Re: Password now required to approve URIs on the wiki
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: password as for uploading files. If you need it, just ask on one of the mailing lists. I am currently cleaning teh LiveCDs containing LyX article, and would need to add external links. Could some of the developers please forward me the current password for the wiki? I've replied off-list. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx for business
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Graham Smith wrote: There's a long thread in this mail list's archives on adding the letterhead (a .pdf file), signature (a .jpg file), and so on. I sent the .lyx file of a working template to Christian for inclusion in the wiki, so that's a resource, too. I can't actually find this on the Wiki, maybe I need to look harder :-( It's on my to-do list :-) This is one of the other arguments I am using for the switch to Lyx, and thanks for the other comments - some useful ideas here. I suggest that you try it out yourself for a while, makin sure that the majority of tasks are feasiable without to much hassle before your colleaes try it. Otherwise they might get turned off. Graham /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx for business
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Graham Smith wrote: Pre-think all possible writing situations, and the environments and character styles those situations make necessary. If you give them a good enough layout, and a document explaining what to use when, most LyX writing, even ad hoc stuff, can become easy. That's exactly what I did with Word, and is my plan for Lyx, but I don't have the same level of expertise in Lyx that I did in Word, when I did it for Word. If you can list in detail what you need, I think you're half-way home. :-) Then you can ask this mailing list for help, only keep it to one issue per thread (i.e. one paragraph layout per thread). That'll make things easier for those that want to help and also for people searching the archives in the future. /Christian PS. It'd be great if you would allow the final layout to be used by others, but I understand if that's impossible for business reasons. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Share layouts/examples/templates on the wiki (Was: Lyx for business)
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Les Denham wrote: I have several templates for different purposes, and start my documents with a copy of one of them. They are mainly based on Koma classes, and have features like a logo at the top of the first page, and a small logo in the running header on subsequent pages (set up in the Preamble). Hi Les, Helmut and others who have custom examples/templates/layouts I would just like to remind people on this list that the wiki can be used to share templates and example documents. If you'd like to do this but don't know how to use the wiki, please contact me (or this list). * http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Examples - for examples * http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts - when a custom layout is involved regards, Christian PS. One of the main reasons I started the wiki was to allow people to more easily share layouts and example documents. :-) -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
New letter example using Koma-Script
Hi, Thanks to Rich Shepard, I've put up an example of how to do a 'business'-like letter with Koma-Script using LyX here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 Feel free to use it as you like, and if you know something about Koma-Script, please tell me about any mis-use of the document class. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: New letter example using Koma-Script
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote: Christian Ridderström a écrit : Hi, Thanks to Rich Shepard, I've put up an example of how to do a 'business'-like letter with Koma-Script using LyX here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 Feel free to use it as you like, and if you know something about Koma-Script, please tell me about any mis-use of the document class. Hi Christian, I did something very similar for french letters last year. If you want to add these files to the Lyx wiki, please feel free to get them here: http://pacquet.net/?q=node/2 Hi Jean-Marie, Thanks for the example. I've uploaded the files and copied your text to the same wiki page, i.e. http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2#toc6 But I don't understand French, so would you mind adding a translation of your text to the wiki page? I've prepared a place for the translation, and we can keep your original french text below the english text. If you like, I can proof read the english translation. Best regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: New letter example using Koma-Script
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote: Done! But feel free to proof read the english text! Thanks! If that parameter file for a nordic country was for Sweden, and you still have it, I wouldn't mind a copy. I should make a business letter for Sweden... /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Compiling Root document from child document?
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, James Sutherland wrote: If I compile the child separately the references from my .bib file does not show (only appears as question marks). It can be done, but it's a bit more advanced and I'm not sure I remember how I did it. Perhaps I did it by using the preamble of the child document to define a custom command that defines the .bib-file to use, and then inserted that custom command at the end of the child document. Anyway, I know it can be done. If it's important, ask for it and I'll see if I can dig out my old thesis files. But based on your answer it seems that my wish is not possible - you say that I still have to manually skip to the main file to get the whole document updated (or even a child to look correct). You could perhaps define your own keyboard sequence that does this for you? In the general case though, how would the child document know which document that is it's master? Or... why can't a child document belong to two or more master documents? Right. You must compile the main file, not the children, if you want the full document with proper cross references. True.. cross references to other child documents will not work, only bibilography referenes. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx for business
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Hellmut Weber wrote: Thanks for your help, i finally made it Examples/HellmutsBusiness *lol* I can't say why, but that name is funny - I like it :-) I added some minor stuff to http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/HellmutsBusiness just look in the history http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/HellmutsBusiness?action=diff to see what I did (and undo it if you don't like it). best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx for business
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: I added some minor stuff to http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/HellmutsBusiness Oh, a final thing. Hellmut, could you leave some information on the page about whom to contact and how in case they need to ask a question? This could simply be a something like: Ask on the users' list in case of problems. best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better idea. First, I'll export to RTF. Now the rtf file will have lines that are somewhat recognizeable as markup. Would exporting to HTML+CSS help, assuming that the styles go into the CSS-file? (I'm thinking that the markup is easier in HTML compared to RTF) Or maybe to some other format that's easier to work with... XML? Converting to OOXML? Or ODF? snipped complicated looking plan If anyone has a better idea for converting a 300 page MS Word document to LyX, style for style and word for word, please let me know. Some thoughts/deas... * Check many different styles there are in the book * Check how many things you still will have to do manually (tables, images, etc) * Do a test case on a small subset of the book before you commit to your plan * Hire someone else to do the tedious work! cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: My only suggestion would be to use one of the programming tools rather than do your replacement in Vim. Awk, sed, perl - It would allow you to gradually build up some regexps through trial and error. Alan The RTF code is too wierd and complex to do programatically (what you get is what you mean). I need to do it a little at a time, interactively (what you see is what you get). I agree with Alan... if you use a one or more separate scripts that you apply, it's easy for you to do the changes separately. And more importantly, start over in case you later in the process discover a problem with the sequence of regexp-replacements you've used. What if you prototype/test out the regexps in vim, and then move them to a script? (The script would perform a sequence of regexp replacements on the document). I'd never do all the regexp-replacements manually, too much risk of making a mistake somewhere in the middle and having to redo everything manually... regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better idea. First, I'll export to RTF. Now the rtf file will have lines that are somewhat recognizeable as markup. Would exporting to HTML+CSS help, assuming that the styles go into the CSS-file? (I'm thinking that the markup is easier in HTML compared to RTF) How would I export to HTML+CSS? Always assuming it preserves my styles, this would be excellent. Google should give you some links: http://www.google.com/search?client=operarls=enq=export+to+html+and+css+from+wordsourceid=operaie=utf-8oe=utf-8 But maybe trying to convert to XML is better, in which case converting to OOXML might be a choice? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Believe me, it's not easy at all. RTF is much too wierd. The style identifier occurs in the middle of a complex string. The text to which to apply it occurs at the end, but there's no reasonable, consistant way to identify where the markup ends and the content begins. You could do the identification of where and what to replace manually, but instead of changing manually, you create a command in a script that does the change. Maybe you wouldn't use a regexp-relace in this case. To be specific, I'm suggesting separate commands/lines in the script that only does a simle/concrete replacment. Perhaps even one command for each replacement... The advantage is that you can re-run the script, or run it partially, if you later get into problems. And more importantly, start over in case you later in the process discover a problem with the sequence of regexp-replacements you've used. I used a series of files, each of which contains one tweak type, so that shouldn't happen. At the end of each tweak type I verify that it still loads and looks right in MS Word. You could also use version control and commit after each tweak type. Writing a program would have been an excellent idea, but RTF is MUCH too wierd to write that program in anything resembling a reasonable timeframe. I don't think I'm suggesting a program in that sense (at the most the script would be a hack..:-). However, if you really wanted to do to a program, I'd start with something that's capable of parsing RTF. Btw... googling for 'converting rtf to html css' http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=operarls=enhs=1CLq=converting+rtf+to+html+cssbtnG=Search gives some results that look useful, but I guess they might all remove your styles :-( Actually, you probably want 'convert rtf to xml'. Googling gave this link: http://www.rtf-to-xml.com/ where they claim: RTF TO XML is a handy solution to convert your RTF documents (created, for example, in Microsoft® Word) into custom XML formats, preserving their appearance and internal structure. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: This morning I got an acceptably tagged text file out of MS Word. From that moment on, things got much easier. Congratulations! I put a reference to your post on a wiki page, giving others that need to do this a starting point. (If you want to summarize how you did it and post the relevant scripts on the wiki, I can help you with it). Here's the page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Word2LyXConversionProcess While doing this, I found this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Word2LyXMacro Maybe it can help you with the tables if nothing else? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I'm proud to announce that the LFUNs documentation project has been finished. Great work! If you are interested in mastering LyX this documentation could be useful for your needs. Should we put this in a page on the wiki site? It could just be a copy of your announcement that's put in a page in the development group, e.g. http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LFUN Then we can link to that page from the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions and eventually integrate the results. What do you think? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Hi Steve, You should send this to the developers' list, as I suspect you know:-) (Or add it to bugzilla of course) Hope the word-LyX conversion is going well, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much. The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML-YAML and YAML-XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project programmers forget why it's important to space their XML just so, it won't matter. Also, I have a feeling that YAML will be much easier to parse than either 1.5.x or XML. At first I'll do them in Ruby because Ruby has all that stuff built in and easy to do. Did you see José's post about how the lyx2lyx stuff is really inside a Python lib (module)? You'd probably only need a different kind of wrapper that calls this module, instead of reinventing everything in Ruby. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Then we can link to that page from the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions and eventually integrate the results. i have already put the section here, so from my point of view its finished. Great. when 1.6 is out we can replace the whole page by the current version. Sounds good. or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. dont know if others think its good idea. No opinion. by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? Would you only use it to search for information? In that case, maybe having a version exported to HTML would be useful? we can even put this as main documentation link from our official site. You don't mean as a single web page do you...? It'd be _huge_. Still, I like the idea of having these special versions of the documentation available through the web site. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I just started using my Mac again with the Safari web browser and went to the LyX website to download the latest version. The homepage is displayed correctly, but when I click on any other link on the website like Download it looses the website style. I really don't know anything about websites so I don't know how to describe it, so I've attached a screenshot when I click on the Download link. Hi Bob, I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page: http://www.lyx.org/Download regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page: http://www.lyx.org/Download Yes, I can reproduce it with Safari. When you follow a link from the homepage, the next page has a link to a non-existent stylesheet, http:/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css Thanks, that'll greatly help me fix the bug! The correct URI should be http://www.lyx.org/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css (so the base URI isn't added) That's what causes the missing formating. Firefox is better at guessing what you meant here, but it really is an error that appears on all the other pages except for the lyx home page. Funny though, I thought you didn't have to give the domain in the URI when linking from a page. Anyway, if it doesn't work in Safari, I'll have to add the domain. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Finding Bad characters
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... you can try a divide-and-conquer approach. Erase the last half and see if the problem persists. If it does, erase the now remaining last half and so on. Pretty soon you should have only a small portion left that you an inspect maually. Five times would reduce 32 pages to just one page. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: The correct URI should be http://www.lyx.org/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css I don't know how your server is set up, but relative addresses should always be fine, and even your intended approach should be doable: Everything should work fine if you leave out the domain, provided you _also_ leave out the http:/ (this would have been incorrect syntax in any case because of the missing second backslash). Then either make the path relative to the current page, or start with /farm/... to specify an absolute address from the server root. Hi, I've added a hack to the code, prepending the base domain. Please confirm that it now looks ok in Safari (The HTML seems fine to me). Just out of curiosity, and in case I want to replace the hack with something that works better, is this how the relative URI should appear: /farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css Best regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
[O-T] Re: Holy Moly!
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Melissa Woolston wrote: really didn't mean to cause such a drama everyone, sorry if I have offended anyone all I want is to come off the list. I will follow the traditional route and keep trying! Hope everyone has a good day!!! Hi Melissa, I doubt you caused it and you behaved politely, thank you! It's also nice to see primarily polite and restrained replies from other users on this list. Given the provocative language, I find that quite impressive. :-) Sincere regards, let's keep the list polite! Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: math tool
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: rgheck wrote: nisa wrote: how math editor is implemented in lyx? how does it automatically format text? pls tell the technical aspects of it in the coding part etc Maybe this should start over, and perhaps on the developers' list...? :-) I don't think you missed anything. And we'd be delighted to have you within the development team :-) Of course:-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: math tool
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: [Sometimes I don't get Abdel's messages to the list. I only see them when someone quotes them, as Christian did here. I don't know why. They're not getting caught by Thunderbird's spam filter; and it only happens to some of them. I haven't noticed any other missing lyx-users messages. Odd.] What if you check for the messages on gmane? (The news interface). Do you see them there? I don't think you missed anything. And we'd be delighted to have you within the development team :-) I keep meaning to pull the sources from Subversion and take a look. I've just been too busy between work and this part-time Master's degree I'm working on. Try doing easy/shorter things then. Getting into the code can be a lot to start with, and if the threshold is to high, you never get around to it :-) For instance, pick an unconfirmed bug from bugzilla and try to replicate it and thus confirming it. That does help. Or you could create a LyX example, illustrating something and then put it on the wiki. Or create a screencast? I think the important thing is that you pick something that you'll enjoy doing (or that teaches you something you want to learn). regards /Christian By the way, trying to fix some of the minor bugs doesn't have to be that difficult. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: math tool
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: [Sometimes I don't get Abdel's messages to the list. I only see them when someone quotes them, as Christian did here. I don't know why. They're not getting caught by Thunderbird's spam filter; and it only happens to some of them. I haven't noticed any other missing lyx-users messages. Odd.] I don't think you missed anything. And we'd be delighted to have you within the development team :-) I keep meaning to pull the sources from Subversion and take a look. I've just been too busy between work and this part-time Master's degree I'm working on. Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University Umm... given your signature, improving the documentation seems like a good candidate. Either the help documents, or the wiki. Just some ideas.. Or perhaps preparing good arguments for why LyX is a good choice:-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Tutorial Published on Using XSL stylesheets to fix lyX's Docbook XML implementation
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Chad A. wrote: The tutorial, with source code, has been posted here: http://www.neomantic.com/tutorials/lyx-and-docbookXML What do think of hosting it on the LyX wiki? (Either moving it, or just mirroring it there). /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Koma letter script 2 environment labels in French instead of English
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Graham Smith wrote: If I add an environment such as senderaddress they appear in French. In the output, or inside LyX? Existing letter files use English labels, but if I add any new labels they are also in French. Do you have an .lco for English? I'm not familiar with Koma letter actually, but I did put an example from someone else onto the wiki. That example is all English I think. /Christian This is with lyx 1.5.5 on OSx, any easy fix available. Thanks, Graham Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx savetrees
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Perhaps this trick deserves an entry in the wiki, what do you think ? I agree, how about creating a page called one of the following http://www.lyx.org/Examples/Savetrees http://www.lyx.org/Examples/UsingSavetrees Ideally you should upload an example .lyx-file (as well as .pdf-output). regards /Christian PS. I'm sending the upload password separately, but ask in case you run into problems uploading to the wiki. Tip: You can refer to this thread from the wiki page by writing e.g.: LyXUsersThreadRoot:49320 That will create a link to this discussion thread, which can be useful on the wiki page. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx cross platform compatability - is there a problem?
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Graham Smith wrote: I have asked in another question (sa far without a solution) about problems with getting a Lyx file created on a Mac to compile on Windows (it compiles fine on Linux). As I intend sharing files with a Windows user, is this a common problem, and is there any routine methods of avoiding it. Creating files on Macs/Linux that then won't compile on Windows is a major problem for me. Indeed, it will force me to stop using Lyx as our main document processor, as compatibility is fundamental. Hi Graham, I'm forwarding your post to the developers' list. We'd greatly appreciate a small example file that demonstrates the problem, can you supply one? AFAIK, there shouldn't be any cross-platform issues. You may however have system compatibility issues, e.g. if some non-standard LaTeX packages that your document uses are missing from one of the systems. Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx cross platform compatability - is there a problem?
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Graham Smith wrote: As you will see, from my other post, the issue was a leading comma in the preamble, setting the Komascript options. It seems that both the Mac and Linux are forgiving of this syntax error, but Windows is not. So it isn't a Windows issue Hi Graham, I'm glad you solved the problem. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: example of layout module for LyX 1.6
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
Thanks Oliver,
I still don't understand the underlying philosophy of layout modules:
0) What is a layout module?
1) Why are they better than just writing your own layout file?
2) How do you decide when to use them?
3) By what design methodology do you create them?
4) What are the attributes of a good layout module?
5) What are the attributes of a bad layout module?
Hi Steve,
I personally have no idea, but I suspect the answer can be found by asking
on the developers' list :-)
Best regards,
/Christian
PS. Once 1.6 is out, I think the layout module should be stored somewhere
in the wiki.
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 11:43, Olivier Ripoll wrote:
Hi,
I just wanted to share a simple and probably imperfect layout module for
LyX 1.6. I do not know much about LaTeX, so I used the examples provided
with LyX and google to create this file. I called it
moremathsfunctions.module (it should be placed in the layouts folder
in the lyx 1.6 preference folder of your home directory -- in
Application Data for windows users), and here is the content (between
the dashed lines, so people can comment on the code):
#\DeclareLyXModule{More Maths Functions}
#DescriptionBegin
#Additional functions: erf, erfc, sinc, sgn , missing hyperbolic
inverse hyperbolic functions,
#Fourier transform inverse, logarithms in base 10 and 2, floor/ceil
(letters and mathematical
#notation).
#DescriptionEnd
# Author : Olivier Ripoll
Format 7
Requiresamsmath,mathrsfs
AddToPreamble
\DeclareMathOperator{\sinc}{sinc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sgn}{sgn}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erf}{erf}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erfc}{erfc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\FT}{\mathscr{F}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\iFT}{\mathscr{F}^{-1}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logten}{log_{10}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logtwo}{log_2}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sech}{sech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\csch}{csch}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsinh}{arsinh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcosh}{arcosh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\artanh}{artanh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcoth}{arcoth}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsech}{arsech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcsch}{arcsch}
\newcommand{\Floor}[1]
{\left\lfloor {#1} \right\rfloor}
\DeclareMathOperator{\floor}{floor}
\newcommand{\Ceil}[1]
{\left\lceil #1 \right\rceil}
\DeclareMathOperator{\ceil}{ceil}
EndPreamble
As the description says, this module simply defines several useful math
functions that are not available by default (I hope I did not overwrite
existing LaTeX stuff). There are two versions of the floor and ceil
functions, the one with a capital letter must be followed by \{xxx}
where xxx is the number to which it is applied. It provides an aspect
like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_function
I used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_functions as a
reference for the functions I added. And before someone says so, Fourier
transform and its inverse are not functions, but I do not care ;-)
I hope this can be helpful to someone. I like this layout module feature
a lot, I created another one with custom char styles for filenames and
code, based on Martin Vermeer's logicalmkup.module.
Small question: should I change the Format 7 to Format 8 ?
Best regards,
Olivier
PS: be careful, some lines are wrapped by the mail agent in the
description.
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Does anyone know how to import WIKI pages into lyx.
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, wangyq wrote:
If ''N'' is a discrete random variable taking values on some subset of
the non-negative [[integer|integers]], {''0,1, ...''}, then the
''probability-generating function'' of ''N'' is defined as:
:mathG(x) = \textrm{E}(x^N) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}f_N(n)x^n,/math
where ''fsubN/sub'' is the probability mass function of ''N''.
Note that the equivalent notation ''G''sub''N''/sub is sometimes
used to distinguish between the probability-generating functions of
several random variables.
I don't believe there are tools for this unfortunately. However, as for
LaTeX math, try inserting the text into a LyX document. Then mark the
math bit and press Ctrl-m. This will turn it into a formula.
HTH
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: plug: LyX article on Linux.com
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, killermike wrote: John Kane wrote: Nice article. I can refer to it when recommending LyX to people. Hi, Have you added a link to the article from the wiki page Press about LyX? regards, Christian Great stuff. Thanks a lot. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Wiki upload pw is the same
Hi Paul, And hi to everybody else that wants to upload things to the wiki. The password is the same as in 2006, or perhaps even earlier... :-) Paul, doesn't the old password work? Never mind, I'll email you the old off-list. In general, if you wish to upload and don't know the password, ask on this list and a developer will reply to you off-list with the password. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Wiki upload pw is the same
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: Paul, doesn't the old password work? Never mind, I'll email you the old off-list. College professor here! Job description reads ... absent-minded, must be able to pontificate I'm supposed to remember a password from 2006?? :-) Got the off line copy. Thanks. That's ok, I just worried there was some problem. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions. I had some issues, but the problem was that Ubunutu only included some stuff in the basic LaTeX package. Installation additional packages solved at lot of the headaches for me. Hava a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu (The page isn't nicely formatted, but the info on packages is there) HTH /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions. I had some issues, but the problem was that Ubunutu only included some stuff in the basic LaTeX package. Installation of additional packages solved at lot of the headaches for me. Have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu (The page isn't nicely formatted, but the info on packages is there) HTH /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Change the background colour of a piece of text?
Hi, I can change the foreground colour of a piece of text using the dialog opened through the menu: Edit-Test Style-Customized ... However, how can I do the same for the background colour? Note: It's not critical, and my use case really ought to use a character style, but I got curious. regards /Chriristan -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Change the background colour of a piece of text?
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: However, how can I do the same for the background colour? soul.sty provides the possibility to highlight text, which can (in contrast to colorboxes) break accross lines. Ok, thanks. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Layout for specifications?
Hi, Are there any document classes or layouts for use with LyX that are suitable when writing a specification? (It's a technical specification for a system, not pure software). regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Wiki: MPM on Linux (need a link blessed)
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've sent Paul the password. /Christian PS. On a good note, we haven't had any spam lately as far as I can remember. That's nice! I just added a paragraph to the wiki pointing to a web page with instructions on how to install the MiKTeX Package Manager on Ubuntu. The wiki URL is http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc6. The link to the source web page needs to be approved/blessed, which needs a password, which apparently is not the same as the upload password. Can someone (Christian?) bless it for me? TIA, Paul -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Siunitx
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, James Sutherland wrote: I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. Isn't there some keyboard combination that can be used? Perhaps something using the Compose-key? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: OT. Insert [lyx] into the Subject
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: why not? Because filtering works already well on the sender/receiver lines, and some people (including me) did not want to waste 6 characters worth of horizontal real estate on the subject lines to state what is clear from context. I agree with André, but would like to add that the news interface (gmane) is an alternative way to interact with the LyX lists. Here's the web interface: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general regards /Christian PS. I use a separate news reader instead of the web interface when reading/posting to the lists. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX... questions/ideas/wishes
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 10:53 -0400, rgheck wrote: [...] Note that all the shortcuts are also listed under ToolsPreferencesEditingShortcuts. It takes time to get used to them. But there's another option with the layout combo: Hit Alt-P, then spacebar, then start typing what you want. Richard Yep, I found that one already accidentally. Thank you anyway, Nikos. Hi, What about Nikos' original point about the documentation not properly explaining this? Is that resolved, or does the documentation need improvement here? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: An idea about the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: What about improving the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar? Increase space between key-bindings and interchange the background colour for each key-binding (light background - darker background - light background - darker background - ... ). I retouched a screenshot of the current appearance (attached pictures from the original the retouched version). Its not my best photo-editing attempt (there is also a huge empty space in the retouched picture -- couldn't invest more time on it) but I think it's clear enough of what I am thinking. Hopefully you like it and it's easy to implement. Hi Nikos, I think you have good ideas, and developers seem to notice them, but even so I'm forwarding it to the developers' list. (lyx-devel AT lists.lyx.org ) regards, Christian PS. Maybe the ability to see a log/history of the most recent commands could be useful. Do we have that possibility? -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I don't have the number but quite a few apparently. That's what the guy at my table told me. He is a journalist at 01-informatique and was a member of the jury. He told me he voted for us but we didn't really have a chance against OpenOffice. This is cool, thanks for telling us about it! /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: An idea about the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: PS. Maybe the ability to see a log/history of the most recent commands could be useful. Do we have that possibility? you mean lyx -dbg action ? I was thinking of a more easily accessible method for normal users. Maybe there could be a little 'history' button on the status field? Or maybe right-clicking on the status field could allow you to see a history of what you've done. Just throwing out ideas here. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: An idea about the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar (+idea about View/Update buttons)
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Since I am (...was) not subscribed I did not receive the responses. Question: should all ideas/wishes be posted at the dev's list? I think that's preferable.. for instance, others on this list don't have to see the threads. In addition, you probably get more attention from the developers (not all follow the users' list, although perhaps we should...) Having said that, your input is greatly appreciated, so better here than not at all! Best regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Experience using XeTeX with XeTeX?
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Algardas wrote: I am not using LyX myself, but I would like to introduce it to some people. However, they need to use XeTeX with it and XeTeX seems forgoten in LyX and bearly mentioned in the Wiki [1]. This is not a rushing matter, but now, given the opportunity, do you know of any LyX and XeTeX users? Hi, I was asked if it's possible to use LyX with XeTeX, is this possible and does it work reasonably well? best regards, /Christian PS. There's some information here: [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd be talking about thousands of documents prepared with LyX. Actually... I wonder how many users are subscribed just to the users' list? Interesting, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd be talking about thousands of documents prepared with LyX. Actually... I wonder how many users are subscribed just to the users' list? Interesting, /Christian Now let me ask: how do you cite LyX? Perhaps by referring to http://www.lyx.org? According to Google that's the answer I got when asking in 2003... time flies. It would be nice with a better answer though. regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly confident that hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers is probably not a bad guess, and very unlikely to be an over-estimate. I definitely agree it's unlikely to be an over-estimate. My question is rather how much of an under-estimate it is. Take it for what you will. The point to the original poster was that LyX and LaTeX are powerful, well-used tools, and the difficulties he was having are likely in his setup or with his expectations. I agree, and I think your point was very politely and nicely phrased, especially given the original posters language. Sincere regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX 1.6.0 is released
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: You can download LyX 1.6.0 from http://www.lyx.org/Download The download page still had the link for 1.5.6 and the 1.6.0 release notes aren't yet up at the link below I've cleaned up things there. Maybe it's a matter of updating the release instructions? Since 1.5.0 was released we've changed the backend of the web site, so maybe the instructions need to reflect this. Where are the instructions located? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Songbook?
2012/2/9 Petter S. Storvik petterstor...@gmail.com: I am new to lyx and is using it to write reports and other documents with many math-formulas. Today I came over this songbook layout: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook This would be a great tool and I could use lyx to something more than school. The problem is I cant get this to work. I am using lyx in windows 7 and not linux. Have tried the instructions but with no luck. Maybe I am doing something wrong but I cant seem to make a new songbook, or get the icon to show up. Do you know if this layout works? If it does, some tips for using this? Hejsan Petter, I haven't used songbook in quite some time. My first question would be if you've installed LaTeX files properly? And perhaps some more examples about what is working and what isn't working? cheers, Christian -- Petter Sakrihei Storvik Ω -- Christian Ridderström
Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book
I would suggest putting in some discussion on how to choose Document Class -- This is a very good idea IMHO. I've used LyX since a long time ago, and choosing a suitable class isn't the easiest. In addition, I'd really like some instructions/examples on how to create business like documents. When I've tried, I've found it difficult and annoying to try to get the appearance the way the company wants it. (With logos, lines and legaleese..). So tips and instructions on that would certainly be useful. Best regads, Christian
Re: Shortcut for 'update pdf'
what is the keyboard shortcut for updating the pdf? You need to define a shortcut for the function buffer-update pdf2 and/or buffer-view pdf2 Maybe we should have this by default? But I guess it's difficult to find an unused shortcut? /Christian (who'd also like a shortcut for this). regards Uwe
The LyX wiki finally has an FTP server setup. (Help reviewing vsftpd.conf would be appreciated)
Dear LyX users, The LyX wiki finally[*] has an FTP server installed/setup. This will allow LyX users to upload examples etc to the wiki. The documenation page [1] on uploading files to the wiki is being updated. Please let me know if you experience problems downloading files from the LyX wiki. If there is any user with experienced in configuring VSFTP (with virtual user/chroot), I'd appreciate help in the form of reviewing the vsftpd.confg (I'm not experienced in setting up FTP servers). Regards, Christian [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading [*] For those interested, files used to be uploaded to the wiki using a separate software (PHP) that's no longer in development. When the LyX server moved it stopped working, likely because a later PHP version was used on the new server. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
Re: German Translation of the About/Credit popup
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, istvanst wrote: Hi Istvan, I've forwarded your message to the developers' and documentation list. Thanks, Christian Hi, first of all i love lyx. Thank you for this piece of heaven of software. But in the german translation under the About/Credit popup there is a section Ruhm und Ehre I would request to change this title. This title was the slogan of the SS during german fascism and i regard it as a bad joke to use it. Sure it was unintentional so please just change it. Regards, istvan -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Reading File Metadata with extract and libextractor (fwd)
Hi, I got the following from a friend a long while back, maybe the tool is of use to people on this list. Subject: Reading File Metadata with extract and libextractor $extract -b a.pdf Skapar bibtexfil av metadata från a.pdf :-) Se http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7552 /Christian
Re: Clipboard WorkArea ?
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: would anyone find it useful to have a particular (dockable) window showing the clipboard content, of course in fully LyX-formatted way within its own read-only WorkArea ? Also, it could show a queue of the last copied contents, so that a user could paste any one of them into the current cursor position by simply clicking on it. Also, instead of showing the entire copied stuff, it could perhaps only show the first (or the first k) line(s), and/or the last (or the last h) line(s), for long text segments. Insets could show up as always closed to keep it compact. Just an idea that would seem useful to me, don't know if others would like it or find it too much M$-ish I have no idea, but why not file a request for an enhancment in Bugzilla? /C t. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: How to reference LyX ?
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
I want to refernce LyX in a paper I'm writing, do you have a
bibliographic reference ?
i just looked into some paper in PLoS and bibliographical entry was like
this: Bugzilla. Available: http://www.bugzilla.org. Accessed 10 July
2006.
I think referring to www.lyx.org as per above is good enough.
/Christian
PS. I don't know if it's an option to cite the entry about LyX in
Wikipedia. If so, see this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Citepage=LyXid=252337015
They automatically generate this entry:
@misc{ wiki:xxx,
author = Wikipedia,
title = LyX --- Wikipedia{,} The Free Encyclopedia,
year = 2008,
url =
\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LyXoldid=252337015};,
note = [Online; accessed 26-November-2008]
}
You could simply modify that to refer to the 'The LyX project', or 'LyX'.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. I think you what you wrote is useful feedback, impressions do matter. And more specifically, we now know it wasn't just James that had this perspective. So if you (or others) have more thoughts, and perhaps ideas on how to do things better, please share them! Thanks and sincere regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this. Making LyX more visible and easy to install might be what lured them in :-) Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. I agree! The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the maintainer in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid bug fixing only stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I'm inclined to agree, and it's not that different from the current description (http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes) Release candidate (prerelease) A release candidate is a release of the LyX software from the development source code at a point when only bug fixes are expected to be added before the first stable release. If the bug fix requires a file format change then OK. The question is how José interprets the above. /Christian PS. José is the original author of that descirption. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Where to put a feature request?
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Florian Rubach wrote: I have a little feature request, but i am unsure where to send it. Would this mailing list be the right place or rather the developers mailing list? Overall I'd say it's probably better on the developers' list as its more likely to be read by developers... However, I don't think it's necessarily bad if you post it here. In some rare cases posting here could be better, for instance if input from other users is really important. best regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I have a question about the search inside the book. A publishing mailing list of which I'm also a member is extremely upset about Google's plan to scan all books from the libraries. The thought is that why should customers buy the cow if the milk is free -- if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? I'd definitely like your thoughts on this. Hi Steve, Perhaps you can gain some insight by considering a somewhat related situation, namely that of the 'Baen free library' that Eric Flint started ( http://www.baen.com/library/ ). At that site, Eric has blogged about these issues and by chance I recentely read #7 (from 2002). http://www.baen.com/library/palaver_index.htm In that blog he discusses the economics of providing some books for free. Perhaps that reasoning can be adapted to this situation? best regards /Christian PS. The Baen free library is a web site where Baen books have made available about a 100 books for free by (mostly Baen) authors who've given their permission. I believe Eric Flint is an author as well as some kind of editor at Baen books. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: lyx templates site?
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Witek Firlej wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Sindhu sindhusunda...@gmail.com wrote: PS: we could have a page on the lyx site listing these user made templates, couldn't we? hmm? http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts Exactly... please see the following page for instructions on uploading files http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading Then ask on the list for the upload password. Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
The number of equations? (Was: Hi)
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Adrian Diaz wrote: Sr Lix How can i see the number of the equations when i am writting on text editos fo Lyx? Hi Adrian, I can't answer your question, but I would like to recommend that you write a suitable subject line when posting to the list. With a good subject, it's easier for others to see what it's about, which increases the likelyhood that someone else will answer your question! Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Windows Version
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Afief Halumi wrote: I tried accessing it for a week and it didn't work, and right now it doesn't work either... Certainly worth looking into. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.1/ Works for me, I just tested it. What's the error message? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Un-subscribe
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: This won't work. Look here how to unsubscribe: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc12 For future reference, we can also direct people to the following page which I created. http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsubscribe /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Who manages the Ubuntu repository for LyX? (Was: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?))
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. I think it should read: LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor. Anybody know's who should be contacted about that (if, of course, you _also_ disagree with the current description)? Kind regards, Nikos Just reposting with a different subject:-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. Hi, Yes, I'm the guy usually bringing this up :-) The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wiki page into Lyx. In non-lyx environment there might be a wiki page for information sharing/documentation, and if you can edit the wiki page through LyX, well, that would be very nice, when one consideres the (lack of?) edit-friendlyness in wiki. I agree that wiki pages aren't that easy to edit. Some tools exist to edit the pages in a separate text editor, and I'm pretty sure WYSIWYGI tools are on their way as well. However, note that AFAICT, it's only the following functionality that you gain: 1. The document is stored in a common area (the wiki) and can be edited using LyX.. 2. The document (i.e. wiki page) is stored so that's it's easily visible and searchable through a regular browser 3. The document is editable also through the web browser. The first functionality could just as well be implemented by several other means, e.g. by using a VCS to upload files to a public repository. This would also give you additional functionality. The second functionality could also be implemented by uploading (comitting/pushing) not only the .LyX-file, but also a .html-version of the file. And a PDF while you're at it. Alternatively, the system could automatically generate a PDF/HTML-file on the server once a .lyx-file has been uploaded (comitted/pushed). The third functionality is more difficult though. Why am I saying this? Well, I think it's important to ask ourselves what the collaboration functions are... to me the number one functionality would be to let several people edit the same document at once. Technically, saving is nothing more than posting a long text to a web page? Yes. loading = reading a frame on a wiki page? Yes. Add a html/wiki -- LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == Well, in principle, yes. :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?
Hi, I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as 2009-01-30 How should I do this? I'm using \today to get the current date. Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2009-01-30, Christian Ridderström wrote:
I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as
2009-01-30
How should I do this?
with the package isodate:
http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/isodate.html
Thanks, this did the trick in my preamble:
\usepackage{isodate}
\lhead{\isodate\today}
/Christian
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Re: SV: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: However, images might be a problem, I guess... I think it would be a great addition. My use case is my latest book. It was co-authored in a wiki (50+ persons), converted to html, imported to oo, exported as Latex imported to lyx. Added a lot of text and about 400 images in Lyx - pdf. Printed. Loved the Lyx part of the work :). There is a thing called Wiki Publisher that works with Pmwiki, it goes from wiki page to XML to LaTeX to PDF. http://www.wikipublisher.org/ /Christian However, now the co-authors want to start edit again in the wiki, and create a living book on the web. And I have stated that it is out of the questin as I can not find the time to convert it to a wiki. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
How to automatically add the filename in a footer?
Hi,
I guess the following will require some LaTeX. Any tips on how to get the
filename appear in the footer?
I'm using \cfoot{...} to create the center text of the footer.
Is it also possible to only extract for instane the filename and not get
the full path? Or remove the extension?
regards,
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
LyX's web: In Hungarian - A LyX weboldalanak magyar forditasanak ellenorzese
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Alex wrote: In case you know Hungarian and English well enough and you are going to help me, please write me a message. Hi, I'd just like to comment that it might be enough if you know Hungarian... if you read a translated web page and don't understand, that's enough reason to say something in my humble opinion! Many thanks to Alex for his work! He is the initial reason why we today have both a Japanese and a Hungarian translation of the web site. Best regards, /Christian http://www.lyx.org PS. Please let me know if you find it difficult to see how to switch language, or if you worry that someone not expecting a translated version will miss that functionality. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Using example to promote (Was: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?)
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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the supporting LaTeX package is missing. Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. It could help, if you (or any other interested person) could try LyX without LaTeX (deinstall LaTeX and reconfigure LyX or install LyX on a box without LaTeX) and report the experience and problems. That's a good idea. And as Guenter says, remember to reconfigure LyX to experience the problems with missing LaTeX classes. regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. Isn't this decision made based on what the configure script autodetected at install time? Just supply a fake config file where each and every latex feature is believed to exist. I think it is. Faking the config file is an interesting idea, but I worry it might not cause other problems. What should happen if the user tries to create a PDF? I guess this light version culd have those options removed from the menu system and the toolbars. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: It'd be a simple piece of software, self-contained and easy to install on someone's pc for cooperative writing. Is there a reason it has to be installed? Maybe it'd be interesting with a version that can be run without having first been installed? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009 09:32:12 A B wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Pavel Sanda wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. iirc this is already done on some knoppix live CD/DVD. I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM. And the whole thing has to be dead simple. We are mainly talking about Word users, and nothing can be assumed about their computer skills. It would be even nicer to have the whole thing on a USB stick. A USB stick is even better than a CD. Then the directory .lyx/ can stay on the USB stick. I just bought a 4GB stick for about 10 EUR, so it's not exactly pricey either... /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD. When you use it, do you have to install anything on the Windows machine? /C Sincerely, Wolfgang -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Best way to re-order book
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, L Duperval wrote: I am looking for a good way to re-order the elements of my book. There is a lot of work to do and I am looking to avoid doing cutpaste or simply moving elements up and down in the outline. I was hoping I could drag'n'drop in the outline (which would be sufficient for now), but that is not implemented yet. It isn't enough to use the Up/Down buttons etc in the outline dialog? (As for drag'n drop, maybe you should file an enhancement request for that in bugzilla) regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Best way to re-order book
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, L Duperval wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:52:34 +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: It isn't enough to use the Up/Down buttons etc in the outline dialog? (As for drag'n drop, maybe you should file an enhancement request for that in bugzilla) No. I have 100+ points that I want to reorder and single clicking one by one is too long. I prefer the DnD approach because it is much faster. Is the reason single clicking is to slow because you have to move the point a long distance, and thus would have to click many times to move it? Or is it because there are several points that you have to move separately? Maybe the answer will affect how the UI should be, e.g. if it'd make sense to be able to select several points and then move them simultaneously. I'm just guessing wildly here though. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: lyx webpage doesn't load
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: ok, its back up Great. Thanks for reporting the problem, even if it fixed itself. The server (aussie.lyx.org) is a bit old and has some issues. Best regards, Christian On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi all, have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Erez Working here (tropical East Lansing, MI, USA). -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: wiki upload password
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: could someone please mail me (in privat) the password for uploading content to the lyx wiki? (Does this work for approving URLs too?) I've sent him the passwords off-list. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Alex Fernandez wrote: I have not published the repository for lack of a hosting facility (and lack of knowledge to set it up), but once I find a suitable place I will make it public. Hi Alex, I believe there are free hosting facilities for git repositories, or you can surely get an account within the LyX repository (Subversion at the moment). Just google for free git repository, or something like that. Or ask on the developers list... Btw, you may want more than just the repository, if people start giving you bug reports etc. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: upload a custom layout
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, nckg wrote: If this layout could be of any use for other people, I would like to upload it to LyX website. (However I haven't found a register option there, so I am writing here.) Hi Nick, If you´d like, I can send you the password for uploading files off-list. Othewise Uwe´s suggestion is good :-) Best regards /Christian With best regards, Nick. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Portugese/Brasilian translation of web site?
Hi, LyX has a portugese translation thanks to Susana Barbosa, but no corresponding translation of the web site. I´m currently on vacation in Brasil(*) and I´ve learned that it´s a huge country where only a small fraction of the Brasilians speak english. Portuguese is of course the native tongue here. So I just want to say that if there are any portugese speaking users that would like to help by creating a translated version of the web site, I´d be happy to help them get started. Best regards, Christian PS. I´m in the Natal region in case any LyX users or developers would like to say hi over a cold beer. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
RE: Portugese/Brasilian translation of web site?
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: PS. I´m in the Natal region in case any LyX users or developers would like to say hi over a cold beer. Yes, would all brazilian LyX developers please stand up now.. *sssh* I´m trying to make them appear out of thin air here, don't destory the magic! :-) Besides, if you'd never heard of LyX, you wouldn't be a developer now would you... cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Edits of wiki pagse temporarily disabled
Hi, I've tried to disable editing of wiki pages as I'm currently trying to migrate th wiki to a new server. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
FYI: Wiki site relocated (edits not possible at the moment)
Hi, Today the LyX wiki and LyX web site were relocated to a new site. Both are visible at the usual addresses, but unfortunately it is at the moment not possible to edit the wiki pages due to a security conflict. This will hopefully be resolved during or before the weekend. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Wiki open for editing again
Hi, The wiki is now open for editing again[*]. This installation of the wiki is running on a new server, so please report things that aren't working properly, or if things seem slow or anything strange. There will probably be things that aren't working, but I'll gather a list of it and fix it eventually. At the moment I doubt the uploading of files work, but I haven't had time to test. best regards, /Christian [*] The reason I had to disable editing in the wiki before was due to a separate security software (ModSecurity) that was a bit to ambitious. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates in my mailbox). You can disable the daily updates to your mailbox and exclusively use GMANE. Oh, I should probably mention that I'm accessing this list pureley as a news group, which I guess you might consider a forum although I do it with a separate news client. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: else. What I lack most of LyX (and LaTeX)? Web-based environments, web-based bibliographies, web-based computing.. ok, we can't have EVERYTHING, but the various Google-Whatever are the best creatures of the net and this is the future, we all know it. Could you be more specific? We have: * web site * wiki site * mailing lists (i.e a forum) As for LaTeX-wise, there's something that can take wiki pages via LaTeX to PDF, so that's basically web based LaTeX computing for you? I really am curious, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: (I started supporting LyX with its mailing list btw. and I cannot think right now that anything else might be easier. And I'm 29, so not too old not to know the possibilities of forums ;-) ) I'm 35, so I don't see the advantages with forums... or lists for that matter over news groups ;-) ;-) Seriously though, why is a forum different from a list? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
