Re: How does one change the margins on one page only?
Hi! The latex package "chngpage" might be useful. /Sara Steve Litt wrote: >Hi all, > >How does one change the margins on one page only? I need the first page (I'm >not using a title page -- I'm ERT'ing it) to be an image that goes paper edge >to paper edge. > >Thanks > >SteveT > >Steve Litt >Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware >http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > >
Re: lost border with v-space insite table
christiaan pauw wrote: > Hi all > > In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in > a table. I attach an example. > > Regards > Christiaan > One way to solve this would be to use a "strut" instead of vspace. A strut is a rectangular box of zero width, and thus invisible, which can be used to change the spacing of a line. To get a strut you need some ERT (AFAIK, if there is a Lyx-way to do it I'd be happy to know!), put it in the table cell where you want more vertical space. The command is: \rule[raise-height]{width}{height} Where width should be set to 0, raise-height could be left out, but should be set to a negative value if you want space below the line, and height is the height of the strut, i.e. how much vertical space you will get, for instance: \rule{0pt}{14pt} - gives 14 points of vertical space from the baseline and up \rule[-5pt]{0pt}{20pt} gives 5 points space below the baseline and 15 points above it. /Sara
Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]
Ares skrev: As I wrote in a previous post, I would like the references of my PhD thesis to be arranged as follows: References Articles [Art1] article1 [Art2] article2 etc Books [Book1] book1 [Book2] book2 etc etc ... LyX 1.4.1 supports "sectioned bibliography", so it is possible to split the Bibliography chapter in sections. In order to have the citation as [Art1] and [Book1] etc, I need to hack a bst file, as suggested by Jürgen. I had a look to plain.bst and it doesn't sound so easy! In the end I would just like to add a prefix (Book, Art etc) to the reference numbering and to use a separate bst file for each entry (Books, Articles etc), so that the numbering starts with each "section". Is there a resource where I can find how bst files work? or is there someone who can help me? Thanks for support, Diego Hi! I think that a much easier way to get a bst file than to start hack it is to use the makebst utility. (run latex makebst) Then you get a series of multiple choice question on how you want to format oyur bibliographical entries. Then two files are created, a dbj file and a bst file. The bst file is the bibliography file created. The dbj file is a batch file that is run through latex to create the bst file. If you later want to tweak the style file, this can easily be done by changing the dbj file, which is quite easy. Just comment out the option you want to change using a "#", and uncomment the line with the option you prefer instead. The you just run the dbj file thorugh latex to update the bst file! You might not be able to do everything this way, but at least it is easy and it helped me a lot! /Sara
Re: book class questions
Eric Zollars skrev: I am using the Book class and using roman numbering until the first page of chapter 1. I have two unnumbered chapters* before the Table of Contents. 1. How do I include these unnumbered chapters and the table of contents itself in the table of contents? Hi! One solution is to use the komascript bookclass, and use addchap instead of chapter* /Sara
Re: Chapter base Page numbering to TOC
You can get the word "Chapter" in komascript. Just add the class option "chapterprefix". You add it in the documents settings: class settings, options. /Sara > > > btw, i have report Document, and the abstract page don't have > the page number... i force with \setcounter{page}{2} > but it always show as page number 1 at TOC > except in Report(koma script) Document, but i don't use it > cause the word "Chapter" doesn't show up on the chapter page. > > > thanks..
references with no author
Hi! I need to have some references with no author. One is a booklet without an author, and the other a webpage. I've added it in the bibtex file. But running bibtex on the commandline gives errors because I have neither author nor key in these entries. Adding a key makes the citations refer to the key, and gives the key as the author in the bibliography. What I would like is that the citation should be referred to by the first word in the title in the in-text citations (now I get the first three letters..) And in the bibliography I would like it sorted on title. Now all authorless entries appear first in the bibliography. Does anyone know how to get this? /Sara
Re: Show entry type in References
Hi! You might find an answer here: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=multbib /Sara Ares wrote: Hello everyone, I'm using LyX to compile a PhD thesis and a bibtex database for references, and I'm new to both. I would like to group the references according to entry type, and to show the entry type itself in the references. this would look like, for instance: ... References articles [Art1] article1 [Art2] article2 etc Books [Book1] book1 [Book2] book2 etc etc ... Is there anyone who knows how to do that? maybe using an appropriate bst file that does that?? Thanks for your support Diego
Re: mixing portrait and landscape in one document - solved!
Hi again! That actually helped me solve the problem! Thanks! The gb4e package apparently escapes some special characters, so it should always be included last of the used packages. So switching the orders of the inclusions so that gb4e is included after lscape in the preamble solved the problem! (the sara package is just some homemade latex macros, I should have removed it from the sample file, but it slipped my mind...) /Sara Stephen Harris wrote: Sara Stymne wrote: That's what i would need, but I can't get it to work. I get loads of errors when I try. I attach a non-working sample file. I tried it both with LyX 1.3.6 on Linux (Ubuntu) and LyX 1.4.1 on Solaris. /Sara I tried it on Windows and it said file sara.sty not found. And another error message said something about non-stop modes. #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass scrartcl \begin_preamble \usepackage{gb4e} \usepackage{sara}
Re: mixing portrait and landscape in one document
That's what i would need, but I can't get it to work. I get loads of errors when I try. I attach a non-working sample file. I tried it both with LyX 1.3.6 on Linux (Ubuntu) and LyX 1.4.1 on Solaris. /Sara Eric Zollars wrote: Page 4 of http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/rotating.pdf may be what you need. Eric Sara Stymne wrote: Hi! I'm writing an article where I would like the appendix in landscape orientation, and the rest in portrait. I don't want a table, which I know how to rotate, but plain text. Does anyone know how to achieve this? /Sara #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass scrartcl \begin_preamble \usepackage{gb4e} \usepackage{sara} \usepackage{lscape} \end_preamble \language swedish \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \use_natbib 1 \use_numerical_citations 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language swedish \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle plain \bullet 1 0 24 -1 \end_bullet \bullet 2 0 9 -1 \end_bullet \bullet 3 0 0 -1 \end_bullet \layout Title Sample document... \layout Section Inledning \layout Standard Some text . \layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status Collapsed \layout Standard \backslash begin{landscape} \end_inset \layout Standard some more text in landscape \layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status Collapsed \layout Standard \backslash end{landscape} \end_inset \the_end
mixing portrait and landscape in one document
Hi! I'm writing an article where I would like the appendix in landscape orientation, and the rest in portrait. I don't want a table, which I know how to rotate, but plain text. Does anyone know how to achieve this? /Sara
Re: Centering a float figure
Hi! There is probably a better way, but one way that works is to enter \centering in ERT in the figure float. /Sara Patton, Eric wrote: I have a figure float in my paragraph that looks pretty good; the caption is centered in the page, but the image itself is left-justified, seemingly by default. None of the right-click context menu options seems to allow the justification of the image itself, only the float position on the page. Is it possible to center the image in the page, above the caption? ~~~ Eric Patton
Re: Page numbering
Hi! If you use the book class (or one of its versions) you can use the commands frontmatter and mainmatter. Put \frontmatter in ERT at the beginning of the document and you will get roman numbering there, then put \mainmatter in ERT where the first chapter starts and you will get arabic numerals starting on page one. /Sara Theo wrote: Hi everybody, i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? thanks a lot, theo
Re: page margins
Hi! I use the chngpage package. It find it very easy to use! /Sara Pol wrote: Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? thank you --pol
Re: spacing between sections
Hi! Check out the titlesec package (can be found at: http://www.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/ ), especially \titlespacing*. I think that does what you're looking for. /Sara Stacia Hartleben wrote: >I'm currently working on a paper where the teacher is VERY strict >about format. He didn't like that there was a linebreak between >sections and subsections..for example > >blah blah blah > >Subsection >Blah blah blah > >should be like > >blah blah blah >Subsection >Blah blah blah > >Any way to fix this? Help me before I do a copy in word :( > > >
Re: Centering a floating image
Hi One way is to enter \centering in ERT in the figure float. /Sara André Bonhôte wrote: Hi! I'd like to scale down an image to 60% of the linewidth. That works fine, but now it's aligned to the left margin. Is there a way to center it on the page (horizontally)? I am using 1.3.7 on Mac OS X 10.4.6. TIA André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich/Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)44 560 06 00 Internal: 8411 0501 Fax: +41 (0)44 563 05 01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services
Re: Eszett
Bruce Pourciau wrote: How do I get the German letter ß (eszett) to appear? When I type \ss in ERT by itself, I get it, but typing the same thing in the middle of a German word gives me an error message like this: Undefined control sequence. ...en Fassungen gewandelt hat. Anschlie\ssend What am I doing wrong? Bruce Try Anschlie\ss{}end. You have to tell latex where the command ends by using {}. /Sara
Re: How do I remove trailing dot after table/figure number in komascript added when appendix is added?
Hi! Adding 'pointlessnumbers' as a package option should remove the unwanted dots. This is done through the layout->document menu in LyX 1.3.*. /Sara john wrote: >Hi, I've been using the Book (koma-script) layout. To begin with it >output Table and Figure headers with a colon after the table number, e.g. > >"Table 3.4: Title of Table" > >This is fine. However, now that I have added an appendix, it outputs >tables with a trailing dot after the table number but before the colon. >For example > >"Table 3.4.: Title of Table". > >It seems rather untidy to have a "." and a ":" right next to each other. >Is there any way I can get rid of the trailing dot without removing >the appendix? > > >
Re: indenting help
Hi! One solution would be to use the LyX-code environment. Then the text appears exactly as you put it. The text will be in a fixed width font however, and that might not be what you want... /Sara --- > I know I asked a question like this before and I know it's a touchy > subject because people go Oh lyx isn't a word processor etc but I keep > running into this problem, and I know there must be some kind of > solution because it's relatively simple. I want to format something > like this: > > S = blah blah blah > 1. blah blah blah > 1. more stuff > 2. yet more stuff >2. ending up >3. the end! > > I don't necessarily want to put it within the enumerate environment > because I need control over what I'm doing (when I tried that the line > with S got enumerated anyway). I tried putting it in the description > environment but that only seems to let me indent one time and that's > it. Is there a way to indent stuff like this without using ERT? If > not, why isn't there? I'm also doing this in the description > environment which seems to be really picky, and I'm not sure if I'm > using it correctly. I heard something about putting in forced white > spaces but there should be another way to do it. If someone could > upload a test file that would be great. > >
Re: Changing appendix headings from "A" to "Appendix A"
Peter Bowyer wrote: At 06:46 31/03/2006, Sara Stymne wrote: Since you're using komascript this is easily achieved. Just add the komascript option appendixprefix. In LyX you do that in the Layout->document dialog, on the layout tab in the text field marked options. Thanks, I added that and from the manual I understand what it should do: yet I see no result when outputting my document! The appendix header (style 'section') is still shown as "A. My title here". Any ideas as to what is stopping this from working? Thanks, Peter It seems to only work for the report and book classes, where the appendices are chapters... And not for the article class where they are sections. /Sara
Re: Changing appendix headings from "A" to "Appendix A"
Hi! Since you're using komascript this is easily achieved. Just add the komascript option appendixprefix. In LyX you do that in the Layout->document dialog, on the layout tab in the text field marked options. The komascript documentation is really useful for these things by the way. It is available from http://www.komascript.de/scrdoc/ /Sara Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, Apologies for what I imagine is a common question, yet I cannot find it in the wiki or mailing list archive. I've written an article with an appendix in LyX 1.3.7 using the koma-script article layout. I'd like to change the appendix headings from just : My title to Appendix : My title How is this best achieved? I'm guessing there's a way using \renewcommand? Thanks, Peter
Re: Question about Bibtex - which is the best GUI?
Hi! I've tried both Pybliographer and JabRef and I liked them both quite well. But then I had some trouble with both of them, they didn't really let me do everything I wanted, or maybe I didn't have the patience to learn how to do it. And like several others I had problems with non-ascii characters. So in the end I always ended up using emacs, with its really useful bibtex mode. It works a treat! I can automatically create entries of different types, and it lets me do everything I want. I can't directly insert references into LyX though, but I find the LyX dialog for that fine, so it doesn't bother me at all. /Sara Tim Vaughan wrote: >Hi, > >I plan on using Bibtex to handle the citations needed for a series of >essays I am writing. I have come across two Java GUIs, JabRef and >Bib-it and an OS X one, BibDesk. >I'm happy to try them all out but I was wondering if people had >experience with these programs or others and which they would >recommend? > >Tim > > >
Re: correct page break + numbering after floats
I solved it! The problem was that the picture on the library page was bigger than the available textarea of the page. And this, for some reason I don't know, caused a blank page to be printed before the picture... Anyway, I made the text area slightly bigger with changepage from the chngpage package in ERT, and it all worked fine! /Sara john wrote: >On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:29:27AM +0200, Sara Stymne wrote: > > >>I have tried that, and putting it in the middle of the page to, but it >>is not working, because I get an extra blank page before the library >>page and empty gets applied to that, and the library page still gets >>headings. I get this blank page regardless of using \clearpage or >>\cleardoublepage. >> >> > >I was not referring to this case. > > > >>If I use the LyX menue page break between the tables I >>do not get the extra blank page, >> >> > >This was the case I was referring to. > > > >>but then \thispagestyle{empty} is >>applied to the last table page instead of the library page. >> >> > >It seems strange that is would be the case, even if the >\thispagestyle{empty} was placed at the end of the library page. > >Could you mail me a file where this occurs so that I can see what is >happening? > > > >>/Sara >> >> > >-- >John C. McCabe-Dansted >Masters Student > >
Re: correct page break + numbering after floats
john wrote: n Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:28:57AM +0200, Sara Stymne wrote: If I put the page break before or between the floats the pages get right, but then the page with the last table gets the empty heading, and the library page gets a normal heading. Or neither of them gets any headings if I use pagestyle{empty}. Have you tried putting the \thispagestyle{empty} at the end of the "library page"? I have tried that, and putting it in the middle of the page to, but it is not working, because I get an extra blank page before the library page and empty gets applied to that, and the library page still gets headings. I get this blank page regardless of using \clearpage or \cleardoublepage. If I use the LyX menue page break between the tables I do not get the extra blank page, but then \thispagestyle{empty} is applied to the last table page instead of the library page. /Sara
correct page break + numbering after floats
Hi! I'm trying to do the last few things on my thesis and got a bit stuck... My last appendix contains a little text and then two big (one-page) tables, in a float each. After that I need to insert a "library page", a special page that I have in ERT, see below. On the library page their should be no header and footer, and it should appear on a left page. (The last table is on a right page...) I have tried to achieve this by making a page break after the floats, both from the LyX menue and in ERT with \clearpage and \cleardoublepage. And I have tried to remove the headings both by \pagestyle{empty} and \thispagestyle{empty}. But I just cannot seem to get it right. If I place the page break after both floats I get an extra blank page between the floats and the library page, and the library page is on a right page. If I put the page break before or between the floats the pages get right, but then the page with the last table gets the empty heading, and the library page gets a normal heading. Or neither of them gets any headings if I use pagestyle{empty}. So I need to get the page break right, and the changed headings to apply to the correct page. Any ideas? /Sara ERT for the "library page": \changepage{}{}{}{}{}{-1.5cm}{}{}{} %%from chngpage package %%% Här ritas blanketten upp: \enlargethispage{30mm} \scriptsize \setlength{\unitlength}{1.23mm} \begin{picture}(126,212)(6,-5) \put(0,190){\framebox(92,22)} % dept, division etc \put(27,209){\bf Avdelning, Institution} %Lots of more puts here... \end{picture}
Caption in longtable?
Hi! I have trouble with getting a caption for longtables. I cannot use the Caption environment, since I cannot place the longtable in a float. And there seems to be no way to specify a caption in the longtable dialog. So is there a way to solve this in LyX, or do I have to use ERT, like for instance: \begin{longtable}{|l|l|} \caption{Verb frames for English}\\ \hline Type& Example\tabularnewline \hline \hline \endfirsthead \hline Regular& It rains\tabularnewline \hline . . . \end{longtable} By the way, I'm still using 1.3.6, so if this is solved in 1.4 I would be happy to switch LyX-version, just haven't got around to yet... /Sara
Re: importing chart from excel ?
Hi! If the quality of the png-file is good, but not the quality of the the pdf-file created from lyx, the loss of quality appears when lyx converts the picture from png to eps. This can be solved by using pdflatex instead of latex, which directly uses png-images. /Sara Luqman H wrote: >hi, > >i have copy-paste chart graph from excel to mspaint, >and then save it to png, and open it into lyx document > >but the result is not as smooth when printing it in excel directly. > >is there any way to input the chart into lyx without >loosing quality...? > >thanks > > >
Re: Searching for a cite in the lyx code
Hi! The only way to do this that I have figured out is to open the lyx document in a texteditor, and search for the reference there. I would be happy however if there were some better, more LyX-ish way to do it! /Sara Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: > Hello all, > > How can I search for a bibliographic reference inside the lyx code ? > If I use the option inside "Edit" menu, it doesn't find references I > know exist in the document. > > Thanks in advance. >
Re: bibtex natbib square brackets and Lyx
Hi! On way to solve this is to create your own bibliography style file. This can very easily be done by running "latex makebst" in a console. Doing this creates a stylefile by asking a lot of multiple choice questions, such as what type of brackets you like, in what orders names of authors should be, how you want your URLs etc. /Sara Alexander Gahr wrote: > Hi I'm currently searching for a bibtechstyle file for my german > diploma thesis. > There's one style file for my institute but it seems it don't works > well with natbib. > So it doesn't show up url and web pages > > Also i want to use square brackets in cite > > > "geschrieben in (Gahr et. al.[2004])" > > Is this possible. > THANX Alex > >
Re: Screen Captures in Documents
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: "Sara Stymne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Screen Captures in Documents Hi! I have no solution, but a related problem... In LyX I canot use insert->graphics from the menu. I think this is because LyX uses the graphics package and that it somehow conflicts with the gb4e package that I also use. When I remove gb4e graphic-insertion seems to work, but not the gb4e-stuff of course. I found a workaround to this, using graphicxs and include pictures with ERT. It works, but LyX does not seem to be capable to convert png to eps, when not using pdflatex, which I believe it does when inserting throw the menu. And I prefer not to use pdflatex, because it seems to make the quality of my xypic-figures quite bad. So then I have to manually convert png to eps for my screenshot. I tried to convert both with the Gimp and with the imagemagick convert tool, but both ways the quality of the eps-images are quite bad. So, any ideas? Either how to produce nice xypic with pdflatex, or nice eps screenshots from png.. /Sara Perhaps you are experienced with xypic, but if not, here is a 10 page tutorial: http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/xypic/xypic.pdf When I converted xypic.lyx with pdflatex I got the same image as above^. This looks clear to me, but perhaps I don't have high standards. :-) I attach xypic.lyx for comparison purposes, and a perhaps relevant portion: \begin_inset Graphics filename xyfigure.PNG scale 62 clip \end_inset SH: I also converted xypic.tex to html with htlatex which generates png images http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/%7Egumm/LyX/Using_XYpic_in_LyX.htm I think the pngs look ok but parts of the conversion require editing. The LyX developers removed support for XYpic from LyX1.4.0 I was thinking Prof. Gumm might be more attuned to this problem area. Regards, Stephen I wasn't actually using xypic, but xyling which is a linguistic tree package built on xypic, and thus I could not use it in LyX directly, so I constructed the pictures in ERT. Should probably have mentioned that in the first mail, but I didn't think about it... The pictures looks mostly fine, but the diagonal lines are not straight, neither when viewed with a pdf-viewer, or printed. They are actually not straight when not using pdflatex either, but they are much better. On another topic, I think that LyX is great, and I started using it so that I would not have to learn too much latex, which I did not know at that stage. But in the end I found it easier to do it the latex way than the LyX way in very many cases. /Sara
Re: Screen Captures in Documents
Hi! I have no solution, but a related problem... In LyX I canot use insert->graphics from the menu. I think this is because LyX uses the graphics package and that it somehow conflicts with the gb4e package that I also use. When I remove gb4e graphic-insertion seems to work, but not the gb4e-stuff of course. I found a workaround to this, using graphicxs and include pictures with ERT. It works, but LyX does not seem to be capable to convert png to eps, when not using pdflatex, which I believe it does when inserting throw the menu. And I prefer not to use pdflatex, because it seems to make the quality of my xypic-figures quite bad. So then I have to manually convert png to eps for my screenshot. I tried to convert both with the Gimp and with the imagemagick convert tool, but both ways the quality of the eps-images are quite bad. So, any ideas? Either how to produce nice xypic with pdflatex, or nice eps screenshots from png.. /Sara Rich Shepard wrote: A document requires screen shots as illustrations. I've used The GIMP to capture the window, scaled the result to 100 pixels/inch resolution, and a size of 4 inches wide. Then it's saved as a .png file. The document will almost certainly be printed by readers on a laser or color inkjet printer. I'm seeking comments on whether there is a better way to represent these images. That is, should the resolution be higher? Is a different file format a better choice? They are raster images to begin with, so conversion to a vector format such as .eps will almost certainly result in resolution loss. Your experience counts! What have you to suggest? Rich
Re: Suppressing Page Number After Title Page
Hi! Try the solution in the documentation for fancyhdr, chapter "those blank pages". Then you also get rid of the headings on the blank page before some chapters. The documentation is available for instance at: http://www.win.tue.nl/latex/documentation/fancyhdr.pdf. I found that neither \pagestyle{plain} nor \thispagestyle{empty} works for the following blank page. /Sara Jose' Matos wrote: On Friday 03 February 2006 16:42, Rich Shepard wrote: I should know how to do this, or find the correct macro in TLC2, but the answer has so far eluded me. Document is book class with fancy headers. Following the title page is a blank page with the page number '2' that I'd like to suppress. I've tried \frontmatter \pagestyle{plain} between the author and the Preface page. I've also tried {empty} with the same lack of results. \clearpage and \cleardoublepage also do not affect the headers and footers. Looking at TLC2 I don't see how to turn off the header and footer for this one page. A reminder would be greatly appreciated. In ERT in the title page: \thispagestyle{empty} I am kidding not. ;-) Thanks, Rich