Re: How many are left handed

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:50 Helge Hafting wrote:
> Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
> I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
> and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

I am left handed, and I really don't want anything different.  I use enough 
different computers (mainly set up by right handed people) that I have given up 
wanting anything special.  I'm just happy if the mouse (or trackball) is not 
one of those blatantly discriminatory gadgets which can only be used in the 
right hand, and if it can be moved to the left side of the keyboard.

Les

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Re: How Many use linux

[Les Denham]

Lyx on Gentoo Linux at work and on my laptop, and Lyx on Kubuntu at home.

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Re: How Many use linux

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Lyx on Gentoo Linux at work and on my laptop, and Lyx on Kubuntu at home.

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Re: How Many use linux

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Lyx on Gentoo Linux at work and on my laptop, and Lyx on Kubuntu at home.

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Re: breaking long url

[Les Denham]

On Friday 04 September 2009 09:57:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Sharma, Vivek schrieb:
  I am using the memoir class, Lyx 1.6.4 and want to write the following:
  Web sites:
 
  University Hospital Llandough, Cardiff:
  \url{http://www.cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk/portal/page?_pageid=33,480404
 ,33_480405_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL}

 Better use a hyperlink for that. For your case there are three
 possibilities:

 - using the long link and breaking it by inserting \\ in the name field

 - using the long link but using another name

 - making the link much shorter by using tinyurl.com

 Attached is a LyX file showing the possibilities.

.
.
.
 regards Uwe

Another simple alternative is to reduce the font size for the URL so it fits. 
However, in this case even reducing it to Tiny doesn't do the job for default 
Memoir A4 fonts and margins.  I'd use tinyurl.com.
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Re: breaking long url

[Les Denham]

On Friday 04 September 2009 09:57:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Sharma, Vivek schrieb:
  I am using the memoir class, Lyx 1.6.4 and want to write the following:
  Web sites:
 
  University Hospital Llandough, Cardiff:
  \url{http://www.cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk/portal/page?_pageid=33,480404
 ,33_480405_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL}

 Better use a hyperlink for that. For your case there are three
 possibilities:

 - using the long link and breaking it by inserting \\ in the name field

 - using the long link but using another name

 - making the link much shorter by using tinyurl.com

 Attached is a LyX file showing the possibilities.

.
.
.
 regards Uwe

Another simple alternative is to reduce the font size for the URL so it fits. 
However, in this case even reducing it to Tiny doesn't do the job for default 
Memoir A4 fonts and margins.  I'd use tinyurl.com.
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Re: breaking long url

[Les Denham]

On Friday 04 September 2009 09:57:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Sharma, Vivek schrieb:
> > I am using the memoir class, Lyx 1.6.4 and want to write the following:
> > Web sites:
> >
> > University Hospital Llandough, Cardiff:
> > \url{http://www.cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk/portal/page?_pageid=33,480404
> >,33_480405&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL}
>
> Better use a hyperlink for that. For your case there are three
> possibilities:
>
> - using the long link and breaking it by inserting "\\" in the name field
>
> - using the long link but using another name
>
> - making the link much shorter by using tinyurl.com
>
> Attached is a LyX file showing the possibilities.
>
.
.
.
> regards Uwe

Another simple alternative is to reduce the font size for the URL so it fits. 
However, in this case even reducing it to Tiny doesn't do the job for default 
Memoir A4 fonts and margins.  I'd use tinyurl.com.
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Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:09:21 am Steve Litt wrote:
 On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:00:01 Helge Hafting wrote:
  I tested 30pt once just for fun - it looked fine.
 
  I believe LaTeX is limited by 32-bit numbers, and fail on distances
  longer than about 6 meters

 Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer.

And compiled the LaTeX executable on that computer.  I assume the limitation 
is the width of a short integer in the compiler.  Most 32-bit programs will 
run on a 64-bit computer (at least they will on the laptop I'm typing this 
on, which is running 64-bit Linux) but that doesn't mean they have 64-bit 
integers.  I compiled LaTeX from source, so larger sizes might work for me, 
but I don't plan to have pages larger than 6m, so it really doesn't matter.

Les

Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote:
 On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote:
  Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer.

 And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory
 layout is LP-64 that means that only long and pointer are 64 bits wide.

 In case anyone wonders wikipedia has an interesting starting point to read
 about this:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP64

  SteveT

So the real question is whether the variable used for the font size is short 
(16 bits in all common models), int (16 bits in LP32, 32 bits in ILP32 and 
LP64, and 64 bits in ILP64) or long (32 bits in LP32, 64 bits in LP64 and 
ILP64).  I have no idea where to look in the source code for this.  It's 
probably buried in TeX somewhere, but TeX is written in WEB, which in turn is 
written in either Pascal or C -- I'm not sure.

But fonts are defined in point sizes, and a metre is 2834 points. So if the 
limit is 6m,  that's 17004, which is roughly 2**14, or 14 bits.  That's not a 
common integer size.  Maybe TeX allows half points by storing the size as 
twice the size in points? But it appears likely that the limit is a 16 bit 
representation.  If the number is a 32 bit signed integer, the limit is over 
10**9, and there is no logic in specifying a font size with that precision 
(that would be a font size of, for example, 10. points).

So the question is whether it is defined as short (which is 16 bits in all 
common systems) or int, which is 32 bits in Linux 64 bit systems. And all of 
this asumes we're using a C compiler.

Les

Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:09:21 am Steve Litt wrote:
 On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:00:01 Helge Hafting wrote:
  I tested 30pt once just for fun - it looked fine.
 
  I believe LaTeX is limited by 32-bit numbers, and fail on distances
  longer than about 6 meters

 Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer.

And compiled the LaTeX executable on that computer.  I assume the limitation 
is the width of a short integer in the compiler.  Most 32-bit programs will 
run on a 64-bit computer (at least they will on the laptop I'm typing this 
on, which is running 64-bit Linux) but that doesn't mean they have 64-bit 
integers.  I compiled LaTeX from source, so larger sizes might work for me, 
but I don't plan to have pages larger than 6m, so it really doesn't matter.

Les

Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote:
 On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote:
  Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer.

 And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory
 layout is LP-64 that means that only long and pointer are 64 bits wide.

 In case anyone wonders wikipedia has an interesting starting point to read
 about this:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP64

  SteveT

So the real question is whether the variable used for the font size is short 
(16 bits in all common models), int (16 bits in LP32, 32 bits in ILP32 and 
LP64, and 64 bits in ILP64) or long (32 bits in LP32, 64 bits in LP64 and 
ILP64).  I have no idea where to look in the source code for this.  It's 
probably buried in TeX somewhere, but TeX is written in WEB, which in turn is 
written in either Pascal or C -- I'm not sure.

But fonts are defined in point sizes, and a metre is 2834 points. So if the 
limit is 6m,  that's 17004, which is roughly 2**14, or 14 bits.  That's not a 
common integer size.  Maybe TeX allows half points by storing the size as 
twice the size in points? But it appears likely that the limit is a 16 bit 
representation.  If the number is a 32 bit signed integer, the limit is over 
10**9, and there is no logic in specifying a font size with that precision 
(that would be a font size of, for example, 10. points).

So the question is whether it is defined as short (which is 16 bits in all 
common systems) or int, which is 32 bits in Linux 64 bit systems. And all of 
this asumes we're using a C compiler.

Les

Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:09:21 am Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:00:01 Helge Hafting wrote:
> > I tested 30pt once just for fun - it looked fine.
> >
> > I believe LaTeX is limited by 32-bit numbers, and fail on distances
> > longer than about 6 meters
>
> Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer.
>
And compiled the LaTeX executable on that computer.  I assume the limitation 
is the width of a short integer in the compiler.  Most 32-bit programs will 
run on a 64-bit computer (at least they will on the laptop I'm typing this 
on, which is running 64-bit Linux) but that doesn't mean they have 64-bit 
integers.  I compiled LaTeX from source, so larger sizes might work for me, 
but I don't plan to have pages larger than 6m, so it really doesn't matter.

Les

Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote:
> > Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer.
>
> And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory
> layout is LP-64 that means that only long and pointer are 64 bits wide.
>
> In case anyone wonders wikipedia has an interesting starting point to read
> about this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP64
>
> > SteveT

So the real question is whether the variable used for the font size is short 
(16 bits in all common models), int (16 bits in LP32, 32 bits in ILP32 and 
LP64, and 64 bits in ILP64) or long (32 bits in LP32, 64 bits in LP64 and 
ILP64).  I have no idea where to look in the source code for this.  It's 
probably buried in TeX somewhere, but TeX is written in WEB, which in turn is 
written in either Pascal or C -- I'm not sure.

But fonts are defined in point sizes, and a metre is 2834 points. So if the 
limit is 6m,  that's 17004, which is roughly 2**14, or 14 bits.  That's not a 
common integer size.  Maybe TeX allows half points by storing the size as 
twice the size in points? But it appears likely that the limit is a 16 bit 
representation.  If the number is a 32 bit signed integer, the limit is over 
10**9, and there is no logic in specifying a font size with that precision 
(that would be a font size of, for example, 10. points).

So the question is whether it is defined as short (which is 16 bits in all 
common systems) or int, which is 32 bits in Linux 64 bit systems. And all of 
this asumes we're using a C compiler.

Les

Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have
 it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure
 just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I
 have a vague recollection of reading about using LaTeX to prepare posters
 or banners, but that was a while ago and I may well be mistaken.

    Could such large type sizes be cleaning rendered by TeX?

The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF 
generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%.

Looks clean to me.

I don't see any essential difference between an enlarge version of a small 
font, and a large font.  In fact, I've generated posters very successfully by 
creating them page size, then plotting with a scale factor.

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Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have
 it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure
 just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I
 have a vague recollection of reading about using LaTeX to prepare posters
 or banners, but that was a while ago and I may well be mistaken.

    Could such large type sizes be cleaning rendered by TeX?

The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF 
generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%.

Looks clean to me.

I don't see any essential difference between an enlarge version of a small 
font, and a large font.  In fact, I've generated posters very successfully by 
creating them page size, then plotting with a scale factor.

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Re: Maximum Font Size

[Les Denham]

On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
>  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have
> it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure
> just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I
> have a vague recollection of reading about using LaTeX to prepare posters
> or banners, but that was a while ago and I may well be mistaken.
>
>    Could such large type sizes be cleaning rendered by TeX?

The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF 
generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%.

Looks clean to me.

I don't see any essential difference between an enlarge version of a small 
font, and a large font.  In fact, I've generated posters very successfully by 
creating them page size, then plotting with a scale factor.

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Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Dynamic link (user sees a table in the LyX doc, and can interact
 with it, making changes in the spreadsheet).  This would typically occur
 with the user reading the finished product (PDF, DVI) in a viewer, not
 reading it in LyX, so you get into issues of whether the viewer program
 supports this sort of embedding.  For instance, if you export the
 document in HTML and view it in a browser, I think there are browser
 plugins that let you edit a spreadsheet in situ (although I confess I've
 never done it).

This kind of approach is possible in theory: for example, if you have a figure 
in LyX which is a Grace file, editing that file in Grace will change the 
figure in Lyx immediately.  That is not the same as just editing an image: 
the Grace file is actually displayed in LyX using Grace in a command line 
mode.

The problem with a spreadsheet is that Excel does not (as far as I know) have 
a command line interface.  Neither does OpenOffice.org.  Gnumeric has a 
Python API which might be usable, but I haven't tried it.  The best 
possibility I'm aware of is the Perl module XLSperl 
(http://search.cpan.org/~jonallen/XLSperl-0.7/bin/XLSperl) which could be 
used to build an image from specified sheet, rows and columns. Once you have 
done this, the Perl script could be used in a converter (XLS-EPS, for 
example). But I don't think it would be a trivial task to do this.

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Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Dynamic link (user sees a table in the LyX doc, and can interact
 with it, making changes in the spreadsheet).  This would typically occur
 with the user reading the finished product (PDF, DVI) in a viewer, not
 reading it in LyX, so you get into issues of whether the viewer program
 supports this sort of embedding.  For instance, if you export the
 document in HTML and view it in a browser, I think there are browser
 plugins that let you edit a spreadsheet in situ (although I confess I've
 never done it).

This kind of approach is possible in theory: for example, if you have a figure 
in LyX which is a Grace file, editing that file in Grace will change the 
figure in Lyx immediately.  That is not the same as just editing an image: 
the Grace file is actually displayed in LyX using Grace in a command line 
mode.

The problem with a spreadsheet is that Excel does not (as far as I know) have 
a command line interface.  Neither does OpenOffice.org.  Gnumeric has a 
Python API which might be usable, but I haven't tried it.  The best 
possibility I'm aware of is the Perl module XLSperl 
(http://search.cpan.org/~jonallen/XLSperl-0.7/bin/XLSperl) which could be 
used to build an image from specified sheet, rows and columns. Once you have 
done this, the Perl script could be used in a converter (XLS-EPS, for 
example). But I don't think it would be a trivial task to do this.

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Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Dynamic link (user sees a table in the LyX doc, and can interact
> with it, making changes in the spreadsheet).  This would typically occur
> with the user reading the finished product (PDF, DVI) in a viewer, not
> reading it in LyX, so you get into issues of whether the viewer program
> supports this sort of embedding.  For instance, if you export the
> document in HTML and view it in a browser, I think there are browser
> plugins that let you edit a spreadsheet in situ (although I confess I've
> never done it).

This kind of approach is possible in theory: for example, if you have a figure 
in LyX which is a Grace file, editing that file in Grace will change the 
figure in Lyx immediately.  That is not the same as just editing an image: 
the Grace file is actually displayed in LyX using Grace in a command line 
mode.

The problem with a spreadsheet is that Excel does not (as far as I know) have 
a command line interface.  Neither does OpenOffice.org.  Gnumeric has a 
Python API which might be usable, but I haven't tried it.  The best 
possibility I'm aware of is the Perl module XLSperl 
(http://search.cpan.org/~jonallen/XLSperl-0.7/bin/XLSperl) which could be 
used to build an image from specified sheet, rows and columns. Once you have 
done this, the Perl script could be used in a converter (XLS->EPS, for 
example). But I don't think it would be a trivial task to do this.

-- 
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Re: How do i plot a function?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 25 June 2009, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
 Another possible option is to use PiCTeX, available at CTAN.  With
 LaTeX, you have to load the PiCTeX macros and then insert the code for
 your graph within a \beginpicture...\endpicture environment.  I've used
 this with LaTeX, but never with LyX.

 Liviu Andronic wrote:
  On 6/25/09, voidie voidina...@gmail.com wrote:
   i would like to plot a simple function like f(x)=3x^2. I know there
 
  You could also do it with Sweave, but this would require knowledge of R.
  Liviu

I would do this using Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) and 
print the plot to a PDF file.  This can then be included in LyX as a figure. 

Within Grace, the menu sequence is: EditDatasetsEditCreate newBy formula

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Re: How do i plot a function?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 25 June 2009, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
 Another possible option is to use PiCTeX, available at CTAN.  With
 LaTeX, you have to load the PiCTeX macros and then insert the code for
 your graph within a \beginpicture...\endpicture environment.  I've used
 this with LaTeX, but never with LyX.

 Liviu Andronic wrote:
  On 6/25/09, voidie voidina...@gmail.com wrote:
   i would like to plot a simple function like f(x)=3x^2. I know there
 
  You could also do it with Sweave, but this would require knowledge of R.
  Liviu

I would do this using Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) and 
print the plot to a PDF file.  This can then be included in LyX as a figure. 

Within Grace, the menu sequence is: EditDatasetsEditCreate newBy formula

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Re: How do i plot a function?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 25 June 2009, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Another possible option is to use PiCTeX, available at CTAN.  With
> LaTeX, you have to load the PiCTeX macros and then insert the code for
> your graph within a \beginpicture...\endpicture environment.  I've used
> this with LaTeX, but never with LyX.
>
> Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > On 6/25/09, voidie  wrote:
> >>  i would like to plot a simple function like f(x)=3x^2. I know there
> >
> > You could also do it with Sweave, but this would require knowledge of R.
> > Liviu

I would do this using Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) and 
print the plot to a PDF file.  This can then be included in LyX as a figure. 

Within Grace, the menu sequence is: Edit>Datasets>Edit>Create new>By formula

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Re: Posters in LyX

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 18 June 2009, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:
 Dear All,

 I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters.  I've looked around
 some, and I don't believe it can.  However, I wanted to ask you all
 first before giving up on using it to make one.

Daniel,

I assume you're talking about a poster paper.  The answer is Yes, LyX can 
be used for posters: I've done it.

I don't recommend it.  I've also tried OpenOffice, and I certainly don't 
recommend that, either.

What worked best for me is Scribus.

I've also found that it is best to work with a smaller format than the final 
poster.  My last poster paper required panels 60 inches by 35 inches; I 
prepared them as 20 inches by 11.67 inches, and scaled them to 300% when 
sending them to the plotter.  If you work on them full size, you tend to 
stuff in too much detail.
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Re: Posters in LyX

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 18 June 2009, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:
 Dear All,

 I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters.  I've looked around
 some, and I don't believe it can.  However, I wanted to ask you all
 first before giving up on using it to make one.

Daniel,

I assume you're talking about a poster paper.  The answer is Yes, LyX can 
be used for posters: I've done it.

I don't recommend it.  I've also tried OpenOffice, and I certainly don't 
recommend that, either.

What worked best for me is Scribus.

I've also found that it is best to work with a smaller format than the final 
poster.  My last poster paper required panels 60 inches by 35 inches; I 
prepared them as 20 inches by 11.67 inches, and scaled them to 300% when 
sending them to the plotter.  If you work on them full size, you tend to 
stuff in too much detail.
-- 
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Re: Posters in LyX

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 18 June 2009, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters.  I've looked around
> some, and I don't believe it can.  However, I wanted to ask you all
> first before giving up on using it to make one.
>
Daniel,

I assume you're talking about a "poster paper".  The answer is "Yes, LyX can 
be used for posters: I've done it."

I don't recommend it.  I've also tried OpenOffice, and I certainly don't 
recommend that, either.

What worked best for me is Scribus.

I've also found that it is best to work with a smaller format than the final 
poster.  My last poster paper required panels 60 inches by 35 inches; I 
prepared them as 20 inches by 11.67 inches, and scaled them to 300% when 
sending them to the plotter.  If you work on them full size, you tend to 
stuff in too much detail.
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Re: Lyx Print-out?

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim wrote:
 But, I still have one problem. I am using a report document class for my
 thesis. It has only topic page. So, how can i create the front pages of my
 thesis such as the topic page, logo,acknowledgment page etc. in Lyx?

 The other option, Can I merge a content written in Lyx and front pages
 written according to latex template into one pdf file?
 How can i do that?

Bruh,

There are ways of doing this in LyX, using ERT for example, but if the 
frontmatter requirements are very specific the simplest solution is to create 
these front pages separately (in LaTeX, for example, or perhaps a DTP program 
such as Scribus) and merge the two PDF files using Pdftk 
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk).

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Re: Lyx Print-out?

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim wrote:
 But, I still have one problem. I am using a report document class for my
 thesis. It has only topic page. So, how can i create the front pages of my
 thesis such as the topic page, logo,acknowledgment page etc. in Lyx?

 The other option, Can I merge a content written in Lyx and front pages
 written according to latex template into one pdf file?
 How can i do that?

Bruh,

There are ways of doing this in LyX, using ERT for example, but if the 
frontmatter requirements are very specific the simplest solution is to create 
these front pages separately (in LaTeX, for example, or perhaps a DTP program 
such as Scribus) and merge the two PDF files using Pdftk 
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk).

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Re: Lyx Print-out?

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim wrote:
> But, I still have one problem. I am using a report document class for my
> thesis. It has only topic page. So, how can i create the front pages of my
> thesis such as the topic page, logo,acknowledgment page etc. in Lyx?
>
> The other option, Can I merge a content written in Lyx and front pages
> written according to latex template into one pdf file?
> How can i do that?

Bruh,

There are ways of doing this in LyX, using ERT for example, but if the 
frontmatter requirements are very specific the simplest solution is to create 
these front pages separately (in LaTeX, for example, or perhaps a DTP program 
such as Scribus) and merge the two PDF files using Pdftk 
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk).

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Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in
 a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely
 and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with embed fonts, I
 think they work anywhere.

 I'm so old I remember the days when LyX seemed to work reliably only
 with .eps. THen it could work with .png/.jpg/.gif. But nowadays my personal
 experience is that PDF images inside the doc work much better than any of
 those other formats ever did. Is this a placebo effect, or do PDFs really
 work much, much better as LyX doc graphics?

Steve,

In general, I try to use PDF whenever the graphical material is mainly lines 
and text. For solid colors it probably works the best too. But for 
gradational shading I usually use PNG.  The problem with PNG is if you make 
the resolution high enough to retain really sharp edges, the file size 
becomes very large.

I also use JPEG for photographs: PNG works fine too, but the files are larger.

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Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in
 a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely
 and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with embed fonts, I
 think they work anywhere.

 I'm so old I remember the days when LyX seemed to work reliably only
 with .eps. THen it could work with .png/.jpg/.gif. But nowadays my personal
 experience is that PDF images inside the doc work much better than any of
 those other formats ever did. Is this a placebo effect, or do PDFs really
 work much, much better as LyX doc graphics?

Steve,

In general, I try to use PDF whenever the graphical material is mainly lines 
and text. For solid colors it probably works the best too. But for 
gradational shading I usually use PNG.  The problem with PNG is if you make 
the resolution high enough to retain really sharp edges, the file size 
becomes very large.

I also use JPEG for photographs: PNG works fine too, but the files are larger.

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Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in
> a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely
> and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with "embed fonts", I
> think they work anywhere.
>
> I'm so old I remember the days when LyX seemed to work reliably only
> with .eps. THen it could work with .png/.jpg/.gif. But nowadays my personal
> experience is that PDF images inside the doc work much better than any of
> those other formats ever did. Is this a placebo effect, or do PDFs really
> work much, much better as LyX doc graphics?
>
Steve,

In general, I try to use PDF whenever the graphical material is mainly lines 
and text. For solid colors it probably works the best too. But for 
gradational shading I usually use PNG.  The problem with PNG is if you make 
the resolution high enough to retain really sharp edges, the file size 
becomes very large.

I also use JPEG for photographs: PNG works fine too, but the files are larger.

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Re: Chapter styles...

[Les Denham]

On Saturday 02 May 2009, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote:
 Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones
 below, which I find vey useful in creating books:
 http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html
 Thanks in advance! FN

The memoir class has good support for chapter styles, and includes quite a 
variety of them, as well as detailed documention on how to write your own 
(see page 83 of memman.pdf, the English documentation for memoir, and 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/MemoirChapStyles/).

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Re: Chapter styles...

[Les Denham]

On Saturday 02 May 2009, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote:
 Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones
 below, which I find vey useful in creating books:
 http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html
 Thanks in advance! FN

The memoir class has good support for chapter styles, and includes quite a 
variety of them, as well as detailed documention on how to write your own 
(see page 83 of memman.pdf, the English documentation for memoir, and 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/MemoirChapStyles/).

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Re: Chapter styles...

[Les Denham]

On Saturday 02 May 2009, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote:
> Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones
> below, which I find vey useful in creating books:
> http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html
> Thanks in advance! FN

The memoir class has good support for chapter styles, and includes quite a 
variety of them, as well as detailed documention on how to write your own 
(see page 83 of memman.pdf, the English documentation for memoir, and 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/MemoirChapStyles/).

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Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it
 a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page
 numbering:

-- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
-- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
   remove the title page number.
-- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
-- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3'
 despite the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
   begins on page 5.

I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.

I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as
 the doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.

Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
 pagination errors will be much appreciated.

Rich,
I haven't that much experience with memois, but here is what I did differently 
to get this kind of thing working properly:

\begin{titlingpage}
before the start of the title.

\end{titlingpage}
after the material on the back of the title page.

then
\frontmatter

Contents
List of figures
\mainmatter

then the first chapter, etc.

I don't remember where I found out how to do this.

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Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Les,

    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough
 to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-)

Rich,

Neither do I do books often.  Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I 
get it set up, it's a while before I finish it.  The one I copied this 
information from I started writing in late 2007, changed from Komascript to 
Memoir about a year ago, more or less finished six months ago and dusted off 
recently to output a new PDF.

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Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it
 a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page
 numbering:

-- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
-- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
   remove the title page number.
-- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
-- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3'
 despite the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
   begins on page 5.

I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.

I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as
 the doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.

Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
 pagination errors will be much appreciated.

Rich,
I haven't that much experience with memois, but here is what I did differently 
to get this kind of thing working properly:

\begin{titlingpage}
before the start of the title.

\end{titlingpage}
after the material on the back of the title page.

then
\frontmatter

Contents
List of figures
\mainmatter

then the first chapter, etc.

I don't remember where I found out how to do this.

-- 
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Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Les,

    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough
 to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-)

Rich,

Neither do I do books often.  Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I 
get it set up, it's a while before I finish it.  The one I copied this 
information from I started writing in late 2007, changed from Komascript to 
Memoir about a year ago, more or less finished six months ago and dusted off 
recently to output a new PDF.

-- 
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Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
>I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it
> a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page
> numbering:
>
>-- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
>-- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
>   remove the title page number.
>-- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
>-- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3'
> despite the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
>   begins on page 5.
>
>I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.
>
>I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as
> the doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.
>
>Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
> pagination errors will be much appreciated.
>
Rich,
I haven't that much experience with memois, but here is what I did differently 
to get this kind of thing working properly:

\begin{titlingpage}
before the start of the title.

\end{titlingpage}
after the material on the back of the title page.

then
\frontmatter

Contents
List of figures
\mainmatter

then the first chapter, etc.

I don't remember where I found out how to do this.

-- 
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Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Les,
>
>    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough
> to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-)

Rich,

Neither do I do books often.  Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I 
get it set up, it's a while before I finish it.  The one I copied this 
information from I started writing in late 2007, changed from Komascript to 
Memoir about a year ago, more or less finished six months ago and dusted off 
recently to output a new PDF.

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Re: Position of tilde

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote:
 Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any
 way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it
 instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde
 (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line in the pdf output
 instead of the middle where I want it. I've tried the tilde math symbol as
 well ($\sim$) but it's a bit too fancy haha. Any ideas?

 Cheers!

Alex,

Try \texttildelow

See page 20 of the letter-size Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List available on 
CTAN.

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Re: Position of tilde

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote:
 Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any
 way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it
 instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde
 (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line in the pdf output
 instead of the middle where I want it. I've tried the tilde math symbol as
 well ($\sim$) but it's a bit too fancy haha. Any ideas?

 Cheers!

Alex,

Try \texttildelow

See page 20 of the letter-size Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List available on 
CTAN.

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Re: Position of tilde

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote:
> Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any
> way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this --> ~? I want to use it
> instead of saying "approximately" but when I use the keyboard tilde
> (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line in the pdf output
> instead of the middle where I want it. I've tried the tilde math symbol as
> well ($\sim$) but it's a bit too fancy haha. Any ideas?
>
> Cheers!
>
Alex,

Try \texttildelow

See page 20 of the letter-size "Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List" available on 
CTAN.

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Re: beamer with default settings is ugly

[Les Denham]

On Friday 27 March 2009, Neal Becker wrote:
 Not a lyx question, but a beamer question:
 When used with all default settings, beamer will produce navigation symbols
 at the bottom right of the page.  If hyperlinks are used in the document,
 all hyperlinks will have boxes drawn around them.  The result is, that all
 the navigation symbols have boxes drawn around them, which makes them ugly
 and unreadable.

 Suggestions?

In the preamble, put:

\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}

I don't use beamer, but I recognize the problem with other classes.  If you 
are already using hyperref with other options, just add colorlinks=true to 
the list of options.

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Re: beamer with default settings is ugly

[Les Denham]

On Friday 27 March 2009, Neal Becker wrote:
 Not a lyx question, but a beamer question:
 When used with all default settings, beamer will produce navigation symbols
 at the bottom right of the page.  If hyperlinks are used in the document,
 all hyperlinks will have boxes drawn around them.  The result is, that all
 the navigation symbols have boxes drawn around them, which makes them ugly
 and unreadable.

 Suggestions?

In the preamble, put:

\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}

I don't use beamer, but I recognize the problem with other classes.  If you 
are already using hyperref with other options, just add colorlinks=true to 
the list of options.

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Re: beamer with default settings is ugly

[Les Denham]

On Friday 27 March 2009, Neal Becker wrote:
> Not a lyx question, but a beamer question:
> When used with all default settings, beamer will produce navigation symbols
> at the bottom right of the page.  If hyperlinks are used in the document,
> all hyperlinks will have boxes drawn around them.  The result is, that all
> the navigation symbols have boxes drawn around them, which makes them ugly
> and unreadable.
>
> Suggestions?

In the preamble, put:

\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}

I don't use beamer, but I recognize the problem with other classes.  If you 
are already using hyperref with other options, just add "colorlinks=true" to 
the list of options.

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Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:32:56 am Manveru wrote:
 All that and previous discussion leads me to the conclusion, that every
 publisher preparing books for the market (in does not matter wheter it is a
 book for bookstore or some publication for professors), who does not invest
 in professional human-driven typesetting do the assassination of the six
 hunderd years history of typesetting. Please keep than on mind.

Manveru,

Perfection is very nice until it runs into economics.  The ultimate example of 
your goals is William Morris's Kelmscott Press.  Morris treated a printed 
book as a work of art.  Kelmscott Press  operated from 1891 to 1898, and 
produced 18,000 copies of 53 different books.  The books were and are works 
of art.  Few readers could afford them when they were printed; few collectors 
can afford them now.  The Press ceased operations because Morris ran out of 
money.  It never made a profit, never broke even, in spite of the high prices 
charged for its books.

Software like LaTeX and LyX allows non-experts to approximate some of the 
goals of typographers like Morris without incurring his costs.  The software 
solutions do not reach the standards of the best book designers and 
typographers, but they can get closer than many (most?) published books do.

Les

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:32:56 am Manveru wrote:
 All that and previous discussion leads me to the conclusion, that every
 publisher preparing books for the market (in does not matter wheter it is a
 book for bookstore or some publication for professors), who does not invest
 in professional human-driven typesetting do the assassination of the six
 hunderd years history of typesetting. Please keep than on mind.

Manveru,

Perfection is very nice until it runs into economics.  The ultimate example of 
your goals is William Morris's Kelmscott Press.  Morris treated a printed 
book as a work of art.  Kelmscott Press  operated from 1891 to 1898, and 
produced 18,000 copies of 53 different books.  The books were and are works 
of art.  Few readers could afford them when they were printed; few collectors 
can afford them now.  The Press ceased operations because Morris ran out of 
money.  It never made a profit, never broke even, in spite of the high prices 
charged for its books.

Software like LaTeX and LyX allows non-experts to approximate some of the 
goals of typographers like Morris without incurring his costs.  The software 
solutions do not reach the standards of the best book designers and 
typographers, but they can get closer than many (most?) published books do.

Les

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:32:56 am Manveru wrote:
> All that and previous discussion leads me to the conclusion, that every
> publisher preparing books for the market (in does not matter wheter it is a
> book for bookstore or some publication for professors), who does not invest
> in professional human-driven typesetting do the assassination of the six
> hunderd years history of typesetting. Please keep than on mind.

Manveru,

Perfection is very nice until it runs into economics.  The ultimate example of 
your goals is William Morris's Kelmscott Press.  Morris treated a printed 
book as a work of art.  Kelmscott Press  operated from 1891 to 1898, and 
produced 18,000 copies of 53 different books.  The books were and are works 
of art.  Few readers could afford them when they were printed; few collectors 
can afford them now.  The Press ceased operations because Morris ran out of 
money.  It never made a profit, never broke even, in spite of the high prices 
charged for its books.

Software like LaTeX and LyX allows non-experts to approximate some of the 
goals of typographers like Morris without incurring his costs.  The software 
solutions do not reach the standards of the best book designers and 
typographers, but they can get closer than many (most?) published books do.

Les

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

[Les Denham]

On Monday 23 March 2009, Piero Faustini wrote:
 Any help would be apreciated and - if possible - referenced.

Piero,

Here are some on-line resources:
http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX
http://www.linux.com/feature/56471
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9085


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Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

[Les Denham]

On Monday 23 March 2009, Piero Faustini wrote:
 Any help would be apreciated and - if possible - referenced.

Piero,

Here are some on-line resources:
http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX
http://www.linux.com/feature/56471
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9085


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Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

[Les Denham]

On Monday 23 March 2009, Piero Faustini wrote:
> Any help would be apreciated and - if possible - referenced.

Piero,

Here are some on-line resources:
http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX
http://www.linux.com/feature/56471
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9085


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Re: Black box over image when printing pdf

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, rettie wrote:
 Hello everyone! I use Lyx 1.6.1 on Arch linux and I've been having trouble
 with a .png image in a figure of mine, this one specifically:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png

 It converts to pdf fine but as soon as I print it a black box appears over
 the image. Has anyone else had this problem? I've tried various printers
 with no luck. Also, the image came out fine when I used Word and made a pdf
 file. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance!

This image has a transparent background -- I'm sure that's the problem.  
Convert it to one with a white background (using any image editing program) 
and it should be fine.

 Another quick question: the default margins for the article class are
 large, but I've always liked them because I hate crowded pages. Are there
 any real benefits of the margins this size? I remember someone told me it's
 something to do with the average number of words on a line, though this
 could have been a lie... haha if there's a science behind it I wouldn't
 dare change it!

If lines have too many characters in them, the eye has trouble going 
automatically to the start of the next line.  A rule of thumb is about 80 
characters per line, and the default margins are chosen (by LaTeX, not LyX) 
to limit lines to this length.

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Re: Black box over image when printing pdf

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, rettie wrote:
 Hello everyone! I use Lyx 1.6.1 on Arch linux and I've been having trouble
 with a .png image in a figure of mine, this one specifically:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png

 It converts to pdf fine but as soon as I print it a black box appears over
 the image. Has anyone else had this problem? I've tried various printers
 with no luck. Also, the image came out fine when I used Word and made a pdf
 file. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance!

This image has a transparent background -- I'm sure that's the problem.  
Convert it to one with a white background (using any image editing program) 
and it should be fine.

 Another quick question: the default margins for the article class are
 large, but I've always liked them because I hate crowded pages. Are there
 any real benefits of the margins this size? I remember someone told me it's
 something to do with the average number of words on a line, though this
 could have been a lie... haha if there's a science behind it I wouldn't
 dare change it!

If lines have too many characters in them, the eye has trouble going 
automatically to the start of the next line.  A rule of thumb is about 80 
characters per line, and the default margins are chosen (by LaTeX, not LyX) 
to limit lines to this length.

-- 
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Re: Black box over image when printing pdf

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, rettie wrote:
> Hello everyone! I use Lyx 1.6.1 on Arch linux and I've been having trouble
> with a .png image in a figure of mine, this one specifically:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png
>
> It converts to pdf fine but as soon as I print it a black box appears over
> the image. Has anyone else had this problem? I've tried various printers
> with no luck. Also, the image came out fine when I used Word and made a pdf
> file. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance!

This image has a transparent background -- I'm sure that's the problem.  
Convert it to one with a white background (using any image editing program) 
and it should be fine.

> Another quick question: the default margins for the article class are
> large, but I've always liked them because I hate crowded pages. Are there
> any real benefits of the margins this size? I remember someone told me it's
> something to do with the average number of words on a line, though this
> could have been a lie... haha if there's a science behind it I wouldn't
> dare change it!

If lines have too many characters in them, the eye has trouble going 
automatically to the start of the next line.  A rule of thumb is about 80 
characters per line, and the default margins are chosen (by LaTeX, not LyX) 
to limit lines to this length.

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Re: nested numbering?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote:
 Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot!

 So here is the example:

 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling)

 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse  

You can change the way nested environments are numbered by using ERT (LaTeX 
commands in an inset).  The attached example shows how to change the first 
three levels.

This will not change the appearance in LyX, but it will change the appearance 
in the PDF output.

Les


nesting.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Page Headings

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote:
 Dear Lyx users,

 I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is
 that my name and title appear at the top of each page.
 How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article.

 Does anyone have any ideas?

 Thanks for your help,


 Paulina Restrepo Echavarria
 Economics PhD Student
 University of California Los Angeles

Paulina,

The attached file should help.  Look at the DocumentSettingsLaTeX Preamble 
and DocumentSettingsPage Layout.

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\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\fancyhead{} % clear all header fields
\fancyhead[L]{\bfseries Your Name}
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries Your Title}
\end_preamble
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman times
\font_sans helvet
\font_typewriter courier
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single
\papersize letterpaper
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\leftmargin 2cm
\topmargin 2cm
\rightmargin 2cm
\bottommargin 2cm
\headheight 1cm
\headsep 1cm
\footskip 1cm
\secnumdepth -1
\tocdepth 1
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 2
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle fancy
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author  
\end_header

\begin_body

\begin_layout Standard
Sample page
\end_layout

\end_body
\end_document

Re: nested numbering?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote:
 Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot!

 So here is the example:

 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling)

 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse  

You can change the way nested environments are numbered by using ERT (LaTeX 
commands in an inset).  The attached example shows how to change the first 
three levels.

This will not change the appearance in LyX, but it will change the appearance 
in the PDF output.

Les


nesting.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Page Headings

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote:
 Dear Lyx users,

 I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is
 that my name and title appear at the top of each page.
 How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article.

 Does anyone have any ideas?

 Thanks for your help,


 Paulina Restrepo Echavarria
 Economics PhD Student
 University of California Los Angeles

Paulina,

The attached file should help.  Look at the DocumentSettingsLaTeX Preamble 
and DocumentSettingsPage Layout.

-- 
Les

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#LyX 1.5.7 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\fancyhead{} % clear all header fields
\fancyhead[L]{\bfseries Your Name}
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries Your Title}
\end_preamble
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman times
\font_sans helvet
\font_typewriter courier
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single
\papersize letterpaper
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\leftmargin 2cm
\topmargin 2cm
\rightmargin 2cm
\bottommargin 2cm
\headheight 1cm
\headsep 1cm
\footskip 1cm
\secnumdepth -1
\tocdepth 1
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 2
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle fancy
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author  
\end_header

\begin_body

\begin_layout Standard
Sample page
\end_layout

\end_body
\end_document

Re: nested numbering?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote:
> Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot!
>
> So here is the example:
>
> 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling)
>
> 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse  

You can change the way nested environments are numbered by using ERT (LaTeX 
commands in an inset).  The attached example shows how to change the first 
three levels.

This will not change the appearance in LyX, but it will change the appearance 
in the PDF output.

Les


nesting.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Page Headings

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote:
> Dear Lyx users,
>
> I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is
> that my name and title appear at the top of each page.
> How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
> Paulina Restrepo Echavarria
> Economics PhD Student
> University of California Los Angeles

Paulina,

The attached file should help.  Look at the Document>Settings>LaTeX Preamble 
and Document>Settings>Page Layout.

-- 
Les

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#LyX 1.5.7 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\fancyhead{} % clear all header fields
\fancyhead[L]{\bfseries Your Name}
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries Your Title}
\end_preamble
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman times
\font_sans helvet
\font_typewriter courier
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single
\papersize letterpaper
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\leftmargin 2cm
\topmargin 2cm
\rightmargin 2cm
\bottommargin 2cm
\headheight 1cm
\headsep 1cm
\footskip 1cm
\secnumdepth -1
\tocdepth 1
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 2
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle fancy
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author "" 
\end_header

\begin_body

\begin_layout Standard
Sample page
\end_layout

\end_body
\end_document

Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

[Les Denham]

On Friday 20 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to
 do it with the mouse?

I assume you are using the Import function under File.  You need to use 
the FilePlain Text function under Insert.

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Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

[Les Denham]

On Friday 20 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to
 do it with the mouse?

I assume you are using the Import function under File.  You need to use 
the FilePlain Text function under Insert.

-- 
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Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

[Les Denham]

On Friday 20 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to
> do it with the mouse?

I assume you are using the "Import" function under "File".  You need to use 
the "File>Plain Text" function under "Insert".

-- 
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Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Robert Orr wrote:
 Hi list,

 Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf?

 I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs,
 jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of
 landscape in the .pdf output.  using ps2pdf to generate it.

 I'm not sure what could have gone wrong.   Anyone have idea or maybe
 experience with such a problem?

I had something the same happen when I upgraded to 1.6.1, but I can't remember 
exactly what the problem was.

Some things to check:

Under DocumentSettingsDocument Class make sure you 
have display=slidesnotes (or something similar) in the Class Options

Under DocumentSettingsPage Layout select Landscape

Under DocumentSettingsPage Format select Letter (Default or A4 will give 
portrait PDF file, even if you select Landscape: Default changes the aspect 
ratio to fit Portrait, and A4 trims the right side to fit Portrait).

The last one is probably your problem.
-- 
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Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:40:59 pm Robert Orr wrote:
 I found that I needed to remove this from the class options



 nopsheader


 Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but
 apparenty it has

 to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me.

Robert,

That could be what I had to do.  I just couldn't remember what it was, I just 
remembered I had the same problem and found a way to fix it.

Les

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Robert Orr wrote:
 Hi list,

 Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf?

 I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs,
 jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of
 landscape in the .pdf output.  using ps2pdf to generate it.

 I'm not sure what could have gone wrong.   Anyone have idea or maybe
 experience with such a problem?

I had something the same happen when I upgraded to 1.6.1, but I can't remember 
exactly what the problem was.

Some things to check:

Under DocumentSettingsDocument Class make sure you 
have display=slidesnotes (or something similar) in the Class Options

Under DocumentSettingsPage Layout select Landscape

Under DocumentSettingsPage Format select Letter (Default or A4 will give 
portrait PDF file, even if you select Landscape: Default changes the aspect 
ratio to fit Portrait, and A4 trims the right side to fit Portrait).

The last one is probably your problem.
-- 
Les

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Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:40:59 pm Robert Orr wrote:
 I found that I needed to remove this from the class options



 nopsheader


 Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but
 apparenty it has

 to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me.

Robert,

That could be what I had to do.  I just couldn't remember what it was, I just 
remembered I had the same problem and found a way to fix it.

Les

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Robert Orr wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf?
>
> I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs,
> jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of
> landscape in the .pdf output.  using ps2pdf to generate it.
>
> I'm not sure what could have gone wrong.   Anyone have idea or maybe
> experience with such a problem?

I had something the same happen when I upgraded to 1.6.1, but I can't remember 
exactly what the problem was.

Some things to check:

Under Document>Settings>Document Class make sure you 
have "display=slidesnotes" (or something similar) in the Class Options

Under Document>Settings>Page Layout select Landscape

Under Document>Settings>Page Format select Letter (Default or A4 will give 
portrait PDF file, even if you select Landscape: Default changes the aspect 
ratio to fit Portrait, and A4 trims the right side to fit Portrait).

The last one is probably your problem.
-- 
Les

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Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:40:59 pm Robert Orr wrote:
> I found that I needed to remove this from the class options
>
>
>
> nopsheader
>
>
> Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but
> apparenty it has
>
> to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me.

Robert,

That could be what I had to do.  I just couldn't remember what it was, I just 
remembered I had the same problem and found a way to fix it.

Les

Re: Using LyX for a book

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous
 three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell
 me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to
 somewhere that discusses this)?

Just read the Memoir manual 
(/usr/share/doc/tetex-3.0_p1-r6/latex/memoir/memman.pdf on my system).

-- 
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Re: Using LyX for a book

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous
 three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell
 me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to
 somewhere that discusses this)?

Just read the Memoir manual 
(/usr/share/doc/tetex-3.0_p1-r6/latex/memoir/memman.pdf on my system).

-- 
Les

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Re: Using LyX for a book

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous
> three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell
> me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to
> somewhere that discusses this)?

Just read the Memoir manual 
(/usr/share/doc/tetex-3.0_p1-r6/latex/memoir/memman.pdf on my system).

-- 
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Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

[Les Denham]

On Monday 16 February 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
 have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load??

Works fine here (Houston, TX).

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Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

[Les Denham]

On Monday 16 February 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
 have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load??

Works fine here (Houston, TX).

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Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

[Les Denham]

On Monday 16 February 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
> have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load??

Works fine here (Houston, TX).

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Re: Using LyX for a book

[Les Denham]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:09:25 pm Typhoon wrote:
 Memoir comes with superb documentation. Have a careful look through it
 and you should find the answer to all of your problems.

I'll second that.  The Memoir documentation is beyond just documentation: it 
is a superb monograph on page layout, book design, and typography.

Les

Re: Using LyX for a book

[Les Denham]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:09:25 pm Typhoon wrote:
 Memoir comes with superb documentation. Have a careful look through it
 and you should find the answer to all of your problems.

I'll second that.  The Memoir documentation is beyond just documentation: it 
is a superb monograph on page layout, book design, and typography.

Les

Re: Using LyX for a book

[Les Denham]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:09:25 pm Typhoon wrote:
> Memoir comes with superb documentation. Have a careful look through it
> and you should find the answer to all of your problems.

I'll second that.  The Memoir documentation is beyond just documentation: it 
is a superb monograph on page layout, book design, and typography.

Les

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

On Monday 02 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote:
 If quotes is the only problem, take a look at the dialog for selecting
 quote styles. There are many options there. Perhaps a ascii-only style
 could be added there, and solve this particular problem.  It could have
 double and 'single' quotes using ascii.

Helge,

In this particular case, the quotes are the problem.  But the purpose of the 
restriction on the mailing list is to make it accessible to everyone by 
banning Microsoft formats.  The filters which catch RTF (for example) also 
catch Unicode, in this case quotes, but it could easily be accented 
characters or other non-ASCII characters such as ø.  The ascii-only quote 
style would solve the problem with quotes, but leave any other unicode 
characters.  Interestingly, the 1500 word post which raised the list 
administrator's ire included a single sentence in Spanish with two accented 
characters in it -- he didn't notice that.

But I have solved the problem by adding an ASCII format and defining a 
conversion from text to ASCII using recode.

-- 
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Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

On Monday 02 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote:
 If quotes is the only problem, take a look at the dialog for selecting
 quote styles. There are many options there. Perhaps a ascii-only style
 could be added there, and solve this particular problem.  It could have
 double and 'single' quotes using ascii.

Helge,

In this particular case, the quotes are the problem.  But the purpose of the 
restriction on the mailing list is to make it accessible to everyone by 
banning Microsoft formats.  The filters which catch RTF (for example) also 
catch Unicode, in this case quotes, but it could easily be accented 
characters or other non-ASCII characters such as ø.  The ascii-only quote 
style would solve the problem with quotes, but leave any other unicode 
characters.  Interestingly, the 1500 word post which raised the list 
administrator's ire included a single sentence in Spanish with two accented 
characters in it -- he didn't notice that.

But I have solved the problem by adding an ASCII format and defining a 
conversion from text to ASCII using recode.

-- 
Les

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Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

On Monday 02 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote:
> If quotes is the only problem, take a look at the dialog for selecting
> quote styles. There are many options there. Perhaps a "ascii-only" style
> could be added there, and solve this particular problem.  It could have
> "double" and 'single' quotes using ascii.

Helge,

In this particular case, the quotes are the problem.  But the purpose of the 
restriction on the mailing list is to make it accessible to everyone by 
banning Microsoft formats.  The filters which catch RTF (for example) also 
catch Unicode, in this case quotes, but it could easily be accented 
characters or other non-ASCII characters such as ø.  The ascii-only quote 
style would solve the problem with quotes, but leave any other unicode 
characters.  Interestingly, the 1500 word post which raised the list 
administrator's ire included a single sentence in Spanish with two accented 
characters in it -- he didn't notice that.

But I have solved the problem by adding an ASCII format and defining a 
conversion from text to ASCII using recode.

-- 
Les

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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote:
  Add a html/wiki -- LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the
  current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with ==

 Well, in principle, yes.

One further complication I haven't seen mentioned here is that HTML is 
gradually being replaced by XHTML, where (ideally) the appearance of the 
document is entirely controlled by one or more style sheets.

In principle, I can imagine a LyX layout combined with a LaTeX class 
generating a CSS style sheet, and vice versa.  But I can also envision the 
practical difficulties.

-- 
Les

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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote:
  Add a html/wiki -- LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the
  current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with ==

 Well, in principle, yes.

One further complication I haven't seen mentioned here is that HTML is 
gradually being replaced by XHTML, where (ideally) the appearance of the 
document is entirely controlled by one or more style sheets.

In principle, I can imagine a LyX layout combined with a LaTeX class 
generating a CSS style sheet, and vice versa.  But I can also envision the 
practical difficulties.

-- 
Les

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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> > Add a html/wiki <--> LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the
> > current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with ==
>
> Well, in principle, yes.

One further complication I haven't seen mentioned here is that HTML is 
gradually being replaced by XHTML, where (ideally) the appearance of the 
document is entirely controlled by one or more style sheets.

In principle, I can imagine a LyX layout combined with a LaTeX class 
generating a CSS style sheet, and vice versa.  But I can also envision the 
practical difficulties.

-- 
Les

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Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of
 magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect.

Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word Power Users* I can regard 
that shortcoming as a major advantage.

* Most regular MS Word users don't know what Style means.

-- 
Les

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Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of
 magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect.

Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word Power Users* I can regard 
that shortcoming as a major advantage.

* Most regular MS Word users don't know what Style means.

-- 
Les

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Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
> Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of
> magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect.

Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word "Power Users"* I can regard 
that "shortcoming" as a major advantage.

* Most regular MS Word users don't know what "Style" means.

-- 
Les

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Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 Any ideas how to do this?

Steve,

I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is 
covered in the Memoir manual 
(http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf
 
and probably also somewhere on your system is you installed doumentation).  
You'd need to do it in LaTeX.

-- 
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Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 Any ideas how to do this?

Steve,

I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is 
covered in the Memoir manual 
(http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf
 
and probably also somewhere on your system is you installed doumentation).  
You'd need to do it in LaTeX.

-- 
Les

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Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
> Any ideas how to do this?

Steve,

I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is 
covered in the Memoir manual 
(http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf
 
and probably also somewhere on your system is you installed doumentation).  
You'd need to do it in LaTeX.

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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13
 
  AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX.

 Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install
 it on Ubuntu

Rainer,

There seem to be some problems integrating it with apt (the package manager). 
It's pretty easy to install independently of the package manager, though it 
is a very large (at least 1.2GB) download.  You can get it from CTAN 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/).  The simple answer 
would be to wait until Jaunty (9.04) comes out (scheduled final release April 
23, 2009).  But it will still be TeXLive-2007 in 9.04, so if you want the new 
version soon, you'll have to bypass apt.

I have TeXLive-2008 running on my Gentoo system (it is unstable in portage, 
the Gentoo package manager), and have not had any problems at all with it.

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Les

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Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

Since upgrading from LyX 1.5.4 to LyX 1.6.1 I have found that Plain Text 
exports from LyX are no longer Plain Text, especially when it comes to 
quotes.  The difference is shown in the two attachments, one from my office 
computer, which is still running 1.5.4, and one from my laptop, which is 
running 1.6.1.  Both have Gentoo Linux as the OS.  The 1.5.4 has 
TeXLive-2007, and the 1.6.1 has TeXLive-2008.

Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into trouble 
with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text.
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Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Les Denham wrote:
  Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into
  trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text.

 Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid.
 Question to lyx-devel: is plain text supposed to produce ASCII? If so, we
 need to separate displayString() and asciiString() in InsetQuote.

Jürgen,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I rather think there should be an option to 
export 7-bit ASCII.

Oh well.  There's always sed . . .



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Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:52:57 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org writes:
  Les Denham wrote:
  Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into
  trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text.
 
  Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid.
  Question to lyx-devel: is plain text supposed to produce ASCII? If so,
  we need to separate displayString() and asciiString() in InsetQuote.

 the methods produce unicode. We could afterwards run all sorts of iconv
 translation to output plain text in whatever encoding we choose. This
 could be set in preferences.

 I do not know however whether iconv translates weird quotes to normal ones.

All,

I have worked out a solution to the problem which appears to work perfectly, 
and is simple to implement.  The only dependency introduced is recode 
(http://directory.fsf.org/project/recode/).  I'd guess uni2ascii would also 
work, but I haven't tried it.

To export Plain Text (ASCII) from LyX 1.6.1 or newer:
==
1. Define the new format

Tools-Preferences-File Handling-File Formats

Click on  New

 Format: ASCII
 Short Name: ascii
 Extension: txt

Click on Apply

2. Define the converter

Tools-Preferences-File Handling-Converters

From format: Plain Text
To format: ASCII
Converter: recode UTF-8..ASCII $i $$o

Click on Add

Click on Apply

You should now be able to see ASCII as an Export option.

Les

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13
 
  AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX.

 Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install
 it on Ubuntu

Rainer,

There seem to be some problems integrating it with apt (the package manager). 
It's pretty easy to install independently of the package manager, though it 
is a very large (at least 1.2GB) download.  You can get it from CTAN 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/).  The simple answer 
would be to wait until Jaunty (9.04) comes out (scheduled final release April 
23, 2009).  But it will still be TeXLive-2007 in 9.04, so if you want the new 
version soon, you'll have to bypass apt.

I have TeXLive-2008 running on my Gentoo system (it is unstable in portage, 
the Gentoo package manager), and have not had any problems at all with it.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
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Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

Since upgrading from LyX 1.5.4 to LyX 1.6.1 I have found that Plain Text 
exports from LyX are no longer Plain Text, especially when it comes to 
quotes.  The difference is shown in the two attachments, one from my office 
computer, which is still running 1.5.4, and one from my laptop, which is 
running 1.6.1.  Both have Gentoo Linux as the OS.  The 1.5.4 has 
TeXLive-2007, and the 1.6.1 has TeXLive-2008.

Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into trouble 
with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text.
-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
``This is a test''.

“This is a Test”.

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Les Denham wrote:
  Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into
  trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text.

 Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid.
 Question to lyx-devel: is plain text supposed to produce ASCII? If so, we
 need to separate displayString() and asciiString() in InsetQuote.

Jürgen,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I rather think there should be an option to 
export 7-bit ASCII.

Oh well.  There's always sed . . .



-- 
Les

~~
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Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:52:57 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org writes:
  Les Denham wrote:
  Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into
  trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text.
 
  Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid.
  Question to lyx-devel: is plain text supposed to produce ASCII? If so,
  we need to separate displayString() and asciiString() in InsetQuote.

 the methods produce unicode. We could afterwards run all sorts of iconv
 translation to output plain text in whatever encoding we choose. This
 could be set in preferences.

 I do not know however whether iconv translates weird quotes to normal ones.

All,

I have worked out a solution to the problem which appears to work perfectly, 
and is simple to implement.  The only dependency introduced is recode 
(http://directory.fsf.org/project/recode/).  I'd guess uni2ascii would also 
work, but I haven't tried it.

To export Plain Text (ASCII) from LyX 1.6.1 or newer:
==
1. Define the new format

Tools-Preferences-File Handling-File Formats

Click on  New

 Format: ASCII
 Short Name: ascii
 Extension: txt

Click on Apply

2. Define the converter

Tools-Preferences-File Handling-Converters

From format: Plain Text
To format: ASCII
Converter: recode UTF-8..ASCII $i $$o

Click on Add

Click on Apply

You should now be able to see ASCII as an Export option.

Les

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Les Denham]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> >> I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13
> >
> > AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX.
>
> Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install
> it on Ubuntu

Rainer,

There seem to be some problems integrating it with apt (the package manager). 
It's pretty easy to install independently of the package manager, though it 
is a very large (at least 1.2GB) download.  You can get it from CTAN 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/).  The simple answer 
would be to wait until Jaunty (9.04) comes out (scheduled final release April 
23, 2009).  But it will still be TeXLive-2007 in 9.04, so if you want the new 
version soon, you'll have to bypass apt.

I have TeXLive-2008 running on my Gentoo system (it is "unstable" in portage, 
the Gentoo package manager), and have not had any problems at all with it.

-- 
Les

~~
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