot overkill to me too, for just installing the Sweave connection
with Lyx. As far as I remember, what you need on the R side to make Sweave
work is the corresponding executables and batch files that comes with R
(check the bin folder) and the latex files that must be included in your
texmf tree. The rest of RTools seems quite spurious to me indeed. Probably,
RTools is a sufficient, but necessary solution of this problem. But, we need
a Windows user to clarify these points.

Murat

2011/6/12 Steve Sidney 

>  Dear Murat
>
> I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
> apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.
>
> I have also copied the list
>
> I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
> still can't get it to work.
>
> How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
> (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
> or your description.
>
> Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>  --
> *From:* myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Murat
> Yildizoglu
> *Sent:* 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
> *To:* Steve Sidney
> *Subject:* Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>
>  Dear Steve,
>
>
> If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:
>
> Here’s the process:
>
>1. Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
>most stable.
>2. Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
>3. Install the appropriate 
> RToolsfor your version 
> of R.
>4. Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
>some place in your LaTeX path.
>5. Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.
>
>
> 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.
>
> 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
> this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
> indicated by Rob.
>
> 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
> Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
> manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
> the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
> normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
> texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
> share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
> folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).
>
> 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
> manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
> index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
> more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
> from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
> following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
> will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
> compiler to find the corresponding files.
> Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
> remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).
>
> I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
> sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
> from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
> should find your way.
> Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
> waiting of more precise indications from an current Windows user.
>
> 2011/6/2 Steve Sidney 
>
>> Thanks Liviu
>>
>> Yes I have tried but not sure that I understand points  3), 4) and 5).
>>
>> Have also posted a question to Rob and hope he has time to reply.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 02 June 2011 02:43 PM
>> To: Steve Sidney
>> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>> Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>>
>>  On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
>> > Dear list
>> >
>> > I have run into some problems trying to get lyx 2 working with Sweave.
>> >
>> Assuming that you're on Windows, try Rob's instructions [1]. It is really
>> much easier to set up LyX with Sweave on Linux (and possibly on Mac).
>> Liviu
>>
>> [1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/10/08/sweave-lyx2
>>
>>
>> > Is anyone aware of a set of instructions that I could follow.
>> >
>> > It seems that those posted by "Jeff Laake in Nov 2010" are not correct
>> > for Lyx 2.0
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > 

Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
> Thanks for your rsponse
>
> But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.
>
You should only need to install RTools, this way properly configuring
your Win environment for LyX to R communications, but not run it at
any point when trying to compile an Sweave document.

It was some time ago, but as far as I remember immediately after
installing RTools (and after having already registered Sweave.sty with
LaTeX) I could to easily compile LyX Sweave documents. To echo Murat,
on Linux and Mac it's all much more straightforward, since simply
installing LyX and R suffices to make LyX Sweave work.


> In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I missing
> something.
>
> Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to re-compile
> the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a compiler etc.
> Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.
>
That might be one of the things that allows for the LyX Sweave
integration. It might be better for you to tell us what exactly
doesn't work on your set-up: LyX compilation errors, etc.

Regards
Liviu


> All in all very confusing
>
> Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
> To: Steve Sidney
> Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
>> How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large
>> installation
>> (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either
>> Rob's or your description.
>>
> As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up R in
> the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate with R. At
> this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure you have
> reconfigured LyX?
>
> Liviu
>
>



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RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Dear Murat
 
Thanks v much.
 
You will see that Liviu responded and I have tried to ask the questions re
RTools a little differently.
 
But, tnaks for trying. My problem definitely revolves around the fact that
as soon as try and include the 'Sweave' module is says that it's not
installed and my ver of Latex (Miktex) can't see it. I don't really know
what's package is missing from MikTex.
 
I am sure that Rob's instructions are fine it's just that as a 'newbie'
there seems to be some detail missing and for instance I don't know if I
must install the whole RTools (200mB) or not and then I can't see where it
gets run.
 
Anyway, thanks for trying - maybe I just go to Linux for the this, since
there seems as though there has always been less problems with Sweave in
that environment.
 
Regards
Steve
 
 
 
 
 
 

  _  

From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
Yildizoglu
Sent: 13 June 2011 12:36 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave


Dear Steve, 

I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
confident that if he has published them, they must work.

Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here. 

Murat


2011/6/12 Steve Sidney 


Dear Murat
 
I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.
 
I have also copied the list
 
I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
still can't get it to work.
 
How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
(200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
or your description.
 
Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.
 
Regards
Steve

  _  

From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
Yildizoglu
Sent: 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave



Dear Steve,




If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:


Here’s the process:

1.  Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the
most stable. 

2.  Install R.  Available from its project’s website. 

3.  Install the appropriate RTools
  for your version of
R. 

4.  Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to
some place in your LaTeX path. 

5.  Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.


1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.

2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
indicated by Rob.

4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).

5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the MikTex
manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex file
index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality). The
more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open one
from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute the
following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key). This
will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
compiler to find the corresponding files.
Then Launch Lyx and Execute Reconfigure (please look in the menus, I do not
remember under which menu this function appears in the Window version).

I have written the paths to the relevant folders from memory, and I am not
sure to remember well since I do not use Windows anymore. I also translate
from French Windows. But if you look for the meaning of what I indicate, you
should find your way.
Sorry for not being more precise, but I hope that this can help you in the
waiting of more 

RE: lyx 2 and sweave

[Steve Sidney]

Thanks Liviu

I feel quite the 'idiot' at this stage, but thanks to both you and Murat for
trying.

Murat have just seen your last mail - yes it would be great if Rob or
someone else familiar with setting it up in Windows could claridy and help.

Regards
Steve 

-Original Message-
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 June 2011 12:49 PM
To: Steve Sidney
Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
> Thanks for your rsponse
>
> But if one never runs RTools, how does it do this.
>
You should only need to install RTools, this way properly configuring your
Win environment for LyX to R communications, but not run it at any point
when trying to compile an Sweave document.

It was some time ago, but as far as I remember immediately after installing
RTools (and after having already registered Sweave.sty with
LaTeX) I could to easily compile LyX Sweave documents. To echo Murat, on
Linux and Mac it's all much more straightforward, since simply installing
LyX and R suffices to make LyX Sweave work.


> In the instructions, it seems as if RTools does not get run; or am I 
> missing something.
>
> Also when I downloaded RTools it seems as if this is a tools to 
> re-compile the source code, since a full download also inlcludes a
compiler etc.
> Furthermore, it also seems as if RTools implements Cygwin.
>
That might be one of the things that allows for the LyX Sweave integration.
It might be better for you to tell us what exactly doesn't work on your
set-up: LyX compilation errors, etc.

Regards
Liviu


> All in all very confusing
>
> Really appreciate you taking the trouble to try and help
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 12 June 2011 11:32 PM
> To: Steve Sidney
> Cc: myi...@gmail.com; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
>> How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large 
>> installation
>> (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either 
>> Rob's or your description.
>>
> As far as I know, RTools simply (among other things) properly sets up 
> R in the Windows environment so that LaTeX and LyX can communicate 
> with R. At this step, you shouldn't be doing much more. Are you sure 
> you have reconfigured LyX?
>
> Liviu
>
>



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Re: lyx 2 and sweave

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Steve Sidney  wrote:
> Dear Murat
>
> Thanks v much.
>
> You will see that Liviu responded and I have tried to ask the questions re
> RTools a little differently.
>
> But, tnaks for trying. My problem definitely revolves around the fact that
> as soon as try and include the 'Sweave' module is says that it's not
> installed and my ver of Latex (Miktex) can't see it. I don't really know
> what's package is missing from MikTex.
>
Sweave.sty. See steps 4 and 5 (in their entirety).


> I am sure that Rob's instructions are fine it's just that as a
> 'newbie' there seems to be some detail missing and for instance I don't know
>
My guess is that his instructions were more geared to moderately
advanced users.


> if I must install the whole RTools (200mB) or not and then I can't see where
> it gets run.
>
You simply have to install the whole RTools, but you don't need to run it.
Liviu


> Anyway, thanks for trying - maybe I just go to Linux for the this, since
> there seems as though there has always been less problems with Sweave in
> that environment.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
> From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
> Yildizoglu
> Sent: 13 June 2011 12:36 PM
> To: Steve Sidney
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>
> Dear Steve,
> I have just tried to make more explicit the instructions given by Rob.
> Unfortunately, I do not use Windows anymore and cannot directly test them.
> As far as I do remember, establishing the connection with Sweave was rather
> complex under Windows with the previous versions of Lyx, but it is supposed
> to be much simpler with Lyx 2. For example, under OSX, the connection was
> just out-of-the-box for me, after having included the module. For Windows, I
> do not remember if I had to install RTools, but, anyway, this was before Lyx
> 2. In your place, I would just follow Rob's instructions, I am pretty
> confident that if he has published them, they must work.
> Sorry for not being more helpful. I was hoping that other WIndows users who
> remember their setup for Lyx2-Sweave connection would ring the bell here.
> Murat
>
> 2011/6/12 Steve Sidney 
>>
>> Dear Murat
>>
>> I sent this last week but see now that it went to your University email -
>> apologies. I am sending this again in case you did not receive it.
>>
>> I have also copied the list
>>
>> I have tried following your instructions - thanks for sending them but I
>> still can't get it to work.
>>
>> How does RTools get invoked;  I see that it is a very large installation
>> (200Mb) with compiler etc but I can't see where it get used in either Rob's
>> or your description.
>>
>> Once again thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>> Steve
>> 
>> From: myi...@gmail.com [mailto:myi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Murat
>> Yildizoglu
>> Sent: 02 June 2011 04:45 PM
>> To: Steve Sidney
>> Subject: Re: lyx 2 and sweave
>>
>> Dear Steve,
>>
>> If I try to make a little bit more explicit these instructions by Rob:
>>
>> Here’s the process:
>>
>> Install LyX.  Use alpha6 (available from the LyX website), it’s the most
>> stable.
>> Install R.  Available from its project’s website.
>> Install the appropriate RTools for your version of R.
>> Copy Sweave.sty from share/texmf in the R installation directory to some
>> place in your LaTeX path.
>> Rebuild your LaTeX database.  Reconfigure LyX.
>>
>> 1. You just install the most recent version of Lyx.
>>
>> 2. and 3. Check your version of R. Launch R and check the About box. Use
>> this information to download the correct RTools version from the wab page
>> indicated by Rob.
>>
>> 4. R is normally installed in Program Files\R-project if I remember well.
>> Locate the subfolder share under the folder of R-project (using the file
>> manager of WIndows), and then the folder subfolder texmf that should be in
>> the share folder. Copy this folder in your Miktex tree. MikTex should
>> normally be installed in Proram Files\Miktex and must contain a sunfolder
>> texmf that again contains a subfolder latex. Put the the content of the
>> share\texmf folder in a subfolder of this latex folder (you can create a new
>> folder called sweave for example and copy the files in this new folder).
>>
>> 5. You have two choices here: The user-friendly one is to locate the
>> MikTex manager program from your Programs/Miktex menu and refresh the Latex
>> file index from here (one of the tabs must be about such a functionality).
>> The more direct one uses the Command line window (You should be able to open
>> one from Start/Programs/Accessories/Command... In this window just execute
>> the following command: mktexlsr (type mktexlsr and push the Return key).
>> This will read some folders and update their indexes for allowing to Latex
>> compiler to find the corresponding files.
>> Then Launch Lyx and 

lyx command-line

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Dear Lyx developers,
I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt in 
windows:

1) Typing
LyX -help
or
LyX --help
displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth. 
But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.


2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does 
command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.


I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a 
vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at least 
the error status true/false.


Best regards,

Mukhtar

Spellchecker Access

[H. Hodges]

I'm working on an Ubuntu machine.

I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I 
attempt to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose 
anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Stephan Witt]

Am 13.06.2011 um 13:30 schrieb H. Hodges:

> I'm working on an Ubuntu machine. 
> 
> I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I attempt 
> to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose 
> anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.

Enchant is a wrapper library for different spell checkers.
You can configure it to use Aspell if it isn't already the case.
You have to look up the Ubuntu documentation how to do this.

Stephan

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
allow access to ftp?

greetings, el

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, H. Hodges  wrote:
> I'm working on an Ubuntu machine.
>
> I have Aspell installed and it works fine at the command line. When I
> attempt to set it as the spellchecker in lyx, I'm not allowed to choose
> anything...something called Enchant is selected, and I cannot change it.
>
If you installed Aspell after LyX, have you performed a Tools >
Reconfigure? It might help with being able to select it in LyX.
Liviu


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Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, H. Hodges  wrote:
> I've reconfigured LyX several times. It  hasn't helped.
>
Then it might be a question of how you got LyX. If you built it from
source, it might be that you haven't enabled Aspell support. Also,
what version?
Liviu

Re: Spellchecker Access

[Liviu Andronic]

Please reply to the list.


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:30 PM, H. Hodges  wrote:
> I have 2.0.0. I didn't build it from source, but I did have to install it
> from an unsupported ppa after uninstalling the older version that was
> available from Ubuntu (something with rc in the version number).
>
Which PPA? Contact its maintainer to see if support for Aspell was
included. Alternatively, try to install hunspell and see if you can
select that. Otherwise, it's really not that difficult to configure
Enchant: read some Ubuntu docs and it should be one config file edit
away.

Regards
Liviu


> On 06/13/2011 02:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, H. Hodges 
> wrote:
>
> I've reconfigured LyX several times. It  hasn't helped.
>
> Then it might be a question of how you got LyX. If you built it from
> source, it might be that you haven't enabled Aspell support. Also,
> what version?
> Liviu
>
>



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Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

On lun. 13 juin 2011 14:12:17 CEST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
allow access to ftp?


The ftp site is under maintenance (out of our reach). You can use the 
mirrors.


JMarc

Re: lyx command-line

[Richard Heck]

On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
> Dear Lyx developers,
> I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt
> in windows:
> 1) Typing
> LyX -help
> or
> LyX --help
> displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth.
> But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.
>
> 2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does
> command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.
>
> I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a
> vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at
> least the error status true/false.
>
We need at least to know what OS you are on.

rh

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
with

indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?


How about the FancyBreak module?

(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via Document>Settings>Modules.
Then, a new paragraph style "Fancybreak" should appear in the drop
down list.


Günter


#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between  
paragraphs.

#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a  
'transition'),

# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd

# Author: Günter Milde 

Format 11

# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.

Style FancyBreak
   LatexName   fancybreak
LatexType   command
ParSep  1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty   1# allow for plain break
Align   Center
AlignPossible   Center
LabelString "break"
LeftMargin  "break"
LabelType   Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
  SeriesMedium
  Shape Italic
  Size  Small
  Color magenta
EndFont
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
   \penalty -100
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
   \penalty -20
 %%  \vskip -\onelineskip
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End



Perfect. Works like a charm. Thanks, Günter.

Sudden Single Spacing

[Bruce Pourciau]

I'm writing a paper in the Elsevier class, with the option "review,"  
which produces extra space between lines, suitable for a manuscript  
submitted to a journal for review. But right in the middle of the  
document, the text suddenly becomes single spaced for a couple of  
paragraphs. In the source, the only odd thing I see is the comment, %  
Preview source code for paragraph 85, which appears just before the  
sudden single spacing begins.


Any thoughts?

Bruce

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

thanks

el

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On Jun 13, 2011, at 15:59, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  wrote:

> On lun. 13 juin 2011 14:12:17 CEST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> Is there a reason why ftp.lyx.org responds to ping but doesn't
>> allow access to ftp?
> 
> The ftp site is under maintenance (out of our reach). You can use the mirrors.
> 
> JMarc

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
with

indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?


How about the FancyBreak module?

(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via Document>Settings>Modules.
Then, a new paragraph style "Fancybreak" should appear in the drop
down list.


Günter


#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between  
paragraphs.

#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a  
'transition'),

# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd

# Author: Günter Milde 

Format 11

# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.

Style FancyBreak
   LatexName   fancybreak
LatexType   command
ParSep  1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty   1# allow for plain break
Align   Center
AlignPossible   Center
LabelString "break"
LeftMargin  "break"
LabelType   Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
  SeriesMedium
  Shape Italic
  Size  Small
  Color magenta
EndFont
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
   \penalty -100
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
   \penalty -20
 %%  \vskip -\onelineskip
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End



Günter, what if I need the the format of this fancy break text to be  
like the text after a section in the Article class: flush left (no  
indent) and justified, rather than centered. Then I should replace the  
choice "center" for Align and AlignPossible with ? And should I  
replace something in the Preamble part?


Bruce

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, tania kallab  wrote:
> thank you for your answer regarding the second part
> if i want to rephrase, how can i insert many slides under one frame?
>
It might help to know what you mean by 'slides' and by 'frames'. For
beamer a 'frame' and 'overlay' is what for PowerPoint is a 'slide' and
'animation', respectively. (But I may be wrong.)

Again, I'm not sure what you're looking for. You may want to check the
beamer example in File > New from template, which is a pretty complete
example of what beamer can do.

Regards
Liviu


> thnx
>
>> From: landronim...@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:37:19 +0200
>> Subject: Re: beamer lyx page numbering
>> To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
>> CC: rgh...@comcast.net; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallab 
>> wrote:
>> > Hi again,
>> > i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
>> > there are two things i am stuck with
>> > inserting the page numberering
>> >
>> This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
>> for some pointers.
>> [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer
>>
>>
>> > Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full
>> > without
>> > having to start a frame evrytime
>> >
>> I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
>> always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
>> Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
>> would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
>> case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
>> mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
>> relies on your eyes to do that.
>>
>> Regards
>> Liviu
>>
>>
>> > Thank you for your help
>> > Tania
>> > 
>> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:33:28 -0400
>> > From: rgh...@comcast.net
>> > To: taniakal...@hotmail.com
>> > CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>> > Subject: Re: Footnote location
>> >
>> > On 05/18/2011 08:34 AM, tania kallab wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey again,
>> > if i wanted to insert two equations on the same line not using inline
>> > equations since i want it to be centered taking the shape of a display
>> > equation can anyone help me with that
>> >
>> > One way to do this would be to use an array (Insert>Math>Array), make it
>> > 1x3, and put the equations in the outer cells and nothing but some space
>> > in
>> > the middle.
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Do you know how to read?
>> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
>> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
>> Do you know how to write?
>> http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
>



-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: lyx command-line

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Thanks rh. My OS is Windows 7 64bit professional.

On 13/06/2011 16:52, Richard Heck wrote:

On 06/13/2011 07:01 AM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:

Dear Lyx developers,
I have noticed two problems with LyX when run from the command prompt
in windows:
1) Typing
LyX -help
or
LyX --help
displays nothing. I can still use the options such as -e and so forth.
But if I forget the switches, I have lost the help.

2) Lyx does not return/display any error whatsoever. Even the does
command ERRORLEVEL returns nothing.

I really need help here, because I want to to export lyx math to a
vector graphics on the command prompt. I a script file you need at
least the error status true/false.


We need at least to know what OS you are on.

rh

Re: Error with Lyx 2.0 and Sweave

[Yihui Xie]

Hi,

I think the problem came from the explicit argument "--args" when
running Rscript; it should not be there. You can remove it and try
again.

Tools-->Preferences-->Converters; find Sweave to LaTeX (whatever);
then modify the converter (remove "--args").

The presence of "--args" will make ls.args[4] to be ISO-8859-15, which
is obviously not a directory name.

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie 
Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Franz Jimeno  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Lyx 2.0 with Windows 7.
> When I try to preview the sweave.lyx example I get an error:
>
> Error in setwd(ls.args[4]) : cannot change working directory
>
> There is something wrong with the arguments of the script.
>
> When I try to execute the script on the console:
>
> Rscript --verbose --no-save --no-restore "C:/Program
> Files/LyX20/bin/../Resources/scripts/lyxsweave.R" --args
> "C:/Users/Franz/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp5712/lyx_tmpbuf2/""sweave.Rnw"
> "C:/Users/Franz/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp5712/lyx_tmpbuf2/""sweave.tex"
> ISO-8859-15 "C:/Program Files/LyX20/Resources/examples/"
>
> I get this error:
>
> Error en setwd(ls.args[4]) : missing value is invalid
>
> ls.args shows as NA on the script.
>
> Does anyone have the same problem?
>
> Franz
>

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Les Denham]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard  wrote:

>I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R
> can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as
> PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly
> oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is
> rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the
> document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is
> compiled.
> 
>Any ideas why this happened?
> 
Rich,

I have no idea why this has happened, but I don't use gnuplot because
this kind of thing seems to happen with it. Instead I use xmgrace,
which can do exactly what I think you're trying to do, and can export
directly to either PDF or EPS, either of which will probably behave
better than PS when included as a figure.

Les

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/13/2011 10:35 PM, Les Denham wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard  wrote:


I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R
can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as
PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly
oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is
rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the
document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is
compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?


Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. 
For me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time.



--

David L. Johnson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, David L. Johnson wrote:


Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. For
me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time.


  Well, since I've run only linux since 1977, and haven't used gnuplot since
1998, all I can tell you is that it happened with this one plot on a linux
box. :-)

  Personally, I prefer PSTricks, but each day's rainfall total is a discrete
amount unrelated to prior and succeeding days. This means that any sort of
line plot (including time series) is inappropriate. Such bar plots have a
place in scientific work as well as in business (where thay are a mainstay
of spreadsheet graphics).

Rich

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Julien Rioux]

On 13/06/2011 7:43 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make
a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript
(.ps).
When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I
export
the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented
when the file is compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?

Rich



I've seen this happen because of a
%%Orientation: Landscape
line in the postscript. It's up to the converter to decide how t 
interpret this and whether to apply a rotation or not. The png and eps 
converters evidently behave differently.


I think you can safely edit your file to remove the offending line.

--
Julien

Underline import failure

[Andrew Parsloe]

Create a LyX document which uses underline and export as Latex. Now 
import the Latex document. The underline is not 'swallowed' by LyX and 
shown as underline, but remains in ERT. Also, the document doesn't 
compile. However, if another word is now underlined, then the document 
does compile, and the earlier word which caused the problem is correctly 
underlined in the pdf.


LyX 2.0, Windows Vista.

Andrew