Re: Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

- Ursprungligt meddelande -
 Från: Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org
 Till: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Skickat: måndag, 10 feb 2014 8:14:46
 Ämne: Re: Figure placement and rotate
 
 Robin Rosenberg wrote:
   Are you sure you want to use a float? Why not just Insert  Graphics
   without a float? Then it should not move around.
  
  I want a referable figure. Can I accomplish that some other way?
 
 Yes, use the nonfloat package.
 

That could do, kind-o-ugly to have to paste all that stuff around the image to
make it work, though.

I found another solution that works fine for me, with less LaTeX code to paste. 
See

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/337/how-to-change-certain-pages-into-landscape-portrait-mode

It has the added benefit that the page is rotated in a PDF viewer so you don't 
have to rotate the
computer.

-- robin

Re: Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

- Ursprungligt meddelande -
 Från: Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org
 Till: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Skickat: måndag, 10 feb 2014 8:14:46
 Ämne: Re: Figure placement and rotate
 
 Robin Rosenberg wrote:
   Are you sure you want to use a float? Why not just Insert  Graphics
   without a float? Then it should not move around.
  
  I want a referable figure. Can I accomplish that some other way?
 
 Yes, use the nonfloat package.
 

That could do, kind-o-ugly to have to paste all that stuff around the image to
make it work, though.

I found another solution that works fine for me, with less LaTeX code to paste. 
See

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/337/how-to-change-certain-pages-into-landscape-portrait-mode

It has the added benefit that the page is rotated in a PDF viewer so you don't 
have to rotate the
computer.

-- robin

Re: Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

- Ursprungligt meddelande -
> Från: "Jürgen Spitzmüller" <sp...@lyx.org>
> Till: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Skickat: måndag, 10 feb 2014 8:14:46
> Ämne: Re: Figure placement and rotate
> 
> Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> > > Are you sure you want to use a float? Why not just Insert > Graphics
> > > without a float? Then it should not move around.
> > 
> > I want a referable figure. Can I accomplish that some other way?
> 
> Yes, use the nonfloat package.
> 

That could do, kind-o-ugly to have to paste all that stuff around the image to
make it work, though.

I found another solution that works fine for me, with less LaTeX code to paste. 
See

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/337/how-to-change-certain-pages-into-landscape-portrait-mode

It has the added benefit that the page is rotated in a PDF viewer so you don't 
have to rotate the
computer.

-- robin

Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

Hi,

I have a document with some rather large figures. It seems this doesn't work 
well with LaTeX idea of how to place these figures. In short we disagree, so I 
want to use the definitely here option.

Since I also want to rotate the picture to maximuma readability of the text in 
the figure, I check rotate, but this disabled the location hint. Is there any 
way I can use both options?

The current workaround I use is to rotate just the graphics, but causes the 
figure title and graphics to have different orientation, which looks somewhat 
bad. 

-- robin

Re: Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

- Ursprungligt meddelande -
 Från: Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org
 Till: Robin Rosenberg robin.rosenb...@dewire.com
 Kopia: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Skickat: söndag, 9 feb 2014 22:37:21
 Ämne: Re: Figure placement and rotate
 
 On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Robin Rosenberg
 robin.rosenb...@dewire.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I have a document with some rather large figures. It seems this doesn't
  work well with LaTeX idea of how to place these figures. In short we
  disagree, so I want to use the definitely here option.
 
  Since I also want to rotate the picture to maximuma readability of the text
  in the figure, I check rotate, but this disabled the location hint. Is
  there any way I can use both options?
 
 Are you sure you want to use a float? Why not just Insert  Graphics
 without a float? Then it should not move around.

I want a referable figure. Can I accomplish that some other way?

-- robin

 
  The current workaround I use is to rotate just the graphics, but causes the
  figure title and graphics to have different orientation, which looks
  somewhat bad.
 
 Yes this does not seem good.
 
 Best,
 
 Scott
 

Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

Hi,

I have a document with some rather large figures. It seems this doesn't work 
well with LaTeX idea of how to place these figures. In short we disagree, so I 
want to use the definitely here option.

Since I also want to rotate the picture to maximuma readability of the text in 
the figure, I check rotate, but this disabled the location hint. Is there any 
way I can use both options?

The current workaround I use is to rotate just the graphics, but causes the 
figure title and graphics to have different orientation, which looks somewhat 
bad. 

-- robin

Re: Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

- Ursprungligt meddelande -
 Från: Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org
 Till: Robin Rosenberg robin.rosenb...@dewire.com
 Kopia: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Skickat: söndag, 9 feb 2014 22:37:21
 Ämne: Re: Figure placement and rotate
 
 On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Robin Rosenberg
 robin.rosenb...@dewire.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I have a document with some rather large figures. It seems this doesn't
  work well with LaTeX idea of how to place these figures. In short we
  disagree, so I want to use the definitely here option.
 
  Since I also want to rotate the picture to maximuma readability of the text
  in the figure, I check rotate, but this disabled the location hint. Is
  there any way I can use both options?
 
 Are you sure you want to use a float? Why not just Insert  Graphics
 without a float? Then it should not move around.

I want a referable figure. Can I accomplish that some other way?

-- robin

 
  The current workaround I use is to rotate just the graphics, but causes the
  figure title and graphics to have different orientation, which looks
  somewhat bad.
 
 Yes this does not seem good.
 
 Best,
 
 Scott
 

Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

Hi,

I have a document with some rather large figures. It seems this doesn't work 
well with LaTeX idea of how to place these figures. In short we disagree, so I 
want to use the "definitely here" option.

Since I also want to rotate the picture to maximuma readability of the text in 
the figure, I check rotate, but this disabled the location hint. Is there any 
way I can use both options?

The current workaround I use is to rotate just the graphics, but causes the 
figure title and graphics to have different orientation, which looks somewhat 
bad. 

-- robin

Re: Figure placement and rotate

[Robin Rosenberg]

- Ursprungligt meddelande -
> Från: "Scott Kostyshak" <skost...@lyx.org>
> Till: "Robin Rosenberg" <robin.rosenb...@dewire.com>
> Kopia: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Skickat: söndag, 9 feb 2014 22:37:21
> Ämne: Re: Figure placement and rotate
> 
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Robin Rosenberg
> <robin.rosenb...@dewire.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a document with some rather large figures. It seems this doesn't
> > work well with LaTeX idea of how to place these figures. In short we
> > disagree, so I want to use the "definitely here" option.
> >
> > Since I also want to rotate the picture to maximuma readability of the text
> > in the figure, I check rotate, but this disabled the location hint. Is
> > there any way I can use both options?
> 
> Are you sure you want to use a float? Why not just Insert > Graphics
> without a float? Then it should not move around.

I want a referable figure. Can I accomplish that some other way?

-- robin

> 
> > The current workaround I use is to rotate just the graphics, but causes the
> > figure title and graphics to have different orientation, which looks
> > somewhat bad.
> 
> Yes this does not seem good.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Scott
> 

Graphviz in Lyx and relative paths

[Robin Rosenberg]

Hi,

Can I use custom shapes in graphviz with Lyx and have
relative paths somehow?

Working graphviz file:
digraph {
testare[image=/my/dir/UMLActor.png]

}

I'd like to use this file instead, so I can relocate
the Lyx document directory.

digraph {

testare[image=UMLActor.png]

}

-- robin

Graphviz in Lyx and relative paths

[Robin Rosenberg]

Hi,

Can I use custom shapes in graphviz with Lyx and have
relative paths somehow?

Working graphviz file:
digraph {
testare[image=/my/dir/UMLActor.png]

}

I'd like to use this file instead, so I can relocate
the Lyx document directory.

digraph {

testare[image=UMLActor.png]

}

-- robin

Graphviz in Lyx and relative paths

[Robin Rosenberg]

Hi,

Can I use custom shapes in graphviz with Lyx and have
relative paths somehow?

Working graphviz file:
digraph {
testare[image=]

}

I'd like to use this file instead, so I can relocate
the Lyx document directory.

digraph {

testare[image=]

}

-- robin

Re: weird eps to pdf conversion problem

[Robin Lin]

Valter,

Thanks for your help.  I fixed the problem by both deleting the 
HiResBoundingBox line and also checking the Clip to Bounding Box 
option in the Graphics--Clipping window.


Thanks again!
Robin

Quoting Valter Filipe Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Robin,


 I have a similar problem yesterday ;)
 Try do edit (with notepad or gvim) the eps and delete the line:
 %%HiResBoundingBox: xx

 Normaly is at the begining of the eps file.
 Let us know if it works.
 Regards


 Valter

 Robin Lin wrote:
 Hi there,

 I originally generated eps files using Matlab, and when I embed  
 them in my lyx document, everything is great when I convert it into  
 a pdf.  Unfortunately, the original eps files were way too large,  
 so I had to find a way to compress them (decreased resolution and  
 then rasterized it). This resulted in the new eps file's bounding  
 box becoming way too large.  I manually edited them so that the  
 bounding box fits the image better, and it looks fine in GSView.  
 When I insert it in my lyx document, it looks fine too in the  
 preview.  When I go to convert it to a pdf, though, it results in  
 some sort of overlapping problem where the figure seems to have  
 much more whitespace and this whitespace obscures other  
 figures/text around it.  Any hints on how I can fix this?


 Thanks in advance!
 Robin Lin

Re: weird eps to pdf conversion problem

[Robin Lin]

Valter,

Thanks for your help.  I fixed the problem by both deleting the 
HiResBoundingBox line and also checking the Clip to Bounding Box 
option in the Graphics--Clipping window.


Thanks again!
Robin

Quoting Valter Filipe Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Robin,


 I have a similar problem yesterday ;)
 Try do edit (with notepad or gvim) the eps and delete the line:
 %%HiResBoundingBox: xx

 Normaly is at the begining of the eps file.
 Let us know if it works.
 Regards


 Valter

 Robin Lin wrote:
 Hi there,

 I originally generated eps files using Matlab, and when I embed  
 them in my lyx document, everything is great when I convert it into  
 a pdf.  Unfortunately, the original eps files were way too large,  
 so I had to find a way to compress them (decreased resolution and  
 then rasterized it). This resulted in the new eps file's bounding  
 box becoming way too large.  I manually edited them so that the  
 bounding box fits the image better, and it looks fine in GSView.  
 When I insert it in my lyx document, it looks fine too in the  
 preview.  When I go to convert it to a pdf, though, it results in  
 some sort of overlapping problem where the figure seems to have  
 much more whitespace and this whitespace obscures other  
 figures/text around it.  Any hints on how I can fix this?


 Thanks in advance!
 Robin Lin

Re: weird eps to pdf conversion problem

[Robin Lin]

Valter,

Thanks for your help.  I fixed the problem by both deleting the 
HiResBoundingBox line and also checking the "Clip to Bounding Box" 
option in the Graphics-->Clipping window.


Thanks again!
Robin

Quoting Valter Filipe Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Robin,
>
>
> I have a similar problem yesterday ;)
> Try do edit (with notepad or gvim) the eps and delete the line:
> %%HiResBoundingBox: xx
>
> Normaly is at the begining of the eps file.
> Let us know if it works.
> Regards
>
>
> Valter
>
> Robin Lin wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I originally generated eps files using Matlab, and when I embed  
>> them in my lyx document, everything is great when I convert it into  
>> a pdf.  Unfortunately, the original eps files were way too large,  
>> so I had to find a way to compress them (decreased resolution and  
>> then rasterized it). This resulted in the new eps file's bounding  
>> box becoming way too large.  I manually edited them so that the  
>> bounding box fits the image better, and it looks fine in GSView.  
>> When I insert it in my lyx document, it looks fine too in the  
>> preview.  When I go to convert it to a pdf, though, it results in  
>> some sort of overlapping problem where the figure seems to have  
>> much more whitespace and this whitespace obscures other  
>> figures/text around it.  Any hints on how I can fix this?

>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Robin Lin
>>

weird eps to pdf conversion problem

[Robin Lin]

Hi there,

I originally generated eps files using Matlab, and when I embed them in 
my lyx document, everything is great when I convert it into a pdf.  
Unfortunately, the original eps files were way too large, so I had to 
find a way to compress them (decreased resolution and then rasterized 
it). This resulted in the new eps file's bounding box becoming way too 
large.  I manually edited them so that the bounding box fits the image 
better, and it looks fine in GSView. When I insert it in my lyx 
document, it looks fine too in the preview.  When I go to convert it to 
a pdf, though, it results in some sort of overlapping problem where the 
figure seems to have much more whitespace and this whitespace obscures 
other figures/text around it.  Any hints on how I can fix this?


Thanks in advance!
Robin Lin

weird eps to pdf conversion problem

[Robin Lin]

Hi there,

I originally generated eps files using Matlab, and when I embed them in 
my lyx document, everything is great when I convert it into a pdf.  
Unfortunately, the original eps files were way too large, so I had to 
find a way to compress them (decreased resolution and then rasterized 
it). This resulted in the new eps file's bounding box becoming way too 
large.  I manually edited them so that the bounding box fits the image 
better, and it looks fine in GSView. When I insert it in my lyx 
document, it looks fine too in the preview.  When I go to convert it to 
a pdf, though, it results in some sort of overlapping problem where the 
figure seems to have much more whitespace and this whitespace obscures 
other figures/text around it.  Any hints on how I can fix this?


Thanks in advance!
Robin Lin

weird eps to pdf conversion problem

[Robin Lin]

Hi there,

I originally generated eps files using Matlab, and when I embed them in 
my lyx document, everything is great when I convert it into a pdf.  
Unfortunately, the original eps files were way too large, so I had to 
find a way to compress them (decreased resolution and then rasterized 
it). This resulted in the new eps file's bounding box becoming way too 
large.  I manually edited them so that the bounding box fits the image 
better, and it looks fine in GSView. When I insert it in my lyx 
document, it looks fine too in the preview.  When I go to convert it to 
a pdf, though, it results in some sort of overlapping problem where the 
figure seems to have much more whitespace and this whitespace obscures 
other figures/text around it.  Any hints on how I can fix this?


Thanks in advance!
Robin Lin

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

[Robin Green]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:57:10 -0700
Michael Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hi, MS Office is installed in all public libraries. However I would
 like to edit my lyx files in library computer. At home I installed lyx
 1.4.2 from scratch to my U-disk, hoping that I can use it on other
 machine. Amazingly I can see my lyx files on other computers too.
 
 However (1) I can not produce DVI file. (2) Instant preview of some
 math fonts is missing, such as \eta
 
 Live CD on Wiki page would reboot a computer into linux system and
 then use Lyx. One can not do this on a public machine though. I think
 it is meaningful to produce a portable Lyx, which can be used with
 U-disk, CD or DVD. Any suggestions?

Running your own software may or may not be in violation of the user
agreement for the public access computers in some libraries - it's worth
checking.

Because of this, it might be worth lobbying libraries to install LyX
and its optional dependencies, pointing out its superiority to MS Word
for certain tasks. Admittedly though, the average library is probably
not going to see many library users use LyX, except in special cases
like where the library is frequented by clued-up academics.
-- 
Robin

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

[Robin Green]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:57:10 -0700
Michael Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hi, MS Office is installed in all public libraries. However I would
 like to edit my lyx files in library computer. At home I installed lyx
 1.4.2 from scratch to my U-disk, hoping that I can use it on other
 machine. Amazingly I can see my lyx files on other computers too.
 
 However (1) I can not produce DVI file. (2) Instant preview of some
 math fonts is missing, such as \eta
 
 Live CD on Wiki page would reboot a computer into linux system and
 then use Lyx. One can not do this on a public machine though. I think
 it is meaningful to produce a portable Lyx, which can be used with
 U-disk, CD or DVD. Any suggestions?

Running your own software may or may not be in violation of the user
agreement for the public access computers in some libraries - it's worth
checking.

Because of this, it might be worth lobbying libraries to install LyX
and its optional dependencies, pointing out its superiority to MS Word
for certain tasks. Admittedly though, the average library is probably
not going to see many library users use LyX, except in special cases
like where the library is frequented by clued-up academics.
-- 
Robin

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

[Robin Green]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:57:10 -0700
"Michael Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi, MS Office is installed in all public libraries. However I would
> like to edit my lyx files in library computer. At home I installed lyx
> 1.4.2 from scratch to my U-disk, hoping that I can use it on other
> machine. Amazingly I can see my lyx files on other computers too.
> 
> However (1) I can not produce DVI file. (2) Instant preview of some
> math fonts is missing, such as \eta
> 
> Live CD on Wiki page would reboot a computer into linux system and
> then use Lyx. One can not do this on a public machine though. I think
> it is meaningful to produce a portable Lyx, which can be used with
> U-disk, CD or DVD. Any suggestions?

Running your own software may or may not be in violation of the user
agreement for the public access computers in some libraries - it's worth
checking.

Because of this, it might be worth lobbying libraries to install LyX
and its optional dependencies, pointing out its superiority to MS Word
for certain tasks. Admittedly though, the average library is probably
not going to see many library users use LyX, except in special cases
like where the library is frequented by clued-up academics.
-- 
Robin

Re: How to debug a lyx file: where the error is?

[Robin Turner]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
May I ask you a question?
I have a 40 pages document with 2 lyx errors in it. The lyx latex error notes appear 
at the very begining of the document they are: missing $ inserted and bad math 
environment delimiter. The first math formula appears many pages later and the error 
appeared during the time I was working on chapters in the middle of the document. So I 
do not understand where the errors could be. I tried to go to the tmpdir and to run 
pdflatex directly, but it was compiling fine, but the index of the resulting file had 
a strange line. So I checked it and found \( and \) in an index field I removed them 
and it is now compiling fine with lyx !!
What bug fighting strategy do you recomend in this kind of case?
With problematic compilation errors, the best thing is often to export 
the document as LaTeX, then run latex on it.

Robin
--
Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show 
that you aren't a nice person.
- Albert Camus

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: How to debug a lyx file: where the error is?

[Robin Turner]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
May I ask you a question?
I have a 40 pages document with 2 lyx errors in it. The lyx latex error notes appear 
at the very begining of the document they are: missing $ inserted and bad math 
environment delimiter. The first math formula appears many pages later and the error 
appeared during the time I was working on chapters in the middle of the document. So I 
do not understand where the errors could be. I tried to go to the tmpdir and to run 
pdflatex directly, but it was compiling fine, but the index of the resulting file had 
a strange line. So I checked it and found \( and \) in an index field I removed them 
and it is now compiling fine with lyx !!
What bug fighting strategy do you recomend in this kind of case?
With problematic compilation errors, the best thing is often to export 
the document as LaTeX, then run latex on it.

Robin
--
Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show 
that you aren't a nice person.
- Albert Camus

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: How to debug a lyx file: where the error is?

[Robin Turner]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
May I ask you a question?
I have a 40 pages document with 2 lyx errors in it. The lyx latex error notes appear 
at the very begining of the document they are: missing $ inserted and bad math 
environment delimiter. The first math formula appears many pages later and the error 
appeared during the time I was working on chapters in the middle of the document. So I 
do not understand where the errors could be. I tried to go to the tmpdir and to run 
pdflatex directly, but it was compiling fine, but the index of the resulting file had 
a strange line. So I checked it and found \( and \) in an index field I removed them 
and it is now compiling fine with lyx !!
What bug fighting strategy do you recomend in this kind of case?
With problematic compilation errors, the best thing is often to export 
the document as LaTeX, then run "latex" on it.

Robin
--
"Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show 
that you aren't a nice person."
- Albert Camus

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Bibdesk and LyX

[robin]

Varun Reddy wrote:
I think i have figured out how to use Bibdesk with Lyx. I had some
initial difficulty in choosing the right Style for the references in
Lyx. The apalike style seems to work fine now. Are there other Style
files that can be added to the current list that one should be aware
of?
Thanks,
It all depends what kind of writing you do. The styles that ship with 
the standard LaTeX distribution tend to be weighted heavily to the maths 
and the physical sciences, so you might want to go to your local CTAN 
mirror and check out other styles (MLA, Chicago, Harvard etc.) although 
some of these can be achieved through other styles (e.g. I use jurabib 
to emulate Chicago).

Robin
--
I have detailed files.
- Terminator II
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Bibdesk and LyX

[robin]

Varun Reddy wrote:
I think i have figured out how to use Bibdesk with Lyx. I had some
initial difficulty in choosing the right Style for the references in
Lyx. The apalike style seems to work fine now. Are there other Style
files that can be added to the current list that one should be aware
of?
Thanks,
It all depends what kind of writing you do. The styles that ship with 
the standard LaTeX distribution tend to be weighted heavily to the maths 
and the physical sciences, so you might want to go to your local CTAN 
mirror and check out other styles (MLA, Chicago, Harvard etc.) although 
some of these can be achieved through other styles (e.g. I use jurabib 
to emulate Chicago).

Robin
--
I have detailed files.
- Terminator II
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Bibdesk and LyX

[robin]

Varun Reddy wrote:
I think i have figured out how to use Bibdesk with Lyx. I had some
initial difficulty in choosing the right Style for the references in
Lyx. The "apalike" style seems to work fine now. Are there other Style
files that can be added to the current list that one should be aware
of?
Thanks,
It all depends what kind of writing you do. The styles that ship with 
the standard LaTeX distribution tend to be weighted heavily to the maths 
and the physical sciences, so you might want to go to your local CTAN 
mirror and check out other styles (MLA, Chicago, Harvard etc.) although 
some of these can be achieved through other styles (e.g. I use jurabib 
to emulate Chicago).

Robin
--
"I have detailed files."
- Terminator II
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: pdf splitter

[Robin S. Socha]

Jim Ragsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You can open a PDF file in GSview on Windows
 (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) and then write selected pages out to a
 PDF file.  I presume (but do not know first-hand) that this also works
 on Linux with GV.

 wow that rocks!  I used the Convert option in the file menu. Select the
 pages and save the file. Thanks for the info!!! I have been searching the
 internet for a program and I had it all along :)

While this is nice, http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ can do a lot more
for you :)

Re: pdf splitter

[Robin S. Socha]

Jim Ragsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You can open a PDF file in GSview on Windows
 (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) and then write selected pages out to a
 PDF file.  I presume (but do not know first-hand) that this also works
 on Linux with GV.

 wow that rocks!  I used the Convert option in the file menu. Select the
 pages and save the file. Thanks for the info!!! I have been searching the
 internet for a program and I had it all along :)

While this is nice, http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ can do a lot more
for you :)

Re: pdf splitter

[Robin S. Socha]

Jim Ragsdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> You can open a PDF file in GSview on Windows
>> (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) and then write selected pages out to a
>> PDF file.  I presume (but do not know first-hand) that this also works
>> on Linux with GV.
>
> wow that rocks!  I used the Convert option in the file menu. Select the
> pages and save the file. Thanks for the info!!! I have been searching the
> internet for a program and I had it all along :)

While this is nice,  can do a lot more
for you :)

Re: ASCII considered obscure

[robin]

John Levon wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:25:26PM +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote:


First, in most programs, Text is a file type listed on the save dialog,
not under Export, which tends to be reserved for non-editable formats
such as PDF. This is certainly the case in most word processors. Hence,
she was confused because there was no option in Save as to change the
file type to text.


I've wanted this for a while.


Secondly, and much easier to fix, she then said but there's no option to
export as text. She didn't know that ASCII means plain text. I suggest
the menu entry be changed to say Plain text or similar, again, in line
with most wordprocessors.


Plain Text is a good idea. File a bug.

Reluctantly, I agree. These days knowing what ASCII means is equivalent 
to knowing what a bulletin board is, or having worn flared trousers in 
the 1970s.

Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: ASCII considered obscure

[robin]

John Levon wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:25:26PM +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote:


First, in most programs, Text is a file type listed on the save dialog,
not under Export, which tends to be reserved for non-editable formats
such as PDF. This is certainly the case in most word processors. Hence,
she was confused because there was no option in Save as to change the
file type to text.


I've wanted this for a while.


Secondly, and much easier to fix, she then said but there's no option to
export as text. She didn't know that ASCII means plain text. I suggest
the menu entry be changed to say Plain text or similar, again, in line
with most wordprocessors.


Plain Text is a good idea. File a bug.

Reluctantly, I agree. These days knowing what ASCII means is equivalent 
to knowing what a bulletin board is, or having worn flared trousers in 
the 1970s.

Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: "ASCII" considered obscure

[robin]

John Levon wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:25:26PM +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote:


First, in most programs, "Text" is a file type listed on the save dialog,
not under "Export", which tends to be reserved for non-editable formats
such as PDF. This is certainly the case in most word processors. Hence,
she was confused because there was no option in "Save as" to change the
file type to text.


I've wanted this for a while.


Secondly, and much easier to fix, she then said "but there's no option to
export as text". She didn't know that ASCII means plain text. I suggest
the menu entry be changed to say "Plain text" or similar, again, in line
with most wordprocessors.


"Plain Text" is a good idea. File a bug.

Reluctantly, I agree. These days knowing what ASCII means is equivalent 
to knowing what a bulletin board is, or having worn flared trousers in 
the 1970s.

Robin

--
"If the lion could speak, we would not understand it."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: myTitlePage

[robin]

Robert Orr wrote:
I think you need to re-configure after putting the
.sty file where LyX can find it.
edit-reconfigure
And maybe run texhash first?

Robin

--- Beny Spira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi
I am a newbie trying to use the myTitlePage
package created by
Herbert Voss in Lyx. I got the following latex error
when I put
\usepackage{myTitlePage} in the Preamble or tried to
implement it as a
new layout:
Latex Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undefined
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{%
I don't have the slightest idea what might be wrong.
Have anyone tried
to use this package. Is there another way to
personalize a Title page?
thanks in advance
Beny
--
%
Beny Spira
Departamento de Microbiologia
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Universidade de São Paulo
Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 1374
São Paulo-SPCEP:05508-900
Tel: 5511-3091-7347
FAX: 5511-3091-7354
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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IDMYO
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Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: myTitlePage

[robin]

Robert Orr wrote:
I think you need to re-configure after putting the
.sty file where LyX can find it.
edit-reconfigure
And maybe run texhash first?

Robin

--- Beny Spira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi
I am a newbie trying to use the myTitlePage
package created by
Herbert Voss in Lyx. I got the following latex error
when I put
\usepackage{myTitlePage} in the Preamble or tried to
implement it as a
new layout:
Latex Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undefined
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{%
I don't have the slightest idea what might be wrong.
Have anyone tried
to use this package. Is there another way to
personalize a Title page?
thanks in advance
Beny
--
%
Beny Spira
Departamento de Microbiologia
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Universidade de São Paulo
Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 1374
São Paulo-SPCEP:05508-900
Tel: 5511-3091-7347
FAX: 5511-3091-7354
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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IDMYO
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Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: myTitlePage

[robin]

Robert Orr wrote:
I think you need to re-configure after putting the
.sty file where LyX can find it.
edit->reconfigure
And maybe run texhash first?

Robin

--- Beny Spira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi
I am a newbie trying to use the "myTitlePage"
package created by
Herbert Voss in Lyx. I got the following latex error
when I put
\usepackage{myTitlePage} in the Preamble or tried to
implement it as a
new layout:
Latex Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undefined
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{%
I don't have the slightest idea what might be wrong.
Have anyone tried
to use this package. Is there another way to
personalize a Title page?
thanks in advance
Beny
--
%
Beny Spira
Departamento de Microbiologia
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Universidade de São Paulo
Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 1374
São Paulo-SPCEP:05508-900
Tel: 5511-3091-7347
FAX: 5511-3091-7354
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Special Characters

[robin]

Ansgar Hoffmann wrote:
Hi Guys,

my name is Ansgar, I'm new to this list and I'm afraid to the topic as
well (have already typed a couple of pages, though), so I got a question
that might be a newbie-issue or slightly off topic, but anyway:
I want to include what I call special characters (don't know the english
word for Sonderzeichen ;-)  )  in my document. E.g. the little r
with a circle around it, indicating registered trademark, know what I
mean? How am I supposed to achieve this in LyX?
I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary
text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE. But unfortunately I've got
_no clue_ how I can do it with Kate as well. (Hm, this last sentence
actually seems a bit ambiguous to me )
CTRL, SHFT, ALT, ALT GR -- they all don't work for me.

You need to click the TeX button and type in the LaTeX code for the 
character you want. In this case, it's

\textregistered

Some other useful ones are

\textcopyright (the C in a circle)
\texttrademark (the TM sign)
You can get a complete list of LaTeX symbols by downloading the file 
http://jboeckx.dyndns.org/latex/docs/symbols-letter.pdf

Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Special Characters

[robin]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:44:30PM +0200, Ansgar Hoffmann wrote:

I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary
text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE.


This might be a misunderstanding...  One way to do it is to write

  '\usepackage{textcomp}'
This isn't necessary in LyX, at least not in the latest version.

in the document preamble (Layout-Preamble) and use \textregistered in
'evil red text' in the main text (i.e. type
Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Special Characters

[robin]

Ansgar Hoffmann wrote:
Hi Guys,

my name is Ansgar, I'm new to this list and I'm afraid to the topic as
well (have already typed a couple of pages, though), so I got a question
that might be a newbie-issue or slightly off topic, but anyway:
I want to include what I call special characters (don't know the english
word for Sonderzeichen ;-)  )  in my document. E.g. the little r
with a circle around it, indicating registered trademark, know what I
mean? How am I supposed to achieve this in LyX?
I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary
text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE. But unfortunately I've got
_no clue_ how I can do it with Kate as well. (Hm, this last sentence
actually seems a bit ambiguous to me )
CTRL, SHFT, ALT, ALT GR -- they all don't work for me.

You need to click the TeX button and type in the LaTeX code for the 
character you want. In this case, it's

\textregistered

Some other useful ones are

\textcopyright (the C in a circle)
\texttrademark (the TM sign)
You can get a complete list of LaTeX symbols by downloading the file 
http://jboeckx.dyndns.org/latex/docs/symbols-letter.pdf

Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Special Characters

[robin]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:44:30PM +0200, Ansgar Hoffmann wrote:

I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary
text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE.


This might be a misunderstanding...  One way to do it is to write

  '\usepackage{textcomp}'
This isn't necessary in LyX, at least not in the latest version.

in the document preamble (Layout-Preamble) and use \textregistered in
'evil red text' in the main text (i.e. type
Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Special Characters

[robin]

Ansgar Hoffmann wrote:
Hi Guys,

my name is Ansgar, I'm new to this list and I'm afraid to the topic as
well (have already typed a couple of pages, though), so I got a question
that might be a newbie-issue or slightly off topic, but anyway:
I want to include what I call special characters (don't know the english
word for "Sonderzeichen" ;-)  )  in my document. E.g. the little "r"
with a circle around it, indicating "registered trademark", know what I
mean? How am I supposed to achieve this in LyX?
I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary
text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE. But unfortunately I've got
_no clue_ how I can do it with Kate as well. (Hm, this last sentence
actually seems a bit ambiguous to me )
CTRL, SHFT, ALT, ALT GR -- they all don't work for me.

You need to click the "TeX" button and type in the LaTeX code for the 
character you want. In this case, it's

\textregistered

Some other useful ones are

\textcopyright (the C in a circle)
\texttrademark (the TM sign)
You can get a complete list of LaTeX symbols by downloading the file 
http://jboeckx.dyndns.org/latex/docs/symbols-letter.pdf

Robin

--
"If the lion could speak, we would not understand it."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Special Characters

[robin]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:44:30PM +0200, Ansgar Hoffmann wrote:

I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary
text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE.


This might be a misunderstanding...  One way to do it is to write

  '\usepackage{textcomp}'
This isn't necessary in LyX, at least not in the latest version.

in the document preamble (Layout->Preamble) and use \textregistered in
'evil red text' in the main text (i.e. type
Robin

--
"If the lion could speak, we would not understand it."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

LyX in Mandrake 10.0

[robin]

After upgrading to Mandrake 10.0, all my PDF files created with pdflatex 
 come out with some ugly fixed-width font (well not exactly fixed 
width, since the letter-spacing varies randomly). I'm obviously missing 
some package, but don't know what it is (not pdflatex, as that is 
installed).

Anyone else here using Mdk 10.0?

Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

LyX in Mandrake 10.0

[robin]

After upgrading to Mandrake 10.0, all my PDF files created with pdflatex 
 come out with some ugly fixed-width font (well not exactly fixed 
width, since the letter-spacing varies randomly). I'm obviously missing 
some package, but don't know what it is (not pdflatex, as that is 
installed).

Anyone else here using Mdk 10.0?

Robin

--
If the lion could speak, we would not understand it.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

LyX in Mandrake 10.0

[robin]

After upgrading to Mandrake 10.0, all my PDF files created with pdflatex 
 come out with some ugly fixed-width font (well not exactly fixed 
width, since the letter-spacing varies randomly). I'm obviously missing 
some package, but don't know what it is (not pdflatex, as that is 
installed).

Anyone else here using Mdk 10.0?

Robin

--
"If the lion could speak, we would not understand it."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX scores with a publisher!

[robin]

Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 16:36 schrieb Ronald Florence:

I've noted in the past that LyX is a frustration in dealing with trade
publishers (like Random House, HarperCollins, Simon  Schuster) for
books intended for the general public.  Unlike some scientific
publishers, trade publishers do not accept manuscripts in LaTeX, LyX or
any format but ms-word or perhaps WordPerfect.


Dear Ronald,

I think that publishers want to format their publications themselves, the 
author has only to concentrate on the content and deliver a manuscript 
suitable for say TeX and its children or Framemaker or something else. In my 
experience publishers are happy with plain text files to feed their 
formatting-engines. Some jounals accept TeX-source-files, but this is a rare 
exemption when the formatting of contents is very standardized. The 
distinction between author and typesetter/printer has worked quite well so 
far, in general, I believe.
So I am happy to hear that your publisher accepted your formatted proofs, but 
I would not be disappointed if the publisher did not accept the authors 
layout-ideas and want to typeset it himself.

Just a side-note - in our first-year courses we produce our own books of 
readings which are photocopied and bound by the university print shop. 
Most people just include photocopies of articles or web pages that (at 
best) they've run through Word, but of course I use LyX (last semester I 
went over the top, combining all the citations from the various papers 
into one massive BibTeX file and writing a glossary and index!). While I 
was explaining how important it was that the odd-numbered pages came out 
on the right, the guy asked How come you always give us such clean 
copy? It's not me, it's my software, I replied!

Robin

--
Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their 
jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents 
that they are free to emigrate.
- Stephen Newman

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[robin]

Paul Smith wrote:
Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.4/


May I ask you whether you have an estimate of the date?

I'm downloading the tarball now and will attempt to make a Mandrake RPM 
- I'll let you know if I get it working.

Robin

--
Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their 
jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents 
that they are free to emigrate.
- Stephen Newman

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX scores with a publisher!

[robin]

Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 16:36 schrieb Ronald Florence:

I've noted in the past that LyX is a frustration in dealing with trade
publishers (like Random House, HarperCollins, Simon  Schuster) for
books intended for the general public.  Unlike some scientific
publishers, trade publishers do not accept manuscripts in LaTeX, LyX or
any format but ms-word or perhaps WordPerfect.


Dear Ronald,

I think that publishers want to format their publications themselves, the 
author has only to concentrate on the content and deliver a manuscript 
suitable for say TeX and its children or Framemaker or something else. In my 
experience publishers are happy with plain text files to feed their 
formatting-engines. Some jounals accept TeX-source-files, but this is a rare 
exemption when the formatting of contents is very standardized. The 
distinction between author and typesetter/printer has worked quite well so 
far, in general, I believe.
So I am happy to hear that your publisher accepted your formatted proofs, but 
I would not be disappointed if the publisher did not accept the authors 
layout-ideas and want to typeset it himself.

Just a side-note - in our first-year courses we produce our own books of 
readings which are photocopied and bound by the university print shop. 
Most people just include photocopies of articles or web pages that (at 
best) they've run through Word, but of course I use LyX (last semester I 
went over the top, combining all the citations from the various papers 
into one massive BibTeX file and writing a glossary and index!). While I 
was explaining how important it was that the odd-numbered pages came out 
on the right, the guy asked How come you always give us such clean 
copy? It's not me, it's my software, I replied!

Robin

--
Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their 
jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents 
that they are free to emigrate.
- Stephen Newman

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[robin]

Paul Smith wrote:
Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.4/


May I ask you whether you have an estimate of the date?

I'm downloading the tarball now and will attempt to make a Mandrake RPM 
- I'll let you know if I get it working.

Robin

--
Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their 
jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents 
that they are free to emigrate.
- Stephen Newman

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX scores with a publisher!

[robin]

Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 16:36 schrieb Ronald Florence:

I've noted in the past that LyX is a frustration in dealing with trade
publishers (like Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster) for
books intended for the general public.  Unlike some scientific
publishers, trade publishers do not accept manuscripts in LaTeX, LyX or
any format but ms-word or perhaps WordPerfect.


Dear Ronald,

I think that publishers want to format their publications themselves, the 
author has only to concentrate on the content and deliver a manuscript 
suitable for say TeX and its children or Framemaker or something else. In my 
experience publishers are happy with plain text files to feed their 
formatting-engines. Some jounals accept TeX-source-files, but this is a rare 
exemption when the formatting of contents is very standardized. The 
distinction between author and typesetter/printer has worked quite well so 
far, in general, I believe.
So I am happy to hear that your publisher accepted your formatted proofs, but 
I would not be disappointed if the publisher did not accept the authors 
layout-ideas and want to typeset it himself.

Just a side-note - in our first-year courses we produce our own books of 
readings which are photocopied and bound by the university print shop. 
Most people just include photocopies of articles or web pages that (at 
best) they've run through Word, but of course I use LyX (last semester I 
went over the top, combining all the citations from the various papers 
into one massive BibTeX file and writing a glossary and index!). While I 
was explaining how important it was that the odd-numbered pages came out 
on the right, the guy asked "How come you always give us such clean 
copy?" "It's not me, it's my software," I replied!

Robin

--
"Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their 
jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents 
that they are free to emigrate."
- Stephen Newman

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[robin]

Paul Smith wrote:
Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.4/


May I ask you whether you have an estimate of the date?

I'm downloading the tarball now and will attempt to make a Mandrake RPM 
- I'll let you know if I get it working.

Robin

--
"Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their 
jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents 
that they are free to emigrate."
- Stephen Newman

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: How to use Nomencl package with LyX to prepare a list of abbreviations and symbols

[robin]

R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
Hello,

Nomencl is a LaTeX package to prepare list of symbols, abbreviations etc. But how to use this in LyX?

Thanks for all the help
I'm not familiar with this package, but the general procdure in LyX is 
to go to LayoutDocumentPreamble and add the line

\usepackage{name-of-your-package}

This will allow you to use any commands the package provides (though 
this will require entering raw LaTeX).  Some packages do not require any 
extra commands (e.g. \usepackage{pandora} will automatically change your 
fonts to the Pandora fonts).

Robin

--
The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the 
mind set
of postmodernism is 'epistemologically challenged'. - Chip Morningstar

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: How to use Nomencl package with LyX to prepare a list of abbreviations and symbols

[robin]

R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
Hello,

Nomencl is a LaTeX package to prepare list of symbols, abbreviations etc. But how to use this in LyX?

Thanks for all the help
I'm not familiar with this package, but the general procdure in LyX is 
to go to LayoutDocumentPreamble and add the line

\usepackage{name-of-your-package}

This will allow you to use any commands the package provides (though 
this will require entering raw LaTeX).  Some packages do not require any 
extra commands (e.g. \usepackage{pandora} will automatically change your 
fonts to the Pandora fonts).

Robin

--
The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the 
mind set
of postmodernism is 'epistemologically challenged'. - Chip Morningstar

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: How to use Nomencl package with LyX to prepare a list of abbreviations and symbols

[robin]

R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
Hello,

Nomencl is a LaTeX package to prepare list of symbols, abbreviations etc. But how to use this in LyX?

Thanks for all the help
I'm not familiar with this package, but the general procdure in LyX is 
to go to Layout>Document>Preamble and add the line

\usepackage{name-of-your-package}

This will allow you to use any commands the package provides (though 
this will require entering raw LaTeX).  Some packages do not require any 
extra commands (e.g. \usepackage{pandora} will automatically change your 
fonts to the Pandora fonts).

Robin

--
"The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the 
mind set
of postmodernism is 'epistemologically challenged'." - Chip Morningstar

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX - html

[robin]

Mark Carroll wrote:
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.
You can call latex2html from within LyX; in fact, if it's installed, LyX 
should detect it automatically. You may want to change some of the 
options, though - see the copious documentation that comes with 
latex2html.  A simpler alternative is Hevea.

Unfortunately the HTML produced by latex2html or Hevea is not up to the 
standards of HTML purists.  I'd recommend getting Tidy (which you can 
download from www.w3.org) and running it on the output, especially if 
you want strict HTML or XHTML.

Robin

--
Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX - html

[robin]

Mark Carroll wrote:
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.
You can call latex2html from within LyX; in fact, if it's installed, LyX 
should detect it automatically. You may want to change some of the 
options, though - see the copious documentation that comes with 
latex2html.  A simpler alternative is Hevea.

Unfortunately the HTML produced by latex2html or Hevea is not up to the 
standards of HTML purists.  I'd recommend getting Tidy (which you can 
download from www.w3.org) and running it on the output, especially if 
you want strict HTML or XHTML.

Robin

--
Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX -> html

[robin]

Mark Carroll wrote:
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.
You can call latex2html from within LyX; in fact, if it's installed, LyX 
should detect it automatically. You may want to change some of the 
options, though - see the copious documentation that comes with 
latex2html.  A simpler alternative is Hevea.

Unfortunately the HTML produced by latex2html or Hevea is not up to the 
standards of HTML purists.  I'd recommend getting Tidy (which you can 
download from www.w3.org) and running it on the output, especially if 
you want "strict" HTML or XHTML.

Robin

--
"Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia."
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Spell-as-you-type ??? am I the only one interested?

[Robin Turner]

Paul Smith wrote:
[..] A spell checker that underline misspelled words with a wavy red
line as you write them - and that provide the possibility to
right-click a word [..]
[..] I am curious in knowing if I am the only LyX user who is
interested in this feature? If not, please say.


Definitely interested.


Me too.

Paul
A couple of years back I would have said it was a nice feature, but 
there are far more features with higher priority.  Now, most of the 
features I was waiting for have materialised, so if there are developers 
around who are prepared to put in the time, I'd say yay, go for it!

Robin

--
The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not
recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you
basically just plug in and use. - Dave Barry
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Spell-as-you-type ??? am I the only one interested?

[Robin Turner]

Paul Smith wrote:
[..] A spell checker that underline misspelled words with a wavy red
line as you write them - and that provide the possibility to
right-click a word [..]
[..] I am curious in knowing if I am the only LyX user who is
interested in this feature? If not, please say.


Definitely interested.


Me too.

Paul
A couple of years back I would have said it was a nice feature, but 
there are far more features with higher priority.  Now, most of the 
features I was waiting for have materialised, so if there are developers 
around who are prepared to put in the time, I'd say yay, go for it!

Robin

--
The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not
recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you
basically just plug in and use. - Dave Barry
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Spell-as-you-type ??? am I the only one interested?

[Robin Turner]

Paul Smith wrote:
[..] A spell checker that underline misspelled words with a wavy red
line as you write them - and that provide the possibility to
right-click a word [..]
[..] I am curious in knowing if I am the only LyX user who is
interested in this feature? If not, please say.


Definitely interested.


Me too.

Paul
A couple of years back I would have said it was a nice feature, but 
there are far more features with higher priority.  Now, most of the 
features I was waiting for have materialised, so if there are developers 
around who are prepared to put in the time, I'd say "yay, go for it!"

Robin

--
"The other major kind of computer is the "Apple", which I do not
recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you
basically just plug in and use." - Dave Barry
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Theorem-like and personal environments

[robin]

Alon Altman wrote:
Hi,
  I've defined some of my own environments in the preamble of the document
(some theorem-like, some generic). I would like LyX to allow me to typeset
text in these environments without resorting to ERT to begin and end these
environments. How can I add my own environment types to the dropdown list?
You need to write a layout file.  It's best to start by copying the 
layout file you normally use from /usr/sharew/lyx/layouts (or the 
equivalent directory on your system) to the .lyx/layouts directory in 
your home directory, renaming it to whatever you want.

Then add your new environments or modify existing ones. Here's a rather 
complicated example from one of my layout files:

# Box style definition
# Adapted from a style by Herbert Voss
Style Box
  MarginStatic
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName myBox
  NextNoIndent  1
  LeftMarginm
  RightMargin   m
  TopSep0.5
  ParSep0.5
  BottomSep 0.5
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
  LabelType No_Label
  Font
color   blue
  EndFont
#define the environment myBox

  Preamble
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
  \noindent%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
  \end{minipage}%
  \end{lrbox}%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \vspace{0.5ex}
}%
EndPreamble
The kind of stuff LyX can handle, like margins and alignments, goes in 
the first part, but if you want complex LaTeX stuff, it needs to be 
defined in the Preamble section.

Run Edit-Reconfigure in LyX, and the next time you run LyX your new 
layout should show up.

Robin

--
Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Theorem-like and personal environments

[robin]

Alon Altman wrote:
Hi,
  I've defined some of my own environments in the preamble of the document
(some theorem-like, some generic). I would like LyX to allow me to typeset
text in these environments without resorting to ERT to begin and end these
environments. How can I add my own environment types to the dropdown list?
You need to write a layout file.  It's best to start by copying the 
layout file you normally use from /usr/sharew/lyx/layouts (or the 
equivalent directory on your system) to the .lyx/layouts directory in 
your home directory, renaming it to whatever you want.

Then add your new environments or modify existing ones. Here's a rather 
complicated example from one of my layout files:

# Box style definition
# Adapted from a style by Herbert Voss
Style Box
  MarginStatic
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName myBox
  NextNoIndent  1
  LeftMarginm
  RightMargin   m
  TopSep0.5
  ParSep0.5
  BottomSep 0.5
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
  LabelType No_Label
  Font
color   blue
  EndFont
#define the environment myBox

  Preamble
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
  \noindent%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
  \end{minipage}%
  \end{lrbox}%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \vspace{0.5ex}
}%
EndPreamble
The kind of stuff LyX can handle, like margins and alignments, goes in 
the first part, but if you want complex LaTeX stuff, it needs to be 
defined in the Preamble section.

Run Edit-Reconfigure in LyX, and the next time you run LyX your new 
layout should show up.

Robin

--
Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Theorem-like and personal environments

[robin]

Alon Altman wrote:
Hi,
  I've defined some of my own environments in the preamble of the document
(some theorem-like, some generic). I would like LyX to allow me to typeset
text in these environments without resorting to ERT to begin and end these
environments. How can I add my own environment types to the dropdown list?
You need to write a layout file.  It's best to start by copying the 
layout file you normally use from /usr/sharew/lyx/layouts (or the 
equivalent directory on your system) to the .lyx/layouts directory in 
your home directory, renaming it to whatever you want.

Then add your new environments or modify existing ones. Here's a rather 
complicated example from one of my layout files:

# Box style definition
# Adapted from a style by Herbert Voss
Style Box
  MarginStatic
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName myBox
  NextNoIndent  1
  LeftMarginm
  RightMargin   m
  TopSep0.5
  ParSep0.5
  BottomSep 0.5
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
  LabelType No_Label
  Font
color   blue
  EndFont
#define the environment myBox

  Preamble
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
  \noindent%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
  \end{minipage}%
  \end{lrbox}%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \vspace{0.5ex}
}%
EndPreamble
The kind of stuff LyX can handle, like margins and alignments, goes in 
the first part, but if you want complex LaTeX stuff, it needs to be 
defined in the Preamble section.

Run Edit->Reconfigure in LyX, and the next time you run LyX your new 
layout should show up.

Robin

--
"Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia."
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: apa style running head

[robin]

mreavey wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00495.html

I'm running lyx 1.2. on Mandrake 9.0 gnome desktop
Where should the above code be placed to recompile, and have it end up 
as a usable  document class?
Nothing needs recompiling, just put the file in your home directory, in 
.lyx/layouts, run Edit-Reconfigure and restart LyX . Alternatively, if 
you want to be available for all users, put it in /usr/share/lyx/layouts.

Robin

--
Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: apa style running head

[robin]

mreavey wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00495.html

I'm running lyx 1.2. on Mandrake 9.0 gnome desktop
Where should the above code be placed to recompile, and have it end up 
as a usable  document class?
Nothing needs recompiling, just put the file in your home directory, in 
.lyx/layouts, run Edit-Reconfigure and restart LyX . Alternatively, if 
you want to be available for all users, put it in /usr/share/lyx/layouts.

Robin

--
Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: apa style running head

[robin]

mreavey wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00495.html

I'm running lyx 1.2. on Mandrake 9.0 gnome desktop
Where should the above code be placed to recompile, and have it end up 
as a usable  document class?
Nothing needs recompiling, just put the file in your home directory, in 
.lyx/layouts, run Edit-Reconfigure and restart LyX . Alternatively, if 
you want to be available for all users, put it in /usr/share/lyx/layouts.

Robin

--
"Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia."
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Once more: Bibtex

[robin]

Kai Johannes Keller wrote:

Hello List,

the many postings and questions about bibtex in the last time made me
curious. So now I started to learn what it is, and I'm building my own
Bibtex-database.
But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of
the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in
the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know
that it's possible with the normal Bibliography-environment, but is
there a way to do this in Bibtex, too?
You need to find (or write) a BibTeX style file that fits your purposes, 
then you can select it from the bibliography button.  You can also 
sometimes use preamble commands to modify how the style is implemented - 
Jurabib has an impressive range.  If you don't specify a style, you get 
BibeX Plain, which uses the bracketed numbers for references.

Robin

--
I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

[robin]

Paul Jahshan wrote:



4. Finally, the PDF/Acrobat problem: I've read the help file on the 
poor quality of LyX to PDF output when displayed through Acrobat 
Reader and, despite my best attempts, couldn't understand how to fix 
this. Again, is there a clear 1-2-3 method to work around this 
rather irritating issue? (I'm using RH 9)
  


Which part 'failed'?

The part where the output is decent! in Acrobat, I get a below average 
quality, even if I zoom in.

That's probably the font part.  Try changing your font to ae or pslatex.

Robin

--
I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Pagination in book class

[robin]

Rich Shepard wrote:

[snip]

 If the book (or memoir) class had a style Copyright as does the
Koma-Script book format, I would not be asking all these questions.
Unfortunately, use of the latter class produces its own unintended
consequences for me writing in the U.S. If I was really clever and knew
LaTeX and LyX _very_ well, I could probably take the Copyright style from
Koma-Script and add it to book. Unfortunately, I'm not that clever with
these applications. Nor can I find a LyX-class-writing-HOWTO.
Help-Customisation has a section Decalring a new text class which is 
a good place to start. Basically you start by importing the main class 
you want to use, and add any new paragraph environments you want, or 
alter existing ones.  So you could either start with the Book class and 
add aCopyright environment, or start with Book (Koma-script) and edit it 
to make it behave more like Book.

Robin

--
I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Once more: Bibtex

[robin]

Kai Johannes Keller wrote:

Hello List,

the many postings and questions about bibtex in the last time made me
curious. So now I started to learn what it is, and I'm building my own
Bibtex-database.
But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of
the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in
the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know
that it's possible with the normal Bibliography-environment, but is
there a way to do this in Bibtex, too?
You need to find (or write) a BibTeX style file that fits your purposes, 
then you can select it from the bibliography button.  You can also 
sometimes use preamble commands to modify how the style is implemented - 
Jurabib has an impressive range.  If you don't specify a style, you get 
BibeX Plain, which uses the bracketed numbers for references.

Robin

--
I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

[robin]

Paul Jahshan wrote:



4. Finally, the PDF/Acrobat problem: I've read the help file on the 
poor quality of LyX to PDF output when displayed through Acrobat 
Reader and, despite my best attempts, couldn't understand how to fix 
this. Again, is there a clear 1-2-3 method to work around this 
rather irritating issue? (I'm using RH 9)
  


Which part 'failed'?

The part where the output is decent! in Acrobat, I get a below average 
quality, even if I zoom in.

That's probably the font part.  Try changing your font to ae or pslatex.

Robin

--
I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Pagination in book class

[robin]

Rich Shepard wrote:

[snip]

 If the book (or memoir) class had a style Copyright as does the
Koma-Script book format, I would not be asking all these questions.
Unfortunately, use of the latter class produces its own unintended
consequences for me writing in the U.S. If I was really clever and knew
LaTeX and LyX _very_ well, I could probably take the Copyright style from
Koma-Script and add it to book. Unfortunately, I'm not that clever with
these applications. Nor can I find a LyX-class-writing-HOWTO.
Help-Customisation has a section Decalring a new text class which is 
a good place to start. Basically you start by importing the main class 
you want to use, and add any new paragraph environments you want, or 
alter existing ones.  So you could either start with the Book class and 
add aCopyright environment, or start with Book (Koma-script) and edit it 
to make it behave more like Book.

Robin

--
I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Once more: Bibtex

[robin]

Kai Johannes Keller wrote:

Hello List,

the many postings and questions about bibtex in the last time made me
curious. So now I started to learn what it is, and I'm building my own
Bibtex-database.
But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of
the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in
the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know
that it's possible with the "normal" Bibliography-environment, but is
there a way to do this in Bibtex, too?
You need to find (or write) a BibTeX style file that fits your purposes, 
then you can select it from the bibliography button.  You can also 
sometimes use preamble commands to modify how the style is implemented - 
Jurabib has an impressive range.  If you don't specify a style, you get 
BibeX Plain, which uses the bracketed numbers for references.

Robin

--
"I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

[robin]

Paul Jahshan wrote:



4. Finally, the PDF/Acrobat problem: I've read the help file on the 
poor quality of LyX to PDF output when displayed through Acrobat 
Reader and, despite my best attempts, couldn't understand how to fix 
this. Again, is there a "clear" 1-2-3 method to work around this 
rather irritating issue? (I'm using RH 9)
  


Which part 'failed'?

The part where the output is decent! in Acrobat, I get a below average 
quality, even if I zoom in.

That's probably the font part.  Try changing your font to "ae" or "pslatex".

Robin

--
"I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Pagination in book class

[robin]

Rich Shepard wrote:

[snip]

 If the book (or memoir) class had a style "Copyright" as does the
Koma-Script book format, I would not be asking all these questions.
Unfortunately, use of the latter class produces its own unintended
consequences for me writing in the U.S. If I was really clever and knew
LaTeX and LyX _very_ well, I could probably take the "Copyright" style from
Koma-Script and add it to "book". Unfortunately, I'm not that clever with
these applications. Nor can I find a LyX-class-writing-HOWTO.
Help->Customisation has a section "Decalring a new text class" which is 
a good place to start. Basically you start by importing the main class 
you want to use, and add any new paragraph environments you want, or 
alter existing ones.  So you could either start with the Book class and 
add aCopyright environment, or start with Book (Koma-script) and edit it 
to make it behave more like Book.

Robin

--
"I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have 
prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct 
yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next 
moment they may sting you.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Single quotes

[robin]

Rajil Saraswat wrote:

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 09:05, Andre Poenitz wrote:
 

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:52:50AM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
   

My message got lost somewhere in the list, so here is my question again.
What is the correct way of using single quotes in a text. Using the plain
' ' donot look right in the rendered postscript file.
 

What do you expect it to look like?

Andre'
   

I want the first quote to point inside and not with its tail pointing outside 
and away from the word. Does this make sense?

Yes, and the unpleasant truth is that you have to do it with raw LaTeX, 
as I found _after_ I'd sent my PostScript file to be printed.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Single quotes

[robin]

Rajil Saraswat wrote:

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 09:05, Andre Poenitz wrote:
 

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:52:50AM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
   

My message got lost somewhere in the list, so here is my question again.
What is the correct way of using single quotes in a text. Using the plain
' ' donot look right in the rendered postscript file.
 

What do you expect it to look like?

Andre'
   

I want the first quote to point inside and not with its tail pointing outside 
and away from the word. Does this make sense?

Yes, and the unpleasant truth is that you have to do it with raw LaTeX, 
as I found _after_ I'd sent my PostScript file to be printed.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Single quotes

[robin]

Rajil Saraswat wrote:

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 09:05, Andre Poenitz wrote:
 

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:52:50AM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
   

My message got lost somewhere in the list, so here is my question again.
What is the correct way of using single quotes in a text. Using the plain
' ' donot look right in the rendered postscript file.
 

What do you expect it to look like?

Andre'
   

I want the first quote to point inside and not with its tail pointing outside 
and away from the word. Does this make sense?

Yes, and the unpleasant truth is that you have to do it with raw LaTeX, 
as I found _after_ I'd sent my PostScript file to be printed.

Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: parallel.sty

[robin]

Michael Chabon wrote:

Thanks for all the help, I got it installed and working, but it's just 
too much of a pain.

I will have to spend money for software, I fear. 


Well, LyX isn't for everyone - I happen to think it's the best thing 
since sliced bread, but if you want something more point-and-clicky, I'd 
suggest checking out Scribus before you splash out on an expensive DTP 
program.  It doesn't have all the functionality of its commercial 
cousins, but it's getting there slowly.  I'd still recommend persisting 
for a while with LyX, though - it kind of grows on you.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: parallel.sty

[robin]

Michael Chabon wrote:

Thanks for all the help, I got it installed and working, but it's just 
too much of a pain.

I will have to spend money for software, I fear. 


Well, LyX isn't for everyone - I happen to think it's the best thing 
since sliced bread, but if you want something more point-and-clicky, I'd 
suggest checking out Scribus before you splash out on an expensive DTP 
program.  It doesn't have all the functionality of its commercial 
cousins, but it's getting there slowly.  I'd still recommend persisting 
for a while with LyX, though - it kind of grows on you.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: parallel.sty

[robin]

Michael Chabon wrote:

Thanks for all the help, I got it installed and working, but it's just 
too much of a pain.

I will have to spend money for software, I fear. 


Well, LyX isn't for everyone - I happen to think it's the best thing 
since sliced bread, but if you want something more point-and-clicky, I'd 
suggest checking out Scribus before you splash out on an expensive DTP 
program.  It doesn't have all the functionality of its commercial 
cousins, but it's getting there slowly.  I'd still recommend persisting 
for a while with LyX, though - it kind of grows on you.

Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: parallel.sty

[robin]

Michael Chabon wrote:

Pardon my ignorance... I have found this, but how do I install it to 
use with Lyx?  and once it's installed, how to I use it?

Thanks for the help.

MC


As with any package, the first thing you need to do is make it available 
to LaTeX. Put it somewhere inside your LaTeX distribution (on my 
computer this is /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ but it could be different 
on yours). Then run the command texhash (without the quotes) to update 
LaTeX. Note: you may need to be logged in as root/admin to do this.

Using it in LyX depends on whether it's supported by LyX.  If it is, 
then all you have to do is click Edit-Reconfigure, then restart LyX and 
you can use it just like any other document class. If it isn't, then you 
will need to put LaTeX commands in your Preamble (in LyX 1.3.* you get 
there from Layout-Document).  If there's any documnetation with the 
package, read it and see what it asks you to do.  If not, try putting

 \usepackage{parallel.sty}

in the preamble and see what happens.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: parallel.sty

[robin]

Michael Chabon wrote:

Pardon my ignorance... I have found this, but how do I install it to 
use with Lyx?  and once it's installed, how to I use it?

Thanks for the help.

MC


As with any package, the first thing you need to do is make it available 
to LaTeX. Put it somewhere inside your LaTeX distribution (on my 
computer this is /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ but it could be different 
on yours). Then run the command texhash (without the quotes) to update 
LaTeX. Note: you may need to be logged in as root/admin to do this.

Using it in LyX depends on whether it's supported by LyX.  If it is, 
then all you have to do is click Edit-Reconfigure, then restart LyX and 
you can use it just like any other document class. If it isn't, then you 
will need to put LaTeX commands in your Preamble (in LyX 1.3.* you get 
there from Layout-Document).  If there's any documnetation with the 
package, read it and see what it asks you to do.  If not, try putting

 \usepackage{parallel.sty}

in the preamble and see what happens.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: parallel.sty

[robin]

Michael Chabon wrote:

Pardon my ignorance... I have found this, but how do I install it to 
use with Lyx?  and once it's installed, how to I use it?

Thanks for the help.

MC


As with any package, the first thing you need to do is make it available 
to LaTeX. Put it somewhere inside your LaTeX distribution (on my 
computer this is /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ but it could be different 
on yours). Then run the command "texhash" (without the quotes) to update 
LaTeX. Note: you may need to be logged in as root/admin to do this.

Using it in LyX depends on whether it's supported by LyX.  If it is, 
then all you have to do is click Edit->Reconfigure, then restart LyX and 
you can use it just like any other document class. If it isn't, then you 
will need to put LaTeX commands in your Preamble (in LyX 1.3.* you get 
there from Layout->Document).  If there's any documnetation with the 
package, read it and see what it asks you to do.  If not, try putting

 \usepackage{parallel.sty}

in the preamble and see what happens.

Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX 1.3.2

[robin]

Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote:

Hi. I use LyX 1.2.3 on a MK 9.1, installed from the distro CD,s. I want to 
install LyX 1.3.2 with the file lyx-1.3.2-1mdk91-qt.i586.rpm, but I have the 
error: qt=2.2.1 is required for LyX 1.3.2_qt. My KDE is the version 3.1.0 
and I don't understand why it's necessary to return to KDE 2 for to install 
this last LyX version. Someone can to help me?. Thanks.
 

It's a bug in the Mandrake RPM.  Just do rpm -ivh --nodeps and it 
should work fine.

Sir Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX 1.3.2

[robin]

Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote:

Hi. I use LyX 1.2.3 on a MK 9.1, installed from the distro CD,s. I want to 
install LyX 1.3.2 with the file lyx-1.3.2-1mdk91-qt.i586.rpm, but I have the 
error: qt=2.2.1 is required for LyX 1.3.2_qt. My KDE is the version 3.1.0 
and I don't understand why it's necessary to return to KDE 2 for to install 
this last LyX version. Someone can to help me?. Thanks.
 

It's a bug in the Mandrake RPM.  Just do rpm -ivh --nodeps and it 
should work fine.

Sir Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: LyX 1.3.2

[robin]

Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote:

Hi. I use LyX 1.2.3 on a MK 9.1, installed from the distro CD,s. I want to 
install LyX 1.3.2 with the file lyx-1.3.2-1mdk91-qt.i586.rpm, but I have the 
error: "qt=2.2.1 is required for LyX 1.3.2_qt". My KDE is the version 3.1.0 
and I don't understand why it's necessary to return to KDE 2 for to install 
this last LyX version. Someone can to help me?. Thanks.
 

It's a bug in the Mandrake RPM.  Just do "rpm -ivh --nodeps" and it 
should work fine.

Sir Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: \renewcommand... (except inside a footnote)?

[robin]

Ronald Florence wrote:

I use \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} in the preamble with jurabib to
get footnote citations, which endnote.sty puts at the end of the book.
For multiple citations, I need to put the citations inside a footnote,
but \footcite inside a footnote is unacceptable.
How do I define \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} to work only when it
is not inside a footnote?  Thanks,
I tried this and couldn't find a workaround - I had to open a footnote 
and put my citation inside it.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: \renewcommand... (except inside a footnote)?

[robin]

Ronald Florence wrote:

I use \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} in the preamble with jurabib to
get footnote citations, which endnote.sty puts at the end of the book.
For multiple citations, I need to put the citations inside a footnote,
but \footcite inside a footnote is unacceptable.
How do I define \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} to work only when it
is not inside a footnote?  Thanks,
I tried this and couldn't find a workaround - I had to open a footnote 
and put my citation inside it.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: \renewcommand... (except inside a footnote)?

[robin]

Ronald Florence wrote:

I use \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} in the preamble with jurabib to
get footnote citations, which endnote.sty puts at the end of the book.
For multiple citations, I need to put the citations inside a footnote,
but \footcite inside a footnote is unacceptable.
How do I define \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} to work only when it
is not inside a footnote?  Thanks,
I tried this and couldn't find a workaround - I had to open a footnote 
and put my citation inside it.

Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: BibTeX-editor (GUI) for KDE

[robin]

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:

Does anyone know a QT based BibTeX editor for Linux? I am using Pybliographer, 
but since I am writing a book about doing academic writing in LyX (and OOo) I 
want to make sure I am recommending the right thing.

 

I've been doing academic writing for some time using Pybliographic - 
works fine for me.  No Qt version, though, which is a shame.  It's a 
matter of taste, but I don't like Gtk much.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: BibTeX-editor (GUI) for KDE

[robin]

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:

Does anyone know a QT based BibTeX editor for Linux? I am using Pybliographer, 
but since I am writing a book about doing academic writing in LyX (and OOo) I 
want to make sure I am recommending the right thing.

 

I've been doing academic writing for some time using Pybliographic - 
works fine for me.  No Qt version, though, which is a shame.  It's a 
matter of taste, but I don't like Gtk much.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: BibTeX-editor (GUI) for KDE

[robin]

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:

Does anyone know a QT based BibTeX editor for Linux? I am using Pybliographer, 
but since I am writing a book about doing academic writing in LyX (and OOo) I 
want to make sure I am recommending the right thing.

 

I've been doing academic writing for some time using Pybliographic - 
works fine for me.  No Qt version, though, which is a shame.  It's a 
matter of taste, but I don't like Gtk much.

Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: General compat question

[robin]

Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do
when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft
Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much
additional re-formatting work (equations, figures, tables) to be done
that I'm about to throw up my hands and say, fine... it's a Word world,
quit fighting it. However, before I do, I'd like to hear other's
experiences in this area... as I can't believe that I am alone in this
struggle.
 

I had that - I'm sending them a hard copy.

Sir Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: General compat question

[robin]

Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do
when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft
Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much
additional re-formatting work (equations, figures, tables) to be done
that I'm about to throw up my hands and say, fine... it's a Word world,
quit fighting it. However, before I do, I'd like to hear other's
experiences in this area... as I can't believe that I am alone in this
struggle.
 

I had that - I'm sending them a hard copy.

Sir Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them.
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: General compat question

[robin]

Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do
when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft
Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much
additional re-formatting work (equations, figures, tables) to be done
that I'm about to throw up my hands and say, "fine... it's a Word world,
quit fighting it". However, before I do, I'd like to hear other's
experiences in this area... as I can't believe that I am alone in this
struggle.
 

I had that - I'm sending them a hard copy.

Sir Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: word to lyx

[Robin Turner]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:05:41PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:

Andre Poenitz wrote:


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:17:54AM +0200, Ulla Stubbe wrote:

[Can OpenOffice export to LaTeX? If so, this would be worth a try, too]
Yes it can using the writer2latex filter.


I've not managed to get this thing up and running. The binary crashes my JVM
and the source thingy does not even come with a Makefile.
Same problem:
java -classpath ~/classes/writer2latex.jar writer2latex.Application 
/home/nalan/Documents/fast/admin/appraisal_robin_2003.sxw

gives

Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/openoffice/xmerge/util/registry/RegistryException

Now I know almost nothing about Java, but that looks like it's looking 
for a Java-enabled OpenOffice (OO stubbornly refuses to recognise my 
Java, bot I'll go into that on a different list!).


You can also use the program on the command line without openoffice. Maybe
someone could adapt it as a lyx import filter?


Would be nice...
Definitely, and probably not too difficult to implement, so long as 
reLyX can handle the TeX it produces. (don't ask me to do it though - I 
know even less about C++ than Java!).  I like OO, and use it a lot for 
some things (mainly the spreadsheet and, of course, dealing with all 
those bloody Word docs people send me) but I'd still rather use LyX, 
given the choice.

Sir Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you 
break them.
- Blake's 7

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: word to lyx

[Robin Turner]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:05:41PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:

Andre Poenitz wrote:


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:17:54AM +0200, Ulla Stubbe wrote:

[Can OpenOffice export to LaTeX? If so, this would be worth a try, too]
Yes it can using the writer2latex filter.


I've not managed to get this thing up and running. The binary crashes my JVM
and the source thingy does not even come with a Makefile.
Same problem:
java -classpath ~/classes/writer2latex.jar writer2latex.Application 
/home/nalan/Documents/fast/admin/appraisal_robin_2003.sxw

gives

Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/openoffice/xmerge/util/registry/RegistryException

Now I know almost nothing about Java, but that looks like it's looking 
for a Java-enabled OpenOffice (OO stubbornly refuses to recognise my 
Java, bot I'll go into that on a different list!).


You can also use the program on the command line without openoffice. Maybe
someone could adapt it as a lyx import filter?


Would be nice...
Definitely, and probably not too difficult to implement, so long as 
reLyX can handle the TeX it produces. (don't ask me to do it though - I 
know even less about C++ than Java!).  I like OO, and use it a lot for 
some things (mainly the spreadsheet and, of course, dealing with all 
those bloody Word docs people send me) but I'd still rather use LyX, 
given the choice.

Sir Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you 
break them.
- Blake's 7

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: word to lyx

[Robin Turner]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:05:41PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:

Andre Poenitz wrote:


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:17:54AM +0200, Ulla Stubbe wrote:

[Can OpenOffice export to LaTeX? If so, this would be worth a try, too]
Yes it can using the writer2latex filter.


I've not managed to get this thing up and running. The binary crashes my JVM
and the source thingy does not even come with a Makefile.
Same problem:
java -classpath ~/classes/writer2latex.jar writer2latex.Application 
/home/nalan/Documents/fast/admin/appraisal_robin_2003.sxw

gives

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/openoffice/xmerge/util/registry/RegistryException

Now I know almost nothing about Java, but that looks like it's looking 
for a Java-enabled OpenOffice (OO stubbornly refuses to recognise my 
Java, bot I'll go into that on a different list!).


You can also use the program on the command line without openoffice. Maybe
someone could adapt it as a lyx import filter?


Would be nice...
Definitely, and probably not too difficult to implement, so long as 
reLyX can handle the TeX it produces. (don't ask me to do it though - I 
know even less about C++ than Java!).  I like OO, and use it a lot for 
some things (mainly the spreadsheet and, of course, dealing with all 
those bloody Word docs people send me) but I'd still rather use LyX, 
given the choice.

Sir Robin

--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you 
break them."
- Blake's 7

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Problems installing Lyx 1.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1

[Robin Turner]

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:57, Robin Turner wrote:


Bad spec file?  Try it - you can always uninstall it if it doesn't work.


It seems to work just perfetc! I updated from LyX 1.2.x and I must say (among 
other things) it is an improvement with the QT-integration. :-)
Yep, the 1.3.* series is sweet!  Qt eye-candy aside, you'll find a 
number of nice usability features.

Now I just need to learn averything about the BibTex integration. I want to 
use LyX for my academic work - and I am working on a small book about 
Linux-tools for students and researcher at non-technical educations at Danish 
universities.
As I said in another post, I recommend Jurabib.  Feel free to mail me 
off-list if you have any BibTeX questions - I'm no expert, but I have a 
fair amount of trial-and-error experience.

Robin

--
There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you 
break them.
- Blake's 7

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin