Re: Heretical question?
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning curve. I like LaTeX because it does a good job of figuring out the large-scale typesetting (floats and things). I don't want to manually do typesetting in a case-specific manner because whenever I modify the document I then end up having to re-typeset it. -- Mark
Re: Heretical question?
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning curve. I like LaTeX because it does a good job of figuring out the large-scale typesetting (floats and things). I don't want to manually do typesetting in a case-specific manner because whenever I modify the document I then end up having to re-typeset it. -- Mark
Re: Heretical question?
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this > thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I > assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning curve. I like LaTeX because it does a good job of figuring out the large-scale typesetting (floats and things). I don't want to manually do typesetting in a case-specific manner because whenever I modify the document I then end up having to re-typeset it. -- Mark
Re: Putting page numbers at the bottom of the page
On Mon, 9 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
You are probably using the fancy header style (which may be the default for
books) which shows the page at the top and only on chapter pages where there
is
no page (fancy header) at the top the page is shown at the bottom.
(snip)
I'm not sure how to show it both at the top and bottom if that is what you
want.
With the fancy header style, maybe something along the lines of,
\chead{\thepage}
\cfoot{\thepage}
-- Mark
Re: Putting page numbers at the bottom of the page
On Mon, 9 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
You are probably using the fancy header style (which may be the default for
books) which shows the page at the top and only on chapter pages where there
is
no page (fancy header) at the top the page is shown at the bottom.
(snip)
I'm not sure how to show it both at the top and bottom if that is what you
want.
With the fancy header style, maybe something along the lines of,
\chead{\thepage}
\cfoot{\thepage}
-- Mark
Re: Putting page numbers at the bottom of the page
On Mon, 9 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
> You are probably using the fancy header style (which may be the default for
> books) which shows the page at the top and only on chapter pages where there
> is
> no page (fancy header) at the top the page is shown at the bottom.
(snip)
> I'm not sure how to show it both at the top and bottom if that is what you
> want.
With the fancy header style, maybe something along the lines of,
\chead{\thepage}
\cfoot{\thepage}
-- Mark
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: (snip) Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide. (snip) True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an older format LyX file with just a few warnings. -- Mark
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: (snip) Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide. (snip) True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an older format LyX file with just a few warnings. -- Mark
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: (snip) > Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over > plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes > life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide. (snip) True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an "older format" LyX file with just a few warnings. -- Mark
Re: why lyx when there's word?
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because things would shift around if you mailed it to a Mac Word user or something. Also, is Word good at vector graphics yet? My diagrams in LyX with XFig, etc. look excellent and I keep seeing clearly-rasterised monstrosities (and correspondingly monstrous filesizes) coming from my Word-using colleagues. I know Word has its built-in drawing thing, but how many of the typical Microsoft-platform third-party graphics applications can generate Word-ready non-rasterised graphics? Can Word cope with EPS yet, or even SVG? I'm out of date with Word, though, so these issues may not be so bad now. -- Mark
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote: (snip) In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling with LaTeX when writing our documents. Right: this is really why I switched to LyX from Word. You compare the documents generated by each, and the LyX one just /looks/ better, because of the LaTeX stuff behind it, yet it was easy to generate without me having to spend many hours learning about LaTeX. That is, I think that somehow LaTeX is better at typesetting, formatting, etc., although I can't put my finger on what the difference is. -- Mark
Re: why lyx when there's word?
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because things would shift around if you mailed it to a Mac Word user or something. Also, is Word good at vector graphics yet? My diagrams in LyX with XFig, etc. look excellent and I keep seeing clearly-rasterised monstrosities (and correspondingly monstrous filesizes) coming from my Word-using colleagues. I know Word has its built-in drawing thing, but how many of the typical Microsoft-platform third-party graphics applications can generate Word-ready non-rasterised graphics? Can Word cope with EPS yet, or even SVG? I'm out of date with Word, though, so these issues may not be so bad now. -- Mark
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote: (snip) In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling with LaTeX when writing our documents. Right: this is really why I switched to LyX from Word. You compare the documents generated by each, and the LyX one just /looks/ better, because of the LaTeX stuff behind it, yet it was easy to generate without me having to spend many hours learning about LaTeX. That is, I think that somehow LaTeX is better at typesetting, formatting, etc., although I can't put my finger on what the difference is. -- Mark
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because things would shift around if you mailed it to a Mac Word user or something. Also, is Word good at vector graphics yet? My diagrams in LyX with XFig, etc. look excellent and I keep seeing clearly-rasterised monstrosities (and correspondingly monstrous filesizes) coming from my Word-using colleagues. I know Word has its built-in drawing thing, but how many of the typical Microsoft-platform third-party graphics applications can generate Word-ready non-rasterised graphics? Can Word cope with EPS yet, or even SVG? I'm out of date with Word, though, so these issues may not be so bad now. -- Mark
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote: (snip) > In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for > having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling > with LaTeX when writing our documents. Right: this is really why I switched to LyX from Word. You compare the documents generated by each, and the LyX one just /looks/ better, because of the LaTeX stuff behind it, yet it was easy to generate without me having to spend many hours learning about LaTeX. That is, I think that somehow LaTeX is better at typesetting, formatting, etc., although I can't put my finger on what the difference is. -- Mark
Thanks
I wanted to mention that I just used LyX for some proposals I was writing and it worked really well. So, thanks to the developers for making it so easy for me to yet again produce good-looking documents without having to use LaTeX directly. -- Mark
Thanks
I wanted to mention that I just used LyX for some proposals I was writing and it worked really well. So, thanks to the developers for making it so easy for me to yet again produce good-looking documents without having to use LaTeX directly. -- Mark
Thanks
I wanted to mention that I just used LyX for some proposals I was writing and it worked really well. So, thanks to the developers for making it so easy for me to yet again produce good-looking documents without having to use LaTeX directly. -- Mark
Table cell alignment
How can I adjust the vertical alignment of the contents of table cells? I can't get the relevant bits of dialog box not to be grayed out, and I'm can't work out what tweaks to make to an exported LaTeX file to get the right effect. -- Mark
Table cell alignment
How can I adjust the vertical alignment of the contents of table cells? I can't get the relevant bits of dialog box not to be grayed out, and I'm can't work out what tweaks to make to an exported LaTeX file to get the right effect. -- Mark
Table cell alignment
How can I adjust the vertical alignment of the contents of table cells? I can't get the relevant bits of dialog box not to be grayed out, and I'm can't work out what tweaks to make to an exported LaTeX file to get the right effect. -- Mark
Re: Xfig, external material and scale
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I am inserting a Xfig picture via insert--external material. Is there some way of setting the scale of the Xfig picture with which the picture will appear in the DVI file? In the parameters field (for fig2dev) of the dialog box where you set the filename you can set an -m scaling option - for instance, -m 0.5 to halve its size. -- Mark
Re: Xfig, external material and scale
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I am inserting a Xfig picture via insert--external material. Is there some way of setting the scale of the Xfig picture with which the picture will appear in the DVI file? In the parameters field (for fig2dev) of the dialog box where you set the filename you can set an -m scaling option - for instance, -m 0.5 to halve its size. -- Mark
Re: Xfig, external material and scale
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote: > I am inserting a Xfig picture via "insert-->external material". Is there > some way of setting the scale of the Xfig picture with which the picture > will appear in the DVI file? In the "parameters" field (for fig2dev) of the dialog box where you set the filename you can set an "-m" scaling option - for instance, "-m 0.5" to halve its size. -- Mark
DocBook frustrations
I had some difficulty getting the DocBook stuff to work on my Debian system. Here's what seems to work for me: 1. Export to DocBook in LyX 2. Change the article lang=en_US in the SGML to have lang=en instead 3. openjade -c /etc/sgml/catalog -t tex -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/print/docbook.dsl foo.sgml 4. tex \jadetex foo.tex ...for foo.lyx - foo.dvi -- Mark
DocBook frustrations
I had some difficulty getting the DocBook stuff to work on my Debian system. Here's what seems to work for me: 1. Export to DocBook in LyX 2. Change the article lang=en_US in the SGML to have lang=en instead 3. openjade -c /etc/sgml/catalog -t tex -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/print/docbook.dsl foo.sgml 4. tex \jadetex foo.tex ...for foo.lyx - foo.dvi -- Mark
DocBook frustrations
I had some difficulty getting the DocBook stuff to work on my Debian system. Here's what seems to work for me: 1. Export to DocBook in LyX 2. Change the in the SGML to have lang="en" instead 3. openjade -c /etc/sgml/catalog -t tex -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/print/docbook.dsl foo.sgml 4. tex \ foo.tex ...for foo.lyx -> foo.dvi -- Mark
Re: Logo header
On Saturday 03 April 2004 23:04, Pablo Rodríguez González wrote:
(snip)
I want to create a template document, with my logo's company -and
another text- in header.
(snip)
Sorry I missed the original to this. I do something in the preamble like,
\usepackage{graphics}
\lhead{\resizebox{0.12in}{!}{\includegraphics{logo.eps}} Company Name}
\chead{}
\rhead{Document Title}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{}
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
...with the fancy document style. The last two lines just make a
horizontal rule between the header or footer and the page body. The two
before it make the header and footer appear on the first page. All four
could be omitted.
-- Mark
Re: Logo header
On Saturday 03 April 2004 23:04, Pablo Rodríguez González wrote:
(snip)
I want to create a template document, with my logo's company -and
another text- in header.
(snip)
Sorry I missed the original to this. I do something in the preamble like,
\usepackage{graphics}
\lhead{\resizebox{0.12in}{!}{\includegraphics{logo.eps}} Company Name}
\chead{}
\rhead{Document Title}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{}
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
...with the fancy document style. The last two lines just make a
horizontal rule between the header or footer and the page body. The two
before it make the header and footer appear on the first page. All four
could be omitted.
-- Mark
Re: Logo header
> On Saturday 03 April 2004 23:04, Pablo Rodríguez González wrote:
(snip)
> > I want to create a template document, with my logo's company -and
> > another text- in header.
(snip)
Sorry I missed the original to this. I do something in the preamble like,
\usepackage{graphics}
\lhead{\resizebox{0.12in}{!}{\includegraphics{logo.eps}} Company Name}
\chead{}
\rhead{Document Title}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{}
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
...with the fancy document style. The last two lines just make a
horizontal rule between the header or footer and the page body. The two
before it make the header and footer appear on the first page. All four
could be omitted.
-- Mark
Re: LyX - html
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual from LyX - HTML? I don't know, but FWIW I normally export to TeX then use a free latex2html Perl script. -- Mark
Re: LyX - html
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual from LyX - HTML? I don't know, but FWIW I normally export to TeX then use a free latex2html Perl script. -- Mark
Re: LyX -> html
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual > from LyX -> HTML? I don't know, but FWIW I normally export to TeX then use a free latex2html Perl script. -- Mark
Re: Page numbers in upper right corner?
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, James Frye wrote:
I suppose this is a more of a general latex question than a Lyx-specific
one, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. The
question seems pretty simple, even trivial: how can I get the page number
in the upper right corner of the page, instead of at the bottom center?
(Our grad school requires that in a thesis)
(snip)
I would probably do something like doing whatever makes
\paperpagestyle fancy
appear in the .lyx file, and in the preamble do something like,
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
The last two lines make it appear on the title page too.
(How I'd make it appear on one side on odd pages and the other on even,
I'm not sure. (-:)
-- Mark
Re: Page numbers in upper right corner?
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, James Frye wrote:
I suppose this is a more of a general latex question than a Lyx-specific
one, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. The
question seems pretty simple, even trivial: how can I get the page number
in the upper right corner of the page, instead of at the bottom center?
(Our grad school requires that in a thesis)
(snip)
I would probably do something like doing whatever makes
\paperpagestyle fancy
appear in the .lyx file, and in the preamble do something like,
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
The last two lines make it appear on the title page too.
(How I'd make it appear on one side on odd pages and the other on even,
I'm not sure. (-:)
-- Mark
Re: Page numbers in upper right corner?
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, James Frye wrote:
> I suppose this is a more of a general latex question than a Lyx-specific
> one, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. The
> question seems pretty simple, even trivial: how can I get the page number
> in the upper right corner of the page, instead of at the bottom center?
> (Our grad school requires that in a thesis>)
(snip)
I would probably do something like doing whatever makes
\paperpagestyle fancy
appear in the .lyx file, and in the preamble do something like,
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
The last two lines make it appear on the title page too.
(How I'd make it appear on one side on odd pages and the other on even,
I'm not sure. (-:)
-- Mark
Re: question
One thing that I found helped was that the default document language was english, but my system dictionaries were british and american - changing the document's language accordingly made ispell happier. -- Mark
Re: question
One thing that I found helped was that the default document language was english, but my system dictionaries were british and american - changing the document's language accordingly made ispell happier. -- Mark
Re: question
One thing that I found helped was that the default document language was english, but my system dictionaries were british and american - changing the document's language accordingly made ispell happier. -- Mark
Re: FEATURE REQUEST
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: (snip) OT: Seriously xforms is dead... Noone except longtime users will use it. Oh, that's a pity. ): Maybe I'm strange, but I prefer the xforms frontend to lyx to the qt one. -- Mark
Re: FEATURE REQUEST
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: (snip) OT: Seriously xforms is dead... Noone except longtime users will use it. Oh, that's a pity. ): Maybe I'm strange, but I prefer the xforms frontend to lyx to the qt one. -- Mark
Re: FEATURE REQUEST
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: (snip) > OT: Seriously xforms is dead... Noone except longtime users will use it. Oh, that's a pity. ): Maybe I'm strange, but I prefer the xforms frontend to lyx to the qt one. -- Mark
Re: \include file with tex2pdf
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dipl.-Ing. [iso-8859-15] Peßenhofer Werner wrote: (snip) Have anyone an idea, why tex2pdf do not find the files ? Does http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg24088.html help at all? -- Mark
Re: \include file with tex2pdf
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dipl.-Ing. [iso-8859-15] Peßenhofer Werner wrote: (snip) Have anyone an idea, why tex2pdf do not find the files ? Does http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg24088.html help at all? -- Mark
Re: \include "file" with tex2pdf
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dipl.-Ing. [iso-8859-15] Peßenhofer Werner wrote: (snip) > Have anyone an idea, why tex2pdf do not find the files ? Does http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg24088.html help at all? -- Mark
1.1.6fix4 for OS X?
Is LyX 1.1.6fix4 available for OS X anywhere? We really need stability so we've been using 1.1.6fix4, but a Mac user wants to be able to edit our files from home, and the file format seems to have changed. He does have 1.2.1 working. Suggestions? -- Mark
1.1.6fix4 for OS X?
Is LyX 1.1.6fix4 available for OS X anywhere? We really need stability so we've been using 1.1.6fix4, but a Mac user wants to be able to edit our files from home, and the file format seems to have changed. He does have 1.2.1 working. Suggestions? -- Mark
1.1.6fix4 for OS X?
Is LyX 1.1.6fix4 available for OS X anywhere? We really need stability so we've been using 1.1.6fix4, but a Mac user wants to be able to edit our files from home, and the file format seems to have changed. He does have 1.2.1 working. Suggestions? -- Mark
Re: inserting an image and writing next to it
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Farshad wrote: How can I insert a picture in a one column document in lyx such that I can write text lines next to the image. I want to export this document into Tex later. For example: (snip) I seem to remember something about this in some of the LyX documentation - the Extended Features thing or the FAQ or something. Except, IIRC, you have to specify the width of the text beside it. What I'd like is something that looks at the bounding box of the EPS or whatever and automatically floats the image so that, if it's narrow enough, text automatically goes to its side to whatever width fits - I've not found how to do that yet. -- Mark
Re: inserting an image and writing next to it
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Farshad wrote: How can I insert a picture in a one column document in lyx such that I can write text lines next to the image. I want to export this document into Tex later. For example: (snip) I seem to remember something about this in some of the LyX documentation - the Extended Features thing or the FAQ or something. Except, IIRC, you have to specify the width of the text beside it. What I'd like is something that looks at the bounding box of the EPS or whatever and automatically floats the image so that, if it's narrow enough, text automatically goes to its side to whatever width fits - I've not found how to do that yet. -- Mark
Re: inserting an image and writing next to it
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Farshad wrote: > How can I insert a picture in a one column document in lyx such that I > can write text lines next to the image. I want to export this document > into Tex later. For example: (snip) I seem to remember something about this in some of the LyX documentation - the Extended Features thing or the FAQ or something. Except, IIRC, you have to specify the width of the text beside it. What I'd like is something that looks at the bounding box of the EPS or whatever and automatically floats the image so that, if it's narrow enough, text automatically goes to its side to whatever width fits - I've not found how to do that yet. -- Mark
Finding included files
Sometimes when I include some XFig or EPS or something as a floating figure, then use LyX 1.1.6fix4 to export to PostScript, I get LaTeX errors about not being able to find the file or the bounding box and things. However, if I export to LaTeX, and then just use latex and dvips with no extra command line options beyond foo.tex and foo.dvi, it works fine. Does anybody have any idea what's going on? (-: BTW, is there a way to get export-to-PDF to pass options to ps2pdf? I want to use -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode to keep my images nice. Thanks, Mark
Finding included files
Sometimes when I include some XFig or EPS or something as a floating figure, then use LyX 1.1.6fix4 to export to PostScript, I get LaTeX errors about not being able to find the file or the bounding box and things. However, if I export to LaTeX, and then just use latex and dvips with no extra command line options beyond foo.tex and foo.dvi, it works fine. Does anybody have any idea what's going on? (-: BTW, is there a way to get export-to-PDF to pass options to ps2pdf? I want to use -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode to keep my images nice. Thanks, Mark
Finding included files
Sometimes when I include some XFig or EPS or something as a floating figure, then use LyX 1.1.6fix4 to export to PostScript, I get LaTeX errors about not being able to find the file or the bounding box and things. However, if I export to LaTeX, and then just use latex and dvips with no extra command line options beyond foo.tex and foo.dvi, it works fine. Does anybody have any idea what's going on? (-: BTW, is there a way to get export-to-PDF to pass options to ps2pdf? I want to use -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode to keep my images nice. Thanks, Mark
LyX grammar
Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would probably be nicer to build up a proper specification from a friendly document instead of just looking through the source, especially with regard to hints as to what might change! -- Mark
LyX grammar
Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would probably be nicer to build up a proper specification from a friendly document instead of just looking through the source, especially with regard to hints as to what might change! -- Mark
LyX grammar
Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would probably be nicer to build up a proper specification from a friendly document instead of just looking through the source, especially with regard to hints as to what might change! -- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Giovanni [windows-1252] Biczó wrote: (snip) The only drawback of my dream is, that it has not too much to do with the TeX-LaTeX-LyX approach. (snip) You don't think so? I can see that a WYSIWYG way of doing it might be, but layouts are very much a part of the LaTeX approach and something that let you edit layouts based more on specification basis might fit in - e.g. you can define your own paragraph environments with their own vskips, margins and whatever using a pretty interactive thing instead of devising special runes. The main disadvantage is that sorts of tweaks that users usually want to do (e.g. putting in their own centre-top fancy header) may be so wide-ranging that a structured GUI approach may not cover most of them. -- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, William Adams wrote:
Matej said:
(snip)
:-), but lout is IMHO better for this.
Apparently only for those willing to tolerate widows and orphans w/ impunity.
(snip)
@InitialBreak { unbreakablefirst unbreakablelast 1.20fx adjust hyphen }
and suchlike should avoid them?
-- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Giovanni [windows-1252] Biczó wrote: (snip) The only drawback of my dream is, that it has not too much to do with the TeX-LaTeX-LyX approach. (snip) You don't think so? I can see that a WYSIWYG way of doing it might be, but layouts are very much a part of the LaTeX approach and something that let you edit layouts based more on specification basis might fit in - e.g. you can define your own paragraph environments with their own vskips, margins and whatever using a pretty interactive thing instead of devising special runes. The main disadvantage is that sorts of tweaks that users usually want to do (e.g. putting in their own centre-top fancy header) may be so wide-ranging that a structured GUI approach may not cover most of them. -- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, William Adams wrote:
Matej said:
(snip)
:-), but lout is IMHO better for this.
Apparently only for those willing to tolerate widows and orphans w/ impunity.
(snip)
@InitialBreak { unbreakablefirst unbreakablelast 1.20fx adjust hyphen }
and suchlike should avoid them?
-- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Giovanni [windows-1252] Biczó wrote: (snip) > The only drawback of my dream is, that it has not too much to do with the > TeX-LaTeX-LyX approach. (snip) You don't think so? I can see that a WYSIWYG way of doing it might be, but layouts are very much a part of the LaTeX approach and something that let you edit layouts based more on "specification" basis might fit in - e.g. you can define your own paragraph environments with their own vskips, margins and whatever using a pretty interactive thing instead of devising special runes. The main disadvantage is that sorts of tweaks that users usually want to do (e.g. putting in their own centre-top fancy header) may be so wide-ranging that a structured GUI approach may not cover most of them. -- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, William Adams wrote:
> Matej said:
(snip)
> >:-), but lout is IMHO better for this.
>
> Apparently only for those willing to tolerate widows and orphans w/ impunity.
(snip)
@InitialBreak { unbreakablefirst unbreakablelast 1.20fx adjust hyphen }
and suchlike should avoid them?
-- Mark
Re: Problem executing lyx
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, lec wrote: (snip) I've checked and the file libflimage.so.1 is in /usr/X11R6/lib Is /usr/X11R6/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ? Do you need to run ldconfig ? How does ldconfig -p look ? What does ldd report about your lyx executable ? I hope that's a helpful starting place - good luck! My pointers might need to be changed according to which Unix or Linux you run. -- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
What I would loved was that some people with LaTeX knowledge, programming
skills and stamina got together and wrote a LyX style utility. I envisage
this LyX-styler as a separate program, and that LyX still comes with a
handful of nice usable layouts that would suit most people writing letters,
and other none complicated texts. The LyX-styler would be run when people
needed a special typesetting. It should write LyX preambles, .layout .bst and
.sty-files. It must have a GUI.
(snip)
I put this questions therefore forward to the user-list to open a discussion:
Do we need a LyX-styler; is there better ways of dealing with layout issues
and, perhaps more importantly, is there people interested in working on such
a program.
You've certainly been echoing my thoughts. I can get by because, although
I don't know LaTeX, I have enough of a computing background that I'm still
able to search LaTeX archives and figure out solutions - e.g. this
morning's was,
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
I'm sure not going to be able to get our regular Word users to switch over
if they can't do that sort of thing more easily by themselves. Then again,
it would be a big effort to produce a GUI layout creator, and I don't have
any reason to think it could be easily designed. Things like Nonpareil
might be better there.
-- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: (snip) I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what is Nonpareil ? Hopefully it will be - http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/ (Jeff Kingston's the guy who developed Lout - http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/) One of the design goals of Nonpareil is to make WYSIWYG editing easily feasible, I think. -- Mark
Re: Problem executing lyx
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, lec wrote: (snip) I've checked and the file libflimage.so.1 is in /usr/X11R6/lib Is /usr/X11R6/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ? Do you need to run ldconfig ? How does ldconfig -p look ? What does ldd report about your lyx executable ? I hope that's a helpful starting place - good luck! My pointers might need to be changed according to which Unix or Linux you run. -- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
What I would loved was that some people with LaTeX knowledge, programming
skills and stamina got together and wrote a LyX style utility. I envisage
this LyX-styler as a separate program, and that LyX still comes with a
handful of nice usable layouts that would suit most people writing letters,
and other none complicated texts. The LyX-styler would be run when people
needed a special typesetting. It should write LyX preambles, .layout .bst and
.sty-files. It must have a GUI.
(snip)
I put this questions therefore forward to the user-list to open a discussion:
Do we need a LyX-styler; is there better ways of dealing with layout issues
and, perhaps more importantly, is there people interested in working on such
a program.
You've certainly been echoing my thoughts. I can get by because, although
I don't know LaTeX, I have enough of a computing background that I'm still
able to search LaTeX archives and figure out solutions - e.g. this
morning's was,
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
I'm sure not going to be able to get our regular Word users to switch over
if they can't do that sort of thing more easily by themselves. Then again,
it would be a big effort to produce a GUI layout creator, and I don't have
any reason to think it could be easily designed. Things like Nonpareil
might be better there.
-- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: (snip) I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what is Nonpareil ? Hopefully it will be - http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/ (Jeff Kingston's the guy who developed Lout - http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/) One of the design goals of Nonpareil is to make WYSIWYG editing easily feasible, I think. -- Mark
Re: Problem executing lyx
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, lec wrote: (snip) > I've checked and the file libflimage.so.1 is in /usr/X11R6/lib Is /usr/X11R6/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ? Do you need to run ldconfig ? How does ldconfig -p look ? What does ldd report about your lyx executable ? I hope that's a helpful starting place - good luck! My pointers might need to be changed according to which Unix or Linux you run. -- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
> What I would loved was that some people with LaTeX knowledge, programming
> skills and stamina got together and wrote a LyX style utility. I envisage
> this "LyX-styler" as a separate program, and that LyX still comes with a
> handful of nice usable layouts that would suit most people writing letters,
> and other none complicated texts. The LyX-styler would be run when people
> needed a special typesetting. It should write LyX preambles, .layout .bst and
> .sty-files. It must have a GUI.
(snip)
> I put this questions therefore forward to the user-list to open a discussion:
> Do we need a "LyX-styler"; is there better ways of dealing with layout issues
> and, perhaps more importantly, is there people interested in working on such
> a program.
You've certainly been echoing my thoughts. I can get by because, although
I don't know LaTeX, I have enough of a computing background that I'm still
able to search LaTeX archives and figure out solutions - e.g. this
morning's was,
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
I'm sure not going to be able to get our regular Word users to switch over
if they can't do that sort of thing more easily by themselves. Then again,
it would be a big effort to produce a GUI layout creator, and I don't have
any reason to think it could be easily designed. Things like Nonpareil
might be better there.
-- Mark
Re: Lyx and style
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: (snip) > I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what is Nonpareil ? Hopefully it will be - http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/ (Jeff Kingston's the guy who developed Lout - http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/) One of the design goals of Nonpareil is to make WYSIWYG editing easily feasible, I think. -- Mark
Letters as section numbers
I need my document to start on page 3 and have section heading numbering
starting with d - for instance, d, d.1, d.2, d.2.1, d.2.2, e, e.1, ...
In my preamble I've found that I can put,
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
I'm also wondering if I should ask things like this here, given that I
know no LaTeX and LyX may have a nice GUI way of doing some of these
things, or in a LaTeX forum given that the answer probably does involve
something else in the preamble.
-- Mark
Re: Letters as section numbers
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Carroll wrote:
(snip)
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section}} in the preamble seems to do it.
(Reading appendix.dtx on CTAN helped.)
-- Mark
Letters as section numbers
I need my document to start on page 3 and have section heading numbering
starting with d - for instance, d, d.1, d.2, d.2.1, d.2.2, e, e.1, ...
In my preamble I've found that I can put,
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
I'm also wondering if I should ask things like this here, given that I
know no LaTeX and LyX may have a nice GUI way of doing some of these
things, or in a LaTeX forum given that the answer probably does involve
something else in the preamble.
-- Mark
Re: Letters as section numbers
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Carroll wrote:
(snip)
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section}} in the preamble seems to do it.
(Reading appendix.dtx on CTAN helped.)
-- Mark
Letters as section numbers
I need my document to start on page 3 and have section heading numbering
starting with d - for instance, d, d.1, d.2, d.2.1, d.2.2, e, e.1, ...
In my preamble I've found that I can put,
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
I'm also wondering if I should ask things like this here, given that I
know no LaTeX and LyX may have a nice GUI way of doing some of these
things, or in a LaTeX forum given that the answer probably does involve
something else in the preamble.
-- Mark
Re: Letters as section numbers
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Carroll wrote:
(snip)
> \setcounter{page}{3}
> \setcounter{section}{3}
>
> to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
>
> But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section}} in the preamble seems to do it.
(Reading appendix.dtx on CTAN helped.)
-- Mark
Re: [praedor@yahoo.com: Reference page fonts too small]
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mate Wierdl wrote: (snip) I have to use large (12 point) fonts throughout a document I am writing. Unfortunately, my reference pages (bibtex) insist on using a smaller font - I believe it must be 10 point. How do I force bibtex to use the same font as the rest of my lyx document? (snip) Yes, I have a similar problem - though, this must be a FAQ, so I haven't given up trying to find the answer myself yet. (-: A minimum font size everywhere option would do, as it's often how the requirement is stated in formats you're trying to fit. Still, I want to mention that it would be really nice if LyX had dialogs that let me set the fonts of all the different bits of my document (titles, footnotes, etc.), although maybe what I'm really asking for is a layout creation tool which is presumably a much harder proposition. Maybe if I hunt through /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ more carefully it'll become clearer what I can do by hand! Are the footnotes generated by a separate program (bibtex), then, and not controlled in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ ? -- Mark
Re: [praedor@yahoo.com: Reference page fonts too small]
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mate Wierdl wrote: (snip) I have to use large (12 point) fonts throughout a document I am writing. Unfortunately, my reference pages (bibtex) insist on using a smaller font - I believe it must be 10 point. How do I force bibtex to use the same font as the rest of my lyx document? (snip) Yes, I have a similar problem - though, this must be a FAQ, so I haven't given up trying to find the answer myself yet. (-: A minimum font size everywhere option would do, as it's often how the requirement is stated in formats you're trying to fit. Still, I want to mention that it would be really nice if LyX had dialogs that let me set the fonts of all the different bits of my document (titles, footnotes, etc.), although maybe what I'm really asking for is a layout creation tool which is presumably a much harder proposition. Maybe if I hunt through /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ more carefully it'll become clearer what I can do by hand! Are the footnotes generated by a separate program (bibtex), then, and not controlled in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ ? -- Mark
Re: [praedor@yahoo.com: Reference page fonts too small]
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mate Wierdl wrote: (snip) > I have to use large (12 point) fonts throughout a document I am writing. > Unfortunately, my reference pages (bibtex) insist on using a smaller font - I > believe it must be 10 point. How do I force bibtex to use the same font as > the rest of my lyx document? (snip) Yes, I have a similar problem - though, this must be a FAQ, so I haven't given up trying to find the answer myself yet. (-: A "minimum font size everywhere" option would do, as it's often how the requirement is stated in formats you're trying to fit. Still, I want to mention that it would be really nice if LyX had dialogs that let me set the fonts of all the different bits of my document (titles, footnotes, etc.), although maybe what I'm really asking for is a layout creation tool which is presumably a much harder proposition. Maybe if I hunt through /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ more carefully it'll become clearer what I can do by hand! Are the footnotes generated by a separate program (bibtex), then, and not controlled in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ ? -- Mark
Re: Newbie questions
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote:
(snip)
Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about
this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX...
So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below
to the FAQ.lyx now I just need to figure out how to get it to
the documentation team's attention.
(snip)
Cool, thanks. (-: It turned out that our local LaTeX person also thought
the \date{} thing would work! The searchable archive is great too. I
haven't found the answer to my removing-section-numbers question yet (or
why in general the layout document thing doesn't seem to have much
effect), but I'm still searching! (The problem with the Date problem and
most search engines was that I was finding all articles with a Date:
header.)
Overall, LyX seems pretty nice so far, though I'm starting to wonder if
I'll have to learn LaTeX sometime if I start using LyX much. The pdf
conversion messed up my pngs, but doing ps2pdf manually with
-dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode fixed that.
At some point I'll figure out how to have text running beside an image.
(-:
All the best,
Mark
Re: Newbie questions
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote:
(snip)
Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about
this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX...
So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below
to the FAQ.lyx now I just need to figure out how to get it to
the documentation team's attention.
(snip)
Cool, thanks. (-: It turned out that our local LaTeX person also thought
the \date{} thing would work! The searchable archive is great too. I
haven't found the answer to my removing-section-numbers question yet (or
why in general the layout document thing doesn't seem to have much
effect), but I'm still searching! (The problem with the Date problem and
most search engines was that I was finding all articles with a Date:
header.)
Overall, LyX seems pretty nice so far, though I'm starting to wonder if
I'll have to learn LaTeX sometime if I start using LyX much. The pdf
conversion messed up my pngs, but doing ps2pdf manually with
-dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode fixed that.
At some point I'll figure out how to have text running beside an image.
(-:
All the best,
Mark
Re: Newbie questions
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote:
(snip)
> Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about
> this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX...
>
> So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below
> to the FAQ.lyx now I just need to figure out how to get it to
> the documentation team's attention.
(snip)
Cool, thanks. (-: It turned out that our local LaTeX person also thought
the \date{} thing would work! The searchable archive is great too. I
haven't found the answer to my removing-section-numbers question yet (or
why in general the layout document thing doesn't seem to have much
effect), but I'm still searching! (The problem with the Date problem and
most search engines was that I was finding all articles with a Date:
header.)
Overall, LyX seems pretty nice so far, though I'm starting to wonder if
I'll have to learn LaTeX sometime if I start using LyX much. The pdf
conversion messed up my pngs, but doing ps2pdf manually with
-dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode fixed that.
At some point I'll figure out how to have text running beside an image.
(-:
All the best,
Mark
Re: LyX capabilities question
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with Watch File - that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all! I'll make the time to try out switching to LyX for document preparation, then. I'm also checking out OpenOffice's word-processor, although WYSIWYM seems intellectually attractive. -- Mark
Re: LyX capabilities question
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with Watch File - that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all! I'll make the time to try out switching to LyX for document preparation, then. I'm also checking out OpenOffice's word-processor, although WYSIWYM seems intellectually attractive. -- Mark
Re: LyX capabilities question
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with "Watch File" - that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all! I'll make the time to try out switching to LyX for document preparation, then. I'm also checking out OpenOffice's word-processor, although WYSIWYM seems intellectually attractive. -- Mark
LyX capabilities question
I'm thinking of spending some time trying out LyX harder than I have already, but before I do so I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that it would be worth my while. In particular: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to see where these limits are lying, like seeing the page boundaries and numbers in Word? I often have to craft documents to fit those limits. (b) I don't know LaTeX but I do know PostScript and can get on with xfig. Will it be easy for me to insert diagrams into documents? Thanks! -- Mark
LyX capabilities question
I'm thinking of spending some time trying out LyX harder than I have already, but before I do so I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that it would be worth my while. In particular: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to see where these limits are lying, like seeing the page boundaries and numbers in Word? I often have to craft documents to fit those limits. (b) I don't know LaTeX but I do know PostScript and can get on with xfig. Will it be easy for me to insert diagrams into documents? Thanks! -- Mark
LyX capabilities question
I'm thinking of spending some time trying out LyX harder than I have already, but before I do so I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that it would be worth my while. In particular: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to see where these limits are lying, like seeing the page boundaries and numbers in Word? I often have to craft documents to fit those limits. (b) I don't know LaTeX but I do know PostScript and can get on with xfig. Will it be easy for me to insert diagrams into documents? Thanks! -- Mark
