Re: Business card template

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am 03.06.2017 um 03:05 schrieb Joel Kulesza:
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Rich Shepard > wrote:


As time permits I'll look at the available LaTeX packages. I use
LaTeX/LyX
for almost all my writing and the modern CV and resume package
looks highly
professional and is impressive, so I assume business card
templates will
also be of this quality.


Rich,

Some additional considerations...

While I really like LaTeX / LyX for documentation, I'm reluctant to 
use it for things that require specific visual layout like business 
cards or posters.  With LyX's WYSIWYM philosophy and LaTeX's "focus on 
content, not layout" approach, this somewhat goes against the precise 
graphical design for such media.  Such documents are also either 
infrequent (in the case of business cards) or one-time (in the case of 
posters) editing tasks.  So having reproducible formatting may not be 
as important.  You might also find yourself tweaking esoteric LaTeX 
settings / ERT to get things just right, while a simple nudge in a 
graphical design tool would do.  However, for something "simple" like 
a business card, maybe doing everything in TikZ would work.


I don't mean to discourage, but just want to suggest that while LaTeX 
/ LyX might get to a satisfactory result, it may not be the right 
and/or most efficient toolset for the job.


- Joel

P.S. If you'd like to see how I setup a business card sheet in 
Inkscape, let me know and I'll forward along my .svg and .pdf files.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4693/is-there-a-good-document-template-for-making-business-cards
Wolfgang

Re: Business card template

[Joel Kulesza]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> As time permits I'll look at the available LaTeX packages. I use LaTeX/LyX
> for almost all my writing and the modern CV and resume package looks highly
> professional and is impressive, so I assume business card templates will
> also be of this quality.
>

Rich,

Some additional considerations...

While I really like LaTeX / LyX for documentation, I'm reluctant to use it
for things that require specific visual layout like business cards or
posters.  With LyX's WYSIWYM philosophy and LaTeX's "focus on content, not
layout" approach, this somewhat goes against the precise graphical design
for such media.  Such documents are also either infrequent (in the case of
business cards) or one-time (in the case of posters) editing tasks.  So
having reproducible formatting may not be as important.  You might also
find yourself tweaking esoteric LaTeX settings / ERT to get things just
right, while a simple nudge in a graphical design tool would do.  However,
for something "simple" like a business card, maybe doing everything in TikZ
would work.

I don't mean to discourage, but just want to suggest that while LaTeX / LyX
might get to a satisfactory result, it may not be the right and/or most
efficient toolset for the job.

- Joel

P.S. If you'd like to see how I setup a business card sheet in Inkscape,
let me know and I'll forward along my .svg and .pdf files.

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[Joel Kulesza]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:

> Your preferences are in a file called "preferences", stored in your user
> directory. To locate your user directory, see Help > About (I think on
> Mac this is LyX > About?). If you go to your user directory and there is
> no "preferences" file, that means that you have not changed any of the
> defaults. I still want to know in this case. If you could just respond
> "default", then that would be helpful.
>
> Please state your OS with the categories of Windows, Mac, or Linux. This
> is important because it is possible to have different default
> preferences on different platforms.
>

Mac OS X 10.11.6

Preference file attached.

With respect to Scott's stated curiosity: I'd push for continuous
spellcheck enabled by default.

One preference not shown (because it is not available), but that I'd love
to have: default alignment of inserted figures: center.

- Joel

P.S. For Mac Users, the file is likely in ~/Library/Application
Support/LyX-2.*/.
# LyX 2.2.2 generated this file. If you want to make your own
# modifications you should do them from inside LyX and save.

Format 19


#
# MISC SECTION ##
#

# Display graphics within LyX
# true|false
\display_graphics false
\user_name "Joel A. Kulesza"
\user_email ""
\preview off

#
# SCREEN & FONTS SECTION 
#

\scroll_below_document true
\paragraph_markers true
\screen_font_sizes 5 7 8 9 10 12 14.4 17.26 20.74 24.88

#
# COLOR SECTION ###
#

\set_color "shaded" "#03ff00"

#
# PRINTER SECTION ###
#


#
# TEX SECTION ###
#


#
# FILE SECTION ##
#


#
# PLAIN TEXT EXPORT SECTION ##
#


#
# SPELLCHECKER SECTION ##
#

\use_system_colors false

#
# LANGUAGE SUPPORT SECTION ##
#

\default_length_unit 6
\spellcheck_continuously true

#
# 2nd MISC SUPPORT SECTION ##
#


#
# FORMATS SECTION ##
#


#
# CONVERTERS SECTION ##
#


#
# COPIERS SECTION ##
#

Re:Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[subaochen]

The attachment is mine, on Ubuntu 16.04, almost the default settings. 

At 2017-06-02 04:07:18, "Scott Kostyshak"  wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>There are many different preferences that the user can customize. It is
>difficult to think about what is the best default preferences for the
>most amount of users. One way I've thought of to get an idea of this is
>to start collecting user's preferences. If we see that a lot of users
>have changed a certain preference, we might think about changing the
>default. Of course, for you this won't make much of a difference since
>you have that setting set anyway. But it could make a difference for the
>out-of-the-box experience of new LyX users.
>
>Just to set realistic expectations, I would say that the chance of us
>changing a default preference are pretty low (see, for example, [1], for
>why this is complicated). In order to tak a rist, we need to have a lot
>of evidence about the average user; and since you are on a LyX mailing
>list that means you are not an average user in my opinion :).
>
>Preferences in particular that I'm curious about are:
>
>  screen zoom
>  continuous spellcheck
>  math preview
>
>Before posting, please check your preferences file manually for any
>information that you prefer not to be made public.
>
>Your preferences are in a file called "preferences", stored in your user
>directory. To locate your user directory, see Help > About (I think on
>Mac this is LyX > About?). If you go to your user directory and there is
>no "preferences" file, that means that you have not changed any of the
>defaults. I still want to know in this case. If you could just respond
>"default", then that would be helpful.
>
>Please state your OS with the categories of Windows, Mac, or Linux. This
>is important because it is possible to have different default
>preferences on different platforms.
>
>Attached is my preferences file.
>
>Scott
>
>
>[1] 
>https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=CAO7dr0isQTesZ9cJeobrA0vYFr3ctUMA-JWTPDx677tjz286Ew%40mail.gmail.com


preferences
Description: Binary data

Re: Business card template

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2017, gordon cooper wrote:


  Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO. Not yet found
an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app 'glabels'. Bit of a
short learning curve but it provides for the standard commercially
available sizes.


Gordon,

  Thank you. I was pointed to glabels this morning. Built and installed
3.2.1 (because 3.4.0 needs newer libraries than I have on this workstation).
It does the job quite well. One strange thing is that the executable is
named 'glabels-3' which is not expected. No wonder I could not find glabels
when I looked for it.

  As time permits I'll look at the available LaTeX packages. I use LaTeX/LyX
for almost all my writing and the modern CV and resume package looks highly
professional and is impressive, so I assume business card templates will
also be of this quality.

Rich

Re: Business card template

[gordon cooper]

Hello Rich,
  Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO.
Not yet found an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app
'glabels'. Bit of a short learning curve but it provides for the standard
commercially available sizes.

Had previously used a package Delphi but have completely abandoned
working in Windows®, looked at Lazarus - and am still looking at it very
slowly.

Regards,
Gordon.



On 03/06/17 01:23, Rich Shepard wrote:
  A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business 
cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your 
thoughts

with me.

  In the past I've used the libreoffice business card template, but 
this last
time I ran into issues with font size, positioning of elements on the 
card,
and not being able to edit a cell. The only downloadable document for 
LO is

their 'starter guide' which is useless as a help (e.g., searching for
'business card' finds two references on how to find the 'print' button 
for

cards and nothing on how to edit or work with them.) Questions posted to
their mail list go unanswered. Color me disgusted because the lack of
documentation and responsiveness of the maillist is unlike any F/OSS
maillist to which I've subscribed over the past couple of decades.

  So, since I do most of my writing with LaTeX/LyX it's time to do the
business cards with them, too. I used to have them printed, but it seems
that now everyone keeps contact references digitally and not in a
Rolodex(TM) or shoe box, so printing cards here on stock equivalent to 
Avery

8376 (that's for the ivory paper) makes sense to me.

Comments encouraged,

Rich

Fwd: 2 error in lyx 2.3

[edu Gpl]

After i upgrade from lyx 2.2.2 to 2.3 tcolorbox not work in the title of
chapter if i used it with arabic language, but work with english language.
please see attachments files.

Best regards


-- رسالة مُعاد توجيهها --
من: *edu Gpl* 
التاريخ: الجمعة، ٢ يونيو، ٢٠١٧
الموضوع: Re: 2 error in lyx 2.3
إلى: Richard Heck 


After i upgrade from lyx 2.2.2 to 2.3 tcolorbox not work in the title of
chapter if i used it with arabic language, but work with english language.

Best regards



بتاريخ ٠٢‏/٠٦‏/٢٠١٧ ٧:٠١ م، كتب "Richard Heck" >:

> On 06/02/2017 12:45 AM, edu Gpl wrote:
> > thank you,
> > please what about 2nd problem, the code of chapter (in latex breamble
> > not worked).
>
> I don't have that email any longer. You'll have to repeat it.
>
> Richard
>
>


‏‏title_tcolorbox_ar - 2.3.lyx
Description: Binary data


‏‏title_tcolorbox_en - 2.3.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Business card template [RESOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, David L. Johnson wrote:


I haven't used this for business cards, but I use glabels to print up
nametags, placecards, and the like. It is not TeX-based, but does well
with graphics, and has a database of standard card formats which in my
experience works well. It handles graphics, and elements of text can be
placed as needed. In fact, now that I think of it, I think I will make up
some business cards for myself using it.


David,

  Thank you for the pointer to glabels. There is a SlackBuilds.org package
for it so I'll use that and keep the idea of a LaTeX package on hold for
now.

Carpe weekend,

Rich

Re: Business card template

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/02/2017 09:23 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
  A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business 
cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your 
thoughts

with me.


I haven't used this for business cards, but I use glabels to print up 
nametags, placecards, and the like.  It is not TeX-based, but does well 
with graphics, and has a database of standard card formats which in my 
experience works well.  It handles graphics, and elements of text can be 
placed as needed.  In fact, now that I think of it, I think I will make 
up some business cards for myself using it.


--
David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University

Re: Business card template

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote:


It's not LyX, but the approach I've taken and had good success with uses
Inkscape. I build one card with the various elements as layers, lock and
group them, then duplicate them to be the size of whatever sheet of cards
I'm printing to.


Joel,

  I haven't tried Inkscape (which I do have but never used) and I tried
Scribus, but all their templates are highly colored which I find to be
overkill for my business.

Thanks for your suggestion,

Rich

Re: Business card template

[Joel Kulesza]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> Comments encouraged,
>

It's not LyX, but the approach I've taken and had good success with uses
Inkscape.  I build one card with the various elements as layers, lock and
group them, then duplicate them to be the size of whatever sheet of cards
I'm printing to.

Re: Error reading module basic

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 06/02/2017 05:40 AM, Louis Turk wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm a long-time user of Lyx. It is a great piece of software. Many
thanks to the developers.

I just installed Lyx 2.2.2 and an error message is popping up: "Error
reading module basic"

I find this file on my harddrive: /usr/share/lyx/layouts/basic.module

So, I did:

sudo cp /usr/share/lyx/layouts/basic.module
/home/l/lyx/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/basic.module

to see it that would help.  I then ran Reconfigure, and restarted Lyx.
But it did not help: the error still pops up every few minutes.

Is there a solution?

Louis

First question: does this happen only when you work with a document in 
which the basic module is selected (in Documents > Settings... > 
Modules), or does it happen with all documents?


Second question: Is read permission set on the basic.module file in 
/usr/share/lyx/layouts? I would think so, else the copy should have 
failed, but better safe than sorry.


If both answers are yes, my suggestion would be to delete the copy you 
made in your home directory and then install a fresh copy of the module 
file in /usr/share/lyx/layouts. I'm attaching the one from my system, 
but be warned that I'm on 2.2.3, so you might want to check the Format 
field in your existing copy of the module and make sure it's the same 
(60) as in mine. Otherwise, I suppose you could download the source for 
2.2.2 from the LyX server and then extract just the basic.module file.


If that doesn't fix it, let us know and we can try digging deeper.

Paul

# \DeclareLyXModule{Default (basic)}
# DescriptionBegin
#   Use the basic citation capabilities provided by plain LaTeX.
# DescriptionEnd
# Excludes: jurabib | natbib
# Category: Citation engine

# Author: Julien Rioux 

Format 60

CiteEngineType default
DefaultBiblio  plain

CiteEngine default
cite[]
nocite
End

CiteFormat default
# translatable bits
_notcited not cited
_addtobib Add to bibliography only.

# macros
!open [
!sep ,
!close ]

!startlink {!!}
!endlink {!!}

!cite 
%!startlink%{%label%[[%label%]][[{%numericallabel%[[%numericallabel%]][[#%key%]]}]]}%!endlink%%!nextcite%

!nextcite {%next%[[%!sep% %!cite%]]}
!nexthashkey {%next%[[%!sep% #%key%%!nexthashkey%]]}
!nextkey {%next%[[%!sep% %key%%!nextkey%]]}

!textafter {%textafter%[[, %textafter%]]}

# cite styles
cite %!open%{%dialog%[[#ID]][[%!cite%]]}%!textafter%%!close%
nocite {%dialog%[[%_addtobib%]][[%key%%!nextkey% (%_notcited%)]]}
End

Business card template

[Rich Shepard]

  A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your thoughts
with me.

  In the past I've used the libreoffice business card template, but this last
time I ran into issues with font size, positioning of elements on the card,
and not being able to edit a cell. The only downloadable document for LO is
their 'starter guide' which is useless as a help (e.g., searching for
'business card' finds two references on how to find the 'print' button for
cards and nothing on how to edit or work with them.) Questions posted to
their mail list go unanswered. Color me disgusted because the lack of
documentation and responsiveness of the maillist is unlike any F/OSS
maillist to which I've subscribed over the past couple of decades.

  So, since I do most of my writing with LaTeX/LyX it's time to do the
business cards with them, too. I used to have them printed, but it seems
that now everyone keeps contact references digitally and not in a
Rolodex(TM) or shoe box, so printing cards here on stock equivalent to Avery
8376 (that's for the ivory paper) makes sense to me.

Comments encouraged,

Rich

Latex Error: There's no line here to end

[edu Gpl]

Dear Lyx users
I hope you can help me in this problem in Local Layout.

Errors:
Latex Error: There's no line here to end

Description:
\begin{evaluate}

Your command was ignored.
Type  Ito replace it with another command,
orto continue without it

please see lyx file in attachments.


test.lyx
Description: Binary data

Error reading module basic

[Louis Turk]

Hi everyone,

I'm a long-time user of Lyx. It is a great piece of software. Many
thanks to the developers.

I just installed Lyx 2.2.2 and an error message is popping up: "Error
reading module basic"

I find this file on my harddrive: /usr/share/lyx/layouts/basic.module

So, I did:

sudo cp /usr/share/lyx/layouts/basic.module
/home/l/lyx/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/basic.module

to see it that would help.  I then ran Reconfigure, and restarted Lyx.
But it did not help: the error still pops up every few minutes.

Is there a solution?

Louis

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 02/06/2017 à 11:06, Guillaume MM a écrit :

*\cursor_width 2
* are those which I am certain should be set for new users.


Are you in a HiDPI system? Shouldn't the cursor width be computed wrt 
the screen DPI/zoom? instead


JMarc

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[Guillaume MM]

Hi Scott,

Le 01/06/2017 à 22:07, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :

it could make a difference for the
out-of-the-box experience of new LyX users.


Thanks for starting this.

Of interest:

*\preview no_math
\screen_zoom 170
*\cursor_width 2
*\paragraph_markers true
\single_instance false
\load_session true
\num_lastfiles 50
*\spellcheck_continuously true
\spellcheck_notes false

* are those which I am certain should be set for new users.

Paragraph markers are necessary to see and avoid paragraph breaks before
displayed math (as experiments on live subjects have shown).


the chance of us changing a default preference are pretty low (see, for 
example, [1], for
why this is complicated).


What I can see from your example is half the people wanting to enable
spellchecking by default and the other half not objecting to it, and
then nobody implementing the agreed-upon change. I hope that it can go
differently this time.

Guillaume

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[Anthony Campbell]

On 01 Jun 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> There are many different preferences that the user can customize. It is
> difficult to think about what is the best default preferences for the
> most amount of users. One way I've thought of to get an idea of this is
> to start collecting user's preferences. If we see that a lot of users
> have changed a certain preference, we might think about changing the
> default. Of course, for you this won't make much of a difference since
> you have that setting set anyway. But it could make a difference for the
> out-of-the-box experience of new LyX users.
> 
> Just to set realistic expectations, I would say that the chance of us
> changing a default preference are pretty low (see, for example, [1], for
> why this is complicated). In order to tak a rist, we need to have a lot
> of evidence about the average user; and since you are on a LyX mailing
> list that means you are not an average user in my opinion :).
> 
> Preferences in particular that I'm curious about are:
> 
>   screen zoom
>   continuous spellcheck
>   math preview

I don't have any preferences set at present. I certainly wouldn't want
continuous spellcheck. This is on OpenBSD -current.
-- 
Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am 01.06.2017 um 22:07 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:

Dear all,

There are many different preferences that the user can customize. It is
difficult to think about what is the best default preferences for the
most amount of users. One way I've thought of to get an idea of this is
to start collecting user's preferences. If we see that a lot of users
have changed a certain preference, we might think about changing the
default. Of course, for you this won't make much of a difference since
you have that setting set anyway. But it could make a difference for the
out-of-the-box experience of new LyX users.

Just to set realistic expectations, I would say that the chance of us
changing a default preference are pretty low (see, for example, [1], for
why this is complicated). In order to tak a rist, we need to have a lot
of evidence about the average user; and since you are on a LyX mailing
list that means you are not an average user in my opinion :).

Preferences in particular that I'm curious about are:

   screen zoom
   continuous spellcheck
   math preview

Before posting, please check your preferences file manually for any
information that you prefer not to be made public.

Your preferences are in a file called "preferences", stored in your user
directory. To locate your user directory, see Help > About (I think on
Mac this is LyX > About?). If you go to your user directory and there is
no "preferences" file, that means that you have not changed any of the
defaults. I still want to know in this case. If you could just respond
"default", then that would be helpful.

Please state your OS with the categories of Windows, Mac, or Linux. This
is important because it is possible to have different default
preferences on different platforms.

Attached is my preferences file.

Scott


[1] 
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=CAO7dr0isQTesZ9cJeobrA0vYFr3ctUMA-JWTPDx677tjz286Ew%40mail.gmail.com

linux debian default
Wolfgang