Re: Settings file for lyx
On 6/1/22 17:43, ehud.be...@protonmail.com wrote: Thank you very much. The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, where is this preferences file located? If you look under Help > About LyX, it will tell you where your user directory is. The preferences file is in that directory. On Linux, this is (by default) at $HOME/.lyx/. It is of course elsewhere on Windows and OSX and also is, as I said, configurable at runtime via the -userdir option. Riki --- Original Message --- On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote: Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project. Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings? We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer something more technical. I mean, the document settings are part of the file. But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding and shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made changes after the first installation. I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager. Is there such a thing? Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. So you do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the document. You can see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a text editor. It will look something like this: #LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 608 \begin_document \begin_header \save_transient_properties true \origin unavailable \textclass paper The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header. The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can find in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. So to synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other users. But I'm not sure that those are what you have in mind. Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different configurations. The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user directory, so your users could have one for use with this project and a different one that they use for other thingsif they want. Riki -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Settings file for lyx
Thank you very much. The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, where is this preferences file located? Moreover, in the LyX->Preferences->Paths window, I don't see such a file. Could you give me more instructions on how to find it? --- Original Message --- On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote: > >> Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project. >> Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings? >> We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer something more >> technical. >> >> I mean, the document settings are part of the file. >> But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. >> Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding and >> shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made changes >> after the first installation. >> >> I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my >> colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they would >> have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager. >> >> Is there such a thing? > > Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. So you > do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the document. You can > see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a text editor. It will look > something like this: > > #LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/ > \lyxformat 608 > \begin_document > \begin_header > \save_transient_properties true > \origin unavailable > \textclass paper > > The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header. > > The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can find in > your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. So to > synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other users. But I'm > not sure that those are what you have in mind. > > Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different configurations. > The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user directory, so your users could > have one for use with this project and a different one that they use for > other thingsif they want. > > Riki-- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Exercises at end of sections
On 6/1/22 14:20, Joseph Hesse wrote: On 5/31/22 23:38, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 5/30/22 12:59, Tobias Hilbricht wrote: Am Montag, dem 30.05.2022 um 05:38 -0500 schrieb Joseph Hesse: Hello, I am writing a text book and want to have numbered exercises at the end of each section. Please point me to the docs or packages that will let me do this. Thank you, Joe Hesse There probably is some pre-existing package you could adapt. But this would be relatively easy to do from scratch. My first thought would be as in the attached file. Is there something you need that isn't here? Riki Riki, Thank you for your reply. Your example is what I would like. How do I get "Chapter Exercises" and "Reasoning/Exercise" to appear in the environment drop down list at the top left of lyx? I actually had not noticed the "Chapter Exercises" environment. Looking at it now, it is meant for exactly this, but it seems kind of broken. It hasn't been touched really since 2003. (The environment is provided by the AMS Book document class, at least in LyX's version of it. See Settings > Document Class in the example file I sent.) Maybe I'll try to fix it for 2.4. So I was doing things more manually. The Exercises heading is just a Section*, and I've typed "Exercises" as the section title. For the exercises themselves, I used the Exercise environment that's provide by the Theorems (AMS, Numbered by Type within Chapters) module. Look under Document > Settings > Modules to see where it came from. (In LyX 2.4, the modules will be better organized.) Note that you can write modules yourself, if you wish, to generate new environments of this kind. See Chapter 5 of the Help > Customization manual for details. Of just look at the modules themselves (which are in your LyX system directory, named whatever.module) to see how they work. Riki -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Exercises at end of sections
On 5/31/22 23:38, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 5/30/22 12:59, Tobias Hilbricht wrote: Am Montag, dem 30.05.2022 um 05:38 -0500 schrieb Joseph Hesse: Hello, I am writing a text book and want to have numbered exercises at the end of each section. Please point me to the docs or packages that will let me do this. Thank you, Joe Hesse There probably is some pre-existing package you could adapt. But this would be relatively easy to do from scratch. My first thought would be as in the attached file. Is there something you need that isn't here? Riki Riki, Thank you for your reply. Your example is what I would like. How do I get "Chapter Exercises" and "Reasoning/Exercise" to appear in the environment drop down list at the top left of lyx? Joe -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
