RE: Monitor BibTeX files?

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: Chris Hennick [christophe...@trentu.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:36 AM

On a related note, is there any way to set a target file path for PDF 
rendering, so that I don't have to click Save As in Adobe Reader? Then, I'd 
be able to update my prof's snapshot with just one manual step.

There are a few approaches you could take here I think. One might be a copier. 
See section 3.2 in help  customization

Here is another way. You can run the command below. First test it out by 
running View  Toolbars  Command buffer (or Alt-x usually) and enter the 
following command there and press return. Don't forget to modify the folder you 
want and the pdf name that you want.

buffer-export-custom pdflatex pdflatex 
-output-directory=/dir/you/want/to/save/to -jobname=forProf $$FName

If that works, set a shortcut by going to tools  preferences  editing.

Scott

Re: Scrolling Slowness [Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly]

[Pavel Sanda]

Thomas Coffee wrote:
 I have experienced unbearably sluggish scrolling and typing in LyX that
 after much research I attribute to a poor interaction between Qt 4 and my
 NVIDIA graphics card driver.
 
 I solved these issues by starting LyX with:
 
 lyx -graphicssystem raster

I haven't heard about this workaround but it makes lot of sense. Many of
slugish reports seems to be related to X-drivers traffic. To check whether
this is your case then try to scroll and look via e.g. top on the usage of
your CPU - if X is taking 80-90% and LyX 10-20% then you have probably this
kind of problem.

Pavel

Re: Scrolling Slowness [Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly]

[stefano franchi]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 Thomas Coffee wrote:
 I have experienced unbearably sluggish scrolling and typing in LyX that
 after much research I attribute to a poor interaction between Qt 4 and my
 NVIDIA graphics card driver.

 I solved these issues by starting LyX with:

 lyx -graphicssystem raster

 I haven't heard about this workaround but it makes lot of sense. Many of
 slugish reports seems to be related to X-drivers traffic. To check whether
 this is your case then try to scroll and look via e.g. top on the usage of
 your CPU - if X is taking 80-90% and LyX 10-20% then you have probably this
 kind of problem.


Not exactly on topic, but related to this issue for those on Linux
using proprietary nvidia drivers. Apparently, the latest version of
the driver, 295.40, suffers from some serious bug that tends to slow
down the system and occasionally max out X to 100% system resources,
with consequent freeze. The issue as surfaced among Archlinux users
and has also been reported elsewhere.  Some users have benefited from
downgrading to the previous version. Others, like me :-(, are still
waiting for a revised version to come from Nvidia.

Chers,

Stefano




 Pavel



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

LyXHTML Visual Appearance

[Richard Heck]

On 04/26/2012 11:30 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:

On 04/26/2012 04:48 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 04/26/2012 06:27 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:


Sorry, but LyXHTML is too ugly for my taste.


How so? Do you mean the visual output or the file structure, or?


Richard,

I'm not experienced enough at HTML to have an opinion
on file structure.

When I set the document default output to HTML (filtered
through elyxer) the viewed document is more visually
appealing than when set to LyXHTML. Perhaps ugly is too
strong a word here, but I think most people would agree
it looks dated.

I didn't mean to give offense and please don't take my
comment that way.

No offense at all. It was a serious question, and people are going to 
have different opinions.


Indeed, the question still stands: LyX is always in progress, and always 
subject to improvement.


Regarding the visual appearance, then, I should say that LyX's own HTML 
output and elyxer *both* pretty exclusively use CSS to style the 
document. So one can in fact change the appearance quite easily, either 
by editing the CSS manually, once the file's been exported, or else by 
using the usual customization methods within LyX: layout files, modules, 
local layout, and so forth. So it's worth distinguishing these two issues.


If there are specific things you think could be improved, please do let 
us know. It's not hard.


Richard

Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Jane Shevtsov]

I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every single
citation?

Thanks,
Jane

-- 
-
Jane Shevtsov
co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org

In the long run, education intended to produce a molecular geneticist, a
systems ecologist, or an immunologist is inferior, both for the individual
and for society, than that intended to produce a broadly educated person
who has also written a dissertation. --John Janovy, Jr., On Becoming a
Biologist

Re: Columns in Beamer Lyx

[s nedunuri]

I just tried it and I cannot get it to work. All that happens is that 
the text [totalwidth=50mm] shows up in the 1st column. Yes I entered 
it in TeX mode, right after where it says Columns (center aligned) in red.




On 3/15/2012 4:42 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

s nedunurinedunuriat  cs.utexas.edu  writes:



I'm wondering if there's a reason the Lyx version of the Columns command
doesn't allow you to specify an overall width the way the Latex Beamer
version does?


It does.  You just have to enter it as raw TeX (Insert  TeX Code or Ctrl-L), in
square bracket, as inERT[totalwidth=50mm]/ERT.


Or for that matter the Column command requires you to give
an absolute width for the column and doesnt allow a relative spec  like
0.5\textwidth.


Relative widths work.  Again, enter them as raw TeX (but this time without the
square brackets).

Paul

configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
Code
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
Code ends
I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default? 

Alasdair

RE: Monitor BibTeX files?

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: Chris Hennick [christophe...@trentu.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:36 AM

On a related note, is there any way to set a target file path for PDF 
rendering, so that I don't have to click Save As in Adobe Reader? Then, I'd 
be able to update my prof's snapshot with just one manual step.

There are a few approaches you could take here I think. One might be a copier. 
See section 3.2 in help  customization

Here is another way. You can run the command below. First test it out by 
running View  Toolbars  Command buffer (or Alt-x usually) and enter the 
following command there and press return. Don't forget to modify the folder you 
want and the pdf name that you want.

buffer-export-custom pdflatex pdflatex 
-output-directory=/dir/you/want/to/save/to -jobname=forProf $$FName

If that works, set a shortcut by going to tools  preferences  editing.

Scott

Re: Scrolling Slowness [Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly]

[Pavel Sanda]

Thomas Coffee wrote:
 I have experienced unbearably sluggish scrolling and typing in LyX that
 after much research I attribute to a poor interaction between Qt 4 and my
 NVIDIA graphics card driver.
 
 I solved these issues by starting LyX with:
 
 lyx -graphicssystem raster

I haven't heard about this workaround but it makes lot of sense. Many of
slugish reports seems to be related to X-drivers traffic. To check whether
this is your case then try to scroll and look via e.g. top on the usage of
your CPU - if X is taking 80-90% and LyX 10-20% then you have probably this
kind of problem.

Pavel

Re: Scrolling Slowness [Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly]

[stefano franchi]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 Thomas Coffee wrote:
 I have experienced unbearably sluggish scrolling and typing in LyX that
 after much research I attribute to a poor interaction between Qt 4 and my
 NVIDIA graphics card driver.

 I solved these issues by starting LyX with:

 lyx -graphicssystem raster

 I haven't heard about this workaround but it makes lot of sense. Many of
 slugish reports seems to be related to X-drivers traffic. To check whether
 this is your case then try to scroll and look via e.g. top on the usage of
 your CPU - if X is taking 80-90% and LyX 10-20% then you have probably this
 kind of problem.


Not exactly on topic, but related to this issue for those on Linux
using proprietary nvidia drivers. Apparently, the latest version of
the driver, 295.40, suffers from some serious bug that tends to slow
down the system and occasionally max out X to 100% system resources,
with consequent freeze. The issue as surfaced among Archlinux users
and has also been reported elsewhere.  Some users have benefited from
downgrading to the previous version. Others, like me :-(, are still
waiting for a revised version to come from Nvidia.

Chers,

Stefano




 Pavel



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

LyXHTML Visual Appearance

[Richard Heck]

On 04/26/2012 11:30 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:

On 04/26/2012 04:48 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 04/26/2012 06:27 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:


Sorry, but LyXHTML is too ugly for my taste.


How so? Do you mean the visual output or the file structure, or?


Richard,

I'm not experienced enough at HTML to have an opinion
on file structure.

When I set the document default output to HTML (filtered
through elyxer) the viewed document is more visually
appealing than when set to LyXHTML. Perhaps ugly is too
strong a word here, but I think most people would agree
it looks dated.

I didn't mean to give offense and please don't take my
comment that way.

No offense at all. It was a serious question, and people are going to 
have different opinions.


Indeed, the question still stands: LyX is always in progress, and always 
subject to improvement.


Regarding the visual appearance, then, I should say that LyX's own HTML 
output and elyxer *both* pretty exclusively use CSS to style the 
document. So one can in fact change the appearance quite easily, either 
by editing the CSS manually, once the file's been exported, or else by 
using the usual customization methods within LyX: layout files, modules, 
local layout, and so forth. So it's worth distinguishing these two issues.


If there are specific things you think could be improved, please do let 
us know. It's not hard.


Richard

Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Jane Shevtsov]

I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every single
citation?

Thanks,
Jane

-- 
-
Jane Shevtsov
co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org

In the long run, education intended to produce a molecular geneticist, a
systems ecologist, or an immunologist is inferior, both for the individual
and for society, than that intended to produce a broadly educated person
who has also written a dissertation. --John Janovy, Jr., On Becoming a
Biologist

Re: Columns in Beamer Lyx

[s nedunuri]

I just tried it and I cannot get it to work. All that happens is that 
the text [totalwidth=50mm] shows up in the 1st column. Yes I entered 
it in TeX mode, right after where it says Columns (center aligned) in red.




On 3/15/2012 4:42 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

s nedunurinedunuriat  cs.utexas.edu  writes:



I'm wondering if there's a reason the Lyx version of the Columns command
doesn't allow you to specify an overall width the way the Latex Beamer
version does?


It does.  You just have to enter it as raw TeX (Insert  TeX Code or Ctrl-L), in
square bracket, as inERT[totalwidth=50mm]/ERT.


Or for that matter the Column command requires you to give
an absolute width for the column and doesnt allow a relative spec  like
0.5\textwidth.


Relative widths work.  Again, enter them as raw TeX (but this time without the
square brackets).

Paul

configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
Code
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
Code ends
I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default? 

Alasdair

RE: Monitor BibTeX files?

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: Chris Hennick [christophe...@trentu.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:36 AM

>On a related note, is there any way to set a target file path for PDF 
>rendering, so that I don't have to click >Save As in Adobe Reader? Then, I'd 
>be able to update my prof's snapshot with just one manual step.

There are a few approaches you could take here I think. One might be a copier. 
See section 3.2 in help > customization

Here is another way. You can run the command below. First test it out by 
running View > Toolbars > Command buffer (or Alt-x usually) and enter the 
following command there and press return. Don't forget to modify the folder you 
want and the pdf name that you want.

buffer-export-custom pdflatex pdflatex 
-output-directory=/dir/you/want/to/save/to -jobname=forProf $$FName

If that works, set a shortcut by going to tools > preferences > editing.

Scott

Re: Scrolling Slowness [Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly]

[Pavel Sanda]

Thomas Coffee wrote:
> I have experienced unbearably sluggish scrolling and typing in LyX that
> after much research I attribute to a poor interaction between Qt 4 and my
> NVIDIA graphics card driver.
> 
> I solved these issues by starting LyX with:
> 
> lyx -graphicssystem raster

I haven't heard about this workaround but it makes lot of sense. Many of
slugish reports seems to be related to X<->drivers traffic. To check whether
this is your case then try to scroll and look via e.g. top on the usage of
your CPU - if X is taking 80-90% and LyX 10-20% then you have probably this
kind of problem.

Pavel

Re: Scrolling Slowness [Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly]

[stefano franchi]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> Thomas Coffee wrote:
>> I have experienced unbearably sluggish scrolling and typing in LyX that
>> after much research I attribute to a poor interaction between Qt 4 and my
>> NVIDIA graphics card driver.
>>
>> I solved these issues by starting LyX with:
>>
>> lyx -graphicssystem raster
>
> I haven't heard about this workaround but it makes lot of sense. Many of
> slugish reports seems to be related to X<->drivers traffic. To check whether
> this is your case then try to scroll and look via e.g. top on the usage of
> your CPU - if X is taking 80-90% and LyX 10-20% then you have probably this
> kind of problem.
>

Not exactly on topic, but related to this issue for those on Linux
using proprietary nvidia drivers. Apparently, the latest version of
the driver, 295.40, suffers from some serious bug that tends to slow
down the system and occasionally max out X to 100% system resources,
with consequent freeze. The issue as surfaced among Archlinux users
and has also been reported elsewhere.  Some users have benefited from
downgrading to the previous version. Others, like me :-(, are still
waiting for a revised version to come from Nvidia.

Chers,

Stefano




> Pavel



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

LyXHTML Visual Appearance

[Richard Heck]

On 04/26/2012 11:30 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:

On 04/26/2012 04:48 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 04/26/2012 06:27 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:


Sorry, but LyXHTML is too ugly for my taste.


How so? Do you mean the visual output or the file structure, or?


Richard,

I'm not experienced enough at HTML to have an opinion
on file structure.

When I set the document default output to HTML (filtered
through elyxer) the viewed document is more visually
appealing than when set to LyXHTML. Perhaps ugly is too
strong a word here, but I think most people would agree
it looks dated.

I didn't mean to give offense and please don't take my
comment that way.

No offense at all. It was a serious question, and people are going to 
have different opinions.


Indeed, the question still stands: LyX is always in progress, and always 
subject to improvement.


Regarding the visual appearance, then, I should say that LyX's own HTML 
output and elyxer *both* pretty exclusively use CSS to style the 
document. So one can in fact change the appearance quite easily, either 
by editing the CSS manually, once the file's been exported, or else by 
using the usual customization methods within LyX: layout files, modules, 
local layout, and so forth. So it's worth distinguishing these two issues.


If there are specific things you think could be improved, please do let 
us know. It's not hard.


Richard

Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Jane Shevtsov]

I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every single
citation?

Thanks,
Jane

-- 
-
Jane Shevtsov
co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org

"In the long run, education intended to produce a molecular geneticist, a
systems ecologist, or an immunologist is inferior, both for the individual
and for society, than that intended to produce a broadly educated person
who has also written a dissertation." --John Janovy, Jr., "On Becoming a
Biologist"

Re: "Columns" in Beamer Lyx

[s nedunuri]

I just tried it and I cannot get it to work. All that happens is that 
the text "[totalwidth=50mm]" shows up in the 1st column. Yes I entered 
it in TeX mode, right after where it says "Columns (center aligned)" in red.




On 3/15/2012 4:42 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

s nedunuri  writes:



I'm wondering if there's a reason the Lyx version of the Columns command
doesn't allow you to specify an overall width the way the Latex Beamer
version does?


It does.  You just have to enter it as raw TeX (Insert>  TeX Code or Ctrl-L), in
square bracket, as in[totalwidth=50mm].


Or for that matter the Column command requires you to give
an absolute width for the column and doesnt allow a relative spec  like
0.5\textwidth.


Relative widths work.  Again, enter them as raw TeX (but this time without the
square brackets).

Paul

configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
Code
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
Code ends
I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default? 

Alasdair