How to get longtables to work?
Hi The settings for longtables is disabled when I try to access them... After reading http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules I place the the longtables module in ~/.lyx, reconfigured my tools in Lyx and restarted it. The module has unfortunately not appeared in the documents-> settings and longtables are still disabled. Am I missing something? It seems a bit strange to have a menu item as part of the default program but disabled and requiring you to manually install a module. Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Selective page numbering...
Hi I have a fairly large table that just about fits onto one page. I prefer it to be only one one page and not split it across two pages. The problem is that the page number is displaying over the table and I would prefer it not to do that. Is there any way to get the page number not to overwrite the table or get it not to display for a specific page? Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
nomeclature misbehaving
Hi I added two nomenclature entries to test it out and it worked a treat. I have now added a few more and it suddenly refuses to render my document. The error I get is: LaTeX Error: Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment. To add new nomenclature entries I used the Insert menu item to add them. What is strange/buggy is that when you have added an item and you add a new item the previous item still shows up in the menu and you have to delete the content to be able to add a different nomenclature entry. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Making "Appendix" word display as part of TOC
Hi Is there a way to prepend Appendixes in the Table of Contents by the word Appendix? At the moment the only change in my TOC is the numbering but I would like to make a clear distinction between content and Appendix. The lyx user manual does not make mention of how to do this nor does the manual itself do what I want as I could have used the user manual source as example. A second price might be to just say Appendix A, rather than A for which I have found a way of doing. Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Re: μ breaks document
On 11 February 2012 20:17, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2012-02-11, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: > > >> It looks like you do not have a Greek font > >> (TeX font in LGR font encoding) matching the main document font. > > > The above sentence is all Greek to me ( pun intended). But seriously I > > would expect the software to take care of these types of details in the > > background. There should not be a need for me to add and remove fonts > and I > > were I to need a symbol from the greek font I would not know how to add > it. > > In this case I have to inform you that were you to need Greek symbols > (outside math) LyX is not the software for you. > Installation of missing fonts is something LyX cannot do, this is up to the > LaTeX distribution or (with Xe- or LuaTeX your OS). > > Günter > > Ok here is my assumption upon which my previous statement was based. If I select insert symbol and then select greek on latin or whatever is listed. I assume/expect that whatever is listed is installed and working. Thus the glyphs/fonts that I am seeing is already on my system which is why I am seeing them in Lyx. Thus if lyx makes them available to me during editing phase, or the font is visible during editing phase it would be only logical to assume that the font would be available during the rendering of the document. I really like Lyx and I would love to see it more widely used. The academics in my college almost exclusively use MS Word and although I dislike MSWord, the problem the problem described above is not something I have personally encountered. I still think Lyx is a superior product and I would much rather struggle with a few font issues every so often then try and structure a complex document in Word. However it is these small niggles that will prevent people from moving away from Word to Lyx as silly as it may seem. My motivation is that the more scientist use Lyx the more feedback is received and potentially more development is being done. So when I am complaining it is with a good intentions. Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Re: μ breaks document
Thanks, I have used the correct way and the shortcut works a treat. > It looks like you do not have a Greek font > (TeX font in LGR font encoding) matching the main document font. The above sentence is all Greek to me ( pun intended). But seriously I would expect the software to take care of these types of details in the background. There should not be a need for me to add and remove fonts and I were I to need a symbol from the greek font I would not know how to add it. Thanks again for the help. On 10 February 2012 22:26, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2012-02-10, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: > > > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > > > Hi > > I get the following error whenever I try to add a μ to my document. > > > The error I get is: > > > of the grain measure was 30\textgreek{m} > > > m. The average grain size > > > I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, > > > so I will ignore the font specification. > > It looks like you do not have a Greek font > (TeX font in LGR font encoding) matching the main document font. > > > You might try inserting a different font spec; > > > e.g., type `I\font='. > > > > The method I used to add the character was by inserting a special > character > > and then choosing the Greek list of characters and looking for micro/mu. > > These are two different Unicode characters > with different replacements: > > 0x00b5 "\\textmu" "textcomp" "force" # µ MICRO SIGN > 0x03bc "\\textgreek{m}" "textgreek" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER MU > > maybe you used the (correct) one in previous attempts > (on my Debian system with german xkbmap, I get the micro sign by pressing > AltGr-M). > > Günter > > -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Unwittingly triggering maths symbol
Hi I have the following reference in my reference file which is used by BibText bibliography: @Misc{ wds-carleton.edu, title = "Wavelength-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy WDS", author = "Darrell Henry and John Goodge", month = "November", year = "2007", url = "http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geochemsheets/browse.html " } Whenever I add the url I get the following error when trying to render a pdf version of the document. ts/browse.html} I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed. How can I convince the renderer to ignore the url? I am using Lyx 2.0.0 on Ubuntu Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis