Re: Header Block with spanning graphic
I think you scan the image as background or wallpaper. Don't know about the header business. John Morgan Rodwell wrote: Hey there, How would one build a header that contained a graphic that spans the page from left to right and lies behind text? Can this be done in Lyx? In Latex at all? Morgan
Lyx Math Macro Library
Dear Lyx users, is there any public library of LyX macros? Math notation has many widely used semantic elements that could be abstracted into LyX macros. Things like: Set builder notation Sequent calculus notation Function notation (the fun argument would be the macro argument) Operator notation (as with functions) Braket notation Macros that would take indexed notation in GR and output Penrose notation (in combination Latex macros to perform the translation and rendering). I have created a macro that is useful when working with sequent calculi. One of the goals would be to minimize the need for tweaking the formatting -- things like spacing tweaks would be abstracted away into the macro. IMHO, an official location to share LyX macros would be great. Pavel Bažant
What about ePub support
Hi, I want to publish ebooks and typeset books from the same source, because today nearly all new books are offered as ebooks and as printed books. Up to now I didn't find a good solution working out of the box. Sphinx, the documentation system written in Python offers multiple output formats from one source, eg. PDF via LaTeX. EPub support is improving but not perfect yet. You have to tweak it a bit (http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher) I now want to give LyX a try, I used it years ago but always went back to LaTeX. I saw that there isn't a no epub support in LyX up to now. I read about exporting to html and converting to epub via Calibre. This is a workaround I could choose if I had to, but it is not the solution I am looking for. So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. TIA juh
Re: copy/paste poems into lyx
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: Hello: I have a word document with poems. Every line within the same verse is a new paragraph, and the verses are separated by empty paragraphs. I would like to copy these poems into lyx and use the verse environment. If I copy/paste the poems into lyx, all lines become new paragraphs in lyx and the separating empty paragraphs/lines are removed, that is the verses become fused together. I should manually replace the paragraph marks with new lines within verses and leave them as they are between verses. This would be a very tedious work. Is there a way to automate this? The following works for me: Append '\\' to the lines within verses (you should be able to automate this). Then go to LyX and go to Edit Paste Special LaTeX Text. I think this is only on LyX 2.1. If you are on Ubuntu it's very easy to try out alongside your current LyX version: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 Otherwise, use LyX 2.0.x and import the Latex file. Then just select all and set it as verse. Best, Scott
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:31:31 +0200 Jan Ulrich Hasecke juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I want to publish ebooks and typeset books from the same source, because today nearly all new books are offered as ebooks and as printed books. Up to now I didn't find a good solution working out of the box. Sphinx, the documentation system written in Python offers multiple output formats from one source, eg. PDF via LaTeX. EPub support is improving but not perfect yet. You have to tweak it a bit (http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher) I now want to give LyX a try, I used it years ago but always went back to LaTeX. I saw that there isn't a no epub support in LyX up to now. I read about exporting to html and converting to epub via Calibre. This is a workaround I could choose if I had to, but it is not the solution I am looking for. So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. TIA juh Jan, I have faced the same problem myself, and have used the HTML route with very little trouble and with very little effort. I simply export to LyXHTML and import into Sigil. Some tweaking in Sigil is usually desirable, if not strictly required. Sigil includes EPUB validation with FlightCrew (which most publishers require), as well as the capability to edit all parts of EPUB. Overall, it is vastly superior to generating an EPUB file from an MS Word document, which is what most self-publishers (and many publishers) do. Better results, and less effort. Les
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:31:31 +0200 Jan Ulrich Hasecke juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. I have faced the same problem myself, and have used the HTML route with very little trouble and with very little effort. I simply export to LyXHTML and import into Sigil. Some tweaking in Sigil is usually desirable, if not strictly required. Sigil includes EPUB validation with FlightCrew (which most publishers require), as well as the capability to edit all parts of EPUB. Les (and all), this may be a silly question, but worth asking perhaps: could the tweaks to the XHTML code that you carry out in Sigil be easily avoided with some, perhaps minor, tweaks to the existing XHTML export? In other words: could we perhaps *completely* replace an ePub export function with a XHTML/Sigil export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command line? Cheers, Stefano -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic StudiesPh: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas AM University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX?
Thanks for replying. However I'm not thinking of installing LyX just now. I'm asking if the LyX repository contains a Windows installer for ASpell, as the webpage seems to imply. Ciarán. - Original Message - From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com To: Ciarán Ó Duibhín cia...@oduibhin.freeserve.co.uk Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 4:12 AM Subject: Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX? On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Ciarán Ó Duibhín cia...@oduibhin.freeserve.co.uk wrote: May I ask a question here about the webpage http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Aspell ? The page says: If you need to install Aspell separately on windows, it can be downloaded from the LyX repositories: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/ To install Aspell separately on Windows is what I would like to do, but there seems to be nothing but a short text message at sourceforge.net, and only a very old (2002) Windows installer at http://aspell.net/win32/ Now, the sentence quoted above seems to say I can download a (hopefully up-to-date) Aspell installer for Windows from that LyX ftp site; and further, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Aspell says that the LyX project has long solved the Windows packaging problem by forking Aspell. But, as far as I can see, the ftp site contains only dictionaries. Is this so, or am I missing something? To my knowledge the Windows builds of LyX do not support Aspell. Use Hunspell (or Enchant). Liviu
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:32:51 -0500 stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: this may be a silly question, but worth asking perhaps: could the tweaks to the XHTML code that you carry out in Sigil be easily avoided with some, perhaps minor, tweaks to the existing XHTML export? In other words: could we perhaps *completely* replace an ePub export function with a XHTML/Sigil export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command line? Stefano, I don't think so: Sigil is not a command-line tool. Sigil has a GPL3 license, so I don't see that there would be any problem re-using code in it to create a command-line tool. But I think it would be simpler to create such a tool from scratch. If you just start Sigil from the command line with an HTML file as the argument, you get a usable EPUB book brought up in the GUI, but it has a few problems: firstly, the default text file is present but not referenced; then there are four items of required metadata missing; and the table of contents is inaccurate. There is also no cover. However, with no editing the saved EPUB would probably work in most readers. Fixing these problems takes no more than five minutes, unless you want a fancy cover image. Les
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:32 PM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command line? A quick search turned up this CLI ePub validator: http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ And on Sigil's Issues tracker: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/issues/detail?id=518 Actually there's an *undocumented and unsupported* HTML-to-EPUB command line conversion option. See main.cpp for details. Did I mention the feature is *undocumented and unsupported*? :) It's there because a certain company was willing to pay to see it included, but I'm opposed to the feature on principle. Sigil is an editor, not an automatic converter. If you need one, there's Calibre. And here's Calibre's documentation: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html#conversion http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html#ebook-convert I don't see why we couldn't support the CLI tools if someone showed us how to use them. Liviu
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 22:56:17 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Actually there's an *undocumented and unsupported* HTML-to-EPUB command line conversion option. See main.cpp for details. Did I mention the feature is *undocumented and unsupported*? :) It's there because a certain company was willing to pay to see it included, but I'm opposed to the feature on principle. Sigil is an editor, not an automatic converter. If you need one, there's Calibre. And here's Calibre's documentation: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html#conversion http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html#ebook-convert I don't see why we couldn't support the CLI tools if someone showed us how to use them. Liviu, I've used Calibre to convert from HTML to EPUB, and that's why I prefer to use Sigil. Calibre does a very good job of converting between ebook formats, such as from EPUB to MOBI. But unless your book is very simple it tends to run into problems with HTML input. Les -- http://lrdenham.wordpress.com/
Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX?
Am 17.05.2013 21:46, schrieb Ciarán Ó Duibhín: Thanks for replying. However I'm not thinking of installing LyX just now. Why not. Our the installer comes with all you need. Just click a few times OK and your get a fully functional LaTeX/LyX, a bibliography manager and also the spell checker is included. I'm asking if the LyX repository contains a Windows installer for ASpell, as the webpage seems to imply. With LyX on Windows you can only use hunspell dictionaries. The Aspell traces you found in the Wiki are leftovers from LyX 1.6.x. However, the LyX repository does not contain dictionaries. regards Uwe
Re: Offset problem with pdf picture floats
Am 18.05.2013 00:56, schrieb Marc Wijnand: I am able to use picture floats without any problem in Lyx 2.0.5.1, for all types of pictures except for pdfs. When I insert a pdf, the whole picture float is located a little bit to high, covering some text. How can I fix this without needing to copy the original pdf files and change the extension in order to be able to use them correctly in Lyx? You can find an example of this problem attached to this mail. Could you send me a _small_ LyX file and your PDF image to have a look? regards Uwe
Re: Header Block with spanning graphic
I think you scan the image as background or wallpaper. Don't know about the header business. John Morgan Rodwell wrote: Hey there, How would one build a header that contained a graphic that spans the page from left to right and lies behind text? Can this be done in Lyx? In Latex at all? Morgan
Lyx Math Macro Library
Dear Lyx users, is there any public library of LyX macros? Math notation has many widely used semantic elements that could be abstracted into LyX macros. Things like: Set builder notation Sequent calculus notation Function notation (the fun argument would be the macro argument) Operator notation (as with functions) Braket notation Macros that would take indexed notation in GR and output Penrose notation (in combination Latex macros to perform the translation and rendering). I have created a macro that is useful when working with sequent calculi. One of the goals would be to minimize the need for tweaking the formatting -- things like spacing tweaks would be abstracted away into the macro. IMHO, an official location to share LyX macros would be great. Pavel Bažant
What about ePub support
Hi, I want to publish ebooks and typeset books from the same source, because today nearly all new books are offered as ebooks and as printed books. Up to now I didn't find a good solution working out of the box. Sphinx, the documentation system written in Python offers multiple output formats from one source, eg. PDF via LaTeX. EPub support is improving but not perfect yet. You have to tweak it a bit (http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher) I now want to give LyX a try, I used it years ago but always went back to LaTeX. I saw that there isn't a no epub support in LyX up to now. I read about exporting to html and converting to epub via Calibre. This is a workaround I could choose if I had to, but it is not the solution I am looking for. So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. TIA juh
Re: copy/paste poems into lyx
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: Hello: I have a word document with poems. Every line within the same verse is a new paragraph, and the verses are separated by empty paragraphs. I would like to copy these poems into lyx and use the verse environment. If I copy/paste the poems into lyx, all lines become new paragraphs in lyx and the separating empty paragraphs/lines are removed, that is the verses become fused together. I should manually replace the paragraph marks with new lines within verses and leave them as they are between verses. This would be a very tedious work. Is there a way to automate this? The following works for me: Append '\\' to the lines within verses (you should be able to automate this). Then go to LyX and go to Edit Paste Special LaTeX Text. I think this is only on LyX 2.1. If you are on Ubuntu it's very easy to try out alongside your current LyX version: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 Otherwise, use LyX 2.0.x and import the Latex file. Then just select all and set it as verse. Best, Scott
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:31:31 +0200 Jan Ulrich Hasecke juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I want to publish ebooks and typeset books from the same source, because today nearly all new books are offered as ebooks and as printed books. Up to now I didn't find a good solution working out of the box. Sphinx, the documentation system written in Python offers multiple output formats from one source, eg. PDF via LaTeX. EPub support is improving but not perfect yet. You have to tweak it a bit (http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher) I now want to give LyX a try, I used it years ago but always went back to LaTeX. I saw that there isn't a no epub support in LyX up to now. I read about exporting to html and converting to epub via Calibre. This is a workaround I could choose if I had to, but it is not the solution I am looking for. So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. TIA juh Jan, I have faced the same problem myself, and have used the HTML route with very little trouble and with very little effort. I simply export to LyXHTML and import into Sigil. Some tweaking in Sigil is usually desirable, if not strictly required. Sigil includes EPUB validation with FlightCrew (which most publishers require), as well as the capability to edit all parts of EPUB. Overall, it is vastly superior to generating an EPUB file from an MS Word document, which is what most self-publishers (and many publishers) do. Better results, and less effort. Les
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:31:31 +0200 Jan Ulrich Hasecke juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. I have faced the same problem myself, and have used the HTML route with very little trouble and with very little effort. I simply export to LyXHTML and import into Sigil. Some tweaking in Sigil is usually desirable, if not strictly required. Sigil includes EPUB validation with FlightCrew (which most publishers require), as well as the capability to edit all parts of EPUB. Les (and all), this may be a silly question, but worth asking perhaps: could the tweaks to the XHTML code that you carry out in Sigil be easily avoided with some, perhaps minor, tweaks to the existing XHTML export? In other words: could we perhaps *completely* replace an ePub export function with a XHTML/Sigil export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command line? Cheers, Stefano -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic StudiesPh: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas AM University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX?
Thanks for replying. However I'm not thinking of installing LyX just now. I'm asking if the LyX repository contains a Windows installer for ASpell, as the webpage seems to imply. Ciarán. - Original Message - From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com To: Ciarán Ó Duibhín cia...@oduibhin.freeserve.co.uk Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 4:12 AM Subject: Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX? On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Ciarán Ó Duibhín cia...@oduibhin.freeserve.co.uk wrote: May I ask a question here about the webpage http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Aspell ? The page says: If you need to install Aspell separately on windows, it can be downloaded from the LyX repositories: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/ To install Aspell separately on Windows is what I would like to do, but there seems to be nothing but a short text message at sourceforge.net, and only a very old (2002) Windows installer at http://aspell.net/win32/ Now, the sentence quoted above seems to say I can download a (hopefully up-to-date) Aspell installer for Windows from that LyX ftp site; and further, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Aspell says that the LyX project has long solved the Windows packaging problem by forking Aspell. But, as far as I can see, the ftp site contains only dictionaries. Is this so, or am I missing something? To my knowledge the Windows builds of LyX do not support Aspell. Use Hunspell (or Enchant). Liviu
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:32:51 -0500 stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: this may be a silly question, but worth asking perhaps: could the tweaks to the XHTML code that you carry out in Sigil be easily avoided with some, perhaps minor, tweaks to the existing XHTML export? In other words: could we perhaps *completely* replace an ePub export function with a XHTML/Sigil export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command line? Stefano, I don't think so: Sigil is not a command-line tool. Sigil has a GPL3 license, so I don't see that there would be any problem re-using code in it to create a command-line tool. But I think it would be simpler to create such a tool from scratch. If you just start Sigil from the command line with an HTML file as the argument, you get a usable EPUB book brought up in the GUI, but it has a few problems: firstly, the default text file is present but not referenced; then there are four items of required metadata missing; and the table of contents is inaccurate. There is also no cover. However, with no editing the saved EPUB would probably work in most readers. Fixing these problems takes no more than five minutes, unless you want a fancy cover image. Les
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:32 PM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command line? A quick search turned up this CLI ePub validator: http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ And on Sigil's Issues tracker: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/issues/detail?id=518 Actually there's an *undocumented and unsupported* HTML-to-EPUB command line conversion option. See main.cpp for details. Did I mention the feature is *undocumented and unsupported*? :) It's there because a certain company was willing to pay to see it included, but I'm opposed to the feature on principle. Sigil is an editor, not an automatic converter. If you need one, there's Calibre. And here's Calibre's documentation: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html#conversion http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html#ebook-convert I don't see why we couldn't support the CLI tools if someone showed us how to use them. Liviu
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 22:56:17 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Actually there's an *undocumented and unsupported* HTML-to-EPUB command line conversion option. See main.cpp for details. Did I mention the feature is *undocumented and unsupported*? :) It's there because a certain company was willing to pay to see it included, but I'm opposed to the feature on principle. Sigil is an editor, not an automatic converter. If you need one, there's Calibre. And here's Calibre's documentation: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html#conversion http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html#ebook-convert I don't see why we couldn't support the CLI tools if someone showed us how to use them. Liviu, I've used Calibre to convert from HTML to EPUB, and that's why I prefer to use Sigil. Calibre does a very good job of converting between ebook formats, such as from EPUB to MOBI. But unless your book is very simple it tends to run into problems with HTML input. Les -- http://lrdenham.wordpress.com/
Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX?
Am 17.05.2013 21:46, schrieb Ciarán Ó Duibhín: Thanks for replying. However I'm not thinking of installing LyX just now. Why not. Our the installer comes with all you need. Just click a few times OK and your get a fully functional LaTeX/LyX, a bibliography manager and also the spell checker is included. I'm asking if the LyX repository contains a Windows installer for ASpell, as the webpage seems to imply. With LyX on Windows you can only use hunspell dictionaries. The Aspell traces you found in the Wiki are leftovers from LyX 1.6.x. However, the LyX repository does not contain dictionaries. regards Uwe
Re: Offset problem with pdf picture floats
Am 18.05.2013 00:56, schrieb Marc Wijnand: I am able to use picture floats without any problem in Lyx 2.0.5.1, for all types of pictures except for pdfs. When I insert a pdf, the whole picture float is located a little bit to high, covering some text. How can I fix this without needing to copy the original pdf files and change the extension in order to be able to use them correctly in Lyx? You can find an example of this problem attached to this mail. Could you send me a _small_ LyX file and your PDF image to have a look? regards Uwe
Re: Header Block with spanning graphic
I think you scan the image as background or wallpaper. Don't know about the header business. John Morgan Rodwell wrote: Hey there, How would one build a header that contained a graphic that spans the page from left to right and lies behind text? Can this be done in Lyx? In Latex at all? Morgan
Lyx Math Macro Library
Dear Lyx users, is there any public library of LyX macros? Math notation has many widely used semantic elements that could be abstracted into LyX macros. Things like: Set builder notation Sequent calculus notation Function notation (the fun argument would be the macro argument) Operator notation (as with functions) Braket notation Macros that would take indexed notation in GR and output Penrose notation (in combination Latex macros to perform the translation and rendering). I have created a macro that is useful when working with sequent calculi. One of the goals would be to minimize the need for tweaking the formatting -- things like spacing tweaks would be abstracted away into the macro. IMHO, an official location to share LyX macros would be great. Pavel Bažant
What about ePub support
Hi, I want to publish ebooks and typeset books from the same source, because today nearly all new books are offered as ebooks and as printed books. Up to now I didn't find a good solution working out of the box. Sphinx, the documentation system written in Python offers multiple output formats from one source, eg. PDF via LaTeX. EPub support is improving but not perfect yet. You have to tweak it a bit (http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher) I now want to give LyX a try, I used it years ago but always went back to LaTeX. I saw that there isn't a no epub support in LyX up to now. I read about exporting to html and converting to epub via Calibre. This is a workaround I could choose if I had to, but it is not the solution I am looking for. So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. TIA juh
Re: copy/paste poems into lyx
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Csikos Belawrote: > Hello: > > I have a word document with poems. Every line within the same verse is a new > paragraph, and the verses are separated by empty paragraphs. > > I would like to copy these poems into lyx and use the verse environment. > If I copy/paste the poems into lyx, all lines become new paragraphs in lyx > and the separating empty paragraphs/lines are removed, that is the verses > become fused together. I should manually replace the paragraph marks with new > lines within verses and leave them as they are between verses. This would be > a very tedious work. Is there a way to automate this? The following works for me: Append '\\' to the lines within verses (you should be able to automate this). Then go to LyX and go to Edit > Paste Special > LaTeX Text. I think this is only on LyX 2.1. If you are on Ubuntu it's very easy to try out alongside your current LyX version: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 Otherwise, use LyX 2.0.x and import the Latex file. Then just select all and set it as verse. Best, Scott
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:31:31 +0200 Jan Ulrich Haseckewrote: > Hi, > > I want to publish ebooks and typeset books from the same source, > because today nearly all new books are offered as ebooks and as > printed books. > > Up to now I didn't find a good solution working out of the box. > > Sphinx, the documentation system written in Python offers multiple > output formats from one source, eg. PDF via LaTeX. EPub support is > improving but not perfect yet. You have to tweak it a bit > (http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher) > > I now want to give LyX a try, I used it years ago but always went back > to LaTeX. > > I saw that there isn't a no epub support in LyX up to now. I read > about exporting to html and converting to epub via Calibre. This is a > workaround I could choose if I had to, but it is not the solution I am > looking for. > > So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project > aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In > the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. > > TIA > juh Jan, I have faced the same problem myself, and have used the HTML route with very little trouble and with very little effort. I simply export to LyXHTML and import into Sigil. Some tweaking in Sigil is usually desirable, if not strictly required. Sigil includes EPUB validation with FlightCrew (which most publishers require), as well as the capability to edit all parts of EPUB. Overall, it is vastly superior to generating an EPUB file from an MS Word document, which is what most self-publishers (and many publishers) do. Better results, and less effort. Les
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Les Denhamwrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:31:31 +0200 > Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > > > So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project > > aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In > > the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. > I have faced the same problem myself, and have used the HTML route with > very little trouble and with very little effort. I simply export to > LyXHTML and import into Sigil. Some tweaking in Sigil is usually > desirable, if not strictly required. Sigil includes EPUB validation > with FlightCrew (which most publishers require), as well as the > capability to edit all parts of EPUB. > > Les (and all), this may be a silly question, but worth asking perhaps: could the "tweaks" to the XHTML code that you carry out in Sigil be easily avoided with some, perhaps minor, tweaks to the existing XHTML export? In other words: could we perhaps *completely* replace an ePub export function with a XHTML/Sigil export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command line? Cheers, Stefano -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic StudiesPh: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX?
Thanks for replying. However I'm not thinking of installing LyX just now. I'm asking if the LyX repository contains a Windows installer for ASpell, as the webpage seems to imply. Ciarán. - Original Message - From: "Liviu Andronic"To: "Ciarán Ó Duibhín" Cc: Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 4:12 AM Subject: Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX? On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Ciarán Ó Duibhín wrote: May I ask a question here about the webpage http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Aspell ? The page says: "If you need to install Aspell separately on windows, it can be downloaded from the LyX repositories: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/ " To install Aspell separately on Windows is what I would like to do, but there seems to be nothing but a short text message at sourceforge.net, and only a very old (2002) Windows installer at http://aspell.net/win32/ Now, the sentence quoted above seems to say I can download a (hopefully up-to-date) Aspell installer for Windows from that LyX ftp site; and further, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Aspell says that "the LyX project has long solved the Windows packaging problem by forking Aspell". But, as far as I can see, the ftp site contains only dictionaries. Is this so, or am I missing something? To my knowledge the Windows builds of LyX do not support Aspell. Use Hunspell (or Enchant). Liviu
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:32:51 -0500 stefano franchiwrote: > this may be a silly question, but worth asking perhaps: could the > "tweaks" to the XHTML code that you carry out in Sigil be easily > avoided with some, perhaps minor, tweaks to the existing XHTML > export? In other words: could we perhaps *completely* replace an > ePub export function with a XHTML/Sigil export? Relatedly: can Sigil > be used latex-style, i.e. as a converter/validator from the command > line? Stefano, I don't think so: Sigil is not a command-line tool. Sigil has a GPL3 license, so I don't see that there would be any problem re-using code in it to create a command-line tool. But I think it would be simpler to create such a tool from scratch. If you just start Sigil from the command line with an HTML file as the argument, you get a usable EPUB book brought up in the GUI, but it has a few problems: firstly, the default text file is present but not referenced; then there are four items of required metadata missing; and the table of contents is inaccurate. There is also no cover. However, with no editing the saved EPUB would probably work in most readers. Fixing these problems takes no more than five minutes, unless you want a fancy cover image. Les
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:32 PM, stefano franchiwrote: > export? Relatedly: can Sigil be used latex-style, i.e. as a > converter/validator from the command line? > A quick search turned up this CLI ePub validator: http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ And on Sigil's Issues tracker: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/issues/detail?id=518 "Actually there's an *undocumented and unsupported* HTML-to-EPUB command line conversion option. See main.cpp for details. Did I mention the feature is *undocumented and unsupported*? :) It's there because a certain company was willing to pay to see it included, but I'm opposed to the feature on principle. Sigil is an editor, not an automatic converter. If you need one, there's Calibre." And here's Calibre's documentation: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html#conversion http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html#ebook-convert I don't see why we couldn't support the CLI tools if someone showed us how to use them. Liviu
Re: What about ePub support
On Fri, 17 May 2013 22:56:17 +0200 Liviu Andronicwrote: > "Actually there's an *undocumented and unsupported* HTML-to-EPUB > command line conversion option. See main.cpp for details. Did I > mention the feature is *undocumented and unsupported*? :) > It's there because a certain company was willing to pay to see it > included, but I'm opposed to the feature on principle. Sigil is an > editor, not an automatic converter. If you need one, there's Calibre." > > And here's Calibre's documentation: > http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html#conversion > http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html#ebook-convert > > I don't see why we couldn't support the CLI tools if someone showed > us how to use them. Liviu, I've used Calibre to convert from HTML to EPUB, and that's why I prefer to use Sigil. Calibre does a very good job of converting between ebook formats, such as from EPUB to MOBI. But unless your book is very simple it tends to run into problems with HTML input. Les -- http://lrdenham.wordpress.com/
Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX?
Am 17.05.2013 21:46, schrieb Ciarán Ó Duibhín: Thanks for replying. However I'm not thinking of installing LyX just now. Why not. Our the installer comes with all you need. Just click a few times OK and your get a fully functional LaTeX/LyX, a bibliography manager and also the spell checker is included. I'm asking if the LyX repository contains a Windows installer for ASpell, as the webpage seems to imply. With LyX on Windows you can only use hunspell dictionaries. The Aspell traces you found in the Wiki are leftovers from LyX 1.6.x. However, the LyX repository does not contain dictionaries. regards Uwe
Re: Offset problem with pdf picture floats
Am 18.05.2013 00:56, schrieb Marc Wijnand: I am able to use picture floats without any problem in Lyx 2.0.5.1, for all types of pictures except for pdfs. When I insert a pdf, the whole picture float is located a little bit to high, covering some text. How can I fix this without needing to copy the original pdf files and change the extension in order to be able to use them correctly in Lyx? You can find an example of this problem attached to this mail. Could you send me a _small_ LyX file and your PDF image to have a look? regards Uwe