noweb book chapter include problem. How about external material strategy?
I've asked before, but have new enthusiasm because I just learned about the ExternalMaterial handling in lyx-1.5.4. I succeed using NoWeb strategy in LyX to interact with the statistics program R. There has been some posting about that in here lately by other people doing it too and I see Gregor has updated the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave Now I'm writing a book and want to include some of those Noweb articles as chapters. I create the book master document and try to include the lyx files, but when I view the book in lyx, the included documents are not put through the Noweb processor. They just appear in the output as they are in the lyx file. They don't get sent through the Lyx- LaTeX (via noweb) step. I've tried many variations on this theme. Now I'm thinking that the LyX Insert-File-Lyx Document was the wrong approach from the start. Instead, I think what I need is Insert-file-external material where the external material is customized for this type of document. But I need help in making it work. Here's why I think it might work. I noticed a neat thing LyX does that I did not know about before. An Xfig drawing can be included in 2 ways into LyX. 1. Insert- graphics Choose the fig file, then LyX will process the fig file and it will show as a graphic. The processing lyx does to the fig file translates it to postscript, I think. It just treats the fig file as a picture. 2. Insert-File-External Material. This does something different. It will decipher LaTeX markup in text in the fig file. (I think it is doing the 2 parts export to EPS format, if you know what i mean). If you put LaTeX text in your file, and you marked it with the special attribute, then LyX will process that xfig file to convert the LaTeX markup and fit it into the graphic. So in the xfig file, you can put in text like $\alpha$ and in the output, you see the Greek alpha. Note this is different from the Insert-graphics approach, where the literal string $\alpha$ appears. Seeing this external handling made me wonder, why doesn't one of the smart guys who knows LyX inside and out design a Noweb handler for External Material. The converter specified in LyX preferences to go from he noweb format Sweave to LaTeX is .R CMD Sweave $$i So, If I want to include a lyx file, I need some way to tell Lyx it needs that post processing, and that's why the external material thing seems just right. If one of you would do it for me, it would be great. More likely, you will tell me what manual to read about writing external material handlers in LyX. That would be good too, but requiring more work :) PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
noweb book chapter include problem. How about external material strategy?
I've asked before, but have new enthusiasm because I just learned about the ExternalMaterial handling in lyx-1.5.4. I succeed using NoWeb strategy in LyX to interact with the statistics program R. There has been some posting about that in here lately by other people doing it too and I see Gregor has updated the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave Now I'm writing a book and want to include some of those Noweb articles as chapters. I create the book master document and try to include the lyx files, but when I view the book in lyx, the included documents are not put through the Noweb processor. They just appear in the output as they are in the lyx file. They don't get sent through the Lyx- LaTeX (via noweb) step. I've tried many variations on this theme. Now I'm thinking that the LyX Insert-File-Lyx Document was the wrong approach from the start. Instead, I think what I need is Insert-file-external material where the external material is customized for this type of document. But I need help in making it work. Here's why I think it might work. I noticed a neat thing LyX does that I did not know about before. An Xfig drawing can be included in 2 ways into LyX. 1. Insert- graphics Choose the fig file, then LyX will process the fig file and it will show as a graphic. The processing lyx does to the fig file translates it to postscript, I think. It just treats the fig file as a picture. 2. Insert-File-External Material. This does something different. It will decipher LaTeX markup in text in the fig file. (I think it is doing the 2 parts export to EPS format, if you know what i mean). If you put LaTeX text in your file, and you marked it with the special attribute, then LyX will process that xfig file to convert the LaTeX markup and fit it into the graphic. So in the xfig file, you can put in text like $\alpha$ and in the output, you see the Greek alpha. Note this is different from the Insert-graphics approach, where the literal string $\alpha$ appears. Seeing this external handling made me wonder, why doesn't one of the smart guys who knows LyX inside and out design a Noweb handler for External Material. The converter specified in LyX preferences to go from he noweb format Sweave to LaTeX is .R CMD Sweave $$i So, If I want to include a lyx file, I need some way to tell Lyx it needs that post processing, and that's why the external material thing seems just right. If one of you would do it for me, it would be great. More likely, you will tell me what manual to read about writing external material handlers in LyX. That would be good too, but requiring more work :) PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
noweb book chapter include problem. How about "external material" strategy?
I've asked before, but have new enthusiasm because I just learned about the ExternalMaterial handling in lyx-1.5.4. I succeed using NoWeb strategy in LyX to interact with the statistics program R. There has been some posting about that in here lately by other people doing it too and I see Gregor has updated the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave Now I'm writing a book and want to include some of those Noweb articles as chapters. I create the book master document and try to include the lyx files, but when I view the book in lyx, the included documents are not put through the Noweb processor. They just appear in the output as they are in the lyx file. They don't get sent through the Lyx-> LaTeX (via noweb) step. I've tried many variations on this theme. Now I'm thinking that the LyX Insert->File->Lyx Document was the wrong approach from the start. Instead, I think what I need is Insert->file->external material where the external material is customized for this type of document. But I need help in making it work. Here's why I think it might work. I noticed a neat thing LyX does that I did not know about before. An Xfig drawing can be included in 2 ways into LyX. 1. Insert-> graphics Choose the fig file, then LyX will process the fig file and it will show as a graphic. The processing lyx does to the fig file translates it to postscript, I think. It just treats the fig file as a picture. 2. Insert->File->External Material. This does something different. It will decipher LaTeX markup in text in the fig file. (I think it is doing the 2 parts export to EPS format, if you know what i mean). If you put LaTeX text in your file, and you marked it with the "special" attribute, then LyX will "process" that xfig file to convert the LaTeX markup and fit it into the graphic. So in the xfig file, you can put in text like $\alpha$ and in the output, you see the Greek alpha. Note this is different from the Insert->graphics approach, where the literal string "$\alpha$" appears. Seeing this external handling made me wonder, why doesn't one of the smart guys who knows LyX inside and out design a "Noweb" handler for External Material. The converter specified in LyX preferences to go from he noweb format "Sweave" to LaTeX is .R CMD Sweave $$i So, If I want to include a lyx file, I need some way to tell Lyx it needs that post processing, and that's why the external material thing seems just right. If one of you would do it for me, it would be great. More likely, you will tell me what manual to read about writing external material handlers in LyX. That would be good too, but requiring more work :) PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
